1 Changes in version 0.4.8.9 - 2023-11-09
2 This is another security release fixing a high severity bug affecting onion
3 services which is tracked by TROVE-2023-006. We are also releasing a guard
4 major bugfix as well. If you are an onion service operator, we strongly
5 recommend to update as soon as possible.
7 o Major bugfixes (guard usage):
8 - When Tor excluded a guard due to temporary circuit restrictions,
9 it considered *additional* primary guards for potential usage by
10 that circuit. This could result in more than the specified number
11 of guards (currently 2) being used, long-term, by the tor client.
12 This could happen when a Guard was also selected as an Exit node,
13 but it was exacerbated by the Conflux guard restrictions. Both
14 instances have been fixed. Fixes bug 40876; bugfix
17 o Major bugfixes (onion service, TROVE-2023-006):
18 - Fix a possible hard assert on a NULL pointer when recording a
19 failed rendezvous circuit on the service side for the MetricsPort.
20 Fixes bug 40883; bugfix on 0.4.8.1-alpha.
22 o Minor features (fallbackdir):
23 - Regenerate fallback directories generated on November 09, 2023.
25 o Minor features (geoip data):
26 - Update the geoip files to match the IPFire Location Database, as
27 retrieved on 2023/11/09.
30 Changes in version 0.4.8.8 - 2023-11-03
31 We are releasing today a fix for a high security issue, TROVE-2023-004, that
32 is affecting relays. Also a few minor bugfixes detailed below. Please upgrade
35 o Major bugfixes (TROVE-2023-004, relay):
36 - Mitigate an issue when Tor compiled with OpenSSL can crash during
37 handshake with a remote relay. Fixes bug 40874; bugfix
40 o Minor features (fallbackdir):
41 - Regenerate fallback directories generated on November 03, 2023.
43 o Minor features (geoip data):
44 - Update the geoip files to match the IPFire Location Database, as
45 retrieved on 2023/11/03.
47 o Minor bugfixes (directory authority):
48 - Look at the network parameter "maxunmeasuredbw" with the correct
49 spelling. Fixes bug 40869; bugfix on 0.4.6.1-alpha.
51 o Minor bugfixes (vanguards addon support):
52 - Count the conflux linked cell as valid when it is successfully
53 processed. This will quiet a spurious warn in the vanguards addon.
54 Fixes bug 40878; bugfix on 0.4.8.1-alpha.
57 Changes in version 0.4.8.7 - 2023-09-25
58 This version fixes a single major bug in the Conflux subsystem on the client
59 side. See below for more information. The upcoming Tor Browser 13 stable will
62 o Major bugfixes (conflux):
63 - Fix an issue that prevented us from pre-building more conflux sets
64 after existing sets had been used. Fixes bug 40862; bugfix
67 o Minor features (fallbackdir):
68 - Regenerate fallback directories generated on September 25, 2023.
70 o Minor features (geoip data):
71 - Update the geoip files to match the IPFire Location Database, as
72 retrieved on 2023/09/25.
75 Changes in version 0.4.8.6 - 2023-09-18
76 This version contains an important fix for onion service regarding congestion
77 control and its reliability. Apart from that, unneeded BUG warnings have been
78 suppressed especially about a compression bomb seen on relays. We strongly
79 recommend, in particular onion service operators, to upgrade as soon as
80 possible to this latest stable.
82 o Major bugfixes (onion service):
83 - Fix a reliability issue where services were expiring their
84 introduction points every consensus update. This caused
85 connectivity issues for clients caching the old descriptor and
86 intro points. Bug reported and fixed by gitlab user
87 @hyunsoo.kim676. Fixes bug 40858; bugfix on 0.4.7.5-alpha.
89 o Minor features (debugging, compression):
90 - Log the input and output buffer sizes when we detect a potential
91 compression bomb. Diagnostic for ticket 40739.
93 o Minor features (fallbackdir):
94 - Regenerate fallback directories generated on September 18, 2023.
96 o Minor features (geoip data):
97 - Update the geoip files to match the IPFire Location Database, as
98 retrieved on 2023/09/18.
100 o Minor bugfix (defensive programming):
101 - Disable multiple BUG warnings of a missing relay identity key when
102 starting an instance of Tor compiled without relay support. Fixes
103 bug 40848; bugfix on 0.4.3.1-alpha.
105 o Minor bugfixes (bridge authority):
106 - When reporting a pseudo-networkstatus as a bridge authority, or
107 answering "ns/purpose/*" controller requests, include accurate
108 published-on dates from our list of router descriptors. Fixes bug
109 40855; bugfix on 0.4.8.1-alpha.
111 o Minor bugfixes (compression, zstd):
112 - Use less frightening language and lower the log-level of our run-
113 time ABI compatibility check message in our Zstd compression
114 subsystem. Fixes bug 40815; bugfix on 0.4.3.1-alpha.
117 Changes in version 0.4.8.5 - 2023-08-30
118 Quick second release after the first stable few days ago fixing minor
119 annoying bugfixes creating log BUG stacktrace. We also fix BSD compilation
120 failures and PoW unit test.
122 o Minor features (fallbackdir):
123 - Regenerate fallback directories generated on August 30, 2023.
125 o Minor features (geoip data):
126 - Update the geoip files to match the IPFire Location Database, as
127 retrieved on 2023/08/30.
129 o Minor bugfix (NetBSD, compilation):
130 - Fix compilation issue on NetBSD by avoiding an unnecessary
131 dependency on "huge" page mappings in Equi-X. Fixes bug 40843;
132 bugfix on 0.4.8.1-alpha.
134 o Minor bugfix (NetBSD, testing):
135 - Fix test failures in "crypto/hashx" and "slow/crypto/equix" on
136 x86_64 and aarch64 NetBSD hosts, by adding support for
137 PROT_MPROTECT() flags. Fixes bug 40844; bugfix on 0.4.8.1-alpha.
139 o Minor bugfixes (conflux):
140 - Demote a relay-side warn about too many legs to ProtocolWarn, as
141 there are conditions that it can briefly happen during set
142 construction. Also add additional set logging details for all
143 error cases. Fixes bug 40841; bugfix on 0.4.8.1-alpha.
144 - Prevent non-fatal assert stacktrace caused by using conflux sets
145 during their teardown process. Fixes bug 40842; bugfix
149 Changes in version 0.4.8.4 - 2023-08-23
150 Finally, this is the very first stable release of the 0.4.8.x series making
151 Proof-of-Work (prop#327) and Conflux (prop#329) available to the entire
152 network. Some major bugfixes since the release candidate detailed below.
154 o Major feature (denial of service):
155 - Extend DoS protection to partially opened channels and known
156 relays. Because re-entry is not allowed anymore, we can apply DoS
157 protections onto known IP namely relays. Fixes bug 40821; bugfix
160 o Major bugfixes (conflux):
161 - Fix a relay-side crash caused by side effects of the fix for bug
162 40827. Reverts part of that fix that caused the crash and adds
163 additional log messages to help find the root cause. Fixes bug
164 40834; bugfix on 0.4.8.3-rc.
166 o Major bugfixes (proof of work, onion service, hashx):
167 - Fix a very rare buffer overflow in hashx, specific to the dynamic
168 compiler on aarch64 platforms. Fixes bug 40833; bugfix
171 o Minor features (fallbackdir):
172 - Regenerate fallback directories generated on August 23, 2023.
174 o Minor features (geoip data):
175 - Update the geoip files to match the IPFire Location Database, as
176 retrieved on 2023/08/23.
178 o Minor features (testing):
179 - All Rust code is now linted (cargo clippy) as part of GitLab CI, and
180 existing warnings have been fixed. - Any unit tests written in Rust now
181 run as part of GitLab CI.
183 o Minor bugfix (FreeBSD, compilation):
184 - Fix compilation issue on FreeBSD by properly importing
185 sys/param.h. Fixes bug 40825; bugfix on 0.4.8.1-alpha.
187 o Minor bugfixes (compression):
188 - Right after compression/decompression work is done, check for
189 errors. Before this, we would consider compression bomb before
190 that and then looking for errors leading to false positive on that
191 log warning. Fixes bug 40739; bugfix on 0.3.5.1-alpha. Patch
195 Changes in version 0.4.8.3-rc - 2023-08-04
196 This is the first release candidate (and likely the only) of the 0.4.8.x
197 series. We fixed a major conflux bugfix which was a fatal asserts on the
198 relay Exit side. See below for more details. Couple minor bugfixes. Until
199 stable, name of the game here is stabilization.
201 o Major bugfixes (conflux):
202 - Fix a relay-side assert crash caused by attempts to use a conflux
203 circuit between circuit close and free, such that no legs were on
204 the conflux set. Fixed by nulling out the stream's circuit back-
205 pointer when the last leg is removed. Additional checks and log
206 messages have been added to detect other cases. Fixes bug 40827;
207 bugfix on 0.4.8.1-alpha.
209 o Minor features (fallbackdir):
210 - Regenerate fallback directories generated on August 04, 2023.
211 - Regenerate fallback directories generated on July 26, 2023.
213 o Minor features (geoip data):
214 - Update the geoip files to match the IPFire Location Database, as
215 retrieved on 2023/07/26.
216 - Update the geoip files to match the IPFire Location Database, as
217 retrieved on 2023/08/04.
219 o Minor bugfixes (compilation):
220 - Fix all -Werror=enum-int-mismatch warnings. No behavior change.
221 Fixes bug 40824; bugfix on 0.3.5.1-alpha.
223 o Minor bugfixes (protocol warn):
224 - Wrap a handful of cases where ProtocolWarning logs could emit IP
225 addresses. Fixes bug 40828; bugfix on 0.3.5.1-alpha.
228 Changes in version 0.4.8.2-alpha - 2023-07-12
229 This is our second alpha containing some minor bugfixes and one major bugfix
230 about L2 vanguard rotation. We believe this will be the last alpha before the
231 rc in a couple of weeks.
233 o Major bugfixes (vanguards):
234 - Rotate to a new L2 vanguard whenever an existing one loses the
235 Stable or Fast flag. Previously, we would leave these relays in
236 the L2 vanguard list but never use them, and if all of our
237 vanguards end up like this we wouldn't have any middle nodes left
238 to choose from so we would fail to make onion-related circuits.
239 Fixes bug 40805; bugfix on 0.4.7.1-alpha.
241 o Minor feature (hs):
242 - Fix compiler warnings in equix and hashx when building with clang.
245 o Minor features (fallbackdir):
246 - Regenerate fallback directories generated on July 12, 2023.
248 o Minor features (geoip data):
249 - Update the geoip files to match the IPFire Location Database, as
250 retrieved on 2023/07/12.
252 o Minor bugfix (congestion control):
253 - Reduce the accepted range of a circuit's negotiated 'cc_sendme_inc'
254 to be +/- 1 from the consensus parameter value. Fixes bug 40569;
255 bugfix on 0.4.7.4-alpha.
256 - Remove unused congestion control algorithms and BDP calculation
257 code, now that we have settled on and fully tuned Vegas. Fixes bug
258 40566; bugfix on 0.4.7.4-alpha.
259 - Update default congestion control parameters to match consensus.
260 Fixes bug 40709; bugfix on 0.4.7.4-alpha.
262 o Minor bugfixes (compilation):
263 - Fix "initializer is not a constant" compilation error that
264 manifests itself on gcc versions < 8.1 and MSVC. Fixes bug 40773;
265 bugfix on 0.4.8.1-alpha
267 o Minor bugfixes (conflux):
268 - Count leg launch attempts prior to attempting to launch them. This
269 avoids inifinite launch attempts due to internal circuit building
270 failures. Additionally, double-check that we have enough exits in
271 our consensus overall, before attempting to launch conflux sets.
272 Fixes bug 40811; bugfix on 0.4.8.1-alpha.
273 - Fix a case where we were resuming reading on edge connections that
274 were already marked for close. Fixes bug 40801; bugfix
276 - Fix stream attachment order when creating conflux circuits, so
277 that stream attachment happens after finishing the full link
278 handshake, rather than upon set finalization. Fixes bug 40801;
279 bugfix on 0.4.8.1-alpha.
280 - Handle legs being closed or destroyed before computing an RTT
281 (resulting in warns about too many legs). Fixes bug 40810; bugfix
283 - Remove a "BUG" warning from conflux_pick_first_leg that can be
284 triggered by broken or malicious clients. Fixes bug 40801; bugfix
287 o Minor bugfixes (KIST):
288 - Prevent KISTSchedRunInterval from having values of 0 or 1, neither
289 of which work properly. Additionally, make a separate
290 KISTSchedRunIntervalClient parameter, so that the client and relay
291 KIST values can be set separately. Set the default of both to 2ms.
292 Fixes bug 40808; bugfix on 0.3.2.1-alpha.
295 Changes in version 0.4.8.1-alpha - 2023-06-01
296 This is the first alpha of the 0.4.8.x series. Two major features in this
297 version which are Conflux and onion service Proof-of-Work (PoW). There are
298 also many small features in particular, worth noting, the MetricsPort is now
299 exporting more relay and onion service metrics. Finally, there are
300 also numerous minor bugfixes included in this version.
302 o Major features (onion service, proof-of-work):
303 - Implement proposal 327 (Proof-Of-Work). This is aimed at thwarting
304 introduction flooding DoS attacks by introducing a dynamic Proof-Of-Work
305 protocol that occurs over introduction circuits. This introduces several
306 torrc options prefixed with "HiddenServicePoW" in order to control this
307 feature. By default, this is disabled. Closes ticket 40634.
309 o Major features (conflux):
310 - Implement Proposal 329 (conflux traffic splitting). Conflux splits
311 traffic across two circuits to Exits that support the protocol.
312 These circuits are pre-built only, which means that if the pre-
313 built conflux pool runs out, regular circuits will then be used.
314 When using conflux circuit pairs, clients choose the lower-latency
315 circuit to send data to the Exit. When the Exit sends data to the
316 client, it maximizes throughput, by fully utilizing both circuits
317 in a multiplexed fashion. Alternatively, clients can request that
318 the Exit optimize for latency when transmitting to them, by
319 setting the torrc option 'ConfluxClientUX latency'. Onion services
320 are not currently supported, but will be in arti. Many other
321 future optimizations will also be possible using this protocol.
324 o Major features (dirauth):
325 - Directory authorities and relays now interact properly with
326 directory authorities if they change addresses. In the past, they
327 would continue to upload votes, signatures, descriptors, etc to
328 the hard-coded address in the configuration. Now, if the directory
329 authority is listed in the consensus at a different address, they
330 will direct queries to this new address. Implements ticket 40705.
332 o Minor feature (CI):
333 - Update CI to use Debian Bullseye for runners.
335 o Minor feature (client, IPv6):
336 - Make client able to pick IPv6 relays by default now meaning
337 ClientUseIPv6 option now defaults to 1. Closes ticket 40785.
339 o Minor feature (compilation):
340 - Fix returning something other than "Unknown N/A" as libc version
341 if we build tor on an O.S. like DragonFlyBSD, FreeBSD, OpenBSD
344 o Minor feature (cpuworker):
345 - Always use the number of threads for our CPU worker pool to the
346 number of core available but cap it to a minimum of 2 in case of a
347 single core. Fixes bug 40713; bugfix on 0.3.5.1-alpha.
349 o Minor feature (lzma):
350 - Fix compiler warnings for liblzma >= 5.3.1. Closes ticket 40741.
352 o Minor feature (MetricsPort, relay):
353 - Expose time until online keys expires on the MetricsPort. Closes
356 o Minor feature (MetricsPort, relay, onion service):
357 - Add metrics for the relay side onion service interactions counting
358 seen cells. Closes ticket 40797. Patch by "friendly73".
360 o Minor features (directory authorities):
361 - Directory authorities now include their AuthDirMaxServersPerAddr
362 config option in the consensus parameter section of their vote.
363 Now external tools can better predict how they will behave.
364 Implements ticket 40753.
366 o Minor features (directory authority):
367 - Add a new consensus method in which the "published" times on
368 router entries in a microdesc consensus are all set to a
369 meaningless fixed date. Doing this will make the download size for
370 compressed microdesc consensus diffs much smaller. Part of ticket
371 40130; implements proposal 275.
373 o Minor features (network documents):
374 - Clients and relays no longer track the "published on" time
375 declared for relays in any consensus documents. When reporting
376 this time on the control port, they instead report a fixed date in
377 the future. Part of ticket 40130.
379 o Minor features (fallbackdir):
380 - Regenerate fallback directories generated on June 01, 2023.
382 o Minor features (geoip data):
383 - Update the geoip files to match the IPFire Location Database, as
384 retrieved on 2023/06/01.
386 o Minor features (hs, metrics):
387 - Add tor_hs_rend_circ_build_time and tor_hs_intro_circ_build_time
388 histograms to measure hidden service rend/intro circuit build time
389 durations. Part of ticket 40757.
391 o Minor features (metrics):
392 - Add a `reason` label to the HS error metrics. Closes ticket 40758.
393 - Add service side metrics for REND and introduction request
394 failures. Closes ticket 40755.
395 - Add support for histograms. Part of ticket 40757.
397 o Minor features (pluggable transports):
398 - Automatically restart managed Pluggable Transport processes when
399 their process terminate. Resolves ticket 33669.
401 o Minor features (portability, compilation):
402 - Use OpenSSL 1.1 APIs for LibreSSL, fixing LibreSSL 3.5
403 compatibility. Fixes issue 40630; patch by Alex Xu (Hello71).
405 o Minor features (relay):
406 - Do not warn about configuration options that may expose a non-
407 anonymous onion service. Closes ticket 40691.
409 o Minor features (relays):
410 - Trigger OOS when bind fails with EADDRINUSE. This improves
411 fairness when a large number of exit connections are requested,
412 and properly signals exhaustion to the network. Fixes issue 40597;
413 patch by Alex Xu (Hello71).
415 o Minor features (tests):
416 - Avoid needless key reinitialization with OpenSSL during unit
417 tests, saving significant time. Patch from Alex Xu.
419 o Minor bugfix (relay, logging):
420 - The wrong max queue cell size was used in a protocol warning
421 logging statement. Fixes bug 40745; bugfix on 0.4.7.1-alpha.
423 o Minor bugfixes (logging):
424 - Avoid ""double-quoting"" strings in several log messages. Fixes
425 bug 22723; bugfix on 0.1.2.2-alpha.
426 - Correct a log message when cleaning microdescriptors. Fixes bug
427 40619; bugfix on 0.2.5.4-alpha.
429 o Minor bugfixes (metrics):
430 - Decrement hs_intro_established_count on introduction circuit
431 close. Fixes bug 40751; bugfix on 0.4.7.12.
433 o Minor bugfixes (pluggable transports, windows):
434 - Remove a warning `BUG()` that could occur when attempting to
435 execute a non-existing pluggable transport on Windows. Fixes bug
436 40596; bugfix on 0.4.0.1-alpha.
438 o Minor bugfixes (relay):
439 - Remove a "BUG" warning for an acceptable race between a circuit
440 close and considering that circuit active. Fixes bug 40647; bugfix
442 - Remove a harmless "Bug" log message that can happen in
443 relay_addr_learn_from_dirauth() on relays during startup. Finishes
444 fixing bug 40231. Fixes bug 40523; bugfix on 0.4.5.4-rc.
446 o Minor bugfixes (sandbox):
447 - Allow membarrier for the sandbox. And allow rt_sigprocmask when
448 compiled with LTTng. Fixes bug 40799; bugfix on 0.3.5.1-alpha.
449 - Fix sandbox support on AArch64 systems. More "*at" variants of
450 syscalls are now supported. Signed 32 bit syscall parameters are
451 checked more precisely, which should lead to lower likelihood of
452 breakages with future compiler and libc releases. Fixes bug 40599;
453 bugfix on 0.4.4.3-alpha.
455 o Minor bugfixes (state file):
456 - Avoid a segfault if the state file doesn't contains TotalBuildTimes
457 along CircuitBuildAbandonedCount being above 0. Fixes bug 40437;
458 bugfix on 0.3.5.1-alpha.
461 - Remove the RendPostPeriod option. This was primarily used in
462 Version 2 Onion Services and after its deprecation isn't needed
463 anymore. Closes ticket 40431. Patch by Neel Chauhan.
466 Changes in version 0.4.7.13 - 2023-01-12
467 This version contains three major bugfixes, two for relays and one for
468 client being a security fix, TROVE-2022-002. We have added, for Linux, the
469 support for IP_BIND_ADDRESS_NO_PORT for relays using OutboundBindAddress.
470 We strongly recommend to upgrade to this version considering the important
471 congestion control fix detailed below.
473 o Major bugfixes (congestion control):
474 - Avoid incrementing the congestion window when the window is not
475 fully in use. Thia prevents overshoot in cases where long periods
476 of low activity would allow our congestion window to grow, and
477 then get followed by a burst, which would cause queue overload.
478 Also improve the increment checks for RFC3742. Fixes bug 40732;
479 bugfix on 0.4.7.5-alpha.
481 o Major bugfixes (relay):
482 - When opening a channel because of a circuit request that did not
483 include an Ed25519 identity, record the Ed25519 identity that we
484 actually received, so that we can use the channel for other
485 circuit requests that _do_ list an Ed25519 identity. (Previously
486 we had code to record this identity, but a logic bug caused it to
487 be disabled.) Fixes bug 40563; bugfix on 0.3.0.1-alpha. Patch
490 o Major bugfixes (TROVE-2022-002, client):
491 - The SafeSocks option had its logic inverted for SOCKS4 and
492 SOCKS4a. It would let the unsafe SOCKS4 pass but not the safe
493 SOCKS4a one. This is TROVE-2022-002 which was reported on
494 Hackerone by "cojabo". Fixes bug 40730; bugfix on 0.3.5.1-alpha.
496 o Minor feature (authority):
497 - Reject 0.4.6.x series at the authority level. Closes ticket 40664.
499 o Minor features (fallbackdir):
500 - Regenerate fallback directories generated on January 12, 2023.
502 o Minor features (geoip data):
503 - Update the geoip files to match the IPFire Location Database, as
504 retrieved on 2023/01/12.
506 o Minor features (relays):
507 - Set the Linux-specific IP_BIND_ADDRESS_NO_PORT option on outgoing
508 sockets, allowing relays using OutboundBindAddress to make more
509 outgoing connections than ephemeral ports, as long as they are to
510 separate destinations. Related to issue 40597; patch by Alex
513 o Minor bugfixes (relay, metrics):
514 - Fix typo in a congestion control label on the MetricsPort. Fixes
515 bug 40727; bugfix on 0.4.7.12.
517 o Minor bugfixes (sandbox, authority):
518 - With the sandbox enabled, allow to write "my-consensus-
519 {ns|microdesc}" and to rename them as well. Fixes bug 40729;
520 bugfix on 0.3.5.1-alpha.
522 o Code simplifications and refactoring:
523 - Rely on actual error returned by the kernel when choosing what
524 resource exhaustion to log. Fixes issue 40613; Fix
525 on tor-0.4.6.1-alpha.
528 Changes in version 0.4.5.16 - 2023-01-12
529 This version has one major bugfix for relay and a security fix,
530 TROVE-2022-002, affecting clients. We strongly recommend to upgrade to our
531 0.4.7.x stable series. As a reminder, this series is EOL on February 15th,
534 o Major bugfixes (relay):
535 - When opening a channel because of a circuit request that did not
536 include an Ed25519 identity, record the Ed25519 identity that we
537 actually received, so that we can use the channel for other
538 circuit requests that _do_ list an Ed25519 identity. (Previously
539 we had code to record this identity, but a logic bug caused it to
540 be disabled.) Fixes bug 40563; bugfix on 0.3.0.1-alpha. Patch
543 o Major bugfixes (TROVE-2022-002, client):
544 - The SafeSocks option had its logic inverted for SOCKS4 and
545 SOCKS4a. It would let the unsafe SOCKS4 pass but not the safe
546 SOCKS4a one. This is TROVE-2022-002 which was reported on
547 Hackerone by "cojabo". Fixes bug 40730; bugfix on 0.3.5.1-alpha.
549 o Minor features (fallbackdir):
550 - Regenerate fallback directories generated on January 12, 2023.
552 o Minor features (geoip data):
553 - Update the geoip files to match the IPFire Location Database, as
554 retrieved on 2023/01/12.
557 Changes in version 0.4.7.12 - 2022-12-06
558 This version contains a major change that is a new key for moria1. Also, new
559 metrics are exported on the MetricsPort for the congestion control
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 Minor feature (Congestion control metrics):
569 - Add additional metricsport relay metrics for congestion control.
572 o Minor features (fallbackdir):
573 - Regenerate fallback directories generated on December 06, 2022.
575 o Minor features (geoip data):
576 - Update the geoip files to match the IPFire Location Database, as
577 retrieved on 2022/12/06.
579 o Minor bugfixes (cpuworker, relay):
580 - Fix an off by one overload calculation on the number of CPUs being
581 used by our thread pool. Fixes bug 40719; bugfix on 0.3.5.1-alpha.
584 Changes in version 0.4.5.15 - 2022-12-06
585 This version has several major changes for directory authorities. And a
586 major bugfix on OSX. Again, we strongly recommend to upgrade to our 0.4.7.x
587 series latest stable. This series is EOL on February 15th, 2023.
589 o Directory authority changes (dizum):
590 - Change dizum IP address. Closes ticket 40687.
592 o Directory authority changes (Faravahar):
593 - Remove Faravahar until its operator, Sina, set it back up online
594 outside of Team Cymru network. Closes ticket 40688.
596 o Directory authority changes (moria1):
597 - Rotate the relay identity key and v3 identity key for moria1. They
598 have been online for more than a decade and refreshing keys
599 periodically is good practice. Advertise new ports too, to avoid
600 confusion. Closes ticket 40722.
602 o Major bugfixes (OSX):
603 - Fix coarse-time computation on Apple platforms (like Mac M1) where
604 the Mach absolute time ticks do not correspond directly to
605 nanoseconds. Previously, we computed our shift value wrong, which
606 led us to give incorrect timing results. Fixes bug 40684; bugfix
609 o Major bugfixes (relay):
610 - Improve security of our DNS cache by randomly clipping the TTL
611 value. TROVE-2021-009. Fixes bug 40674; bugfix on 0.3.5.1-alpha.
613 o Minor features (fallbackdir):
614 - Regenerate fallback directories generated on December 06, 2022.
616 o Minor features (geoip data):
617 - Update the geoip files to match the IPFire Location Database, as
618 retrieved on 2022/12/06.
621 Changes in version 0.4.7.11 - 2022-11-10
622 This version contains several major fixes aimed at helping defend against
623 network denial of service. It is also extending drastically the MetricsPort
624 for relays to help us gather more internal data to investigate performance
627 We strongly recommend to upgrade to this version especially for Exit relays
628 in order to help the network defend against this ongoing DDoS.
630 o Directory authority changes (dizum, Faravahar):
631 - Change dizum IP address. Closes ticket 40687.
632 - Remove Faravahar until its operator, Sina, set it back up online
633 outside of Team Cymru network. Closes ticket 40688.
635 o Major bugfixes (geoip data):
636 - IPFire informed us on August 12th that databases generated after
637 (including) August 10th did not have proper ARIN network
638 allocations. We are updating the database to use the one generated
639 on August 9th, 2022. Fixes bug 40658; bugfix on 0.4.5.13.
641 o Major bugfixes (onion service):
642 - Set a much higher circuit build timeout for opened client rendezvous
643 circuit. Before this, tor would time them out very quickly leading to
644 unnecessary retries meaning more load on the network. Fixes bug 40694;
645 bugfix on 0.3.5.1-alpha.
647 o Major bugfixes (OSX):
648 - Fix coarse-time computation on Apple platforms (like Mac M1) where
649 the Mach absolute time ticks do not correspond directly to
650 nanoseconds. Previously, we computed our shift value wrong, which
651 led us to give incorrect timing results. Fixes bug 40684; bugfix
654 o Major bugfixes (relay):
655 - Improve security of our DNS cache by randomly clipping the TTL
656 value. TROVE-2021-009. Fixes bug 40674; bugfix on 0.3.5.1-alpha.
658 o Minor feature (Mac and iOS build):
659 - Change how combine_libs works on Darwin like platforms to make
660 sure we don't include any `__.SYMDEF` and `__.SYMDEF SORTED`
661 symbols on the archive before we repack and run ${RANLIB} on the
662 archive. This fixes a build issue with recent Xcode versions on
663 Mac Silicon and iOS. Closes ticket 40683.
665 o Minor feature (metrics):
666 - Add various congestion control counters to the MetricsPort. Closes
669 o Minor feature (performance):
670 - Bump the maximum amount of CPU that can be used from 16 to 128. Note
671 that NumCPUs torrc option overrides this hardcoded maximum. Fixes bug
672 40703; bugfix on 0.3.5.1-alpha.
674 o Minor feature (relay):
675 - Make an hardcoded value for the maximum of per CPU tasks into a
677 - Two new consensus parameters are added to control the wait time in
678 queue of the onionskins. One of them is the torrc
679 MaxOnionQueueDelay options which supersedes the consensus
680 parameter. Closes ticket 40704.
682 o Minor feature (relay, DoS):
683 - Apply circuit creation anti-DoS defenses if the outbound circuit
684 max cell queue size is reached too many times. This introduces two
685 new consensus parameters to control the queue size limit and
686 number of times allowed to go over that limit. Closes ticket 40680.
688 o Minor feature (relay, metrics):
689 - Add DoS defenses counter to MetricsPort.
690 - Add congestion control RTT reset counter to MetricsPort.
691 - Add counters to the MetricsPort how many connections, per type,
692 are currently opened and how many were created.
693 - Add relay flags from the consensus to the MetricsPort.
694 - Add total number of opened circuits to MetricsPort.
695 - Add total number of streams seen by an Exit to the MetricsPort.
696 - Add traffic stats as in number of read/written bytes in total.
697 - Related to ticket 40194.
699 o Minor features (fallbackdir):
700 - Regenerate fallback directories generated on November 10, 2022.
702 o Minor features (geoip data):
703 - Update the geoip files to match the IPFire Location Database, as
704 retrieved on 2022/11/10.
706 o Minor bugfixes (authorities, sandbox):
707 - Allow to write file my-consensus-<flavor-name> to disk when
708 sandbox is activated. Fixes bug 40663; bugfix on 0.3.5.1-alpha.
710 o Minor bugfixes (dirauth):
711 - Directory authorities stop voting a consensus "Measured" weight
712 for relays with the Authority flag. Now these relays will be
713 considered unmeasured, which should reserve their bandwidth for
714 their dir auth role and minimize distractions from other roles. In
715 place of the "Measured" weight, they now include a
716 "MeasuredButAuthority" weight (not used by anything) so the
717 bandwidth authority's opinion on this relay can be recorded for
718 posterity. Lastly, remove the AuthDirDontVoteOnDirAuthBandwidth
719 torrc option which never worked right. Fixes bugs 40698 and 40700;
720 bugfix on 0.4.7.2-alpha.
722 o Minor bugfixes (onion service client):
723 - A collapsing onion service circuit should be seen as an
724 "unreachable" error so it can be retried. Fixes bug 40692; bugfix
727 o Minor bugfixes (onion service):
728 - Make the service retry a rendezvous if the circuit is being
729 repurposed for measurements. Fixes bug 40696; bugfix
732 o Minor bugfixes (relay overload statistics):
733 - Count total create cells vs dropped create cells properly, when
734 assessing if our fraction of dropped cells is too high. We only
735 count non-client circuits in the denominator, but we would include
736 client circuits in the numerator, leading to surprising log lines
737 claiming that we had dropped more than 100% of incoming create
738 cells. Fixes bug 40673; bugfix on 0.4.7.1-alpha.
740 o Code simplification and refactoring (bridges):
741 - Remove unused code related to ExtPort connection ID. Fixes bug
742 40648; bugfix on 0.3.5.1-alpha.
745 Changes in version 0.4.7.10 - 2022-08-12
746 This version updates the geoip cache that we generate from IPFire location
747 database to use the August 9th, 2022 one. Everyone MUST update to this
748 latest release else circuit path selection and relay metrics are badly
751 o Major bugfixes (geoip data):
752 - IPFire informed us on August 12th that databases generated after
753 (including) August 10th did not have proper ARIN network allocations. We
754 are updating the database to use the one generated on August 9th, 2022.
755 Fixes bug 40658; bugfix on 0.4.7.9.
758 Changes in version 0.4.6.12 - 2022-08-12
759 This version updates the geoip cache that we generate from IPFire location
760 database to use the August 9th, 2022 one. Everyone MUST update to this
761 latest release else circuit path selection and relay metrics are badly
764 o Major bugfixes (geoip data):
765 - IPFire informed us on August 12th that databases generated after
766 (including) August 10th did not have proper ARIN network allocations. We
767 are updating the database to use the one generated on August 9th, 2022.
768 Fixes bug 40658; bugfix on 0.4.6.11.
771 Changes in version 0.4.5.14 - 2022-08-12
772 This version updates the geoip cache that we generate from IPFire location
773 database to use the August 9th, 2022 one. Everyone MUST update to this
774 latest release else circuit path selection and relay metrics are badly
777 o Major bugfixes (geoip data):
778 - IPFire informed us on August 12th that databases generated after
779 (including) August 10th did not have proper ARIN network allocations. We
780 are updating the database to use the one generated on August 9th, 2022.
781 Fixes bug 40658; bugfix on 0.4.5.13.
784 Changes in version 0.4.7.9 - 2022-08-11
785 This version contains several major fixes aimed at reducing memory pressure on
786 relays and possible side-channel. It also contains a major bugfix related to
787 congestion control also aimed at reducing memory pressure on relays.
788 Finally, there is last one major bugfix related to Vanguard L2 layer node
791 We strongly recommend to upgrade to this version especially for Exit relays
792 in order to help the network defend against this ongoing DDoS.
794 o Major bugfixes (congestion control):
795 - Implement RFC3742 Limited Slow Start. Congestion control was
796 overshooting the congestion window during slow start, particularly
797 for onion service activity. With this fix, we now update the
798 congestion window more often during slow start, as well as dampen
799 the exponential growth when the congestion window grows above a
800 capping parameter. This should reduce the memory increases guard
801 relays were seeing, as well as allow us to set lower queue limits
802 to defend against ongoing DoS attacks. Fixes bug 40642; bugfix
805 o Major bugfixes (relay):
806 - Remove OR connections btrack subsystem entries when the connections
807 close normally. Before this, we would only remove the entry on error and
808 thus leaking memory for each normal OR connections. Fixes bug 40604;
809 bugfix on 0.4.0.1-alpha.
810 - Stop sending TRUNCATED cell and instead close the circuit from which we
811 received a DESTROY cell. This makes every relay in the circuit path to
812 stop queuing cells. Fixes bug 40623; bugfix on 0.1.0.2-rc.
814 o Major bugfixes (vanguards):
815 - We had omitted some checks for whether our vanguards (second layer
816 guards from proposal 333) overlapped. Now make sure to pick each
817 of them to be independent. Also, change the design to allow them
818 to come from the same family. Fixes bug 40639; bugfix
821 o Minor features (dirauth):
822 - Add a torrc option to control the Guard flag bandwidth threshold
823 percentile. Closes ticket 40652.
824 - Add an AuthDirVoteGuard torrc option that can allow authorities to
825 assign the Guard flag to the given fingerprints/country code/IPs.
826 This is a needed feature mostly for defense purposes in case a DoS
827 hits the network and relay start losing the Guard flags too fast.
828 - Make UPTIME_TO_GUARANTEE_STABLE, MTBF_TO_GUARANTEE_STABLE,
829 TIME_KNOWN_TO_GUARANTEE_FAMILIAR WFU_TO_GUARANTEE_GUARD tunable
832 o Minor features (fallbackdir):
833 - Regenerate fallback directories generated on August 11, 2022.
835 o Minor features (geoip data):
836 - Update the geoip files to match the IPFire Location Database, as
837 retrieved on 2022/08/11.
839 o Minor bugfixes (congestion control):
840 - Add a check for an integer underflow condition that might happen
841 in cases where the system clock is stopped, the ORconn is blocked,
842 and the endpoint sends more than a congestion window worth of non-
843 data control cells at once. This would cause a large congestion
844 window to be calculated instead of a small one. No security
845 impact. Fixes bug 40644; bugfix on 0.4.7.5-alpha.
847 o Minor bugfixes (defense in depth):
848 - Change a test in the netflow padding code to make it more
849 _obviously_ safe against remotely triggered crashes. (It was safe
850 against these before, but not obviously so.) Fixes bug 40645;
851 bugfix on 0.3.1.1-alpha.
853 o Minor bugfixes (relay):
854 - Do not propagate either forward or backward a DESTROY remote reason when
855 closing a circuit in order to avoid a possible side channel. Fixes bug
856 40649; bugfix on 0.1.2.4-alpha.
859 Changes in version 0.4.6.11 - 2022-08-11
860 This version contains two major fixes aimed at reducing memory pressure on
861 relays and possible side-channel. The rest of the fixes were backported for
862 stability or safety purposes.
864 This is the very LAST version of this series. As of August 1st 2022, it is
865 end-of-life (EOL). We thus strongly recommend to upgrade to the latest
866 stable of the 0.4.7.x series.
868 o Major bugfixes (relay):
869 - Remove OR connections btrack subsystem entries when the connections
870 close normally. Before this, we would only remove the entry on error and
871 thus leaking memory for each normal OR connections. Fixes bug 40604;
872 bugfix on 0.4.0.1-alpha.
873 - Stop sending TRUNCATED cell and instead close the circuit from which we
874 received a DESTROY cell. This makes every relay in the circuit path to
875 stop queuing cells. Fixes bug 40623; bugfix on 0.1.0.2-rc.
877 o Minor features (fallbackdir):
878 - Regenerate fallback directories generated on August 11, 2022.
880 o Minor features (geoip data):
881 - Update the geoip files to match the IPFire Location Database, as
882 retrieved on 2022/08/11.
884 o Minor features (linux seccomp2 sandbox):
885 - Permit the clone3 syscall, which is apparently used in glibc-2.34
886 and later. Closes ticket 40590.
888 o Minor bugfixes (controller, path bias):
889 - When a circuit's path is specified, in full or in part, from the
890 controller API, do not count that circuit towards our path-bias
891 calculations. (Doing so was incorrect, since we cannot tell
892 whether the controller is selecting relays randomly.) Resolves a
893 "Bug" warning. Fixes bug 40515; bugfix on 0.2.4.10-alpha.
895 o Minor bugfixes (defense in depth):
896 - Change a test in the netflow padding code to make it more
897 _obviously_ safe against remotely triggered crashes. (It was safe
898 against these before, but not obviously so.) Fixes bug 40645;
899 bugfix on 0.3.1.1-alpha.
901 o Minor bugfixes (linux seccomp2 sandbox):
902 - Allow the rseq system call in the sandbox. This solves a crash
903 issue with glibc 2.35 on Linux. Patch from pmu-ipf. Fixes bug
904 40601; bugfix on 0.3.5.11.
906 o Minor bugfixes (metrics port, onion service):
907 - The MetricsPort line for an onion service with multiple ports are now
908 unique that is one line per port. Before this, all ports of an onion
909 service would be on the same line which violates the Prometheus rules of
910 unique labels. Fixes bug 40581; bugfix on 0.4.5.1-alpha.
912 o Minor bugfixes (onion service, client):
913 - Fix a fatal assert due to a guard subsystem recursion triggered by
914 the onion service client. Fixes bug 40579; bugfix on 0.3.5.1-alpha.
916 o Minor bugfixes (performance, DoS):
917 - Fix one case of a not-especially viable denial-of-service attack
918 found by OSS-Fuzz in our consensus-diff parsing code. This attack
919 causes a lot small of memory allocations and then immediately
920 frees them: this is only slow when running with all the sanitizers
921 enabled. Fixes one case of bug 40472; bugfix on 0.3.1.1-alpha.
923 o Minor bugfixes (relay):
924 - Do not propagate either forward or backward a DESTROY remote reason when
925 closing a circuit in order to avoid a possible side channel. Fixes bug
926 40649; bugfix on 0.1.2.4-alpha.
929 Changes in version 0.4.5.13 - 2022-08-11
930 This version contains two major fixes aimed at reducing memory pressure on
931 relays and possible side-channel. The rest of the fixes were backported for
932 stability or safety purposes. We strongly recommend to upgrade your relay to
933 this version or, ideally, to the latest stable of the 0.4.7.x series.
935 o Major bugfixes (relay):
936 - Remove OR connections btrack subsystem entries when the connections
937 close normally. Before this, we would only remove the entry on error and
938 thus leaking memory for each normal OR connections. Fixes bug 40604;
939 bugfix on 0.4.0.1-alpha.
940 - Stop sending TRUNCATED cell and instead close the circuit from which we
941 received a DESTROY cell. This makes every relay in the circuit path to
942 stop queuing cells. Fixes bug 40623; bugfix on 0.1.0.2-rc.
944 o Minor features (fallbackdir):
945 - Regenerate fallback directories generated on August 11, 2022.
947 o Minor features (geoip data):
948 - Update the geoip files to match the IPFire Location Database, as
949 retrieved on 2022/08/11.
951 o Minor features (linux seccomp2 sandbox):
952 - Permit the clone3 syscall, which is apparently used in glibc-2.34
953 and later. Closes ticket 40590.
955 o Minor bugfixes (controller, path bias):
956 - When a circuit's path is specified, in full or in part, from the
957 controller API, do not count that circuit towards our path-bias
958 calculations. (Doing so was incorrect, since we cannot tell
959 whether the controller is selecting relays randomly.) Resolves a
960 "Bug" warning. Fixes bug 40515; bugfix on 0.2.4.10-alpha.
962 o Minor bugfixes (defense in depth):
963 - Change a test in the netflow padding code to make it more
964 _obviously_ safe against remotely triggered crashes. (It was safe
965 against these before, but not obviously so.) Fixes bug 40645;
966 bugfix on 0.3.1.1-alpha.
968 o Minor bugfixes (linux seccomp2 sandbox):
969 - Allow the rseq system call in the sandbox. This solves a crash
970 issue with glibc 2.35 on Linux. Patch from pmu-ipf. Fixes bug
971 40601; bugfix on 0.3.5.11.
973 o Minor bugfixes (metrics port, onion service):
974 - The MetricsPort line for an onion service with multiple ports are now
975 unique that is one line per port. Before this, all ports of an onion
976 service would be on the same line which violates the Prometheus rules of
977 unique labels. Fixes bug 40581; bugfix on 0.4.5.1-alpha.
979 o Minor bugfixes (onion service, client):
980 - Fix a fatal assert due to a guard subsystem recursion triggered by
981 the onion service client. Fixes bug 40579; bugfix on 0.3.5.1-alpha.
983 o Minor bugfixes (performance, DoS):
984 - Fix one case of a not-especially viable denial-of-service attack
985 found by OSS-Fuzz in our consensus-diff parsing code. This attack
986 causes a lot small of memory allocations and then immediately
987 frees them: this is only slow when running with all the sanitizers
988 enabled. Fixes one case of bug 40472; bugfix on 0.3.1.1-alpha.
990 o Minor bugfixes (relay):
991 - Do not propagate either forward or backward a DESTROY remote reason when
992 closing a circuit in order to avoid a possible side channel. Fixes bug
993 40649; bugfix on 0.1.2.4-alpha.
996 Changes in version 0.4.7.8 - 2022-06-17
997 This version fixes several bugfixes including a High severity security issue
998 categorized as a Denial of Service. Everyone running an earlier version
999 should upgrade to this version.
1001 o Major bugfixes (congestion control, TROVE-2022-001):
1002 - Fix a scenario where RTT estimation can become wedged, seriously
1003 degrading congestion control performance on all circuits. This
1004 impacts clients, onion services, and relays, and can be triggered
1005 remotely by a malicious endpoint. Tracked as CVE-2022-33903. Fixes
1006 bug 40626; bugfix on 0.4.7.5-alpha.
1008 o Minor features (fallbackdir):
1009 - Regenerate fallback directories generated on June 17, 2022.
1011 o Minor features (geoip data):
1012 - Update the geoip files to match the IPFire Location Database, as
1013 retrieved on 2022/06/17.
1015 o Minor bugfixes (linux seccomp2 sandbox):
1016 - Allow the rseq system call in the sandbox. This solves a crash
1017 issue with glibc 2.35 on Linux. Patch from pmu-ipf. Fixes bug
1018 40601; bugfix on 0.3.5.11.
1020 o Minor bugfixes (logging):
1021 - Demote a harmless warn log message about finding a second hop to
1022 from warn level to info level, if we do not have enough
1023 descriptors yet. Leave it at notice level for other cases. Fixes
1024 bug 40603; bugfix on 0.4.7.1-alpha.
1025 - Demote a notice log message about "Unexpected path length" to info
1026 level. These cases seem to happen arbitrarily, and we likely will
1027 never find all of them before the switch to arti. Fixes bug 40612;
1028 bugfix on 0.4.7.5-alpha.
1030 o Minor bugfixes (relay, logging):
1031 - Demote a harmless XOFF log message to from notice level to info
1032 level. Fixes bug 40620; bugfix on 0.4.7.5-alpha.
1035 Changes in version 0.4.7.7 - 2022-04-27
1036 This is the first stable version of the 0.4.7.x series. This series includes
1037 several major bugfixes from previous series and one massive new feature:
1040 Congestion control should improve traffic speed and stability on the network
1041 once a majority of Exit upgrade. You can find more details about it in
1042 proposal 324 in the torspec.git repository.
1044 For a complete list of changes since 0.4.6.10, see the ReleaseNotes file.
1046 o Minor features (fallbackdir):
1047 - Regenerate fallback directories generated on April 27, 2022.
1049 o Minor features (geoip data):
1050 - Update the geoip files to match the IPFire Location Database, as
1051 retrieved on 2022/04/27.
1053 o Minor bugfixes (congestion control, client side logs):
1054 - Demote a warn about 1-hop circuits using congestion control down to
1055 info; Demote the 4-hop case to notice. Fixes bug 40598; bugfix on
1059 Changes in version 0.4.7.6-rc - 2022-04-07
1060 This is the first release candidate of the 0.4.7.x series. Only one minor
1061 bugfix went in since the last alpha couple weeks ago. We strongly recommend
1062 anyone running an alpha version to upgrade to this version. Unless major
1063 problems are found, the next release will finally be the stable!
1065 o Minor features (fallbackdir):
1066 - Regenerate fallback directories generated on April 07, 2022.
1068 o Minor features (geoip data):
1069 - Update the geoip files to match the IPFire Location Database, as
1070 retrieved on 2022/04/07.
1072 o Minor features (linux seccomp2 sandbox):
1073 - Permit the clone3 syscall, which is apparently used in glibc-2.34
1074 and later. Closes ticket 40590.
1077 Changes in version 0.4.7.5-alpha - 2022-03-25
1078 This version contains, of what we hope, the final work for congestion
1079 control paving the way to the stable version. We expect this to be the last
1080 alpha version of the 0.4.7.x series. Mostly minor bugfixes except one major
1081 bugfix that changes how Tor behaves with DNS timeouts for Exit relays. As
1082 always with an alpha, we recommend all relay operators to upgrade from
1083 previous alpha to this one.
1085 o Major bugfixes (onion service, congestion control):
1086 - Fix the onion service upload case where the congestion control
1087 parameters were not added to the right object. Fixes bug 40586;
1088 bugfix on 0.4.7.4-alpha.
1090 o Major bugfixes (relay, DNS):
1091 - Lower the DNS timeout from 3 attempts at 5 seconds each to 2
1092 attempts at 1 seconds each. Two new consensus parameters were
1093 added to control these values. This change should improve observed
1094 performance under DNS load; see ticket for more details. Fixes bug
1095 40312; bugfix on 0.3.5.1-alpha.
1097 o Minor features (control port):
1098 - Provide congestion control fields on CIRC_BW and STREAM control
1099 port events, for use by sbws. Closes ticket 40568.
1101 o Minor features (fallbackdir):
1102 - Regenerate fallback directories generated on March 25, 2022.
1104 o Minor features (geoip data):
1105 - Update the geoip files to match the IPFire Location Database, as
1106 retrieved on 2022/03/25.
1108 o Minor bugfixes (DNSPort, dormant mode):
1109 - A request on the DNSPort now wakes up a dormant tor. Fixes bug
1110 40577; bugfix on 0.3.5.1-alpha.
1112 o Minor bugfixes (metrics port, onion service):
1113 - Fix the metrics with a port label to be unique. Before this, all
1114 ports of an onion service would be on the same line which violates
1115 the Prometheus rules of unique labels. Fixes bug 40581; bugfix
1118 o Minor bugfixes (onion service congestion control):
1119 - Avoid a non-fatal assertion failure in the case where we fail to
1120 set up congestion control on a rendezvous circuit. This could
1121 happen naturally if a cache entry expired at an unexpected time.
1122 Fixes bug 40576; bugfix on 0.4.7.4-alpha.
1124 o Minor bugfixes (onion service, client):
1125 - Fix a rare but fatal assertion failure due to a guard subsystem
1126 recursion triggered by the onion service client. Fixes bug 40579;
1127 bugfix on 0.3.5.1-alpha.
1129 o Minor bugfixes (relay, overload):
1130 - Decide whether to signal overload based on a fraction and
1131 assessment period of ntor handshake drops. Previously, a single
1132 drop could trigger an overload state, which caused many false
1133 positives. Fixes bug 40560; bugfix on 0.4.7.1-alpha.
1136 Changes in version 0.4.7.4-alpha - 2022-02-25
1137 This version contains the negotiation congestion control work which is the
1138 final part needed before going stable. There are also various bugfixes
1139 including two major ones detailed below. Last, the Exit notice page layout
1140 has been modernized but the text is unchanged. We recommend that all relay
1141 operators running any previous alpha upgrade to this one.
1143 o Major features (relay, client, onion services):
1144 - Implement RTT-based congestion control for exits and onion
1145 services, from Proposal 324. Disabled by default. Enabled by the
1146 'cc_alg' consensus parameter. Closes ticket 40444.
1148 o Major bugfixes (client):
1149 - Stop caching TCP connect failures to relays/bridges when we
1150 initiated the connection as a client. Now we only cache connect
1151 failures as a relay or bridge when we initiated them because of an
1152 EXTEND request. Declining to re-attempt the client-based
1153 connections could cause problems when we lose connectivity and try
1154 to reconnect. Fixes bug 40499; bugfix on 0.3.3.4-alpha.
1156 o Major bugfixes (relay, overload):
1157 - Do not trigger a general overload on DNS timeout. Even after
1158 fixing 40527, some code remained that triggered the overload.
1159 Fixes bug 40564; bugfix on 0.4.7.1-alpha.
1161 o Minor feature (authority, relay):
1162 - Reject End-Of-Life relays running version 0.3.5.x. Closes
1165 o Minor features (fallbackdir):
1166 - Regenerate fallback directories generated on February 25, 2022.
1168 o Minor features (geoip data):
1169 - Update the geoip files to match the IPFire Location Database, as
1170 retrieved on 2022/02/25.
1172 o Minor bugfix (logging):
1173 - Update a log notice dead URL to a working one. Fixes bug 40544;
1174 bugfix on 0.3.5.1-alpha.
1176 o Minor bugfix (relay):
1177 - Remove the HSDir and HSIntro onion service v2 protocol versions so
1178 relay stop advertising that they support them. Fixes bug 40509;
1181 o Minor bugfixes (cell scheduling):
1182 - Avoid writing empty payload with NSS write.
1183 - Don't attempt to write 0 bytes after a cell scheduling loop. No
1184 empty payload was put on the wire. Fixes bug 40548; bugfix
1187 o Minor bugfixes (compilation):
1188 - Resume being able to build on old / esoteric gcc versions. Fixes
1189 bug 40550; bugfix on 0.4.7.1-alpha.
1191 o Minor bugfixes (compiler warnings):
1192 - Fix couple compiler warnings on latest Ubuntu Jammy. Fixes bug
1193 40516; bugfix on 0.3.5.1-alpha.
1196 - Provide an improved version of the tor-exit-notice.html file for
1197 exit relays to use as a landing page. The text is unchanged, but
1198 the page design and layout are significantly modernized, and
1199 several links are fixed. Patch from "n_user"; closes ticket 40529.
1202 Changes in version 0.4.6.10 - 2022-02-04
1203 This version contains minor bugfixes but one in particular is that relays
1204 don't advertise onion service v2 support at the protocol version level.
1206 o Minor features (fallbackdir):
1207 - Regenerate fallback directories generated on February 04, 2022.
1209 o Minor features (geoip data):
1210 - Update the geoip files to match the IPFire Location Database, as
1211 retrieved on 2022/02/04.
1213 o Minor bugfix (logging):
1214 - Update a log notice dead URL to a working one. Fixes bug 40544;
1215 bugfix on 0.3.5.1-alpha.
1217 o Minor bugfix (relay):
1218 - Remove the HSDir and HSIntro onion service v2 protocol versions so
1219 relay stop advertising that they support them. Fixes bug 40509;
1222 o Minor bugfixes (MetricsPort, Prometheus):
1223 - Add double quotes to the label values of the onion service
1224 metrics. Fixes bug 40552; bugfix on 0.4.5.1-alpha.
1227 Changes in version 0.4.5.12 - 2022-02-04
1228 This version contains mostly minor bugfixes for which you can find the
1229 details below. The previous release (0.4.5.11) was suppose to update the
1230 GeoIP and fallbackdir lists but a problem in our release pipeline prevented
1231 those files to be updated correctly. Thus, this release regenerates up to
1232 date lists. Furthermore, another fix to highlight is that relays don't
1233 advertise onion service v2 support at the protocol version level.
1235 o Minor feature (reproducible build):
1236 - The repository can now build reproducible tarballs which adds the
1237 build command "make dist-reprod" for that purpose. Closes
1240 o Minor features (compilation):
1241 - Give an error message if trying to build with a version of
1242 LibreSSL known not to work with Tor. (There's an incompatibility
1243 with LibreSSL versions 3.2.1 through 3.4.0 inclusive because of
1244 their incompatibility with OpenSSL 1.1.1's TLSv1.3 APIs.) Closes
1247 o Minor features (fallbackdir):
1248 - Regenerate fallback directories generated on February 04, 2022.
1250 o Minor features (geoip data):
1251 - Update the geoip files to match the IPFire Location Database, as
1252 retrieved on 2022/02/04.
1254 o Minor bugfix (logging):
1255 - Update a log notice dead URL to a working one. Fixes bug 40544;
1256 bugfix on 0.3.5.1-alpha.
1258 o Minor bugfix (relay):
1259 - Remove the HSDir and HSIntro onion service v2 protocol versions so
1260 relay stop advertising that they support them. Fixes bug 40509;
1263 o Minor bugfixes (compilation):
1264 - Fix a compilation error when trying to build Tor with a compiler
1265 that does not support expanding statically initialized const
1266 values in macro's. Fixes bug 40410; bugfix on 0.4.5.1-alpha
1267 - Fix our configuration logic to detect whether we had OpenSSL 3:
1268 previously, our logic was reversed. This has no other effect than
1269 to change whether we suppress deprecated API warnings. Fixes bug
1270 40429; bugfix on 0.3.5.13.
1272 o Minor bugfixes (MetricsPort, Prometheus):
1273 - Add double quotes to the label values of the onion service
1274 metrics. Fixes bug 40552; bugfix on 0.4.5.1-alpha.
1276 o Minor bugfixes (relay):
1277 - Reject IPv6-only DirPorts. Our reachability self-test forces
1278 DirPorts to be IPv4, but our configuration parser allowed them to
1279 be IPv6-only, which led to an assertion failure. Fixes bug 40494;
1280 bugfix on 0.4.5.1-alpha.
1283 Changes in version 0.4.7.3-alpha - 2021-12-15
1284 This third alpha release of the 0.4.7.x series fixes several bugs including
1285 two major ones affecting Bridges and Relays (see below). If you are running
1286 an earlier 0.4.7.x version, you should upgrade to this version.
1288 o Major bugfixes (bridges):
1289 - Make Tor work reliably again when you have multiple bridges
1290 configured and one or more of them are unreachable. The problem
1291 came because we require that we have bridge descriptors for both
1292 of our first two bridges (else we refuse to try to connect), but
1293 in some cases we would wait three hours before trying to fetch
1294 these missing descriptors, and/or never recover when we do try to
1295 fetch them. Fixes bugs 40396 and 40495; bugfix on 0.3.0.5-rc
1298 o Major bugfixes (relay, overload):
1299 - Change the MetricsPort DNS "timeout" label to be "tor_timeout" in
1300 order to indicate that this was a DNS timeout from tor perspective
1301 and not the DNS server itself.
1302 - Deprecate overload_dns_timeout_period_secs and
1303 overload_dns_timeout_scale_percent consensus parameters as well.
1304 They were used to assess the overload state which is no more now.
1305 - Don't make Tor DNS timeout trigger an overload general state.
1306 These timeouts are different from DNS server timeout. They have to
1307 be seen as timeout related to UX and not because of a network
1308 problem. Fixes bug 40527; bugfix on 0.4.6.1-alpha.
1310 o Minor feature (reproducible build):
1311 - The repository can now build reproducible tarballs which adds the
1312 build command "make dist-reprod" for that purpose. Closes
1315 o Minor features (compilation):
1316 - Give an error message if trying to build with a version of
1317 LibreSSL known not to work with Tor. (There's an incompatibility
1318 with LibreSSL versions 3.2.1 through 3.4.0 inclusive because of
1319 their incompatibility with OpenSSL 1.1.1's TLSv1.3 APIs.) Closes
1322 o Minor features (fallbackdir):
1323 - Regenerate fallback directories generated on December 15, 2021.
1325 o Minor features (geoip data):
1326 - Update the geoip files to match the IPFire Location Database, as
1327 retrieved on 2021/12/15.
1329 o Minor features (portability):
1330 - Try to prevent a compiler warning about printf arguments that
1331 could sometimes occur on MSYS2 depending on the configuration.
1332 Closes ticket 40355.
1334 o Minor bugfix (pluggable transport):
1335 - Do not kill a managed proxy if one of its transport configurations
1336 emits a method error. Instead log a warning and continue processing
1337 method arguments. Fixes bug 7362; bugfix on 0.2.3.6-alpha.
1339 o Minor bugfixes (bridges):
1340 - When we don't yet have a descriptor for one of our bridges,
1341 disable the entry guard retry schedule on that bridge. The entry
1342 guard retry schedule and the bridge descriptor retry schedule can
1343 conflict, e.g. where we mark a bridge as "maybe up" yet we don't
1344 try to fetch its descriptor yet, leading Tor to wait (refusing to
1345 do anything) until it becomes time to fetch the descriptor. Fixes
1346 bug 40497; bugfix on 0.3.0.3-alpha.
1348 o Minor bugfixes (compilation):
1349 - Fix our configuration logic to detect whether we had OpenSSL 3:
1350 previously, our logic was reversed. This has no other effect than
1351 to change whether we suppress deprecated API warnings. Fixes bug
1352 40429; bugfix on 0.3.5.13.
1354 o Minor bugfixes (controller, path bias):
1355 - When a circuit's path is specified, in full or in part, from the
1356 controller API, do not count that circuit towards our path-bias
1357 calculations. (Doing so was incorrect, since we cannot tell
1358 whether the controller is selecting relays randomly.) Resolves a
1359 "Bug" warning. Fixes bug 40515; bugfix on 0.2.4.10-alpha.
1361 o Minor bugfixes (logging):
1362 - When we no longer have enough directory information to use the
1363 network, we would log a notice-level message -- but we would not
1364 reliably log a message when we recovered and resumed using the
1365 network. Now make sure there is always a corresponding message
1366 about recovering. Fixes bug 40496; bugfix on 0.3.5.1-alpha.
1368 o Minor bugfixes (performance, DoS):
1369 - Fix one case of a not-especially viable denial-of-service attack
1370 found by OSS-Fuzz in our consensus-diff parsing code. This attack
1371 causes a lot small of memory allocations and then immediately
1372 frees them: this is only slow when running with all the sanitizers
1373 enabled. Fixes one case of bug 40472; bugfix on 0.3.1.1-alpha.
1375 o Minor bugfixes (relay):
1376 - Reject IPv6-only DirPorts. Our reachability self-test forces
1377 DirPorts to be IPv4, but our configuration parser allowed them to
1378 be IPv6-only, which led to an assertion failure. Fixes bug 40494;
1379 bugfix on 0.4.5.1-alpha.
1381 o Minor bugfixes (sandbox):
1382 - Fix the sandbox on i386 by modifying it to allow the
1383 "clock_gettime64" and "statx" system calls and to filter the
1384 "chown32" and "stat64" system calls in place of "chown" and
1385 "stat", respectively. Fixes bug 40505; bugfix on 0.2.5.4-alpha.
1387 o Documentation (man, relay):
1388 - Missing "OverloadStatistics" in tor.1 manpage. Fixes bug 40504;
1389 bugfix on 0.4.6.1-alpha.
1392 Changes in version 0.4.6.9 - 2021-12-15
1393 This version fixes several bugs from earlier versions of Tor. One important
1394 piece is the removal of DNS timeout metric from the overload general signal.
1395 See below for more details.
1397 o Major bugfixes (relay, overload):
1398 - Don't make Tor DNS timeout trigger an overload general state.
1399 These timeouts are different from DNS server timeout. They have to
1400 be seen as timeout related to UX and not because of a network
1401 problem. Fixes bug 40527; bugfix on 0.4.6.1-alpha.
1403 o Minor feature (reproducible build):
1404 - The repository can now build reproducible tarballs which adds the
1405 build command "make dist-reprod" for that purpose. Closes
1408 o Minor features (compilation):
1409 - Give an error message if trying to build with a version of
1410 LibreSSL known not to work with Tor. (There's an incompatibility
1411 with LibreSSL versions 3.2.1 through 3.4.0 inclusive because of
1412 their incompatibility with OpenSSL 1.1.1's TLSv1.3 APIs.) Closes
1415 o Minor features (fallbackdir):
1416 - Regenerate fallback directories generated on December 15, 2021.
1418 o Minor features (geoip data):
1419 - Update the geoip files to match the IPFire Location Database, as
1420 retrieved on 2021/12/15.
1422 o Minor bugfixes (compilation):
1423 - Fix our configuration logic to detect whether we had OpenSSL 3:
1424 previously, our logic was reversed. This has no other effect than
1425 to change whether we suppress deprecated API warnings. Fixes bug
1426 40429; bugfix on 0.3.5.13.
1428 o Minor bugfixes (relay):
1429 - Reject IPv6-only DirPorts. Our reachability self-test forces
1430 DirPorts to be IPv4, but our configuration parser allowed them to
1431 be IPv6-only, which led to an assertion failure. Fixes bug 40494;
1432 bugfix on 0.4.5.1-alpha.
1434 o Documentation (man, relay):
1435 - Missing "OverloadStatistics" in tor.1 manpage. Fixes bug 40504;
1436 bugfix on 0.4.6.1-alpha.
1439 Changes in version 0.4.7.2-alpha - 2021-10-26
1440 This second alpha release of the 0.4.7.x series adds two major
1441 features: congestion control (prop324) for network performance, and
1442 the MiddleOnly flag (prop335) voted by the authorities to pin relays
1443 to the middle position for various network health reasons. This
1444 release also fixes numerous bugs.
1446 The congestion control feature, detailed in proposal 324, still needs
1447 more work before we can enable it by default. It is currently in its
1448 testing and tuning phase which means that you should expect more
1449 0.4.7.x alphas as congestion control gets stabilized and tuned for
1450 optimal performance. And so, at this release, it can not be used
1451 without a custom patch.
1453 o Major features (congestion control):
1454 - Implement support for flow control over congestion controlled
1455 circuits. This work comes from proposal 324. Closes ticket 40450.
1457 o Major features (directory authority):
1458 - Add a new consensus method to handle MiddleOnly specially. When
1459 enough authorities are using this method, then any relay tagged
1460 with the MiddleOnly flag will have its Exit, Guard, HSDir, and
1461 V2Dir flags automatically cleared, and will have its BadExit flag
1462 automatically set. Implements part of proposal 335.
1463 - Authorities can now be configured to label relays as "MiddleOnly".
1464 When voting for this flag, authorities automatically vote against
1465 Exit, Guard, HSDir, and V2Dir; and in favor of BadExit. Implements
1466 part of proposal 335. Based on a patch from Neel Chauhan.
1468 o Major bugfix (relay, metrics):
1469 - On the MetricsPort, the DNS error statistics are not reported by
1470 record type ("record=...") anymore due to a libevent bug
1471 (https://github.com/libevent/libevent/issues/1219). Fixes bug
1472 40490; bugfix on 0.4.7.1-alpha.
1474 o Major bugfixes (relay, overload state):
1475 - Relays report the general overload state for DNS timeout errors
1476 only if X% of all DNS queries over Y seconds are errors. Before
1477 that, it only took 1 timeout to report the overload state which
1478 was just too low of a threshold. The X and Y values are 1% and 10
1479 minutes respectively but they are also controlled by consensus
1480 parameters. Fixes bug 40491; bugfix on 0.4.6.1-alpha.
1482 o Minor feature (authority, relay):
1483 - Reject End-Of-Life relays running version 0.4.2.x, 0.4.3.x,
1484 0.4.4.x and 0.4.5 alphas/rc. Closes ticket 40480.
1486 o Minor feature (onion service v2):
1487 - Onion service v2 addresses are now not recognized anymore by tor
1488 meaning a bad hostname is returned when attempting to pass it on a
1489 SOCKS connection. No more deprecation log is emitted client side.
1490 Closes ticket 40476.
1491 - See https://blog.torproject.org/v2-deprecation-timeline for
1492 details on how to transition from v2 to v3.
1494 o Minor features (fallbackdir):
1495 - Regenerate fallback directories for October 2021. Closes
1498 o Minor features (logging, heartbeat):
1499 - When a relay receives a cell that isn't encrypted properly for it,
1500 but the relay is the last hop on the circuit, the relay now counts
1501 how many cells of this kind it receives, on how many circuits, and
1502 reports this information in the log. Previously, we'd log each
1503 cell at PROTOCOL_WARN level, which is far too verbose to be
1504 useful. Fixes part of ticket 40400.
1506 o Minor features (testing):
1507 - We now have separate fuzzers for the inner layers of v3 onion
1508 service descriptors, to prevent future bugs like 40392. Closes
1511 o Minor bugfixes (compilation):
1512 - Fix compilation error when __NR_time is not defined. Fixes bug
1513 40465; bugfix on 0.2.5.5-alpha. Patch by Daniel Pinto.
1515 o Minor bugfixes (dirauth, bandwidth scanner):
1516 - Add the AuthDirDontVoteOnDirAuthBandwidth dirauth config parameter
1517 to avoid voting on bandwidth scanner weights to v3 directory
1518 authorities. Fixes bug 40471; bugfix on 0.2.2.1-alpha. Patch by
1521 o Minor bugfixes (fragile-hardening, sandbox):
1522 - When building with --enable-fragile-hardening, add or relax Linux
1523 seccomp rules to allow AddressSanitizer to execute normally if the
1524 process terminates with the sandbox active. This has the side
1525 effect of disabling the filtering of file- and directory-open
1526 requests on most systems and dilutes the effectiveness of the
1527 sandbox overall, as a wider range of system calls must be
1528 permitted. Fixes bug 11477; bugfix on 0.2.5.4-alpha.
1530 o Minor bugfixes (logging):
1531 - If a channel has never received or transmitted a cell, or seen a
1532 client, do not calculate time diffs against 1/1/1970 but log a
1533 better prettier message. Fixes bug 40182; bugfix on 0.2.4.4.
1535 o Minor bugfixes (onion service):
1536 - Fix a warning BUG that would occur often on heavily loaded onion
1537 service leading to filling the logs with useless warnings. Fixes
1538 bug 34083; bugfix on 0.3.2.1-alpha.
1540 o Minor bugfix (CI, onion service):
1541 - Exclude onion service version 2 Stem tests in our CI. Fixes bug 40500;
1542 bugfix on 0.3.2.1-alpha.
1544 o Minor bugfixes (onion service, config):
1545 - Fix a memory leak for a small config line string that could occur
1546 if the onion service failed to be configured from file properly.
1547 Fixes bug 40484; bugfix on 0.3.2.1-alpha.
1549 o Minor bugfixes (onion service, TROVE-2021-008):
1550 - Only log v2 access attempts once total, in order to not pollute
1551 the logs with warnings and to avoid recording the times on disk
1552 when v2 access was attempted. Note that the onion address was
1553 _never_ logged. This counts as a Low-severity security issue.
1554 Fixes bug 40474; bugfix on 0.4.5.8.
1555 - Note that due to #40476 which removes v2 support entirely, this
1556 log line is not emitted anymore. We still mention this in the
1557 changelog because it is a Low-severity TROVE.
1559 o Minor bugfixes (usability):
1560 - Do not log "RENDEZVOUS1 cell with unrecognized rendezvous cookie"
1561 at LOG_PROTOCOL_WARN; instead log it at DEBUG. This warning can
1562 happen naturally if a client gives up on a rendezvous circuit
1563 after sending INTRODUCE1. Fixes part of bug 40400; bugfix
1565 - Do not log "circuit_receive_relay_cell failed" at
1566 LOG_PROTOCOL_WARN; instead log it at DEBUG. In every case where we
1567 would want to log this as a protocol warning, we are already
1568 logging another warning from inside circuit_receive_relay_cell.
1569 Fixes part of bug 40400; bugfix on 0.1.1.9-alpha.
1571 o Code simplification and refactoring:
1572 - Lower the official maximum for "guard-extreme-restriction-percent"
1573 to 100. This has no effect on when the guard code will generate a
1574 warning, but it makes the intent of the option clearer. Fixes bug
1575 40486; bugfix on 0.3.0.1-alpha.
1578 - Add unit tests for the Linux seccomp sandbox. Resolves
1581 o Code simplification and refactoring (rust):
1582 - Remove Rust support and its associated code. It is unsupported and
1583 Rust focus should be shifted to arti. Closes ticket 40469.
1585 o Testing (CI, chutney):
1586 - Bump the data size that chutney transmits to 5MBytes in order to
1587 trigger the flow control and congestion window code. Closes
1591 Changes in version 0.4.6.8 - 2021-10-26
1592 This version fixes several bugs from earlier versions of Tor. One
1593 highlight is a fix on how we track DNS timeouts to report general
1596 o Major bugfixes (relay, overload state):
1597 - Relays report the general overload state for DNS timeout errors
1598 only if X% of all DNS queries over Y seconds are errors. Before
1599 that, it only took 1 timeout to report the overload state which
1600 was just too low of a threshold. The X and Y values are 1% and 10
1601 minutes respectively but they are also controlled by consensus
1602 parameters. Fixes bug 40491; bugfix on 0.4.6.1-alpha.
1604 o Minor features (fallbackdir):
1605 - Regenerate fallback directories for October 2021. Closes
1608 o Minor features (testing):
1609 - On a testing network, relays can now use the
1610 TestingMinTimeToReportBandwidth option to change the smallest
1611 amount of time over which they're willing to report their observed
1612 maximum bandwidth. Previously, this was fixed at 1 day. For
1613 safety, values under 2 hours are only supported on testing
1614 networks. Part of a fix for ticket 40337.
1615 - Relays on testing networks no longer rate-limit how frequently
1616 they are willing to report new bandwidth measurements. Part of a
1617 fix for ticket 40337.
1618 - Relays on testing networks now report their observed bandwidths
1619 immediately from startup. Previously, they waited until they had
1620 been running for a full day. Closes ticket 40337.
1622 o Minor bugfix (onion service):
1623 - Do not flag an HSDir as non-running in case the descriptor upload
1624 or fetch fails. An onion service closes pending directory
1625 connections before uploading a new descriptor which can thus lead
1626 to wrongly flagging many relays and thus affecting circuit building
1627 path selection. Fixes bug 40434; bugfix on 0.2.0.13-alpha.
1628 - Improve logging when a bad HS version is given. Fixes bug 40476;
1629 bugfix on 0.4.6.1-alpha.
1631 o Minor bugfix (CI, onion service):
1632 - Exclude onion service version 2 Stem tests in our CI. Fixes bug 40500;
1633 bugfix on 0.3.2.1-alpha.
1635 o Minor bugfixes (compatibility):
1636 - Fix compatibility with the most recent Libevent versions, which no
1637 longer have an evdns_set_random_bytes() function. Because this
1638 function has been a no-op since Libevent 2.0.4-alpha, it is safe
1639 for us to just stop calling it. Fixes bug 40371; bugfix
1642 o Minor bugfixes (onion service, TROVE-2021-008):
1643 - Only log v2 access attempts once total, in order to not pollute
1644 the logs with warnings and to avoid recording the times on disk
1645 when v2 access was attempted. Note that the onion address was
1646 _never_ logged. This counts as a Low-severity security issue.
1647 Fixes bug 40474; bugfix on 0.4.5.8.
1650 Changes in version 0.4.5.11 - 2021-10-26
1651 The major change in this version is that v2 onion services are now
1652 disabled at the client, service, and relay: any Tor nodes running this
1653 version and onward will stop supporting v2 onion services. This is the
1654 last step in the long deprecation process of v2 onion services.
1655 Everyone running an earlier version, whether as a client, a relay, or
1656 an onion service, should upgrade to Tor 0.3.5.17, 0.4.5.11,
1659 o Major feature (onion service v2):
1660 - See https://blog.torproject.org/v2-deprecation-timeline for
1661 details on how to transition from v2 to v3.
1662 - The control port commands HSFETCH and HSPOST no longer allow
1663 version 2, and it is no longer possible to create a v2 service
1665 - Tor no longer allows creating v2 services, or connecting as a
1666 client to a v2 service. Relays will decline to be a v2 HSDir or
1667 introduction point. This effectively disables onion service
1668 version 2 Tor-wide. Closes ticket 40476.
1670 o Minor features (bridge, backport from 0.4.6.8):
1671 - We now announce the URL to Tor's new bridge status at
1672 https://bridges.torproject.org/ when Tor is configured to run as a
1673 bridge relay. Closes ticket 30477.
1675 o Minor features (fallbackdir):
1676 - Regenerate fallback directories for October 2021. Closes
1679 o Minor features (logging, diagnostic, backport from 0.4.6.5):
1680 - Log decompression failures at a higher severity level, since they
1681 can help provide missing context for other warning messages. We
1682 rate-limit these messages, to avoid flooding the logs if they
1683 begin to occur frequently. Closes ticket 40175.
1685 o Minor features (testing, backport from 0.4.6.8):
1686 - On a testing network, relays can now use the
1687 TestingMinTimeToReportBandwidth option to change the smallest
1688 amount of time over which they're willing to report their observed
1689 maximum bandwidth. Previously, this was fixed at 1 day. For
1690 safety, values under 2 hours are only supported on testing
1691 networks. Part of a fix for ticket 40337.
1692 - Relays on testing networks no longer rate-limit how frequently
1693 they are willing to report new bandwidth measurements. Part of a
1694 fix for ticket 40337.
1695 - Relays on testing networks now report their observed bandwidths
1696 immediately from startup. Previously, they waited until they had
1697 been running for a full day. Closes ticket 40337.
1699 o Minor bugfix (CI, onion service):
1700 - Exclude onion service version 2 Stem tests in our CI. Fixes bug 40500;
1701 bugfix on 0.3.2.1-alpha.
1703 o Minor bugfix (onion service, backport from 0.4.6.8):
1704 - Do not flag an HSDir as non-running in case the descriptor upload
1705 or fetch fails. An onion service closes pending directory
1706 connections before uploading a new descriptor which can thus lead
1707 to wrongly flagging many relays and thus affecting circuit building
1708 path selection. Fixes bug 40434; bugfix on 0.2.0.13-alpha.
1710 o Minor bugfixes (compatibility, backport from 0.4.6.8):
1711 - Fix compatibility with the most recent Libevent versions, which no
1712 longer have an evdns_set_random_bytes() function. Because this
1713 function has been a no-op since Libevent 2.0.4-alpha, it is safe
1714 for us to just stop calling it. Fixes bug 40371; bugfix
1717 o Minor bugfixes (consensus handling, backport from 0.4.6.4-rc):
1718 - Avoid a set of bugs that could be caused by inconsistently
1719 preferring an out-of-date consensus stored in a stale directory
1720 cache over a more recent one stored on disk as the latest
1721 consensus. Fixes bug 40375; bugfix on 0.3.1.1-alpha.
1723 o Minor bugfixes (onion service, TROVE-2021-008, backport from 0.4.6.8):
1724 - Only log v2 access attempts once total, in order to not pollute
1725 the logs with warnings and to avoid recording the times on disk
1726 when v2 access was attempted. Note that the onion address was
1727 _never_ logged. This counts as a Low-severity security issue.
1728 Fixes bug 40474; bugfix on 0.4.5.8.
1731 Changes in version 0.3.5.17 - 2021-10-26
1732 The major change in this version is that v2 onion services are now
1733 disabled at the client, service, and relay: any Tor nodes running this
1734 version and onward will stop supporting v2 onion services. This is the
1735 last step in the long deprecation process of v2 onion services.
1736 Everyone running an earlier version, whether as a client, a relay, or
1737 an onion service, should upgrade to Tor 0.3.5.17, 0.4.5.11,
1740 o Major feature (onion service v2, backport from 0.4.5.11):
1741 - See https://blog.torproject.org/v2-deprecation-timeline for
1742 details on how to transition from v2 to v3.
1743 - The control port commands HSFETCH and HSPOST no longer allow
1744 version 2, and it is no longer possible to create a v2 service
1746 - Tor no longer allows creating v2 services, or connecting as a
1747 client to a v2 service. Relays will decline to be a v2 HSDir or
1748 introduction point. This effectively disables onion service
1749 version 2 Tor-wide. Closes ticket 40476.
1751 o Minor features (bridge, backport from 0.4.6.8):
1752 - We now announce the URL to Tor's new bridge status at
1753 https://bridges.torproject.org/ when Tor is configured to run as a
1754 bridge relay. Closes ticket 30477.
1756 o Minor features (fallbackdir):
1757 - Regenerate fallback directories for October 2021. Closes
1760 o Minor bugfixes (compatibility, backport from 0.4.6.8):
1761 - Fix compatibility with the most recent Libevent versions, which no
1762 longer have an evdns_set_random_bytes() function. Because this
1763 function has been a no-op since Libevent 2.0.4-alpha, it is safe
1764 for us to just stop calling it. Fixes bug 40371; bugfix
1768 Changes in version 0.4.7.1-alpha - 2021-09-17
1769 This version is the first alpha release of the 0.4.7.x series. One
1770 major feature is Vanguards Lite, from proposal 333, to help mitigate
1771 guard discovery attacks against onion services. It also includes
1774 o Major features (Proposal 332, onion services, guard selection algorithm):
1775 - Clients and onion services now choose four long-lived "layer 2"
1776 guard relays for use as the middle hop in all onion circuits.
1777 These relays are kept in place for a randomized duration averaging
1778 1 week. This mitigates guard discovery attacks against clients and
1779 short-lived onion services such as OnionShare. Long-lived onion
1780 services that need high security should still use the Vanguards
1781 addon (https://github.com/mikeperry-tor/vanguards). Closes ticket
1782 40363; implements proposal 333.
1784 o Minor features (bridge testing support):
1785 - Let external bridge reachability testing tools discard cached
1786 bridge descriptors when setting new bridges, so they can be sure
1787 to get a clean reachability test. Implements ticket 40209.
1789 o Minor features (fuzzing):
1790 - When building with --enable-libfuzzer, use a set of compiler flags
1791 that works with more recent versions of the library. Previously we
1792 were using a set of flags from 2017. Closes ticket 40407.
1794 o Minor features (testing configuration):
1795 - When TestingTorNetwork is enabled, skip the permissions check on
1796 hidden service directories. Closes ticket 40338.
1797 - On a testing network, relays can now use the
1798 TestingMinTimeToReportBandwidth option to change the smallest
1799 amount of time over which they're willing to report their observed
1800 maximum bandwidth. Previously, this was fixed at 1 day. For
1801 safety, values under 2 hours are only supported on testing
1802 networks. Part of a fix for ticket 40337.
1803 - Relays on testing networks no longer rate-limit how frequently
1804 they are willing to report new bandwidth measurements. Part of a
1805 fix for ticket 40337.
1806 - Relays on testing networks now report their observed bandwidths
1807 immediately from startup. Previously, they waited until they had
1808 been running for a full day. Closes ticket 40337.
1810 o Minor bugfixes (circuit padding):
1811 - Don't send STOP circuit padding cells when the other side has
1812 already shut down the corresponding padding machine. Fixes bug
1813 40435; bugfix on 0.4.0.1-alpha.
1815 o Minor bugfixes (compatibility):
1816 - Fix compatibility with the most recent Libevent versions, which no
1817 longer have an evdns_set_random_bytes() function. Because this
1818 function has been a no-op since Libevent 2.0.4-alpha, it is safe
1819 for us to just stop calling it. Fixes bug 40371; bugfix
1822 o Minor bugfixes (control, sandbox):
1823 - Allows the control command SAVECONF to succeed when the seccomp
1824 sandbox is enabled. Makes SAVECONF keep only one backup file, to
1825 simplify implementation. Fixes bug 40317; bugfix on 0.2.5.4-alpha.
1826 Patch by Daniel Pinto.
1828 o Minor bugfixes (heartbeat):
1829 - Adjust the heartbeat log message about distinct clients to
1830 consider the HeartbeatPeriod rather than a flat 6-hour delay.
1831 Fixes bug 40330; bugfix on 0.2.6.3-alpha.
1833 o Minor bugfixes (logging, relay):
1834 - Add spaces between the "and" when logging the "Your server has not
1835 managed to confirm reachability for its" on dual-stack relays.
1836 Fixes bug 40453; bugfix on 0.4.5.1-alpha. Patch by Neel Chauhan.
1838 o Minor bugfixes (onion service):
1839 - Do not flag an HSDir as non-running in case the descriptor upload
1840 or fetch fails. An onion service closes pending directory
1841 connections before uploading a new descriptor which leads to
1842 wrongly flagging many relays and thus affecting circuit path
1843 selection. Fixes bug 40434; bugfix on 0.2.0.13-alpha.
1845 o Minor bugfixes (statistics):
1846 - Fix a fencepost issue when we check stability_last_downrated where
1847 we called rep_hist_downrate_old_runs() twice. Fixes bug 40394;
1848 bugfix on 0.2.0.5-alpha. Patch by Neel Chauhan.
1850 o Minor bugfixes (tests):
1851 - Fix a bug that prevented some tests from running with the correct
1852 names. Fixes bug 40365; bugfix on 0.4.3.1-alpha.
1855 - Add links to original tor design paper and anonbib to
1856 docs/HACKING/README.1st.md. Closes ticket 33742. Patch from
1858 - Describe the "fingerprint-ed25519" file in the tor.1 man page.
1859 Fixes bug 40467; bugfix on 0.4.3.1-alpha. Patch by Neel Chauhan.
1862 Changes in version 0.4.6.7 - 2021-08-16
1863 This version fixes several bugs from earlier versions of Tor,
1864 including one that could lead to a denial-of-service attack. Everyone
1865 running an earlier version, whether as a client, a relay, or an onion
1866 service, should upgrade to Tor 0.3.5.16, 0.4.5.10, or 0.4.6.7.
1868 o Major bugfixes (cryptography, security):
1869 - Resolve an assertion failure caused by a behavior mismatch between
1870 our batch-signature verification code and our single-signature
1871 verification code. This assertion failure could be triggered
1872 remotely, leading to a denial of service attack. We fix this issue
1873 by disabling batch verification. Fixes bug 40078; bugfix on
1874 0.2.6.1-alpha. This issue is also tracked as TROVE-2021-007 and
1875 CVE-2021-38385. Found by Henry de Valence.
1877 o Minor feature (fallbackdir):
1878 - Regenerate fallback directories list. Close ticket 40447.
1880 o Minor features (geoip data):
1881 - Update the geoip files to match the IPFire Location Database, as
1882 retrieved on 2021/08/12.
1884 o Minor bugfix (crypto):
1885 - Disable the unused batch verification feature of ed25519-donna.
1886 Fixes bug 40078; bugfix on 0.2.6.1-alpha. Found by Henry
1889 o Minor bugfixes (onion service):
1890 - Send back the extended SOCKS error 0xF6 (Onion Service Invalid
1891 Address) for a v2 onion address. Fixes bug 40421; bugfix
1894 o Minor bugfixes (relay):
1895 - Reduce the compression level for data streaming from HIGH to LOW
1896 in order to reduce CPU load on the directory relays. Fixes bug
1897 40301; bugfix on 0.3.5.1-alpha.
1899 o Minor bugfixes (timekeeping):
1900 - Calculate the time of day correctly on systems where the time_t
1901 type includes leap seconds. (This is not the case on most
1902 operating systems, but on those where it occurs, our tor_timegm
1903 function did not correctly invert the system's gmtime function,
1904 which could result in assertion failures when calculating voting
1905 schedules.) Fixes bug 40383; bugfix on 0.2.0.3-alpha.
1908 Changes in version 0.4.5.10 - 2021-08-16
1909 This version fixes several bugs from earlier versions of Tor,
1910 including one that could lead to a denial-of-service attack. Everyone
1911 running an earlier version, whether as a client, a relay, or an onion
1912 service, should upgrade to Tor 0.3.5.16, 0.4.5.10, or 0.4.6.7.
1914 o Major bugfixes (cryptography, security):
1915 - Resolve an assertion failure caused by a behavior mismatch between
1916 our batch-signature verification code and our single-signature
1917 verification code. This assertion failure could be triggered
1918 remotely, leading to a denial of service attack. We fix this issue
1919 by disabling batch verification. Fixes bug 40078; bugfix on
1920 0.2.6.1-alpha. This issue is also tracked as TROVE-2021-007 and
1921 CVE-2021-38385. Found by Henry de Valence.
1923 o Minor feature (fallbackdir):
1924 - Regenerate fallback directories list. Close ticket 40447.
1926 o Minor features (geoip data):
1927 - Update the geoip files to match the IPFire Location Database, as
1928 retrieved on 2021/08/12.
1930 o Minor features (testing):
1931 - Enable the deterministic RNG for unit tests that covers the
1932 address set bloomfilter-based API's. Fixes bug 40419; bugfix
1935 o Minor bugfix (crypto, backport from 0.4.6.7):
1936 - Disable the unused batch verification feature of ed25519-donna.
1937 Fixes bug 40078; bugfix on 0.2.6.1-alpha. Found by Henry
1940 o Minor bugfixes (relay, backport from 0.4.6.7):
1941 - Reduce the compression level for data streaming from HIGH to LOW.
1942 Fixes bug 40301; bugfix on 0.3.5.1-alpha.
1944 o Minor bugfixes (timekeeping, backport from 0.4.6.7):
1945 - Calculate the time of day correctly on systems where the time_t
1946 type includes leap seconds. (This is not the case on most
1947 operating systems, but on those where it occurs, our tor_timegm
1948 function did not correctly invert the system's gmtime function,
1949 which could result in assertion failures when calculating voting
1950 schedules.) Fixes bug 40383; bugfix on 0.2.0.3-alpha.
1952 o Minor bugfixes (warnings, portability, backport from 0.4.6.6):
1953 - Suppress a strict-prototype warning when building with some
1954 versions of NSS. Fixes bug 40409; bugfix on 0.3.5.1-alpha.
1957 Changes in version 0.3.5.16 - 2021-08-16
1958 This version fixes several bugs from earlier versions of Tor,
1959 including one that could lead to a denial-of-service attack. Everyone
1960 running an earlier version, whether as a client, a relay, or an onion
1961 service, should upgrade to Tor 0.3.5.16, 0.4.5.10, or 0.4.6.7.
1963 o Major bugfixes (cryptography, security):
1964 - Resolve an assertion failure caused by a behavior mismatch between
1965 our batch-signature verification code and our single-signature
1966 verification code. This assertion failure could be triggered
1967 remotely, leading to a denial of service attack. We fix this issue
1968 by disabling batch verification. Fixes bug 40078; bugfix on
1969 0.2.6.1-alpha. This issue is also tracked as TROVE-2021-007 and
1970 CVE-2021-38385. Found by Henry de Valence.
1972 o Minor feature (fallbackdir):
1973 - Regenerate fallback directories list. Close ticket 40447.
1975 o Minor features (geoip data):
1976 - Update the geoip files to match the IPFire Location Database, as
1977 retrieved on 2021/08/12.
1979 o Minor bugfix (crypto, backport from 0.4.6.7):
1980 - Disable the unused batch verification feature of ed25519-donna.
1981 Fixes bug 40078; bugfix on 0.2.6.1-alpha. Found by Henry
1984 o Minor bugfixes (relay, backport from 0.4.6.7):
1985 - Reduce the compression level for data streaming from HIGH to LOW.
1986 Fixes bug 40301; bugfix on 0.3.5.1-alpha.
1989 Changes in version 0.4.6.6 - 2021-06-30
1990 Tor 0.4.6.6 makes several small fixes on 0.4.6.5, including one that
1991 allows Tor to build correctly on older versions of GCC. You should
1992 upgrade to this version if you were having trouble building Tor
1993 0.4.6.5; otherwise, there is probably no need.
1995 o Minor bugfixes (compilation):
1996 - Fix a compilation error when trying to build Tor with a compiler
1997 that does not support const variables in static initializers.
1998 Fixes bug 40410; bugfix on 0.4.6.5.
1999 - Suppress a strict-prototype warning when building with some
2000 versions of NSS. Fixes bug 40409; bugfix on 0.3.5.1-alpha.
2002 o Minor bugfixes (testing):
2003 - Enable the deterministic RNG for unit tests that covers the
2004 address set bloomfilter-based API's. Fixes bug 40419; bugfix
2008 Changes in version 0.4.5.9 - 2021-06-14
2009 Tor 0.4.5.9 fixes several security issues, including a
2010 denial-of-service attack against onion service clients, and another
2011 denial-of-service attack against relays. Everybody should upgrade to
2012 one of 0.3.5.15, 0.4.4.9, 0.4.5.9, or 0.4.6.5.
2014 o Major bugfixes (security, backport from 0.4.6.5):
2015 - Don't allow relays to spoof RELAY_END or RELAY_RESOLVED cell on
2016 half-closed streams. Previously, clients failed to validate which
2017 hop sent these cells: this would allow a relay on a circuit to end
2018 a stream that wasn't actually built with it. Fixes bug 40389;
2019 bugfix on 0.3.5.1-alpha. This issue is also tracked as TROVE-2021-
2020 003 and CVE-2021-34548.
2022 o Major bugfixes (security, defense-in-depth, backport from 0.4.6.5):
2023 - Detect more failure conditions from the OpenSSL RNG code.
2024 Previously, we would detect errors from a missing RNG
2025 implementation, but not failures from the RNG code itself.
2026 Fortunately, it appears those failures do not happen in practice
2027 when Tor is using OpenSSL's default RNG implementation. Fixes bug
2028 40390; bugfix on 0.2.8.1-alpha. This issue is also tracked as
2029 TROVE-2021-004. Reported by Jann Horn at Google's Project Zero.
2031 o Major bugfixes (security, denial of service, backport from 0.4.6.5):
2032 - Resist a hashtable-based CPU denial-of-service attack against
2033 relays. Previously we used a naive unkeyed hash function to look
2034 up circuits in a circuitmux object. An attacker could exploit this
2035 to construct circuits with chosen circuit IDs, to create
2036 collisions and make the hash table inefficient. Now we use a
2037 SipHash construction here instead. Fixes bug 40391; bugfix on
2038 0.2.4.4-alpha. This issue is also tracked as TROVE-2021-005 and
2039 CVE-2021-34549. Reported by Jann Horn from Google's Project Zero.
2040 - Fix an out-of-bounds memory access in v3 onion service descriptor
2041 parsing. An attacker could exploit this bug by crafting an onion
2042 service descriptor that would crash any client that tried to visit
2043 it. Fixes bug 40392; bugfix on 0.3.0.1-alpha. This issue is also
2044 tracked as TROVE-2021-006 and CVE-2021-34550. Reported by Sergei
2045 Glazunov from Google's Project Zero.
2047 o Minor features (compatibility, backport from 0.4.6.4-rc):
2048 - Remove an assertion function related to TLS renegotiation. It was
2049 used nowhere outside the unit tests, and it was breaking
2050 compilation with recent alpha releases of OpenSSL 3.0.0. Closes
2053 o Minor features (geoip data):
2054 - Update the geoip files to match the IPFire Location Database, as
2055 retrieved on 2021/06/10.
2057 o Minor bugfixes (control, sandbox, backport from 0.4.6.4-rc):
2058 - Allow the control command SAVECONF to succeed when the seccomp
2059 sandbox is enabled, and make SAVECONF keep only one backup file to
2060 simplify implementation. Previously SAVECONF allowed a large
2061 number of backup files, which made it incompatible with the
2062 sandbox. Fixes bug 40317; bugfix on 0.2.5.4-alpha. Patch by
2065 o Minor bugfixes (metrics port, backport from 0.4.6.4-rc):
2066 - Fix a bug that made tor try to re-bind() on an already open
2067 MetricsPort every 60 seconds. Fixes bug 40370; bugfix
2071 Changes in version 0.4.4.9 - 2021-06-14
2072 Tor 0.4.4.9 fixes several security issues, including a
2073 denial-of-service attack against onion service clients, and another
2074 denial-of-service attack against relays. Everybody should upgrade to
2075 one of 0.3.5.15, 0.4.4.9, 0.4.5.9, or 0.4.6.5.
2077 Note that the scheduled end-of-life date for the Tor 0.4.4.x series is
2078 June 15. This is therefore the last release in its series. Everybody
2079 still running 0.4.4.x should plan to upgrade to 0.4.5.x or later.
2081 o Major bugfixes (security, backport from 0.4.6.5):
2082 - Don't allow relays to spoof RELAY_END or RELAY_RESOLVED cell on
2083 half-closed streams. Previously, clients failed to validate which
2084 hop sent these cells: this would allow a relay on a circuit to end
2085 a stream that wasn't actually built with it. Fixes bug 40389;
2086 bugfix on 0.3.5.1-alpha. This issue is also tracked as TROVE-2021-
2087 003 and CVE-2021-34548.
2089 o Major bugfixes (security, defense-in-depth, backport from 0.4.6.5):
2090 - Detect more failure conditions from the OpenSSL RNG code.
2091 Previously, we would detect errors from a missing RNG
2092 implementation, but not failures from the RNG code itself.
2093 Fortunately, it appears those failures do not happen in practice
2094 when Tor is using OpenSSL's default RNG implementation. Fixes bug
2095 40390; bugfix on 0.2.8.1-alpha. This issue is also tracked as
2096 TROVE-2021-004. Reported by Jann Horn at Google's Project Zero.
2098 o Major bugfixes (security, denial of service, backport from 0.4.6.5):
2099 - Resist a hashtable-based CPU denial-of-service attack against
2100 relays. Previously we used a naive unkeyed hash function to look
2101 up circuits in a circuitmux object. An attacker could exploit this
2102 to construct circuits with chosen circuit IDs, to create
2103 collisions and make the hash table inefficient. Now we use a
2104 SipHash construction here instead. Fixes bug 40391; bugfix on
2105 0.2.4.4-alpha. This issue is also tracked as TROVE-2021-005 and
2106 CVE-2021-34549. Reported by Jann Horn from Google's Project Zero.
2107 - Fix an out-of-bounds memory access in v3 onion service descriptor
2108 parsing. An attacker could exploit this bug by crafting an onion
2109 service descriptor that would crash any client that tried to visit
2110 it. Fixes bug 40392; bugfix on 0.3.0.1-alpha. This issue is also
2111 tracked as TROVE-2021-006 and CVE-2021-34550. Reported by Sergei
2112 Glazunov from Google's Project Zero.
2114 o Minor features (compatibility, backport from 0.4.6.4-rc):
2115 - Remove an assertion function related to TLS renegotiation. It was
2116 used nowhere outside the unit tests, and it was breaking
2117 compilation with recent alpha releases of OpenSSL 3.0.0. Closes
2120 o Minor features (fallback directory list, backport from 0.4.6.2-alpha):
2121 - Regenerate the list of fallback directories to contain a new set
2122 of 200 relays. Closes ticket 40265.
2124 o Minor features (geoip data):
2125 - Update the geoip files to match the IPFire Location Database, as
2126 retrieved on 2021/06/10.
2128 o Minor bugfixes (channel, DoS, backport from 0.4.6.2-alpha):
2129 - Fix a non-fatal BUG() message due to a too-early free of a string,
2130 when listing a client connection from the DoS defenses subsystem.
2131 Fixes bug 40345; bugfix on 0.4.3.4-rc.
2133 o Minor bugfixes (compiler warnings, backport from 0.4.6.3-rc):
2134 - Fix an indentation problem that led to a warning from GCC 11.1.1.
2135 Fixes bug 40380; bugfix on 0.3.0.1-alpha.
2138 Changes in version 0.3.5.15 - 2021-06-14
2139 Tor 0.3.5.15 fixes several security issues, including a
2140 denial-of-service attack against onion service clients, and another
2141 denial-of-service attack against relays. Everybody should upgrade to
2142 one of 0.3.5.15, 0.4.4.9, 0.4.5.9, or 0.4.6.5.
2144 o Major bugfixes (security, backport from 0.4.6.5):
2145 - Don't allow relays to spoof RELAY_END or RELAY_RESOLVED cell on
2146 half-closed streams. Previously, clients failed to validate which
2147 hop sent these cells: this would allow a relay on a circuit to end
2148 a stream that wasn't actually built with it. Fixes bug 40389;
2149 bugfix on 0.3.5.1-alpha. This issue is also tracked as TROVE-2021-
2150 003 and CVE-2021-34548.
2152 o Major bugfixes (security, defense-in-depth, backport from 0.4.6.5):
2153 - Detect more failure conditions from the OpenSSL RNG code.
2154 Previously, we would detect errors from a missing RNG
2155 implementation, but not failures from the RNG code itself.
2156 Fortunately, it appears those failures do not happen in practice
2157 when Tor is using OpenSSL's default RNG implementation. Fixes bug
2158 40390; bugfix on 0.2.8.1-alpha. This issue is also tracked as
2159 TROVE-2021-004. Reported by Jann Horn at Google's Project Zero.
2161 o Major bugfixes (security, denial of service, backport from 0.4.6.5):
2162 - Resist a hashtable-based CPU denial-of-service attack against
2163 relays. Previously we used a naive unkeyed hash function to look
2164 up circuits in a circuitmux object. An attacker could exploit this
2165 to construct circuits with chosen circuit IDs, to create
2166 collisions and make the hash table inefficient. Now we use a
2167 SipHash construction here instead. Fixes bug 40391; bugfix on
2168 0.2.4.4-alpha. This issue is also tracked as TROVE-2021-005 and
2169 CVE-2021-34549. Reported by Jann Horn from Google's Project Zero.
2170 - Fix an out-of-bounds memory access in v3 onion service descriptor
2171 parsing. An attacker could exploit this bug by crafting an onion
2172 service descriptor that would crash any client that tried to visit
2173 it. Fixes bug 40392; bugfix on 0.3.0.1-alpha. This issue is also
2174 tracked as TROVE-2021-006 and CVE-2021-34550. Reported by Sergei
2175 Glazunov from Google's Project Zero.
2177 o Minor bugfixes (compiler warnings, backport from 0.4.6.3-rc):
2178 - Fix an indentation problem that led to a warning from GCC 11.1.1.
2179 Fixes bug 40380; bugfix on 0.3.0.1-alpha.
2181 o Minor features (compatibility, backport from 0.4.6.4-rc):
2182 - Remove an assertion function related to TLS renegotiation. It was
2183 used nowhere outside the unit tests, and it was breaking
2184 compilation with recent alpha releases of OpenSSL 3.0.0. Closes
2187 o Minor features (fallback directory list, backport from 0.4.6.2-alpha):
2188 - Regenerate the list of fallback directories to contain a new set
2189 of 200 relays. Closes ticket 40265.
2191 o Minor features (geoip data):
2192 - Update the geoip files to match the IPFire Location Database, as
2193 retrieved on 2021/06/10.
2196 Changes in version 0.4.6.5 - 2021-06-14
2197 Tor 0.4.6.5 is the first stable release in its series. The 0.4.6.x
2198 series includes numerous features and bugfixes, including a significant
2199 improvement to our circuit timeout algorithm that should improve
2200 observed client performance, and a way for relays to report when they are
2203 This release also includes security fixes for several security issues,
2204 including a denial-of-service attack against onion service clients,
2205 and another denial-of-service attack against relays. Everybody should
2206 upgrade to one of 0.3.5.15, 0.4.4.9, 0.4.5.9, or 0.4.6.5.
2208 Below are the changes since 0.4.6.4-rc. For a complete list of changes
2209 since 0.4.5.8, see the ReleaseNotes file.
2211 o Major bugfixes (security):
2212 - Don't allow relays to spoof RELAY_END or RELAY_RESOLVED cell on
2213 half-closed streams. Previously, clients failed to validate which
2214 hop sent these cells: this would allow a relay on a circuit to end
2215 a stream that wasn't actually built with it. Fixes bug 40389;
2216 bugfix on 0.3.5.1-alpha. This issue is also tracked as TROVE-2021-
2217 003 and CVE-2021-34548.
2219 o Major bugfixes (security, defense-in-depth):
2220 - Detect more failure conditions from the OpenSSL RNG code.
2221 Previously, we would detect errors from a missing RNG
2222 implementation, but not failures from the RNG code itself.
2223 Fortunately, it appears those failures do not happen in practice
2224 when Tor is using OpenSSL's default RNG implementation. Fixes bug
2225 40390; bugfix on 0.2.8.1-alpha. This issue is also tracked as
2226 TROVE-2021-004. Reported by Jann Horn at Google's Project Zero.
2228 o Major bugfixes (security, denial of service):
2229 - Resist a hashtable-based CPU denial-of-service attack against
2230 relays. Previously we used a naive unkeyed hash function to look
2231 up circuits in a circuitmux object. An attacker could exploit this
2232 to construct circuits with chosen circuit IDs, to create
2233 collisions and make the hash table inefficient. Now we use a
2234 SipHash construction here instead. Fixes bug 40391; bugfix on
2235 0.2.4.4-alpha. This issue is also tracked as TROVE-2021-005 and
2236 CVE-2021-34549. Reported by Jann Horn from Google's Project Zero.
2237 - Fix an out-of-bounds memory access in v3 onion service descriptor
2238 parsing. An attacker could exploit this bug by crafting an onion
2239 service descriptor that would crash any client that tried to visit
2240 it. Fixes bug 40392; bugfix on 0.3.0.1-alpha. This issue is also
2241 tracked as TROVE-2021-006 and CVE-2021-34550. Reported by Sergei
2242 Glazunov from Google's Project Zero.
2244 o Minor features (geoip data):
2245 - Update the geoip files to match the IPFire Location Database, as
2246 retrieved on 2021/06/10.
2248 o Minor features (logging, diagnostic):
2249 - Log decompression failures at a higher severity level, since they
2250 can help provide missing context for other warning messages. We
2251 rate-limit these messages, to avoid flooding the logs if they
2252 begin to occur frequently. Closes ticket 40175.
2255 Changes in version 0.4.6.4-rc - 2021-05-28
2256 Tor 0.4.6.4-rc fixes a few bugs from previous releases. This, we hope,
2257 the final release candidate in its series: unless major new issues are
2258 found, the next release will be stable.
2260 o Minor features (compatibility):
2261 - Remove an assertion function related to TLS renegotiation. It was
2262 used nowhere outside the unit tests, and it was breaking
2263 compilation with recent alpha releases of OpenSSL 3.0.0. Closes
2266 o Minor bugfixes (consensus handling):
2267 - Avoid a set of bugs that could be caused by inconsistently
2268 preferring an out-of-date consensus stored in a stale directory
2269 cache over a more recent one stored on disk as the latest
2270 consensus. Fixes bug 40375; bugfix on 0.3.1.1-alpha.
2272 o Minor bugfixes (control, sandbox):
2273 - Allow the control command SAVECONF to succeed when the seccomp
2274 sandbox is enabled, and make SAVECONF keep only one backup file to
2275 simplify implementation. Previously SAVECONF allowed a large
2276 number of backup files, which made it incompatible with the
2277 sandbox. Fixes bug 40317; bugfix on 0.2.5.4-alpha. Patch by
2280 o Minor bugfixes (metrics port):
2281 - Fix a bug that made tor try to re-bind() on an already open
2282 MetricsPort every 60 seconds. Fixes bug 40370; bugfix
2286 - Remove unneeded code for parsing private keys in directory
2287 documents. This code was only used for client authentication in v2
2288 onion services, which are now unsupported. Closes ticket 40374.
2291 Changes in version 0.4.5.8 - 2021-05-10
2292 Tor 0.4.5.8 fixes several bugs in earlier version, backporting fixes
2293 from the 0.4.6.x series.
2295 o Minor features (compatibility, Linux seccomp sandbox, backport from 0.4.6.3-rc):
2296 - Add a workaround to enable the Linux sandbox to work correctly
2297 with Glibc 2.33. This version of Glibc has started using the
2298 fstatat() system call, which previously our sandbox did not allow.
2299 Closes ticket 40382; see the ticket for a discussion of trade-offs.
2301 o Minor features (compilation, backport from 0.4.6.3-rc):
2302 - Make the autoconf script build correctly with autoconf versions
2303 2.70 and later. Closes part of ticket 40335.
2305 o Minor features (fallback directory list, backport from 0.4.6.2-alpha):
2306 - Regenerate the list of fallback directories to contain a new set
2307 of 200 relays. Closes ticket 40265.
2309 o Minor features (geoip data):
2310 - Update the geoip files to match the IPFire Location Database, as
2311 retrieved on 2021/05/07.
2313 o Minor features (onion services):
2314 - Add warning message when connecting to now deprecated v2 onion
2315 services. As announced, Tor 0.4.5.x is the last series that will
2316 support v2 onions. Closes ticket 40373.
2318 o Minor bugfixes (bridge, pluggable transport, backport from 0.4.6.2-alpha):
2319 - Fix a regression that made it impossible start Tor using a bridge
2320 line with a transport name and no fingerprint. Fixes bug 40360;
2321 bugfix on 0.4.5.4-rc.
2323 o Minor bugfixes (build, cross-compilation, backport from 0.4.6.3-rc):
2324 - Allow a custom "ar" for cross-compilation. Our previous build
2325 script had used the $AR environment variable in most places, but
2326 it missed one. Fixes bug 40369; bugfix on 0.4.5.1-alpha.
2328 o Minor bugfixes (channel, DoS, backport from 0.4.6.2-alpha):
2329 - Fix a non-fatal BUG() message due to a too-early free of a string,
2330 when listing a client connection from the DoS defenses subsystem.
2331 Fixes bug 40345; bugfix on 0.4.3.4-rc.
2333 o Minor bugfixes (compiler warnings, backport from 0.4.6.3-rc):
2334 - Fix an indentation problem that led to a warning from GCC 11.1.1.
2335 Fixes bug 40380; bugfix on 0.3.0.1-alpha.
2337 o Minor bugfixes (controller, backport from 0.4.6.1-alpha):
2338 - Fix a "BUG" warning that would appear when a controller chooses
2339 the first hop for a circuit, and that circuit completes. Fixes bug
2340 40285; bugfix on 0.3.2.1-alpha.
2342 o Minor bugfixes (onion service, client, memory leak, backport from 0.4.6.3-rc):
2343 - Fix a bug where an expired cached descriptor could get overwritten
2344 with a new one without freeing it, leading to a memory leak. Fixes
2345 bug 40356; bugfix on 0.3.5.1-alpha.
2347 o Minor bugfixes (testing, BSD, backport from 0.4.6.2-alpha):
2348 - Fix pattern-matching errors when patterns expand to invalid paths
2349 on BSD systems. Fixes bug 40318; bugfix on 0.4.5.1-alpha. Patch by
2353 Changes in version 0.4.6.3-rc - 2021-05-10
2354 Tor 0.4.6.3-rc is the first release candidate in its series. It fixes
2355 a few small bugs from previous versions, and adds a better error
2356 message when trying to use (no longer supported) v2 onion services.
2358 Though we anticipate that we'll be doing a bit more clean-up between
2359 now and the stable release, we expect that our remaining changes will
2360 be fairly simple. There will likely be at least one more release
2361 candidate before 0.4.6.x is stable.
2363 o Major bugfixes (onion service, control port):
2364 - Make the ADD_ONION command properly configure client authorization.
2365 Before this fix, the created onion failed to add the client(s).
2366 Fixes bug 40378; bugfix on 0.4.6.1-alpha.
2368 o Minor features (compatibility, Linux seccomp sandbox):
2369 - Add a workaround to enable the Linux sandbox to work correctly
2370 with Glibc 2.33. This version of Glibc has started using the
2371 fstatat() system call, which previously our sandbox did not allow.
2372 Closes ticket 40382; see the ticket for a discussion of trade-offs.
2374 o Minor features (compilation):
2375 - Make the autoconf script build correctly with autoconf versions
2376 2.70 and later. Closes part of ticket 40335.
2378 o Minor features (geoip data):
2379 - Update the geoip files to match the IPFire Location Database, as
2380 retrieved on 2021/05/07.
2382 o Minor features (onion services):
2383 - Add a warning message when trying to connect to (no longer
2384 supported) v2 onion services. Closes ticket 40373.
2386 o Minor bugfixes (build, cross-compilation):
2387 - Allow a custom "ar" for cross-compilation. Our previous build
2388 script had used the $AR environment variable in most places, but
2389 it missed one. Fixes bug 40369; bugfix on 0.4.5.1-alpha.
2391 o Minor bugfixes (compiler warnings):
2392 - Fix an indentation problem that led to a warning from GCC 11.1.1.
2393 Fixes bug 40380; bugfix on 0.3.0.1-alpha.
2395 o Minor bugfixes (logging, relay):
2396 - Emit a warning if an Address is found to be internal and tor can't
2397 use it. Fixes bug 40290; bugfix on 0.4.5.1-alpha.
2399 o Minor bugfixes (onion service, client, memory leak):
2400 - Fix a bug where an expired cached descriptor could get overwritten
2401 with a new one without freeing it, leading to a memory leak. Fixes
2402 bug 40356; bugfix on 0.3.5.1-alpha.
2405 Changes in version 0.4.6.2-alpha - 2021-04-15
2406 Tor 0.4.6.2-alpha is the second alpha in its series. It fixes several
2407 small bugs in previous releases, and solves other issues that had
2408 enabled denial-of-service attacks and affected integration with
2411 o Minor features (client):
2412 - Clients now check whether their streams are attempting to re-enter
2413 the Tor network (i.e. to send Tor traffic over Tor), and close
2414 them preemptively if they think exit relays will refuse them for
2415 this reason. See ticket 2667 for details. Closes ticket 40271.
2417 o Minor features (command line):
2418 - Add long format name "--torrc-file" equivalent to the existing
2419 command-line option "-f". Closes ticket 40324. Patch by
2422 o Minor features (dormant mode):
2423 - Add a new 'DormantTimeoutEnabled' option to allow coarse-grained
2424 control over whether the client ever becomes dormant from
2425 inactivity. Most people won't need this. Closes ticket 40228.
2427 o Minor features (fallback directory list):
2428 - Regenerate the list of fallback directories to contain a new set
2429 of 200 relays. Closes ticket 40265.
2431 o Minor features (geoip data):
2432 - Update the geoip files to match the IPFire Location Database, as
2433 retrieved on 2021/04/13.
2435 o Minor features (logging):
2436 - Edit heartbeat log messages so that more of them begin with the
2437 string "Heartbeat: ". Closes ticket 40322; patch
2440 o Minor bugfixes (bridge, pluggable transport):
2441 - Fix a regression that made it impossible start Tor using a bridge
2442 line with a transport name and no fingerprint. Fixes bug 40360;
2443 bugfix on 0.4.5.4-rc.
2445 o Minor bugfixes (channel, DoS):
2446 - Fix a non-fatal BUG() message due to a too-early free of a string,
2447 when listing a client connection from the DoS defenses subsystem.
2448 Fixes bug 40345; bugfix on 0.4.3.4-rc.
2450 o Minor bugfixes (compilation):
2451 - Fix a compilation warning about unused functions when building
2452 with a libc that lacks the GLOB_ALTDIRFUNC constant. Fixes bug
2453 40354; bugfix on 0.4.5.1-alpha. Patch by Daniel Pinto.
2455 o Minor bugfixes (configuration):
2456 - Fix pattern-matching for directories on all platforms when using
2457 %include options in configuration files. This patch also fixes
2458 compilation on musl libc based systems. Fixes bug 40141; bugfix
2461 o Minor bugfixes (relay):
2462 - Move the "overload-general" line from extrainfo to the server
2463 descriptor. Fixes bug 40364; bugfix on 0.4.6.1-alpha.
2465 o Minor bugfixes (testing, BSD):
2466 - Fix pattern-matching errors when patterns expand to invalid paths
2467 on BSD systems. Fixes bug 40318; bugfix on 0.4.5.1-alpha. Patch by
2470 o Documentation (manual):
2471 - Move the ServerTransport* options to the "SERVER OPTIONS" section.
2473 - Indicate that the HiddenServiceStatistics option also applies to
2474 bridges. Closes ticket 40346.
2475 - Move the description of BridgeRecordUsageByCountry to the section
2476 "STATISTICS OPTIONS". Closes ticket 40323.
2479 Changes in version 0.4.6.1-alpha - 2021-03-18
2480 Tor 0.4.6.1-alpha is the first alpha release in the 0.4.6.x series. It
2481 improves client circuit performance, adds missing features, and
2482 improves some of our DoS handling and statistics reporting. It also
2483 includes numerous smaller bugfixes.
2485 Below are the changes since 0.4.5.7. (Note that this release DOES
2486 include the fixes for the security bugs already fixed in 0.4.5.7.)
2488 o Major features (control port, onion services):
2489 - Add controller support for creating version 3 onion services with
2490 client authorization. Previously, only v2 onion services could be
2491 created with client authorization. Closes ticket 40084. Patch by
2494 o Major features (directory authority):
2495 - When voting on a relay with a Sybil-like appearance, add the Sybil
2496 flag when clearing out the other flags. This lets a relay operator
2497 know why their relay hasn't been included in the consensus. Closes
2498 ticket 40255. Patch by Neel Chauhan.
2500 o Major features (metrics):
2501 - Relays now report how overloaded they are in their extrainfo
2502 documents. This information is controlled with the
2503 OverloadStatistics torrc option, and it will be used to improve
2504 decisions about the network's load balancing. Implements proposal
2505 328; closes ticket 40222.
2507 o Major features (relay, denial of service):
2508 - Add a new DoS subsystem feature to control the rate of client
2509 connections for relays. Closes ticket 40253.
2511 o Major features (statistics):
2512 - Relays now publish statistics about the number of v3 onion
2513 services and volume of v3 onion service traffic, in the same
2514 manner they already do for v2 onions. Closes ticket 23126.
2516 o Major bugfixes (circuit build timeout):
2517 - Improve the accuracy of our circuit build timeout calculation for
2518 60%, 70%, and 80% build rates for various guard choices. We now
2519 use a maximum likelihood estimator for Pareto parameters of the
2520 circuit build time distribution, instead of a "right-censored
2521 estimator". This causes clients to ignore circuits that never
2522 finish building in their timeout calculations. Previously, clients
2523 were counting such unfinished circuits as having the highest
2524 possible build time value, when in reality these circuits most
2525 likely just contain relays that are offline. We also now wait a
2526 bit longer to let circuits complete for measurement purposes,
2527 lower the minimum possible effective timeout from 1.5 seconds to
2528 10ms, and increase the resolution of the circuit build time
2529 histogram from 50ms bin widths to 10ms bin widths. Additionally,
2530 we alter our estimate Xm by taking the maximum of the top 10 most
2531 common build time values of the 10ms histogram, and compute Xm as
2532 the average of these. Fixes bug 40168; bugfix on 0.2.2.14-alpha.
2533 - Remove max_time calculation and associated warning from circuit
2534 build timeout 'alpha' parameter estimation, as this is no longer
2535 needed by our new estimator from 40168. Fixes bug 34088; bugfix
2538 o Major bugfixes (signing key):
2539 - In the tor-gencert utility, give an informative error message if
2540 the passphrase given in `--create-identity-key` is too short.
2541 Fixes bug 40189; bugfix on 0.2.0.1-alpha. Patch by Neel Chauhan.
2543 o Minor features (bridge):
2544 - We now announce the URL to Tor's new bridge status at
2545 https://bridges.torproject.org/ when Tor is configured to run as a
2546 bridge relay. Closes ticket 30477.
2548 o Minor features (build system):
2549 - New "make lsp" command to auto generate the compile_commands.json
2550 file used by the ccls server. The "bear" program is needed for
2551 this. Closes ticket 40227.
2553 o Minor features (command-line interface):
2554 - Add build informations to `tor --version` in order to ease
2555 reproducible builds. Closes ticket 32102.
2556 - When parsing command-line flags that take an optional argument,
2557 treat the argument as absent if it would start with a '-'
2558 character. Arguments in that form are not intelligible for any of
2559 our optional-argument flags. Closes ticket 40223.
2560 - Allow a relay operator to list the ed25519 keys on the command
2561 line by adding the `rsa` and `ed25519` arguments to the
2562 --list-fingerprint flag to show the respective RSA and ed25519
2563 relay fingerprint. Closes ticket 33632. Patch by Neel Chauhan.
2565 o Minor features (control port, stream handling):
2566 - Add the stream ID to the event line in the ADDRMAP control event.
2567 Closes ticket 40249. Patch by Neel Chauhan.
2569 o Minor features (dormant mode):
2570 - Add a new 'DormantTimeoutEnabled' option for coarse-grained
2571 control over whether the client can become dormant from
2572 inactivity. Most people won't need this. Closes ticket 40228.
2574 o Minor features (logging):
2575 - Change the DoS subsystem heartbeat line format to be more clear on
2576 what has been detected/rejected, and which option is disabled (if
2577 any). Closes ticket 40308.
2578 - In src/core/mainloop/mainloop.c and src/core/mainloop/connection.c,
2579 put brackets around IPv6 addresses in log messages. Closes ticket
2580 40232. Patch by Neel Chauhan.
2582 o Minor features (performance, windows):
2583 - Use SRWLocks to implement locking on Windows. Replaces the
2584 "critical section" locking implementation with the faster
2585 SRWLocks, available since Windows Vista. Closes ticket 17927.
2586 Patch by Daniel Pinto.
2588 o Minor features (protocol, proxy support, defense in depth):
2589 - Close HAProxy connections if they somehow manage to send us data
2590 before we start reading. Closes another case of ticket 40017.
2592 o Minor features (tests, portability):
2593 - Port the hs_build_address.py test script to work with recent
2594 versions of python. Closes ticket 40213. Patch from
2597 o Minor features (vote document):
2598 - Add a "stats" line to directory authority votes, to report various
2599 statistics that authorities compute about the relays. This will
2600 help us diagnose the network better. Closes ticket 40314.
2602 o Minor bugfixes (build):
2603 - The configure script now shows whether or not lzma and zstd have
2604 been used, not just if the enable flag was passed in. Fixes bug
2605 40236; bugfix on 0.4.3.1-alpha.
2607 o Minor bugfixes (compatibility):
2608 - Fix a failure in the test cases when running on the "hppa"
2609 architecture, along with a related test that might fail on other
2610 architectures in the future. Fixes bug 40274; bugfix
2613 o Minor bugfixes (controller):
2614 - Fix a "BUG" warning that would appear when a controller chooses
2615 the first hop for a circuit, and that circuit completes. Fixes bug
2616 40285; bugfix on 0.3.2.1-alpha.
2618 o Minor bugfixes (directory authorities, voting):
2619 - Add a new consensus method (31) to support any future changes that
2620 authorities decide to make to the value of bwweightscale or
2621 maxunmeasuredbw. Previously, there was a bug that prevented the
2622 authorities from parsing these consensus parameters correctly under
2623 most circumstances. Fixes bug 19011; bugfix on 0.2.2.10-alpha.
2625 o Minor bugfixes (ipv6):
2626 - Allow non-SOCKSPorts to disable IPv4, IPv6, and PreferIPv4. Some
2627 rare configurations might break, but in this case you can disable
2628 NoIPv4Traffic and NoIPv6Traffic as needed. Fixes bug 33607; bugfix
2629 on 0.4.1.1-alpha. Patch by Neel Chauhan.
2631 o Minor bugfixes (key generation):
2632 - Do not require a valid torrc when using the `--keygen` argument to
2633 generate a signing key. This allows us to generate keys on systems
2634 or users which may not run Tor. Fixes bug 40235; bugfix on
2635 0.2.7.2-alpha. Patch by Neel Chauhan.
2637 o Minor bugfixes (onion services, logging):
2638 - Downgrade the severity of a few rendezvous circuit-related
2639 warnings from warning to info. Fixes bug 40207; bugfix on
2640 0.3.2.1-alpha. Patch by Neel Chauhan.
2642 o Minor bugfixes (relay):
2643 - Reduce the compression level for data streaming from HIGH to LOW.
2644 This should reduce the CPU and memory burden for directory caches.
2645 Fixes bug 40301; bugfix on 0.3.5.1-alpha.
2647 o Code simplification and refactoring:
2648 - Remove the orconn_ext_or_id_map structure and related functions.
2649 (Nothing outside of unit tests used them.) Closes ticket 33383.
2650 Patch by Neel Chauhan.
2653 - As of this release, Tor no longer supports the old v2 onion
2654 services. They were deprecated last July for security, and support
2655 will be removed entirely later this year. We strongly encourage
2656 everybody to migrate to v3 onion services. For more information,
2657 see https://blog.torproject.org/v2-deprecation-timeline . Closes
2658 ticket 40266. (NOTE: We accidentally released an earlier version
2659 of the 0.4.6.1-alpha changelog without this entry. Sorry for
2662 o Code simplification and refactoring (metrics, DoS):
2663 - Move the DoS subsystem into the subsys manager, including its
2664 configuration options. Closes ticket 40261.
2666 o Removed features (relay):
2667 - Because DirPorts are only used on authorities, relays no longer
2668 advertise them. Similarly, self-testing for DirPorts has been
2669 disabled, since an unreachable DirPort is no reason for a relay
2670 not to advertise itself. (Configuring a DirPort will still work,
2671 for now.) Closes ticket 40282.
2674 Changes in version 0.3.5.14 - 2021-03-16
2675 Tor 0.3.5.14 backports fixes for two important denial-of-service bugs
2676 in earlier versions of Tor.
2678 One of these vulnerabilities (TROVE-2021-001) would allow an attacker
2679 who can send directory data to a Tor instance to force that Tor
2680 instance to consume huge amounts of CPU. This is easiest to exploit
2681 against authorities, since anybody can upload to them, but directory
2682 caches could also exploit this vulnerability against relays or clients
2683 when they download. The other vulnerability (TROVE-2021-002) only
2684 affects directory authorities, and would allow an attacker to remotely
2685 crash the authority with an assertion failure. Patches have already
2686 been provided to the authority operators, to help ensure
2689 We recommend that everybody upgrade to one of the releases that fixes
2690 these issues (0.3.5.14, 0.4.4.8, or 0.4.5.7) as they become available
2693 This release also updates our GeoIP data source, and fixes a
2694 compatibility issue.
2696 o Major bugfixes (security, denial of service, backport from 0.4.5.7):
2697 - Disable the dump_desc() function that we used to dump unparseable
2698 information to disk. It was called incorrectly in several places,
2699 in a way that could lead to excessive CPU usage. Fixes bug 40286;
2700 bugfix on 0.2.2.1-alpha. This bug is also tracked as TROVE-2021-
2701 001 and CVE-2021-28089.
2702 - Fix a bug in appending detached signatures to a pending consensus
2703 document that could be used to crash a directory authority. Fixes
2704 bug 40316; bugfix on 0.2.2.6-alpha. Tracked as TROVE-2021-002
2707 o Minor features (geoip data, backport from 0.4.5.7):
2708 - We have switched geoip data sources. Previously we shipped IP-to-
2709 country mappings from Maxmind's GeoLite2, but in 2019 they changed
2710 their licensing terms, so we were unable to update them after that
2711 point. We now ship geoip files based on the IPFire Location
2712 Database instead. (See https://location.ipfire.org/ for more
2713 information). This release updates our geoip files to match the
2714 IPFire Location Database as retrieved on 2021/03/12. Closes
2717 o Removed features (mallinfo deprecated, backport from 0.4.5.7):
2718 - Remove mallinfo() usage entirely. Libc 2.33+ now deprecates it.
2719 Closes ticket 40309.
2722 Changes in version 0.4.4.8 - 2021-03-16
2723 Tor 0.4.4.8 backports fixes for two important denial-of-service bugs
2724 in earlier versions of Tor.
2726 One of these vulnerabilities (TROVE-2021-001) would allow an attacker
2727 who can send directory data to a Tor instance to force that Tor
2728 instance to consume huge amounts of CPU. This is easiest to exploit
2729 against authorities, since anybody can upload to them, but directory
2730 caches could also exploit this vulnerability against relays or clients
2731 when they download. The other vulnerability (TROVE-2021-002) only
2732 affects directory authorities, and would allow an attacker to remotely
2733 crash the authority with an assertion failure. Patches have already
2734 been provided to the authority operators, to help ensure
2737 We recommend that everybody upgrade to one of the releases that fixes
2738 these issues (0.3.5.14, 0.4.4.8, or 0.4.5.7) as they become available
2741 This release also updates our GeoIP data source, and fixes a
2742 compatibility issue.
2744 o Major bugfixes (security, denial of service, backport from 0.4.5.7):
2745 - Disable the dump_desc() function that we used to dump unparseable
2746 information to disk. It was called incorrectly in several places,
2747 in a way that could lead to excessive CPU usage. Fixes bug 40286;
2748 bugfix on 0.2.2.1-alpha. This bug is also tracked as TROVE-2021-
2749 001 and CVE-2021-28089.
2750 - Fix a bug in appending detached signatures to a pending consensus
2751 document that could be used to crash a directory authority. Fixes
2752 bug 40316; bugfix on 0.2.2.6-alpha. Tracked as TROVE-2021-002
2755 o Minor features (geoip data, backport from 0.4.5.7):
2756 - We have switched geoip data sources. Previously we shipped IP-to-
2757 country mappings from Maxmind's GeoLite2, but in 2019 they changed
2758 their licensing terms, so we were unable to update them after that
2759 point. We now ship geoip files based on the IPFire Location
2760 Database instead. (See https://location.ipfire.org/ for more
2761 information). This release updates our geoip files to match the
2762 IPFire Location Database as retrieved on 2021/03/12. Closes
2765 o Removed features (mallinfo deprecated, backport from 0.4.5.7):
2766 - Remove mallinfo() usage entirely. Libc 2.33+ now deprecates it.
2767 Closes ticket 40309.
2770 Changes in version 0.4.5.7 - 2021-03-16
2771 Tor 0.4.5.7 fixes two important denial-of-service bugs in earlier
2774 One of these vulnerabilities (TROVE-2021-001) would allow an attacker
2775 who can send directory data to a Tor instance to force that Tor
2776 instance to consume huge amounts of CPU. This is easiest to exploit
2777 against authorities, since anybody can upload to them, but directory
2778 caches could also exploit this vulnerability against relays or clients
2779 when they download. The other vulnerability (TROVE-2021-002) only
2780 affects directory authorities, and would allow an attacker to remotely
2781 crash the authority with an assertion failure. Patches have already
2782 been provided to the authority operators, to help ensure
2785 We recommend that everybody upgrade to one of the releases that fixes
2786 these issues (0.3.5.14, 0.4.4.8, or 0.4.5.7) as they become available
2789 This release also updates our GeoIP data source, and fixes a few
2790 smaller bugs in earlier releases.
2792 o Major bugfixes (security, denial of service):
2793 - Disable the dump_desc() function that we used to dump unparseable
2794 information to disk. It was called incorrectly in several places,
2795 in a way that could lead to excessive CPU usage. Fixes bug 40286;
2796 bugfix on 0.2.2.1-alpha. This bug is also tracked as TROVE-2021-
2797 001 and CVE-2021-28089.
2798 - Fix a bug in appending detached signatures to a pending consensus
2799 document that could be used to crash a directory authority. Fixes
2800 bug 40316; bugfix on 0.2.2.6-alpha. Tracked as TROVE-2021-002
2803 o Minor features (geoip data):
2804 - We have switched geoip data sources. Previously we shipped IP-to-
2805 country mappings from Maxmind's GeoLite2, but in 2019 they changed
2806 their licensing terms, so we were unable to update them after that
2807 point. We now ship geoip files based on the IPFire Location
2808 Database instead. (See https://location.ipfire.org/ for more
2809 information). This release updates our geoip files to match the
2810 IPFire Location Database as retrieved on 2021/03/12. Closes
2813 o Minor bugfixes (directory authority):
2814 - Now that exit relays don't allow exit connections to directory
2815 authority DirPorts (to prevent network reentry), disable
2816 authorities' reachability self test on the DirPort. Fixes bug
2817 40287; bugfix on 0.4.5.5-rc.
2819 o Minor bugfixes (documentation):
2820 - Fix a formatting error in the documentation for
2821 VirtualAddrNetworkIPv6. Fixes bug 40256; bugfix on 0.2.9.4-alpha.
2823 o Minor bugfixes (Linux, relay):
2824 - Fix a bug in determining total available system memory that would
2825 have been triggered if the format of Linux's /proc/meminfo file
2826 had ever changed to include "MemTotal:" in the middle of a line.
2827 Fixes bug 40315; bugfix on 0.2.5.4-alpha.
2829 o Minor bugfixes (metrics port):
2830 - Fix a BUG() warning on the MetricsPort for an internal missing
2831 handler. Fixes bug 40295; bugfix on 0.4.5.1-alpha.
2833 o Minor bugfixes (onion service):
2834 - Remove a harmless BUG() warning when reloading tor configured with
2835 onion services. Fixes bug 40334; bugfix on 0.4.5.1-alpha.
2837 o Minor bugfixes (portability):
2838 - Fix a non-portable usage of "==" with "test" in the configure
2839 script. Fixes bug 40298; bugfix on 0.4.5.1-alpha.
2841 o Minor bugfixes (relay):
2842 - Remove a spammy log notice falsely claiming that the IPv4/v6
2843 address was missing. Fixes bug 40300; bugfix on 0.4.5.1-alpha.
2844 - Do not query the address cache early in the boot process when
2845 deciding if a relay needs to fetch early directory information
2846 from an authority. This bug resulted in a relay falsely believing
2847 it didn't have an address and thus triggering an authority fetch
2848 at each boot. Related to our fix for 40300.
2850 o Removed features (mallinfo deprecated):
2851 - Remove mallinfo() usage entirely. Libc 2.33+ now deprecates it.
2852 Closes ticket 40309.
2855 Changes in version 0.4.5.6 - 2021-02-15
2856 The Tor 0.4.5.x release series is dedicated to the memory of Karsten
2857 Loesing (1979-2020), Tor developer, cypherpunk, husband, and father.
2858 Karsten is best known for creating the Tor metrics portal and leading
2859 the metrics team, but he was involved in Tor from the early days. For
2860 example, while he was still a student he invented and implemented the
2861 v2 onion service directory design, and he also served as an ambassador
2862 to the many German researchers working in the anonymity field. We
2863 loved him and respected him for his patience, his consistency, and his
2864 welcoming approach to growing our community.
2866 This release series introduces significant improvements in relay IPv6
2867 address discovery, a new "MetricsPort" mechanism for relay operators
2868 to measure performance, LTTng support, build system improvements to
2869 help when using Tor as a static library, and significant bugfixes
2870 related to Windows relay performance. It also includes numerous
2871 smaller features and bugfixes.
2873 Below are the changes since 0.4.4.4-rc. For a complete list of changes
2874 since 0.4.4.7, see the ReleaseNotes file.
2876 o Major bugfixes (IPv6, relay):
2877 - Fix a bug that prevented a relay from publishing its descriptor if
2878 an auto-discovered IPv6 that was found unreachable. Fixes bug
2879 40279; bugfix on 0.4.5.1-alpha.
2881 o Minor features (protocol versions):
2882 - Stop claiming to support the "DirCache=1" subprotocol version.
2883 Technically, we stopped supporting this subprotocol back in
2884 0.4.5.1-alpha, but we needed to wait for the authorities to stop
2885 listing it as "required" before we could drop it from the list.
2886 Closes ticket 40221.
2888 o Minor bugfixes (logging):
2889 - Avoid a spurious log message about missing subprotocol versions,
2890 when the consensus that we're reading from is older than the
2891 current release. Previously we had made this message nonfatal, but
2892 in practice, it is never relevant when the consensus is older than
2893 the current release. Fixes bug 40281; bugfix on 0.4.0.1-alpha.
2895 o Minor bugfixes (metrics port):
2896 - Fix a bug warning when a metrics port socket was unexpectedly
2897 closed. Fixes bug 40257; bugfix on 0.4.5.1-alpha
2899 o Minor bugfixes (relay):
2900 - Allow relays to have a RFC1918 address if PublishServerDescriptor
2901 is set to 0 and AssumeReachable is set to 1. This is to support
2902 the use case of a bridge on a local network, exposed via a
2903 pluggable transport. Fixes bug 40208; bugfix on 0.4.5.1-alpha.
2905 o Minor bugfixes (relay, config):
2906 - Fix a problem in the removal of duplicate ORPorts from the
2907 internal port list when loading the config file. We were removing
2908 the wrong ports, breaking valid torrc uses cases for multiple
2909 ORPorts of the same address family. Fixes bug 40289; bugfix
2913 Changes in version 0.4.4.7 - 2021-02-03
2914 Tor 0.4.4.7 backports numerous bugfixes from later releases,
2915 including one that made v3 onion services more susceptible to
2916 denial-of-service attacks, and a feature that makes some kinds of
2917 DoS attacks harder to perform.
2919 o Major bugfixes (onion service v3, backport from 0.4.5.3-rc):
2920 - Stop requiring a live consensus for v3 clients and services, and
2921 allow a "reasonably live" consensus instead. This allows v3 onion
2922 services to work even if the authorities fail to generate a
2923 consensus for more than 2 hours in a row. Fixes bug 40237; bugfix
2926 o Major feature (exit, backport from 0.4.5.5-rc):
2927 - Re-entry into the network is now denied at the Exit level to all
2928 relays' ORPorts and authorities' ORPorts and DirPorts. This change
2929 should help mitgate a set of denial-of-service attacks. Closes
2932 o Minor feature (build system, backport from 0.4.5.4-rc):
2933 - New "make lsp" command to generate the compile_commands.json file
2934 used by the ccls language server. The "bear" program is needed for
2935 this. Closes ticket 40227.
2937 o Minor features (compilation, backport from 0.4.5.2-rc):
2938 - Disable deprecation warnings when building with OpenSSL 3.0.0 or
2939 later. There are a number of APIs newly deprecated in OpenSSL
2940 3.0.0 that Tor still requires. (A later version of Tor will try to
2941 stop depending on these APIs.) Closes ticket 40165.
2943 o Minor features (crypto, backport from 0.4.5.3-rc):
2944 - Fix undefined behavior on our Keccak library. The bug only
2945 appeared on platforms with 32-byte CPU cache lines (e.g. armv5tel)
2946 and would result in wrong digests. Fixes bug 40210; bugfix on
2947 0.2.8.1-alpha. Thanks to Bernhard Übelacker, Arnd Bergmann and
2948 weasel for diagnosing this.
2950 o Minor bugfixes (compatibility, backport from 0.4.5.1-rc):
2951 - Strip '\r' characters when reading text files on Unix platforms.
2952 This should resolve an issue where a relay operator migrates a
2953 relay from Windows to Unix, but does not change the line ending of
2954 Tor's various state files to match the platform, and the CRLF line
2955 endings from Windows end up leaking into other files such as the
2956 extra-info document. Fixes bug 33781; bugfix on 0.0.9pre5.
2958 o Minor bugfixes (compilation, backport from 0.4.5.3-rc):
2959 - Fix a compilation warning about unreachable fallthrough
2960 annotations when building with "--enable-all-bugs-are-fatal" on
2961 some compilers. Fixes bug 40241; bugfix on 0.3.5.4-alpha.
2963 o Minor bugfixes (SOCKS5, backport from 0.4.5.3-rc):
2964 - Handle partial SOCKS5 messages correctly. Previously, our code
2965 would send an incorrect error message if it got a SOCKS5 request
2966 that wasn't complete. Fixes bug 40190; bugfix on 0.3.5.1-alpha.
2968 o Minor bugfixes (testing, backport from 0.4.5.2-alpha):
2969 - Fix the `config/parse_tcp_proxy_line` test so that it works
2970 correctly on systems where the DNS provider hijacks invalid
2971 queries. Fixes part of bug 40179; bugfix on 0.4.3.1-alpha.
2972 - Fix our Python reference-implementation for the v3 onion service
2973 handshake so that it works correctly with the version of hashlib
2974 provided by Python 3.9. Fixes part of bug 40179; bugfix
2976 - Fix the `tortls/openssl/log_one_error` test to work with OpenSSL
2977 3.0.0. Fixes bug 40170; bugfix on 0.2.8.1-alpha.
2980 Changes in version 0.4.3.8 - 2021-02-03
2981 Tor 0.4.3.8 backports numerous bugfixes from later releases,
2982 including one that made v3 onion services more susceptible to
2983 denial-of-service attacks, and a feature that makes some kinds of
2984 DoS attacks harder to perform.
2986 Note that this is, in all likelihood, the last release of Tor 0.4.3.x,
2987 which will reach end-of-life on 15 Feb 2021.
2989 o Major bugfixes (onion service v3, backport from 0.4.5.3-rc):
2990 - Stop requiring a live consensus for v3 clients and services, and
2991 allow a "reasonably live" consensus instead. This allows v3 onion
2992 services to work even if the authorities fail to generate a
2993 consensus for more than 2 hours in a row. Fixes bug 40237; bugfix
2996 o Major bugfixes (stats, onion services, backport from 0.4.4.5):
2997 - Fix a bug where we were undercounting the Tor network's total
2998 onion service traffic, by ignoring any traffic originating from
2999 clients. Now we count traffic from both clients and services.
3000 Fixes bug 40117; bugfix on 0.2.6.2-alpha.
3002 o Major feature (exit, backport from 0.4.5.5-rc):
3003 - Re-entry into the network is now denied at the Exit level to all
3004 relays' ORPorts and authorities' ORPorts and DirPorts. This change
3005 should help mitgate a set of denial-of-service attacks. Closes
3008 o Minor feature (build system, backport from 0.4.5.4-rc):
3009 - New "make lsp" command to generate the compile_commands.json file
3010 used by the ccls language server. The "bear" program is needed for
3011 this. Closes ticket 40227.
3013 o Minor features (compilation, backport from 0.4.5.2-rc):
3014 - Disable deprecation warnings when building with OpenSSL 3.0.0 or
3015 later. There are a number of APIs newly deprecated in OpenSSL
3016 3.0.0 that Tor still requires. (A later version of Tor will try to
3017 stop depending on these APIs.) Closes ticket 40165.
3019 o Minor features (crypto, backport from 0.4.5.3-rc):
3020 - Fix undefined behavior on our Keccak library. The bug only
3021 appeared on platforms with 32-byte CPU cache lines (e.g. armv5tel)
3022 and would result in wrong digests. Fixes bug 40210; bugfix on
3023 0.2.8.1-alpha. Thanks to Bernhard Übelacker, Arnd Bergmann and
3024 weasel for diagnosing this.
3026 o Minor bugfixes (compatibility, backport from 0.4.5.1-rc):
3027 - Strip '\r' characters when reading text files on Unix platforms.
3028 This should resolve an issue where a relay operator migrates a
3029 relay from Windows to Unix, but does not change the line ending of
3030 Tor's various state files to match the platform, and the CRLF line
3031 endings from Windows end up leaking into other files such as the
3032 extra-info document. Fixes bug 33781; bugfix on 0.0.9pre5.
3034 o Minor bugfixes (compilation, backport from 0.4.5.1-rc):
3035 - Resolve a compilation warning that could occur in
3036 test_connection.c. Fixes bug 40113; bugfix on 0.2.9.3-alpha.
3038 o Minor bugfixes (compilation, backport from 0.4.5.3-rc):
3039 - Fix a compilation warning about unreachable fallthrough
3040 annotations when building with "--enable-all-bugs-are-fatal" on
3041 some compilers. Fixes bug 40241; bugfix on 0.3.5.4-alpha.
3043 o Minor bugfixes (SOCKS5, backport from 0.4.5.3-rc):
3044 - Handle partial SOCKS5 messages correctly. Previously, our code
3045 would send an incorrect error message if it got a SOCKS5 request
3046 that wasn't complete. Fixes bug 40190; bugfix on 0.3.5.1-alpha.
3048 o Minor bugfixes (testing, backport from 0.4.5.2-alpha):
3049 - Fix the `config/parse_tcp_proxy_line` test so that it works
3050 correctly on systems where the DNS provider hijacks invalid
3051 queries. Fixes part of bug 40179; bugfix on 0.4.3.1-alpha.
3052 - Fix our Python reference-implementation for the v3 onion service
3053 handshake so that it works correctly with the version of hashlib
3054 provided by Python 3.9. Fixes part of bug 40179; bugfix
3056 - Fix the `tortls/openssl/log_one_error` test to work with OpenSSL
3057 3.0.0. Fixes bug 40170; bugfix on 0.2.8.1-alpha.
3060 Changes in version 0.3.5.13 - 2020-02-03
3061 Tor 0.3.5.13 backports numerous bugfixes from later releases,
3062 including one that made v3 onion services more susceptible to
3063 denial-of-service attacks, and a feature that makes some kinds of
3064 DoS attacks harder to perform.
3066 o Major bugfixes (onion service v3, backport from 0.4.5.3-rc):
3067 - Stop requiring a live consensus for v3 clients and services, and
3068 allow a "reasonably live" consensus instead. This allows v3 onion
3069 services to work even if the authorities fail to generate a
3070 consensus for more than 2 hours in a row. Fixes bug 40237; bugfix
3073 o Major bugfixes (stats, onion services, backport from 0.4.4.5):
3074 - Fix a bug where we were undercounting the Tor network's total
3075 onion service traffic, by ignoring any traffic originating from
3076 clients. Now we count traffic from both clients and services.
3077 Fixes bug 40117; bugfix on 0.2.6.2-alpha.
3079 o Major feature (exit, backport from 0.4.5.5-rc):
3080 - Re-entry into the network is now denied at the Exit level to all
3081 relays' ORPorts and authorities' ORPorts and DirPorts. This change
3082 should help mitigate a set of denial-of-service attacks. Closes
3085 o Minor feature (build system, backport from 0.4.5.4-rc):
3086 - New "make lsp" command to generate the compile_commands.json file
3087 used by the ccls language server. The "bear" program is needed for
3088 this. Closes ticket 40227.
3090 o Minor features (compilation, backport from 0.4.5.2-rc):
3091 - Disable deprecation warnings when building with OpenSSL 3.0.0 or
3092 later. There are a number of APIs newly deprecated in OpenSSL
3093 3.0.0 that Tor still requires. (A later version of Tor will try to
3094 stop depending on these APIs.) Closes ticket 40165.
3096 o Minor features (crypto, backport from 0.4.5.3-rc):
3097 - Fix undefined behavior on our Keccak library. The bug only
3098 appeared on platforms with 32-byte CPU cache lines (e.g. armv5tel)
3099 and would result in wrong digests. Fixes bug 40210; bugfix on
3100 0.2.8.1-alpha. Thanks to Bernhard Übelacker, Arnd Bergmann and
3101 weasel for diagnosing this.
3103 o Minor bugfixes (compatibility, backport from 0.4.5.1-rc):
3104 - Strip '\r' characters when reading text files on Unix platforms.
3105 This should resolve an issue where a relay operator migrates a
3106 relay from Windows to Unix, but does not change the line ending of
3107 Tor's various state files to match the platform, and the CRLF line
3108 endings from Windows end up leaking into other files such as the
3109 extra-info document. Fixes bug 33781; bugfix on 0.0.9pre5.
3111 o Minor bugfixes (compilation, backport from 0.4.5.1-rc):
3112 - Resolve a compilation warning that could occur in
3113 test_connection.c. Fixes bug 40113; bugfix on 0.2.9.3-alpha.
3115 o Minor bugfixes (compilation, backport from 0.4.5.3-rc):
3116 - Fix a compilation warning about unreachable fallthrough
3117 annotations when building with "--enable-all-bugs-are-fatal" on
3118 some compilers. Fixes bug 40241; bugfix on 0.3.5.4-alpha.
3120 o Minor bugfixes (SOCKS5, backport from 0.4.5.3-rc):
3121 - Handle partial SOCKS5 messages correctly. Previously, our code
3122 would send an incorrect error message if it got a SOCKS5 request
3123 that wasn't complete. Fixes bug 40190; bugfix on 0.3.5.1-alpha.
3125 o Minor bugfixes (testing, backport from 0.4.5.2-alpha):
3126 - Fix our Python reference-implementation for the v3 onion service
3127 handshake so that it works correctly with the version of hashlib
3128 provided by Python 3.9. Fixes part of bug 40179; bugfix
3130 - Fix the `tortls/openssl/log_one_error` test to work with OpenSSL
3131 3.0.0. Fixes bug 40170; bugfix on 0.2.8.1-alpha.
3134 Changes in version 0.4.5.5-rc - 2021-02-01
3135 Tor 0.4.5.5-rc is the third release candidate in its series. We're
3136 coming closer and closer to a stable release series. This release
3137 fixes an annoyance with address detection code, and somewhat mitigates
3138 an ongoing denial-of-service attack.
3140 We anticipate no more code changes between this and the stable
3141 release, though of course that could change.
3143 o Major feature (exit):
3144 - Re-entry into the network is now denied at the Exit level to all
3145 relays' ORPorts and authorities' ORPorts and DirPorts. This change
3146 should help mitgate a set of denial-of-service attacks. Closes
3149 o Minor bugfixes (relay, configuration):
3150 - Don't attempt to discover our address (IPv4 or IPv6) if no ORPort
3151 for it can be found in the configuration. Fixes bug 40254; bugfix
3155 Changes in version 0.4.5.4-rc - 2021-01-22
3156 Tor 0.4.5.4-rc is the second release candidate in its series. It fixes
3157 several bugs present in previous releases.
3159 We expect that the stable release will be the same, or almost the
3160 same, as this release candidate, unless serious bugs are found.
3162 o Major bugfixes (authority, IPv6):
3163 - Do not consider multiple relays in the same IPv6 /64 network to be
3164 sybils. Fixes bug 40243; bugfix on 0.4.5.1-alpha.
3166 o Major bugfixes (directory cache, performance, windows):
3167 - Limit the number of items in the consensus diff cache to 64 on
3168 Windows. We hope this will mitigate an issue where Windows relay
3169 operators reported Tor using 100% CPU, while we investigate better
3170 solutions. Fixes bug 24857; bugfix on 0.3.1.1-alpha.
3172 o Minor feature (build system):
3173 - New "make lsp" command to generate the compile_commands.json file
3174 used by the ccls language server. The "bear" program is needed for
3175 this. Closes ticket 40227.
3177 o Minor features (authority, logging):
3178 - Log more information for directory authority operators during the
3179 consensus voting process, and while processing relay descriptors.
3180 Closes ticket 40245.
3181 - Reject obsolete router/extrainfo descriptors earlier and more
3182 quietly, to avoid spamming the logs. Fixes bug 40238; bugfix
3185 o Minor bugfixes (compilation):
3186 - Fix another warning about unreachable fallthrough annotations when
3187 building with "--enable-all-bugs-are-fatal" on some compilers.
3188 Fixes bug 40241; bugfix on 0.4.5.3-rc.
3189 - Change the linker flag ordering in our library search code so that
3190 it works for compilers that need the libraries to be listed in the
3191 right order. Fixes bug 33624; bugfix on 0.1.1.0-alpha.
3193 o Minor bugfixes (config, bridge):
3194 - Don't initiate a connection to a bridge configured to use a
3195 missing transport. This change reverts an earlier fix that would
3196 try to avoid such situations during configuration chcecking, but
3197 which doesn't work with DisableNetwork. Fixes bug 40106; bugfix
3200 o Minor bugfixes (onion services):
3201 - Avoid a non-fatal assertion in certain edge-cases when
3202 establishing a circuit to an onion service. Fixes bug 32666;
3203 bugfix on 0.3.0.3-alpha.
3205 o Minor bugfixes (relay):
3206 - If we were unable to build our descriptor, don't mark it as having
3207 been advertised. Also remove an harmless BUG(). Fixes bug 40231;
3208 bugfix on 0.4.5.1-alpha.
3211 Changes in version 0.4.5.3-rc - 2021-01-12
3212 Tor 0.4.5.3-rc is the first release candidate in its series. It fixes
3213 several bugs, including one that broke onion services on certain older
3214 ARM CPUs, and another that made v3 onion services less reliable.
3216 Though we anticipate that we'll be doing a bit more clean-up between
3217 now and the stable release, we expect that our remaining changes will
3218 be fairly simple. There will be at least one more release candidate
3219 before 0.4.5.x is stable.
3221 o Major bugfixes (onion service v3):
3222 - Stop requiring a live consensus for v3 clients and services, and
3223 allow a "reasonably live" consensus instead. This allows v3 onion
3224 services to work even if the authorities fail to generate a
3225 consensus for more than 2 hours in a row. Fixes bug 40237; bugfix
3228 o Minor features (crypto):
3229 - Fix undefined behavior on our Keccak library. The bug only
3230 appeared on platforms with 32-byte CPU cache lines (e.g. armv5tel)
3231 and would result in wrong digests. Fixes bug 40210; bugfix on
3232 0.2.8.1-alpha. Thanks to Bernhard Übelacker, Arnd Bergmann and
3233 weasel for diagnosing this.
3235 o Minor features (documentation):
3236 - Mention the "!badexit" directive that can appear in an authority's
3237 approved-routers file, and update the description of the
3238 "!invalid" directive. Closes ticket 40188.
3240 o Minor bugfixes (compilation):
3241 - Fix a compilation warning about unreachable fallthrough
3242 annotations when building with "--enable-all-bugs-are-fatal" on
3243 some compilers. Fixes bug 40241; bugfix on 0.3.5.4-alpha.
3244 - Fix the "--enable-static-tor" switch to properly set the "-static"
3245 compile option onto the tor binary only. Fixes bug 40111; bugfix
3248 o Minor bugfixes (config, bridge):
3249 - Really fix the case where torrc has a missing ClientTransportPlugin
3250 but is configured with a Bridge line and UseBridges. Previously,
3251 we didn't look at the managed proxy list and thus would fail for
3252 the "exec" case. Fixes bug 40106; bugfix on 0.4.5.1-alpha.
3254 o Minor bugfixes (logging, relay):
3255 - Log our address as reported by the directory authorities, if none
3256 was configured or detected before. Fixes bug 40201; bugfix
3258 - When a launching bandwidth testing circuit, don't incorrectly call
3259 it a reachability test, or trigger a "CHECKING_REACHABILITY"
3260 control event. Fixes bug 40205; bugfix on 0.4.5.1-alpha.
3262 o Minor bugfixes (relay, statistics):
3263 - Report the correct connection statistics in our extrainfo
3264 documents. Previously there was a problem in the file loading
3265 function which would wrongly truncate a state file, causing the
3266 wrong information to be reported. Fixes bug 40226; bugfix
3269 o Minor bugfixes (SOCKS5):
3270 - Handle partial SOCKS5 messages correctly. Previously, our code
3271 would send an incorrect error message if it got a SOCKS5 request
3272 that wasn't complete. Fixes bug 40190; bugfix on 0.3.5.1-alpha.
3275 Changes in version 0.4.5.2-alpha - 2020-11-23
3276 Tor 0.4.5.2-alpha is the second alpha release in the 0.4.5.x series.
3277 It fixes several bugs present in earlier releases, including one that
3278 made it impractical to run relays on Windows. It also adds a few small
3279 safety features to improve Tor's behavior in the presence of strange
3280 compile-time options, misbehaving proxies, and future versions
3283 o Major bugfixes (relay, windows):
3284 - Fix a bug in our implementation of condition variables on Windows.
3285 Previously, a relay on Windows would use 100% CPU after running
3286 for some time. Because of this change, Tor now require Windows
3287 Vista or later to build and run. Fixes bug 30187; bugfix on
3288 0.2.6.3-alpha. (This bug became more serious in 0.3.1.1-alpha with
3289 the introduction of consensus diffs.) Patch by Daniel Pinto.
3291 o Minor features (compilation):
3292 - Disable deprecation warnings when building with OpenSSL 3.0.0 or
3293 later. There are a number of APIs newly deprecated in OpenSSL
3294 3.0.0 that Tor still requires. (A later version of Tor will try to
3295 stop depending on these APIs.) Closes ticket 40165.
3297 o Minor features (protocol, proxy support, defense in depth):
3298 - Respond more deliberately to misbehaving proxies that leave
3299 leftover data on their connections, so as to make Tor even less
3300 likely to allow the proxies to pass their data off as having come
3301 from a relay. Closes ticket 40017.
3303 o Minor features (safety):
3304 - Log a warning at startup if Tor is built with compile-time options
3305 that are likely to make it less stable or reliable. Closes
3308 o Minor bugfixes (circuit, handshake):
3309 - In the v3 handshaking code, use connection_or_change_state() to
3310 change the state. Previously, we changed the state directly, but
3311 this did not pass the state change to the pubsub or channel
3312 objects, potentially leading to bugs. Fixes bug 32880; bugfix on
3313 0.2.3.6-alpha. Patch by Neel Chauhan.
3315 o Minor bugfixes (compilation):
3316 - Use the correct 'ranlib' program when building libtor.a.
3317 Previously we used the default ranlib, which broke some kinds of
3318 cross-compilation. Fixes bug 40172; bugfix on 0.4.5.1-alpha.
3319 - Remove a duplicate typedef in metrics_store.c. Fixes bug 40177;
3320 bugfix on 0.4.5.1-alpha.
3321 - When USDT tracing is enabled, and STAP_PROBEV() is missing, don't
3322 attempt to build. Linux supports that macro but not the BSDs.
3323 Fixes bug 40174; bugfix on 0.4.5.1-alpha.
3325 o Minor bugfixes (configuration):
3326 - Exit Tor on a misconfiguration when the Bridge line is configured
3327 to use a transport but no corresponding ClientTransportPlugin can
3328 be found. Prior to this fix, Tor would attempt to connect to the
3329 bridge directly without using the transport, making it easier for
3330 adversaries to notice the bridge. Fixes bug 25528; bugfix
3332 - Fix an issue where an ORPort was compared with other kinds of
3333 ports, when it should have been only checked against other
3334 ORPorts. This bug would lead to "DirPort auto" getting ignored.
3335 Fixes bug 40195; bugfix on 0.4.5.1-alpha.
3336 - Fix a bug where a second non-ORPort with a variant family (ex:
3337 SocksPort [::1]:9050) would be ignored due to a configuration
3338 parsing error. Fixes bug 40183; bugfix on 0.4.5.1-alpha.
3340 o Minor bugfixes (crash, relay, signing key):
3341 - Avoid assertion failures when we run Tor from the command line
3342 with `--key-expiration sign`, but an ORPort is not set. Fixes bug
3343 40015; bugfix on 0.3.2.1-alpha. Patch by Neel Chauhan.
3345 o Minor bugfixes (logging):
3346 - Remove trailing whitespace from control event log messages. Fixes
3347 bug 32178; bugfix on 0.1.1.1-alpha. Based on a patch by
3349 - Turn warning-level log message about SENDME failure into a debug-
3350 level message. (This event can happen naturally, and is no reason
3351 for concern). Fixes bug 40142; bugfix on 0.4.1.1-alpha.
3353 o Minor bugfixes (relay, address discovery):
3354 - Don't trigger an IP change when no new valid IP can be found.
3355 Fixes bug 40071; bugfix on 0.4.5.1-alpha.
3356 - When attempting to discover our IP, use a simple test circuit,
3357 rather than a descriptor fetch: the same address information is
3358 present in NETINFO cells, and is better authenticated there. Fixes
3359 bug 40071; bugfix on 0.4.5.1-alpha.
3361 o Minor bugfixes (testing):
3362 - Fix the `config/parse_tcp_proxy_line` test so that it works
3363 correctly on systems where the DNS provider hijacks invalid
3364 queries. Fixes part of bug 40179; bugfix on 0.4.3.1-alpha.
3365 - Fix unit tests that used newly generated list of routers so that
3366 they check them with respect to the date when they were generated,
3367 not with respect to the current time. Fixes bug 40187; bugfix
3369 - Fix our Python reference-implementation for the v3 onion service
3370 handshake so that it works correctly with the version of hashlib
3371 provided by Python 3.9. Fixes part of bug 40179; bugfix
3373 - Fix the `tortls/openssl/log_one_error` test to work with OpenSSL
3374 3.0.0. Fixes bug 40170; bugfix on 0.2.8.1-alpha.
3376 o Removed features (controller):
3377 - Remove the "GETINFO network-status" controller command. It has
3378 been deprecated since 0.3.1.1-alpha. Closes ticket 22473.
3381 Changes in version 0.4.4.6 - 2020-11-12
3382 Tor 0.4.4.6 is the second stable release in the 0.4.4.x series. It
3383 backports fixes from later releases, including a fix for TROVE-2020-
3384 005, a security issue that could be used, under certain cases, by an
3385 adversary to observe traffic patterns on a limited number of circuits
3386 intended for a different relay.
3388 o Major bugfixes (security, backport from 0.4.5.1-alpha):
3389 - When completing a channel, relays now check more thoroughly to
3390 make sure that it matches any pending circuits before attaching
3391 those circuits. Previously, address correctness and Ed25519
3392 identities were not checked in this case, but only when extending
3393 circuits on an existing channel. Fixes bug 40080; bugfix on
3394 0.2.7.2-alpha. Resolves TROVE-2020-005.
3396 o Minor features (directory authorities, backport from 0.4.5.1-alpha):
3397 - Authorities now list a different set of protocols as required and
3398 recommended. These lists have been chosen so that only truly
3399 recommended and/or required protocols are included, and so that
3400 clients using 0.2.9 or later will continue to work (even though
3401 they are not supported), whereas only relays running 0.3.5 or
3402 later will meet the requirements. Closes ticket 40162.
3403 - Make it possible to specify multiple ConsensusParams torrc lines.
3404 Now directory authority operators can for example put the main
3405 ConsensusParams config in one torrc file and then add to it from a
3406 different torrc file. Closes ticket 40164.
3408 o Minor features (subprotocol versions, backport from 0.4.5.1-alpha):
3409 - Tor no longer allows subprotocol versions larger than 63.
3410 Previously version numbers up to UINT32_MAX were allowed, which
3411 significantly complicated our code. Implements proposal 318;
3412 closes ticket 40133.
3414 o Minor features (tests, v2 onion services, backport from 0.4.5.1-alpha):
3415 - Fix a rendezvous cache unit test that was triggering an underflow
3416 on the global rend cache allocation. Fixes bug 40125; bugfix
3418 - Fix another rendezvous cache unit test that was triggering an
3419 underflow on the global rend cache allocation. Fixes bug 40126;
3420 bugfix on 0.2.8.1-alpha.
3422 o Minor bugfixes (compilation, backport from 0.4.5.1-alpha):
3423 - Fix compiler warnings that would occur when building with
3424 "--enable-all-bugs-are-fatal" and "--disable-module-relay" at the
3425 same time. Fixes bug 40129; bugfix on 0.4.4.1-alpha.
3426 - Resolve a compilation warning that could occur in
3427 test_connection.c. Fixes bug 40113; bugfix on 0.2.9.3-alpha.
3429 o Minor bugfixes (logging, backport from 0.4.5.1-alpha):
3430 - Remove a debug logging statement that uselessly spammed the logs.
3431 Fixes bug 40135; bugfix on 0.3.5.0-alpha.
3433 o Minor bugfixes (relay configuration, crash, backport from 0.4.5.1-alpha):
3434 - Avoid a fatal assert() when failing to create a listener
3435 connection for an address that was in use. Fixes bug 40073; bugfix
3438 o Minor bugfixes (v2 onion services, backport from 0.4.5.1-alpha):
3439 - For HSFETCH commands on v2 onion services addresses, check the
3440 length of bytes decoded, not the base32 length. Fixes bug 34400;
3441 bugfix on 0.4.1.1-alpha. Patch by Neel Chauhan.
3444 Changes in version 0.4.3.7 - 2020-11-12
3445 Tor 0.4.3.7 backports several bugfixes from later releases. It
3446 includes a fix for TROVE-2020-005, a security issue that could be
3447 used, under certain cases, by an adversary to observe traffic patterns
3448 on a limited number of circuits intended for a different relay.
3450 Please be aware that support for the 0.4.3.x series will end on 15
3451 February 2021. Please upgrade to 0.4.4.x or 0.4.5.x before then, or
3452 downgrade to 0.3.5.x, which will be supported until at least 1
3455 o Major features (fallback directory list, backport form 0.4.4.3-alpha):
3456 - Replace the 148 fallback directories originally included in Tor
3457 0.4.1.4-rc (of which around 105 are still functional) with a list
3458 of 144 fallbacks generated in July 2020. Closes ticket 40061.
3460 o Major bugfixes (security, backport from 0.4.5.1-alpha):
3461 - When completing a channel, relays now check more thoroughly to
3462 make sure that it matches any pending circuits before attaching
3463 those circuits. Previously, address correctness and Ed25519
3464 identities were not checked in this case, but only when extending
3465 circuits on an existing channel. Fixes bug 40080; bugfix on
3466 0.2.7.2-alpha. Resolves TROVE-2020-005.
3468 o Major bugfixes (NSS, backport from 0.4.4.3-alpha):
3469 - When running with NSS enabled, make sure that NSS knows to expect
3470 nonblocking sockets. Previously, we set our TCP sockets as
3471 nonblocking, but did not tell NSS, which in turn could lead to
3472 unexpected blocking behavior. Fixes bug 40035; bugfix
3475 o Minor features (security, backport from 0.4.4.4-rc):
3476 - Channels using obsolete versions of the Tor link protocol are no
3477 longer allowed to circumvent address-canonicity checks. (This is
3478 only a minor issue, since such channels have no way to set ed25519
3479 keys, and therefore should always be rejected for circuits that
3480 specify ed25519 identities.) Closes ticket 40081.
3482 o Minor features (subprotocol versions, backport from 0.4.5.1-alpha):
3483 - Tor no longer allows subprotocol versions larger than 63.
3484 Previously version numbers up to UINT32_MAX were allowed, which
3485 significantly complicated our code. Implements proposal 318;
3486 closes ticket 40133.
3488 o Minor features (tests, backport from 0.4.4.5):
3489 - Our "make check" target now runs the unit tests in 8 parallel
3490 chunks. Doing this speeds up hardened CI builds by more than a
3491 factor of two. Closes ticket 40098.
3493 o Minor features (tests, v2 onion services, backport from 0.4.5.1-alpha):
3494 - Fix a rendezvous cache unit test that was triggering an underflow
3495 on the global rend cache allocation. Fixes bug 40125; bugfix
3497 - Fix another rendezvous cache unit test that was triggering an
3498 underflow on the global rend cache allocation. Fixes bug 40126;
3499 bugfix on 0.2.8.1-alpha.
3501 o Minor bugfixes (correctness, buffers, backport from 0.4.4.4-rc):
3502 - Fix a correctness bug that could cause an assertion failure if we
3503 ever tried using the buf_move_all() function with an empty input
3504 buffer. As far as we know, no released versions of Tor do this.
3505 Fixes bug 40076; bugfix on 0.3.3.1-alpha.
3507 o Minor bugfixes (logging, backport from 0.4.5.1-alpha):
3508 - Remove a debug logging statement that uselessly spammed the logs.
3509 Fixes bug 40135; bugfix on 0.3.5.0-alpha.
3511 o Minor bugfixes (rate limiting, bridges, pluggable transports, backport from 0.4.4.4-rc):
3512 - On a bridge, treat all connections from an ExtORPort as remote by
3513 default for the purposes of rate-limiting. Previously, bridges
3514 would treat the connection as local unless they explicitly
3515 received a "USERADDR" command. ExtORPort connections still count
3516 as local if there is a USERADDR command with an explicit local
3517 address. Fixes bug 33747; bugfix on 0.2.5.1-alpha.
3519 o Minor bugfixes (relay configuration, crash, backport from 0.4.5.1-alpha):
3520 - Avoid a fatal assert() when failing to create a listener
3521 connection for an address that was in use. Fixes bug 40073; bugfix
3524 o Minor bugfixes (relay, usability, backport from 0.4.4.3-alpha):
3525 - Adjust the rules for when to warn about having too many
3526 connections to other relays. Previously we'd tolerate up to 1.5
3527 connections per relay on average. Now we tolerate more connections
3528 for directory authorities, and raise the number of total
3529 connections we need to see before we warn. Fixes bug 33880; bugfix
3532 o Minor bugfixes (tests, 0.4.4.5):
3533 - Fix the behavior of the rend_cache/clean_v2_descs_as_dir when run
3534 on its own. Previously, it would exit with an error. Fixes bug
3535 40099; bugfix on 0.2.8.1-alpha.
3537 o Minor bugfixes (v2 onion services, backport from 0.4.5.1-alpha):
3538 - For HSFETCH commands on v2 onion services addresses, check the
3539 length of bytes decoded, not the base32 length. Fixes bug 34400;
3540 bugfix on 0.4.1.1-alpha. Patch by Neel Chauhan.
3542 o Minor bugfixes (windows, backport from 0.4.4.4-rc):
3543 - Fix a bug that prevented Tor from starting if its log file grew
3544 above 2GB. Fixes bug 31036; bugfix on 0.2.1.8-alpha.
3546 o Deprecated features (onion service v2, backport form 0.4.4.2-alpha):
3547 - Add a deprecation warning for version 2 onion services. Closes
3550 o Removed features (backport from 0.4.4.3-alpha):
3551 - Our "check-local" test target no longer tries to use the
3552 Coccinelle semantic patching tool parse all the C files. While it
3553 is a good idea to try to make sure Coccinelle works on our C
3554 before we run a Coccinelle patch, doing so on every test run has
3555 proven to be disruptive. You can still run this tool manually with
3556 "make check-cocci". Closes ticket 40030. ticket 40030.
3559 Changes in version 0.3.5.12 - 2020-11-12
3560 Tor 0.4.3.7 backports several bugfixes from later releases. It
3561 includes a fix for TROVE-2020-005, a security issue that could be
3562 used, under certain cases, by an adversary to observe traffic patterns
3563 on a limited number of circuits intended for a different relay.
3565 o Major features (fallback directory list, backport form 0.4.4.3-alpha):
3566 - Replace the 148 fallback directories originally included in Tor
3567 0.4.1.4-rc (of which around 105 are still functional) with a list
3568 of 144 fallbacks generated in July 2020. Closes ticket 40061.
3570 o Major bugfixes (security, backport from 0.4.5.1-alpha):
3571 - When completing a channel, relays now check more thoroughly to
3572 make sure that it matches any pending circuits before attaching
3573 those circuits. Previously, address correctness and Ed25519
3574 identities were not checked in this case, but only when extending
3575 circuits on an existing channel. Fixes bug 40080; bugfix on
3576 0.2.7.2-alpha. Resolves TROVE-2020-005.
3578 o Major bugfixes (NSS, backport from 0.4.4.3-alpha):
3579 - When running with NSS enabled, make sure that NSS knows to expect
3580 nonblocking sockets. Previously, we set our TCP sockets as
3581 nonblocking, but did not tell NSS, which in turn could lead to
3582 unexpected blocking behavior. Fixes bug 40035; bugfix
3585 o Minor features (security, backport from 0.4.4.4-rc):
3586 - Channels using obsolete versions of the Tor link protocol are no
3587 longer allowed to circumvent address-canonicity checks. (This is
3588 only a minor issue, since such channels have no way to set ed25519
3589 keys, and therefore should always be rejected for circuits that
3590 specify ed25519 identities.) Closes ticket 40081.
3592 o Minor features (debugging, directory system):
3593 - Don't crash when we find a non-guard with a guard-fraction value
3594 set. Instead, log a bug warning, in an attempt to figure out how
3595 this happened. Diagnostic for ticket 32868.
3597 o Minor features (subprotocol versions, backport from 0.4.5.1-alpha):
3598 - Tor no longer allows subprotocol versions larger than 63.
3599 Previously version numbers up to UINT32_MAX were allowed, which
3600 significantly complicated our code. Implements proposal 318;
3601 closes ticket 40133.
3603 o Minor features (tests, backport from 0.4.4.5):
3604 - Our "make check" target now runs the unit tests in 8 parallel
3605 chunks. Doing this speeds up hardened CI builds by more than a
3606 factor of two. Closes ticket 40098.
3608 o Minor features (tests, v2 onion services, backport from 0.4.5.1-alpha):
3609 - Fix a rendezvous cache unit test that was triggering an underflow
3610 on the global rend cache allocation. Fixes bug 40125; bugfix
3612 - Fix another rendezvous cache unit test that was triggering an
3613 underflow on the global rend cache allocation. Fixes bug 40126;
3614 bugfix on 0.2.8.1-alpha.
3616 o Minor bugfixes (correctness, buffers, backport from 0.4.4.4-rc):
3617 - Fix a correctness bug that could cause an assertion failure if we
3618 ever tried using the buf_move_all() function with an empty input
3619 buffer. As far as we know, no released versions of Tor do this.
3620 Fixes bug 40076; bugfix on 0.3.3.1-alpha.
3622 o Minor bugfixes (logging, backport from 0.4.5.1-alpha):
3623 - Remove a debug logging statement that uselessly spammed the logs.
3624 Fixes bug 40135; bugfix on 0.3.5.0-alpha.
3626 o Minor bugfixes (rate limiting, bridges, pluggable transports, backport from 0.4.4.4-rc):
3627 - On a bridge, treat all connections from an ExtORPort as remote by
3628 default for the purposes of rate-limiting. Previously, bridges
3629 would treat the connection as local unless they explicitly
3630 received a "USERADDR" command. ExtORPort connections still count
3631 as local if there is a USERADDR command with an explicit local
3632 address. Fixes bug 33747; bugfix on 0.2.5.1-alpha.
3634 o Minor bugfixes (relay configuration, crash, backport from 0.4.5.1-alpha):
3635 - Avoid a fatal assert() when failing to create a listener
3636 connection for an address that was in use. Fixes bug 40073; bugfix
3639 o Minor bugfixes (relay, usability, backport from 0.4.4.3-alpha):
3640 - Adjust the rules for when to warn about having too many
3641 connections to other relays. Previously we'd tolerate up to 1.5
3642 connections per relay on average. Now we tolerate more connections
3643 for directory authorities, and raise the number of total
3644 connections we need to see before we warn. Fixes bug 33880; bugfix
3647 o Minor bugfixes (relays, backport from 0.4.4.1-alpha):
3648 - Stop advertising incorrect IPv6 ORPorts in relay and bridge
3649 descriptors, when the IPv6 port was configured as "auto". Fixes
3650 bug 32588; bugfix on 0.2.3.9-alpha.
3652 o Minor bugfixes (tests, 0.4.4.5):
3653 - Fix the behavior of the rend_cache/clean_v2_descs_as_dir when run
3654 on its own. Previously, it would exit with an error. Fixes bug
3655 40099; bugfix on 0.2.8.1-alpha.
3657 o Minor bugfixes (windows, backport from 0.4.4.4-rc):
3658 - Fix a bug that prevented Tor from starting if its log file grew
3659 above 2GB. Fixes bug 31036; bugfix on 0.2.1.8-alpha.
3661 o Deprecated features (onion service v2, backport form 0.4.4.2-alpha):
3662 - Add a deprecation warning for version 2 onion services. Closes
3666 Changes in version 0.4.5.1-alpha - 2020-11-01
3667 Tor 0.4.5.1-alpha is the first alpha release in the 0.4.5.x series. It
3668 improves support for IPv6, address discovery and self-testing, code
3669 metrics and tracing.
3671 This release also fixes TROVE-2020-005, a security issue that could be
3672 used, under certain cases, by an adversary to observe traffic patterns
3673 on a limited number of circuits intended for a different relay. To
3674 mount this attack, the adversary would need to actively extend
3675 circuits to an incorrect address, as well as compromise a relay's
3676 legacy RSA-1024 key. We'll be backporting this fix to other release
3677 series soon, after it has had some testing.
3679 Here are the changes since 0.4.4.5.
3681 o Major features (build):
3682 - When building Tor, first link all object files into a single
3683 static library. This may help with embedding Tor in other
3684 programs. Note that most Tor functions do not constitute a part of
3685 a stable or supported API: only those functions in tor_api.h
3686 should be used if embedding Tor. Closes ticket 40127.
3688 o Major features (metrics):
3689 - Introduce a new MetricsPort which exposes, through an HTTP
3690 interface, a series of metrics that tor collects at runtime. At
3691 the moment, the only supported output format is Prometheus data
3692 model. Closes ticket 40063. See the manual page for more
3693 information and security considerations.
3694 o Major features (relay, IPv6):
3695 - The torrc option Address now supports IPv6. This unifies our
3696 address discovery interface to support IPv4, IPv6, and hostnames.
3697 Closes ticket 33233.
3698 - Launch IPv4 and IPv6 ORPort self-test circuits on relays and
3699 bridges. Closes ticket 33222.
3700 - Relays now automatically bind on IPv6 for their ORPort, unless
3701 specified otherwise with the IPv4Only flag. Closes ticket 33246.
3702 - When a relay with IPv6 support is told to open a connection to
3703 another relay, and the extend cell lists both IPv4 and IPv6
3704 addresses, the first relay now picks randomly which address to
3705 use. Closes ticket 33220.
3706 - Relays now track their IPv6 ORPort reachability separately from
3707 the reachability of their IPv4 ORPort. They will not publish a
3708 descriptor unless _both_ ports appear to be externally reachable.
3709 Closes ticket 34067.
3711 o Major features (tracing):
3712 - Add event-tracing library support for USDT and LTTng-UST, and a
3713 few tracepoints in the circuit subsystem. More will come
3714 incrementally. This feature is compiled out by default: it needs
3715 to be enabled at configure time. See documentation in
3716 doc/HACKING/Tracing.md. Closes ticket 32910.
3718 o Major bugfixes (security):
3719 - When completing a channel, relays now check more thoroughly to
3720 make sure that it matches any pending circuits before attaching
3721 those circuits. Previously, address correctness and Ed25519
3722 identities were not checked in this case, but only when extending
3723 circuits on an existing channel. Fixes bug 40080; bugfix on
3724 0.2.7.2-alpha. Resolves TROVE-2020-005.
3726 o Major bugfixes (TLS, buffer):
3727 - When attempting to read N bytes on a TLS connection, really try to
3728 read all N bytes. Previously, Tor would stop reading after the
3729 first TLS record, which can be smaller than the N bytes requested,
3730 and not check for more data until the next mainloop event. Fixes
3731 bug 40006; bugfix on 0.1.0.5-rc.
3733 o Minor features (address discovery):
3734 - If no Address statements are found, relays now prioritize guessing
3735 their address by looking at the local interface instead of the
3736 local hostname. If the interface address can't be found, the local
3737 hostname is used. Closes ticket 33238.
3739 o Minor features (admin tools):
3740 - Add a new --format argument to -key-expiration option to allow
3741 specifying the time format of the expiration date. Adds Unix
3742 timestamp format support. Patch by Daniel Pinto. Closes
3745 o Minor features (bootstrap reporting):
3746 - When reporting bootstrapping status on a relay, do not consider
3747 connections that have never been the target of an origin circuit.
3748 Previously, all connection failures were treated as potential
3749 bootstrapping failures, including connections that had been opened
3750 because of client requests. Closes ticket 25061.
3752 o Minor features (build):
3753 - When running the configure script, try to detect version
3754 mismatches between the OpenSSL headers and libraries, and suggest
3755 that the user should try "--with-openssl-dir". Closes 40138.
3756 - If the configure script has given any warnings, remind the user
3757 about them at the end of the script. Related to 40138.
3759 o Minor features (configuration):
3760 - Allow using wildcards (* and ?) with the %include option on
3761 configuration files. Closes ticket 25140. Patch by Daniel Pinto.
3762 - Allow the configuration options EntryNodes, ExcludeNodes,
3763 ExcludeExitNodes, ExitNodes, MiddleNodes, HSLayer2Nodes and
3764 HSLayer3Nodes to be specified multiple times. Closes ticket 28361.
3765 Patch by Daniel Pinto.
3767 o Minor features (control port):
3768 - Add a DROPTIMEOUTS command to drop circuit build timeout history
3769 and reset the current timeout. Closes ticket 40002.
3770 - When a stream enters the AP_CONN_STATE_CONTROLLER_WAIT status,
3771 send a control port event. Closes ticket 32190. Patch by
3773 - Introduce GETINFO "stats/ntor/{assigned/requested}" and
3774 "stats/tap/{assigned/requested}" to get the NTor and TAP circuit
3775 onion handshake counts respectively. Closes ticket 28279. Patch by
3778 o Minor features (control port, IPv6):
3779 - Tor relays now try to report to the controller when they are
3780 launching an IPv6 self-test. Closes ticket 34068.
3781 - Introduce "GETINFO address/v4" and "GETINFO address/v6" in the
3782 control port to fetch the Tor host's respective IPv4 or IPv6
3783 address. We keep "GETINFO address" for backwards-compatibility.
3784 Closes ticket 40039. Patch by Neel Chauhan.
3786 o Minor features (directory authorities):
3787 - Authorities now list a different set of protocols as required and
3788 recommended. These lists have been chosen so that only truly
3789 recommended and/or required protocols are included, and so that
3790 clients using 0.2.9 or later will continue to work (even though
3791 they are not supported), whereas only relays running 0.3.5 or
3792 later will meet the requirements. Closes ticket 40162.
3793 - Add a new consensus method 30 that removes the unnecessary "="
3794 padding from ntor-onion-key. Closes ticket 7869. Patch by
3796 - Directory authorities now reject descriptors from relays running
3797 Tor versions from the obsolete 0.4.1 series. Resolves ticket
3798 34357. Patch by Neel Chauhan.
3799 - Make it possible to specify multiple ConsensusParams torrc lines.
3800 Now directory authority operators can for example put the main
3801 ConsensusParams config in one torrc file and then add to it from a
3802 different torrc file. Closes ticket 40164.
3803 - The AssumeReachable option no longer stops directory authorities
3804 from checking whether other relays are running. A new
3805 AuthDirTestReachability option can be used to disable these
3806 checks. Closes ticket 34445.
3807 - When looking for possible Sybil attacks, also consider IPv6
3808 addresses. Two routers are considered to have "the same" address
3809 by this metric if they are in the same /64 network. Patch from
3810 Maurice Pibouin. Closes ticket 7193.
3812 o Minor features (directory authorities, IPv6):
3813 - Make authorities add their IPv6 ORPort (if any) to the trusted
3814 servers list. Authorities previously added only their IPv4
3815 addresses. Closes ticket 32822.
3817 o Minor features (ed25519, relay):
3818 - Save a relay's base64-encoded ed25519 identity key to the data
3819 directory in a file named fingerprint-ed25519. Closes ticket
3820 30642. Patch by Neel Chauhan.
3822 o Minor features (heartbeat):
3823 - Include the total number of inbound and outbound IPv4 and IPv6
3824 connections in the heartbeat message. Closes ticket 29113.
3826 o Minor features (IPv6, ExcludeNodes):
3827 - Handle IPv6 addresses in ExcludeNodes; previously they were
3828 ignored. Closes ticket 34065. Patch by Neel Chauhan.
3830 o Minor features (logging):
3831 - Add the running glibc version to the log, and the compiled glibc
3832 version to the library list returned when using --library-versions.
3833 Patch from Daniel Pinto. Closes ticket 40047.
3834 - Consider an HTTP 301 response to be an error (like a 404) when
3835 processing a directory response. Closes ticket 40053.
3836 - Log directory fetch statistics as a single line. Closes
3838 - Provide more complete descriptions of our connections when logging
3839 about them. Closes ticket 40041.
3840 - When describing a relay in the logs, we now include its ed25519
3841 identity. Closes ticket 22668.
3843 o Minor features (onion services):
3844 - Only overwrite an onion service's existing hostname file if its
3845 contents are wrong. This enables read-only onion-service
3846 directories. Resolves ticket 40062. Patch by Neel Chauhan.
3848 o Minor features (pluggable transports):
3849 - Add an OutboundBindAddressPT option to allow users to specify
3850 which IPv4 and IPv6 address pluggable transports should use for
3851 outgoing IP packets. Tor does not have a way to enforce that the
3852 pluggable transport honors this option, so each pluggable transport
3853 needs to implement support on its own. Closes ticket 5304.
3855 o Minor features (relay address tracking):
3856 - We now store relay addresses for OR connections in a more logical
3857 way. Previously we would sometimes overwrite the actual address of
3858 a connection with a "canonical address", and then store the "real
3859 address" elsewhere to remember it. We now track the "canonical
3860 address" elsewhere for the cases where we need it, and leave the
3861 connection's address alone. Closes ticket 33898.
3863 o Minor features (relay):
3864 - If a relay is unable to discover its address, attempt to learn it
3865 from the NETINFO cell. Closes ticket 40022.
3866 - Log immediately when launching a relay self-check. Previously we
3867 would try to log before launching checks, or approximately when we
3868 intended to launch checks, but this tended to be error-prone.
3869 Closes ticket 34137.
3871 o Minor features (relay, address discovery):
3872 - If Address option is not found in torrc, attempt to learn our
3873 address with the configured ORPort address if any. Closes
3876 o Minor features (relay, IPv6):
3877 - Add an AssumeReachableIPv6 option to disable self-checking IPv6
3878 reachability. Closes part of ticket 33224.
3879 - Add new "assume-reachable" and "assume-reachable-ipv6" consensus
3880 parameters to be used in an emergency to tell relays that they
3881 should publish even if they cannot complete their ORPort self-
3882 checks. Closes ticket 34064 and part of 33224.
3883 - Allow relays to send IPv6-only extend cells. Closes ticket 33222.
3884 - Declare support for the Relay=3 subprotocol version. Closes
3886 - When launching IPv6 ORPort self-test circuits, make sure that the
3887 second-last hop can initiate an IPv6 extend. Closes ticket 33222.
3889 o Minor features (specification update):
3890 - Several fields in microdescriptors, router descriptors, and
3891 consensus documents that were formerly optional are now required.
3892 Implements proposal 315; closes ticket 40132.
3894 o Minor features (state management):
3895 - When loading the state file, remove entries from the statefile
3896 that have been obsolete for a long time. Ordinarily Tor preserves
3897 unrecognized entries in order to keep forward-compatibility, but
3898 these entries have not actually been used in any release since
3899 before 0.3.5.x. Closes ticket 40137.
3901 o Minor features (statistics, ipv6):
3902 - Relays now publish IPv6-specific counts of single-direction versus
3903 bidirectional relay connections. Closes ticket 33264.
3904 - Relays now publish their IPv6 read and write statistics over time,
3905 if statistics are enabled. Closes ticket 33263.
3907 o Minor features (subprotocol versions):
3908 - Tor no longer allows subprotocol versions larger than 63.
3909 Previously version numbers up to UINT32_MAX were allowed, which
3910 significantly complicated our code. Implements proposal 318;
3911 closes ticket 40133.
3912 - Use the new limitations on subprotocol versions due to proposal
3913 318 to simplify our implementation. Part of ticket 40133.
3915 o Minor features (testing configuration):
3916 - The TestingTorNetwork option no longer implicitly sets
3917 AssumeReachable to 1. This change allows us to test relays' self-
3918 testing mechanisms, and to test authorities' relay-testing
3919 functionality. Closes ticket 34446.
3921 o Minor features (testing):
3922 - Added unit tests for channel_matches_target_addr_for_extend().
3923 Closes Ticket 33919. Patch by MrSquanchee.
3925 o Minor features (tests, v2 onion services):
3926 - Fix a rendezvous cache unit test that was triggering an underflow
3927 on the global rend cache allocation. Fixes bug 40125; bugfix
3929 - Fix another rendezvous cache unit test that was triggering an
3930 underflow on the global rend cache allocation. Fixes bug 40126;
3931 bugfix on 0.2.8.1-alpha.
3933 o Minor bugfixes (circuit padding):
3934 - When circpad_send_padding_cell_for_callback is called,
3935 `is_padding_timer_scheduled` flag was not reset. Now it is set to
3936 0 at the top of that function. Fixes bug 32671; bugfix
3938 - Add a per-circuit padding machine instance counter, so we can
3939 differentiate between shutdown requests for old machines on a
3940 circuit. Fixes bug 30992; bugfix on 0.4.1.1-alpha.
3941 - Add the ability to keep circuit padding machines if they match a
3942 set of circuit states or purposes. This allows us to have machines
3943 that start up under some conditions but don't shut down under
3944 others. We now use this mask to avoid starting up introduction
3945 circuit padding again after the machines have already completed.
3946 Fixes bug 32040; bugfix on 0.4.1.1-alpha.
3948 o Minor bugfixes (compatibility):
3949 - Strip '\r' characters when reading text files on Unix platforms.
3950 This should resolve an issue where a relay operator migrates a
3951 relay from Windows to Unix, but does not change the line ending of
3952 Tor's various state files to match the platform, and the CRLF line
3953 endings from Windows end up leaking into other files such as the
3954 extra-info document. Fixes bug 33781; bugfix on 0.0.9pre5.
3956 o Minor bugfixes (compilation):
3957 - Fix compiler warnings that would occur when building with
3958 "--enable-all-bugs-are-fatal" and "--disable-module-relay" at the
3959 same time. Fixes bug 40129; bugfix on 0.4.4.1-alpha.
3960 - Resolve a compilation warning that could occur in
3961 test_connection.c. Fixes bug 40113; bugfix on 0.2.9.3-alpha.
3963 o Minor bugfixes (configuration):
3964 - Fix bug where %including a pattern ending with */ would include
3965 files and folders (instead of folders only) in versions of glibc <
3966 2.19. Fixes bug 40141; bugfix on 0.4.5.0-alpha-dev. Patch by
3969 o Minor bugfixes (control port):
3970 - Make sure we send the SOCKS request address in relay begin cells
3971 when a stream is attached with the purpose
3972 CIRCUIT_PURPOSE_CONTROLLER. Fixes bug 33124; bugfix on 0.0.5.
3973 Patch by Neel Chauhan.
3975 o Minor bugfixes (logging):
3976 - Remove a debug logging statement that uselessly spammed the logs.
3977 Fixes bug 40135; bugfix on 0.3.5.0-alpha.
3978 - When logging a rate-limited message about how many messages have
3979 been suppressed in the last N seconds, give an accurate value for
3980 N, rounded up to the nearest minute. Previously we would report
3981 the size of the rate-limiting interval, regardless of when the
3982 messages started to occur. Fixes bug 19431; bugfix
3985 o Minor bugfixes (relay configuration, crash):
3986 - Avoid a fatal assert() when failing to create a listener
3987 connection for an address that was in use. Fixes bug 40073; bugfix
3990 o Minor bugfixes (rust, protocol versions):
3991 - Declare support for the onion service introduction point denial of
3992 service extensions when building with Rust. Fixes bug 34248;
3993 bugfix on 0.4.2.1-alpha.
3994 - Make Rust protocol version support checks consistent with the
3995 undocumented error behavior of the corresponding C code. Fixes bug
3996 34251; bugfix on 0.3.3.5-rc.
3998 o Minor bugfixes (self-testing):
3999 - When receiving an incoming circuit, only accept it as evidence
4000 that we are reachable if the declared address of its channel is
4001 the same address we think that we have. Otherwise, it could be
4002 evidence that we're reachable on some other address. Fixes bug
4003 20165; bugfix on 0.1.0.1-rc.
4005 o Minor bugfixes (spec conformance):
4006 - Use the correct key type when generating signing->link
4007 certificates. Fixes bug 40124; bugfix on 0.2.7.2-alpha.
4009 o Minor bugfixes (subprotocol versions):
4010 - Consistently reject extra commas, instead of only rejecting
4011 leading commas. Fixes bug 27194; bugfix on 0.2.9.4-alpha.
4012 - In summarize_protover_flags(), treat empty strings the same as
4013 NULL. This prevents protocols_known from being set. Previously, we
4014 treated empty strings as normal strings, which led to
4015 protocols_known being set. Fixes bug 34232; bugfix on
4016 0.3.3.2-alpha. Patch by Neel Chauhan.
4018 o Minor bugfixes (v2 onion services):
4019 - For HSFETCH commands on v2 onion services addresses, check the
4020 length of bytes decoded, not the base32 length. Fixes bug 34400;
4021 bugfix on 0.4.1.1-alpha. Patch by Neel Chauhan.
4023 o Code simplification and refactoring:
4024 - Add and use a set of functions to perform down-casts on constant
4025 connection and channel pointers. Closes ticket 40046.
4026 - Refactor our code that logs descriptions of connections, channels,
4027 and the peers on them, to use a single call path. This change
4028 enables us to refactor the data types that they use, and eliminates
4029 many confusing usages of those types. Closes ticket 40041.
4030 - Refactor some common node selection code into a single function.
4031 Closes ticket 34200.
4032 - Remove the now-redundant 'outbuf_flushlen' field from our
4033 connection type. It was previously used for an older version of
4034 our rate-limiting logic. Closes ticket 33097.
4035 - Rename "fascist_firewall_*" identifiers to "reachable_addr_*"
4036 instead, for consistency with other code. Closes ticket 18106.
4037 - Rename functions about "advertised" ports which are not in fact
4038 guaranteed to return the ports that have been advertised. Closes
4040 - Split implementation of several command line options from
4041 options_init_from_torrc into smaller isolated functions. Patch by
4042 Daniel Pinto. Closes ticket 40102.
4043 - When an extend cell is missing an IPv4 or IPv6 address, fill in
4044 the address from the extend info. This is similar to what was done
4045 in ticket 33633 for ed25519 keys. Closes ticket 33816. Patch by
4048 o Deprecated features:
4049 - The "non-builtin" argument to the "--dump-config" command is now
4050 deprecated. When it works, it behaves the same as "short", which
4051 you should use instead. Closes ticket 33398.
4054 - Replace URLs from our old bugtracker so that they refer to the new
4055 bugtracker and wiki. Closes ticket 40101.
4058 - We no longer ship or build a "tor.service" file for use with
4059 systemd. No distribution included this script unmodified, and we
4060 don't have the expertise ourselves to maintain this in a way that
4061 all the various systemd-based distributions can use. Closes
4063 - We no longer ship support for the Android logging API. Modern
4064 versions of Android can use the syslog API instead. Closes
4066 - The "optimistic data" feature is now always on; there is no longer
4067 an option to disable it from the torrc file or from the consensus
4068 directory. Closes part of 40139.
4069 - The "usecreatefast" network parameter is now removed; there is no
4070 longer an option for authorities to turn it off. Closes part
4074 - Add unit tests for bandwidth statistics manipulation functions.
4075 Closes ticket 33812. Patch by MrSquanchee.
4077 o Code simplification and refactoring (autoconf):
4078 - Remove autoconf checks for unused funcs and headers. Closes ticket
4079 31699; Patch by @bduszel
4081 o Code simplification and refactoring (maintainer scripts):
4082 - Disable by default the pre-commit hook. Use the environment
4083 variable TOR_EXTRA_PRE_COMMIT_CHECKS in order to run it.
4084 Furthermore, stop running practracker in the pre-commit hook and
4085 make check-local. Closes ticket 40019.
4087 o Code simplification and refactoring (relay address):
4088 - Most of IPv4 representation was using "uint32_t". It has now been
4089 moved to use the internal "tor_addr_t" interface instead. This is
4090 so we can properly integrate IPv6 along IPv4 with common
4091 interfaces. Closes ticket 40043.
4093 o Documentation (manual page):
4094 - Move them from doc/ to doc/man/. Closes ticket 40044.
4095 - Describe the status of the "Sandbox" option more accurately. It is
4096 no longer "experimental", but it _is_ dependent on kernel and libc
4097 versions. Closes ticket 23378.
4099 o Documentation (tracing):
4100 - Document in depth the circuit subsystem trace events in the new
4101 doc/tracing/EventsCircuit.md. Closes ticket 40036.
4104 Changes in version 0.4.4.5 - 2020-09-15
4105 Tor 0.4.4.5 is the first stable release in the 0.4.4.x series. This
4106 series improves our guard selection algorithms, adds v3 onion balance
4107 support, improves the amount of code that can be disabled when running
4108 without relay support, and includes numerous small bugfixes and
4109 enhancements. It also lays the ground for some IPv6 features that
4110 we'll be developing more in the next (0.4.5) series.
4112 Per our support policy, we support each stable release series for nine
4113 months after its first stable release, or three months after the first
4114 stable release of the next series: whichever is longer. This means
4115 that 0.4.4.x will be supported until around June 2021--or later, if
4116 0.4.5.x is later than anticipated.
4118 Note also that support for 0.4.2.x has just ended; support for 0.4.3
4119 will continue until Feb 15, 2021. We still plan to continue supporting
4120 0.3.5.x, our long-term stable series, until Feb 2022.
4122 Below are the changes since 0.4.4.4-rc. For a complete list of changes
4123 since 0.4.3.6, see the ReleaseNotes file.
4125 o Major bugfixes (onion services, DoS):
4126 - Correct handling of parameters for the onion service DoS defense.
4127 Previously, the consensus parameters for the onion service DoS
4128 defenses were overwriting the parameters set by the service
4129 operator using HiddenServiceEnableIntroDoSDefense. Fixes bug
4130 40109; bugfix on 0.4.2.1-alpha.
4132 o Major bugfixes (stats, onion services):
4133 - Fix a bug where we were undercounting the Tor network's total
4134 onion service traffic, by ignoring any traffic originating from
4135 clients. Now we count traffic from both clients and services.
4136 Fixes bug 40117; bugfix on 0.2.6.2-alpha.
4138 o Minor features (control port):
4139 - If a ClientName was specified in ONION_CLIENT_AUTH_ADD for an
4140 onion service, display it when we use ONION_CLIENT_AUTH_VIEW.
4141 Closes ticket 40089. Patch by Neel Chauhan.
4143 o Minor features (denial-of-service memory limiter):
4144 - Allow the user to configure even lower values for the
4145 MaxMemInQueues parameter. Relays now enforce a minimum of 64 MB,
4146 when previously the minimum was 256 MB. On clients, there is no
4147 minimum. Relays and clients will both warn if the value is set so
4148 low that Tor is likely to stop working. Closes ticket 24308.
4150 o Minor features (tests):
4151 - Our "make check" target now runs the unit tests in 8 parallel
4152 chunks. Doing this speeds up hardened CI builds by more than a
4153 factor of two. Closes ticket 40098.
4155 o Minor bugfixes (guard selection algorithm):
4156 - Avoid needless guard-related warning when upgrading from 0.4.3 to
4157 0.4.4. Fixes bug 40105; bugfix on 0.4.4.1-alpha.
4159 o Minor bugfixes (tests):
4160 - Fix the behavior of the rend_cache/clean_v2_descs_as_dir when run
4161 on its own. Previously, it would exit with an error. Fixes bug
4162 40099; bugfix on 0.2.8.1-alpha.
4165 Changes in version 0.4.4.3-alpha - 2020-07-27
4166 Tor 0.4.4.3-alpha fixes several annoyances in previous versions,
4167 including one affecting NSS users, and several affecting the Linux
4170 o Major features (fallback directory list):
4171 - Replace the 148 fallback directories originally included in Tor
4172 0.4.1.4-rc (of which around 105 are still functional) with a list
4173 of 144 fallbacks generated in July 2020. Closes ticket 40061.
4175 o Major bugfixes (NSS):
4176 - When running with NSS enabled, make sure that NSS knows to expect
4177 nonblocking sockets. Previously, we set our TCP sockets as
4178 nonblocking, but did not tell NSS, which in turn could lead to
4179 unexpected blocking behavior. Fixes bug 40035; bugfix
4182 o Minor bugfixes (linux seccomp2 sandbox):
4183 - Fix a regression on sandboxing rules for the openat() syscall. The
4184 fix for bug 25440 fixed the problem on systems with glibc >= 2.27
4185 but broke with versions of glibc. We now choose a rule based on
4186 the glibc version. Patch from Daniel Pinto. Fixes bug 27315;
4188 - Makes the seccomp sandbox allow the correct syscall for opendir
4189 according to the running glibc version. This fixes crashes when
4190 reloading torrc with sandbox enabled when running on glibc 2.15 to
4191 2.21 and 2.26. Patch from Daniel Pinto. Fixes bug 40020; bugfix
4194 o Minor bugfixes (relay, usability):
4195 - Adjust the rules for when to warn about having too many
4196 connections to other relays. Previously we'd tolerate up to 1.5
4197 connections per relay on average. Now we tolerate more connections
4198 for directory authorities, and raise the number of total
4199 connections we need to see before we warn. Fixes bug 33880; bugfix
4203 - Replace most http:// URLs in our code and documentation with
4204 https:// URLs. (We have left unchanged the code in src/ext/, and
4205 the text in LICENSE.) Closes ticket 31812. Patch from Jeremy Rand.
4208 - Our "check-local" test target no longer tries to use the
4209 Coccinelle semantic patching tool parse all the C files. While it
4210 is a good idea to try to make sure Coccinelle works on our C
4211 before we run a Coccinelle patch, doing so on every test run has
4212 proven to be disruptive. You can still run this tool manually with
4213 "make check-cocci". Closes ticket 40030.
4216 Changes in version 0.3.5.11 - 2020-07-09
4217 Tor 0.3.5.11 backports fixes from later tor releases, including several
4218 usability, portability, and reliability fixes.
4220 This release also fixes TROVE-2020-001, a medium-severity denial of
4221 service vulnerability affecting all versions of Tor when compiled with
4222 the NSS encryption library. (This is not the default configuration.)
4223 Using this vulnerability, an attacker could cause an affected Tor
4224 instance to crash remotely. This issue is also tracked as CVE-2020-
4225 15572. Anybody running a version of Tor built with the NSS library
4226 should upgrade to 0.3.5.11, 0.4.2.8, 0.4.3.6, or 0.4.4.2-alpha
4229 o Major bugfixes (NSS, security, backport from 0.4.4.2-alpha):
4230 - Fix a crash due to an out-of-bound memory access when Tor is
4231 compiled with NSS support. Fixes bug 33119; bugfix on
4232 0.3.5.1-alpha. This issue is also tracked as TROVE-2020-001
4235 o Major bugfixes (DoS defenses, bridges, pluggable transport, backport from 0.4.3.4-rc):
4236 - Fix a bug that was preventing DoS defenses from running on bridges
4237 with a pluggable transport. Previously, the DoS subsystem was not
4238 given the transport name of the client connection, thus failed to
4239 find the GeoIP cache entry for that client address. Fixes bug
4240 33491; bugfix on 0.3.3.2-alpha.
4242 o Minor features (testing, backport from 0.4.3.4-rc):
4243 - The unit tests now support a "TOR_SKIP_TESTCASES" environment
4244 variable to specify a list of space-separated test cases that
4245 should not be executed. We will use this to disable certain tests
4246 that are failing on Appveyor because of mismatched OpenSSL
4247 libraries. Part of ticket 33643.
4249 o Minor bugfix (CI, Windows, backport from 0.4.4.2-alpha):
4250 - Use the correct 64-bit printf format when compiling with MINGW on
4251 Appveyor. Fixes bug 40026; bugfix on 0.3.5.5-alpha.
4253 o Minor bugfix (relay, configuration, backport from 0.4.3.3-alpha):
4254 - Warn if the ContactInfo field is not set, and tell the relay
4255 operator that not having a ContactInfo field set might cause their
4256 relay to get rejected in the future. Fixes bug 33361; bugfix
4259 o Minor bugfixes (client performance, backport from 0.4.4.1-alpha):
4260 - Resume use of preemptively-built circuits when UseEntryGuards is set
4261 to 0. We accidentally disabled this feature with that config
4262 setting, leading to slower load times. Fixes bug 34303; bugfix
4265 o Minor bugfixes (compiler compatibility, backport from 0.4.3.5):
4266 - Avoid compiler warnings from Clang 10 related to the use of GCC-
4267 style "/* falls through */" comments. Both Clang and GCC allow
4268 __attribute__((fallthrough)) instead, so that's what we're using
4269 now. Fixes bug 34078; bugfix on 0.3.1.3-alpha.
4271 o Minor bugfixes (compiler warnings, backport from 0.4.4.2-alpha):
4272 - Fix a compiler warning on platforms with 32-bit time_t values.
4273 Fixes bug 40028; bugfix on 0.3.2.8-rc.
4275 o Minor bugfixes (embedded Tor, backport from 0.4.3.1-alpha):
4276 - When starting Tor any time after the first time in a process,
4277 register the thread in which it is running as the main thread.
4278 Previously, we only did this on Windows, which could lead to bugs
4279 like 23081 on non-Windows platforms. Fixes bug 32884; bugfix
4282 o Minor bugfixes (key portability, backport from 0.4.3.4-rc):
4283 - When reading PEM-encoded key data, tolerate CRLF line-endings even
4284 if we are not running on Windows. Previously, non-Windows hosts
4285 would reject these line-endings in certain positions, making
4286 certain key files hard to move from one host to another. Fixes bug
4287 33032; bugfix on 0.3.5.1-alpha.
4289 o Minor bugfixes (logging, backport from 0.4.4.2-alpha):
4290 - Downgrade a noisy log message that could occur naturally when
4291 receiving an extrainfo document that we no longer want. Fixes bug
4292 16016; bugfix on 0.2.6.3-alpha.
4294 o Minor bugfixes (onion service v3, client, backport from 0.4.3.3-alpha):
4295 - Remove a BUG() warning that would cause a stack trace if an onion
4296 service descriptor was freed while we were waiting for a
4297 rendezvous circuit to complete. Fixes bug 28992; bugfix
4300 o Testing (CI, backport from 0.4.3.4-rc):
4301 - In our Appveyor Windows CI, copy required DLLs to test and app
4302 directories, before running tor's tests. This ensures that tor.exe
4303 and test*.exe use the correct version of each DLL. This fix is not
4304 required, but we hope it will avoid DLL search issues in future.
4305 Fixes bug 33673; bugfix on 0.3.4.2-alpha.
4306 - On Appveyor, skip the crypto/openssl_version test, which is
4307 failing because of a mismatched library installation. Fix
4311 Changes in version 0.4.2.8 - 2020-07-09
4312 Tor 0.4.2.8 backports various fixes from later releases, including
4313 several that affect usability and portability.
4315 This release also fixes TROVE-2020-001, a medium-severity denial of
4316 service vulnerability affecting all versions of Tor when compiled with
4317 the NSS encryption library. (This is not the default configuration.)
4318 Using this vulnerability, an attacker could cause an affected Tor
4319 instance to crash remotely. This issue is also tracked as CVE-2020-
4320 15572. Anybody running a version of Tor built with the NSS library
4321 should upgrade to 0.3.5.11, 0.4.2.8, 0.4.3.6, or 0.4.4.2-alpha
4324 o Major bugfixes (NSS, security, backport from 0.4.4.2-alpha):
4325 - Fix a crash due to an out-of-bound memory access when Tor is
4326 compiled with NSS support. Fixes bug 33119; bugfix on
4327 0.3.5.1-alpha. This issue is also tracked as TROVE-2020-001
4330 o Major bugfixes (DoS defenses, bridges, pluggable transport, backport from 0.4.3.4-rc):
4331 - Fix a bug that was preventing DoS defenses from running on bridges
4332 with a pluggable transport. Previously, the DoS subsystem was not
4333 given the transport name of the client connection, thus failed to
4334 find the GeoIP cache entry for that client address. Fixes bug
4335 33491; bugfix on 0.3.3.2-alpha.
4337 o Minor feature (sendme, flow control, backport form 0.4.3.4-rc):
4338 - Default to sending SENDME version 1 cells. (Clients are already
4339 sending these, because of a consensus parameter telling them to do
4340 so: this change only affects what clients would do if the
4341 consensus didn't contain a recommendation.) Closes ticket 33623.
4343 o Minor features (diagnostic, backport from 0.4.3.3-alpha):
4344 - Improve assertions and add some memory-poisoning code to try to
4345 track down possible causes of a rare crash (32564) in the EWMA
4346 code. Closes ticket 33290.
4348 o Minor features (testing, backport from 0.4.3.4-rc):
4349 - The unit tests now support a "TOR_SKIP_TESTCASES" environment
4350 variable to specify a list of space-separated test cases that
4351 should not be executed. We will use this to disable certain tests
4352 that are failing on Appveyor because of mismatched OpenSSL
4353 libraries. Part of ticket 33643.
4355 o Minor bugfix (CI, Windows, backport from 0.4.4.2-alpha):
4356 - Use the correct 64-bit printf format when compiling with MINGW on
4357 Appveyor. Fixes bug 40026; bugfix on 0.3.5.5-alpha.
4359 o Minor bugfix (relay, configuration, backport from 0.4.3.3-alpha):
4360 - Warn if the ContactInfo field is not set, and tell the relay
4361 operator that not having a ContactInfo field set might cause their
4362 relay to get rejected in the future. Fixes bug 33361; bugfix
4365 o Minor bugfixes (client performance, backport from 0.4.4.1-alpha):
4366 - Resume use of preemptively-built circuits when UseEntryGuards is set
4367 to 0. We accidentally disabled this feature with that config
4368 setting, leading to slower load times. Fixes bug 34303; bugfix
4371 o Minor bugfixes (compiler compatibility, backport from 0.4.3.5):
4372 - Avoid compiler warnings from Clang 10 related to the use of GCC-
4373 style "/* falls through */" comments. Both Clang and GCC allow
4374 __attribute__((fallthrough)) instead, so that's what we're using
4375 now. Fixes bug 34078; bugfix on 0.3.1.3-alpha.
4376 - Fix compilation warnings with GCC 10.0.1. Fixes bug 34077; bugfix
4379 o Minor bugfixes (compiler warnings, backport from 0.4.4.2-alpha):
4380 - Fix a compiler warning on platforms with 32-bit time_t values.
4381 Fixes bug 40028; bugfix on 0.3.2.8-rc.
4383 o Minor bugfixes (controller protocol, backport from 0.4.3.2-alpha):
4384 - When receiving "ACTIVE" or "DORMANT" signals on the control port,
4385 report them as SIGNAL events. Previously we would log a bug
4386 warning. Fixes bug 33104; bugfix on 0.4.0.1-alpha.
4388 o Minor bugfixes (embedded Tor, backport from 0.4.3.1-alpha):
4389 - When starting Tor any time after the first time in a process,
4390 register the thread in which it is running as the main thread.
4391 Previously, we only did this on Windows, which could lead to bugs
4392 like 23081 on non-Windows platforms. Fixes bug 32884; bugfix
4395 o Minor bugfixes (key portability, backport from 0.4.3.4-rc):
4396 - When reading PEM-encoded key data, tolerate CRLF line-endings even
4397 if we are not running on Windows. Previously, non-Windows hosts
4398 would reject these line-endings in certain positions, making
4399 certain key files hard to move from one host to another. Fixes bug
4400 33032; bugfix on 0.3.5.1-alpha.
4402 o Minor bugfixes (logging, backport from 0.4.3.2-rc):
4403 - When logging a bug, do not say "Future instances of this warning
4404 will be silenced" unless we are actually going to silence them.
4405 Previously we would say this whenever a BUG() check failed in the
4406 code. Fixes bug 33095; bugfix on 0.4.1.1-alpha.
4408 o Minor bugfixes (logging, backport from 0.4.3.4-rc):
4409 - Flush stderr, stdout, and file logs during shutdown, if supported
4410 by the OS. This change helps make sure that any final logs are
4411 recorded. Fixes bug 33087; bugfix on 0.4.1.6.
4413 o Minor bugfixes (logging, backport from 0.4.4.2-alpha):
4414 - Downgrade a noisy log message that could occur naturally when
4415 receiving an extrainfo document that we no longer want. Fixes bug
4416 16016; bugfix on 0.2.6.3-alpha.
4418 o Minor bugfixes (onion service v3, client, backport from 0.4.3.3-alpha):
4419 - Remove a BUG() warning that would cause a stack trace if an onion
4420 service descriptor was freed while we were waiting for a
4421 rendezvous circuit to complete. Fixes bug 28992; bugfix
4424 o Testing (CI, backport from 0.4.3.4-rc):
4425 - In our Appveyor Windows CI, copy required DLLs to test and app
4426 directories, before running tor's tests. This ensures that tor.exe
4427 and test*.exe use the correct version of each DLL. This fix is not
4428 required, but we hope it will avoid DLL search issues in future.
4429 Fixes bug 33673; bugfix on 0.3.4.2-alpha.
4430 - On Appveyor, skip the crypto/openssl_version test, which is
4431 failing because of a mismatched library installation. Fix
4435 Changes in version 0.4.3.6 - 2020-07-09
4436 Tor 0.4.3.6 backports several bugfixes from later releases, including
4437 some affecting usability.
4439 This release also fixes TROVE-2020-001, a medium-severity denial of
4440 service vulnerability affecting all versions of Tor when compiled with
4441 the NSS encryption library. (This is not the default configuration.)
4442 Using this vulnerability, an attacker could cause an affected Tor
4443 instance to crash remotely. This issue is also tracked as CVE-2020-
4444 15572. Anybody running a version of Tor built with the NSS library
4445 should upgrade to 0.3.5.11, 0.4.2.8, 0.4.3.6, or 0.4.4.2-alpha
4448 o Major bugfixes (NSS, security, backport from 0.4.4.2-alpha):
4449 - Fix a crash due to an out-of-bound memory access when Tor is
4450 compiled with NSS support. Fixes bug 33119; bugfix on
4451 0.3.5.1-alpha. This issue is also tracked as TROVE-2020-001
4454 o Minor bugfix (CI, Windows, backport from 0.4.4.2-alpha):
4455 - Use the correct 64-bit printf format when compiling with MINGW on
4456 Appveyor. Fixes bug 40026; bugfix on 0.3.5.5-alpha.
4458 o Minor bugfixes (client performance, backport from 0.4.4.1-alpha):
4459 - Resume use of preemptively-built circuits when UseEntryGuards is set
4460 to 0. We accidentally disabled this feature with that config
4461 setting, leading to slower load times. Fixes bug 34303; bugfix
4464 o Minor bugfixes (compiler warnings, backport from 0.4.4.2-alpha):
4465 - Fix a compiler warning on platforms with 32-bit time_t values.
4466 Fixes bug 40028; bugfix on 0.3.2.8-rc.
4468 o Minor bugfixes (linux seccomp sandbox, nss, backport from 0.4.4.1-alpha):
4469 - Fix a startup crash when tor is compiled with --enable-nss and
4470 sandbox support is enabled. Fixes bug 34130; bugfix on
4471 0.3.5.1-alpha. Patch by Daniel Pinto.
4473 o Minor bugfixes (logging, backport from 0.4.4.2-alpha):
4474 - Downgrade a noisy log message that could occur naturally when
4475 receiving an extrainfo document that we no longer want. Fixes bug
4476 16016; bugfix on 0.2.6.3-alpha.
4478 o Minor bugfixes (manual page, backport from 0.4.4.1-alpha):
4479 - Update the man page to reflect that MinUptimeHidServDirectoryV2
4480 defaults to 96 hours. Fixes bug 34299; bugfix on 0.2.6.3-alpha.
4482 o Minor bugfixes (onion service v3, backport from 0.4.4.1-alpha):
4483 - Prevent an assert() that would occur when cleaning the client
4484 descriptor cache, and attempting to close circuits for a non-
4485 decrypted descriptor (lacking client authorization). Fixes bug
4486 33458; bugfix on 0.4.2.1-alpha.
4488 o Minor bugfixes (portability, backport from 0.4.4.1-alpha):
4489 - Fix a portability error in the configure script, where we were
4490 using "==" instead of "=". Fixes bug 34233; bugfix on 0.4.3.5.
4492 o Minor bugfixes (relays, backport from 0.4.4.1-alpha):
4493 - Stop advertising incorrect IPv6 ORPorts in relay and bridge
4494 descriptors, when the IPv6 port was configured as "auto". Fixes
4495 bug 32588; bugfix on 0.2.3.9-alpha.
4497 o Documentation (backport from 0.4.4.1-alpha):
4498 - Fix several doxygen warnings related to imbalanced groups. Closes
4502 Changes in version 0.4.4.2-alpha - 2020-07-09
4503 This is the second alpha release in the 0.4.4.x series. It fixes a few
4504 bugs in the previous release, and solves a few usability,
4505 compatibility, and portability issues.
4507 This release also fixes TROVE-2020-001, a medium-severity denial of
4508 service vulnerability affecting all versions of Tor when compiled with
4509 the NSS encryption library. (This is not the default configuration.)
4510 Using this vulnerability, an attacker could cause an affected Tor
4511 instance to crash remotely. This issue is also tracked as CVE-2020-
4512 15572. Anybody running a version of Tor built with the NSS library
4513 should upgrade to 0.3.5.11, 0.4.2.8, 0.4.3.6, or 0.4.4.2-alpha
4516 o Major bugfixes (NSS, security):
4517 - Fix a crash due to an out-of-bound memory access when Tor is
4518 compiled with NSS support. Fixes bug 33119; bugfix on
4519 0.3.5.1-alpha. This issue is also tracked as TROVE-2020-001
4522 o Minor features (bootstrap reporting):
4523 - Report more detailed reasons for bootstrap failure when the
4524 failure happens due to a TLS error. Previously we would just call
4525 these errors "MISC" when they happened during read, and "DONE"
4526 when they happened during any other TLS operation. Closes
4529 o Minor features (directory authority):
4530 - Authorities now recommend the protocol versions that are supported
4531 by Tor 0.3.5 and later. (Earlier versions of Tor have been
4532 deprecated since January of this year.) This recommendation will
4533 cause older clients and relays to give a warning on startup, or
4534 when they download a consensus directory. Closes ticket 32696.
4536 o Minor features (entry guards):
4537 - Reinstate support for GUARD NEW/UP/DOWN control port events.
4538 Closes ticket 40001.
4540 o Minor features (linux seccomp2 sandbox, portability):
4541 - Allow Tor to build on platforms where it doesn't know how to
4542 report which syscall caused the linux seccomp2 sandbox to fail.
4543 This change should make the sandbox code more portable to less
4544 common Linux architectures. Closes ticket 34382.
4545 - Permit the unlinkat() syscall, which some Libc implementations use
4546 to implement unlink(). Closes ticket 33346.
4548 o Minor bugfix (CI, Windows):
4549 - Use the correct 64-bit printf format when compiling with MINGW on
4550 Appveyor. Fixes bug 40026; bugfix on 0.3.5.5-alpha.
4552 o Minor bugfix (onion service v3 client):
4553 - Remove a BUG() warning that could occur naturally. Fixes bug
4554 34087; bugfix on 0.3.2.1-alpha.
4556 o Minor bugfix (SOCKS, onion service client):
4557 - Detect v3 onion service addresses of the wrong length when
4558 returning the F6 ExtendedErrors code. Fixes bug 33873; bugfix
4561 o Minor bugfixes (compiler warnings):
4562 - Fix a compiler warning on platforms with 32-bit time_t values.
4563 Fixes bug 40028; bugfix on 0.3.2.8-rc.
4565 o Minor bugfixes (control port, onion service):
4566 - Consistently use 'address' in "Invalid v3 address" response to
4567 ONION_CLIENT_AUTH commands. Previously, we would sometimes say
4568 'addr'. Fixes bug 40005; bugfix on 0.4.3.1-alpha.
4570 o Minor bugfixes (logging):
4571 - Downgrade a noisy log message that could occur naturally when
4572 receiving an extrainfo document that we no longer want. Fixes bug
4573 16016; bugfix on 0.2.6.3-alpha.
4575 o Minor bugfixes (onion services v3):
4576 - Avoid a non-fatal assertion failure in certain edge-cases when
4577 opening an intro circuit as a client. Fixes bug 34084; bugfix
4580 o Deprecated features (onion service v2):
4581 - Add a deprecation warning for version 2 onion services. Closes
4584 o Removed features (IPv6, revert):
4585 - Revert the change in the default value of ClientPreferIPv6OrPort:
4586 it breaks the torsocks use case. The SOCKS resolve command has no
4587 mechanism to ask for a specific address family (v4 or v6), and so
4588 prioritizing IPv6 when an IPv4 address is requested on the SOCKS
4589 interface resulted in a failure. Tor Browser explicitly sets
4590 PreferIPv6, so this should not affect the majority of our users.
4591 Closes ticket 33796; bugfix on 0.4.4.1-alpha.
4594 Changes in version 0.4.4.1-alpha - 2020-06-16
4595 This is the first alpha release in the 0.4.4.x series. It improves
4596 our guard selection algorithms, improves the amount of code that
4597 can be disabled when running without relay support, and includes numerous
4598 small bugfixes and enhancements. It also lays the ground for some IPv6
4599 features that we'll be developing more in the next (0.4.5) series.
4601 Here are the changes since 0.4.3.5.
4603 o Major features (Proposal 310, performance + security):
4604 - Implements Proposal 310, "Bandaid on guard selection". Proposal
4605 310 solves load-balancing issues with older versions of the guard
4606 selection algorithm, and improves its security. Under this new
4607 algorithm, a newly selected guard never becomes Primary unless all
4608 previously sampled guards are unreachable. Implements
4609 recommendation from 32088. (Proposal 310 is linked to the CLAPS
4610 project researching optimal client location-aware path selections.
4611 This project is a collaboration between the UCLouvain Crypto Group,
4612 the U.S. Naval Research Laboratory, and Princeton University.)
4614 o Major features (IPv6, relay):
4615 - Consider IPv6-only EXTEND2 cells valid on relays. Log a protocol
4616 warning if the IPv4 or IPv6 address is an internal address, and
4617 internal addresses are not allowed. But continue to use the other
4618 address, if it is valid. Closes ticket 33817.
4619 - If a relay can extend over IPv4 and IPv6, and both addresses are
4620 provided, it chooses between them uniformly at random. Closes
4622 - Re-use existing IPv6 connections for circuit extends. Closes
4624 - Relays may extend circuits over IPv6, if the relay has an IPv6
4625 ORPort, and the client supplies the other relay's IPv6 ORPort in
4626 the EXTEND2 cell. IPv6 extends will be used by the relay IPv6
4627 ORPort self-tests in 33222. Closes ticket 33817.
4629 o Major features (v3 onion services):
4630 - Allow v3 onion services to act as OnionBalance backend instances,
4631 by using the HiddenServiceOnionBalanceInstance torrc option.
4632 Closes ticket 32709.
4634 o Minor feature (developer tools):
4635 - Add a script to help check the alphabetical ordering of option
4636 names in the manual page. Closes ticket 33339.
4638 o Minor feature (onion service client, SOCKS5):
4639 - Add 3 new SocksPort ExtendedErrors (F2, F3, F7) that reports back
4640 new type of onion service connection failures. The semantics of
4641 these error codes are documented in proposal 309. Closes
4644 o Minor feature (onion service v3):
4645 - If a service cannot upload its descriptor(s), log why at INFO
4646 level. Closes ticket 33400; bugfix on 0.3.2.1-alpha.
4648 o Minor feature (python scripts):
4649 - Stop assuming that /usr/bin/python exists. Instead of using a
4650 hardcoded path in scripts that still use Python 2, use
4651 /usr/bin/env, similarly to the scripts that use Python 3. Fixes
4652 bug 33192; bugfix on 0.4.2.
4654 o Minor features (client-only compilation):
4655 - Disable more code related to the ext_orport protocol when
4656 compiling without support for relay mode. Closes ticket 33368.
4657 - Disable more of our self-testing code when support for relay mode
4658 is disabled. Closes ticket 33370.
4660 o Minor features (code safety):
4661 - Check for failures of tor_inet_ntop() and tor_inet_ntoa()
4662 functions in DNS and IP address processing code, and adjust
4663 codepaths to make them less likely to crash entire Tor instances.
4664 Resolves issue 33788.
4666 o Minor features (compilation size):
4667 - Most server-side DNS code is now disabled when building without
4668 support for relay mode. Closes ticket 33366.
4670 o Minor features (continuous integration):
4671 - Run unit-test and integration test (Stem, Chutney) jobs with
4672 ALL_BUGS_ARE_FATAL macro being enabled on Travis and Appveyor.
4673 Resolves ticket 32143.
4675 o Minor features (control port):
4676 - Return a descriptive error message from the 'GETINFO status/fresh-
4677 relay-descs' command on the control port. Previously, we returned
4678 a generic error of "Error generating descriptor". Closes ticket
4679 32873. Patch by Neel Chauhan.
4681 o Minor features (developer tooling):
4682 - Refrain from listing all .a files that are generated by the Tor
4683 build in .gitignore. Add a single wildcard *.a entry that covers
4684 all of them for present and future. Closes ticket 33642.
4685 - Add a script ("git-install-tools.sh") to install git hooks and
4686 helper scripts. Closes ticket 33451.
4688 o Minor features (directory authority, shared random):
4689 - Refactor more authority-only parts of the shared-random scheduling
4690 code to reside in the dirauth module, and to be disabled when
4691 compiling with --disable-module-dirauth. Closes ticket 33436.
4693 o Minor features (directory):
4694 - Remember the number of bytes we have downloaded for each directory
4695 purpose while bootstrapping, and while fully bootstrapped. Log
4696 this information as part of the heartbeat message. Closes
4699 o Minor features (IPv6 support):
4700 - Adds IPv6 support to tor_addr_is_valid(). Adds tests for the above
4701 changes and tor_addr_is_null(). Closes ticket 33679. Patch
4703 - Allow clients and relays to send dual-stack and IPv6-only EXTEND2
4704 cells. Parse dual-stack and IPv6-only EXTEND2 cells on relays.
4705 Closes ticket 33901.
4707 o Minor features (logging):
4708 - When trying to find our own address, add debug-level logging to
4709 report the sources of candidate addresses. Closes ticket 32888.
4711 o Minor features (testing, architecture):
4712 - Our test scripts now double-check that subsystem initialization
4713 order is consistent with the inter-module dependencies established
4714 by our .may_include files. Implements ticket 31634.
4715 - Initialize all subsystems at the beginning of our unit test
4716 harness, to avoid crashes due to uninitialized subsystems. Follow-
4717 up from ticket 33316.
4719 o Minor features (v3 onion services):
4720 - Add v3 onion service status to the dumpstats() call which is
4721 triggered by a SIGUSR1 signal. Previously, we only did v2 onion
4722 services. Closes ticket 24844. Patch by Neel Chauhan.
4724 o Minor features (windows):
4725 - Add support for console control signals like Ctrl+C in Windows.
4726 Closes ticket 34211. Patch from Damon Harris (TheDcoder).
4728 o Minor bugfix (onion service v3):
4729 - Prevent an assert() that would occur when cleaning the client
4730 descriptor cache, and attempting to close circuits for a non-
4731 decrypted descriptor (lacking client authorization). Fixes bug
4732 33458; bugfix on 0.4.2.1-alpha.
4734 o Minor bugfix (refactoring):
4735 - Lift circuit_build_times_disabled() out of the
4736 circuit_expire_building() loop, to save CPU time when there are
4737 many circuits open. Fixes bug 33977; bugfix on 0.3.5.9.
4739 o Minor bugfixes (client performance):
4740 - Resume use of preemptively-built circuits when UseEntryGuards is set
4741 to 0. We accidentally disabled this feature with that config
4742 setting, leading to slower load times. Fixes bug 34303; bugfix
4745 o Minor bugfixes (directory authorities):
4746 - Directory authorities now reject votes that arrive too late. In
4747 particular, once an authority has started fetching missing votes,
4748 it no longer accepts new votes posted by other authorities. This
4749 change helps prevent a consensus split, where only some authorities
4750 have the late vote. Fixes bug 4631; bugfix on 0.2.0.5-alpha.
4752 o Minor bugfixes (git scripts):
4753 - Stop executing the checked-out pre-commit hook from the pre-push
4754 hook. Instead, execute the copy in the user's git directory. Fixes
4755 bug 33284; bugfix on 0.4.1.1-alpha.
4757 o Minor bugfixes (initialization):
4758 - Initialize the subsystems in our code in an order more closely
4759 corresponding to their dependencies, so that every system is
4760 initialized before the ones that (theoretically) depend on it.
4761 Fixes bug 33316; bugfix on 0.4.0.1-alpha.
4763 o Minor bugfixes (IPv4, relay):
4764 - Check for invalid zero IPv4 addresses and ports when sending and
4765 receiving extend cells. Fixes bug 33900; bugfix on 0.2.4.8-alpha.
4767 o Minor bugfixes (IPv6, relay):
4768 - Consider IPv6 addresses when checking if a connection is
4769 canonical. In 17604, relays assumed that a remote relay could
4770 consider an IPv6 connection canonical, but did not set the
4771 canonical flag on their side of the connection. Fixes bug 33899;
4772 bugfix on 0.3.1.1-alpha.
4773 - Log IPv6 addresses on connections where this relay is the
4774 responder. Previously, responding relays would replace the remote
4775 IPv6 address with the IPv4 address from the consensus. Fixes bug
4776 33899; bugfix on 0.3.1.1-alpha.
4778 o Minor bugfixes (linux seccomp sandbox nss):
4779 - Fix a startup crash when tor is compiled with --enable-nss and
4780 sandbox support is enabled. Fixes bug 34130; bugfix on
4781 0.3.5.1-alpha. Patch by Daniel Pinto.
4783 o Minor bugfixes (logging, testing):
4784 - Make all of tor's assertion macros support the ALL_BUGS_ARE_FATAL
4785 and DISABLE_ASSERTS_IN_UNIT_TESTS debugging modes. (IF_BUG_ONCE()
4786 used to log a non-fatal warning, regardless of the debugging
4787 mode.) Fixes bug 33917; bugfix on 0.2.9.1-alpha.
4789 o Minor bugfixes (logs):
4790 - Remove surprising empty line in the INFO-level log about circuit
4791 build timeout. Fixes bug 33531; bugfix on 0.3.3.1-alpha.
4793 o Minor bugfixes (mainloop):
4794 - Better guard against growing a buffer past its maximum 2GB in
4795 size. Fixes bug 33131; bugfix on 0.3.0.4-rc.
4797 o Minor bugfixes (manual page):
4798 - Update the man page to reflect that MinUptimeHidServDirectoryV2
4799 defaults to 96 hours. Fixes bug 34299; bugfix on 0.2.6.3-alpha.
4801 o Minor bugfixes (onion service v3, client):
4802 - Remove a BUG() that was causing a stacktrace when a descriptor
4803 changed at an unexpected time. Fixes bug 28992; bugfix
4806 o Minor bugfixes (onion service, logging):
4807 - Fix a typo in a log message PublishHidServDescriptors is set to 0.
4808 Fixes bug 33779; bugfix on 0.3.2.1-alpha.
4810 o Minor bugfixes (portability):
4811 - Fix a portability error in the configure script, where we were
4812 using "==" instead of "=". Fixes bug 34233; bugfix on 0.4.3.5.
4814 o Minor bugfixes (protocol versions):
4815 - Sort tor's supported protocol version lists, as recommended by the
4816 tor directory specification. Fixes bug 33285; bugfix
4819 o Minor bugfixes (relays):
4820 - Stop advertising incorrect IPv6 ORPorts in relay and bridge
4821 descriptors, when the IPv6 port was configured as "auto". Fixes
4822 bug 32588; bugfix on 0.2.3.9-alpha.
4824 o Code simplification and refactoring:
4825 - Define and use a new constant TOR_ADDRPORT_BUF_LEN which is like
4826 TOR_ADDR_BUF_LEN but includes enough space for an IP address,
4827 brackets, separating colon, and port number. Closes ticket 33956.
4828 Patch by Neel Chauhan.
4829 - Merge the orconn and ocirc events into the "core" subsystem, which
4830 manages or connections and origin circuits. Previously they were
4831 isolated in subsystems of their own.
4832 - Move LOG_PROTOCOL_WARN to app/config. Resolves a dependency
4833 inversion. Closes ticket 33633.
4834 - Move the circuit extend code to the relay module. Split the
4835 circuit extend function into smaller functions. Closes
4837 - Rewrite port_parse_config() to use the default port flags from
4838 port_cfg_new(). Closes ticket 32994. Patch by MrSquanchee.
4839 - Updated comments in 'scheduler.c' to reflect old code changes, and
4840 simplified the scheduler channel state change code. Closes
4844 - Document the limitations of using %include on config files with
4845 seccomp sandbox enabled. Fixes documentation bug 34133; bugfix on
4846 0.3.1.1-alpha. Patch by Daniel Pinto.
4847 - Fix several doxygen warnings related to imbalanced groups. Closes
4851 - Remove the ClientAutoIPv6ORPort option. This option attempted to
4852 randomly choose between IPv4 and IPv6 for client connections, and
4853 wasn't a true implementation of Happy Eyeballs. Often, this option
4854 failed on IPv4-only or IPv6-only connections. Closes ticket 32905.
4855 Patch by Neel Chauhan.
4856 - Stop shipping contrib/dist/rc.subr file, as it is not being used
4857 on FreeBSD anymore. Closes issue 31576.
4860 - Add a basic IPv6 test to "make test-network". This test only runs
4861 when the local machine has an IPv6 stack. Closes ticket 33300.
4862 - Add test-network-ipv4 and test-network-ipv6 jobs to the Makefile.
4863 These jobs run the IPv4-only and dual-stack chutney flavours from
4864 test-network-all. Closes ticket 33280.
4865 - Remove a redundant distcheck job. Closes ticket 33194.
4866 - Run the test-network-ipv6 Makefile target in the Travis CI IPv6
4867 chutney job. This job runs on macOS, so it's a bit slow. Closes
4869 - Sort the Travis jobs in order of speed. Putting the slowest jobs
4870 first takes full advantage of Travis job concurrency. Closes
4872 - Stop allowing the Chutney IPv6 Travis job to fail. This job was
4873 previously configured to fast_finish (which requires
4874 allow_failure), to speed up the build. Closes ticket 33195.
4875 - Test v3 onion services to tor's mixed IPv4 chutney network. And
4876 add a mixed IPv6 chutney network. These networks are used in the
4877 test-network-all, test-network-ipv4, and test-network-ipv6 make
4878 targets. Closes ticket 33334.
4879 - Use the "bridges+hs-v23" chutney network flavour in "make test-
4880 network". This test requires a recent version of chutney (mid-
4881 February 2020). Closes ticket 28208.
4882 - When a Travis chutney job fails, use chutney's new "diagnostics.sh"
4883 tool to produce detailed diagnostic output. Closes ticket 32792.
4885 o Code simplification and refactoring (onion service):
4886 - Refactor configuration parsing to use the new config subsystem
4887 code. Closes ticket 33014.
4889 o Code simplification and refactoring (relay address):
4890 - Move a series of functions related to address resolving into their
4891 own files. Closes ticket 33789.
4893 o Documentation (manual page):
4894 - Add cross reference links and a table of contents to the HTML tor
4895 manual page. Closes ticket 33369. Work by Swati Thacker as part of
4896 Google Season of Docs.
4897 - Alphabetize the Denial of Service Mitigation Options, Directory
4898 Authority Server Options, Hidden Service Options, and Testing
4899 Network Options sections of the tor(1) manual page. Closes ticket
4900 33275. Work by Swati Thacker as part of Google Season of Docs.
4901 - Refrain from mentioning nicknames in manpage section for MyFamily
4902 torrc option. Resolves issue 33417.
4903 - Updated the options set by TestingTorNetwork in the manual page.
4904 Closes ticket 33778.
4907 Changes in version 0.4.3.5 - 2020-05-15
4908 Tor 0.4.3.5 is the first stable release in the 0.4.3.x series. This
4909 series adds support for building without relay code enabled, and
4910 implements functionality needed for OnionBalance with v3 onion
4911 services. It includes significant refactoring of our configuration and
4912 controller functionality, and fixes numerous smaller bugs and
4915 Per our support policy, we support each stable release series for nine
4916 months after its first stable release, or three months after the first
4917 stable release of the next series: whichever is longer. This means
4918 that 0.4.3.x will be supported until around February 2021--later, if
4919 0.4.4.x is later than anticipated.
4921 Note also that support for 0.4.1.x is about to end on May 20 of this
4922 year; 0.4.2.x will be supported until September 15. We still plan to
4923 continue supporting 0.3.5.x, our long-term stable series, until
4926 Below are the changes since 0.4.3.4-rc. For a complete list of changes
4927 since 0.4.2.6, see the ReleaseNotes file.
4929 o Minor bugfixes (compiler compatibility):
4930 - Avoid compiler warnings from Clang 10 related to the use of GCC-
4931 style "/* falls through */" comments. Both Clang and GCC allow
4932 __attribute__((fallthrough)) instead, so that's what we're using
4933 now. Fixes bug 34078; bugfix on 0.3.1.3-alpha.
4934 - Fix compilation warnings with GCC 10.0.1. Fixes bug 34077; bugfix
4937 o Minor bugfixes (logging):
4938 - Stop truncating IPv6 addresses and ports in channel and connection
4939 logs. Fixes bug 33918; bugfix on 0.2.4.4-alpha.
4940 - Fix a logic error in a log message about whether an address was
4941 invalid. Previously, the code would never report that onion
4942 addresses were onion addresses. Fixes bug 34131; bugfix
4946 Changes in version 0.4.3.4-rc - 2020-04-13
4947 Tor 0.4.3.4-rc is the first release candidate in its series. It fixes
4948 several bugs from earlier versions, including one affecting DoS
4949 defenses on bridges using pluggable transports.
4951 o Major bugfixes (DoS defenses, bridges, pluggable transport):
4952 - Fix a bug that was preventing DoS defenses from running on bridges
4953 with a pluggable transport. Previously, the DoS subsystem was not
4954 given the transport name of the client connection, thus failed to
4955 find the GeoIP cache entry for that client address. Fixes bug
4956 33491; bugfix on 0.3.3.2-alpha.
4958 o Minor feature (sendme, flow control):
4959 - Default to sending SENDME version 1 cells. (Clients are already
4960 sending these, because of a consensus parameter telling them to do
4961 so: this change only affects what clients would do if the
4962 consensus didn't contain a recommendation.) Closes ticket 33623.
4964 o Minor features (testing):
4965 - The unit tests now support a "TOR_SKIP_TESTCASES" environment
4966 variable to specify a list of space-separated test cases that
4967 should not be executed. We will use this to disable certain tests
4968 that are failing on Appveyor because of mismatched OpenSSL
4969 libraries. Part of ticket 33643.
4971 o Minor bugfixes (--disable-module-relay):
4972 - Fix an assertion failure when Tor is built without the relay
4973 module, and then invoked with the "User" option. Fixes bug 33668;
4974 bugfix on 0.4.3.1-alpha.
4976 o Minor bugfixes (--disable-module-relay,--disable-module-dirauth):
4977 - Set some output arguments in the relay and dirauth module stubs,
4978 to guard against future stub argument handling bugs like 33668.
4979 Fixes bug 33674; bugfix on 0.4.3.1-alpha.
4981 o Minor bugfixes (build system):
4982 - Correctly output the enabled module in the configure summary.
4983 Before that, the list shown was just plain wrong. Fixes bug 33646;
4984 bugfix on 0.4.3.2-alpha.
4986 o Minor bugfixes (client, IPv6):
4987 - Stop forcing all non-SocksPorts to prefer IPv6 exit connections.
4988 Instead, prefer IPv6 connections by default, but allow users to
4989 change their configs using the "NoPreferIPv6" port flag. Fixes bug
4990 33608; bugfix on 0.4.3.1-alpha.
4991 - Revert PreferIPv6 set by default on the SocksPort because it broke
4992 the torsocks use case. Tor doesn't have a way for an application
4993 to request the hostname to be resolved for a specific IP version,
4994 but torsocks requires that. Up until now, IPv4 was used by default
4995 so torsocks is expecting that, and can't handle a possible IPv6
4996 being returned. Fixes bug 33804; bugfix on 0.4.3.1-alpha.
4998 o Minor bugfixes (key portability):
4999 - When reading PEM-encoded key data, tolerate CRLF line-endings even
5000 if we are not running on Windows. Previously, non-Windows hosts
5001 would reject these line-endings in certain positions, making
5002 certain key files hard to move from one host to another. Fixes bug
5003 33032; bugfix on 0.3.5.1-alpha.
5005 o Minor bugfixes (logging):
5006 - Flush stderr, stdout, and file logs during shutdown, if supported
5007 by the OS. This change helps make sure that any final logs are
5008 recorded. Fixes bug 33087; bugfix on 0.4.1.6.
5009 - Stop closing stderr and stdout during shutdown. Closing these file
5010 descriptors can hide sanitiser logs. Fixes bug 33087; bugfix
5013 o Minor bugfixes (onion services v3):
5014 - Relax severity of a log message that can appear naturally when
5015 decoding onion service descriptors as a relay. Also add some
5016 diagnostics to debug any future bugs in that area. Fixes bug
5017 31669; bugfix on 0.3.0.1-alpha.
5018 - Block a client-side assertion by disallowing the registration of
5019 an x25519 client auth key that's all zeroes. Fixes bug 33545;
5020 bugfix on 0.4.3.1-alpha. Based on patch from "cypherpunks".
5022 o Code simplification and refactoring:
5023 - Disable our coding standards best practices tracker in our git
5024 hooks. (0.4.3 branches only.) Closes ticket 33678.
5027 - Avoid conflicts between the fake sockets in tor's unit tests, and
5028 real file descriptors. Resolves issues running unit tests with
5029 GitHub Actions, where the process that embeds or launches the
5030 tests has already opened a large number of file descriptors. Fixes
5031 bug 33782; bugfix on 0.2.8.1-alpha. Found and fixed by
5035 - In our Appveyor Windows CI, copy required DLLs to test and app
5036 directories, before running tor's tests. This ensures that tor.exe
5037 and test*.exe use the correct version of each DLL. This fix is not
5038 required, but we hope it will avoid DLL search issues in future.
5039 Fixes bug 33673; bugfix on 0.3.4.2-alpha.
5040 - On Appveyor, skip the crypto/openssl_version test, which is
5041 failing because of a mismatched library installation. Fix
5045 Changes in version 0.4.3.3-alpha - 2020-03-18
5046 Tor 0.4.3.3-alpha fixes several bugs in previous releases, including
5047 TROVE-2020-002, a major denial-of-service vulnerability that affected
5048 all released Tor instances since 0.2.1.5-alpha. Using this
5049 vulnerability, an attacker could cause Tor instances to consume a huge
5050 amount of CPU, disrupting their operations for several seconds or
5051 minutes. This attack could be launched by anybody against a relay, or
5052 by a directory cache against any client that had connected to it. The
5053 attacker could launch this attack as much as they wanted, thereby
5054 disrupting service or creating patterns that could aid in traffic
5055 analysis. This issue was found by OSS-Fuzz, and is also tracked
5058 We do not have reason to believe that this attack is currently being
5059 exploited in the wild, but nonetheless we advise everyone to upgrade
5060 as soon as packages are available.
5062 o Major bugfixes (security, denial-of-service):
5063 - Fix a denial-of-service bug that could be used by anyone to
5064 consume a bunch of CPU on any Tor relay or authority, or by
5065 directories to consume a bunch of CPU on clients or hidden
5066 services. Because of the potential for CPU consumption to
5067 introduce observable timing patterns, we are treating this as a
5068 high-severity security issue. Fixes bug 33119; bugfix on
5069 0.2.1.5-alpha. Found by OSS-Fuzz. We are also tracking this issue
5070 as TROVE-2020-002 and CVE-2020-10592.
5072 o Major bugfixes (circuit padding, memory leak):
5073 - Avoid a remotely triggered memory leak in the case that a circuit
5074 padding machine is somehow negotiated twice on the same circuit.
5075 Fixes bug 33619; bugfix on 0.4.0.1-alpha. Found by Tobias Pulls.
5076 This is also tracked as TROVE-2020-004 and CVE-2020-10593.
5078 o Major bugfixes (directory authority):
5079 - Directory authorities will now send a 503 (not enough bandwidth)
5080 code to clients when under bandwidth pressure. Known relays and
5081 other authorities will always be answered regardless of the
5082 bandwidth situation. Fixes bug 33029; bugfix on 0.1.2.5-alpha.
5084 o Minor features (diagnostic):
5085 - Improve assertions and add some memory-poisoning code to try to
5086 track down possible causes of a rare crash (32564) in the EWMA
5087 code. Closes ticket 33290.
5089 o Minor features (directory authorities):
5090 - Directory authorities now reject descriptors from relays running
5091 Tor versions from the 0.2.9 and 0.4.0 series. The 0.3.5 series is
5092 still allowed. Resolves ticket 32672. Patch by Neel Chauhan.
5094 o Minor features (usability):
5095 - Include more information when failing to parse a configuration
5096 value. This should make it easier to tell what's going wrong when
5097 a configuration file doesn't parse. Closes ticket 33460.
5099 o Minor bugfix (relay, configuration):
5100 - Warn if the ContactInfo field is not set, and tell the relay
5101 operator that not having a ContactInfo field set might cause their
5102 relay to get rejected in the future. Fixes bug 33361; bugfix
5105 o Minor bugfixes (coding best practices checks):
5106 - Allow the "practracker" script to read unicode files when using
5107 Python 2. We made the script use unicode literals in 0.4.3.1-alpha,
5108 but didn't change the codec for opening files. Fixes bug 33374;
5109 bugfix on 0.4.3.1-alpha.
5111 o Minor bugfixes (continuous integration):
5112 - Remove the buggy and unused mirroring job. Fixes bug 33213; bugfix
5115 o Minor bugfixes (onion service v3, client):
5116 - Remove a BUG() warning that would cause a stack trace if an onion
5117 service descriptor was freed while we were waiting for a
5118 rendezvous circuit to complete. Fixes bug 28992; bugfix
5121 o Minor bugfixes (onion services v3):
5122 - Fix an assertion failure that could result from a corrupted
5123 ADD_ONION control port command. Found by Saibato. Fixes bug 33137;
5124 bugfix on 0.3.3.1-alpha. This issue is also tracked
5127 o Documentation (manpage):
5128 - Alphabetize the Server and Directory server sections of the tor
5129 manpage. Also split Statistics options into their own section of
5130 the manpage. Closes ticket 33188. Work by Swati Thacker as part of
5131 Google Season of Docs.
5132 - Document the __OwningControllerProcess torrc option and specify
5133 its polling interval. Resolves issue 32971.
5135 o Testing (Travis CI):
5136 - Remove a redundant distcheck job. Closes ticket 33194.
5137 - Sort the Travis jobs in order of speed: putting the slowest jobs
5138 first takes full advantage of Travis job concurrency. Closes
5140 - Stop allowing the Chutney IPv6 Travis job to fail. This job was
5141 previously configured to fast_finish (which requires
5142 allow_failure), to speed up the build. Closes ticket 33195.
5143 - When a Travis chutney job fails, use chutney's new "diagnostics.sh"
5144 tool to produce detailed diagnostic output. Closes ticket 32792.
5147 Changes in version 0.4.2.7 - 2020-03-18
5148 This is the third stable release in the 0.4.2.x series. It backports
5149 numerous fixes from later releases, including a fix for TROVE-2020-
5150 002, a major denial-of-service vulnerability that affected all
5151 released Tor instances since 0.2.1.5-alpha. Using this vulnerability,
5152 an attacker could cause Tor instances to consume a huge amount of CPU,
5153 disrupting their operations for several seconds or minutes. This
5154 attack could be launched by anybody against a relay, or by a directory
5155 cache against any client that had connected to it. The attacker could
5156 launch this attack as much as they wanted, thereby disrupting service
5157 or creating patterns that could aid in traffic analysis. This issue
5158 was found by OSS-Fuzz, and is also tracked as CVE-2020-10592.
5160 We do not have reason to believe that this attack is currently being
5161 exploited in the wild, but nonetheless we advise everyone to upgrade
5162 as soon as packages are available.
5164 o Major bugfixes (security, denial-of-service, backport from 0.4.3.3-alpha):
5165 - Fix a denial-of-service bug that could be used by anyone to
5166 consume a bunch of CPU on any Tor relay or authority, or by
5167 directories to consume a bunch of CPU on clients or hidden
5168 services. Because of the potential for CPU consumption to
5169 introduce observable timing patterns, we are treating this as a
5170 high-severity security issue. Fixes bug 33119; bugfix on
5171 0.2.1.5-alpha. Found by OSS-Fuzz. We are also tracking this issue
5172 as TROVE-2020-002 and CVE-2020-10592.
5174 o Major bugfixes (circuit padding, memory leak, backport from 0.4.3.3-alpha):
5175 - Avoid a remotely triggered memory leak in the case that a circuit
5176 padding machine is somehow negotiated twice on the same circuit.
5177 Fixes bug 33619; bugfix on 0.4.0.1-alpha. Found by Tobias Pulls.
5178 This is also tracked as TROVE-2020-004 and CVE-2020-10593.
5180 o Major bugfixes (directory authority, backport from 0.4.3.3-alpha):
5181 - Directory authorities will now send a 503 (not enough bandwidth)
5182 code to clients when under bandwidth pressure. Known relays and
5183 other authorities will always be answered regardless of the
5184 bandwidth situation. Fixes bug 33029; bugfix on 0.1.2.5-alpha.
5186 o Minor features (continuous integration, backport from 0.4.3.2-alpha):
5187 - Stop allowing failures on the Travis CI stem tests job. It looks
5188 like all the stem hangs we were seeing before are now fixed.
5189 Closes ticket 33075.
5191 o Minor bugfixes (bridges, backport from 0.4.3.1-alpha):
5192 - Lowercase the configured value of BridgeDistribution before adding
5193 it to the descriptor. Fixes bug 32753; bugfix on 0.3.2.3-alpha.
5195 o Minor bugfixes (logging, backport from 0.4.3.2-alpha):
5196 - If we encounter a bug when flushing a buffer to a TLS connection,
5197 only log the bug once per invocation of the Tor process.
5198 Previously we would log with every occurrence, which could cause
5199 us to run out of disk space. Fixes bug 33093; bugfix
5202 o Minor bugfixes (onion services v3, backport from 0.4.3.3-alpha):
5203 - Fix an assertion failure that could result from a corrupted
5204 ADD_ONION control port command. Found by Saibato. Fixes bug 33137;
5205 bugfix on 0.3.3.1-alpha. This issue is also tracked
5208 o Minor bugfixes (rust, build, backport from 0.4.3.2-alpha):
5209 - Fix a syntax warning given by newer versions of Rust that was
5210 creating problems for our continuous integration. Fixes bug 33212;
5211 bugfix on 0.3.5.1-alpha.
5213 o Testing (Travis CI, backport from 0.4.3.3-alpha):
5214 - Remove a redundant distcheck job. Closes ticket 33194.
5215 - Sort the Travis jobs in order of speed: putting the slowest jobs
5216 first takes full advantage of Travis job concurrency. Closes
5218 - Stop allowing the Chutney IPv6 Travis job to fail. This job was
5219 previously configured to fast_finish (which requires
5220 allow_failure), to speed up the build. Closes ticket 33195.
5221 - When a Travis chutney job fails, use chutney's new "diagnostics.sh"
5222 tool to produce detailed diagnostic output. Closes ticket 32792.
5225 Changes in version 0.4.1.9 - 2020-03-18
5226 Tor 0.4.1.9 backports important fixes from later Tor releases,
5227 including a fix for TROVE-2020-002, a major denial-of-service
5228 vulnerability that affected all released Tor instances since
5229 0.2.1.5-alpha. Using this vulnerability, an attacker could cause Tor
5230 instances to consume a huge amount of CPU, disrupting their operations
5231 for several seconds or minutes. This attack could be launched by
5232 anybody against a relay, or by a directory cache against any client
5233 that had connected to it. The attacker could launch this attack as
5234 much as they wanted, thereby disrupting service or creating patterns
5235 that could aid in traffic analysis. This issue was found by OSS-Fuzz,
5236 and is also tracked as CVE-2020-10592.
5238 We do not have reason to believe that this attack is currently being
5239 exploited in the wild, but nonetheless we advise everyone to upgrade
5240 as soon as packages are available.
5242 o Major bugfixes (security, denial-of-service, backport from 0.4.3.3-alpha):
5243 - Fix a denial-of-service bug that could be used by anyone to
5244 consume a bunch of CPU on any Tor relay or authority, or by
5245 directories to consume a bunch of CPU on clients or hidden
5246 services. Because of the potential for CPU consumption to
5247 introduce observable timing patterns, we are treating this as a
5248 high-severity security issue. Fixes bug 33119; bugfix on
5249 0.2.1.5-alpha. Found by OSS-Fuzz. We are also tracking this issue
5250 as TROVE-2020-002 and CVE-2020-10592.
5252 o Major bugfixes (circuit padding, memory leak, backport from 0.4.3.3-alpha):
5253 - Avoid a remotely triggered memory leak in the case that a circuit
5254 padding machine is somehow negotiated twice on the same circuit.
5255 Fixes bug 33619; bugfix on 0.4.0.1-alpha. Found by Tobias Pulls.
5256 This is also tracked as TROVE-2020-004 and CVE-2020-10593.
5258 o Minor bugfixes (bridges, backport from 0.4.3.1-alpha):
5259 - Lowercase the configured value of BridgeDistribution before adding
5260 it to the descriptor. Fixes bug 32753; bugfix on 0.3.2.3-alpha.
5262 o Minor bugfixes (logging, backport from 0.4.3.2-alpha):
5263 - If we encounter a bug when flushing a buffer to a TLS connection,
5264 only log the bug once per invocation of the Tor process.
5265 Previously we would log with every occurrence, which could cause
5266 us to run out of disk space. Fixes bug 33093; bugfix
5269 o Minor bugfixes (onion services v3, backport from 0.4.3.3-alpha):
5270 - Fix an assertion failure that could result from a corrupted
5271 ADD_ONION control port command. Found by Saibato. Fixes bug 33137;
5272 bugfix on 0.3.3.1-alpha. This issue is also tracked
5275 o Minor bugfixes (rust, build, backport from 0.4.3.2-alpha):
5276 - Fix a syntax warning given by newer versions of Rust that was
5277 creating problems for our continuous integration. Fixes bug 33212;
5278 bugfix on 0.3.5.1-alpha.
5280 o Testing (Travis CI, backport from 0.4.3.3-alpha):
5281 - Remove a redundant distcheck job. Closes ticket 33194.
5282 - Sort the Travis jobs in order of speed: putting the slowest jobs
5283 first takes full advantage of Travis job concurrency. Closes
5285 - Stop allowing the Chutney IPv6 Travis job to fail. This job was
5286 previously configured to fast_finish (which requires
5287 allow_failure), to speed up the build. Closes ticket 33195.
5288 - When a Travis chutney job fails, use chutney's new "diagnostics.sh"
5289 tool to produce detailed diagnostic output. Closes ticket 32792.
5292 Changes in version 0.3.5.10 - 2020-03-18
5293 Tor 0.3.5.10 backports many fixes from later Tor releases, including a
5294 fix for TROVE-2020-002, a major denial-of-service vulnerability that
5295 affected all released Tor instances since 0.2.1.5-alpha. Using this
5296 vulnerability, an attacker could cause Tor instances to consume a huge
5297 amount of CPU, disrupting their operations for several seconds or
5298 minutes. This attack could be launched by anybody against a relay, or
5299 by a directory cache against any client that had connected to it. The
5300 attacker could launch this attack as much as they wanted, thereby
5301 disrupting service or creating patterns that could aid in traffic
5302 analysis. This issue was found by OSS-Fuzz, and is also tracked
5305 We do not have reason to believe that this attack is currently being
5306 exploited in the wild, but nonetheless we advise everyone to upgrade
5307 as soon as packages are available.
5309 o Major bugfixes (security, denial-of-service, backport from 0.4.3.3-alpha):
5310 - Fix a denial-of-service bug that could be used by anyone to
5311 consume a bunch of CPU on any Tor relay or authority, or by
5312 directories to consume a bunch of CPU on clients or hidden
5313 services. Because of the potential for CPU consumption to
5314 introduce observable timing patterns, we are treating this as a
5315 high-severity security issue. Fixes bug 33119; bugfix on
5316 0.2.1.5-alpha. Found by OSS-Fuzz. We are also tracking this issue
5317 as TROVE-2020-002 and CVE-2020-10592.
5319 o Major bugfixes (linux seccomp sandbox, backport from 0.4.3.1-alpha):
5320 - Correct how we use libseccomp. Particularly, stop assuming that
5321 rules are applied in a particular order or that more rules are
5322 processed after the first match. Neither is the case! In
5323 libseccomp <2.4.0 this lead to some rules having no effect.
5324 libseccomp 2.4.0 changed how rules are generated, leading to a
5325 different ordering, which in turn led to a fatal crash during
5326 startup. Fixes bug 29819; bugfix on 0.2.5.1-alpha. Patch by
5329 o Minor features (continuous integration, backport from 0.4.3.2-alpha):
5330 - Stop allowing failures on the Travis CI stem tests job. It looks
5331 like all the stem hangs we were seeing before are now fixed.
5332 Closes ticket 33075.
5334 o Minor bugfixes (bridges, backport from 0.4.3.1-alpha):
5335 - Lowercase the configured value of BridgeDistribution before adding
5336 it to the descriptor. Fixes bug 32753; bugfix on 0.3.2.3-alpha.
5338 o Minor bugfixes (crash, backport from 0.4.2.4-rc):
5339 - When running Tor with an option like --verify-config or
5340 --dump-config that does not start the event loop, avoid crashing
5341 if we try to exit early because of an error. Fixes bug 32407;
5342 bugfix on 0.3.3.1-alpha.
5344 o Minor bugfixes (logging, backport from 0.4.3.2-alpha):
5345 - If we encounter a bug when flushing a buffer to a TLS connection,
5346 only log the bug once per invocation of the Tor process.
5347 Previously we would log with every occurrence, which could cause
5348 us to run out of disk space. Fixes bug 33093; bugfix
5351 o Minor bugfixes (onion services v3, backport from 0.4.3.3-alpha):
5352 - Fix an assertion failure that could result from a corrupted
5353 ADD_ONION control port command. Found by Saibato. Fixes bug 33137;
5354 bugfix on 0.3.3.1-alpha. This issue is also tracked
5357 o Minor bugfixes (rust, build, backport from 0.4.3.2-alpha):
5358 - Fix a syntax warning given by newer versions of Rust that was
5359 creating problems for our continuous integration. Fixes bug 33212;
5360 bugfix on 0.3.5.1-alpha.
5362 o Testing (backport from 0.4.3.1-alpha):
5363 - Re-enable the Travis CI macOS Chutney build, but don't let it
5364 prevent the Travis job from finishing. (The Travis macOS jobs are
5365 slow, so we don't want to have it delay the whole CI process.)
5366 Closes ticket 32629.
5367 - Turn off Tor's Sandbox in Chutney jobs, and run those jobs on
5368 Ubuntu Bionic. Turning off the Sandbox is a work-around, until we
5369 fix the sandbox errors in 32722. Closes ticket 32240.
5371 o Testing (continuous integration, backport from 0.4.3.1-alpha):
5372 - Use zstd in our Travis Linux builds. Closes ticket 32242.
5374 o Testing (Travis CI, backport from 0.4.3.3-alpha):
5375 - Remove a redundant distcheck job. Closes ticket 33194.
5376 - Sort the Travis jobs in order of speed: putting the slowest jobs
5377 first takes full advantage of Travis job concurrency. Closes
5379 - Stop allowing the Chutney IPv6 Travis job to fail. This job was
5380 previously configured to fast_finish (which requires
5381 - When a Travis chutney job fails, use chutney's new "diagnostics.sh"
5382 tool to produce detailed diagnostic output. Closes ticket 32792.
5385 Changes in version 0.4.3.2-alpha - 2020-02-10
5386 This is the second stable alpha release in the Tor 0.4.3.x series. It
5387 fixes several bugs present in the previous alpha release. Anybody
5388 running the previous alpha should upgrade, and look for bugs in this
5391 o Major bugfixes (onion service client, authorization):
5392 - On a NEWNYM signal, purge entries from the ephemeral client
5393 authorization cache. The permanent ones are kept. Fixes bug 33139;
5394 bugfix on 0.4.3.1-alpha.
5396 o Minor features (best practices tracker):
5397 - Practracker now supports a --regen-overbroad option to regenerate
5398 the exceptions file, but only to revise exceptions to be _less_
5399 tolerant of best-practices violations. Closes ticket 32372.
5401 o Minor features (continuous integration):
5402 - Run Doxygen Makefile target on Travis, so we can learn about
5403 regressions in our internal documentation. Closes ticket 32455.
5404 - Stop allowing failures on the Travis CI stem tests job. It looks
5405 like all the stem hangs we were seeing before are now fixed.
5406 Closes ticket 33075.
5408 o Minor bugfixes (build system):
5409 - Revise configure options that were either missing or incorrect in
5410 the configure summary. Fixes bug 32230; bugfix on 0.4.3.1-alpha.
5412 o Minor bugfixes (controller protocol):
5413 - Fix a memory leak introduced by refactoring of control reply
5414 formatting code. Fixes bug 33039; bugfix on 0.4.3.1-alpha.
5415 - Fix a memory leak in GETINFO responses. Fixes bug 33103; bugfix
5417 - When receiving "ACTIVE" or "DORMANT" signals on the control port,
5418 report them as SIGNAL events. Previously we would log a bug
5419 warning. Fixes bug 33104; bugfix on 0.4.0.1-alpha.
5421 o Minor bugfixes (logging):
5422 - If we encounter a bug when flushing a buffer to a TLS connection,
5423 only log the bug once per invocation of the Tor process.
5424 Previously we would log with every occurrence, which could cause
5425 us to run out of disk space. Fixes bug 33093; bugfix
5427 - When logging a bug, do not say "Future instances of this warning
5428 will be silenced" unless we are actually going to silence them.
5429 Previously we would say this whenever a BUG() check failed in the
5430 code. Fixes bug 33095; bugfix on 0.4.1.1-alpha.
5432 o Minor bugfixes (onion service v2):
5433 - Move a series of v2 onion service warnings to protocol-warning
5434 level because they can all be triggered remotely by a malformed
5435 request. Fixes bug 32706; bugfix on 0.1.1.14-alpha.
5437 o Minor bugfixes (onion service v3, client authorization):
5438 - When removing client authorization credentials using the control
5439 port, also remove the associated descriptor, so the onion service
5440 can no longer be contacted. Fixes bug 33148; bugfix
5443 o Minor bugfixes (pluggable transports):
5444 - When receiving a message on standard error from a pluggable
5445 transport, log it at info level, rather than as a warning. Fixes
5446 bug 33005; bugfix on 0.4.0.1-alpha.
5448 o Minor bugfixes (rust, build):
5449 - Fix a syntax warning given by newer versions of Rust that was
5450 creating problems for our continuous integration. Fixes bug 33212;
5451 bugfix on 0.3.5.1-alpha.
5453 o Minor bugfixes (TLS bug handling):
5454 - When encountering a bug in buf_read_from_tls(), return a "MISC"
5455 error code rather than "WANTWRITE". This change might help avoid
5456 some CPU-wasting loops if the bug is ever triggered. Bug reported
5457 by opara. Fixes bug 32673; bugfix on 0.3.0.4-alpha.
5459 o Code simplification and refactoring (mainloop):
5460 - Simplify the ip_address_changed() function by removing redundant
5461 checks. Closes ticket 33091.
5463 o Documentation (manpage):
5464 - Split "Circuit Timeout" options and "Node Selection" options into
5465 their own sections of the tor manpage. Closes tickets 32928 and
5466 32929. Work by Swati Thacker as part of Google Season of Docs.
5469 Changes in version 0.4.2.6 - 2020-01-30
5470 This is the second stable release in the 0.4.2.x series. It backports
5471 several bugfixes from 0.4.3.1-alpha, including some that had affected
5472 the Linux seccomp2 sandbox or Windows services. If you're running with
5473 one of those configurations, you'll probably want to upgrade;
5474 otherwise, you should be fine with 0.4.2.5.
5476 o Major bugfixes (linux seccomp sandbox, backport from 0.4.3.1-alpha):
5477 - Correct how we use libseccomp. Particularly, stop assuming that
5478 rules are applied in a particular order or that more rules are
5479 processed after the first match. Neither is the case! In
5480 libseccomp <2.4.0 this led to some rules having no effect.
5481 libseccomp 2.4.0 changed how rules are generated, leading to a
5482 different ordering, which in turn led to a fatal crash during
5483 startup. Fixes bug 29819; bugfix on 0.2.5.1-alpha. Patch by
5485 - Fix crash when reloading logging configuration while the
5486 experimental sandbox is enabled. Fixes bug 32841; bugfix on
5487 0.4.1.7. Patch by Peter Gerber.
5489 o Minor bugfixes (correctness checks, backport from 0.4.3.1-alpha):
5490 - Use GCC/Clang's printf-checking feature to make sure that
5491 tor_assertf() arguments are correctly typed. Fixes bug 32765;
5492 bugfix on 0.4.1.1-alpha.
5494 o Minor bugfixes (logging, crash, backport from 0.4.3.1-alpha):
5495 - Avoid a possible crash when trying to log a (fatal) assertion
5496 failure about mismatched magic numbers in configuration objects.
5497 Fixes bug 32771; bugfix on 0.4.2.1-alpha.
5499 o Minor bugfixes (testing, backport from 0.4.3.1-alpha):
5500 - When TOR_DISABLE_PRACTRACKER is set, do not apply it to the
5501 test_practracker.sh script. Doing so caused a test failure. Fixes
5502 bug 32705; bugfix on 0.4.2.1-alpha.
5503 - When TOR_DISABLE_PRACTRACKER is set, log a notice to stderr when
5504 skipping practracker checks. Fixes bug 32705; bugfix
5507 o Minor bugfixes (windows service, backport from 0.4.3.1-alpha):
5508 - Initialize the publish/subscribe system when running as a windows
5509 service. Fixes bug 32778; bugfix on 0.4.1.1-alpha.
5511 o Testing (backport from 0.4.3.1-alpha):
5512 - Turn off Tor's Sandbox in Chutney jobs, and run those jobs on
5513 Ubuntu Bionic. Turning off the Sandbox is a work-around, until we
5514 fix the sandbox errors in 32722. Closes ticket 32240.
5515 - Re-enable the Travis CI macOS Chutney build, but don't let it
5516 prevent the Travis job from finishing. (The Travis macOS jobs are
5517 slow, so we don't want to have it delay the whole CI process.)
5518 Closes ticket 32629.
5520 o Testing (continuous integration, backport from 0.4.3.1-alpha):
5521 - Use zstd in our Travis Linux builds. Closes ticket 32242.
5524 Changes in version 0.4.1.8 - 2020-01-30
5525 This release backports several bugfixes from later release series,
5526 including some that had affected the Linux seccomp2 sandbox or Windows
5527 services. If you're running with one of those configurations, you'll
5528 probably want to upgrade; otherwise, you should be fine with your
5529 current version of 0.4.1.x.
5531 o Major bugfixes (linux seccomp sandbox, backport from 0.4.3.1-alpha):
5532 - Correct how we use libseccomp. Particularly, stop assuming that
5533 rules are applied in a particular order or that more rules are
5534 processed after the first match. Neither is the case! In
5535 libseccomp <2.4.0 this led to some rules having no effect.
5536 libseccomp 2.4.0 changed how rules are generated, leading to a
5537 different ordering, which in turn led to a fatal crash during
5538 startup. Fixes bug 29819; bugfix on 0.2.5.1-alpha. Patch by
5540 - Fix crash when reloading logging configuration while the
5541 experimental sandbox is enabled. Fixes bug 32841; bugfix on
5542 0.4.1.7. Patch by Peter Gerber.
5544 o Minor bugfixes (crash, backport form 0.4.2.4-rc):
5545 - When running Tor with an option like --verify-config or
5546 --dump-config that does not start the event loop, avoid crashing
5547 if we try to exit early because of an error. Fixes bug 32407;
5548 bugfix on 0.3.3.1-alpha.
5550 o Minor bugfixes (windows service, backport from 0.4.3.1-alpha):
5551 - Initialize the publish/subscribe system when running as a windows
5552 service. Fixes bug 32778; bugfix on 0.4.1.1-alpha.
5554 o Testing (backport from 0.4.3.1-alpha):
5555 - Turn off Tor's Sandbox in Chutney jobs, and run those jobs on
5556 Ubuntu Bionic. Turning off the Sandbox is a work-around, until we
5557 fix the sandbox errors in 32722. Closes ticket 32240.
5558 - Re-enable the Travis CI macOS Chutney build, but don't let it
5559 prevent the Travis job from finishing. (The Travis macOS jobs are
5560 slow, so we don't want to have it delay the whole CI process.)
5561 Closes ticket 32629.
5563 o Testing (continuous integration, backport from 0.4.3.1-alpha):
5564 - Use zstd in our Travis Linux builds. Closes ticket 32242.
5567 Changes in version 0.4.3.1-alpha - 2020-01-22
5568 This is the first alpha release in the 0.4.3.x series. It includes
5569 improved support for application integration of onion services, support
5570 for building in a client-only mode, and newly improved internal
5571 documentation (online at https://src-ref.docs.torproject.org/tor/). It
5572 also has numerous other small bugfixes and features, as well as
5573 improvements to our code's internal organization that should help us
5574 write better code in the future.
5576 o New system requirements:
5577 - When building Tor, you now need to have Python 3 in order to run
5578 the integration tests. (Python 2 is officially unsupported
5579 upstream, as of 1 Jan 2020.) Closes ticket 32608.
5581 o Major features (build system):
5582 - The relay code can now be disabled using the --disable-module-relay
5583 configure option. When this option is set, we also disable the
5584 dirauth module. Closes ticket 32123.
5585 - When Tor is compiled --disable-module-relay, we also omit the code
5586 used to act as a directory cache. Closes ticket 32487.
5588 o Major features (directory authority, ed25519):
5589 - Add support for banning a relay's ed25519 keys in the approved-
5590 routers file. This will help us migrate away from RSA keys in the
5591 future. Previously, only RSA keys could be banned in approved-
5592 routers. Resolves ticket 22029. Patch by Neel Chauhan.
5594 o Major features (onion service, controller):
5595 - New control port commands to manage client-side onion service
5596 authorization credentials. The ONION_CLIENT_AUTH_ADD command adds
5597 a credential, ONION_CLIENT_AUTH_REMOVE deletes a credential, and
5598 ONION_CLIENT_AUTH_VIEW lists the credentials. Closes ticket 30381.
5600 o Major features (onion service, SOCKS5):
5601 - Introduce a new SocksPort flag, ExtendedErrors, to support more
5602 detailed error codes in information for applications that support
5603 them. Closes ticket 30382; implements proposal 304.
5605 o Major features (proxy):
5606 - In addition to its current supported proxy types (HTTP CONNECT,
5607 SOCKS4, and SOCKS5), Tor can now make its OR connections through a
5608 HAProxy server. A new torrc option was added to specify the
5609 address/port of the server: TCPProxy <protocol> <host>:<port>.
5610 Currently the only supported protocol for the option is haproxy.
5611 Closes ticket 31518. Patch done by Suphanat Chunhapanya (haxxpop).
5613 o Major bugfixes (linux seccomp sandbox):
5614 - Correct how we use libseccomp. Particularly, stop assuming that
5615 rules are applied in a particular order or that more rules are
5616 processed after the first match. Neither is the case! In
5617 libseccomp <2.4.0 this led to some rules having no effect.
5618 libseccomp 2.4.0 changed how rules are generated, leading to a
5619 different ordering, which in turn led to a fatal crash during
5620 startup. Fixes bug 29819; bugfix on 0.2.5.1-alpha. Patch by
5622 - Fix crash when reloading logging configuration while the
5623 experimental sandbox is enabled. Fixes bug 32841; bugfix on
5624 0.4.1.7. Patch by Peter Gerber.
5626 o Major bugfixes (networking):
5627 - Correctly handle IPv6 addresses in SOCKS5 RESOLVE_PTR requests,
5628 and accept strings as well as binary addresses. Fixes bug 32315;
5629 bugfix on 0.3.5.1-alpha.
5631 o Major bugfixes (onion service):
5632 - Report HS circuit failure back into the HS subsystem so we take
5633 appropriate action with regards to the client introduction point
5634 failure cache. This improves reachability of onion services, since
5635 now clients notice failing introduction circuits properly. Fixes
5636 bug 32020; bugfix on 0.3.2.1-alpha.
5638 o Minor feature (configure, build system):
5639 - Output a list of enabled/disabled features at the end of the
5640 configure process in a pleasing way. Closes ticket 31373.
5642 o Minor feature (heartbeat, onion service):
5643 - Add the DoS INTRODUCE2 defenses counter to the heartbeat DoS
5644 message. Closes ticket 31371.
5646 o Minor features (configuration validation):
5647 - Configuration validation can now be done by per-module callbacks,
5648 rather than a global validation function. This will let us reduce
5649 the size of config.c and some of its more cumbersome functions.
5650 Closes ticket 31241.
5652 o Minor features (configuration):
5653 - If a configured hardware crypto accelerator in AccelName is
5654 prefixed with "!", Tor now exits when it cannot be found. Closes
5656 - We now use flag-driven logic to warn about obsolete configuration
5657 fields, so that we can include their names. In 0.4.2, we used a
5658 special type, which prevented us from generating good warnings.
5659 Implements ticket 32404.
5661 o Minor features (controller):
5662 - Add stream isolation data to STREAM event. Closes ticket 19859.
5663 - Implement a new GETINFO command to fetch microdescriptor
5664 consensus. Closes ticket 31684.
5666 o Minor features (debugging, directory system):
5667 - Don't crash when we find a non-guard with a guard-fraction value
5668 set. Instead, log a bug warning, in an attempt to figure out how
5669 this happened. Diagnostic for ticket 32868.
5671 o Minor features (defense in depth):
5672 - Add additional checks around tor_vasprintf() usage, in case the
5673 function returns an error. Patch by Tobias Stoeckmann. Fixes
5676 o Minor features (developer tooling):
5677 - Remove the 0.2.9.x series branches from git scripts (git-merge-
5678 forward.sh, git-pull-all.sh, git-push-all.sh, git-setup-dirs.sh).
5679 Closes ticket 32772.
5681 o Minor features (developer tools):
5682 - Add a check_cocci_parse.sh script that checks that new code is
5683 parseable by Coccinelle. Add an exceptions file for unparseable
5684 files, and run the script from travis CI. Closes ticket 31919.
5685 - Call the check_cocci_parse.sh script from a 'check-cocci' Makefile
5686 target. Closes ticket 31919.
5687 - Add a rename_c_identifiers.py tool to rename a bunch of C
5688 identifiers at once, and generate a well-formed commit message
5689 describing the change. This should help with refactoring. Closes
5691 - Add some scripts in "scripts/coccinelle" to invoke the Coccinelle
5692 semantic patching tool with the correct flags. These flags are
5693 fairly easy to forget, and these scripts should help us use
5694 Coccinelle more effectively in the future. Closes ticket 31705.
5696 o Minor features (Doxygen):
5697 - Update Doxygen configuration file to a more recent template (from
5698 1.8.15). Closes ticket 32110.
5699 - "make doxygen" now works with out-of-tree builds. Closes
5701 - Make sure that doxygen outputs documentation for all of our C
5702 files. Previously, some were missing @file declarations, causing
5703 them to be ignored. Closes ticket 32307.
5704 - Our "make doxygen" target now respects --enable-fatal-warnings by
5705 default, and does not warn about items that are missing
5706 documentation. To warn about missing documentation, run configure
5707 with the "--enable-missing-doc-warnings" flag: doing so suspends
5708 fatal warnings for doxygen. Closes ticket 32385.
5710 o Minor features (git scripts):
5711 - Add TOR_EXTRA_CLONE_ARGS to git-setup-dirs.sh for git clone
5712 customisation. Closes ticket 32347.
5713 - Add git-setup-dirs.sh, which sets up an upstream git repository
5714 and worktrees for tor maintainers. Closes ticket 29603.
5715 - Add TOR_EXTRA_REMOTE_* to git-setup-dirs.sh for a custom extra
5716 remote. Closes ticket 32347.
5717 - Call the check_cocci_parse.sh script from the git commit and push
5718 hooks. Closes ticket 31919.
5719 - Make git-push-all.sh skip unchanged branches when pushing to
5720 upstream. The script already skipped unchanged test branches.
5721 Closes ticket 32216.
5722 - Make git-setup-dirs.sh create a master symlink in the worktree
5723 directory. Closes ticket 32347.
5724 - Skip unmodified source files when doing some existing git hook
5725 checks. Related to ticket 31919.
5727 o Minor features (IPv6, client):
5728 - Make Tor clients tell dual-stack exits that they prefer IPv6
5729 connections. This change is equivalent to setting the PreferIPv6
5730 flag on SOCKSPorts (and most other listener ports). Tor Browser
5731 has been setting this flag for some time, and we want to remove a
5732 client distinguisher at exits. Closes ticket 32637.
5734 o Minor features (portability, android):
5735 - When building for Android, disable some tests that depend on $HOME
5736 and/or pwdb, which Android doesn't have. Closes ticket 32825.
5737 Patch from Hans-Christoph Steiner.
5739 o Minor features (relay modularity):
5740 - Split the relay and server pluggable transport config code into
5741 separate files in the relay module. Disable this code when the
5742 relay module is disabled. Closes part of ticket 32213.
5743 - When the relay module is disabled, reject attempts to set the
5744 ORPort, DirPort, DirCache, BridgeRelay, ExtORPort, or
5745 ServerTransport* options, rather than ignoring the values of these
5746 options. Closes part of ticket 32213.
5748 o Minor features (relay):
5749 - When the relay module is disabled, change the default config so
5750 that DirCache is 0, and ClientOnly is 1. Closes ticket 32410.
5752 o Minor features (release tools):
5753 - Port our ChangeLog formatting and sorting tools to Python 3.
5754 Closes ticket 32704.
5756 o Minor features (testing):
5757 - Detect some common failure cases for test_parseconf.sh in
5758 src/test/conf_failures. Closes ticket 32451.
5759 - Allow test_parseconf.sh to test expected log outputs for successful
5760 configs, as well as failed configs. Closes ticket 32451.
5761 - The test_parseconf.sh script now supports result variants for any
5762 combination of the optional libraries lzma, nss, and zstd. Closes
5765 o Minor features (tests, Android):
5766 - When running the unit tests on Android, create temporary files in
5767 a subdirectory of /data/local/tmp. Closes ticket 32172. Based on a
5768 patch from Hans-Christoph Steiner.
5770 o Minor bugfixes (bridges):
5771 - Lowercase the configured value of BridgeDistribution before adding
5772 it to the descriptor. Fixes bug 32753; bugfix on 0.3.2.3-alpha.
5774 o Minor bugfixes (build system):
5775 - Fix "make autostyle" for out-of-tree builds. Fixes bug 32370;
5776 bugfix on 0.4.1.2-alpha.
5778 o Minor bugfixes (configuration handling):
5779 - Make control_event_conf_changed() take in a config_line_t instead
5780 of a smartlist of alternating key/value entries. Fixes bug 31531;
5781 bugfix on 0.2.3.3-alpha. Patch by Neel Chauhan.
5783 o Minor bugfixes (configuration):
5784 - Check for multiplication overflow when parsing memory units inside
5785 configuration. Fixes bug 30920; bugfix on 0.0.9rc1.
5786 - When dumping the configuration, stop adding a trailing space after
5787 the option name when there is no option value. This issue only
5788 affects options that accept an empty value or list. (Most options
5789 reject empty values, or delete the entire line from the dumped
5790 options.) Fixes bug 32352; bugfix on 0.0.9pre6.
5791 - Avoid changing the user's value of HardwareAccel as stored by
5792 SAVECONF, when AccelName is set but HardwareAccel is not. Fixes
5793 bug 32382; bugfix on 0.2.2.1-alpha.
5794 - When creating a KeyDirectory with the same location as the
5795 DataDirectory (not recommended), respect the DataDirectory's
5796 group-readable setting if one has not been set for the
5797 KeyDirectory. Fixes bug 27992; bugfix on 0.3.3.1-alpha.
5799 o Minor bugfixes (controller):
5800 - In routerstatus_has_changed(), check all the fields that are
5801 output over the control port. Fixes bug 20218; bugfix
5804 o Minor bugfixes (correctness checks):
5805 - Use GCC/Clang's printf-checking feature to make sure that
5806 tor_assertf() arguments are correctly typed. Fixes bug 32765;
5807 bugfix on 0.4.1.1-alpha.
5809 o Minor bugfixes (developer tools):
5810 - Allow paths starting with ./ in scripts/add_c_file.py. Fixes bug
5811 31336; bugfix on 0.4.1.2-alpha.
5813 o Minor bugfixes (dirauth module):
5814 - Split the dirauth config code into a separate file in the dirauth
5815 module. Disable this code when the dirauth module is disabled.
5816 Closes ticket 32213.
5817 - When the dirauth module is disabled, reject attempts to set the
5818 AuthoritativeDir option, rather than ignoring the value of the
5819 option. Fixes bug 32213; bugfix on 0.3.4.1-alpha.
5821 o Minor bugfixes (embedded Tor):
5822 - When starting Tor any time after the first time in a process,
5823 register the thread in which it is running as the main thread.
5824 Previously, we only did this on Windows, which could lead to bugs
5825 like 23081 on non-Windows platforms. Fixes bug 32884; bugfix
5828 o Minor bugfixes (git scripts):
5829 - Avoid sleeping before the last push in git-push-all.sh. Closes
5831 - Forward all unrecognised arguments in git-push-all.sh to git push.
5832 Closes ticket 32216.
5834 o Minor bugfixes (hidden service v3):
5835 - Do not rely on a "circuit established" flag for intro circuits but
5836 instead always query the HS circuit map. This is to avoid sync
5837 issue with that flag and the map. Fixes bug 32094; bugfix
5840 o Minor bugfixes (logging, crash):
5841 - Avoid a possible crash when trying to log a (fatal) assertion
5842 failure about mismatched magic numbers in configuration objects.
5843 Fixes bug 32771; bugfix on 0.4.2.1-alpha.
5845 o Minor bugfixes (onion service v2):
5846 - When sending the INTRO cell for a v2 Onion Service, look at the
5847 failure cache alongside timeout values to check if the intro point
5848 is marked as failed. Previously, we only looked at the relay
5849 timeout values. Fixes bug 25568; bugfix on 0.2.7.3-rc. Patch by
5852 o Minor bugfixes (onion services v3, client):
5853 - Properly handle the client rendezvous circuit timeout. Previously
5854 Tor would sometimes timeout a rendezvous circuit awaiting the
5855 introduction ACK, and find itself unable to re-establish all
5856 circuits because the rendezvous circuit timed out too early. Fixes
5857 bug 32021; bugfix on 0.3.2.1-alpha.
5859 o Minor bugfixes (onion services):
5860 - In cancel_descriptor_fetches(), use
5861 connection_list_by_type_purpose() instead of
5862 connection_list_by_type_state(). Fixes bug 32639; bugfix on
5863 0.3.2.1-alpha. Patch by Neel Chauhan.
5865 o Minor bugfixes (scripts):
5866 - Fix update_versions.py for out-of-tree builds. Fixes bug 32371;
5867 bugfix on 0.4.0.1-alpha.
5869 o Minor bugfixes (test):
5870 - Use the same code to find the tor binary in all of our test
5871 scripts. This change makes sure we are always using the coverage
5872 binary when coverage is enabled. Fixes bug 32368; bugfix
5875 o Minor bugfixes (testing):
5876 - Stop ignoring "tor --dump-config" errors in test_parseconf.sh.
5877 Fixes bug 32468; bugfix on 0.4.2.1-alpha.
5878 - When TOR_DISABLE_PRACTRACKER is set, do not apply it to the
5879 test_practracker.sh script. Doing so caused a test failure. Fixes
5880 bug 32705; bugfix on 0.4.2.1-alpha.
5881 - When TOR_DISABLE_PRACTRACKER is set, log a notice to stderr when
5882 skipping practracker checks. Fixes bug 32705; bugfix
5885 o Minor bugfixes (tests):
5886 - Our option-validation tests no longer depend on specially
5887 configured non-default, non-passing sets of options. Previously,
5888 the tests had been written to assume that options would _not_ be
5889 set to their defaults, which led to needless complexity and
5890 verbosity. Fixes bug 32175; bugfix on 0.2.8.1-alpha.
5892 o Minor bugfixes (windows service):
5893 - Initialize the publish/subscribe system when running as a windows
5894 service. Fixes bug 32778; bugfix on 0.4.1.1-alpha.
5896 o Deprecated features:
5897 - Deprecate the ClientAutoIPv6ORPort option. This option was not
5898 true "Happy Eyeballs", and often failed on connections that
5899 weren't reliably dual-stack. Closes ticket 32942. Patch by
5903 - Provide a quickstart guide for a Circuit Padding Framework, and
5904 documentation for researchers to implement and study circuit
5905 padding machines. Closes ticket 28804.
5906 - Add documentation in 'HelpfulTools.md' to describe how to build a
5907 tag file. Closes ticket 32779.
5908 - Create a high-level description of the long-term software
5909 architecture goals. Closes ticket 32206.
5910 - Describe the --dump-config command in the manual page. Closes
5912 - Unite coding advice from this_not_that.md in torguts repo into our
5913 coding standards document. Resolves ticket 31853.
5916 - Our Doxygen configuration no longer generates LaTeX output. The
5917 reference manual produced by doing this was over 4000 pages long,
5918 and generally unusable. Closes ticket 32099.
5919 - The option "TestingEstimatedDescriptorPropagationTime" is now
5920 marked as obsolete. It has had no effect since 0.3.0.7, when
5921 clients stopped rejecting consensuses "from the future". Closes
5923 - We no longer support consensus methods before method 28; these
5924 methods were only used by authorities running versions of Tor that
5925 are now at end-of-life. In effect, this means that clients,
5926 relays, and authorities now assume that authorities will be
5927 running version 0.3.5.x or later. Closes ticket 32695.
5930 - Add more test cases for tor's UTF-8 validation function. Also,
5931 check the arguments passed to the function for consistency. Closes
5933 - Improve test coverage for relay and dirauth config code, focusing
5934 on option validation and normalization. Closes ticket 32213.
5935 - Improve the consistency of test_parseconf.sh output, and run all
5936 the tests, even if one fails. Closes ticket 32213.
5937 - Re-enable the Travis CI macOS Chutney build, but don't let it
5938 prevent the Travis job from finishing. (The Travis macOS jobs are
5939 slow, so we don't want to have it delay the whole CI process.)
5940 Closes ticket 32629.
5941 - Run the practracker unit tests in the pre-commit git hook. Closes
5943 - Turn off Tor's Sandbox in Chutney jobs, and run those jobs on
5944 Ubuntu Bionic. Turning off the Sandbox is a work-around, until we
5945 fix the sandbox errors in 32722. Closes ticket 32240.
5947 o Code simplification and refactoring (channel):
5948 - Channel layer had a variable length cell handler that was not used
5949 and thus removed. Closes ticket 32892.
5951 o Code simplification and refactoring (configuration):
5952 - Immutability is now implemented as a flag on individual
5953 configuration options rather than as part of the option-transition
5954 checking code. Closes ticket 32344.
5955 - Instead of keeping a list of configuration options to check for
5956 relative paths, check all the options whose type is "FILENAME".
5957 Solves part of ticket 32339.
5958 - Our default log (which ordinarily sends NOTICE-level messages to
5959 standard output) is now handled in a more logical manner.
5960 Previously, we replaced the configured log options if they were
5961 empty. Now, we interpret an empty set of log options as meaning
5962 "use the default log". Closes ticket 31999.
5963 - Remove some unused arguments from the options_validate() function,
5964 to simplify our code and tests. Closes ticket 32187.
5965 - Simplify the options_validate() code so that it looks at the
5966 default options directly, rather than taking default options as an
5967 argument. This change lets us simplify its interface. Closes
5969 - Use our new configuration architecture to move most authority-
5970 related options to the directory authority module. Closes
5972 - When parsing the command line, handle options that determine our
5973 "quiet level" and our mode of operation (e.g., --dump-config and
5974 so on) all in one table. Closes ticket 32003.
5976 o Code simplification and refactoring (controller):
5977 - Create a new abstraction for formatting control protocol reply
5978 lines based on key-value pairs. Refactor some existing control
5979 protocol code to take advantage of this. Closes ticket 30984.
5980 - Create a helper function that can fetch network status or
5981 microdesc consensuses. Closes ticket 31684.
5983 o Code simplification and refactoring (dirauth modularization):
5984 - Remove the last remaining HAVE_MODULE_DIRAUTH inside a function.
5985 Closes ticket 32163.
5986 - Replace some confusing identifiers in process_descs.c. Closes
5988 - Simplify some relay and dirauth config code. Closes ticket 32213.
5990 o Code simplification and refactoring (misc):
5991 - Make all the structs we declare follow the same naming convention
5992 of ending with "_t". Closes ticket 32415.
5993 - Move and rename some configuration-related code for clarity.
5994 Closes ticket 32304.
5995 - Our include.am files are now broken up by subdirectory.
5996 Previously, src/core/include.am covered all of the subdirectories
5997 in "core", "feature", and "app". Closes ticket 32137.
5998 - Remove underused NS*() macros from test code: they make our tests
5999 more confusing, especially for code-formatting tools. Closes
6002 o Code simplification and refactoring (relay modularization):
6003 - Disable relay_periodic when the relay module is disabled. Closes
6005 - Disable relay_sys when the relay module is disabled. Closes
6008 o Code simplification and refactoring (tool support):
6009 - Add numerous missing dependencies to our include files, so that
6010 they can be included in different reasonable orders and still
6011 compile. Addresses part of ticket 32764.
6012 - Fix some parts of our code that were difficult for Coccinelle to
6013 parse. Related to ticket 31705.
6014 - Fix some small issues in our code that prevented automatic
6015 formatting tools from working. Addresses part of ticket 32764.
6017 o Documentation (manpage):
6018 - Alphabetize the Client Options section of the tor manpage. Closes
6020 - Alphabetize the General Options section of the tor manpage. Closes
6022 - In the tor(1) manpage, reword and improve formatting of the
6023 COMMAND-LINE OPTIONS and DESCRIPTION sections. Closes ticket
6024 32277. Based on work by Swati Thacker as part of Google Season
6026 - In the tor(1) manpage, reword and improve formatting of the FILES,
6027 SEE ALSO, and BUGS sections. Closes ticket 32176. Based on work by
6028 Swati Thacker as part of Google Season of Docs.
6030 o Testing (circuit, EWMA):
6031 - Add unit tests for circuitmux and EWMA subsystems. Closes
6034 o Testing (continuous integration):
6035 - Use zstd in our Travis Linux builds. Closes ticket 32242.
6038 Changes in version 0.4.2.5 - 2019-12-09
6039 This is the first stable release in the 0.4.2.x series. This series
6040 improves reliability and stability, and includes several stability and
6041 correctness improvements for onion services. It also fixes many smaller
6042 bugs present in previous series.
6044 Per our support policy, we will support the 0.4.2.x series for nine
6045 months, or until three months after the release of a stable 0.4.3.x:
6046 whichever is longer. If you need longer-term support, please stick
6047 with 0.3.5.x, which will we plan to support until Feb 2022.
6049 Per our support policy, we will support the 0.4.2.x series for nine
6050 months, or until three months after the release of a stable 0.4.3.x:
6051 whichever is longer. If you need longer-term support, please stick
6052 with 0.3.5.x, which will we plan to support until Feb 2022.
6054 Below are the changes since 0.4.1.4-rc. For a complete list of changes
6055 since 0.4.1.5, see the ReleaseNotes file.
6057 o Minor features (geoip):
6058 - Update geoip and geoip6 to the December 3 2019 Maxmind GeoLite2
6059 Country database. Closes ticket 32685.
6062 - Require C99 standards-conforming code in Travis CI, but allow GNU
6063 gcc extensions. Also activates clang's -Wtypedef-redefinition
6064 warnings. Build some jobs with -std=gnu99, and some jobs without.
6065 Closes ticket 32500.
6068 Changes in version 0.4.1.7 - 2019-12-09
6069 This release backports several bugfixes to improve stability and
6070 correctness. Anyone experiencing build problems or crashes with 0.4.1.6,
6071 including all relays relying on AccountingMax, should upgrade.
6073 o Major features (directory authorities, backport from 0.4.2.2-alpha):
6074 - Directory authorities now reject relays running all currently
6075 deprecated release series. The currently supported release series
6076 are: 0.2.9, 0.3.5, 0.4.0, 0.4.1, and 0.4.2. Closes ticket 31549.
6078 o Major bugfixes (embedded Tor, backport from 0.4.2.2-alpha):
6079 - Avoid a possible crash when restarting Tor in embedded mode and
6080 enabling a different set of publish/subscribe messages. Fixes bug
6081 31898; bugfix on 0.4.1.1-alpha.
6083 o Major bugfixes (relay, backport from 0.4.2.3-alpha):
6084 - Relays now respect their AccountingMax bandwidth again. When
6085 relays entered "soft" hibernation (which typically starts when
6086 we've hit 90% of our AccountingMax), we had stopped checking
6087 whether we should enter hard hibernation. Soft hibernation refuses
6088 new connections and new circuits, but the existing circuits can
6089 continue, meaning that relays could have exceeded their configured
6090 AccountingMax. Fixes bug 32108; bugfix on 0.4.0.1-alpha.
6092 o Major bugfixes (torrc parsing, backport from 0.4.2.2-alpha):
6093 - Stop ignoring torrc options after an %include directive, when the
6094 included directory ends with a file that does not contain any
6095 config options (but does contain comments or whitespace). Fixes
6096 bug 31408; bugfix on 0.3.1.1-alpha.
6098 o Major bugfixes (v3 onion services, backport from 0.4.2.3-alpha):
6099 - Onion services now always use the exact number of intro points
6100 configured with the HiddenServiceNumIntroductionPoints option (or
6101 fewer if nodes are excluded). Before, a service could sometimes
6102 pick more intro points than configured. Fixes bug 31548; bugfix
6105 o Minor features (continuous integration, backport from 0.4.2.2-alpha):
6106 - When building on Appveyor and Travis, pass the "-k" flag to make,
6107 so that we are informed of all compilation failures, not just the
6108 first one or two. Closes ticket 31372.
6110 o Minor features (geoip, backport from 0.4.2.5):
6111 - Update geoip and geoip6 to the December 3 2019 Maxmind GeoLite2
6112 Country database. Closes ticket 32685.
6114 o Minor bugfixes (Appveyor CI, backport from 0.4.2.2-alpha):
6115 - Avoid spurious errors when Appveyor CI fails before the install step.
6116 Fixes bug 31884; bugfix on 0.3.4.2-alpha.
6118 o Minor bugfixes (client, onion service v3, backport from 0.4.2.4-rc):
6119 - Fix a BUG() assertion that occurs within a very small race window
6120 between when a client intro circuit opens and when its descriptor
6121 gets cleaned up from the cache. The circuit is now closed early,
6122 which will trigger a re-fetch of the descriptor and continue the
6123 connection. Fixes bug 28970; bugfix on 0.3.2.1-alpha.
6125 o Minor bugfixes (connections, backport from 0.4.2.3-rc):
6126 - Avoid trying to read data from closed connections, which can cause
6127 needless loops in Libevent and infinite loops in Shadow. Fixes bug
6128 30344; bugfix on 0.1.1.1-alpha.
6130 o Minor bugfixes (error handling, backport from 0.4.2.1-alpha):
6131 - On abort, try harder to flush the output buffers of log messages.
6132 On some platforms (macOS), log messages could be discarded when
6133 the process terminates. Fixes bug 31571; bugfix on 0.3.5.1-alpha.
6134 - Report the tor version whenever an assertion fails. Previously, we
6135 only reported the Tor version on some crashes, and some non-fatal
6136 assertions. Fixes bug 31571; bugfix on 0.3.5.1-alpha.
6137 - When tor aborts due to an error, close log file descriptors before
6138 aborting. Closing the logs makes some OSes flush log file buffers,
6139 rather than deleting buffered log lines. Fixes bug 31594; bugfix
6142 o Minor bugfixes (logging, backport from 0.4.2.2-alpha):
6143 - Add a missing check for HAVE_PTHREAD_H, because the backtrace code
6144 uses mutexes. Fixes bug 31614; bugfix on 0.2.5.2-alpha.
6145 - Disable backtrace signal handlers when shutting down tor. Fixes
6146 bug 31614; bugfix on 0.2.5.2-alpha.
6147 - Rate-limit the logging message about the obsolete .exit
6148 notation. Previously, there was no limit on this warning, which
6149 could potentially be triggered many times by a hostile website.
6150 Fixes bug 31466; bugfix on 0.2.2.1-alpha.
6152 o Minor bugfixes (logging, protocol violations, backport from 0.4.2.2-alpha):
6153 - Do not log a nonfatal assertion failure when receiving a VERSIONS
6154 cell on a connection using the obsolete v1 link protocol. Log a
6155 protocol_warn instead. Fixes bug 31107; bugfix on 0.2.4.4-alpha.
6157 o Minor bugfixes (mainloop, periodic events, in-process API, backport from 0.4.2.3-alpha):
6158 - Reset the periodic events' "enabled" flag when Tor is shut down
6159 cleanly. Previously, this flag was left on, which caused periodic
6160 events not to be re-enabled when Tor was relaunched in-process
6161 with tor_api.h after a shutdown. Fixes bug 32058; bugfix
6164 o Minor bugfixes (multithreading, backport from 0.4.2.2-alpha):
6165 - Avoid some undefined behaviour when freeing mutexes. Fixes bug
6166 31736; bugfix on 0.0.7.
6168 o Minor bugfixes (process management, backport from 0.4.2.3-alpha):
6169 - Remove overly strict assertions that triggered when a pluggable
6170 transport failed to launch. Fixes bug 31091; bugfix
6172 - Remove an assertion in the Unix process backend. This assertion
6173 would trigger when we failed to find the executable for a child
6174 process. Fixes bug 31810; bugfix on 0.4.0.1-alpha.
6176 o Minor bugfixes (relay, backport from 0.4.2.2-alpha):
6177 - Avoid crashing when starting with a corrupt keys directory where
6178 the old ntor key and the new ntor key are identical. Fixes bug
6179 30916; bugfix on 0.2.4.8-alpha.
6181 o Minor bugfixes (testing, backport from 0.4.2.3-alpha):
6182 - When testing port rebinding, don't busy-wait for tor to log.
6183 Instead, actually sleep for a short time before polling again.
6184 Also improve the formatting of control commands and log messages.
6185 Fixes bug 31837; bugfix on 0.3.5.1-alpha.
6187 o Minor bugfixes (tests, SunOS, backport from 0.4.2.2-alpha):
6188 - Avoid a map_anon_nofork test failure due to a signed/unsigned
6189 integer comparison. Fixes bug 31897; bugfix on 0.4.1.1-alpha.
6191 o Minor bugfixes (tls, logging, backport from 0.4.2.3-alpha):
6192 - Log bugs about the TLS read buffer's length only once, rather than
6193 filling the logs with similar warnings. Fixes bug 31939; bugfix
6196 o Documentation (backport from 0.4.2.2-alpha):
6197 - Explain why we can't destroy the backtrace buffer mutex. Explain
6198 why we don't need to destroy the log mutex. Closes ticket 31736.
6200 o Testing (continuous integration, backport from 0.4.2.3-alpha):
6201 - Disable all but one Travis CI macOS build, to mitigate slow
6202 scheduling of Travis macOS jobs. Closes ticket 32177.
6203 - Run the chutney IPv6 networks as part of Travis CI. Closes
6205 - Simplify the Travis CI build matrix, and optimise for build time.
6206 Closes ticket 31859.
6207 - Use Windows Server 2019 instead of Windows Server 2016 in our
6208 Appveyor builds. Closes ticket 32086.
6210 o Testing (continuous integration, backport from 0.4.2.4-rc):
6211 - In Travis, use Xcode 11.2 on macOS 10.14. Closes ticket 32241.
6212 - Use Ubuntu Bionic images for our Travis CI builds, so we can get a
6213 recent version of coccinelle. But leave chutney on Ubuntu Trusty,
6214 until we can fix some Bionic permissions issues (see ticket
6215 32240). Related to ticket 31919.
6216 - Install the mingw OpenSSL package in Appveyor. This makes sure
6217 that the OpenSSL headers and libraries match in Tor's Appveyor
6218 builds. (This bug was triggered by an Appveyor image update.)
6219 Fixes bug 32449; bugfix on 0.3.5.6-rc.
6221 o Testing (continuous integration, backport from 0.4.2.5):
6222 - Require C99 standards-conforming code in Travis CI, but allow GNU gcc
6223 extensions. Also activates clang's -Wtypedef-redefinition warnings.
6224 Build some jobs with -std=gnu99, and some jobs without.
6225 Closes ticket 32500.
6228 Changes in version 0.4.0.6 - 2019-12-09
6229 This is the second stable release in the 0.4.0.x series. This release
6230 backports several bugfixes to improve stability and correctness. Anyone
6231 experiencing build problems or crashes with 0.4.0.5, including all relays
6232 relying on AccountingMax, should upgrade.
6234 Note that, per our support policy, support for the 0.4.0.x series will end
6235 on 2 Feb 2020. Anyone still running 0.4.0.x should plan to upgrade to the
6236 latest stable release, or downgrade to 0.3.5.x, which will get long-term
6237 support until 1 Feb 2022.
6239 o Directory authority changes (backport from 0.4.1.5):
6240 - The directory authority "dizum" has a new IP address. Closes
6243 o Major bugfixes (bridges, backport from 0.4.1.2-alpha):
6244 - Consider our directory information to have changed when our list
6245 of bridges changes. Previously, Tor would not re-compute the
6246 status of its directory information when bridges changed, and
6247 therefore would not realize that it was no longer able to build
6248 circuits. Fixes part of bug 29875.
6249 - Do not count previously configured working bridges towards our
6250 total of working bridges. Previously, when Tor's list of bridges
6251 changed, it would think that the old bridges were still usable,
6252 and delay fetching router descriptors for the new ones. Fixes part
6253 of bug 29875; bugfix on 0.3.0.1-alpha.
6255 o Major bugfixes (circuit build, guard, backport from 0.4.1.4-rc):
6256 - When considering upgrading circuits from "waiting for guard" to
6257 "open", always ignore circuits that are marked for close. Otherwise,
6258 we can end up in the situation where a subsystem is notified that
6259 a closing circuit has just opened, leading to undesirable
6260 behavior. Fixes bug 30871; bugfix on 0.3.0.1-alpha.
6262 o Major bugfixes (Onion service reachability, backport from 0.4.1.3-alpha):
6263 - Properly clean up the introduction point map when circuits change
6264 purpose from onion service circuits to pathbias, measurement, or
6265 other circuit types. This should fix some service-side instances
6266 of introduction point failure. Fixes bug 29034; bugfix
6269 o Major bugfixes (onion service v3, backport from 0.4.1.1-alpha):
6270 - Fix an unreachable bug in which an introduction point could try to
6271 send an INTRODUCE_ACK with a status code that Trunnel would refuse
6272 to encode, leading the relay to assert(). We've consolidated the
6273 ABI values into Trunnel now. Fixes bug 30454; bugfix
6275 - Clients can now handle unknown status codes from INTRODUCE_ACK
6276 cells. (The NACK behavior will stay the same.) This will allow us
6277 to extend status codes in the future without breaking the normal
6278 client behavior. Fixes another part of bug 30454; bugfix
6281 o Major bugfixes (relay, backport from 0.4.2.3-alpha):
6282 - Relays now respect their AccountingMax bandwidth again. When
6283 relays entered "soft" hibernation (which typically starts when
6284 we've hit 90% of our AccountingMax), we had stopped checking
6285 whether we should enter hard hibernation. Soft hibernation refuses
6286 new connections and new circuits, but the existing circuits can
6287 continue, meaning that relays could have exceeded their configured
6288 AccountingMax. Fixes bug 32108; bugfix on 0.4.0.1-alpha.
6290 o Major bugfixes (torrc parsing, backport from 0.4.2.2-alpha):
6291 - Stop ignoring torrc options after an %include directive, when the
6292 included directory ends with a file that does not contain any
6293 config options (but does contain comments or whitespace). Fixes
6294 bug 31408; bugfix on 0.3.1.1-alpha.
6296 o Major bugfixes (v3 onion services, backport from 0.4.2.3-alpha):
6297 - Onion services now always use the exact number of intro points
6298 configured with the HiddenServiceNumIntroductionPoints option (or
6299 fewer if nodes are excluded). Before, a service could sometimes
6300 pick more intro points than configured. Fixes bug 31548; bugfix
6303 o Minor features (compile-time modules, backport from version 0.4.1.1-alpha):
6304 - Add a "--list-modules" command to print a list of which compile-
6305 time modules are enabled. Closes ticket 30452.
6307 o Minor features (continuous integration, backport from 0.4.1.1-alpha):
6308 - Remove sudo configuration lines from .travis.yml as they are no
6309 longer needed with current Travis build environment. Resolves
6312 o Minor features (continuous integration, backport from 0.4.1.4-rc):
6313 - Our Travis configuration now uses Chutney to run some network
6314 integration tests automatically. Closes ticket 29280.
6316 o Minor features (continuous integration, backport from 0.4.2.2-alpha):
6317 - When building on Appveyor and Travis, pass the "-k" flag to make,
6318 so that we are informed of all compilation failures, not just the
6319 first one or two. Closes ticket 31372.
6321 o Minor features (fallback directory list, backport from 0.4.1.4-rc):
6322 - Replace the 157 fallbacks originally introduced in Tor 0.3.5.6-rc
6323 in December 2018 (of which ~122 were still functional), with a
6324 list of 148 fallbacks (70 new, 78 existing, 79 removed) generated
6325 in June 2019. Closes ticket 28795.
6327 o Minor features (geoip, backport from 0.4.2.5):
6328 - Update geoip and geoip6 to the December 3 2019 Maxmind GeoLite2
6329 Country database. Closes ticket 32685.
6331 o Minor features (stem tests, backport from 0.4.2.1-alpha):
6332 - Change "make test-stem" so it only runs the stem tests that use
6333 tor. This change makes test-stem faster and more reliable. Closes
6336 o Minor bugfixes (Appveyor CI, backport from 0.4.2.2-alpha):
6337 - Avoid spurious errors when Appveyor CI fails before the install step.
6338 Fixes bug 31884; bugfix on 0.3.4.2-alpha.
6340 o Minor bugfixes (build system, backport form 0.4.2.1-alpha):
6341 - Do not include the deprecated <sys/sysctl.h> on Linux or Windows
6342 systems. Fixes bug 31673; bugfix on 0.2.5.4-alpha.
6344 o Minor bugfixes (circuit isolation, backport from 0.4.1.3-alpha):
6345 - Fix a logic error that prevented the SessionGroup sub-option from
6346 being accepted. Fixes bug 22619; bugfix on 0.2.7.2-alpha.
6348 o Minor bugfixes (circuit padding, backport from 0.4.1.4-rc):
6349 - On relays, properly check that a padding machine is absent before
6350 logging a warning about it being absent. Fixes bug 30649; bugfix
6353 o Minor bugfixes (client, onion service v3, backport from 0.4.2.4-rc):
6354 - Fix a BUG() assertion that occurs within a very small race window
6355 between when a client intro circuit opens and when its descriptor
6356 gets cleaned up from the cache. The circuit is now closed early,
6357 which will trigger a re-fetch of the descriptor and continue the
6358 connection. Fixes bug 28970; bugfix on 0.3.2.1-alpha.
6360 o Minor bugfixes (clock skew detection, backport from 0.4.1.5):
6361 - Don't believe clock skew results from NETINFO cells that appear to
6362 arrive before we sent the VERSIONS cells they are responding to.
6363 Previously, we would accept them up to 3 minutes "in the past".
6364 Fixes bug 31343; bugfix on 0.2.4.4-alpha.
6366 o Minor bugfixes (compilation warning, backport from 0.4.1.5):
6367 - Fix a compilation warning on Windows about casting a function
6368 pointer for GetTickCount64(). Fixes bug 31374; bugfix
6371 o Minor bugfixes (compilation, backport from 0.4.1.5):
6372 - Avoid using labs() on time_t, which can cause compilation warnings
6373 on 64-bit Windows builds. Fixes bug 31343; bugfix on 0.2.4.4-alpha.
6375 o Minor bugfixes (compilation, backport from 0.4.2.1-alpha):
6376 - Suppress spurious float-conversion warnings from GCC when calling
6377 floating-point classifier functions on FreeBSD. Fixes part of bug
6378 31687; bugfix on 0.3.1.5-alpha.
6380 o Minor bugfixes (compilation, unusual configurations, backport from 0.4.1.1-alpha):
6381 - Avoid failures when building with the ALL_BUGS_ARE_FATAL option
6382 due to missing declarations of abort(), and prevent other such
6383 failures in the future. Fixes bug 30189; bugfix on 0.3.4.1-alpha.
6385 o Minor bugfixes (configuration, proxies, backport from 0.4.1.2-alpha):
6386 - Fix a bug that prevented us from supporting SOCKS5 proxies that
6387 want authentication along with configured (but unused!)
6388 ClientTransportPlugins. Fixes bug 29670; bugfix on 0.2.6.1-alpha.
6390 o Minor bugfixes (connections, backport from 0.4.2.3-rc):
6391 - Avoid trying to read data from closed connections, which can cause
6392 needless loops in Libevent and infinite loops in Shadow. Fixes bug
6393 30344; bugfix on 0.1.1.1-alpha.
6395 o Minor bugfixes (continuous integration, backport from 0.4.1.3-alpha):
6396 - Allow the test-stem job to fail in Travis, because it sometimes
6397 hangs. Fixes bug 30744; bugfix on 0.3.5.4-alpha.
6398 - Skip test_rebind on macOS in Travis, because it is unreliable on
6399 macOS on Travis. Fixes bug 30713; bugfix on 0.3.5.1-alpha.
6400 - Skip test_rebind when the TOR_SKIP_TEST_REBIND environment
6401 variable is set. Fixes bug 30713; bugfix on 0.3.5.1-alpha.
6403 o Minor bugfixes (crash on exit, backport from 0.4.1.4-rc):
6404 - Avoid a set of possible code paths that could try to use freed
6405 memory in routerlist_free() while Tor was exiting. Fixes bug
6406 31003; bugfix on 0.1.2.2-alpha.
6408 o Minor bugfixes (directory authorities, backport from 0.4.1.3-alpha):
6409 - Stop crashing after parsing an unknown descriptor purpose
6410 annotation. We think this bug can only be triggered by modifying a
6411 local file. Fixes bug 30781; bugfix on 0.2.0.8-alpha.
6413 o Minor bugfixes (directory authority, backport from 0.4.1.2-alpha):
6414 - Move the "bandwidth-file-headers" line in directory authority
6415 votes so that it conforms to dir-spec.txt. Fixes bug 30316; bugfix
6418 o Minor bugfixes (error handling, backport from 0.4.2.1-alpha):
6419 - On abort, try harder to flush the output buffers of log messages.
6420 On some platforms (macOS), log messages could be discarded when
6421 the process terminates. Fixes bug 31571; bugfix on 0.3.5.1-alpha.
6422 - Report the tor version whenever an assertion fails. Previously, we
6423 only reported the Tor version on some crashes, and some non-fatal
6424 assertions. Fixes bug 31571; bugfix on 0.3.5.1-alpha.
6426 o Minor bugfixes (FreeBSD, PF-based proxy, IPv6, backport from 0.4.2.1-alpha):
6427 - When extracting an IPv6 address from a PF-based proxy, verify that
6428 we are actually configured to receive an IPv6 address, and log an
6429 internal error if not. Fixes part of bug 31687; bugfix
6432 o Minor bugfixes (guards, backport from 0.4.2.1-alpha):
6433 - When tor is missing descriptors for some primary entry guards,
6434 make the log message less alarming. It's normal for descriptors to
6435 expire, as long as tor fetches new ones soon after. Fixes bug
6436 31657; bugfix on 0.3.3.1-alpha.
6438 o Minor bugfixes (logging, backport from 0.4.1.1-alpha):
6439 - Do not log a warning when running with an OpenSSL version other
6440 than the one Tor was compiled with, if the two versions should be
6441 compatible. Previously, we would warn whenever the version was
6442 different. Fixes bug 30190; bugfix on 0.2.4.2-alpha.
6444 o Minor bugfixes (logging, backport from 0.4.2.1-alpha):
6445 - Change log level of message "Hash of session info was not as
6446 expected" to LOG_PROTOCOL_WARN. Fixes bug 12399; bugfix
6449 o Minor bugfixes (logging, backport from 0.4.2.2-alpha):
6450 - Rate-limit the logging message about the obsolete .exit
6451 notation. Previously, there was no limit on this warning, which
6452 could potentially be triggered many times by a hostile website.
6453 Fixes bug 31466; bugfix on 0.2.2.1-alpha.
6455 o Minor bugfixes (logging, protocol violations, backport from 0.4.2.2-alpha):
6456 - Do not log a nonfatal assertion failure when receiving a VERSIONS
6457 cell on a connection using the obsolete v1 link protocol. Log a
6458 protocol_warn instead. Fixes bug 31107; bugfix on 0.2.4.4-alpha.
6460 o Minor bugfixes (mainloop, periodic events, in-process API, backport from 0.4.2.3-alpha):
6461 - Reset the periodic events' "enabled" flag when Tor is shut down
6462 cleanly. Previously, this flag was left on, which caused periodic
6463 events not to be re-enabled when Tor was relaunched in-process
6464 with tor_api.h after a shutdown. Fixes bug 32058; bugfix
6467 o Minor bugfixes (memory leak, backport from 0.4.1.1-alpha):
6468 - Avoid a minor memory leak that could occur on relays when failing
6469 to create a "keys" directory. Fixes bug 30148; bugfix
6472 o Minor bugfixes (memory leak, backport from 0.4.1.4-rc):
6473 - Fix a trivial memory leak when parsing an invalid value
6474 from a download schedule in the configuration. Fixes bug
6475 30894; bugfix on 0.3.4.1-alpha.
6477 o Minor bugfixes (NetBSD, backport from 0.4.1.2-alpha):
6478 - Fix usage of minherit() on NetBSD and other platforms that define
6479 MAP_INHERIT_{ZERO,NONE} instead of INHERIT_{ZERO,NONE}. Fixes bug
6480 30614; bugfix on 0.4.0.2-alpha. Patch from Taylor Campbell.
6482 o Minor bugfixes (onion services, backport from 0.4.1.1-alpha):
6483 - Avoid a GCC 9.1.1 warning (and possible crash depending on libc
6484 implementation) when failing to load an onion service client
6485 authorization file. Fixes bug 30475; bugfix on 0.3.5.1-alpha.
6487 o Minor bugfixes (out-of-memory handler, backport from 0.4.1.2-alpha):
6488 - When purging the DNS cache because of an out-of-memory condition,
6489 try purging just the older entries at first. Previously, we would
6490 always purge the whole thing. Fixes bug 29617; bugfix
6493 o Minor bugfixes (portability, backport from 0.4.1.2-alpha):
6494 - Avoid crashing in our tor_vasprintf() implementation on systems
6495 that define neither vasprintf() nor _vscprintf(). (This bug has
6496 been here long enough that we question whether people are running
6497 Tor on such systems, but we're applying the fix out of caution.)
6498 Fixes bug 30561; bugfix on 0.2.8.2-alpha. Found and fixed by
6501 o Minor bugfixes (process management, backport from 0.4.2.3-alpha):
6502 - Remove overly strict assertions that triggered when a pluggable
6503 transport failed to launch. Fixes bug 31091; bugfix
6505 - Remove an assertion in the Unix process backend. This assertion
6506 would trigger when we failed to find the executable for a child
6507 process. Fixes bug 31810; bugfix on 0.4.0.1-alpha.
6509 o Minor bugfixes (relay, backport from 0.4.2.2-alpha):
6510 - Avoid crashing when starting with a corrupt keys directory where
6511 the old ntor key and the new ntor key are identical. Fixes bug
6512 30916; bugfix on 0.2.4.8-alpha.
6514 o Minor bugfixes (rust, backport from 0.4.2.1-alpha):
6515 - Correctly exclude a redundant rust build job in Travis. Fixes bug
6516 31463; bugfix on 0.3.5.4-alpha.
6518 o Minor bugfixes (testing, backport from 0.4.2.3-alpha):
6519 - When testing port rebinding, don't busy-wait for tor to log.
6520 Instead, actually sleep for a short time before polling again.
6521 Also improve the formatting of control commands and log messages.
6522 Fixes bug 31837; bugfix on 0.3.5.1-alpha.
6524 o Minor bugfixes (tls, logging, backport from 0.4.2.3-alpha):
6525 - Log bugs about the TLS read buffer's length only once, rather than
6526 filling the logs with similar warnings. Fixes bug 31939; bugfix
6529 o Minor bugfixes (v2 single onion services, backport from 0.4.2.1-alpha):
6530 - Always retry v2 single onion service intro and rend circuits with
6531 a 3-hop path. Previously, v2 single onion services used a 3-hop
6532 path when rendezvous circuits were retried after a remote or
6533 delayed failure, but a 1-hop path for immediate retries. Fixes bug
6534 23818; bugfix on 0.2.9.3-alpha.
6535 - Make v3 single onion services fall back to a 3-hop intro, when all
6536 intro points are unreachable via a 1-hop path. Previously, v3
6537 single onion services failed when all intro nodes were unreachable
6538 via a 1-hop path. Fixes bug 23507; bugfix on 0.3.2.1-alpha.
6540 o Documentation (backport from 0.4.2.1-alpha):
6541 - Use RFC 2397 data URL scheme to embed an image into tor-exit-
6542 notice.html so that operators no longer have to host it
6543 themselves. Closes ticket 31089.
6545 o Testing (backport from 0.4.1.2-alpha):
6546 - Specify torrc paths (with empty files) when launching tor in
6547 integration tests; refrain from reading user and system torrcs.
6548 Resolves issue 29702.
6550 o Testing (continuous integration, backport from 0.4.1.1-alpha):
6551 - In Travis, show stem's tor log after failure. Closes ticket 30234.
6553 o Testing (continuous integration, backport from 0.4.1.5):
6554 - In Travis, make stem log a controller trace to the console, and
6555 tail stem's tor log after failure. Closes ticket 30591.
6556 - In Travis, only run the stem tests that use a tor binary. Closes
6559 o Testing (continuous integration, backport from 0.4.2.3-alpha):
6560 - Disable all but one Travis CI macOS build, to mitigate slow
6561 scheduling of Travis macOS jobs. Closes ticket 32177.
6562 - Run the chutney IPv6 networks as part of Travis CI. Closes
6564 - Simplify the Travis CI build matrix, and optimise for build time.
6565 Closes ticket 31859.
6566 - Use Windows Server 2019 instead of Windows Server 2016 in our
6567 Appveyor builds. Closes ticket 32086.
6569 o Testing (continuous integration, backport from 0.4.2.4-rc):
6570 - Use Ubuntu Bionic images for our Travis CI builds, so we can get a
6571 recent version of coccinelle. But leave chutney on Ubuntu Trusty,
6572 until we can fix some Bionic permissions issues (see ticket
6573 32240). Related to ticket 31919.
6574 - Install the mingw OpenSSL package in Appveyor. This makes sure
6575 that the OpenSSL headers and libraries match in Tor's Appveyor
6576 builds. (This bug was triggered by an Appveyor image update.)
6577 Fixes bug 32449; bugfix on 0.3.5.6-rc.
6578 - In Travis, use Xcode 11.2 on macOS 10.14. Closes ticket 32241.
6580 o Testing (continuous integration, backport from 0.4.2.5):
6581 - Require C99 standards-conforming code in Travis CI, but allow GNU gcc
6582 extensions. Also activates clang's -Wtypedef-redefinition warnings.
6583 Build some jobs with -std=gnu99, and some jobs without.
6584 Closes ticket 32500.
6586 Changes in version 0.3.5.9 - 2019-12-09
6587 Tor 0.3.5.9 backports serveral fixes from later releases, including
6588 several that affect bridge users, relay stability, onion services,
6591 o Directory authority changes (backport from 0.4.1.5):
6592 - The directory authority "dizum" has a new IP address. Closes
6595 o Major bugfixes (bridges, backport from 0.4.1.2-alpha):
6596 - Consider our directory information to have changed when our list
6597 of bridges changes. Previously, Tor would not re-compute the
6598 status of its directory information when bridges changed, and
6599 therefore would not realize that it was no longer able to build
6600 circuits. Fixes part of bug 29875.
6601 - Do not count previously configured working bridges towards our
6602 total of working bridges. Previously, when Tor's list of bridges
6603 changed, it would think that the old bridges were still usable,
6604 and delay fetching router descriptors for the new ones. Fixes part
6605 of bug 29875; bugfix on 0.3.0.1-alpha.
6607 o Major bugfixes (circuit build, guard, backport from 0.4.1.4-rc):
6608 - When considering upgrading circuits from "waiting for guard" to
6609 "open", always ignore circuits that are marked for close. Otherwise,
6610 we can end up in the situation where a subsystem is notified that
6611 a closing circuit has just opened, leading to undesirable
6612 behavior. Fixes bug 30871; bugfix on 0.3.0.1-alpha.
6614 o Major bugfixes (NSS, relay, backport from 0.4.0.4-rc):
6615 - When running with NSS, disable TLS 1.2 ciphersuites that use
6616 SHA384 for their PRF. Due to an NSS bug, the TLS key exporters for
6617 these ciphersuites don't work -- which caused relays to fail to
6618 handshake with one another when these ciphersuites were enabled.
6619 Fixes bug 29241; bugfix on 0.3.5.1-alpha.
6621 o Major bugfixes (Onion service reachability, backport from 0.4.1.3-alpha):
6622 - Properly clean up the introduction point map when circuits change
6623 purpose from onion service circuits to pathbias, measurement, or
6624 other circuit types. This should fix some service-side instances
6625 of introduction point failure. Fixes bug 29034; bugfix
6628 o Major bugfixes (onion service v3, backport from 0.4.1.1-alpha):
6629 - Fix an unreachable bug in which an introduction point could try to
6630 send an INTRODUCE_ACK with a status code that Trunnel would refuse
6631 to encode, leading the relay to assert(). We've consolidated the
6632 ABI values into Trunnel now. Fixes bug 30454; bugfix
6634 - Clients can now handle unknown status codes from INTRODUCE_ACK
6635 cells. (The NACK behavior will stay the same.) This will allow us
6636 to extend status codes in the future without breaking the normal
6637 client behavior. Fixes another part of bug 30454; bugfix
6640 o Major bugfixes (torrc parsing, backport from 0.4.2.2-alpha):
6641 - Stop ignoring torrc options after an %include directive, when the
6642 included directory ends with a file that does not contain any
6643 config options (but does contain comments or whitespace). Fixes
6644 bug 31408; bugfix on 0.3.1.1-alpha.
6646 o Major bugfixes (v3 onion services, backport from 0.4.2.3-alpha):
6647 - Onion services now always use the exact number of intro points
6648 configured with the HiddenServiceNumIntroductionPoints option (or
6649 fewer if nodes are excluded). Before, a service could sometimes
6650 pick more intro points than configured. Fixes bug 31548; bugfix
6653 o Minor features (address selection, backport from 0.4.0.3-alpha):
6654 - Treat the subnet 100.64.0.0/10 as public for some purposes;
6655 private for others. This subnet is the RFC 6598 (Carrier Grade
6656 NAT) IP range, and is deployed by many ISPs as an alternative to
6657 RFC 1918 that does not break existing internal networks. Tor now
6658 blocks SOCKS and control ports on these addresses and warns users
6659 if client ports or ExtORPorts are listening on a RFC 6598 address.
6660 Closes ticket 28525. Patch by Neel Chauhan.
6662 o Minor features (bandwidth authority, backport from 0.4.0.4-rc):
6663 - Make bandwidth authorities ignore relays that are reported in the
6664 bandwidth file with the flag "vote=0". This change allows us to
6665 report unmeasured relays for diagnostic reasons without including
6666 their bandwidth in the bandwidth authorities' vote. Closes
6669 o Minor features (compile-time modules, backport from version 0.4.1.1-alpha):
6670 - Add a "--list-modules" command to print a list of which compile-
6671 time modules are enabled. Closes ticket 30452.
6673 o Minor features (continuous integration, backport from 0.4.0.4-rc):
6674 - On Travis Rust builds, cleanup Rust registry and refrain from
6675 caching the "target/" directory to speed up builds. Resolves
6678 o Minor features (continuous integration, backport from 0.4.0.5):
6679 - In Travis, tell timelimit to use stem's backtrace signals, and
6680 launch python directly from timelimit, so python receives the
6681 signals from timelimit, rather than make. Closes ticket 30117.
6683 o Minor features (continuous integration, backport from 0.4.1.1-alpha):
6684 - Remove sudo configuration lines from .travis.yml as they are no
6685 longer needed with current Travis build environment. Resolves
6688 o Minor features (continuous integration, backport from 0.4.1.4-rc):
6689 - Our Travis configuration now uses Chutney to run some network
6690 integration tests automatically. Closes ticket 29280.
6692 o Minor features (continuous integration, backport from 0.4.2.2-alpha):
6693 - When building on Appveyor and Travis, pass the "-k" flag to make,
6694 so that we are informed of all compilation failures, not just the
6695 first one or two. Closes ticket 31372.
6697 o Minor features (fallback directory list, backport from 0.4.1.4-rc):
6698 - Replace the 157 fallbacks originally introduced in Tor 0.3.5.6-rc
6699 in December 2018 (of which ~122 were still functional), with a
6700 list of 148 fallbacks (70 new, 78 existing, 79 removed) generated
6701 in June 2019. Closes ticket 28795.
6703 o Minor features (geoip, backport from 0.4.2.5):
6704 - Update geoip and geoip6 to the December 3 2019 Maxmind GeoLite2
6705 Country database. Closes ticket 32685.
6707 o Minor features (NSS, diagnostic, backport from 0.4.0.4-rc):
6708 - Try to log an error from NSS (if there is any) and a more useful
6709 description of our situation if we are using NSS and a call to
6710 SSL_ExportKeyingMaterial() fails. Diagnostic for ticket 29241.
6712 o Minor features (stem tests, backport from 0.4.2.1-alpha):
6713 - Change "make test-stem" so it only runs the stem tests that use
6714 tor. This change makes test-stem faster and more reliable. Closes
6717 o Minor bugfixes (security, backport from 0.4.0.4-rc):
6718 - Verify in more places that we are not about to create a buffer
6719 with more than INT_MAX bytes, to avoid possible OOB access in the
6720 event of bugs. Fixes bug 30041; bugfix on 0.2.0.16. Found and
6721 fixed by Tobias Stoeckmann.
6722 - Fix a potential double free bug when reading huge bandwidth files.
6723 The issue is not exploitable in the current Tor network because
6724 the vulnerable code is only reached when directory authorities
6725 read bandwidth files, but bandwidth files come from a trusted
6726 source (usually the authorities themselves). Furthermore, the
6727 issue is only exploitable in rare (non-POSIX) 32-bit architectures,
6728 which are not used by any of the current authorities. Fixes bug
6729 30040; bugfix on 0.3.5.1-alpha. Bug found and fixed by
6732 o Minor bugfix (continuous integration, backport from 0.4.0.4-rc):
6733 - Reset coverage state on disk after Travis CI has finished. This
6734 should prevent future coverage merge errors from causing the test
6735 suite for the "process" subsystem to fail. The process subsystem
6736 was introduced in 0.4.0.1-alpha. Fixes bug 29036; bugfix
6738 - Terminate test-stem if it takes more than 9.5 minutes to run.
6739 (Travis terminates the job after 10 minutes of no output.)
6740 Diagnostic for 29437. Fixes bug 30011; bugfix on 0.3.5.4-alpha.
6742 o Minor bugfixes (Appveyor CI, backport from 0.4.2.2-alpha):
6743 - Avoid spurious errors when Appveyor CI fails before the install step.
6744 Fixes bug 31884; bugfix on 0.3.4.2-alpha.
6746 o Minor bugfixes (build system, backport form 0.4.2.1-alpha):
6747 - Do not include the deprecated <sys/sysctl.h> on Linux or Windows
6748 systems. Fixes bug 31673; bugfix on 0.2.5.4-alpha.
6750 o Minor bugfixes (C correctness, backport from 0.4.0.4-rc):
6751 - Fix an unlikely memory leak in consensus_diff_apply(). Fixes bug
6752 29824; bugfix on 0.3.1.1-alpha. This is Coverity warning
6755 o Minor bugfixes (circuit isolation, backport from 0.4.1.3-alpha):
6756 - Fix a logic error that prevented the SessionGroup sub-option from
6757 being accepted. Fixes bug 22619; bugfix on 0.2.7.2-alpha.
6759 o Minor bugfixes (client, onion service v3, backport from 0.4.2.4-rc):
6760 - Fix a BUG() assertion that occurs within a very small race window
6761 between when a client intro circuit opens and when its descriptor
6762 gets cleaned up from the cache. The circuit is now closed early,
6763 which will trigger a re-fetch of the descriptor and continue the
6764 connection. Fixes bug 28970; bugfix on 0.3.2.1-alpha.
6766 o Minor bugfixes (clock skew detection, backport from 0.4.1.5):
6767 - Don't believe clock skew results from NETINFO cells that appear to
6768 arrive before we sent the VERSIONS cells they are responding to.
6769 Previously, we would accept them up to 3 minutes "in the past".
6770 Fixes bug 31343; bugfix on 0.2.4.4-alpha.
6772 o Minor bugfixes (compilation warning, backport from 0.4.1.5):
6773 - Fix a compilation warning on Windows about casting a function
6774 pointer for GetTickCount64(). Fixes bug 31374; bugfix
6777 o Minor bugfixes (compilation, backport from 0.4.0.2-alpha):
6778 - Silence a compiler warning in test-memwipe.c on OpenBSD. Fixes bug
6779 29145; bugfix on 0.2.9.3-alpha. Patch from Kris Katterjohn.
6781 o Minor bugfixes (compilation, backport from 0.4.1.5):
6782 - Avoid using labs() on time_t, which can cause compilation warnings
6783 on 64-bit Windows builds. Fixes bug 31343; bugfix on 0.2.4.4-alpha.
6785 o Minor bugfixes (compilation, backport from 0.4.2.1-alpha):
6786 - Suppress spurious float-conversion warnings from GCC when calling
6787 floating-point classifier functions on FreeBSD. Fixes part of bug
6788 31687; bugfix on 0.3.1.5-alpha.
6790 o Minor bugfixes (compilation, unusual configurations, backport from 0.4.1.1-alpha):
6791 - Avoid failures when building with the ALL_BUGS_ARE_FATAL option
6792 due to missing declarations of abort(), and prevent other such
6793 failures in the future. Fixes bug 30189; bugfix on 0.3.4.1-alpha.
6795 o Minor bugfixes (configuration, proxies, backport from 0.4.1.2-alpha):
6796 - Fix a bug that prevented us from supporting SOCKS5 proxies that
6797 want authentication along with configured (but unused!)
6798 ClientTransportPlugins. Fixes bug 29670; bugfix on 0.2.6.1-alpha.
6800 o Minor bugfixes (connections, backport from 0.4.2.3-rc):
6801 - Avoid trying to read data from closed connections, which can cause
6802 needless loops in Libevent and infinite loops in Shadow. Fixes bug
6803 30344; bugfix on 0.1.1.1-alpha.
6805 o Minor bugfixes (continuous integration, backport from 0.4.1.3-alpha):
6806 - Allow the test-stem job to fail in Travis, because it sometimes
6807 hangs. Fixes bug 30744; bugfix on 0.3.5.4-alpha.
6808 - Skip test_rebind on macOS in Travis, because it is unreliable on
6809 macOS on Travis. Fixes bug 30713; bugfix on 0.3.5.1-alpha.
6810 - Skip test_rebind when the TOR_SKIP_TEST_REBIND environment
6811 variable is set. Fixes bug 30713; bugfix on 0.3.5.1-alpha.
6813 o Minor bugfixes (crash on exit, backport from 0.4.1.4-rc):
6814 - Avoid a set of possible code paths that could try to use freed
6815 memory in routerlist_free() while Tor was exiting. Fixes bug
6816 31003; bugfix on 0.1.2.2-alpha.
6818 o Minor bugfixes (directory authorities, backport from 0.4.1.3-alpha):
6819 - Stop crashing after parsing an unknown descriptor purpose
6820 annotation. We think this bug can only be triggered by modifying a
6821 local file. Fixes bug 30781; bugfix on 0.2.0.8-alpha.
6823 o Minor bugfixes (directory authority, backport from 0.4.1.2-alpha):
6824 - Move the "bandwidth-file-headers" line in directory authority
6825 votes so that it conforms to dir-spec.txt. Fixes bug 30316; bugfix
6828 o Minor bugfixes (error handling, backport from 0.4.2.1-alpha):
6829 - On abort, try harder to flush the output buffers of log messages.
6830 On some platforms (macOS), log messages could be discarded when
6831 the process terminates. Fixes bug 31571; bugfix on 0.3.5.1-alpha.
6832 - Report the tor version whenever an assertion fails. Previously, we
6833 only reported the Tor version on some crashes, and some non-fatal
6834 assertions. Fixes bug 31571; bugfix on 0.3.5.1-alpha.
6836 o Minor bugfixes (FreeBSD, PF-based proxy, IPv6, backport from 0.4.2.1-alpha):
6837 - When extracting an IPv6 address from a PF-based proxy, verify that
6838 we are actually configured to receive an IPv6 address, and log an
6839 internal error if not. Fixes part of bug 31687; bugfix
6842 o Minor bugfixes (guards, backport from 0.4.2.1-alpha):
6843 - When tor is missing descriptors for some primary entry guards,
6844 make the log message less alarming. It's normal for descriptors to
6845 expire, as long as tor fetches new ones soon after. Fixes bug
6846 31657; bugfix on 0.3.3.1-alpha.
6848 o Minor bugfixes (logging, backport from 0.4.0.2-alpha):
6849 - Avoid logging that we are relaxing a circuit timeout when that
6850 timeout is fixed. Fixes bug 28698; bugfix on 0.2.4.7-alpha.
6852 o Minor bugfixes (logging, backport from 0.4.0.3-alpha):
6853 - Correct a misleading error message when IPv4Only or IPv6Only is
6854 used but the resolved address can not be interpreted as an address
6855 of the specified IP version. Fixes bug 13221; bugfix on
6856 0.2.3.9-alpha. Patch from Kris Katterjohn.
6857 - Log the correct port number for listening sockets when "auto" is
6858 used to let Tor pick the port number. Previously, port 0 was
6859 logged instead of the actual port number. Fixes bug 29144; bugfix
6860 on 0.3.5.1-alpha. Patch from Kris Katterjohn.
6861 - Stop logging a BUG() warning when Tor is waiting for exit
6862 descriptors. Fixes bug 28656; bugfix on 0.3.5.1-alpha.
6864 o Minor bugfixes (logging, backport from 0.4.1.1-alpha):
6865 - Do not log a warning when running with an OpenSSL version other
6866 than the one Tor was compiled with, if the two versions should be
6867 compatible. Previously, we would warn whenever the version was
6868 different. Fixes bug 30190; bugfix on 0.2.4.2-alpha.
6870 o Minor bugfixes (logging, backport from 0.4.2.1-alpha):
6871 - Change log level of message "Hash of session info was not as
6872 expected" to LOG_PROTOCOL_WARN. Fixes bug 12399; bugfix
6875 o Minor bugfixes (logging, backport from 0.4.2.2-alpha):
6876 - Rate-limit the logging message about the obsolete .exit
6877 notation. Previously, there was no limit on this warning, which
6878 could potentially be triggered many times by a hostile website.
6879 Fixes bug 31466; bugfix on 0.2.2.1-alpha.
6881 o Minor bugfixes (logging, protocol violations, backport from 0.4.2.2-alpha):
6882 - Do not log a nonfatal assertion failure when receiving a VERSIONS
6883 cell on a connection using the obsolete v1 link protocol. Log a
6884 protocol_warn instead. Fixes bug 31107; bugfix on 0.2.4.4-alpha.
6886 o Minor bugfixes (mainloop, periodic events, in-process API, backport from 0.4.2.3-alpha):
6887 - Reset the periodic events' "enabled" flag when Tor is shut down
6888 cleanly. Previously, this flag was left on, which caused periodic
6889 events not to be re-enabled when Tor was relaunched in-process
6890 with tor_api.h after a shutdown. Fixes bug 32058; bugfix
6893 o Minor bugfixes (memory leak, backport from 0.4.1.1-alpha):
6894 - Avoid a minor memory leak that could occur on relays when failing
6895 to create a "keys" directory. Fixes bug 30148; bugfix
6898 o Minor bugfixes (memory leak, backport from 0.4.1.4-rc):
6899 - Fix a trivial memory leak when parsing an invalid value
6900 from a download schedule in the configuration. Fixes bug
6901 30894; bugfix on 0.3.4.1-alpha.
6903 o Minor bugfixes (memory management, backport from 0.4.0.3-alpha):
6904 - Refactor the shared random state's memory management so that it
6905 actually takes ownership of the shared random value pointers.
6906 Fixes bug 29706; bugfix on 0.2.9.1-alpha.
6908 o Minor bugfixes (memory management, testing, backport from 0.4.0.3-alpha):
6909 - Stop leaking parts of the shared random state in the shared-random
6910 unit tests. Fixes bug 29599; bugfix on 0.2.9.1-alpha.
6912 o Minor bugfixes (onion services, backport from 0.4.1.1-alpha):
6913 - Avoid a GCC 9.1.1 warning (and possible crash depending on libc
6914 implementation) when failing to load an onion service client
6915 authorization file. Fixes bug 30475; bugfix on 0.3.5.1-alpha.
6917 o Minor bugfixes (out-of-memory handler, backport from 0.4.1.2-alpha):
6918 - When purging the DNS cache because of an out-of-memory condition,
6919 try purging just the older entries at first. Previously, we would
6920 always purge the whole thing. Fixes bug 29617; bugfix
6923 o Minor bugfixes (portability, backport from 0.4.1.2-alpha):
6924 - Avoid crashing in our tor_vasprintf() implementation on systems
6925 that define neither vasprintf() nor _vscprintf(). (This bug has
6926 been here long enough that we question whether people are running
6927 Tor on such systems, but we're applying the fix out of caution.)
6928 Fixes bug 30561; bugfix on 0.2.8.2-alpha. Found and fixed by
6931 o Minor bugfixes (relay, backport from 0.4.2.2-alpha):
6932 - Avoid crashing when starting with a corrupt keys directory where
6933 the old ntor key and the new ntor key are identical. Fixes bug
6934 30916; bugfix on 0.2.4.8-alpha.
6936 o Minor bugfixes (rust, backport from 0.4.0.5):
6937 - Abort on panic in all build profiles, instead of potentially
6938 unwinding into C code. Fixes bug 27199; bugfix on 0.3.3.1-alpha.
6940 o Minor bugfixes (rust, backport from 0.4.2.1-alpha):
6941 - Correctly exclude a redundant rust build job in Travis. Fixes bug
6942 31463; bugfix on 0.3.5.4-alpha.
6944 o Minor bugfixes (single onion services, backport from 0.4.0.3-alpha):
6945 - Allow connections to single onion services to remain idle without
6946 being disconnected. Previously, relays acting as rendezvous points
6947 for single onion services were mistakenly closing idle rendezvous
6948 circuits after 60 seconds, thinking that they were unused
6949 directory-fetching circuits that had served their purpose. Fixes
6950 bug 29665; bugfix on 0.2.1.26.
6952 o Minor bugfixes (stats, backport from 0.4.0.3-alpha):
6953 - When ExtraInfoStatistics is 0, stop including PaddingStatistics in
6954 relay and bridge extra-info documents. Fixes bug 29017; bugfix
6957 o Minor bugfixes (testing, backport from 0.4.0.3-alpha):
6958 - Downgrade some LOG_ERR messages in the address/* tests to
6959 warnings. The LOG_ERR messages were occurring when we had no
6960 configured network. We were failing the unit tests, because we
6961 backported 28668 to 0.3.5.8, but did not backport 29530. Fixes bug
6962 29530; bugfix on 0.3.5.8.
6963 - Fix our gcov wrapper script to look for object files at the
6964 correct locations. Fixes bug 29435; bugfix on 0.3.5.1-alpha.
6966 o Minor bugfixes (testing, backport from 0.4.0.4-rc):
6967 - Backport the 0.3.4 src/test/test-network.sh to 0.2.9. We need a
6968 recent test-network.sh to use new chutney features in CI. Fixes
6969 bug 29703; bugfix on 0.2.9.1-alpha.
6970 - Fix a test failure on Windows caused by an unexpected "BUG"
6971 warning in our tests for tor_gmtime_r(-1). Fixes bug 29922; bugfix
6974 o Minor bugfixes (testing, backport from 0.4.2.3-alpha):
6975 - When testing port rebinding, don't busy-wait for tor to log.
6976 Instead, actually sleep for a short time before polling again.
6977 Also improve the formatting of control commands and log messages.
6978 Fixes bug 31837; bugfix on 0.3.5.1-alpha.
6980 o Minor bugfixes (TLS protocol, backport form 0.4.0.4-rc):
6981 - When classifying a client's selection of TLS ciphers, if the
6982 client ciphers are not yet available, do not cache the result.
6983 Previously, we had cached the unavailability of the cipher list
6984 and never looked again, which in turn led us to assume that the
6985 client only supported the ancient V1 link protocol. This, in turn,
6986 was causing Stem integration tests to stall in some cases. Fixes
6987 bug 30021; bugfix on 0.2.4.8-alpha.
6989 o Minor bugfixes (tls, logging, backport from 0.4.2.3-alpha):
6990 - Log bugs about the TLS read buffer's length only once, rather than
6991 filling the logs with similar warnings. Fixes bug 31939; bugfix
6994 o Minor bugfixes (v2 single onion services, backport from 0.4.2.1-alpha):
6995 - Always retry v2 single onion service intro and rend circuits with
6996 a 3-hop path. Previously, v2 single onion services used a 3-hop
6997 path when rendezvous circuits were retried after a remote or
6998 delayed failure, but a 1-hop path for immediate retries. Fixes bug
6999 23818; bugfix on 0.2.9.3-alpha.
7000 - Make v3 single onion services fall back to a 3-hop intro, when all
7001 intro points are unreachable via a 1-hop path. Previously, v3
7002 single onion services failed when all intro nodes were unreachable
7003 via a 1-hop path. Fixes bug 23507; bugfix on 0.3.2.1-alpha.
7005 o Minor bugfixes (Windows, CI, backport from 0.4.0.3-alpha):
7006 - Skip the Appveyor 32-bit Windows Server 2016 job, and 64-bit
7007 Windows Server 2012 R2 job. The remaining 2 jobs still provide
7008 coverage of 64/32-bit, and Windows Server 2016/2012 R2. Also set
7009 fast_finish, so failed jobs terminate the build immediately. Fixes
7010 bug 29601; bugfix on 0.3.5.4-alpha.
7012 o Documentation (backport from 0.4.2.1-alpha):
7013 - Use RFC 2397 data URL scheme to embed an image into tor-exit-
7014 notice.html so that operators no longer have to host it
7015 themselves. Closes ticket 31089.
7017 o Testing (backport from 0.4.1.2-alpha):
7018 - Specify torrc paths (with empty files) when launching tor in
7019 integration tests; refrain from reading user and system torrcs.
7020 Resolves issue 29702.
7022 o Testing (continuous integration, backport from 0.4.1.1-alpha):
7023 - In Travis, show stem's tor log after failure. Closes ticket 30234.
7025 o Testing (continuous integration, backport from 0.4.1.5):
7026 - In Travis, make stem log a controller trace to the console, and
7027 tail stem's tor log after failure. Closes ticket 30591.
7028 - In Travis, only run the stem tests that use a tor binary. Closes
7031 o Testing (continuous integration, backport from 0.4.2.3-alpha):
7032 - Disable all but one Travis CI macOS build, to mitigate slow
7033 scheduling of Travis macOS jobs. Closes ticket 32177.
7034 - Run the chutney IPv6 networks as part of Travis CI. Closes
7036 - Simplify the Travis CI build matrix, and optimise for build time.
7037 Closes ticket 31859.
7038 - Use Windows Server 2019 instead of Windows Server 2016 in our
7039 Appveyor builds. Closes ticket 32086.
7041 o Testing (continuous integration, backport from 0.4.2.4-rc):
7042 - Use Ubuntu Bionic images for our Travis CI builds, so we can get a
7043 recent version of coccinelle. But leave chutney on Ubuntu Trusty,
7044 until we can fix some Bionic permissions issues (see ticket
7045 32240). Related to ticket 31919.
7046 - Install the mingw OpenSSL package in Appveyor. This makes sure
7047 that the OpenSSL headers and libraries match in Tor's Appveyor
7048 builds. (This bug was triggered by an Appveyor image update.)
7049 Fixes bug 32449; bugfix on 0.3.5.6-rc.
7050 - In Travis, use Xcode 11.2 on macOS 10.14. Closes ticket 32241.
7052 o Testing (continuous integration, backport from 0.4.2.5):
7053 - Require C99 standards-conforming code in Travis CI, but allow GNU gcc
7054 extensions. Also activates clang's -Wtypedef-redefinition warnings.
7055 Build some jobs with -std=gnu99, and some jobs without.
7056 Closes ticket 32500.
7058 Changes in version 0.4.2.4-rc - 2019-11-15
7059 Tor 0.4.2.4-rc is the first release candidate in its series. It fixes
7060 several bugs from earlier versions, including a few that would result in
7061 stack traces or incorrect behavior.
7063 o Minor features (build system):
7064 - Make pkg-config use --prefix when cross-compiling, if
7065 PKG_CONFIG_PATH is not set. Closes ticket 32191.
7067 o Minor features (geoip):
7068 - Update geoip and geoip6 to the November 6 2019 Maxmind GeoLite2
7069 Country database. Closes ticket 32440.
7071 o Minor bugfixes (client, onion service v3):
7072 - Fix a BUG() assertion that occurs within a very small race window
7073 between when a client intro circuit opens and when its descriptor
7074 gets cleaned up from the cache. The circuit is now closed early,
7075 which will trigger a re-fetch of the descriptor and continue the
7076 connection. Fixes bug 28970; bugfix on 0.3.2.1-alpha.
7078 o Minor bugfixes (code quality):
7079 - Fix "make check-includes" so it runs correctly on out-of-tree
7080 builds. Fixes bug 31335; bugfix on 0.3.5.1-alpha.
7082 o Minor bugfixes (configuration):
7083 - Log the option name when skipping an obsolete option. Fixes bug
7084 32295; bugfix on 0.4.2.1-alpha.
7086 o Minor bugfixes (crash):
7087 - When running Tor with an option like --verify-config or
7088 --dump-config that does not start the event loop, avoid crashing
7089 if we try to exit early because of an error. Fixes bug 32407;
7090 bugfix on 0.3.3.1-alpha.
7092 o Minor bugfixes (directory):
7093 - When checking if a directory connection is anonymous, test if the
7094 circuit was marked for close before looking at its channel. This
7095 avoids a BUG() stacktrace if the circuit was previously closed.
7096 Fixes bug 31958; bugfix on 0.4.2.1-alpha.
7098 o Minor bugfixes (shellcheck):
7099 - Fix minor shellcheck errors in the git-*.sh scripts. Fixes bug
7100 32402; bugfix on 0.4.2.1-alpha.
7101 - Start checking most scripts for shellcheck errors again. Fixes bug
7102 32402; bugfix on 0.4.2.1-alpha.
7104 o Testing (continuous integration):
7105 - Use Ubuntu Bionic images for our Travis CI builds, so we can get a
7106 recent version of coccinelle. But leave chutney on Ubuntu Trusty,
7107 until we can fix some Bionic permissions issues (see ticket
7108 32240). Related to ticket 31919.
7109 - Install the mingw OpenSSL package in Appveyor. This makes sure
7110 that the OpenSSL headers and libraries match in Tor's Appveyor
7111 builds. (This bug was triggered by an Appveyor image update.)
7112 Fixes bug 32449; bugfix on 0.3.5.6-rc.
7113 - In Travis, use Xcode 11.2 on macOS 10.14. Closes ticket 32241.
7116 Changes in version 0.4.2.3-alpha - 2019-10-24
7117 This release fixes several bugs from the previous alpha release, and
7118 from earlier versions of Tor.
7120 o Major bugfixes (relay):
7121 - Relays now respect their AccountingMax bandwidth again. When
7122 relays entered "soft" hibernation (which typically starts when
7123 we've hit 90% of our AccountingMax), we had stopped checking
7124 whether we should enter hard hibernation. Soft hibernation refuses
7125 new connections and new circuits, but the existing circuits can
7126 continue, meaning that relays could have exceeded their configured
7127 AccountingMax. Fixes bug 32108; bugfix on 0.4.0.1-alpha.
7129 o Major bugfixes (v3 onion services):
7130 - Onion services now always use the exact number of intro points
7131 configured with the HiddenServiceNumIntroductionPoints option (or
7132 fewer if nodes are excluded). Before, a service could sometimes
7133 pick more intro points than configured. Fixes bug 31548; bugfix
7136 o Minor feature (onion services, control port):
7137 - The ADD_ONION command's keyword "BEST" now defaults to ED25519-V3
7138 (v3) onion services. Previously it defaulted to RSA1024 (v2).
7139 Closes ticket 29669.
7141 o Minor features (testing):
7142 - When running tests that attempt to look up hostnames, replace the
7143 libc name lookup functions with ones that do not actually touch
7144 the network. This way, the tests complete more quickly in the
7145 presence of a slow or missing DNS resolver. Closes ticket 31841.
7147 o Minor features (testing, continuous integration):
7148 - Disable all but one Travis CI macOS build, to mitigate slow
7149 scheduling of Travis macOS jobs. Closes ticket 32177.
7150 - Run the chutney IPv6 networks as part of Travis CI. Closes
7152 - Simplify the Travis CI build matrix, and optimise for build time.
7153 Closes ticket 31859.
7154 - Use Windows Server 2019 instead of Windows Server 2016 in our
7155 Appveyor builds. Closes ticket 32086.
7157 o Minor bugfixes (build system):
7158 - Interpret "--disable-module-dirauth=no" correctly. Fixes bug
7159 32124; bugfix on 0.3.4.1-alpha.
7160 - Interpret "--with-tcmalloc=no" correctly. Fixes bug 32124; bugfix
7162 - Stop failing when jemalloc is requested, but tcmalloc is not
7163 found. Fixes bug 32124; bugfix on 0.3.5.1-alpha.
7164 - When pkg-config is not installed, or a library that depends on
7165 pkg-config is not found, tell the user what to do to fix the
7166 problem. Fixes bug 31922; bugfix on 0.3.1.1-alpha.
7168 o Minor bugfixes (connections):
7169 - Avoid trying to read data from closed connections, which can cause
7170 needless loops in Libevent and infinite loops in Shadow. Fixes bug
7171 30344; bugfix on 0.1.1.1-alpha.
7173 o Minor bugfixes (error handling):
7174 - Always lock the backtrace buffer before it is used. Fixes bug
7175 31734; bugfix on 0.2.5.3-alpha.
7177 o Minor bugfixes (mainloop, periodic events, in-process API):
7178 - Reset the periodic events' "enabled" flag when Tor is shut down
7179 cleanly. Previously, this flag was left on, which caused periodic
7180 events not to be re-enabled when Tor was relaunched in-process
7181 with tor_api.h after a shutdown. Fixes bug 32058; bugfix
7184 o Minor bugfixes (process management):
7185 - Remove overly strict assertions that triggered when a pluggable
7186 transport failed to launch. Fixes bug 31091; bugfix
7188 - Remove an assertion in the Unix process backend. This assertion
7189 would trigger when we failed to find the executable for a child
7190 process. Fixes bug 31810; bugfix on 0.4.0.1-alpha.
7192 o Minor bugfixes (testing):
7193 - Avoid intermittent test failures due to a test that had relied on
7194 inconsistent timing sources. Fixes bug 31995; bugfix
7196 - When testing port rebinding, don't busy-wait for tor to log.
7197 Instead, actually sleep for a short time before polling again.
7198 Also improve the formatting of control commands and log messages.
7199 Fixes bug 31837; bugfix on 0.3.5.1-alpha.
7201 o Minor bugfixes (tls, logging):
7202 - Log bugs about the TLS read buffer's length only once, rather than
7203 filling the logs with similar warnings. Fixes bug 31939; bugfix
7206 o Minor bugfixes (v3 onion services):
7207 - Fix an implicit conversion from ssize_t to size_t discovered by
7208 Coverity. Fixes bug 31682; bugfix on 0.4.2.1-alpha.
7209 - Fix a memory leak in an unlikely error code path when encoding HS
7210 DoS establish intro extension cell. Fixes bug 32063; bugfix
7212 - When cleaning up intro circuits for a v3 onion service, don't
7213 remove circuits that have an established or pending circuit, even
7214 if they ran out of retries. This way, we don't remove a circuit on
7215 its last retry. Fixes bug 31652; bugfix on 0.3.2.1-alpha.
7218 - Correct the description of "GuardLifetime". Fixes bug 31189;
7219 bugfix on 0.3.0.1-alpha.
7220 - Make clear in the man page, in both the bandwidth section and the
7221 AccountingMax section, that Tor counts in powers of two, not
7222 powers of ten: 1 GByte is 1024*1024*1024 bytes, not one billion
7223 bytes. Resolves ticket 32106.
7226 Changes in version 0.4.2.2-alpha - 2019-10-07
7227 This release fixes several bugs from the previous alpha release, and
7228 from earlier versions. It also includes a change in authorities, so
7229 that they begin to reject the currently unsupported release series.
7231 o Major features (directory authorities):
7232 - Directory authorities now reject relays running all currently
7233 deprecated release series. The currently supported release series
7234 are: 0.2.9, 0.3.5, 0.4.0, 0.4.1, and 0.4.2. Closes ticket 31549.
7236 o Major bugfixes (embedded Tor):
7237 - Avoid a possible crash when restarting Tor in embedded mode and
7238 enabling a different set of publish/subscribe messages. Fixes bug
7239 31898; bugfix on 0.4.1.1-alpha.
7241 o Major bugfixes (torrc parsing):
7242 - Stop ignoring torrc options after an %include directive, when the
7243 included directory ends with a file that does not contain any
7244 config options (but does contain comments or whitespace). Fixes
7245 bug 31408; bugfix on 0.3.1.1-alpha.
7247 o Minor features (auto-formatting scripts):
7248 - When annotating C macros, never generate a line that our check-
7249 spaces script would reject. Closes ticket 31759.
7250 - When annotating C macros, try to remove cases of double-negation.
7251 Closes ticket 31779.
7253 o Minor features (continuous integration):
7254 - When building on Appveyor and Travis, pass the "-k" flag to make,
7255 so that we are informed of all compilation failures, not just the
7256 first one or two. Closes ticket 31372.
7258 o Minor features (geoip):
7259 - Update geoip and geoip6 to the October 1 2019 Maxmind GeoLite2
7260 Country database. Closes ticket 31931.
7262 o Minor features (maintenance scripts):
7263 - Add a Coccinelle script to detect bugs caused by incrementing or
7264 decrementing a variable inside a call to log_debug(). Since
7265 log_debug() is a macro whose arguments are conditionally
7266 evaluated, it is usually an error to do this. One such bug was
7267 30628, in which SENDME cells were miscounted by a decrement
7268 operator inside a log_debug() call. Closes ticket 30743.
7270 o Minor features (onion services v3):
7271 - Assist users who try to setup v2 client authorization in v3 onion
7272 services by pointing them to the right documentation. Closes
7275 o Minor bugfixes (Appveyor continuous integration):
7276 - Avoid spurious errors when Appveyor CI fails before the install
7277 step. Fixes bug 31884; bugfix on 0.3.4.2-alpha.
7279 o Minor bugfixes (best practices tracker):
7280 - When listing overbroad exceptions, do not also list problems, and
7281 do not list insufficiently broad exceptions. Fixes bug 31338;
7282 bugfix on 0.4.2.1-alpha.
7284 o Minor bugfixes (controller protocol):
7285 - Fix the MAPADDRESS controller command to accept one or more
7286 arguments. Previously, it required two or more arguments, and
7287 ignored the first. Fixes bug 31772; bugfix on 0.4.1.1-alpha.
7289 o Minor bugfixes (logging):
7290 - Add a missing check for HAVE_PTHREAD_H, because the backtrace code
7291 uses mutexes. Fixes bug 31614; bugfix on 0.2.5.2-alpha.
7292 - Disable backtrace signal handlers when shutting down tor. Fixes
7293 bug 31614; bugfix on 0.2.5.2-alpha.
7294 - Rate-limit the logging message about the obsolete .exit
7295 notation. Previously, there was no limit on this warning, which
7296 could potentially be triggered many times by a hostile website.
7297 Fixes bug 31466; bugfix on 0.2.2.1-alpha.
7298 - When initialising log domain masks, only set known log domains.
7299 Fixes bug 31854; bugfix on 0.2.1.1-alpha.
7301 o Minor bugfixes (logging, protocol violations):
7302 - Do not log a nonfatal assertion failure when receiving a VERSIONS
7303 cell on a connection using the obsolete v1 link protocol. Log a
7304 protocol_warn instead. Fixes bug 31107; bugfix on 0.2.4.4-alpha.
7306 o Minor bugfixes (modules):
7307 - Explain what the optional Directory Authority module is, and what
7308 happens when it is disabled. Fixes bug 31825; bugfix
7311 o Minor bugfixes (multithreading):
7312 - Avoid some undefined behaviour when freeing mutexes. Fixes bug
7313 31736; bugfix on 0.0.7.
7315 o Minor bugfixes (relay):
7316 - Avoid crashing when starting with a corrupt keys directory where
7317 the old ntor key and the new ntor key are identical. Fixes bug
7318 30916; bugfix on 0.2.4.8-alpha.
7320 o Minor bugfixes (tests, SunOS):
7321 - Avoid a map_anon_nofork test failure due to a signed/unsigned
7322 integer comparison. Fixes bug 31897; bugfix on 0.4.1.1-alpha.
7324 o Code simplification and refactoring:
7325 - Refactor connection_control_process_inbuf() to reduce the size of
7326 a practracker exception. Closes ticket 31840.
7327 - Refactor the microdescs_parse_from_string() function into smaller
7328 pieces, for better comprehensibility. Closes ticket 31675.
7329 - Use SEVERITY_MASK_IDX() to find the LOG_* mask indexes in the unit
7330 tests and fuzzers, rather than using hard-coded values. Closes
7332 - Interface for function `decrypt_desc_layer` cleaned up. Closes
7336 - Document the signal-safe logging behaviour in the tor man page.
7337 Also add some comments to the relevant functions. Closes
7339 - Explain why we can't destroy the backtrace buffer mutex. Explain
7340 why we don't need to destroy the log mutex. Closes ticket 31736.
7341 - The Tor source code repository now includes a (somewhat dated)
7342 description of Tor's modular architecture, in doc/HACKING/design.
7343 This is based on the old "tor-guts.git" repository, which we are
7344 adopting and superseding. Closes ticket 31849.
7347 Changes in version 0.4.1.6 - 2019-09-19
7348 This release backports several bugfixes to improve stability and
7349 correctness. Anyone experiencing build problems or crashes with 0.4.1.5,
7350 or experiencing reliability issues with single onion services, should
7353 o Major bugfixes (crash, Linux, Android, backport from 0.4.2.1-alpha):
7354 - Tolerate systems (including some Android installations) where
7355 madvise and MADV_DONTDUMP are available at build-time, but not at
7356 run time. Previously, these systems would notice a failed syscall
7357 and abort. Fixes bug 31570; bugfix on 0.4.1.1-alpha.
7358 - Tolerate systems (including some Linux installations) where
7359 madvise and/or MADV_DONTFORK are available at build-time, but not
7360 at run time. Previously, these systems would notice a failed
7361 syscall and abort. Fixes bug 31696; bugfix on 0.4.1.1-alpha.
7363 o Minor features (stem tests, backport from 0.4.2.1-alpha):
7364 - Change "make test-stem" so it only runs the stem tests that use
7365 tor. This change makes test-stem faster and more reliable. Closes
7368 o Minor bugfixes (build system, backport form 0.4.2.1-alpha):
7369 - Do not include the deprecated <sys/sysctl.h> on Linux or Windows
7370 systems. Fixes bug 31673; bugfix on 0.2.5.4-alpha.
7372 o Minor bugfixes (compilation, backport from 0.4.2.1-alpha):
7373 - Add more stub functions to fix compilation on Android with link-
7374 time optimization when --disable-module-dirauth is used.
7375 Previously, these compilation settings would make the compiler
7376 look for functions that didn't exist. Fixes bug 31552; bugfix
7378 - Suppress spurious float-conversion warnings from GCC when calling
7379 floating-point classifier functions on FreeBSD. Fixes part of bug
7380 31687; bugfix on 0.3.1.5-alpha.
7382 o Minor bugfixes (controller protocol):
7383 - Fix the MAPADDRESS controller command to accept one or more
7384 arguments. Previously, it required two or more arguments, and ignored
7385 the first. Fixes bug 31772; bugfix on 0.4.1.1-alpha.
7387 o Minor bugfixes (FreeBSD, PF-based proxy, IPv6, backport from 0.4.2.1-alpha):
7388 - When extracting an IPv6 address from a PF-based proxy, verify that
7389 we are actually configured to receive an IPv6 address, and log an
7390 internal error if not. Fixes part of bug 31687; bugfix
7393 o Minor bugfixes (guards, backport from 0.4.2.1-alpha):
7394 - When tor is missing descriptors for some primary entry guards,
7395 make the log message less alarming. It's normal for descriptors to
7396 expire, as long as tor fetches new ones soon after. Fixes bug
7397 31657; bugfix on 0.3.3.1-alpha.
7399 o Minor bugfixes (logging, backport from 0.4.2.1-alpha):
7400 - Change log level of message "Hash of session info was not as
7401 expected" to LOG_PROTOCOL_WARN. Fixes bug 12399; bugfix
7404 o Minor bugfixes (rust, backport from 0.4.2.1-alpha):
7405 - Correctly exclude a redundant rust build job in Travis. Fixes bug
7406 31463; bugfix on 0.3.5.4-alpha.
7408 o Minor bugfixes (v2 single onion services, backport from 0.4.2.1-alpha):
7409 - Always retry v2 single onion service intro and rend circuits with
7410 a 3-hop path. Previously, v2 single onion services used a 3-hop
7411 path when rendezvous circuits were retried after a remote or
7412 delayed failure, but a 1-hop path for immediate retries. Fixes bug
7413 23818; bugfix on 0.2.9.3-alpha.
7415 o Minor bugfixes (v3 single onion services, backport from 0.4.2.1-alpha):
7416 - Always retry v3 single onion service intro and rend circuits with
7417 a 3-hop path. Previously, v3 single onion services used a 3-hop
7418 path when rend circuits were retried after a remote or delayed
7419 failure, but a 1-hop path for immediate retries. Fixes bug 23818;
7420 bugfix on 0.3.2.1-alpha.
7421 - Make v3 single onion services fall back to a 3-hop intro, when all
7422 intro points are unreachable via a 1-hop path. Previously, v3
7423 single onion services failed when all intro nodes were unreachable
7424 via a 1-hop path. Fixes bug 23507; bugfix on 0.3.2.1-alpha.
7426 o Documentation (backport from 0.4.2.1-alpha):
7427 - Use RFC 2397 data URL scheme to embed an image into tor-exit-
7428 notice.html so that operators no longer have to host it
7429 themselves. Closes ticket 31089.
7432 Changes in version 0.4.2.1-alpha - 2019-09-17
7433 This is the first alpha release in the 0.4.2.x series. It adds new
7434 defenses for denial-of-service attacks against onion services. It also
7435 includes numerous kinds of bugfixes and refactoring to help improve
7436 Tor's stability and ease of development.
7438 o Major features (onion service v3, denial of service):
7439 - Add onion service introduction denial of service defenses. Intro
7440 points can now rate-limit client introduction requests, using
7441 parameters that can be sent by the service within the
7442 ESTABLISH_INTRO cell. If the cell extension for this is not used,
7443 the intro point will honor the consensus parameters. Closes
7446 o Major bugfixes (circuit build, guard):
7447 - When considering upgrading circuits from "waiting for guard" to
7448 "open", always ignore circuits that are marked for close.
7449 Previously we could end up in the situation where a subsystem is
7450 notified of a circuit opening, but the circuit is still marked for
7451 close, leading to undesirable behavior. Fixes bug 30871; bugfix
7454 o Major bugfixes (crash, Linux, Android):
7455 - Tolerate systems (including some Android installations) where
7456 madvise and MADV_DONTDUMP are available at build-time, but not at
7457 run time. Previously, these systems would notice a failed syscall
7458 and abort. Fixes bug 31570; bugfix on 0.4.1.1-alpha.
7459 - Tolerate systems (including some Linux installations) where
7460 madvise and/or MADV_DONTFORK are available at build-time, but not
7461 at run time. Previously, these systems would notice a failed
7462 syscall and abort. Fixes bug 31696; bugfix on 0.4.1.1-alpha.
7464 o Minor features (best practices tracker):
7465 - Our best-practices tracker now integrates with our include-checker
7466 tool to keep track of how many layering violations we have not yet
7467 fixed. We hope to reduce this number over time to improve Tor's
7468 modularity. Closes ticket 31176.
7469 - Add a TOR_PRACTRACKER_OPTIONS variable for passing arguments to
7470 practracker from the environment. We may want this for continuous
7471 integration. Closes ticket 31309.
7472 - Give a warning rather than an error when a practracker exception
7473 is violated by a small amount, add a --list-overbroad option to
7474 practracker that lists exceptions that are stricter than they need
7475 to be, and provide an environment variable for disabling
7476 practracker. Closes ticket 30752.
7477 - Our best-practices tracker now looks at headers as well as C
7478 files. Closes ticket 31175.
7480 o Minor features (build system):
7481 - Add --disable-manpage and --disable-html-manual options to
7482 configure script. This will enable shortening build times by not
7483 building documentation. Resolves issue 19381.
7485 o Minor features (compilation):
7486 - Log a more useful error message when we are compiling and one of
7487 the compile-time hardening options we have selected can be linked
7488 but not executed. Closes ticket 27530.
7490 o Minor features (configuration):
7491 - The configuration code has been extended to allow splitting
7492 configuration data across multiple objects. Previously, all
7493 configuration data needed to be kept in a single object, which
7494 tended to become bloated. Closes ticket 31240.
7496 o Minor features (continuous integration):
7497 - When running CI builds on Travis, put some random data in
7498 ~/.torrc, to make sure no tests are reading the Tor configuration
7499 file from its default location. Resolves issue 30102.
7501 o Minor features (debugging):
7502 - Log a nonfatal assertion failure if we encounter a configuration
7503 line whose command is "CLEAR" but which has a nonempty value. This
7504 should be impossible, according to the rules of our configuration
7505 line parsing. Closes ticket 31529.
7507 o Minor features (git hooks):
7508 - Our pre-commit git hook now checks for a special file before
7509 running practracker, so that practracker only runs on branches
7510 that are based on master. Since the pre-push hook calls the pre-
7511 commit hook, practracker will also only run before pushes of
7512 branches based on master. Closes ticket 30979.
7514 o Minor features (git scripts):
7515 - Add a "--" command-line argument, to separate git-push-all.sh
7516 script arguments from arguments that are passed through to git
7517 push. Closes ticket 31314.
7518 - Add a -r <remote-name> argument to git-push-all.sh, so the script
7519 can push test branches to a personal remote. Closes ticket 31314.
7520 - Add a -t <test-branch-prefix> argument to git-merge-forward.sh and
7521 git-push-all.sh, which makes these scripts create, merge forward,
7522 and push test branches. Closes ticket 31314.
7523 - Add a -u argument to git-merge-forward.sh, so that the script can
7524 re-use existing test branches after a merge failure and fix.
7525 Closes ticket 31314.
7526 - Add a TOR_GIT_PUSH env var, which sets the default git push
7527 command and arguments for git-push-all.sh. Closes ticket 31314.
7528 - Add a TOR_PUSH_DELAY variable to git-push-all.sh, which makes the
7529 script push master and maint branches with a delay between each
7530 branch. These delays trigger the CI jobs in a set order, which
7531 should show the most likely failures first. Also make pushes
7532 atomic by default, and make the script pass any command-line
7533 arguments to git push. Closes ticket 29879.
7534 - Call the shellcheck script from the pre-commit hook. Closes
7536 - Skip pushing test branches that are the same as a remote
7537 maint/release/master branch in git-push-all.sh by default. Add a
7538 -s argument, so git-push-all.sh can push all test branches. Closes
7541 o Minor features (IPv6, logging):
7542 - Log IPv6 addresses as well as IPv4 addresses when describing
7543 routerinfos, routerstatuses, and nodes. Closes ticket 21003.
7545 o Minor features (onion service v3):
7546 - Do not allow single hop clients to fetch or post an HS descriptor
7547 from an HSDir. Closes ticket 24964.
7549 o Minor features (onion service):
7550 - Disallow single-hop clients at the introduction point. We've
7551 removed Tor2web support a while back and single-hop rendezvous
7552 attempts are blocked at the relays. This change should remove load
7553 off the network from spammy clients. Close ticket 24963.
7555 o Minor features (stem tests):
7556 - Change "make test-stem" so it only runs the stem tests that use
7557 tor. This change makes test-stem faster and more reliable. Closes
7560 o Minor features (testing):
7561 - Add a script to invoke "tor --dump-config" and "tor
7562 --verify-config" with various configuration options, and see
7563 whether tor's resulting configuration or error messages are what
7564 we expect. Use it for integration testing of our +Option and
7565 /Option flags. Closes ticket 31637.
7566 - Improve test coverage for our existing configuration parsing and
7567 management API. Closes ticket 30893.
7568 - Add integration tests to make sure that practracker gives the
7569 outputs we expect. Closes ticket 31477.
7570 - The practracker self-tests are now run as part of the Tor test
7571 suite. Closes ticket 31304.
7573 o Minor features (token bucket):
7574 - Implement a generic token bucket that uses a single counter, for
7575 use in anti-DoS onion service work. Closes ticket 30687.
7577 o Minor bugfixes (best practices tracker):
7578 - Fix a few issues in the best-practices script, including tests,
7579 tab tolerance, error reporting, and directory-exclusion logic.
7580 Fixes bug 29746; bugfix on 0.4.1.1-alpha.
7581 - When running check-best-practices, only consider files in the src
7582 subdirectory. Previously we had recursively considered all
7583 subdirectories, which made us get confused by the temporary
7584 directories made by "make distcheck". Fixes bug 31578; bugfix
7587 o Minor bugfixes (build system):
7588 - Do not include the deprecated <sys/sysctl.h> on Linux or Windows
7589 systems. Fixes bug 31673; bugfix on 0.2.5.4-alpha.
7591 o Minor bugfixes (chutney, makefiles, documentation):
7592 - "make test-network-all" now shows the warnings from each test-
7593 network.sh run on the console, so developers see new warnings
7594 early. We've also improved the documentation for this feature, and
7595 renamed a Makefile variable so the code is self-documenting. Fixes
7596 bug 30455; bugfix on 0.3.0.4-rc.
7598 o Minor bugfixes (compilation):
7599 - Add more stub functions to fix compilation on Android with link-
7600 time optimization when --disable-module-dirauth is used.
7601 Previously, these compilation settings would make the compiler
7602 look for functions that didn't exist. Fixes bug 31552; bugfix
7604 - Suppress spurious float-conversion warnings from GCC when calling
7605 floating-point classifier functions on FreeBSD. Fixes part of bug
7606 31687; bugfix on 0.3.1.5-alpha.
7608 o Minor bugfixes (configuration):
7609 - Invalid floating-point values in the configuration file are now
7610 treated as errors in the configuration. Previously, they were
7611 ignored and treated as zero. Fixes bug 31475; bugfix on 0.0.1.
7613 o Minor bugfixes (coverity):
7614 - Add an assertion when parsing a BEGIN cell so that coverity can be
7615 sure that we are not about to dereference a NULL address. Fixes
7616 bug 31026; bugfix on 0.2.4.7-alpha. This is CID 1447296.
7617 - In our siphash implementation, when building for coverity, use
7618 memcpy in place of a switch statement, so that coverity can tell
7619 we are not accessing out-of-bounds memory. Fixes bug 31025; bugfix
7620 on 0.2.8.1-alpha. This is tracked as CID 1447293 and 1447295.
7621 - Fix several coverity warnings from our unit tests. Fixes bug
7622 31030; bugfix on 0.2.4.1-alpha, 0.3.2.1-alpha, and 0.4.0.1-alpha.
7624 o Minor bugfixes (developer tooling):
7625 - Only log git script changes in the post-merge script when the
7626 merge was to the master branch. Fixes bug 31040; bugfix
7629 o Minor bugfixes (directory authorities):
7630 - Return a distinct status when formatting annotations fails. Fixes
7631 bug 30780; bugfix on 0.2.0.8-alpha.
7633 o Minor bugfixes (error handling):
7634 - On abort, try harder to flush the output buffers of log messages.
7635 On some platforms (macOS), log messages could be discarded when
7636 the process terminates. Fixes bug 31571; bugfix on 0.3.5.1-alpha.
7637 - Report the tor version whenever an assertion fails. Previously, we
7638 only reported the Tor version on some crashes, and some non-fatal
7639 assertions. Fixes bug 31571; bugfix on 0.3.5.1-alpha.
7640 - When tor aborts due to an error, close log file descriptors before
7641 aborting. Closing the logs makes some OSes flush log file buffers,
7642 rather than deleting buffered log lines. Fixes bug 31594; bugfix
7645 o Minor bugfixes (FreeBSD, PF-based proxy, IPv6):
7646 - When extracting an IPv6 address from a PF-based proxy, verify that
7647 we are actually configured to receive an IPv6 address, and log an
7648 internal error if not. Fixes part of bug 31687; bugfix
7651 o Minor bugfixes (git hooks):
7652 - Remove a duplicate call to practracker from the pre-push hook. The
7653 pre-push hook already calls the pre-commit hook, which calls
7654 practracker. Fixes bug 31462; bugfix on 0.4.1.1-alpha.
7656 o Minor bugfixes (git scripts):
7657 - Stop hard-coding the bash path in the git scripts. Some OSes don't
7658 have bash in /usr/bin, others have an ancient bash at this path.
7659 Fixes bug 30840; bugfix on 0.4.0.1-alpha.
7660 - Stop hard-coding the tor master branch name and worktree path in
7661 the git scripts. Fixes bug 30841; bugfix on 0.4.0.1-alpha.
7662 - Allow git-push-all.sh to be run from any directory. Previously,
7663 the script only worked if run from an upstream worktree directory.
7664 Closes ticket 31678.
7666 o Minor bugfixes (guards):
7667 - When tor is missing descriptors for some primary entry guards,
7668 make the log message less alarming. It's normal for descriptors to
7669 expire, as long as tor fetches new ones soon after. Fixes bug
7670 31657; bugfix on 0.3.3.1-alpha.
7672 o Minor bugfixes (ipv6):
7673 - Check for private IPv6 addresses alongside their IPv4 equivalents
7674 when authorities check descriptors. Previously, we only checked
7675 for private IPv4 addresses. Fixes bug 31088; bugfix on
7676 0.2.3.21-rc. Patch by Neel Chauhan.
7677 - When parsing microdescriptors, we should check the IPv6 exit
7678 policy alongside IPv4. Previously, we checked both exit policies
7679 for only router info structures, while microdescriptors were
7680 IPv4-only. Fixes bug 27284; bugfix on 0.2.3.1-alpha. Patch by
7683 o Minor bugfixes (logging):
7684 - Change log level of message "Hash of session info was not as
7685 expected" to LOG_PROTOCOL_WARN. Fixes bug 12399; bugfix
7687 - Fix a code issue that would have broken our parsing of log domains
7688 as soon as we had 33 of them. Fortunately, we still only have 29.
7689 Fixes bug 31451; bugfix on 0.4.1.4-rc.
7691 o Minor bugfixes (memory management):
7692 - Stop leaking a small amount of memory in nt_service_install(), in
7693 unreachable code. Fixes bug 30799; bugfix on 0.2.0.7-alpha. Patch
7696 o Minor bugfixes (networking, IP addresses):
7697 - When parsing addresses via Tor's internal DNS lookup API, reject
7698 IPv4 addresses in square brackets, and accept IPv6 addresses in
7699 square brackets. This change completes the work started in 23082,
7700 making address parsing consistent between tor's internal DNS
7701 lookup and address parsing APIs. Fixes bug 30721; bugfix
7703 - When parsing addresses via Tor's internal address:port parsing and
7704 DNS lookup APIs, require IPv6 addresses with ports to have square
7705 brackets. But allow IPv6 addresses without ports, whether or not
7706 they have square brackets. Fixes bug 30721; bugfix
7709 o Minor bugfixes (onion service v3):
7710 - When purging the client descriptor cache, close any introduction
7711 point circuits associated with purged cache entries. This avoids
7712 picking those circuits later when connecting to the same
7713 introduction points. Fixes bug 30921; bugfix on 0.3.2.1-alpha.
7715 o Minor bugfixes (onion services):
7716 - In the hs_ident_circuit_t data structure, remove the unused field
7717 circuit_type and the respective argument in hs_ident_circuit_new().
7718 This field was set by clients (for introduction) and services (for
7719 introduction and rendezvous) but was never used afterwards. Fixes
7720 bug 31490; bugfix on 0.3.2.1-alpha. Patch by Neel Chauhan.
7722 o Minor bugfixes (operator tools):
7723 - Make tor-print-ed-signing-cert(1) print certificate expiration
7724 date in RFC 1123 and UNIX timestamp formats, to make output
7725 machine readable. Fixes bug 31012; bugfix on 0.3.5.1-alpha.
7727 o Minor bugfixes (rust):
7728 - Correctly exclude a redundant rust build job in Travis. Fixes bug
7729 31463; bugfix on 0.3.5.4-alpha.
7730 - Raise the minimum rustc version to 1.31.0, as checked by configure
7731 and CI. Fixes bug 31442; bugfix on 0.3.5.4-alpha.
7733 o Minor bugfixes (sendme, code structure):
7734 - Rename the trunnel SENDME file definition from sendme.trunnel to
7735 sendme_cell.trunnel to avoid having twice sendme.{c|h} in the
7736 repository. Fixes bug 30769; bugfix on 0.4.1.1-alpha.
7738 o Minor bugfixes (statistics):
7739 - Stop removing the ed25519 signature if the extra info file is too
7740 big. If the signature data was removed, but the keyword was kept,
7741 this could result in an unparseable extra info file. Fixes bug
7742 30958; bugfix on 0.2.7.2-alpha.
7744 o Minor bugfixes (subsystems):
7745 - Make the subsystem init order match the subsystem module
7746 dependencies. Call windows process security APIs as early as
7747 possible. Initialize logging before network and time, so that
7748 network and time can use logging. Fixes bug 31615; bugfix
7751 o Minor bugfixes (testing):
7752 - Teach the util/socketpair_ersatz test to work correctly when we
7753 have no network stack configured. Fixes bug 30804; bugfix
7756 o Minor bugfixes (v2 single onion services):
7757 - Always retry v2 single onion service intro and rend circuits with
7758 a 3-hop path. Previously, v2 single onion services used a 3-hop
7759 path when rendezvous circuits were retried after a remote or
7760 delayed failure, but a 1-hop path for immediate retries. Fixes bug
7761 23818; bugfix on 0.2.9.3-alpha.
7763 o Minor bugfixes (v3 single onion services):
7764 - Always retry v3 single onion service intro and rend circuits with
7765 a 3-hop path. Previously, v3 single onion services used a 3-hop
7766 path when rend circuits were retried after a remote or delayed
7767 failure, but a 1-hop path for immediate retries. Fixes bug 23818;
7768 bugfix on 0.3.2.1-alpha.
7769 - Make v3 single onion services fall back to a 3-hop intro, when all
7770 intro points are unreachable via a 1-hop path. Previously, v3
7771 single onion services failed when all intro nodes were unreachable
7772 via a 1-hop path. Fixes bug 23507; bugfix on 0.3.2.1-alpha.
7775 - Improve documentation in circuit padding subsystem. Patch by
7776 Tobias Pulls. Closes ticket 31113.
7777 - Include an example usage for IPv6 ORPort in our sample torrc.
7778 Closes ticket 31320; patch from Ali Raheem.
7779 - Use RFC 2397 data URL scheme to embed an image into tor-exit-
7780 notice.html so that operators no longer have to host it
7781 themselves. Closes ticket 31089.
7784 - No longer include recommended package digests in votes as detailed
7785 in proposal 301. The RecommendedPackages torrc option is
7786 deprecated and will no longer have any effect. "package" lines
7787 will still be considered when computing consensuses for consensus
7788 methods that include them. (This change has no effect on the list
7789 of recommended Tor versions, which is still in use.) Closes
7791 - Remove torctl.in from contrib/dist directory. Resolves
7795 - Run shellcheck for all non-third-party shell scripts that are
7796 shipped with Tor. Closes ticket 29533.
7797 - When checking shell scripts, ignore any user-created directories.
7798 Closes ticket 30967.
7800 o Code simplification and refactoring (config handling):
7801 - Extract our variable manipulation code from confparse.c to a new
7802 lower-level typedvar.h module. Closes ticket 30864.
7803 - Lower another layer of object management from confparse.c to a
7804 more general tool. Now typed structure members are accessible via
7805 an abstract type. Implements ticket 30914.
7806 - Move our backend logic for working with configuration and state
7807 files into a lower-level library, since it no longer depends on
7808 any tor-specific functionality. Closes ticket 31626.
7809 - Numerous simplifications in configuration-handling logic: remove
7810 duplicated macro definitions, replace magical names with flags,
7811 and refactor "TestingTorNetwork" to use the same default-option
7812 logic as the rest of Tor. Closes ticket 30935.
7813 - Replace our ad-hoc set of flags for configuration variables and
7814 configuration variable types with fine-grained orthogonal flags
7815 corresponding to the actual behavior we want. Closes ticket 31625.
7817 o Code simplification and refactoring (misc):
7818 - Eliminate some uses of lower-level control reply abstractions,
7819 primarily in the onion_helper functions. Closes ticket 30889.
7820 - Rework bootstrap tracking to use the new publish-subscribe
7821 subsystem. Closes ticket 29976.
7822 - Rewrite format_node_description() and router_get_verbose_nickname()
7823 to use strlcpy() and strlcat(). The previous implementation used
7824 memcpy() and pointer arithmetic, which was error-prone. Closes
7825 ticket 31545. This is CID 1452819.
7826 - Split extrainfo_dump_to_string() into smaller functions. Closes
7828 - Use the ptrdiff_t type consistently for expressing variable
7829 offsets and pointer differences. Previously we incorrectly (but
7830 harmlessly) used int and sometimes off_t for these cases. Closes
7832 - Use the subsystems mechanism to manage the main event loop code.
7833 Closes ticket 30806.
7834 - Various simplifications and minor improvements to the circuit
7835 padding machines. Patch by Tobias Pulls. Closes tickets 31112
7838 o Documentation (hard-coded directories):
7839 - Improve the documentation for the DirAuthority and FallbackDir
7840 torrc options. Closes ticket 30955.
7842 o Documentation (tor.1 man page):
7843 - Fix typo in tor.1 man page: the option is "--help", not "-help".
7844 Fixes bug 31008; bugfix on 0.2.2.9-alpha.
7847 Changes in version 0.4.1.5 - 2019-08-20
7848 This is the first stable release in the 0.4.1.x series. This series
7849 adds experimental circuit-level padding, authenticated SENDME cells to
7850 defend against certain attacks, and several performance improvements
7851 to save on CPU consumption. It fixes bugs in bootstrapping and v3
7852 onion services. It also includes numerous smaller features and
7853 bugfixes on earlier versions.
7855 Per our support policy, we will support the 0.4.1.x series for nine
7856 months, or until three months after the release of a stable 0.4.2.x:
7857 whichever is longer. If you need longer-term support, please stick
7858 with 0.3.5.x, which will we plan to support until Feb 2022.
7860 Below are the changes since 0.4.1.4-rc. For a complete list of changes
7861 since 0.4.0.5, see the ReleaseNotes file.
7863 o Directory authority changes:
7864 - The directory authority "dizum" has a new IP address. Closes
7867 o Minor features (circuit padding logging):
7868 - Demote noisy client-side warn logs about circuit padding to
7869 protocol warnings. Add additional log messages and circuit ID
7870 fields to help with bug 30992 and any other future issues.
7872 o Minor bugfixes (circuit padding negotiation):
7873 - Bump the circuit padding protocol version to explicitly signify
7874 that the HS setup machine support is finalized in 0.4.1.x-stable.
7875 This also means that 0.4.1.x-alpha clients will not negotiate
7876 padding with 0.4.1.x-stable relays, and 0.4.1.x-stable clients
7877 will not negotiate padding with 0.4.1.x-alpha relays (or 0.4.0.x
7878 relays). Fixes bug 31356; bugfix on 0.4.1.1-alpha.
7880 o Minor bugfixes (circuit padding):
7881 - Ignore non-padding cells on padding circuits. This addresses
7882 various warning messages from subsystems that were not expecting
7883 padding circuits. Fixes bug 30942; bugfix on 0.4.1.1-alpha.
7885 o Minor bugfixes (clock skew detection):
7886 - Don't believe clock skew results from NETINFO cells that appear to
7887 arrive before we sent the VERSIONS cells they are responding to.
7888 Previously, we would accept them up to 3 minutes "in the past".
7889 Fixes bug 31343; bugfix on 0.2.4.4-alpha.
7891 o Minor bugfixes (compatibility, standards compliance):
7892 - Fix a bug that would invoke undefined behavior on certain
7893 operating systems when trying to asprintf() a string exactly
7894 INT_MAX bytes long. We don't believe this is exploitable, but it's
7895 better to fix it anyway. Fixes bug 31001; bugfix on 0.2.2.11-alpha.
7896 Found and fixed by Tobias Stoeckmann.
7898 o Minor bugfixes (compilation warning):
7899 - Fix a compilation warning on Windows about casting a function
7900 pointer for GetTickCount64(). Fixes bug 31374; bugfix
7903 o Minor bugfixes (compilation):
7904 - Avoid using labs() on time_t, which can cause compilation warnings
7905 on 64-bit Windows builds. Fixes bug 31343; bugfix on 0.2.4.4-alpha.
7907 o Minor bugfixes (distribution):
7908 - Do not ship any temporary files found in the
7909 scripts/maint/practracker directory. Fixes bug 31311; bugfix
7912 o Testing (continuous integration):
7913 - In Travis, make stem log a controller trace to the console, and
7914 tail stem's tor log after failure. Closes ticket 30591.
7915 - In Travis, only run the stem tests that use a tor binary. Closes
7919 Changes in version 0.4.1.4-rc - 2019-07-25
7920 Tor 0.4.1.4-rc fixes a few bugs from previous versions of Tor, and
7921 updates to a new list of fallback directories. If no new bugs are
7922 found, the next release in the 0.4.1.x serious should be stable.
7924 o Major bugfixes (circuit build, guard):
7925 - When considering upgrading circuits from "waiting for guard" to
7926 "open", always ignore circuits that are marked for close. Otherwise,
7927 we can end up in the situation where a subsystem is notified that
7928 a closing circuit has just opened, leading to undesirable
7929 behavior. Fixes bug 30871; bugfix on 0.3.0.1-alpha.
7931 o Minor features (continuous integration):
7932 - Our Travis configuration now uses Chutney to run some network
7933 integration tests automatically. Closes ticket 29280.
7935 o Minor features (fallback directory list):
7936 - Replace the 157 fallbacks originally introduced in Tor 0.3.5.6-rc
7937 in December 2018 (of which ~122 were still functional), with a
7938 list of 148 fallbacks (70 new, 78 existing, 79 removed) generated
7939 in June 2019. Closes ticket 28795.
7941 o Minor bugfixes (circuit padding):
7942 - On relays, properly check that a padding machine is absent before
7943 logging a warning about it being absent. Fixes bug 30649; bugfix
7945 - Add two NULL checks in unreachable places to silence Coverity (CID
7946 144729 and 1447291) and better future-proof ourselves. Fixes bug
7947 31024; bugfix on 0.4.1.1-alpha.
7949 o Minor bugfixes (crash on exit):
7950 - Avoid a set of possible code paths that could try to use freed
7951 memory in routerlist_free() while Tor was exiting. Fixes bug
7952 31003; bugfix on 0.1.2.2-alpha.
7954 o Minor bugfixes (logging):
7955 - Fix a conflict between the flag used for messaging-domain log
7956 messages, and the LD_NO_MOCK testing flag. Fixes bug 31080; bugfix
7959 o Minor bugfixes (memory leaks):
7960 - Fix a trivial memory leak when parsing an invalid value from a
7961 download schedule in the configuration. Fixes bug 30894; bugfix
7964 o Code simplification and refactoring:
7965 - Remove some dead code from circpad_machine_remove_token() to fix
7966 some Coverity warnings (CID 1447298). Fixes bug 31027; bugfix
7970 Changes in version 0.4.1.3-alpha - 2019-06-25
7971 Tor 0.4.1.3-alpha resolves numerous bugs left over from the previous
7972 alpha, most of them from earlier release series.
7974 o Major bugfixes (Onion service reachability):
7975 - Properly clean up the introduction point map when circuits change
7976 purpose from onion service circuits to pathbias, measurement, or
7977 other circuit types. This should fix some service-side instances
7978 of introduction point failure. Fixes bug 29034; bugfix
7981 o Minor features (geoip):
7982 - Update geoip and geoip6 to the June 10 2019 Maxmind GeoLite2
7983 Country database. Closes ticket 30852.
7985 o Minor features (logging):
7986 - Give a more useful assertion failure message if we think we have
7987 minherit() but we fail to make a region non-inheritable. Give a
7988 compile-time warning if our support for minherit() is incomplete.
7989 Closes ticket 30686.
7991 o Minor bugfixes (circuit isolation):
7992 - Fix a logic error that prevented the SessionGroup sub-option from
7993 being accepted. Fixes bug 22619; bugfix on 0.2.7.2-alpha.
7995 o Minor bugfixes (continuous integration):
7996 - Allow the test-stem job to fail in Travis, because it sometimes
7997 hangs. Fixes bug 30744; bugfix on 0.3.5.4-alpha.
7998 - Skip test_rebind on macOS in Travis, because it is unreliable on
7999 macOS on Travis. Fixes bug 30713; bugfix on 0.3.5.1-alpha.
8000 - Skip test_rebind when the TOR_SKIP_TEST_REBIND environment
8001 variable is set. Fixes bug 30713; bugfix on 0.3.5.1-alpha.
8003 o Minor bugfixes (directory authorities):
8004 - Stop crashing after parsing an unknown descriptor purpose
8005 annotation. We think this bug can only be triggered by modifying a
8006 local file. Fixes bug 30781; bugfix on 0.2.0.8-alpha.
8008 o Minor bugfixes (pluggable transports):
8009 - When running as a bridge with pluggable transports, always publish
8010 pluggable transport information in our extrainfo descriptor, even
8011 if ExtraInfoStatistics is 0. This information is needed by
8012 BridgeDB. Fixes bug 30956; bugfix on 0.4.1.1-alpha.
8015 - Mention URLs for Travis/Appveyor/Jenkins in ReleasingTor.md.
8016 Closes ticket 30630.
8019 Changes in version 0.4.1.2-alpha - 2019-06-06
8020 Tor 0.4.1.2-alpha resolves numerous bugs--some of them from the
8021 previous alpha, and some much older. It also contains minor testing
8022 improvements, and an improvement to the security of our authenticated
8023 SENDME implementation.
8025 o Major bugfixes (bridges):
8026 - Consider our directory information to have changed when our list
8027 of bridges changes. Previously, Tor would not re-compute the
8028 status of its directory information when bridges changed, and
8029 therefore would not realize that it was no longer able to build
8030 circuits. Fixes part of bug 29875.
8031 - Do not count previously configured working bridges towards our
8032 total of working bridges. Previously, when Tor's list of bridges
8033 changed, it would think that the old bridges were still usable,
8034 and delay fetching router descriptors for the new ones. Fixes part
8035 of bug 29875; bugfix on 0.3.0.1-alpha.
8037 o Major bugfixes (flow control, SENDME):
8038 - Decrement the stream-level package window after packaging a cell.
8039 Previously, it was done inside a log_debug() call, meaning that if
8040 debug logs were not enabled, the decrement would never happen, and
8041 thus the window would be out of sync with the other end point.
8042 Fixes bug 30628; bugfix on 0.4.1.1-alpha.
8044 o Major bugfixes (onion service reachability):
8045 - Properly clean up the introduction point map and associated state
8046 when circuits change purpose from onion service circuits to
8047 pathbias, measurement, or other circuit types. This may fix some
8048 instances of introduction point failure. Fixes bug 29034; bugfix
8051 o Minor features (authenticated SENDME):
8052 - Ensure that there is enough randomness on every circuit to prevent
8053 an attacker from successfully predicting the hashes they will need
8054 to include in authenticated SENDME cells. At a random interval, if
8055 we have not sent randomness already, we now leave some extra space
8056 at the end of a cell that we can fill with random bytes. Closes
8059 o Minor features (continuous integration):
8060 - When running coverage builds on Travis, we now set
8061 TOR_TEST_RNG_SEED, to avoid RNG-based coverage differences. Part
8064 o Minor features (maintenance):
8065 - Add a new "make autostyle" target that developers can use to apply
8066 all automatic Tor style and consistency conversions to the
8067 codebase. Closes ticket 30539.
8069 o Minor features (testing):
8070 - The circuitpadding tests now use a reproducible RNG implementation,
8071 so that if a test fails, we can learn why. Part of ticket 28878.
8072 - Tor's tests now support an environment variable, TOR_TEST_RNG_SEED,
8073 to set the RNG seed for tests that use a reproducible RNG. Part of
8075 - When running tests in coverage mode, take additional care to make
8076 our coverage deterministic, so that we can accurately track
8077 changes in code coverage. Closes ticket 30519.
8079 o Minor bugfixes (configuration, proxies):
8080 - Fix a bug that prevented us from supporting SOCKS5 proxies that
8081 want authentication along with configured (but unused!)
8082 ClientTransportPlugins. Fixes bug 29670; bugfix on 0.2.6.1-alpha.
8084 o Minor bugfixes (controller):
8085 - POSTDESCRIPTOR requests should work again. Previously, they were
8086 broken if a "purpose=" flag was specified. Fixes bug 30580; bugfix
8088 - Repair the HSFETCH command so that it works again. Previously, it
8089 expected a body when it shouldn't have. Fixes bug 30646; bugfix
8092 o Minor bugfixes (developer tooling):
8093 - Fix pre-push hook to allow fixup and squash commits when pushing
8094 to non-upstream git remote. Fixes bug 30286; bugfix
8097 o Minor bugfixes (directory authority):
8098 - Move the "bandwidth-file-headers" line in directory authority
8099 votes so that it conforms to dir-spec.txt. Fixes bug 30316; bugfix
8102 o Minor bugfixes (NetBSD):
8103 - Fix usage of minherit() on NetBSD and other platforms that define
8104 MAP_INHERIT_{ZERO,NONE} instead of INHERIT_{ZERO,NONE}. Fixes bug
8105 30614; bugfix on 0.4.0.2-alpha. Patch from Taylor Campbell.
8107 o Minor bugfixes (out-of-memory handler):
8108 - When purging the DNS cache because of an out-of-memory condition,
8109 try purging just the older entries at first. Previously, we would
8110 always purge the whole thing. Fixes bug 29617; bugfix
8113 o Minor bugfixes (portability):
8114 - Avoid crashing in our tor_vasprintf() implementation on systems
8115 that define neither vasprintf() nor _vscprintf(). (This bug has
8116 been here long enough that we question whether people are running
8117 Tor on such systems, but we're applying the fix out of caution.)
8118 Fixes bug 30561; bugfix on 0.2.8.2-alpha. Found and fixed by
8121 o Minor bugfixes (shutdown, libevent, memory safety):
8122 - Avoid use-after-free bugs when shutting down, by making sure that
8123 we shut down libevent only after shutting down all of its users.
8124 We believe these are harmless in practice, since they only occur
8125 on the shutdown path, and do not involve any attacker-controlled
8126 data. Fixes bug 30629; bugfix on 0.4.1.1-alpha.
8128 o Minor bugfixes (static analysis):
8129 - Fix several spurious Coverity warnings about the unit tests, to
8130 lower our chances of missing real warnings in the future. Fixes
8131 bug 30150; bugfix on 0.3.5.1-alpha and various other Tor versions.
8134 - Specify torrc paths (with empty files) when launching tor in
8135 integration tests; refrain from reading user and system torrcs.
8136 Resolves issue 29702.
8139 Changes in version 0.4.1.1-alpha - 2019-05-22
8140 This is the first alpha in the 0.4.1.x series. It introduces
8141 lightweight circuit padding to make some onion-service circuits harder
8142 to distinguish, includes a new "authenticated SENDME" feature to make
8143 certain denial-of-service attacks more difficult, and improves
8144 performance in several areas.
8146 o Major features (circuit padding):
8147 - Onion service clients now add padding cells at the start of their
8148 INTRODUCE and RENDEZVOUS circuits, to make those circuits' traffic
8149 look more like general purpose Exit traffic. The overhead for this
8150 is 2 extra cells in each direction for RENDEZVOUS circuits, and 1
8151 extra upstream cell and 10 downstream cells for INTRODUCE
8152 circuits. This feature is only enabled when also supported by the
8153 circuit's middle node. (Clients may specify fixed middle nodes
8154 with the MiddleNodes option, and may force-disable this feature
8155 with the CircuitPadding option.) Closes ticket 28634.
8157 o Major features (code organization):
8158 - Tor now includes a generic publish-subscribe message-passing
8159 subsystem that we can use to organize intermodule dependencies. We
8160 hope to use this to reduce dependencies between modules that don't
8161 need to be related, and to generally simplify our codebase. Closes
8164 o Major features (controller protocol):
8165 - Controller commands are now parsed using a generalized parsing
8166 subsystem. Previously, each controller command was responsible for
8167 parsing its own input, which led to strange inconsistencies.
8168 Closes ticket 30091.
8170 o Major features (flow control):
8171 - Implement authenticated SENDMEs as detailed in proposal 289. A
8172 SENDME cell now includes the digest of the traffic that it
8173 acknowledges, so that once an end point receives the SENDME, it
8174 can confirm the other side's knowledge of the previous cells that
8175 were sent, and prevent certain types of denial-of-service attacks.
8176 This behavior is controlled by two new consensus parameters: see
8177 the proposal for more details. Fixes ticket 26288.
8179 o Major features (performance):
8180 - Our node selection algorithm now excludes nodes in linear time.
8181 Previously, the algorithm was quadratic, which could slow down
8182 heavily used onion services. Closes ticket 30307.
8184 o Major features (performance, RNG):
8185 - Tor now constructs a fast secure pseudorandom number generator for
8186 each thread, to use when performance is critical. This PRNG is
8187 based on AES-CTR, using a buffering construction similar to
8188 libottery and the (newer) OpenBSD arc4random() code. It
8189 outperforms OpenSSL 1.1.1a's CSPRNG by roughly a factor of 100 for
8190 small outputs. Although we believe it to be cryptographically
8191 strong, we are only using it when necessary for performance.
8192 Implements tickets 29023 and 29536.
8194 o Major bugfixes (onion service v3):
8195 - Fix an unreachable bug in which an introduction point could try to
8196 send an INTRODUCE_ACK with a status code that Trunnel would refuse
8197 to encode, leading the relay to assert(). We've consolidated the
8198 ABI values into Trunnel now. Fixes bug 30454; bugfix
8200 - Clients can now handle unknown status codes from INTRODUCE_ACK
8201 cells. (The NACK behavior will stay the same.) This will allow us
8202 to extend status codes in the future without breaking the normal
8203 client behavior. Fixes another part of bug 30454; bugfix
8206 o Minor features (circuit padding):
8207 - We now use a fast PRNG when scheduling circuit padding. Part of
8209 - Allow the padding machine designer to pick the edges of their
8210 histogram instead of trying to compute them automatically using an
8211 exponential formula. Resolves some undefined behavior in the case
8212 of small histograms and allows greater flexibility on machine
8213 design. Closes ticket 29298; bugfix on 0.4.0.1-alpha.
8214 - Allow circuit padding machines to hold a circuit open until they
8215 are done padding it. Closes ticket 28780.
8217 o Minor features (compile-time modules):
8218 - Add a "--list-modules" command to print a list of which compile-
8219 time modules are enabled. Closes ticket 30452.
8221 o Minor features (continuous integration):
8222 - Remove sudo configuration lines from .travis.yml as they are no
8223 longer needed with current Travis build environment. Resolves
8225 - In Travis, show stem's tor log after failure. Closes ticket 30234.
8227 o Minor features (controller):
8228 - Add onion service version 3 support to the HSFETCH command.
8229 Previously, only version 2 onion services were supported. Closes
8230 ticket 25417. Patch by Neel Chauhan.
8232 o Minor features (debugging):
8233 - Introduce tor_assertf() and tor_assertf_nonfatal() to enable
8234 logging of additional information during assert failure. Now we
8235 can use format strings to include information for trouble
8236 shooting. Resolves ticket 29662.
8238 o Minor features (defense in depth):
8239 - In smartlist_remove_keeporder(), set unused pointers to NULL, in
8240 case a bug causes them to be used later. Closes ticket 30176.
8241 Patch from Tobias Stoeckmann.
8242 - Tor now uses a cryptographically strong PRNG even for decisions
8243 that we do not believe are security-sensitive. Previously, for
8244 performance reasons, we had used a trivially predictable linear
8245 congruential generator algorithm for certain load-balancing and
8246 statistical sampling decisions. Now we use our fast RNG in those
8247 cases. Closes ticket 29542.
8249 o Minor features (developer tools):
8250 - Tor's "practracker" test script now checks for files and functions
8251 that seem too long and complicated. Existing overlong functions
8252 and files are accepted for now, but should eventually be
8253 refactored. Closes ticket 29221.
8254 - Add some scripts used for git maintenance to scripts/git. Closes
8256 - Call practracker from pre-push and pre-commit git hooks to let
8257 developers know if they made any code style violations. Closes
8259 - Add a script to check that each header has a well-formed and
8260 unique guard macro. Closes ticket 29756.
8262 o Minor features (geoip):
8263 - Update geoip and geoip6 to the May 13 2019 Maxmind GeoLite2
8264 Country database. Closes ticket 30522.
8266 o Minor features (HTTP tunnel):
8267 - Return an informative web page when the HTTPTunnelPort is used as
8268 an HTTP proxy. Closes ticket 27821, patch by "eighthave".
8270 o Minor features (IPv6, v3 onion services):
8271 - Make v3 onion services put IPv6 addresses in service descriptors.
8272 Before this change, service descriptors only contained IPv4
8273 addresses. Implements 26992.
8275 o Minor features (modularity):
8276 - The "--disable-module-dirauth" compile-time option now disables
8277 even more dirauth-only code. Closes ticket 30345.
8279 o Minor features (performance):
8280 - Use OpenSSL's implementations of SHA3 when available (in OpenSSL
8281 1.1.1 and later), since they tend to be faster than tiny-keccak.
8282 Closes ticket 28837.
8284 o Minor features (testing):
8285 - Tor's unit test code now contains helper functions to replace the
8286 PRNG with a deterministic or reproducible version for testing.
8287 Previously, various tests implemented this in various ways.
8288 Implements ticket 29732.
8289 - We now have a script, cov-test-determinism.sh, to identify places
8290 where our unit test coverage has become nondeterministic. Closes
8292 - Check that representative subsets of values of `int` and `unsigned
8293 int` can be represented by `void *`. Resolves issue 29537.
8295 o Minor bugfixes (bridge authority):
8296 - Bridge authorities now set bridges as running or non-running when
8297 about to dump their status to a file. Previously, they set bridges
8298 as running in response to a GETINFO command, but those shouldn't
8299 modify data structures. Fixes bug 24490; bugfix on 0.2.0.13-alpha.
8300 Patch by Neel Chauhan.
8302 o Minor bugfixes (channel padding statistics):
8303 - Channel padding write totals and padding-enabled totals are now
8304 counted properly in relay extrainfo descriptors. Fixes bug 29231;
8305 bugfix on 0.3.1.1-alpha.
8307 o Minor bugfixes (circuit padding):
8308 - Add a "CircuitPadding" torrc option to disable circuit padding.
8309 Fixes bug 28693; bugfix on 0.4.0.1-alpha.
8310 - Allow circuit padding machines to specify that they do not
8311 contribute much overhead, and provide consensus flags and torrc
8312 options to force clients to only use these low overhead machines.
8313 Fixes bug 29203; bugfix on 0.4.0.1-alpha.
8314 - Provide a consensus parameter to fully disable circuit padding, to
8315 be used in emergency network overload situations. Fixes bug 30173;
8316 bugfix on 0.4.0.1-alpha.
8317 - The circuit padding subsystem will no longer schedule padding if
8318 dormant mode is enabled. Fixes bug 28636; bugfix on 0.4.0.1-alpha.
8319 - Inspect a circuit-level cell queue before sending padding, to
8320 avoid sending padding while too much data is already queued. Fixes
8321 bug 29204; bugfix on 0.4.0.1-alpha.
8322 - Avoid calling monotime_absolute_usec() in circuit padding machines
8323 that do not use token removal or circuit RTT estimation. Fixes bug
8324 29085; bugfix on 0.4.0.1-alpha.
8326 o Minor bugfixes (compilation, unusual configurations):
8327 - Avoid failures when building with the ALL_BUGS_ARE_FATAL option
8328 due to missing declarations of abort(), and prevent other such
8329 failures in the future. Fixes bug 30189; bugfix on 0.3.4.1-alpha.
8331 o Minor bugfixes (controller protocol):
8332 - Teach the controller parser to distinguish an object preceded by
8333 an argument list from one without. Previously, it couldn't
8334 distinguish an argument list from the first line of a multiline
8335 object. Fixes bug 29984; bugfix on 0.2.3.8-alpha.
8337 o Minor bugfixes (directory authority, ipv6):
8338 - Directory authorities with IPv6 support now always mark themselves
8339 as reachable via IPv6. Fixes bug 24338; bugfix on 0.2.4.1-alpha.
8340 Patch by Neel Chauhan.
8342 o Minor bugfixes (documentation):
8343 - Improve the documentation for using MapAddress with ".exit". Fixes
8344 bug 30109; bugfix on 0.1.0.1-rc.
8345 - Improve the monotonic time module and function documentation to
8346 explain what "monotonic" actually means, and document some results
8347 that have surprised people. Fixes bug 29640; bugfix
8349 - Use proper formatting when providing an example on quoting options
8350 that contain whitespace. Fixes bug 29635; bugfix on 0.2.3.18-rc.
8352 o Minor bugfixes (logging):
8353 - Do not log a warning when running with an OpenSSL version other
8354 than the one Tor was compiled with, if the two versions should be
8355 compatible. Previously, we would warn whenever the version was
8356 different. Fixes bug 30190; bugfix on 0.2.4.2-alpha.
8357 - Warn operators when the MyFamily option is set but ContactInfo is
8358 missing, as the latter should be set too. Fixes bug 25110; bugfix
8361 o Minor bugfixes (memory leak):
8362 - Avoid a minor memory leak that could occur on relays when failing
8363 to create a "keys" directory. Fixes bug 30148; bugfix
8366 o Minor bugfixes (onion services):
8367 - Avoid a GCC 9.1.1 warning (and possible crash depending on libc
8368 implementation) when failing to load an onion service client
8369 authorization file. Fixes bug 30475; bugfix on 0.3.5.1-alpha.
8370 - When refusing to launch a controller's HSFETCH request because of
8371 rate-limiting, respond to the controller with a new response,
8372 "QUERY_RATE_LIMITED". Previously, we would log QUERY_NO_HSDIR for
8373 this case. Fixes bug 28269; bugfix on 0.3.1.1-alpha. Patch by
8375 - When relaunching a circuit to a rendezvous service, mark the
8376 circuit as needing high-uptime routers as appropriate. Fixes bug
8377 17357; bugfix on 0.1.0.1-rc. Patch by Neel Chauhan.
8378 - Stop ignoring IPv6 link specifiers sent to v3 onion services.
8379 (IPv6 support for v3 onion services is still incomplete: see
8380 ticket 23493 for details.) Fixes bug 23588; bugfix on
8381 0.3.2.1-alpha. Patch by Neel Chauhan.
8383 o Minor bugfixes (onion services, performance):
8384 - When building circuits to onion services, call tor_addr_parse()
8385 less often. Previously, we called tor_addr_parse() in
8386 circuit_is_acceptable() even if its output wasn't used. This
8387 change should improve performance when building circuits. Fixes
8388 bug 22210; bugfix on 0.2.8.12. Patch by Neel Chauhan.
8390 o Minor bugfixes (performance):
8391 - When checking whether a node is a bridge, use a fast check to make
8392 sure that its identity is set. Previously, we used a constant-time
8393 check, which is not necessary in this case. Fixes bug 30308;
8394 bugfix on 0.3.5.1-alpha.
8396 o Minor bugfixes (pluggable transports):
8397 - Tor now sets TOR_PT_EXIT_ON_STDIN_CLOSE=1 for client transports as
8398 well as servers. Fixes bug 25614; bugfix on 0.2.7.1-alpha.
8400 o Minor bugfixes (probability distributions):
8401 - Refactor and improve parts of the probability distribution code
8402 that made Coverity complain. Fixes bug 29805; bugfix
8405 o Minor bugfixes (python):
8406 - Stop assuming that /usr/bin/python3 exists. For scripts that work
8407 with python2, use /usr/bin/python. Otherwise, use /usr/bin/env
8408 python3. Fixes bug 29913; bugfix on 0.2.5.3-alpha.
8410 o Minor bugfixes (relay):
8411 - When running as a relay, if IPv6Exit is set to 1 while ExitRelay
8412 is auto, act as if ExitRelay is 1. Previously, we would ignore
8413 IPv6Exit if ExitRelay was 0 or auto. Fixes bug 29613; bugfix on
8414 0.3.5.1-alpha. Patch by Neel Chauhan.
8416 o Minor bugfixes (stats):
8417 - When ExtraInfoStatistics is 0, stop including bandwidth usage
8418 statistics, GeoIPFile hashes, ServerTransportPlugin lines, and
8419 bridge statistics by country in extra-info documents. Fixes bug
8420 29018; bugfix on 0.2.4.1-alpha.
8422 o Minor bugfixes (testing):
8423 - Call setrlimit() to disable core dumps in test_bt_cl.c. Previously
8424 we used `ulimit -c` in test_bt.sh, which violates POSIX shell
8425 compatibility. Fixes bug 29061; bugfix on 0.3.5.1-alpha.
8426 - Fix some incorrect code in the v3 onion service unit tests. Fixes
8427 bug 29243; bugfix on 0.3.2.1-alpha.
8428 - In the "routerkeys/*" tests, check the return values of mkdir()
8429 for possible failures. Fixes bug 29939; bugfix on 0.2.7.2-alpha.
8430 Found by Coverity as CID 1444254.
8431 - Split test_utils_general() into several smaller test functions.
8432 This makes it easier to perform resource deallocation on assert
8433 failure, and fixes Coverity warnings CID 1444117 and CID 1444118.
8434 Fixes bug 29823; bugfix on 0.2.9.1-alpha.
8436 o Minor bugfixes (tor-resolve):
8437 - Fix a memory leak in tor-resolve that could happen if Tor gave it
8438 a malformed SOCKS response. (Memory leaks in tor-resolve don't
8439 actually matter, but it's good to fix them anyway.) Fixes bug
8440 30151; bugfix on 0.4.0.1-alpha.
8442 o Code simplification and refactoring:
8443 - Abstract out the low-level formatting of replies on the control
8444 port. Implements ticket 30007.
8445 - Add several assertions in an attempt to fix some Coverity
8446 warnings. Closes ticket 30149.
8447 - Introduce a connection_dir_buf_add() helper function that checks
8448 for compress_state of dir_connection_t and automatically writes a
8449 string to directory connection with or without compression.
8450 Resolves issue 28816.
8451 - Make the base32_decode() API return the number of bytes written,
8452 for consistency with base64_decode(). Closes ticket 28913.
8453 - Move most relay-only periodic events out of mainloop.c into the
8454 relay subsystem. Closes ticket 30414.
8455 - Refactor and encapsulate parts of the codebase that manipulate
8456 crypt_path_t objects. Resolves issue 30236.
8457 - Refactor several places in our code that Coverity incorrectly
8458 believed might have memory leaks. Closes ticket 30147.
8459 - Remove redundant return values in crypto_format, and the
8460 associated return value checks elsewhere in the code. Make the
8461 implementations in crypto_format consistent, and remove redundant
8462 code. Resolves ticket 29660.
8463 - Rename tor_mem_is_zero() to fast_mem_is_zero(), to emphasize that
8464 it is not a constant-time function. Closes ticket 30309.
8465 - Replace hs_desc_link_specifier_t with link_specifier_t, and remove
8466 all hs_desc_link_specifier_t-specific code. Fixes bug 22781;
8467 bugfix on 0.3.2.1-alpha.
8468 - Simplify v3 onion service link specifier handling code. Fixes bug
8469 23576; bugfix on 0.3.2.1-alpha.
8470 - Split crypto_digest.c into NSS code, OpenSSL code, and shared
8471 code. Resolves ticket 29108.
8472 - Split control.c into several submodules, in preparation for
8473 distributing its current responsibilities throughout the codebase.
8474 Closes ticket 29894.
8475 - Start to move responsibility for knowing about periodic events to
8476 the appropriate subsystems, so that the mainloop doesn't need to
8477 know all the periodic events in the rest of the codebase.
8478 Implements tickets 30293 and 30294.
8481 - Document how to find git commits and tags for bug fixes in
8482 CodingStandards.md. Update some file documentation. Closes
8486 - Remove the linux-tor-prio.sh script from contrib/operator-tools
8487 directory. Resolves issue 29434.
8488 - Remove the obsolete OpenSUSE initscript. Resolves issue 30076.
8489 - Remove the obsolete script at contrib/dist/tor.sh.in. Resolves
8492 o Code simplification and refactoring (shell scripts):
8493 - Clean up many of our shell scripts to fix shellcheck warnings.
8494 These include autogen.sh (ticket 26069), test_keygen.sh (ticket
8495 29062), test_switch_id.sh (ticket 29065), test_rebind.sh (ticket
8496 29063), src/test/fuzz/minimize.sh (ticket 30079), test_rust.sh
8497 (ticket 29064), torify (ticket 29070), asciidoc-helper.sh (29926),
8498 fuzz_multi.sh (30077), fuzz_static_testcases.sh (ticket 29059),
8499 nagios-check-tor-authority-cert (ticket 29071),
8500 src/test/fuzz/fixup_filenames.sh (ticket 30078), test-network.sh
8501 (ticket 29060), test_key_expiration.sh (ticket 30002),
8502 zero_length_keys.sh (ticket 29068), and test_workqueue_*.sh
8505 o Testing (chutney):
8506 - In "make test-network-all", test IPv6-only v3 single onion
8507 services, using the chutney network single-onion-v23-ipv6-md.
8508 Closes ticket 27251.
8511 Changes in version 0.4.0.5 - 2019-05-02
8512 This is the first stable release in the 0.4.0.x series. It contains
8513 improvements for power management and bootstrap reporting, as well as
8514 preliminary backend support for circuit padding to prevent some kinds
8515 of traffic analysis. It also continues our work in refactoring Tor for
8516 long-term maintainability.
8518 Per our support policy, we will support the 0.4.0.x series for nine
8519 months, or until three months after the release of a stable 0.4.1.x:
8520 whichever is longer. If you need longer-term support, please stick
8521 with 0.3.5.x, which will we plan to support until Feb 2022.
8523 Below are the changes since 0.4.0.4-rc. For a complete list of changes
8524 since 0.3.5.7, see the ReleaseNotes file.
8526 o Minor features (continuous integration):
8527 - In Travis, tell timelimit to use stem's backtrace signals, and
8528 launch python directly from timelimit, so python receives the
8529 signals from timelimit, rather than make. Closes ticket 30117.
8531 o Minor features (diagnostic):
8532 - Add more diagnostic log messages in an attempt to solve the issue
8533 of NUL bytes appearing in a microdescriptor cache. Related to
8536 o Minor features (testing):
8537 - Use the approx_time() function when setting the "Expires" header
8538 in directory replies, to make them more testable. Needed for
8541 o Minor bugfixes (rust):
8542 - Abort on panic in all build profiles, instead of potentially
8543 unwinding into C code. Fixes bug 27199; bugfix on 0.3.3.1-alpha.
8545 o Minor bugfixes (shellcheck):
8546 - Look for scripts in their correct locations during "make
8547 shellcheck". Previously we had looked in the wrong place during
8548 out-of-tree builds. Fixes bug 30263; bugfix on 0.4.0.1-alpha.
8550 o Minor bugfixes (testing):
8551 - Check the time in the "Expires" header using approx_time(). Fixes
8552 bug 30001; bugfix on 0.4.0.4-rc.
8554 o Minor bugfixes (UI):
8555 - Lower log level of unlink() errors during bootstrap. Fixes bug
8556 29930; bugfix on 0.4.0.1-alpha.
8559 Changes in version 0.4.0.4-rc - 2019-04-11
8560 Tor 0.4.0.4-rc is the first release candidate in its series; it fixes
8561 several bugs from earlier versions, including some that had affected
8562 stability, and one that prevented relays from working with NSS.
8564 o Major bugfixes (NSS, relay):
8565 - When running with NSS, disable TLS 1.2 ciphersuites that use
8566 SHA384 for their PRF. Due to an NSS bug, the TLS key exporters for
8567 these ciphersuites don't work -- which caused relays to fail to
8568 handshake with one another when these ciphersuites were enabled.
8569 Fixes bug 29241; bugfix on 0.3.5.1-alpha.
8571 o Minor features (bandwidth authority):
8572 - Make bandwidth authorities ignore relays that are reported in the
8573 bandwidth file with the flag "vote=0". This change allows us to
8574 report unmeasured relays for diagnostic reasons without including
8575 their bandwidth in the bandwidth authorities' vote. Closes
8577 - When a directory authority is using a bandwidth file to obtain the
8578 bandwidth values that will be included in the next vote, serve
8579 this bandwidth file at /tor/status-vote/next/bandwidth. Closes
8582 o Minor features (circuit padding):
8583 - Stop warning about undefined behavior in the probability
8584 distribution tests. Float division by zero may technically be
8585 undefined behavior in C, but it's well defined in IEEE 754.
8586 Partial backport of 29298. Closes ticket 29527; bugfix
8589 o Minor features (continuous integration):
8590 - On Travis Rust builds, cleanup Rust registry and refrain from
8591 caching the "target/" directory to speed up builds. Resolves
8594 o Minor features (dormant mode):
8595 - Add a DormantCanceledByStartup option to tell Tor that it should
8596 treat a startup event as cancelling any previous dormant state.
8597 Integrators should use this option with caution: it should only be
8598 used if Tor is being started because of something that the user
8599 did, and not if Tor is being automatically started in the
8600 background. Closes ticket 29357.
8602 o Minor features (geoip):
8603 - Update geoip and geoip6 to the April 2 2019 Maxmind GeoLite2
8604 Country database. Closes ticket 29992.
8606 o Minor features (NSS, diagnostic):
8607 - Try to log an error from NSS (if there is any) and a more useful
8608 description of our situation if we are using NSS and a call to
8609 SSL_ExportKeyingMaterial() fails. Diagnostic for ticket 29241.
8611 o Minor bugfixes (security):
8612 - Fix a potential double free bug when reading huge bandwidth files.
8613 The issue is not exploitable in the current Tor network because
8614 the vulnerable code is only reached when directory authorities
8615 read bandwidth files, but bandwidth files come from a trusted
8616 source (usually the authorities themselves). Furthermore, the
8617 issue is only exploitable in rare (non-POSIX) 32-bit architectures,
8618 which are not used by any of the current authorities. Fixes bug
8619 30040; bugfix on 0.3.5.1-alpha. Bug found and fixed by
8621 - Verify in more places that we are not about to create a buffer
8622 with more than INT_MAX bytes, to avoid possible OOB access in the
8623 event of bugs. Fixes bug 30041; bugfix on 0.2.0.16. Found and
8624 fixed by Tobias Stoeckmann.
8626 o Minor bugfix (continuous integration):
8627 - Reset coverage state on disk after Travis CI has finished. This
8628 should prevent future coverage merge errors from causing the test
8629 suite for the "process" subsystem to fail. The process subsystem
8630 was introduced in 0.4.0.1-alpha. Fixes bug 29036; bugfix
8632 - Terminate test-stem if it takes more than 9.5 minutes to run.
8633 (Travis terminates the job after 10 minutes of no output.)
8634 Diagnostic for 29437. Fixes bug 30011; bugfix on 0.3.5.4-alpha.
8636 o Minor bugfixes (bootstrap reporting):
8637 - During bootstrap reporting, correctly distinguish pluggable
8638 transports from plain proxies. Fixes bug 28925; bugfix
8641 o Minor bugfixes (C correctness):
8642 - Fix an unlikely memory leak in consensus_diff_apply(). Fixes bug
8643 29824; bugfix on 0.3.1.1-alpha. This is Coverity warning
8646 o Minor bugfixes (circuitpadding testing):
8647 - Minor tweaks to avoid rare test failures related to timers and
8648 monotonic time. Fixes bug 29500; bugfix on 0.4.0.1-alpha.
8650 o Minor bugfixes (directory authorities):
8651 - Actually include the bandwidth-file-digest line in directory
8652 authority votes. Fixes bug 29959; bugfix on 0.4.0.2-alpha.
8654 o Minor bugfixes (logging):
8655 - On Windows, when errors cause us to reload a consensus from disk,
8656 tell the user that we are retrying at log level "notice".
8657 Previously we only logged this information at "info", which was
8658 confusing because the errors themselves were logged at "warning".
8659 Improves previous fix for 28614. Fixes bug 30004; bugfix
8662 o Minor bugfixes (pluggable transports):
8663 - Restore old behavior when it comes to discovering the path of a
8664 given Pluggable Transport executable file. A change in
8665 0.4.0.1-alpha had broken this behavior on paths containing a
8666 space. Fixes bug 29874; bugfix on 0.4.0.1-alpha.
8668 o Minor bugfixes (testing):
8669 - Backport the 0.3.4 src/test/test-network.sh to 0.2.9. We need a
8670 recent test-network.sh to use new chutney features in CI. Fixes
8671 bug 29703; bugfix on 0.2.9.1-alpha.
8672 - Fix a test failure on Windows caused by an unexpected "BUG"
8673 warning in our tests for tor_gmtime_r(-1). Fixes bug 29922; bugfix
8676 o Minor bugfixes (TLS protocol):
8677 - When classifying a client's selection of TLS ciphers, if the
8678 client ciphers are not yet available, do not cache the result.
8679 Previously, we had cached the unavailability of the cipher list
8680 and never looked again, which in turn led us to assume that the
8681 client only supported the ancient V1 link protocol. This, in turn,
8682 was causing Stem integration tests to stall in some cases. Fixes
8683 bug 30021; bugfix on 0.2.4.8-alpha.
8685 o Code simplification and refactoring:
8686 - Introduce a connection_dir_buf_add() helper function that detects
8687 whether compression is in use, and adds a string accordingly.
8688 Resolves issue 28816.
8689 - Refactor handle_get_next_bandwidth() to use
8690 connection_dir_buf_add(). Implements ticket 29897.
8693 - Clarify that Tor performs stream isolation among *Port listeners
8694 by default. Resolves issue 29121.
8697 Changes in version 0.4.0.3-alpha - 2019-03-22
8698 Tor 0.4.0.3-alpha is the third in its series; it fixes several small
8699 bugs from earlier versions.
8701 o Minor features (address selection):
8702 - Treat the subnet 100.64.0.0/10 as public for some purposes;
8703 private for others. This subnet is the RFC 6598 (Carrier Grade
8704 NAT) IP range, and is deployed by many ISPs as an alternative to
8705 RFC 1918 that does not break existing internal networks. Tor now
8706 blocks SOCKS and control ports on these addresses and warns users
8707 if client ports or ExtORPorts are listening on a RFC 6598 address.
8708 Closes ticket 28525. Patch by Neel Chauhan.
8710 o Minor features (geoip):
8711 - Update geoip and geoip6 to the March 4 2019 Maxmind GeoLite2
8712 Country database. Closes ticket 29666.
8714 o Minor bugfixes (circuitpadding):
8715 - Inspect the circuit-level cell queue before sending padding, to
8716 avoid sending padding when too much data is queued. Fixes bug
8717 29204; bugfix on 0.4.0.1-alpha.
8719 o Minor bugfixes (logging):
8720 - Correct a misleading error message when IPv4Only or IPv6Only is
8721 used but the resolved address can not be interpreted as an address
8722 of the specified IP version. Fixes bug 13221; bugfix on
8723 0.2.3.9-alpha. Patch from Kris Katterjohn.
8724 - Log the correct port number for listening sockets when "auto" is
8725 used to let Tor pick the port number. Previously, port 0 was
8726 logged instead of the actual port number. Fixes bug 29144; bugfix
8727 on 0.3.5.1-alpha. Patch from Kris Katterjohn.
8728 - Stop logging a BUG() warning when Tor is waiting for exit
8729 descriptors. Fixes bug 28656; bugfix on 0.3.5.1-alpha.
8731 o Minor bugfixes (memory management):
8732 - Refactor the shared random state's memory management so that it
8733 actually takes ownership of the shared random value pointers.
8734 Fixes bug 29706; bugfix on 0.2.9.1-alpha.
8736 o Minor bugfixes (memory management, testing):
8737 - Stop leaking parts of the shared random state in the shared-random
8738 unit tests. Fixes bug 29599; bugfix on 0.2.9.1-alpha.
8740 o Minor bugfixes (pluggable transports):
8741 - Fix an assertion failure crash bug when a pluggable transport is
8742 terminated during the bootstrap phase. Fixes bug 29562; bugfix
8745 o Minor bugfixes (Rust, protover):
8746 - Add a missing "Padding" value to the Rust implementation of
8747 protover. Fixes bug 29631; bugfix on 0.4.0.1-alpha.
8749 o Minor bugfixes (single onion services):
8750 - Allow connections to single onion services to remain idle without
8751 being disconnected. Previously, relays acting as rendezvous points
8752 for single onion services were mistakenly closing idle rendezvous
8753 circuits after 60 seconds, thinking that they were unused
8754 directory-fetching circuits that had served their purpose. Fixes
8755 bug 29665; bugfix on 0.2.1.26.
8757 o Minor bugfixes (stats):
8758 - When ExtraInfoStatistics is 0, stop including PaddingStatistics in
8759 relay and bridge extra-info documents. Fixes bug 29017; bugfix
8762 o Minor bugfixes (testing):
8763 - Downgrade some LOG_ERR messages in the address/* tests to
8764 warnings. The LOG_ERR messages were occurring when we had no
8765 configured network. We were failing the unit tests, because we
8766 backported 28668 to 0.3.5.8, but did not backport 29530. Fixes bug
8767 29530; bugfix on 0.3.5.8.
8768 - Fix our gcov wrapper script to look for object files at the
8769 correct locations. Fixes bug 29435; bugfix on 0.3.5.1-alpha.
8770 - Decrease the false positive rate of stochastic probability
8771 distribution tests. Fixes bug 29693; bugfix on 0.4.0.1-alpha.
8773 o Minor bugfixes (Windows, CI):
8774 - Skip the Appveyor 32-bit Windows Server 2016 job, and 64-bit
8775 Windows Server 2012 R2 job. The remaining 2 jobs still provide
8776 coverage of 64/32-bit, and Windows Server 2016/2012 R2. Also set
8777 fast_finish, so failed jobs terminate the build immediately. Fixes
8778 bug 29601; bugfix on 0.3.5.4-alpha.
8781 Changes in version 0.3.5.8 - 2019-02-21
8782 Tor 0.3.5.8 backports several fixes from later releases, including fixes
8783 for an annoying SOCKS-parsing bug that affected users in earlier 0.3.5.x
8786 It also includes a fix for a medium-severity security bug affecting Tor
8787 0.3.2.1-alpha and later. All Tor instances running an affected release
8788 should upgrade to 0.3.3.12, 0.3.4.11, 0.3.5.8, or 0.4.0.2-alpha.
8790 o Major bugfixes (cell scheduler, KIST, security):
8791 - Make KIST consider the outbuf length when computing what it can
8792 put in the outbuf. Previously, KIST acted as though the outbuf
8793 were empty, which could lead to the outbuf becoming too full. It
8794 is possible that an attacker could exploit this bug to cause a Tor
8795 client or relay to run out of memory and crash. Fixes bug 29168;
8796 bugfix on 0.3.2.1-alpha. This issue is also being tracked as
8797 TROVE-2019-001 and CVE-2019-8955.
8799 o Major bugfixes (networking, backport from 0.4.0.2-alpha):
8800 - Gracefully handle empty username/password fields in SOCKS5
8801 username/password auth message and allow SOCKS5 handshake to
8802 continue. Previously, we had rejected these handshakes, breaking
8803 certain applications. Fixes bug 29175; bugfix on 0.3.5.1-alpha.
8805 o Minor features (compilation, backport from 0.4.0.2-alpha):
8806 - Compile correctly when OpenSSL is built with engine support
8807 disabled, or with deprecated APIs disabled. Closes ticket 29026.
8808 Patches from "Mangix".
8810 o Minor features (geoip):
8811 - Update geoip and geoip6 to the February 5 2019 Maxmind GeoLite2
8812 Country database. Closes ticket 29478.
8814 o Minor features (testing, backport from 0.4.0.2-alpha):
8815 - Treat all unexpected ERR and BUG messages as test failures. Closes
8818 o Minor bugfixes (onion service v3, client, backport from 0.4.0.1-alpha):
8819 - Stop logging a "BUG()" warning and stacktrace when we find a SOCKS
8820 connection waiting for a descriptor that we actually have in the
8821 cache. It turns out that this can actually happen, though it is
8822 rare. Now, tor will recover and retry the descriptor. Fixes bug
8823 28669; bugfix on 0.3.2.4-alpha.
8825 o Minor bugfixes (IPv6, backport from 0.4.0.1-alpha):
8826 - Fix tor_ersatz_socketpair on IPv6-only systems. Previously, the
8827 IPv6 socket was bound using an address family of AF_INET instead
8828 of AF_INET6. Fixes bug 28995; bugfix on 0.3.5.1-alpha. Patch from
8831 o Minor bugfixes (build, compatibility, rust, backport from 0.4.0.2-alpha):
8832 - Update Cargo.lock file to match the version made by the latest
8833 version of Rust, so that "make distcheck" will pass again. Fixes
8834 bug 29244; bugfix on 0.3.3.4-alpha.
8836 o Minor bugfixes (client, clock skew, backport from 0.4.0.1-alpha):
8837 - Select guards even if the consensus has expired, as long as the
8838 consensus is still reasonably live. Fixes bug 24661; bugfix
8841 o Minor bugfixes (compilation, backport from 0.4.0.1-alpha):
8842 - Compile correctly on OpenBSD; previously, we were missing some
8843 headers required in order to detect it properly. Fixes bug 28938;
8844 bugfix on 0.3.5.1-alpha. Patch from Kris Katterjohn.
8846 o Minor bugfixes (documentation, backport from 0.4.0.2-alpha):
8847 - Describe the contents of the v3 onion service client authorization
8848 files correctly: They hold public keys, not private keys. Fixes
8849 bug 28979; bugfix on 0.3.5.1-alpha. Spotted by "Felixix".
8851 o Minor bugfixes (logging, backport from 0.4.0.1-alpha):
8852 - Rework rep_hist_log_link_protocol_counts() to iterate through all
8853 link protocol versions when logging incoming/outgoing connection
8854 counts. Tor no longer skips version 5, and we won't have to
8855 remember to update this function when new link protocol version is
8856 developed. Fixes bug 28920; bugfix on 0.2.6.10.
8858 o Minor bugfixes (logging, backport from 0.4.0.2-alpha):
8859 - Log more information at "warning" level when unable to read a
8860 private key; log more information at "info" level when unable to
8861 read a public key. We had warnings here before, but they were lost
8862 during our NSS work. Fixes bug 29042; bugfix on 0.3.5.1-alpha.
8864 o Minor bugfixes (misc, backport from 0.4.0.2-alpha):
8865 - The amount of total available physical memory is now determined
8866 using the sysctl identifier HW_PHYSMEM (rather than HW_USERMEM)
8867 when it is defined and a 64-bit variant is not available. Fixes
8868 bug 28981; bugfix on 0.2.5.4-alpha. Patch from Kris Katterjohn.
8870 o Minor bugfixes (onion services, backport from 0.4.0.2-alpha):
8871 - Avoid crashing if ClientOnionAuthDir (incorrectly) contains more
8872 than one private key for a hidden service. Fixes bug 29040; bugfix
8874 - In hs_cache_store_as_client() log an HSDesc we failed to parse at
8875 "debug" level. Tor used to log it as a warning, which caused very
8876 long log lines to appear for some users. Fixes bug 29135; bugfix
8878 - Stop logging "Tried to establish rendezvous on non-OR circuit..."
8879 as a warning. Instead, log it as a protocol warning, because there
8880 is nothing that relay operators can do to fix it. Fixes bug 29029;
8881 bugfix on 0.2.5.7-rc.
8883 o Minor bugfixes (tests, directory clients, backport from 0.4.0.1-alpha):
8884 - Mark outdated dirservers when Tor only has a reasonably live
8885 consensus. Fixes bug 28569; bugfix on 0.3.2.5-alpha.
8887 o Minor bugfixes (tests, backport from 0.4.0.2-alpha):
8888 - Detect and suppress "bug" warnings from the util/time test on
8889 Windows. Fixes bug 29161; bugfix on 0.2.9.3-alpha.
8890 - Do not log an error-level message if we fail to find an IPv6
8891 network interface from the unit tests. Fixes bug 29160; bugfix
8894 o Minor bugfixes (usability, backport from 0.4.0.1-alpha):
8895 - Stop saying "Your Guard ..." in pathbias_measure_{use,close}_rate().
8896 Some users took this phrasing to mean that the mentioned guard was
8897 under their control or responsibility, which it is not. Fixes bug
8898 28895; bugfix on Tor 0.3.0.1-alpha.
8901 Changes in version 0.3.4.11 - 2019-02-21
8902 Tor 0.3.4.11 is the third stable release in its series. It includes
8903 a fix for a medium-severity security bug affecting Tor 0.3.2.1-alpha and
8904 later. All Tor instances running an affected release should upgrade to
8905 0.3.3.12, 0.3.4.11, 0.3.5.8, or 0.4.0.2-alpha.
8907 o Major bugfixes (cell scheduler, KIST, security):
8908 - Make KIST consider the outbuf length when computing what it can
8909 put in the outbuf. Previously, KIST acted as though the outbuf
8910 were empty, which could lead to the outbuf becoming too full. It
8911 is possible that an attacker could exploit this bug to cause a Tor
8912 client or relay to run out of memory and crash. Fixes bug 29168;
8913 bugfix on 0.3.2.1-alpha. This issue is also being tracked as
8914 TROVE-2019-001 and CVE-2019-8955.
8916 o Minor features (geoip):
8917 - Update geoip and geoip6 to the February 5 2019 Maxmind GeoLite2
8918 Country database. Closes ticket 29478.
8920 o Minor bugfixes (build, compatibility, rust, backport from 0.4.0.2-alpha):
8921 - Update Cargo.lock file to match the version made by the latest
8922 version of Rust, so that "make distcheck" will pass again. Fixes
8923 bug 29244; bugfix on 0.3.3.4-alpha.
8925 o Minor bugfixes (onion services, backport from 0.4.0.2-alpha):
8926 - Stop logging "Tried to establish rendezvous on non-OR circuit..."
8927 as a warning. Instead, log it as a protocol warning, because there
8928 is nothing that relay operators can do to fix it. Fixes bug 29029;
8929 bugfix on 0.2.5.7-rc.
8932 Changes in version 0.3.3.12 - 2019-02-21
8933 Tor 0.3.3.12 fixes a medium-severity security bug affecting Tor
8934 0.3.2.1-alpha and later. All Tor instances running an affected release
8935 should upgrade to 0.3.3.12, 0.3.4.11, 0.3.5.8, or 0.4.0.2-alpha.
8937 This release marks the end of support for the Tor 0.3.3.x series. We
8938 recommend that users switch to either the Tor 0.3.4 series (supported
8939 until at least 10 June 2019), or the Tor 0.3.5 series, which will
8940 receive long-term support until at least 1 Feb 2022.
8942 o Major bugfixes (cell scheduler, KIST, security):
8943 - Make KIST consider the outbuf length when computing what it can
8944 put in the outbuf. Previously, KIST acted as though the outbuf
8945 were empty, which could lead to the outbuf becoming too full. It
8946 is possible that an attacker could exploit this bug to cause a Tor
8947 client or relay to run out of memory and crash. Fixes bug 29168;
8948 bugfix on 0.3.2.1-alpha. This issue is also being tracked as
8949 TROVE-2019-001 and CVE-2019-8955.
8951 o Minor features (geoip):
8952 - Update geoip and geoip6 to the February 5 2019 Maxmind GeoLite2
8953 Country database. Closes ticket 29478.
8955 o Minor bugfixes (build, compatibility, rust, backport from 0.4.0.2-alpha):
8956 - Update Cargo.lock file to match the version made by the latest
8957 version of Rust, so that "make distcheck" will pass again. Fixes
8958 bug 29244; bugfix on 0.3.3.4-alpha.
8960 o Minor bugfixes (onion services, backport from 0.4.0.2-alpha):
8961 - Stop logging "Tried to establish rendezvous on non-OR circuit..."
8962 as a warning. Instead, log it as a protocol warning, because there
8963 is nothing that relay operators can do to fix it. Fixes bug 29029;
8964 bugfix on 0.2.5.7-rc.
8967 Changes in version 0.4.0.2-alpha - 2019-02-21
8968 Tor 0.4.0.2-alpha is the second alpha in its series; it fixes several
8969 bugs from earlier versions, including several that had broken
8970 backward compatibility.
8972 It also includes a fix for a medium-severity security bug affecting Tor
8973 0.3.2.1-alpha and later. All Tor instances running an affected release
8974 should upgrade to 0.3.3.12, 0.3.4.11, 0.3.5.8, or 0.4.0.2-alpha.
8976 o Major bugfixes (cell scheduler, KIST, security):
8977 - Make KIST consider the outbuf length when computing what it can
8978 put in the outbuf. Previously, KIST acted as though the outbuf
8979 were empty, which could lead to the outbuf becoming too full. It
8980 is possible that an attacker could exploit this bug to cause a Tor
8981 client or relay to run out of memory and crash. Fixes bug 29168;
8982 bugfix on 0.3.2.1-alpha. This issue is also being tracked as
8983 TROVE-2019-001 and CVE-2019-8955.
8985 o Major bugfixes (networking):
8986 - Gracefully handle empty username/password fields in SOCKS5
8987 username/password auth messsage and allow SOCKS5 handshake to
8988 continue. Previously, we had rejected these handshakes, breaking
8989 certain applications. Fixes bug 29175; bugfix on 0.3.5.1-alpha.
8991 o Major bugfixes (windows, startup):
8992 - When reading a consensus file from disk, detect whether it was
8993 written in text mode, and re-read it in text mode if so. Always
8994 write consensus files in binary mode so that we can map them into
8995 memory later. Previously, we had written in text mode, which
8996 confused us when we tried to map the file on windows. Fixes bug
8997 28614; bugfix on 0.4.0.1-alpha.
8999 o Minor features (compilation):
9000 - Compile correctly when OpenSSL is built with engine support
9001 disabled, or with deprecated APIs disabled. Closes ticket 29026.
9002 Patches from "Mangix".
9004 o Minor features (developer tooling):
9005 - Check that bugfix versions in changes files look like Tor versions
9006 from the versions spec. Warn when bugfixes claim to be on a future
9007 release. Closes ticket 27761.
9008 - Provide a git pre-commit hook that disallows committing if we have
9009 any failures in our code and changelog formatting checks. It is
9010 now available in scripts/maint/pre-commit.git-hook. Implements
9013 o Minor features (directory authority):
9014 - When a directory authority is using a bandwidth file to obtain
9015 bandwidth values, include the digest of that file in the vote.
9016 Closes ticket 26698.
9018 o Minor features (geoip):
9019 - Update geoip and geoip6 to the February 5 2019 Maxmind GeoLite2
9020 Country database. Closes ticket 29478.
9022 o Minor features (testing):
9023 - Treat all unexpected ERR and BUG messages as test failures. Closes
9026 o Minor bugfixes (build, compatibility, rust):
9027 - Update Cargo.lock file to match the version made by the latest
9028 version of Rust, so that "make distcheck" will pass again. Fixes
9029 bug 29244; bugfix on 0.3.3.4-alpha.
9031 o Minor bugfixes (compilation):
9032 - Fix compilation warnings in test_circuitpadding.c. Fixes bug
9033 29169; bugfix on 0.4.0.1-alpha.
9034 - Silence a compiler warning in test-memwipe.c on OpenBSD. Fixes bug
9035 29145; bugfix on 0.2.9.3-alpha. Patch from Kris Katterjohn.
9037 o Minor bugfixes (documentation):
9038 - Describe the contents of the v3 onion service client authorization
9039 files correctly: They hold public keys, not private keys. Fixes
9040 bug 28979; bugfix on 0.3.5.1-alpha. Spotted by "Felixix".
9042 o Minor bugfixes (linux seccomp sandbox):
9043 - Fix startup crash when experimental sandbox support is enabled.
9044 Fixes bug 29150; bugfix on 0.4.0.1-alpha. Patch by Peter Gerber.
9046 o Minor bugfixes (logging):
9047 - Avoid logging that we are relaxing a circuit timeout when that
9048 timeout is fixed. Fixes bug 28698; bugfix on 0.2.4.7-alpha.
9049 - Log more information at "warning" level when unable to read a
9050 private key; log more information at "info" level when unable to
9051 read a public key. We had warnings here before, but they were lost
9052 during our NSS work. Fixes bug 29042; bugfix on 0.3.5.1-alpha.
9054 o Minor bugfixes (misc):
9055 - The amount of total available physical memory is now determined
9056 using the sysctl identifier HW_PHYSMEM (rather than HW_USERMEM)
9057 when it is defined and a 64-bit variant is not available. Fixes
9058 bug 28981; bugfix on 0.2.5.4-alpha. Patch from Kris Katterjohn.
9060 o Minor bugfixes (onion services):
9061 - Avoid crashing if ClientOnionAuthDir (incorrectly) contains more
9062 than one private key for a hidden service. Fixes bug 29040; bugfix
9064 - In hs_cache_store_as_client() log an HSDesc we failed to parse at
9065 "debug" level. Tor used to log it as a warning, which caused very
9066 long log lines to appear for some users. Fixes bug 29135; bugfix
9068 - Stop logging "Tried to establish rendezvous on non-OR circuit..."
9069 as a warning. Instead, log it as a protocol warning, because there
9070 is nothing that relay operators can do to fix it. Fixes bug 29029;
9071 bugfix on 0.2.5.7-rc.
9073 o Minor bugfixes (scheduler):
9074 - When re-adding channels to the pending list, check the correct
9075 channel's sched_heap_idx. This issue has had no effect in mainline
9076 Tor, but could have led to bugs down the road in improved versions
9077 of our circuit scheduling code. Fixes bug 29508; bugfix
9080 o Minor bugfixes (tests):
9081 - Fix intermittent failures on an adaptive padding test. Fixes one
9082 case of bug 29122; bugfix on 0.4.0.1-alpha.
9083 - Disable an unstable circuit-padding test that was failing
9084 intermittently because of an ill-defined small histogram. Such
9085 histograms will be allowed again after 29298 is implemented. Fixes
9086 a second case of bug 29122; bugfix on 0.4.0.1-alpha.
9087 - Detect and suppress "bug" warnings from the util/time test on
9088 Windows. Fixes bug 29161; bugfix on 0.2.9.3-alpha.
9089 - Do not log an error-level message if we fail to find an IPv6
9090 network interface from the unit tests. Fixes bug 29160; bugfix
9094 - In the manpage entry describing MapAddress torrc setting, use
9095 example IP addresses from ranges specified for use in documentation
9096 by RFC 5737. Resolves issue 28623.
9099 - Remove the old check-tor script. Resolves issue 29072.
9102 Changes in version 0.4.0.1-alpha - 2019-01-18
9103 Tor 0.4.0.1-alpha is the first release in the new 0.4.0.x series. It
9104 introduces improved features for power and bandwidth conservation,
9105 more accurate reporting of bootstrap progress for user interfaces, and
9106 an experimental backend for an exciting new adaptive padding feature.
9107 There is also the usual assortment of bugfixes and minor features, all
9110 o Major features (battery management, client, dormant mode):
9111 - When Tor is running as a client, and it is unused for a long time,
9112 it can now enter a "dormant" state. When Tor is dormant, it avoids
9113 network and CPU activity until it is reawoken either by a user
9114 request or by a controller command. For more information, see the
9115 configuration options starting with "Dormant". Implements tickets
9117 - The client's memory of whether it is "dormant", and how long it
9118 has spent idle, persists across invocations. Implements
9120 - There is a DormantOnFirstStartup option that integrators can use
9121 if they expect that in many cases, Tor will be installed but
9124 o Major features (bootstrap reporting):
9125 - When reporting bootstrap progress, report the first connection
9126 uniformly, regardless of whether it's a connection for building
9127 application circuits. This allows finer-grained reporting of early
9128 progress than previously possible, with the improvements of ticket
9129 27169. Closes tickets 27167 and 27103. Addresses ticket 27308.
9130 - When reporting bootstrap progress, treat connecting to a proxy or
9131 pluggable transport as separate from having successfully used that
9132 proxy or pluggable transport to connect to a relay. Closes tickets
9135 o Major features (circuit padding):
9136 - Implement preliminary support for the circuit padding portion of
9137 Proposal 254. The implementation supports Adaptive Padding (aka
9138 WTF-PAD) state machines for use between experimental clients and
9139 relays. Support is also provided for APE-style state machines that
9140 use probability distributions instead of histograms to specify
9141 inter-packet delay. At the moment, Tor does not provide any
9142 padding state machines that are used in normal operation: for now,
9143 this feature exists solely for experimentation. Closes
9146 o Major features (refactoring):
9147 - Tor now uses an explicit list of its own subsystems when
9148 initializing and shutting down. Previously, these systems were
9149 managed implicitly in various places throughout the codebase.
9150 (There may still be some subsystems using the old system.) Closes
9153 o Minor features (bootstrap reporting):
9154 - When reporting bootstrap progress, stop distinguishing between
9155 situations where only internal paths are available and situations
9156 where external paths are available. Previously, Tor would often
9157 erroneously report that it had only internal paths. Closes
9160 o Minor features (continuous integration):
9161 - Log Python version during each Travis CI job. Resolves
9164 o Minor features (controller):
9165 - Add a DROPOWNERSHIP command to undo the effects of TAKEOWNERSHIP.
9166 Implements ticket 28843.
9168 o Minor features (developer tooling):
9169 - Provide a git hook script to prevent "fixup!" and "squash!"
9170 commits from ending up in the master branch, as scripts/main/pre-
9171 push.git-hook. Closes ticket 27993.
9173 o Minor features (directory authority):
9174 - Directory authorities support a new consensus algorithm, under
9175 which the family lines in microdescriptors are encoded in a
9176 canonical form. This change makes family lines more compressible
9177 in transit, and on the client. Closes ticket 28266; implements
9180 o Minor features (directory authority, relay):
9181 - Authorities now vote on a "StaleDesc" flag to indicate that a
9182 relay's descriptor is so old that the relay should upload again
9183 soon. Relays treat this flag as a signal to upload a new
9184 descriptor. This flag will eventually let us remove the
9185 'published' date from routerstatus entries, and make our consensus
9186 diffs much smaller. Closes ticket 26770; implements proposal 293.
9188 o Minor features (fallback directory mirrors):
9189 - Update the fallback whitelist based on operator opt-ins and opt-
9190 outs. Closes ticket 24805, patch by Phoul.
9192 o Minor features (FreeBSD):
9193 - On FreeBSD-based systems, warn relay operators if the
9194 "net.inet.ip.random_id" sysctl (IP ID randomization) is disabled.
9195 Closes ticket 28518.
9197 o Minor features (HTTP standards compliance):
9198 - Stop sending the header "Content-type: application/octet-stream"
9199 along with transparently compressed documents: this confused
9200 browsers. Closes ticket 28100.
9202 o Minor features (IPv6):
9203 - We add an option ClientAutoIPv6ORPort, to make clients randomly
9204 prefer a node's IPv4 or IPv6 ORPort. The random preference is set
9205 every time a node is loaded from a new consensus or bridge config.
9206 We expect that this option will enable clients to bootstrap more
9207 quickly without having to determine whether they support IPv4,
9208 IPv6, or both. Closes ticket 27490. Patch by Neel Chauhan.
9209 - When using addrs_in_same_network_family(), avoid choosing circuit
9210 paths that pass through the same IPv6 subnet more than once.
9211 Previously, we only checked IPv4 subnets. Closes ticket 24393.
9212 Patch by Neel Chauhan.
9214 o Minor features (log messages):
9215 - Improve log message in v3 onion services that could print out
9216 negative revision counters. Closes ticket 27707. Patch
9219 o Minor features (memory usage):
9220 - Save memory by storing microdescriptor family lists with a more
9221 compact representation. Closes ticket 27359.
9222 - Tor clients now use mmap() to read consensus files from disk, so
9223 that they no longer need keep the full text of a consensus in
9224 memory when parsing it or applying a diff. Closes ticket 27244.
9226 o Minor features (parsing):
9227 - Directory authorities now validate that router descriptors and
9228 ExtraInfo documents are in a valid subset of UTF-8, and reject
9229 them if they are not. Closes ticket 27367.
9231 o Minor features (performance):
9232 - Cache the results of summarize_protocol_flags(), so that we don't
9233 have to parse the same protocol-versions string over and over.
9234 This should save us a huge number of malloc calls on startup, and
9235 may reduce memory fragmentation with some allocators. Closes
9237 - Remove a needless memset() call from get_token_arguments, thereby
9238 speeding up the tokenization of directory objects by about 20%.
9239 Closes ticket 28852.
9240 - Replace parse_short_policy() with a faster implementation, to
9241 improve microdescriptor parsing time. Closes ticket 28853.
9242 - Speed up directory parsing a little by avoiding use of the non-
9243 inlined strcmp_len() function. Closes ticket 28856.
9244 - Speed up microdescriptor parsing by about 30%, to help improve
9245 startup time. Closes ticket 28839.
9247 o Minor features (pluggable transports):
9248 - Add support for emitting STATUS updates to Tor's control port from
9249 a pluggable transport process. Closes ticket 28846.
9250 - Add support for logging to Tor's logging subsystem from a
9251 pluggable transport process. Closes ticket 28180.
9253 o Minor features (process management):
9254 - Add a new process API for handling child processes. This new API
9255 allows Tor to have bi-directional communication with child
9256 processes on both Unix and Windows. Closes ticket 28179.
9257 - Use the subsystem manager to initialize and shut down the process
9258 module. Closes ticket 28847.
9260 o Minor features (relay):
9261 - When listing relay families, list them in canonical form including
9262 the relay's own identity, and try to give a more useful set of
9263 warnings. Part of ticket 28266 and proposal 298.
9265 o Minor features (required protocols):
9266 - Before exiting because of a missing required protocol, Tor will
9267 now check the publication time of the consensus, and not exit
9268 unless the consensus is newer than the Tor program's own release
9269 date. Previously, Tor would not check the consensus publication
9270 time, and so might exit because of a missing protocol that might
9271 no longer be required in a current consensus. Implements proposal
9272 297; closes ticket 27735.
9274 o Minor features (testing):
9275 - Allow a HeartbeatPeriod of less than 30 minutes in testing Tor
9276 networks. Closes ticket 28840. Patch by Rob Jansen.
9278 o Minor bugfixes (client, clock skew):
9279 - Bootstrap successfully even when Tor's clock is behind the clocks
9280 on the authorities. Fixes bug 28591; bugfix on 0.2.0.9-alpha.
9281 - Select guards even if the consensus has expired, as long as the
9282 consensus is still reasonably live. Fixes bug 24661; bugfix
9285 o Minor bugfixes (compilation):
9286 - Compile correctly on OpenBSD; previously, we were missing some
9287 headers required in order to detect it properly. Fixes bug 28938;
9288 bugfix on 0.3.5.1-alpha. Patch from Kris Katterjohn.
9290 o Minor bugfixes (directory clients):
9291 - Mark outdated dirservers when Tor only has a reasonably live
9292 consensus. Fixes bug 28569; bugfix on 0.3.2.5-alpha.
9294 o Minor bugfixes (directory mirrors):
9295 - Even when a directory mirror's clock is behind the clocks on the
9296 authorities, we now allow the mirror to serve "future"
9297 consensuses. Fixes bug 28654; bugfix on 0.3.0.1-alpha.
9299 o Minor bugfixes (DNS):
9300 - Gracefully handle an empty or absent resolve.conf file by falling
9301 back to using "localhost" as a DNS server (and hoping it works).
9302 Previously, we would just stop running as an exit. Fixes bug
9303 21900; bugfix on 0.2.1.10-alpha.
9305 o Minor bugfixes (guards):
9306 - In count_acceptable_nodes(), the minimum number is now one bridge
9307 or guard node, and two non-guard nodes for a circuit. Previously,
9308 we had added up the sum of all nodes with a descriptor, but that
9309 could cause us to build failing circuits when we had either too
9310 many bridges or not enough guard nodes. Fixes bug 25885; bugfix on
9311 0.2.3.1-alpha. Patch by Neel Chauhan.
9313 o Minor bugfixes (IPv6):
9314 - Fix tor_ersatz_socketpair on IPv6-only systems. Previously, the
9315 IPv6 socket was bound using an address family of AF_INET instead
9316 of AF_INET6. Fixes bug 28995; bugfix on 0.3.5.1-alpha. Patch from
9319 o Minor bugfixes (logging):
9320 - Rework rep_hist_log_link_protocol_counts() to iterate through all
9321 link protocol versions when logging incoming/outgoing connection
9322 counts. Tor no longer skips version 5, and we won't have to
9323 remember to update this function when new link protocol version is
9324 developed. Fixes bug 28920; bugfix on 0.2.6.10.
9326 o Minor bugfixes (networking):
9327 - Introduce additional checks into tor_addr_parse() to reject
9328 certain incorrect inputs that previously were not detected. Fixes
9329 bug 23082; bugfix on 0.2.0.10-alpha.
9331 o Minor bugfixes (onion service v3, client):
9332 - Stop logging a "BUG()" warning and stacktrace when we find a SOCKS
9333 connection waiting for a descriptor that we actually have in the
9334 cache. It turns out that this can actually happen, though it is
9335 rare. Now, tor will recover and retry the descriptor. Fixes bug
9336 28669; bugfix on 0.3.2.4-alpha.
9338 o Minor bugfixes (periodic events):
9339 - Refrain from calling routerlist_remove_old_routers() from
9340 check_descriptor_callback(). Instead, create a new hourly periodic
9341 event. Fixes bug 27929; bugfix on 0.2.8.1-alpha.
9343 o Minor bugfixes (pluggable transports):
9344 - Make sure that data is continously read from standard output and
9345 standard error pipes of a pluggable transport child-process, to
9346 avoid deadlocking when a pipe's buffer is full. Fixes bug 26360;
9347 bugfix on 0.2.3.6-alpha.
9349 o Minor bugfixes (unit tests):
9350 - Instead of relying on hs_free_all() to clean up all onion service
9351 objects in test_build_descriptors(), we now deallocate them one by
9352 one. This lets Coverity know that we are not leaking memory there
9353 and fixes CID 1442277. Fixes bug 28989; bugfix on 0.3.5.1-alpha.
9355 o Minor bugfixes (usability):
9356 - Stop saying "Your Guard ..." in pathbias_measure_{use,close}_rate().
9357 Some users took this phrasing to mean that the mentioned guard was
9358 under their control or responsibility, which it is not. Fixes bug
9359 28895; bugfix on Tor 0.3.0.1-alpha.
9361 o Code simplification and refactoring:
9362 - Reimplement NETINFO cell parsing and generation to rely on
9363 trunnel-generated wire format handling code. Closes ticket 27325.
9364 - Remove unnecessary unsafe code from the Rust macro "cstr!". Closes
9366 - Rework SOCKS wire format handling to rely on trunnel-generated
9367 parsing/generation code. Resolves ticket 27620.
9368 - Split out bootstrap progress reporting from control.c into a
9369 separate file. Part of ticket 27402.
9370 - The .may_include files that we use to describe our directory-by-
9371 directory dependency structure now describe a noncircular
9372 dependency graph over the directories that they cover. Our
9373 checkIncludes.py tool now enforces this noncircularity. Closes
9377 - Mention that you cannot add a new onion service if Tor is already
9378 running with Sandbox enabled. Closes ticket 28560.
9379 - Improve ControlPort documentation. Mention that it accepts
9380 address:port pairs, and can be used multiple times. Closes
9382 - Document the exact output of "tor --version". Closes ticket 28889.
9385 - Stop responding to the 'GETINFO status/version/num-concurring' and
9386 'GETINFO status/version/num-versioning' control port commands, as
9387 those were deprecated back in 0.2.0.30. Also stop listing them in
9388 output of 'GETINFO info/names'. Resolves ticket 28757.
9389 - The scripts used to generate and maintain the list of fallback
9390 directories have been extracted into a new "fallback-scripts"
9391 repository. Closes ticket 27914.
9394 - Run shellcheck for scripts in the in scripts/ directory. Closes
9396 - Add unit tests for tokenize_string() and get_next_token()
9397 functions. Resolves ticket 27625.
9399 o Code simplification and refactoring (onion service v3):
9400 - Consolidate the authorized client descriptor cookie computation
9401 code from client and service into one function. Closes
9404 o Code simplification and refactoring (shell scripts):
9405 - Cleanup scan-build.sh to silence shellcheck warnings. Closes
9407 - Fix issues that shellcheck found in chutney-git-bisect.sh.
9408 Resolves ticket 28006.
9409 - Fix issues that shellcheck found in updateRustDependencies.sh.
9410 Resolves ticket 28012.
9411 - Fix shellcheck warnings in cov-diff script. Resolves issue 28009.
9412 - Fix shellcheck warnings in run_calltool.sh. Resolves ticket 28011.
9413 - Fix shellcheck warnings in run_trunnel.sh. Resolves issue 28010.
9414 - Fix shellcheck warnings in scripts/test/coverage. Resolves
9418 Changes in version 0.3.3.11 - 2019-01-07
9419 Tor 0.3.3.11 backports numerous fixes from later versions of Tor.
9420 numerous fixes, including an important fix for anyone using OpenSSL
9421 1.1.1. Anyone running an earlier version of Tor 0.3.3 should upgrade
9422 to this version, or to a later series.
9424 As a reminder, support the Tor 0.3.3 series will end on 22 Feb 2019.
9425 We anticipate that this will be the last release of Tor 0.3.3, unless
9426 some major bug is before then. Some time between now and then, users
9427 should switch to either the Tor 0.3.4 series (supported until at least
9428 10 June 2019), or the Tor 0.3.5 series, which will receive long-term
9429 support until at least 1 Feb 2022.
9431 o Major bugfixes (OpenSSL, portability, backport from 0.3.5.5-alpha):
9432 - Fix our usage of named groups when running as a TLS 1.3 client in
9433 OpenSSL 1.1.1. Previously, we only initialized EC groups when
9434 running as a relay, which caused clients to fail to negotiate TLS
9435 1.3 with relays. Fixes bug 28245; bugfix on 0.2.9.15 (when TLS 1.3
9438 o Major bugfixes (restart-in-process, backport from 0.3.5.1-alpha):
9439 - Fix a use-after-free error that could be caused by passing Tor an
9440 impossible set of options that would fail during options_act().
9441 Fixes bug 27708; bugfix on 0.3.3.1-alpha.
9443 o Minor features (continuous integration, backport from 0.3.5.1-alpha):
9444 - Only run one online rust build in Travis, to reduce network
9445 errors. Skip offline rust builds on Travis for Linux gcc, because
9446 they're redundant. Implements ticket 27252.
9447 - Skip gcc on OSX in Travis CI, because it's rarely used. Skip a
9448 duplicate hardening-off build in Travis on Tor 0.2.9. Skip gcc on
9449 Linux with default settings, because all the non-default builds
9450 use gcc on Linux. Implements ticket 27252.
9452 o Minor features (continuous integration, backport from 0.3.5.3-alpha):
9453 - Use the Travis Homebrew addon to install packages on macOS during
9454 Travis CI. The package list is the same, but the Homebrew addon
9455 does not do a `brew update` by default. Implements ticket 27738.
9457 o Minor features (fallback directory list, backport from 0.3.5.6-rc):
9458 - Replace the 150 fallbacks originally introduced in Tor
9459 0.3.3.1-alpha in January 2018 (of which ~115 were still
9460 functional), with a list of 157 fallbacks (92 new, 65 existing, 85
9461 removed) generated in December 2018. Closes ticket 24803.
9463 o Minor features (geoip):
9464 - Update geoip and geoip6 to the January 3 2019 Maxmind GeoLite2
9465 Country database. Closes ticket 29012.
9467 o Minor features (OpenSSL bug workaround, backport from 0.3.5.7):
9468 - Work around a bug in OpenSSL 1.1.1a, which prevented the TLS 1.3
9469 key export function from handling long labels. When this bug is
9470 detected, Tor will disable TLS 1.3. We recommend upgrading to a
9471 version of OpenSSL without this bug when it becomes available.
9472 Closes ticket 28973.
9474 o Minor bugfixes (relay statistics, backport from 0.3.5.7):
9475 - Update relay descriptor on bandwidth changes only when the uptime
9476 is smaller than 24h, in order to reduce the efficiency of guard
9477 discovery attacks. Fixes bug 24104; bugfix on 0.1.1.6-alpha.
9479 o Minor bugfixes (C correctness, backport from 0.3.5.4-alpha):
9480 - Avoid undefined behavior in an end-of-string check when parsing
9481 the BEGIN line in a directory object. Fixes bug 28202; bugfix
9484 o Minor bugfixes (code safety, backport from 0.3.5.3-alpha):
9485 - Rewrite our assertion macros so that they no longer suppress the
9486 compiler's -Wparentheses warnings. Fixes bug 27709; bugfix
9488 o Minor bugfixes (compilation, backport from 0.3.5.5-alpha):
9489 - Initialize a variable unconditionally in aes_new_cipher(), since
9490 some compilers cannot tell that we always initialize it before
9491 use. Fixes bug 28413; bugfix on 0.2.9.3-alpha.
9493 o Minor bugfixes (directory authority, backport from 0.3.5.4-alpha):
9494 - Log additional info when we get a relay that shares an ed25519 ID
9495 with a different relay, instead making a BUG() warning. Fixes bug
9496 27800; bugfix on 0.3.2.1-alpha.
9498 o Minor bugfixes (directory permissions, backport form 0.3.5.3-alpha):
9499 - When a user requests a group-readable DataDirectory, give it to
9500 them. Previously, when the DataDirectory and the CacheDirectory
9501 were the same, the default setting (0) for
9502 CacheDirectoryGroupReadable would override the setting for
9503 DataDirectoryGroupReadable. Fixes bug 26913; bugfix
9506 o Minor bugfixes (onion service v3, backport from 0.3.5.1-alpha):
9507 - When the onion service directory can't be created or has the wrong
9508 permissions, do not log a stack trace. Fixes bug 27335; bugfix
9511 o Minor bugfixes (onion service v3, backport from 0.3.5.2-alpha):
9512 - Close all SOCKS request (for the same .onion) if the newly fetched
9513 descriptor is unusable. Before that, we would close only the first
9514 one leaving the other hanging and let to time out by themselves.
9515 Fixes bug 27410; bugfix on 0.3.2.1-alpha.
9517 o Minor bugfixes (onion service v3, backport from 0.3.5.3-alpha):
9518 - Don't warn so loudly when Tor is unable to decode an onion
9519 descriptor. This can now happen as a normal use case if a client
9520 gets a descriptor with client authorization but the client is not
9521 authorized. Fixes bug 27550; bugfix on 0.3.5.1-alpha.
9523 o Minor bugfixes (onion service v3, backport from 0.3.5.6-rc):
9524 - When deleting an ephemeral onion service (DEL_ONION), do not close
9525 any rendezvous circuits in order to let the existing client
9526 connections finish by themselves or closed by the application. The
9527 HS v2 is doing that already so now we have the same behavior for
9528 all versions. Fixes bug 28619; bugfix on 0.3.3.1-alpha.
9530 o Minor bugfixes (HTTP tunnel):
9531 - Fix a bug warning when closing an HTTP tunnel connection due to
9532 an HTTP request we couldn't handle. Fixes bug 26470; bugfix on
9535 o Minor bugfixes (memory leaks, backport from 0.3.5.5-alpha):
9536 - Fix a harmless memory leak in libtorrunner.a. Fixes bug 28419;
9537 bugfix on 0.3.3.1-alpha. Patch from Martin Kepplinger.
9539 o Minor bugfixes (netflow padding, backport from 0.3.5.1-alpha):
9540 - Ensure circuitmux queues are empty before scheduling or sending
9541 padding. Fixes bug 25505; bugfix on 0.3.1.1-alpha.
9543 o Minor bugfixes (protover, backport from 0.3.5.3-alpha):
9544 - Reject protocol names containing bytes other than alphanumeric
9545 characters and hyphens ([A-Za-z0-9-]). Fixes bug 27316; bugfix
9548 o Minor bugfixes (rust, backport from 0.3.5.1-alpha):
9549 - Compute protover votes correctly in the rust version of the
9550 protover code. Previously, the protover rewrite in 24031 allowed
9551 repeated votes from the same voter for the same protocol version
9552 to be counted multiple times in protover_compute_vote(). Fixes bug
9553 27649; bugfix on 0.3.3.5-rc.
9554 - Reject protover names that contain invalid characters. Fixes bug
9555 27687; bugfix on 0.3.3.1-alpha.
9557 o Minor bugfixes (rust, backport from 0.3.5.2-alpha):
9558 - protover_all_supported() would attempt to allocate up to 16GB on
9559 some inputs, leading to a potential memory DoS. Fixes bug 27206;
9560 bugfix on 0.3.3.5-rc.
9562 o Minor bugfixes (rust, backport from 0.3.5.4-alpha):
9563 - Fix a potential null dereference in protover_all_supported(). Add
9564 a test for it. Fixes bug 27804; bugfix on 0.3.3.1-alpha.
9565 - Return a string that can be safely freed by C code, not one
9566 created by the rust allocator, in protover_all_supported(). Fixes
9567 bug 27740; bugfix on 0.3.3.1-alpha.
9568 - Fix an API mismatch in the rust implementation of
9569 protover_compute_vote(). This bug could have caused crashes on any
9570 directory authorities running Tor with Rust (which we do not yet
9571 recommend). Fixes bug 27741; bugfix on 0.3.3.6.
9573 o Minor bugfixes (testing, backport from 0.3.5.1-alpha):
9574 - If a unit test running in a subprocess exits abnormally or with a
9575 nonzero status code, treat the test as having failed, even if the
9576 test reported success. Without this fix, memory leaks don't cause
9577 the tests to fail, even with LeakSanitizer. Fixes bug 27658;
9578 bugfix on 0.2.2.4-alpha.
9580 o Minor bugfixes (testing, backport from 0.3.5.4-alpha):
9581 - Treat backtrace test failures as expected on BSD-derived systems
9582 (NetBSD, OpenBSD, and macOS/Darwin) until we solve bug 17808.
9583 (FreeBSD failures have been treated as expected since 18204 in
9584 0.2.8.) Fixes bug 27948; bugfix on 0.2.5.2-alpha.
9586 o Minor bugfixes (unit tests, guard selection, backport from 0.3.5.6-rc):
9587 - Stop leaking memory in an entry guard unit test. Fixes bug 28554;
9588 bugfix on 0.3.0.1-alpha.
9591 Changes in version 0.3.4.10 - 2019-01-07
9592 Tor 0.3.4.9 is the second stable release in its series; it backports
9593 numerous fixes, including an important fix for relays, and for anyone
9594 using OpenSSL 1.1.1. Anyone running an earlier version of Tor 0.3.4
9597 As a reminder, the Tor 0.3.4 series will be supported until 10 June
9598 2019. Some time between now and then, users should switch to the Tor
9599 0.3.5 series, which will receive long-term support until at least 1
9602 o Major bugfixes (OpenSSL, portability, backport from 0.3.5.5-alpha):
9603 - Fix our usage of named groups when running as a TLS 1.3 client in
9604 OpenSSL 1.1.1. Previously, we only initialized EC groups when
9605 running as a relay, which caused clients to fail to negotiate TLS
9606 1.3 with relays. Fixes bug 28245; bugfix on 0.2.9.15 (when TLS 1.3
9609 o Major bugfixes (relay, directory, backport from 0.3.5.7):
9610 - Always reactivate linked connections in the main loop so long as
9611 any linked connection has been active. Previously, connections
9612 serving directory information wouldn't get reactivated after the
9613 first chunk of data was sent (usually 32KB), which would prevent
9614 clients from bootstrapping. Fixes bug 28912; bugfix on
9615 0.3.4.1-alpha. Patch by "cypherpunks3".
9617 o Minor features (continuous integration, Windows, backport from 0.3.5.6-rc):
9618 - Always show the configure and test logs, and upload them as build
9619 artifacts, when building for Windows using Appveyor CI.
9622 o Minor features (controller, backport from 0.3.5.1-alpha):
9623 - For purposes of CIRC_BW-based dropped cell detection, track half-
9624 closed stream ids, and allow their ENDs, SENDMEs, DATA and path
9625 bias check cells to arrive without counting it as dropped until
9626 either the END arrives, or the windows are empty. Closes
9629 o Minor features (fallback directory list, backport from 0.3.5.6-rc):
9630 - Replace the 150 fallbacks originally introduced in Tor
9631 0.3.3.1-alpha in January 2018 (of which ~115 were still
9632 functional), with a list of 157 fallbacks (92 new, 65 existing, 85
9633 removed) generated in December 2018. Closes ticket 24803.
9635 o Minor features (geoip):
9636 - Update geoip and geoip6 to the November 6 2018 Maxmind GeoLite2
9637 Country database. Closes ticket 28395.
9639 o Minor features (OpenSSL bug workaround, backport from 0.3.5.7):
9640 - Work around a bug in OpenSSL 1.1.1a, which prevented the TLS 1.3
9641 key export function from handling long labels. When this bug is
9642 detected, Tor will disable TLS 1.3. We recommend upgrading to a
9643 version of OpenSSL without this bug when it becomes available.
9644 Closes ticket 28973.
9646 o Minor bugfixes (compilation, backport from 0.3.5.5-alpha):
9647 - Initialize a variable unconditionally in aes_new_cipher(), since
9648 some compilers cannot tell that we always initialize it before
9649 use. Fixes bug 28413; bugfix on 0.2.9.3-alpha.
9651 o Minor bugfixes (connection, relay, backport from 0.3.5.5-alpha):
9652 - Avoid a logging a BUG() stacktrace when closing connection held
9653 open because the write side is rate limited but not the read side.
9654 Now, the connection read side is simply shut down until Tor is
9655 able to flush the connection and close it. Fixes bug 27750; bugfix
9658 o Minor bugfixes (continuous integration, Windows, backport from 0.3.5.5-alpha):
9659 - Manually configure the zstd compiler options, when building using
9660 mingw on Appveyor Windows CI. The MSYS2 mingw zstd package does
9661 not come with a pkg-config file. Fixes bug 28454; bugfix
9663 - Stop using an external OpenSSL install, and stop installing MSYS2
9664 packages, when building using mingw on Appveyor Windows CI. Fixes
9665 bug 28399; bugfix on 0.3.4.1-alpha.
9667 o Minor bugfixes (continuous integration, Windows, backport from 0.3.5.6-rc):
9668 - Explicitly specify the path to the OpenSSL library and do not
9669 download OpenSSL from Pacman, but instead use the library that is
9670 already provided by AppVeyor. Fixes bug 28574; bugfix on master.
9672 o Minor bugfixes (directory permissions, backport form 0.3.5.3-alpha):
9673 - When a user requests a group-readable DataDirectory, give it to
9674 them. Previously, when the DataDirectory and the CacheDirectory
9675 were the same, the default setting (0) for
9676 CacheDirectoryGroupReadable would override the setting for
9677 DataDirectoryGroupReadable. Fixes bug 26913; bugfix
9680 o Minor bugfixes (memory leaks, backport from 0.3.5.5-alpha):
9681 - Fix a harmless memory leak in libtorrunner.a. Fixes bug 28419;
9682 bugfix on 0.3.3.1-alpha. Patch from Martin Kepplinger.
9684 o Minor bugfixes (onion service v3, backport from 0.3.5.3-alpha):
9685 - Don't warn so loudly when Tor is unable to decode an onion
9686 descriptor. This can now happen as a normal use case if a client
9687 gets a descriptor with client authorization but the client is not
9688 authorized. Fixes bug 27550; bugfix on 0.3.5.1-alpha.
9690 o Minor bugfixes (onion service v3, backport from 0.3.5.6-rc):
9691 - When deleting an ephemeral onion service (DEL_ONION), do not close
9692 any rendezvous circuits in order to let the existing client
9693 connections finish by themselves or closed by the application. The
9694 HS v2 is doing that already so now we have the same behavior for
9695 all versions. Fixes bug 28619; bugfix on 0.3.3.1-alpha.
9697 o Minor bugfixes (relay statistics, backport from 0.3.5.7):
9698 - Update relay descriptor on bandwidth changes only when the uptime
9699 is smaller than 24h, in order to reduce the efficiency of guard
9700 discovery attacks. Fixes bug 24104; bugfix on 0.1.1.6-alpha.
9702 o Minor bugfixes (unit tests, guard selection, backport from 0.3.5.6-rc):
9703 - Stop leaking memory in an entry guard unit test. Fixes bug 28554;
9704 bugfix on 0.3.0.1-alpha.
9707 Changes in version 0.3.5.7 - 2019-01-07
9708 Tor 0.3.5.7 is the first stable release in its series; it includes
9709 compilation and portability fixes, and a fix for a severe problem
9710 affecting directory caches.
9712 The Tor 0.3.5 series includes several new features and performance
9713 improvements, including client authorization for v3 onion services,
9714 cleanups to bootstrap reporting, support for improved bandwidth-
9715 measurement tools, experimental support for NSS in place of OpenSSL,
9716 and much more. It also begins a full reorganization of Tor's code
9717 layout, for improved modularity and maintainability in the future.
9718 Finally, there is the usual set of performance improvements and
9719 bugfixes that we try to do in every release series.
9721 There are a couple of changes in the 0.3.5 that may affect
9722 compatibility. First, the default version for newly created onion
9723 services is now v3. Use the HiddenServiceVersion option if you want to
9724 override this. Second, some log messages related to bootstrapping have
9725 changed; if you use stem, you may need to update to the latest version
9726 so it will recognize them.
9728 We have designated 0.3.5 as a "long-term support" (LTS) series: we
9729 will continue to patch major bugs in typical configurations of 0.3.5
9730 until at least 1 Feb 2022. (We do not plan to provide long-term
9731 support for embedding, Rust support, NSS support, running a directory
9732 authority, or unsupported platforms. For these, you will need to stick
9733 with the latest stable release.)
9735 Below are the changes since 0.3.5.6-rc. For a complete list of changes
9736 since 0.3.4.9, see the ReleaseNotes file.
9738 o Major bugfixes (relay, directory):
9739 - Always reactivate linked connections in the main loop so long as
9740 any linked connection has been active. Previously, connections
9741 serving directory information wouldn't get reactivated after the
9742 first chunk of data was sent (usually 32KB), which would prevent
9743 clients from bootstrapping. Fixes bug 28912; bugfix on
9744 0.3.4.1-alpha. Patch by "cypherpunks3".
9746 o Minor features (compilation):
9747 - When possible, place our warning flags in a separate file, to
9748 avoid flooding verbose build logs. Closes ticket 28924.
9750 o Minor features (geoip):
9751 - Update geoip and geoip6 to the January 3 2019 Maxmind GeoLite2
9752 Country database. Closes ticket 29012.
9754 o Minor features (OpenSSL bug workaround):
9755 - Work around a bug in OpenSSL 1.1.1a, which prevented the TLS 1.3
9756 key export function from handling long labels. When this bug is
9757 detected, Tor will disable TLS 1.3. We recommend upgrading to a
9758 version of OpenSSL without this bug when it becomes available.
9759 Closes ticket 28973.
9761 o Minor features (performance):
9762 - Remove about 96% of the work from the function that we run at
9763 startup to test our curve25519_basepoint implementation. Since
9764 this function has yet to find an actual failure, we now only run
9765 it for 8 iterations instead of 200. Based on our profile
9766 information, this change should save around 8% of our startup time
9767 on typical desktops, and may have a similar effect on other
9768 platforms. Closes ticket 28838.
9769 - Stop re-validating our hardcoded Diffie-Hellman parameters on
9770 every startup. Doing this wasted time and cycles, especially on
9771 low-powered devices. Closes ticket 28851.
9773 o Minor bugfixes (compilation):
9774 - Fix compilation for Android by adding a missing header to
9775 freespace.c. Fixes bug 28974; bugfix on 0.3.5.1-alpha.
9777 o Minor bugfixes (correctness):
9778 - Fix an unreached code path where we checked the value of
9779 "hostname" inside send_resolved_hostname_cell(). Previously, we
9780 used it before checking it; now we check it first. Fixes bug
9781 28879; bugfix on 0.1.2.7-alpha.
9783 o Minor bugfixes (testing):
9784 - Make sure that test_rebind.py actually obeys its timeout, even
9785 when it receives a large number of log messages. Fixes bug 28883;
9786 bugfix on 0.3.5.4-alpha.
9787 - Stop running stem's unit tests as part of "make test-stem", but
9788 continue to run stem's unit and online tests during "make test-
9789 stem-full". Fixes bug 28568; bugfix on 0.2.6.3-alpha.
9791 o Minor bugfixes (windows services):
9792 - Make Tor start correctly as an NT service again: previously it was
9793 broken by refactoring. Fixes bug 28612; bugfix on 0.3.5.3-alpha.
9795 o Code simplification and refactoring:
9796 - When parsing a port configuration, make it more obvious to static
9797 analyzer tools that we always initialize the address. Closes
9801 Changes in version 0.3.5.6-rc - 2018-12-18
9802 Tor 0.3.5.6-rc fixes numerous small bugs in earlier versions of Tor.
9803 It is the first release candidate in the 0.3.5.x series; if no further
9804 huge bugs are found, our next release may be the stable 0.3.5.x.
9806 o Minor features (continuous integration, Windows):
9807 - Always show the configure and test logs, and upload them as build
9808 artifacts, when building for Windows using Appveyor CI.
9811 o Minor features (fallback directory list):
9812 - Replace the 150 fallbacks originally introduced in Tor
9813 0.3.3.1-alpha in January 2018 (of which ~115 were still
9814 functional), with a list of 157 fallbacks (92 new, 65 existing, 85
9815 removed) generated in December 2018. Closes ticket 24803.
9817 o Minor features (geoip):
9818 - Update geoip and geoip6 to the December 5 2018 Maxmind GeoLite2
9819 Country database. Closes ticket 28744.
9821 o Minor bugfixes (compilation):
9822 - Add missing dependency on libgdi32.dll for tor-print-ed-signing-
9823 cert.exe on Windows. Fixes bug 28485; bugfix on 0.3.5.1-alpha.
9825 o Minor bugfixes (continuous integration, Windows):
9826 - Explicitly specify the path to the OpenSSL library and do not
9827 download OpenSSL from Pacman, but instead use the library that is
9828 already provided by AppVeyor. Fixes bug 28574; bugfix on master.
9830 o Minor bugfixes (onion service v3):
9831 - When deleting an ephemeral onion service (DEL_ONION), do not close
9832 any rendezvous circuits in order to let the existing client
9833 connections finish by themselves or closed by the application. The
9834 HS v2 is doing that already so now we have the same behavior for
9835 all versions. Fixes bug 28619; bugfix on 0.3.3.1-alpha.
9837 o Minor bugfixes (restart-in-process, boostrap):
9838 - Add missing resets of bootstrap tracking state when shutting down
9839 (regression caused by ticket 27169). Fixes bug 28524; bugfix
9842 o Minor bugfixes (testing):
9843 - Use a separate DataDirectory for the test_rebind script.
9844 Previously, this script would run using the default DataDirectory,
9845 and sometimes fail. Fixes bug 28562; bugfix on 0.3.5.1-alpha.
9846 Patch from Taylor R Campbell.
9847 - Stop leaking memory in an entry guard unit test. Fixes bug 28554;
9848 bugfix on 0.3.0.1-alpha.
9850 o Minor bugfixes (Windows):
9851 - Correctly identify Windows 8.1, Windows 10, and Windows Server
9852 2008 and later from their NT versions. Fixes bug 28096; bugfix on
9853 0.2.2.34; reported by Keifer Bly.
9854 - On recent Windows versions, the GetVersionEx() function may report
9855 an earlier Windows version than the running OS. To avoid user
9856 confusion, add "[or later]" to Tor's version string on affected
9857 versions of Windows. Fixes bug 28096; bugfix on 0.2.2.34; reported
9859 - Remove Windows versions that were never supported by the
9860 GetVersionEx() function. Stop duplicating the latest Windows
9861 version in get_uname(). Fixes bug 28096; bugfix on 0.2.2.34;
9862 reported by Keifer Bly.
9865 - Increase logging and tag all log entries with timestamps in
9866 test_rebind.py. Provides diagnostics for issue 28229.
9868 o Code simplification and refactoring (shared random, dirauth):
9869 - Change many tor_assert() to use BUG() instead. The idea is to not
9870 crash a dirauth but rather scream loudly with a stacktrace and let
9871 it continue run. The shared random subsystem is very resilient and
9872 if anything wrong happens with it, at worst a non coherent value
9873 will be put in the vote and discarded by the other authorities.
9874 Closes ticket 19566.
9876 o Documentation (onion services):
9877 - Document in the man page that changing ClientOnionAuthDir value or
9878 adding a new file in the directory will not work at runtime upon
9879 sending a HUP if Sandbox 1. Closes ticket 28128.
9880 - Note in the man page that the only real way to fully revoke an
9881 onion service v3 client authorization is by restarting the tor
9882 process. Closes ticket 28275.
9885 Changes in version 0.3.5.5-alpha - 2018-11-16
9886 Tor 0.3.5.5-alpha includes numerous bugfixes on earlier releases,
9887 including several that we hope to backport to older release series in
9890 o Major bugfixes (OpenSSL, portability):
9891 - Fix our usage of named groups when running as a TLS 1.3 client in
9892 OpenSSL 1.1.1. Previously, we only initialized EC groups when
9893 running as a relay, which caused clients to fail to negotiate TLS
9894 1.3 with relays. Fixes bug 28245; bugfix on 0.2.9.15 (when TLS 1.3
9897 o Minor features (geoip):
9898 - Update geoip and geoip6 to the November 6 2018 Maxmind GeoLite2
9899 Country database. Closes ticket 28395.
9901 o Minor bugfixes (compilation):
9902 - Initialize a variable unconditionally in aes_new_cipher(), since
9903 some compilers cannot tell that we always initialize it before
9904 use. Fixes bug 28413; bugfix on 0.2.9.3-alpha.
9906 o Minor bugfixes (connection, relay):
9907 - Avoid a logging a BUG() stacktrace when closing connection held
9908 open because the write side is rate limited but not the read side.
9909 Now, the connection read side is simply shut down until Tor is
9910 able to flush the connection and close it. Fixes bug 27750; bugfix
9913 o Minor bugfixes (continuous integration, Windows):
9914 - Manually configure the zstd compiler options, when building using
9915 mingw on Appveyor Windows CI. The MSYS2 mingw zstd package does
9916 not come with a pkg-config file. Fixes bug 28454; bugfix
9918 - Stop using an external OpenSSL install, and stop installing MSYS2
9919 packages, when building using mingw on Appveyor Windows CI. Fixes
9920 bug 28399; bugfix on 0.3.4.1-alpha.
9922 o Minor bugfixes (documentation):
9923 - Make Doxygen work again after the code movement in the 0.3.5
9924 source tree. Fixes bug 28435; bugfix on 0.3.5.1-alpha.
9926 o Minor bugfixes (Linux seccomp2 sandbox):
9927 - Permit the "shutdown()" system call, which is apparently used by
9928 OpenSSL under some circumstances. Fixes bug 28183; bugfix
9931 o Minor bugfixes (logging):
9932 - Stop talking about the Named flag in log messages. Clients have
9933 ignored the Named flag since 0.3.2. Fixes bug 28441; bugfix
9936 o Minor bugfixes (memory leaks):
9937 - Fix a harmless memory leak in libtorrunner.a. Fixes bug 28419;
9938 bugfix on 0.3.3.1-alpha. Patch from Martin Kepplinger.
9940 o Minor bugfixes (onion services):
9941 - On an intro point for a version 3 onion service, stop closing
9942 introduction circuits on an NACK. This lets the client decide
9943 whether to reuse the circuit or discard it. Previously, we closed
9944 intro circuits when sending NACKs. Fixes bug 27841; bugfix on
9945 0.3.2.1-alpha. Patch by Neel Chaunan.
9946 - When replacing a descriptor in the client cache, make sure to
9947 close all client introduction circuits for the old descriptor, so
9948 we don't end up with unusable leftover circuits. Fixes bug 27471;
9949 bugfix on 0.3.2.1-alpha.
9952 Changes in version 0.3.5.4-alpha - 2018-11-08
9953 Tor 0.3.5.4-alpha includes numerous bugfixes on earlier versions and
9954 improves our continuous integration support. It continues our attempts
9955 to stabilize this alpha branch and build it into a foundation for an
9956 acceptable long-term-support release.
9958 o Major bugfixes (compilation, rust):
9959 - Rust tests can now build and run successfully with the
9960 --enable-fragile-hardening option enabled. Doing this currently
9961 requires the rust beta channel; it will be possible with stable
9962 rust once Rust version 1.31 is released. Patch from Alex Crichton.
9963 Fixes bugs 27272, 27273, and 27274. Bugfix on 0.3.1.1-alpha.
9965 o Major bugfixes (embedding, main loop):
9966 - When DisableNetwork becomes set, actually disable periodic events
9967 that are already enabled. (Previously, we would refrain from
9968 enabling new ones, but we would leave the old ones turned on.)
9969 Fixes bug 28348; bugfix on 0.3.4.1-alpha.
9971 o Minor features (continuous integration):
9972 - Add a Travis CI build for --enable-nss on Linux gcc. Closes
9974 - Add new CI job to Travis configuration to run stem-based
9975 integration tests. Closes ticket 27913.
9977 o Minor features (Windows, continuous integration):
9978 - Build tor on Windows Server 2012 R2 and Windows Server 2016 using
9979 Appveyor's CI. Closes ticket 28318.
9981 o Minor bugfixes (C correctness, also in 0.3.4.9):
9982 - Avoid undefined behavior in an end-of-string check when parsing
9983 the BEGIN line in a directory object. Fixes bug 28202; bugfix
9986 o Minor bugfixes (compilation):
9987 - Fix a pair of missing headers on OpenBSD. Fixes bug 28303; bugfix
9988 on 0.3.5.1-alpha. Patch from Kris Katterjohn.
9990 o Minor bugfixes (compilation, OpenSolaris):
9991 - Fix compilation on OpenSolaris and its descendants by adding a
9992 missing include to compat_pthreads.c. Fixes bug 27963; bugfix
9995 o Minor bugfixes (configuration):
9996 - Refuse to start with relative file paths and RunAsDaemon set
9997 (regression from the fix for bug 22731). Fixes bug 28298; bugfix
10000 o Minor bugfixes (directory authority, also in 0.3.4.9):
10001 - Log additional info when we get a relay that shares an ed25519 ID
10002 with a different relay, instead of a BUG() warning with a
10003 backtrace. Fixes bug 27800; bugfix on 0.3.2.1-alpha.
10005 o Minor bugfixes (onion service v3):
10006 - Build the service descriptor's signing key certificate before
10007 uploading, so we always have a fresh one: leaving no chances for
10008 it to expire service side. Fixes bug 27838; bugfix
10011 o Minor bugfixes (onion service v3, client authorization):
10012 - Fix an assert() when adding a client authorization for the first
10013 time and then sending a HUP signal to the service. Before that,
10014 Tor would stop abruptly. Fixes bug 27995; bugfix on 0.3.5.1-alpha.
10016 o Minor bugfixes (onion services):
10017 - Unless we have explicitly set HiddenServiceVersion, detect the
10018 onion service version and then look for invalid options.
10019 Previously, we did the reverse, but that broke existing configs
10020 which were pointed to a v2 service and had options like
10021 HiddenServiceAuthorizeClient set. Fixes bug 28127; bugfix on
10022 0.3.5.1-alpha. Patch by Neel Chauhan.
10024 o Minor bugfixes (portability):
10025 - Make the OPE code (which is used for v3 onion services) run
10026 correctly on big-endian platforms. Fixes bug 28115; bugfix
10029 o Minor bugfixes (protover, rust):
10030 - Reject extra commas in version strings. Fixes bug 27197; bugfix
10033 o Minor bugfixes (relay shutdown, systemd):
10034 - Notify systemd of ShutdownWaitLength so it can be set to longer
10035 than systemd's TimeoutStopSec. In Tor's systemd service file, set
10036 TimeoutSec to 60 seconds to allow Tor some time to shut down.
10037 Fixes bug 28113; bugfix on 0.2.6.2-alpha.
10039 o Minor bugfixes (rust, also in 0.3.4.9):
10040 - Fix a potential null dereference in protover_all_supported(). Add
10041 a test for it. Fixes bug 27804; bugfix on 0.3.3.1-alpha.
10042 - Return a string that can be safely freed by C code, not one
10043 created by the rust allocator, in protover_all_supported(). Fixes
10044 bug 27740; bugfix on 0.3.3.1-alpha.
10046 o Minor bugfixes (rust, directory authority, also in 0.3.4.9):
10047 - Fix an API mismatch in the rust implementation of
10048 protover_compute_vote(). This bug could have caused crashes on any
10049 directory authorities running Tor with Rust (which we do not yet
10050 recommend). Fixes bug 27741; bugfix on 0.3.3.6.
10052 o Minor bugfixes (testing):
10053 - Avoid hangs and race conditions in test_rebind.py. Fixes bug
10054 27968; bugfix on 0.3.5.1-alpha.
10056 o Minor bugfixes (testing, also in 0.3.4.9):
10057 - Treat backtrace test failures as expected on BSD-derived systems
10058 (NetBSD, OpenBSD, and macOS/Darwin) until we solve bug 17808.
10059 (FreeBSD failures have been treated as expected since 18204 in
10060 0.2.8.) Fixes bug 27948; bugfix on 0.2.5.2-alpha.
10062 o Documentation (onion service manpage):
10063 - Improve HSv3 client authorization by making some options more
10064 explicit and detailed. Closes ticket 28026. Patch by Mike Tigas.
10067 Changes in version 0.3.4.9 - 2018-11-02
10068 Tor 0.3.4.9 is the second stable release in its series; it backports
10069 numerous fixes, including a fix for a bandwidth management bug that
10070 was causing memory exhaustion on relays. Anyone running an earlier
10071 version of Tor 0.3.4.9 should upgrade.
10073 o Major bugfixes (compilation, backport from 0.3.5.3-alpha):
10074 - Fix compilation on ARM (and other less-used CPUs) when compiling
10075 with OpenSSL before 1.1. Fixes bug 27781; bugfix on 0.3.4.1-alpha.
10077 o Major bugfixes (mainloop, bootstrap, backport from 0.3.5.3-alpha):
10078 - Make sure Tor bootstraps and works properly if only the
10079 ControlPort is set. Prior to this fix, Tor would only bootstrap
10080 when a client port was set (Socks, Trans, NATD, DNS or HTTPTunnel
10081 port). Fixes bug 27849; bugfix on 0.3.4.1-alpha.
10083 o Major bugfixes (relay, backport from 0.3.5.3-alpha):
10084 - When our write bandwidth limit is exhausted, stop writing on the
10085 connection. Previously, we had a typo in the code that would make
10086 us stop reading instead, leading to relay connections being stuck
10087 indefinitely and consuming kernel RAM. Fixes bug 28089; bugfix
10090 o Major bugfixes (restart-in-process, backport from 0.3.5.1-alpha):
10091 - Fix a use-after-free error that could be caused by passing Tor an
10092 impossible set of options that would fail during options_act().
10093 Fixes bug 27708; bugfix on 0.3.3.1-alpha.
10095 o Minor features (continuous integration, backport from 0.3.5.1-alpha):
10096 - Don't do a distcheck with --disable-module-dirauth in Travis.
10097 Implements ticket 27252.
10098 - Only run one online rust build in Travis, to reduce network
10099 errors. Skip offline rust builds on Travis for Linux gcc, because
10100 they're redundant. Implements ticket 27252.
10101 - Skip gcc on OSX in Travis CI, because it's rarely used. Skip a
10102 duplicate hardening-off build in Travis on Tor 0.2.9. Skip gcc on
10103 Linux with default settings, because all the non-default builds
10104 use gcc on Linux. Implements ticket 27252.
10106 o Minor features (continuous integration, backport from 0.3.5.3-alpha):
10107 - Use the Travis Homebrew addon to install packages on macOS during
10108 Travis CI. The package list is the same, but the Homebrew addon
10109 does not do a `brew update` by default. Implements ticket 27738.
10111 o Minor features (geoip):
10112 - Update geoip and geoip6 to the October 9 2018 Maxmind GeoLite2
10113 Country database. Closes ticket 27991.
10115 o Minor bugfixes (32-bit OSX and iOS, timing, backport from 0.3.5.2-alpha):
10116 - Fix an integer overflow bug in our optimized 32-bit millisecond-
10117 difference algorithm for 32-bit Apple platforms. Previously, it
10118 would overflow when calculating the difference between two times
10119 more than 47 days apart. Fixes part of bug 27139; bugfix
10121 - Improve the precision of our 32-bit millisecond difference
10122 algorithm for 32-bit Apple platforms. Fixes part of bug 27139;
10123 bugfix on 0.3.4.1-alpha.
10124 - Relax the tolerance on the mainloop/update_time_jumps test when
10125 running on 32-bit Apple platforms. Fixes part of bug 27139; bugfix
10128 o Minor bugfixes (C correctness, to appear in 0.3.5.4-alpha):
10129 - Avoid undefined behavior in an end-of-string check when parsing
10130 the BEGIN line in a directory object. Fixes bug 28202; bugfix
10133 o Minor bugfixes (CI, appveyor, to appear in 0.3.5.4-alpha):
10134 - Only install the necessary mingw packages during our appveyor
10135 builds. This change makes the build a little faster, and prevents
10136 a conflict with a preinstalled mingw openssl that appveyor now
10137 ships. Fixes bugs 27943 and 27765; bugfix on 0.3.4.2-alpha.
10139 o Minor bugfixes (code safety, backport from 0.3.5.3-alpha):
10140 - Rewrite our assertion macros so that they no longer suppress the
10141 compiler's -Wparentheses warnings. Fixes bug 27709; bugfix
10143 o Minor bugfixes (continuous integration, backport from 0.3.5.1-alpha):
10144 - Stop reinstalling identical packages in our Windows CI. Fixes bug
10145 27464; bugfix on 0.3.4.1-alpha.
10147 o Minor bugfixes (directory authority, to appear in 0.3.5.4-alpha):
10148 - Log additional info when we get a relay that shares an ed25519 ID
10149 with a different relay, instead making a BUG() warning. Fixes bug
10150 27800; bugfix on 0.3.2.1-alpha.
10152 o Minor bugfixes (directory connection shutdown, backport from 0.3.5.1-alpha):
10153 - Avoid a double-close when shutting down a stalled directory
10154 connection. Fixes bug 26896; bugfix on 0.3.4.1-alpha.
10156 o Minor bugfixes (HTTP tunnel, backport from 0.3.5.1-alpha):
10157 - Fix a bug warning when closing an HTTP tunnel connection due to an
10158 HTTP request we couldn't handle. Fixes bug 26470; bugfix
10161 o Minor bugfixes (netflow padding, backport from 0.3.5.1-alpha):
10162 - Ensure circuitmux queues are empty before scheduling or sending
10163 padding. Fixes bug 25505; bugfix on 0.3.1.1-alpha.
10165 o Minor bugfixes (onion service v3, backport from 0.3.5.1-alpha):
10166 - When the onion service directory can't be created or has the wrong
10167 permissions, do not log a stack trace. Fixes bug 27335; bugfix
10170 o Minor bugfixes (onion service v3, backport from 0.3.5.2-alpha):
10171 - Close all SOCKS request (for the same .onion) if the newly fetched
10172 descriptor is unusable. Before that, we would close only the first
10173 one leaving the other hanging and let to time out by themselves.
10174 Fixes bug 27410; bugfix on 0.3.2.1-alpha.
10176 o Minor bugfixes (onion service v3, backport from 0.3.5.3-alpha):
10177 - When selecting a v3 rendezvous point, don't only look at the
10178 protover, but also check whether the curve25519 onion key is
10179 present. This way we avoid picking a relay that supports the v3
10180 rendezvous but for which we don't have the microdescriptor. Fixes
10181 bug 27797; bugfix on 0.3.2.1-alpha.
10183 o Minor bugfixes (protover, backport from 0.3.5.3-alpha):
10184 - Reject protocol names containing bytes other than alphanumeric
10185 characters and hyphens ([A-Za-z0-9-]). Fixes bug 27316; bugfix
10188 o Minor bugfixes (rust, backport from 0.3.5.1-alpha):
10189 - Compute protover votes correctly in the rust version of the
10190 protover code. Previously, the protover rewrite in 24031 allowed
10191 repeated votes from the same voter for the same protocol version
10192 to be counted multiple times in protover_compute_vote(). Fixes bug
10193 27649; bugfix on 0.3.3.5-rc.
10194 - Reject protover names that contain invalid characters. Fixes bug
10195 27687; bugfix on 0.3.3.1-alpha.
10197 o Minor bugfixes (rust, backport from 0.3.5.2-alpha):
10198 - protover_all_supported() would attempt to allocate up to 16GB on
10199 some inputs, leading to a potential memory DoS. Fixes bug 27206;
10200 bugfix on 0.3.3.5-rc.
10202 o Minor bugfixes (rust, directory authority, to appear in 0.3.5.4-alpha):
10203 - Fix an API mismatch in the rust implementation of
10204 protover_compute_vote(). This bug could have caused crashes on any
10205 directory authorities running Tor with Rust (which we do not yet
10206 recommend). Fixes bug 27741; bugfix on 0.3.3.6.
10208 o Minor bugfixes (rust, to appear in 0.3.5.4-alpha):
10209 - Fix a potential null dereference in protover_all_supported(). Add
10210 a test for it. Fixes bug 27804; bugfix on 0.3.3.1-alpha.
10211 - Return a string that can be safely freed by C code, not one
10212 created by the rust allocator, in protover_all_supported(). Fixes
10213 bug 27740; bugfix on 0.3.3.1-alpha.
10215 o Minor bugfixes (testing, backport from 0.3.5.1-alpha):
10216 - If a unit test running in a subprocess exits abnormally or with a
10217 nonzero status code, treat the test as having failed, even if the
10218 test reported success. Without this fix, memory leaks don't cause
10219 the tests to fail, even with LeakSanitizer. Fixes bug 27658;
10220 bugfix on 0.2.2.4-alpha.
10222 o Minor bugfixes (testing, backport from 0.3.5.3-alpha):
10223 - Make the hs_service tests use the same time source when creating
10224 the introduction point and when testing it. Now tests work better
10225 on very slow systems like ARM or Travis. Fixes bug 27810; bugfix
10228 o Minor bugfixes (testing, to appear in 0.3.5.4-alpha):
10229 - Treat backtrace test failures as expected on BSD-derived systems
10230 (NetBSD, OpenBSD, and macOS/Darwin) until we solve bug 17808.
10231 (FreeBSD failures have been treated as expected since 18204 in
10232 0.2.8.) Fixes bug 27948; bugfix on 0.2.5.2-alpha.
10235 Changes in version 0.3.5.3-alpha - 2018-10-17
10236 Tor 0.3.5.3-alpha fixes several bugs, mostly from previous 0.3.5.x
10237 versions. One important fix for relays addresses a problem with rate-
10238 limiting code from back in 0.3.4.x: If the fix works out, we'll be
10239 backporting it soon. This release is still an alpha, but we hope it's
10240 getting closer and closer to stability.
10242 o Major features (onion services):
10243 - Version 3 onion services can now use the per-service
10244 HiddenServiceExportCircuitID option to differentiate client
10245 circuits. It communicates with the service by using the HAProxy
10246 protocol to assign virtual IP addresses to inbound client
10247 circuits. Closes ticket 4700. Patch by Mahrud Sayrafi.
10249 o Major bugfixes (compilation):
10250 - Fix compilation on ARM (and other less-used CPUs) when compiling
10251 with OpenSSL before 1.1. Fixes bug 27781; bugfix on 0.3.4.1-alpha.
10253 o Major bugfixes (initialization, crash):
10254 - Fix an assertion crash that would stop Tor from starting up if it
10255 tried to activate a periodic event too early. Fixes bug 27861;
10256 bugfix on 0.3.5.1-alpha.
10258 o Major bugfixes (mainloop, bootstrap):
10259 - Make sure Tor bootstraps and works properly if only the
10260 ControlPort is set. Prior to this fix, Tor would only bootstrap
10261 when a client port was set (Socks, Trans, NATD, DNS or HTTPTunnel
10262 port). Fixes bug 27849; bugfix on 0.3.4.1-alpha.
10264 o Major bugfixes (relay):
10265 - When our write bandwidth limit is exhausted, stop writing on the
10266 connection. Previously, we had a typo in the code that would make
10267 us stop reading instead, leading to relay connections being stuck
10268 indefinitely and consuming kernel RAM. Fixes bug 28089; bugfix
10271 o Minor features (continuous integration):
10272 - Use the Travis Homebrew addon to install packages on macOS during
10273 Travis CI. The package list is the same, but the Homebrew addon
10274 does not do a `brew update` by default. Implements ticket 27738.
10275 - Report what program produced the mysterious core file that we
10276 occasionally see on Travis CI during make distcheck. Closes
10279 o Minor features (geoip):
10280 - Update geoip and geoip6 to the October 9 2018 Maxmind GeoLite2
10281 Country database. Closes ticket 27991.
10283 o Minor bugfixes (code safety):
10284 - Rewrite our assertion macros so that they no longer suppress the
10285 compiler's -Wparentheses warnings. Fixes bug 27709; bugfix
10288 o Minor bugfixes (compilation):
10289 - Compile the ed25519-donna code with a correct declaration of
10290 crypto_strongest_rand(). Previously, we built it with one type,
10291 but linked it against another in the unit tests, which caused
10292 compilation failures with LTO enabled. This could have caused
10293 other undefined behavior in the tests. Fixes bug 27728; bugfix
10296 o Minor bugfixes (compilation, netbsd):
10297 - Add a missing include back into procmon.c. Fixes bug 27990; bugfix
10300 o Minor bugfixes (continuous integration, appveyor):
10301 - Install only the necessary mingw packages during our appveyor
10302 builds. This change makes the build a little faster, and prevents
10303 a conflict with a preinstalled mingw openssl that appveyor now
10304 ships. Fixes bugs 27765 and 27943; bugfix on 0.3.4.2-alpha.
10306 o Minor bugfixes (directory permissions):
10307 - When a user requests a group-readable DataDirectory, give it to
10308 them. Previously, when the DataDirectory and the CacheDirectory
10309 were the same, the default setting (0) for
10310 CacheDirectoryGroupReadable would override the setting for
10311 DataDirectoryGroupReadable. Fixes bug 26913; bugfix
10314 o Minor bugfixes (memory leaks):
10315 - Fix a small memory leak when calling Tor with --dump-config. Fixes
10316 bug 27893; bugfix on 0.3.2.1-alpha.
10318 o Minor bugfixes (networking):
10319 - In retry_listeners_ports(), make sure that we're removing a member
10320 of old_conns smartlist at most once. Fixes bug 27808; bugfix
10322 - Refrain from attempting socket rebinding when old and new
10323 listeners are in different address families. Fixes bug 27928;
10324 bugfix on 0.3.5.1-alpha.
10326 o Minor bugfixes (onion service v3):
10327 - Stop dumping a stack trace when trying to connect to an intro
10328 point without having a descriptor for it. Fixes bug 27774; bugfix
10330 - Don't warn so loudly when Tor is unable to decode an onion
10331 descriptor. This can now happen as a normal use case if a client
10332 gets a descriptor with client authorization but the client is not
10333 authorized. Fixes bug 27550; bugfix on 0.3.5.1-alpha.
10334 - When selecting a v3 rendezvous point, don't only look at the
10335 protover, but also check whether the curve25519 onion key is
10336 present. This way we avoid picking a relay that supports the v3
10337 rendezvous but for which we don't have the microdescriptor. Fixes
10338 bug 27797; bugfix on 0.3.2.1-alpha.
10340 o Minor bugfixes (protover):
10341 - Reject protocol names containing bytes other than alphanumeric
10342 characters and hyphens ([A-Za-z0-9-]). Fixes bug 27316; bugfix
10345 o Minor bugfixes (testing):
10346 - Make the hs_service tests use the same time source when creating
10347 the introduction point and when testing it. Now tests work better
10348 on very slow systems like ARM or Travis. Fixes bug 27810; bugfix
10350 - In test_rebind.py, check if the Python version is in the supported
10351 range. Fixes bug 27675; bugfix on 0.3.5.1-alpha.
10353 o Code simplification and refactoring:
10354 - Divide more large Tor source files -- especially ones that span
10355 multiple areas of functionality -- into smaller parts, including
10356 onion.c and main.c. Closes ticket 26747.
10357 - Divide the "routerparse.c" module into separate modules for each
10358 group of parsed objects. Closes ticket 27924.
10359 - Move protover_rust.c to the same place protover.c was moved to.
10360 Closes ticket 27814.
10361 - Split directory.c into separate pieces for client, server, and
10362 common functionality. Closes ticket 26744.
10363 - Split the non-statistics-related parts from the rephist.c and
10364 geoip.c modules. Closes ticket 27892.
10365 - Split the router.c file into relay-only and shared components, to
10366 help with future modularization. Closes ticket 27864.
10369 - In the tor-resolve(1) manpage, fix the reference to socks-
10370 extensions.txt by adding a web URL. Resolves ticket 27853.
10371 - Mention that we require Python to be 2.7 or newer for some
10372 integration tests that we ship with Tor. Resolves ticket 27677.
10375 Changes in version 0.3.5.2-alpha - 2018-09-21
10376 Tor 0.3.5.2-alpha fixes several bugs in 0.3.5.1-alpha, including one
10377 that made Tor think it had run out of sockets. Anybody running a relay
10378 or an onion service on 0.3.5.1-alpha should upgrade.
10380 o Major bugfixes (relay bandwidth statistics):
10381 - When we close relayed circuits, report the data in the circuit
10382 queues as being written in our relay bandwidth stats. This
10383 mitigates guard discovery and other attacks that close circuits
10384 for the explicit purpose of noticing this discrepancy in
10385 statistics. Fixes bug 23512; bugfix on 0.0.8pre3.
10387 o Major bugfixes (socket accounting):
10388 - In our socket accounting code, count a socket as closed even when
10389 it is closed indirectly by the TLS layer. Previously, we would
10390 count these sockets as still in use, and incorrectly believe that
10391 we had run out of sockets. Fixes bug 27795; bugfix
10394 o Minor bugfixes (32-bit OSX and iOS, timing):
10395 - Fix an integer overflow bug in our optimized 32-bit millisecond-
10396 difference algorithm for 32-bit Apple platforms. Previously, it
10397 would overflow when calculating the difference between two times
10398 more than 47 days apart. Fixes part of bug 27139; bugfix
10400 - Improve the precision of our 32-bit millisecond difference
10401 algorithm for 32-bit Apple platforms. Fixes part of bug 27139;
10402 bugfix on 0.3.4.1-alpha.
10403 - Relax the tolerance on the mainloop/update_time_jumps test when
10404 running on 32-bit Apple platforms. Fixes part of bug 27139; bugfix
10407 o Minor bugfixes (onion service v3):
10408 - Close all SOCKS request (for the same .onion) if the newly fetched
10409 descriptor is unusable. Before that, we would close only the first
10410 one leaving the other hanging and let to time out by themselves.
10411 Fixes bug 27410; bugfix on 0.3.2.1-alpha.
10413 o Minor bugfixes (memory leak):
10414 - Fix an unlikely memory leak when trying to read a private key from
10415 a ridiculously large file. Fixes bug 27764; bugfix on
10416 0.3.5.1-alpha. This is CID 1439488.
10418 o Minor bugfixes (NSS):
10419 - Correctly detect failure to open a dummy TCP socket when stealing
10420 ownership of an fd from the NSS layer. Fixes bug 27782; bugfix
10423 o Minor bugfixes (rust):
10424 - protover_all_supported() would attempt to allocate up to 16GB on
10425 some inputs, leading to a potential memory DoS. Fixes bug 27206;
10426 bugfix on 0.3.3.5-rc.
10428 o Minor bugfixes (testing):
10429 - Revise the "conditionvar_timeout" test so that it succeeds even on
10430 heavily loaded systems where the test threads are not scheduled
10431 within 200 msec. Fixes bug 27073; bugfix on 0.2.6.3-alpha.
10433 o Code simplification and refactoring:
10434 - Divide the routerlist.c and dirserv.c modules into smaller parts.
10435 Closes ticket 27799.
10438 Changes in version 0.3.5.1-alpha - 2018-09-18
10439 Tor 0.3.5.1-alpha is the first release of the 0.3.5.x series. It adds
10440 client authorization for modern (v3) onion services, improves
10441 bootstrap reporting, begins reorganizing Tor's codebase, adds optional
10442 support for NSS in place of OpenSSL, and much more.
10444 o Major features (onion services, UI change):
10445 - For a newly created onion service, the default version is now 3.
10446 Tor still supports existing version 2 services, but the operator
10447 now needs to set "HiddenServiceVersion 2" in order to create a new
10448 version 2 service. For existing services, Tor now learns the
10449 version by reading the key file. Closes ticket 27215.
10451 o Major features (relay, UI change):
10452 - Relays no longer run as exits by default. If the "ExitRelay"
10453 option is auto (or unset), and no exit policy is specified with
10454 ExitPolicy or ReducedExitPolicy, we now treat ExitRelay as 0.
10455 Previously in this case, we allowed exit traffic and logged a
10456 warning message. Closes ticket 21530. Patch by Neel Chauhan.
10457 - Tor now validates that the ContactInfo config option is valid UTF-
10458 8 when parsing torrc. Closes ticket 27428.
10460 o Major features (bootstrap):
10461 - Don't report directory progress until after a connection to a
10462 relay or bridge has succeeded. Previously, we'd report 80%
10463 progress based on cached directory information when we couldn't
10464 even connect to the network. Closes ticket 27169.
10466 o Major features (new code layout):
10467 - Nearly all of Tor's source code has been moved around into more
10468 logical places. The "common" directory is now divided into a set
10469 of libraries in "lib", and files in the "or" directory have been
10470 split into "core" (logic absolutely needed for onion routing),
10471 "feature" (independent modules in Tor), and "app" (to configure
10472 and invoke the rest of Tor). See doc/HACKING/CodeStructure.md for
10473 more information. Closes ticket 26481.
10475 This refactoring is not complete: although the libraries have been
10476 refactored to be acyclic, the main body of Tor is still too
10477 interconnected. We will attempt to improve this in the future.
10479 o Major features (onion services v3):
10480 - Implement onion service client authorization at the descriptor
10481 level: only authorized clients can decrypt a service's descriptor
10482 to find out how to contact it. A new torrc option was added to
10483 control this client side: ClientOnionAuthDir <path>. On the
10484 service side, if the "authorized_clients/" directory exists in the
10485 onion service directory path, client configurations are read from
10486 the files within. See the manpage for more details. Closes ticket
10487 27547. Patch done by Suphanat Chunhapanya (haxxpop).
10488 - Improve revision counter generation in next-gen onion services.
10489 Onion services can now scale by hosting multiple instances on
10490 different hosts without synchronization between them, which was
10491 previously impossible because descriptors would get rejected by
10492 HSDirs. Addresses ticket 25552.
10494 o Major features (portability, cryptography, experimental, TLS):
10495 - Tor now has the option to compile with the NSS library instead of
10496 OpenSSL. This feature is experimental, and we expect that bugs may
10497 remain. It is mainly intended for environments where Tor's
10498 performance is not CPU-bound, and where NSS is already known to be
10499 installed. To try it out, configure Tor with the --enable-nss
10500 flag. Closes tickets 26631, 26815, and 26816.
10502 If you are experimenting with this option and using an old cached
10503 consensus, Tor may fail to start. To solve this, delete your
10504 "cached-consensus" and "cached-microdesc-consensus" files,
10505 (if present), and restart Tor.
10507 o Major bugfixes (directory authority):
10508 - Actually check that the address we get from DirAuthority
10509 configuration line is valid IPv4. Explicitly disallow DirAuthority
10510 address to be a DNS hostname. Fixes bug 26488; bugfix
10513 o Major bugfixes (restart-in-process):
10514 - Fix a use-after-free error that could be caused by passing Tor an
10515 impossible set of options that would fail during options_act().
10516 Fixes bug 27708; bugfix on 0.3.3.1-alpha.
10518 o Minor features (admin tools):
10519 - Add a new --key-expiration option to print the expiration date of
10520 the signing cert in an ed25519_signing_cert file. Resolves
10523 o Minor features (build):
10524 - If you pass the "--enable-pic" option to configure, Tor will try
10525 to tell the compiler to build position-independent code suitable
10526 to link into a dynamic library. (The default remains -fPIE, for
10527 code suitable for a relocatable executable.) Closes ticket 23846.
10529 o Minor features (code correctness, testing):
10530 - Tor's build process now includes a "check-includes" make target to
10531 verify that no module of Tor relies on any headers from a higher-
10532 level module. We hope to use this feature over time to help
10533 refactor our codebase. Closes ticket 26447.
10535 o Minor features (code layout):
10536 - We have a new "lowest-level" error-handling API for use by code
10537 invoked from within the logging module. With this interface, the
10538 logging code is no longer at risk of calling into itself if a
10539 failure occurs while it is trying to log something. Closes
10542 o Minor features (compilation):
10543 - Tor's configure script now supports a --with-malloc= option to
10544 select your malloc implementation. Supported options are
10545 "tcmalloc", "jemalloc", "openbsd" (deprecated), and "system" (the
10546 default). Addresses part of ticket 20424. Based on a patch from
10549 o Minor features (config):
10550 - The "auto" keyword in torrc is now case-insensitive. Closes
10553 o Minor features (continuous integration):
10554 - Don't do a distcheck with --disable-module-dirauth in Travis.
10555 Implements ticket 27252.
10556 - Install libcap-dev and libseccomp2-dev so these optional
10557 dependencies get tested on Travis CI. Closes ticket 26560.
10558 - Only run one online rust build in Travis, to reduce network
10559 errors. Skip offline rust builds on Travis for Linux gcc, because
10560 they're redundant. Implements ticket 27252.
10561 - Skip gcc on OSX in Travis CI, because it's rarely used. Skip a
10562 duplicate hardening-off build in Travis on Tor 0.2.9. Skip gcc on
10563 Linux with default settings, because all the non-default builds
10564 use gcc on Linux. Implements ticket 27252.
10566 o Minor features (controller):
10567 - Emit CIRC_BW events as soon as we detect that we processed an
10568 invalid or otherwise dropped cell on a circuit. This allows
10569 vanguards and other controllers to react more quickly to dropped
10570 cells. Closes ticket 27678.
10571 - For purposes of CIRC_BW-based dropped cell detection, track half-
10572 closed stream ids, and allow their ENDs, SENDMEs, DATA and path
10573 bias check cells to arrive without counting it as dropped until
10574 either the END arrives, or the windows are empty. Closes
10576 - Implement a 'GETINFO md/all' controller command to enable getting
10577 all known microdescriptors. Closes ticket 8323.
10578 - The GETINFO command now support an "uptime" argument, to return
10579 Tor's uptime in seconds. Closes ticket 25132.
10581 o Minor features (denial-of-service avoidance):
10582 - Make our OOM handler aware of the DNS cache so that it doesn't
10583 fill up the memory. This check is important for our DoS mitigation
10584 subsystem. Closes ticket 18642. Patch by Neel Chauhan.
10586 o Minor features (development):
10587 - Tor's makefile now supports running the "clippy" Rust style tool
10588 on our Rust code. Closes ticket 22156.
10590 o Minor features (directory authority):
10591 - There is no longer an artificial upper limit on the length of
10592 bandwidth lines. Closes ticket 26223.
10593 - When a bandwidth file is used to obtain the bandwidth measurements,
10594 include this bandwidth file headers in the votes. Closes
10596 - Improved support for networks with only a single authority or a
10597 single fallback directory. Patch from Gabriel Somlo. Closes
10600 o Minor features (embedding API):
10601 - The Tor controller API now supports a function to launch Tor with
10602 a preconstructed owning controller FD, so that embedding
10603 applications don't need to manage controller ports and
10604 authentication. Closes ticket 24204.
10605 - The Tor controller API now has a function that returns the name
10606 and version of the backend implementing the API. Closes
10609 o Minor features (geoip):
10610 - Update geoip and geoip6 to the September 6 2018 Maxmind GeoLite2
10611 Country database. Closes ticket 27631.
10613 o Minor features (memory management):
10614 - Get Libevent to use the same memory allocator as Tor, by calling
10615 event_set_mem_functions() during initialization. Resolves
10618 o Minor features (memory usage):
10619 - When not using them, store legacy TAP public onion keys in DER-
10620 encoded format, rather than as expanded public keys. This should
10621 save several megabytes on typical clients. Closes ticket 27246.
10623 o Minor features (OpenSSL):
10624 - When possible, use RFC5869 HKDF implementation from OpenSSL rather
10625 than our own. Resolves ticket 19979.
10627 o Minor features (Rust, code quality):
10628 - Improve rust code quality in the rust protover implementation by
10629 making it more idiomatic. Includes changing an internal API to
10630 take &str instead of &String. Closes ticket 26492.
10632 o Minor features (testing):
10633 - Add scripts/test/chutney-git-bisect.sh, for bisecting using
10634 chutney. Implements ticket 27211.
10636 o Minor features (tor-resolve):
10637 - The tor-resolve utility can now be used with IPv6 SOCKS proxies.
10638 Side-effect of the refactoring for ticket 26526.
10640 o Minor features (UI):
10641 - Log each included configuration file or directory as we read it,
10642 to provide more visibility about where Tor is reading from. Patch
10643 from Unto Sten; closes ticket 27186.
10644 - Lower log level of "Scheduler type KIST has been enabled" to INFO.
10645 Closes ticket 26703.
10647 o Minor bugfixes (bootstrap):
10648 - Try harder to get descriptors in non-exit test networks, by using
10649 the mid weight for the third hop when there are no exits. Fixes
10650 bug 27237; bugfix on 0.2.6.2-alpha.
10652 o Minor bugfixes (C correctness):
10653 - Avoid casting smartlist index to int implicitly, as it may trigger
10654 a warning (-Wshorten-64-to-32). Fixes bug 26282; bugfix on
10655 0.2.3.13-alpha, 0.2.7.1-alpha and 0.2.1.1-alpha.
10656 - Use time_t for all values in
10657 predicted_ports_prediction_time_remaining(). Rework the code that
10658 computes difference between durations/timestamps. Fixes bug 27165;
10659 bugfix on 0.3.1.1-alpha.
10661 o Minor bugfixes (client, memory usage):
10662 - When not running as a directory cache, there is no need to store
10663 the text of the current consensus networkstatus in RAM.
10664 Previously, however, clients would store it anyway, at a cost of
10665 over 5 MB. Now, they do not. Fixes bug 27247; bugfix
10668 o Minor bugfixes (client, reachableaddresses):
10669 - Instead of adding a "reject *:*" line to ReachableAddresses when
10670 loading the configuration, add one to the policy after parsing it
10671 in parse_reachable_addresses(). This prevents extra "reject *.*"
10672 lines from accumulating on reloads. Fixes bug 20874; bugfix on
10673 0.1.1.5-alpha. Patch by Neel Chauhan.
10675 o Minor bugfixes (code quality):
10676 - Rename sandbox_getaddrinfo() and other functions to no longer
10677 misleadingly suggest that they are sandbox-only. Fixes bug 26525;
10678 bugfix on 0.2.7.1-alpha.
10680 o Minor bugfixes (configuration, Onion Services):
10681 - In rend_service_parse_port_config(), disallow any input to remain
10682 after address-port pair was parsed. This will catch address and
10683 port being whitespace-separated by mistake of the user. Fixes bug
10684 27044; bugfix on 0.2.9.10.
10686 o Minor bugfixes (continuous integration):
10687 - Stop reinstalling identical packages in our Windows CI. Fixes bug
10688 27464; bugfix on 0.3.4.1-alpha.
10690 o Minor bugfixes (controller):
10691 - Consider all routerinfo errors other than "not a server" to be
10692 transient for the purpose of "GETINFO exit-policy/*" controller
10693 request. Print stacktrace in the unlikely case of failing to
10694 recompute routerinfo digest. Fixes bug 27034; bugfix
10697 o Minor bugfixes (directory connection shutdown):
10698 - Avoid a double-close when shutting down a stalled directory
10699 connection. Fixes bug 26896; bugfix on 0.3.4.1-alpha.
10701 o Minor bugfixes (HTTP tunnel):
10702 - Fix a bug warning when closing an HTTP tunnel connection due to an
10703 HTTP request we couldn't handle. Fixes bug 26470; bugfix
10706 o Minor bugfixes (ipv6):
10707 - In addrs_in_same_network_family(), we choose the subnet size based
10708 on the IP version (IPv4 or IPv6). Previously, we chose a fixed
10709 subnet size of /16 for both IPv4 and IPv6 addresses. Fixes bug
10710 15518; bugfix on 0.2.3.1-alpha. Patch by Neel Chauhan.
10712 o Minor bugfixes (logging):
10713 - As a precaution, do an early return from log_addr_has_changed() if
10714 Tor is running as client. Also, log a stack trace for debugging as
10715 this function should only be called when Tor runs as server. Fixes
10716 bug 26892; bugfix on 0.1.1.9-alpha.
10717 - Refrain from mentioning bug 21018 in the logs, as it is already
10718 fixed. Fixes bug 25477; bugfix on 0.2.9.8.
10720 o Minor bugfixes (logging, documentation):
10721 - When SafeLogging is enabled, scrub IP address in
10722 channel_tls_process_netinfo_cell(). Also, add a note to manpage
10723 that scrubbing is not guaranteed on loglevels below Notice. Fixes
10724 bug 26882; bugfix on 0.2.4.10-alpha.
10726 o Minor bugfixes (netflow padding):
10727 - Ensure circuitmux queues are empty before scheduling or sending
10728 padding. Fixes bug 25505; bugfix on 0.3.1.1-alpha.
10730 o Minor bugfixes (onion service v2):
10731 - Log at level "info", not "warning", in the case that we do not
10732 have a consensus when a .onion request comes in. This can happen
10733 normally while bootstrapping. Fixes bug 27040; bugfix
10736 o Minor bugfixes (onion service v3):
10737 - When the onion service directory can't be created or has the wrong
10738 permissions, do not log a stack trace. Fixes bug 27335; bugfix
10741 o Minor bugfixes (OS compatibility):
10742 - Properly handle configuration changes that move a listener to/from
10743 wildcard IP address. If the first attempt to bind a socket fails,
10744 close the old listener and try binding the socket again. Fixes bug
10745 17873; bugfix on 0.0.8pre-1.
10747 o Minor bugfixes (performance)::
10748 - Rework node_is_a_configured_bridge() to no longer call
10749 node_get_all_orports(), which was performing too many memory
10750 allocations. Fixes bug 27224; bugfix on 0.2.3.9.
10752 o Minor bugfixes (relay statistics):
10753 - Update relay descriptor on bandwidth changes only when the uptime
10754 is smaller than 24h, in order to reduce the efficiency of guard
10755 discovery attacks. Fixes bug 24104; bugfix on 0.1.1.6-alpha.
10757 o Minor bugfixes (relays):
10758 - Consider the fact that we'll be making direct connections to our
10759 entry and guard nodes when computing the fraction of nodes that
10760 have their descriptors. Also, if we are using bridges and there is
10761 at least one bridge with a full descriptor, treat the fraction of
10762 guards available as 100%. Fixes bug 25886; bugfix on 0.2.4.10-alpha.
10763 Patch by Neel Chauhan.
10764 - Update the message logged on relays when DirCache is disabled.
10765 Since 0.3.3.5-rc, authorities require DirCache (V2Dir) for the
10766 Guard flag. Fixes bug 24312; bugfix on 0.3.3.5-rc.
10768 o Minor bugfixes (rust, protover):
10769 - Compute protover votes correctly in the rust version of the
10770 protover code. Previously, the protover rewrite in 24031 allowed
10771 repeated votes from the same voter for the same protocol version
10772 to be counted multiple times in protover_compute_vote(). Fixes bug
10773 27649; bugfix on 0.3.3.5-rc.
10774 - Reject protover names that contain invalid characters. Fixes bug
10775 27687; bugfix on 0.3.3.1-alpha.
10777 o Minor bugfixes (testing):
10778 - Fix two unit tests to work when HOME environment variable is not
10779 set. Fixes bug 27096; bugfix on 0.2.8.1-alpha.
10780 - If a unit test running in a subprocess exits abnormally or with a
10781 nonzero status code, treat the test as having failed, even if the
10782 test reported success. Without this fix, memory leaks don't cause
10783 the tests to fail, even with LeakSanitizer. Fixes bug 27658;
10784 bugfix on 0.2.2.4-alpha.
10785 - When logging a version mismatch in our openssl_version tests,
10786 report the actual offending version strings. Fixes bug 26152;
10787 bugfix on 0.2.9.1-alpha.
10788 - Fix forking tests on Windows when there is a space somewhere in
10789 the path. Fixes bug 26437; bugfix on 0.2.2.4-alpha.
10791 o Code simplification and refactoring:
10792 - 'updateFallbackDirs.py' now ignores the blacklist file, as it's not
10793 longer needed. Closes ticket 26502.
10794 - Include paths to header files within Tor are now qualified by
10795 directory within the top-level src directory.
10796 - Many structures have been removed from the centralized "or.h"
10797 header, and moved into their own headers. This will allow us to
10798 reduce the number of places in the code that rely on each
10799 structure's contents and layout. Closes ticket 26383.
10800 - Remove ATTR_NONNULL macro from codebase. Resolves ticket 26527.
10801 - Remove GetAdaptersAddresses_fn_t. The code that used it was
10802 removed as part of the 26481 refactor. Closes ticket 27467.
10803 - Rework Tor SOCKS server code to use Trunnel and benefit from
10804 autogenerated functions for parsing and generating SOCKS wire
10805 format. New implementation is cleaner, more maintainable and
10806 should be less prone to heartbleed-style vulnerabilities.
10807 Implements a significant fraction of ticket 3569.
10808 - Split sampled_guards_update_from_consensus() and
10809 select_entry_guard_for_circuit() into subfunctions. In
10810 entry_guards_update_primary() unite three smartlist enumerations
10811 into one and move smartlist comparison code out of the function.
10812 Closes ticket 21349.
10813 - Tor now assumes that you have standards-conformant stdint.h and
10814 inttypes.h headers when compiling. Closes ticket 26626.
10815 - Unify our bloom filter logic. Previously we had two copies of this
10816 code: one for routerlist filtering, and one for address set
10817 calculations. Closes ticket 26510.
10818 - Use the simpler strcmpstart() helper in
10819 rend_parse_v2_service_descriptor instead of strncmp(). Closes
10821 - Utility functions that can perform a DNS lookup are now wholly
10822 separated from those that can't, in separate headers and C
10823 modules. Closes ticket 26526.
10826 - Copy paragraph and URL to Tor's code of conduct document from
10827 CONTRIBUTING to new CODE_OF_CONDUCT file. Resolves ticket 26638.
10828 - Remove old instructions from INSTALL document. Closes ticket 26588.
10829 - Warn users that they should not include MyFamily line(s) in their
10830 torrc when running Tor bridge. Closes ticket 26908.
10832 o Removed features:
10833 - Tor no longer supports building with the dmalloc library. For
10834 debugging memory issues, we suggest using gperftools or msan
10835 instead. Closes ticket 26426.
10836 - Tor no longer attempts to run on Windows environments without the
10837 GetAdaptersAddresses() function. This function has existed since
10838 Windows XP, which is itself already older than we support.
10839 - Remove Tor2web functionality for version 2 onion services. The
10840 Tor2webMode and Tor2webRendezvousPoints options are now obsolete.
10841 (This feature was never shipped in vanilla Tor and it was only
10842 possible to use this feature by building the support at compile
10843 time. Tor2webMode is not implemented for version 3 onion services.)
10844 Closes ticket 26367.
10847 Changes in version 0.2.9.17 - 2018-09-10
10848 Tor 0.2.9.17 backports numerous bugfixes from later versions of Tor.
10850 o Minor features (compatibility, backport from 0.3.4.8):
10851 - Tell OpenSSL to maintain backward compatibility with previous
10852 RSA1024/DH1024 users in Tor. With OpenSSL 1.1.1-pre6, these
10853 ciphers are disabled by default. Closes ticket 27344.
10855 o Minor features (continuous integration, backport from 0.3.4.7-rc):
10856 - Enable macOS builds in our Travis CI configuration. Closes
10858 - Install libcap-dev and libseccomp2-dev so these optional
10859 dependencies get tested on Travis CI. Closes ticket 26560.
10860 - Run asciidoc during Travis CI. Implements ticket 27087.
10861 - Use ccache in our Travis CI configuration. Closes ticket 26952.
10863 o Minor features (geoip):
10864 - Update geoip and geoip6 to the August 7 2018 Maxmind GeoLite2
10865 Country database. Closes ticket 27089.
10867 o Minor bugfixes (compilation, backport from 0.3.4.6-rc):
10868 - When compiling with --enable-openbsd-malloc or --enable-tcmalloc,
10869 tell the compiler not to include the system malloc implementation.
10870 Fixes bug 20424; bugfix on 0.2.0.20-rc.
10872 o Minor bugfixes (compilation, backport from 0.3.4.7-rc):
10873 - Silence a spurious compiler warning on the GetAdaptersAddresses
10874 function pointer cast. This issue is already fixed by 26481 in
10875 0.3.5 and later, by removing the lookup and cast. Fixes bug 27465;
10876 bugfix on 0.2.3.11-alpha.
10877 - Stop calling SetProcessDEPPolicy() on 64-bit Windows. It is not
10878 supported, and always fails. Some compilers warn about the
10879 function pointer cast on 64-bit Windows. Fixes bug 27461; bugfix
10882 o Minor bugfixes (compilation, windows, backport from 0.3.4.7-rc):
10883 - Don't link or search for pthreads when building for Windows, even
10884 if we are using build environment (like mingw) that provides a
10885 pthreads library. Fixes bug 27081; bugfix on 0.1.0.1-rc.
10887 o Minor bugfixes (continuous integration, backport from 0.3.4.6-rc):
10888 - Skip a pair of unreliable key generation tests on Windows, until
10889 the underlying issue in bug 26076 is resolved. Fixes bug 26830 and
10890 bug 26853; bugfix on 0.2.7.3-rc and 0.3.2.1-alpha respectively.
10892 o Minor bugfixes (continuous integration, backport from 0.3.4.7-rc):
10893 - Pass the module flags to distcheck configure, and log the flags
10894 before running configure. (Backported to 0.2.9 and later as a
10895 precaution.) Fixes bug 27088; bugfix on 0.3.4.1-alpha.
10897 o Minor bugfixes (continuous integration, backport from 0.3.4.8):
10898 - When a Travis build fails, and showing a log fails, keep trying to
10899 show the other logs. Fixes bug 27453; bugfix on 0.3.4.7-rc.
10900 - When we use echo in Travis, don't pass a --flag as the first
10901 argument. Fixes bug 27418; bugfix on 0.3.4.7-rc.
10903 o Minor bugfixes (directory authority, backport from 0.3.4.6-rc):
10904 - When voting for recommended versions, make sure that all of the
10905 versions are well-formed and parsable. Fixes bug 26485; bugfix
10908 o Minor bugfixes (linux seccomp2 sandbox, backport from 0.3.4.7-rc):
10909 - Fix a bug in out sandboxing rules for the openat() syscall.
10910 Previously, no openat() call would be permitted, which would break
10911 filesystem operations on recent glibc versions. Fixes bug 25440;
10912 bugfix on 0.2.9.15. Diagnosis and patch from Daniel Pinto.
10914 o Minor bugfixes (onion services, backport from 0.3.4.8):
10915 - Silence a spurious compiler warning in
10916 rend_client_send_introduction(). Fixes bug 27463; bugfix
10919 o Minor bugfixes (single onion services, Tor2web, backport from 0.3.4.6-rc):
10920 - Log a protocol warning when single onion services or Tor2web clients
10921 fail to authenticate direct connections to relays.
10922 Fixes bug 26924; bugfix on 0.2.9.1-alpha.
10924 o Minor bugfixes (testing, backport from 0.3.4.6-rc):
10925 - Disable core dumps in test_bt.sh, to avoid failures in "make
10926 distcheck". Fixes bug 26787; bugfix on 0.2.5.2-alpha.
10928 o Minor bugfixes (testing, chutney, backport from 0.3.4.8):
10929 - Before running make test-network-all, delete old logs and test
10930 result files, to avoid spurious failures. Fixes bug 27295; bugfix
10933 o Minor bugfixes (testing, openssl compatibility, backport from 0.3.4.7-rc):
10934 - Our "tortls/cert_matches_key" unit test no longer relies on
10935 OpenSSL internals. Previously, it relied on unsupported OpenSSL
10936 behavior in a way that caused it to crash with OpenSSL 1.0.2p.
10937 Fixes bug 27226; bugfix on 0.2.5.1-alpha.
10939 o Minor bugfixes (Windows, compilation, backport from 0.3.4.7-rc):
10940 - Silence a compilation warning on MSVC 2017 and clang-cl. Fixes bug
10941 27185; bugfix on 0.2.2.2-alpha.
10944 Changes in version 0.3.2.12 - 2018-09-10
10945 Tor 0.3.2.12 backport numerous fixes from later versions of Tor.
10947 o Minor features (compatibility, backport from 0.3.4.8):
10948 - Tell OpenSSL to maintain backward compatibility with previous
10949 RSA1024/DH1024 users in Tor. With OpenSSL 1.1.1-pre6, these
10950 ciphers are disabled by default. Closes ticket 27344.
10952 o Minor features (continuous integration, backport from 0.3.4.7-rc):
10953 - Enable macOS builds in our Travis CI configuration. Closes
10955 - Install libcap-dev and libseccomp2-dev so these optional
10956 dependencies get tested on Travis CI. Closes ticket 26560.
10957 - Run asciidoc during Travis CI. Implements ticket 27087.
10958 - Use ccache in our Travis CI configuration. Closes ticket 26952.
10960 o Minor features (continuous integration, rust, backport from 0.3.4.7-rc):
10961 - Use cargo cache in our Travis CI configuration. Closes
10964 o Minor features (controller, backport from 0.3.4.6-rc):
10965 - The control port now exposes the list of HTTPTunnelPorts and
10966 ExtOrPorts via GETINFO net/listeners/httptunnel and
10967 net/listeners/extor respectively. Closes ticket 26647.
10969 o Minor features (directory authorities, backport from 0.3.4.7-rc):
10970 - Authorities no longer vote to make the subprotocol version
10971 "LinkAuth=1" a requirement: it is unsupportable with NSS, and
10972 hasn't been needed since Tor 0.3.0.1-alpha. Closes ticket 27286.
10974 o Minor features (geoip):
10975 - Update geoip and geoip6 to the August 7 2018 Maxmind GeoLite2
10976 Country database. Closes ticket 27089.
10978 o Minor bugfixes (compilation, backport from 0.3.4.6-rc):
10979 - When compiling with --enable-openbsd-malloc or --enable-tcmalloc,
10980 tell the compiler not to include the system malloc implementation.
10981 Fixes bug 20424; bugfix on 0.2.0.20-rc.
10982 - Don't try to use a pragma to temporarily disable the
10983 -Wunused-const-variable warning if the compiler doesn't support
10984 it. Fixes bug 26785; bugfix on 0.3.2.11.
10986 o Minor bugfixes (compilation, backport from 0.3.4.7-rc):
10987 - Silence a spurious compiler warning on the GetAdaptersAddresses
10988 function pointer cast. This issue is already fixed by 26481 in
10989 0.3.5 and later, by removing the lookup and cast. Fixes bug 27465;
10990 bugfix on 0.2.3.11-alpha.
10991 - Stop calling SetProcessDEPPolicy() on 64-bit Windows. It is not
10992 supported, and always fails. Some compilers warn about the
10993 function pointer cast on 64-bit Windows. Fixes bug 27461; bugfix
10996 o Minor bugfixes (compilation, windows, backport from 0.3.4.7-rc):
10997 - Don't link or search for pthreads when building for Windows, even
10998 if we are using build environment (like mingw) that provides a
10999 pthreads library. Fixes bug 27081; bugfix on 0.1.0.1-rc.
11001 o Minor bugfixes (continuous integration, backport from 0.3.4.6-rc):
11002 - Skip a pair of unreliable key generation tests on Windows, until
11003 the underlying issue in bug 26076 is resolved. Fixes bug 26830 and
11004 bug 26853; bugfix on 0.2.7.3-rc and 0.3.2.1-alpha respectively.
11006 o Minor bugfixes (continuous integration, backport from 0.3.4.7-rc):
11007 - Build with zstd on macOS. Fixes bug 27090; bugfix on 0.3.1.5-alpha.
11008 - Pass the module flags to distcheck configure, and log the flags
11009 before running configure. (Backported to 0.2.9 and later as a
11010 precaution.) Fixes bug 27088; bugfix on 0.3.4.1-alpha.
11012 o Minor bugfixes (continuous integration, backport from 0.3.4.8):
11013 - When a Travis build fails, and showing a log fails, keep trying to
11014 show the other logs. Fixes bug 27453; bugfix on 0.3.4.7-rc.
11015 - When we use echo in Travis, don't pass a --flag as the first
11016 argument. Fixes bug 27418; bugfix on 0.3.4.7-rc.
11018 o Minor bugfixes (directory authority, backport from 0.3.4.6-rc):
11019 - When voting for recommended versions, make sure that all of the
11020 versions are well-formed and parsable. Fixes bug 26485; bugfix
11023 o Minor bugfixes (linux seccomp2 sandbox, backport from 0.3.4.7-rc):
11024 - Fix a bug in out sandboxing rules for the openat() syscall.
11025 Previously, no openat() call would be permitted, which would break
11026 filesystem operations on recent glibc versions. Fixes bug 25440;
11027 bugfix on 0.2.9.15. Diagnosis and patch from Daniel Pinto.
11029 o Minor bugfixes (logging, backport from 0.3.4.6-rc):
11030 - Improve the log message when connection initiators fail to
11031 authenticate direct connections to relays. Fixes bug 26927; bugfix
11034 o Minor bugfixes (onion services, backport from 0.3.4.7-rc):
11035 - Fix bug that causes services to not ever rotate their descriptors
11036 if they were getting SIGHUPed often. Fixes bug 26932; bugfix
11039 o Minor bugfixes (onion services, backport from 0.3.4.8):
11040 - Silence a spurious compiler warning in
11041 rend_client_send_introduction(). Fixes bug 27463; bugfix
11044 o Minor bugfixes (rust, backport from 0.3.4.7-rc):
11045 - Backport test_rust.sh from master. Fixes bug 26497; bugfix
11047 - Consistently use ../../.. as a fallback for $abs_top_srcdir in
11048 test_rust.sh. Fixes bug 27093; bugfix on 0.3.4.3-alpha.
11049 - Stop setting $CARGO_HOME. cargo will use the user's $CARGO_HOME, or
11050 $HOME/.cargo by default. Fixes bug 26497; bugfix on 0.3.1.5-alpha.
11052 o Minor bugfixes (single onion services, Tor2web, backport from 0.3.4.6-rc):
11053 - Log a protocol warning when single onion services or Tor2web clients
11054 fail to authenticate direct connections to relays.
11055 Fixes bug 26924; bugfix on 0.2.9.1-alpha.
11057 o Minor bugfixes (testing, backport from 0.3.4.6-rc):
11058 - Disable core dumps in test_bt.sh, to avoid failures in "make
11059 distcheck". Fixes bug 26787; bugfix on 0.2.5.2-alpha.
11061 o Minor bugfixes (testing, chutney, backport from 0.3.4.8):
11062 - When running make test-network-all, use the mixed+hs-v2 network.
11063 (A previous fix to chutney removed v3 onion services from the
11064 mixed+hs-v23 network, so seeing "mixed+hs-v23" in tests is
11065 confusing.) Fixes bug 27345; bugfix on 0.3.2.1-alpha.
11066 - Before running make test-network-all, delete old logs and test
11067 result files, to avoid spurious failures. Fixes bug 27295; bugfix
11070 o Minor bugfixes (testing, openssl compatibility):
11071 - Our "tortls/cert_matches_key" unit test no longer relies on OpenSSL
11072 internals. Previously, it relied on unsupported OpenSSL behavior in
11073 a way that caused it to crash with OpenSSL 1.0.2p. Fixes bug 27226;
11074 bugfix on 0.2.5.1-alpha.
11076 o Minor bugfixes (testing, openssl compatibility, backport from 0.3.4.7-rc):
11077 - Our "tortls/cert_matches_key" unit test no longer relies on
11078 OpenSSL internals. Previously, it relied on unsupported OpenSSL
11079 behavior in a way that caused it to crash with OpenSSL 1.0.2p.
11080 Fixes bug 27226; bugfix on 0.2.5.1-alpha.
11082 o Minor bugfixes (Windows, compilation, backport from 0.3.4.7-rc):
11083 - Silence a compilation warning on MSVC 2017 and clang-cl. Fixes bug
11084 27185; bugfix on 0.2.2.2-alpha.
11087 Changes in version 0.3.3.10 - 2018-09-10
11088 Tor 0.3.3.10 backports numerous fixes from later versions of Tor.
11090 o Minor features (bug workaround, backport from 0.3.4.7-rc):
11091 - Compile correctly on systems that provide the C11 stdatomic.h
11092 header, but where C11 atomic functions don't actually compile.
11093 Closes ticket 26779; workaround for Debian issue 903709.
11095 o Minor features (compatibility, backport from 0.3.4.8):
11096 - Tell OpenSSL to maintain backward compatibility with previous
11097 RSA1024/DH1024 users in Tor. With OpenSSL 1.1.1-pre6, these
11098 ciphers are disabled by default. Closes ticket 27344.
11100 o Minor features (continuous integration, backport from 0.3.4.7-rc):
11101 - Backport Travis rust distcheck to 0.3.3. Closes ticket 24629.
11102 - Enable macOS builds in our Travis CI configuration. Closes
11104 - Install libcap-dev and libseccomp2-dev so these optional
11105 dependencies get tested on Travis CI. Closes ticket 26560.
11106 - Run asciidoc during Travis CI. Implements ticket 27087.
11107 - Use ccache in our Travis CI configuration. Closes ticket 26952.
11109 o Minor features (continuous integration, rust, backport from 0.3.4.7-rc):
11110 - Use cargo cache in our Travis CI configuration. Closes
11113 o Minor features (controller, backport from 0.3.4.6-rc):
11114 - The control port now exposes the list of HTTPTunnelPorts and
11115 ExtOrPorts via GETINFO net/listeners/httptunnel and
11116 net/listeners/extor respectively. Closes ticket 26647.
11118 o Minor features (directory authorities, backport from 0.3.4.7-rc):
11119 - Authorities no longer vote to make the subprotocol version
11120 "LinkAuth=1" a requirement: it is unsupportable with NSS, and
11121 hasn't been needed since Tor 0.3.0.1-alpha. Closes ticket 27286.
11123 o Minor features (geoip):
11124 - Update geoip and geoip6 to the August 7 2018 Maxmind GeoLite2
11125 Country database. Closes ticket 27089.
11127 o Minor bugfixes (compilation, backport from 0.3.4.6-rc):
11128 - When compiling with --enable-openbsd-malloc or --enable-tcmalloc,
11129 tell the compiler not to include the system malloc implementation.
11130 Fixes bug 20424; bugfix on 0.2.0.20-rc.
11131 - Don't try to use a pragma to temporarily disable the
11132 -Wunused-const-variable warning if the compiler doesn't support
11133 it. Fixes bug 26785; bugfix on 0.3.2.11.
11135 o Minor bugfixes (compilation, backport from 0.3.4.7-rc):
11136 - Silence a spurious compiler warning on the GetAdaptersAddresses
11137 function pointer cast. This issue is already fixed by 26481 in
11138 0.3.5 and later, by removing the lookup and cast. Fixes bug 27465;
11139 bugfix on 0.2.3.11-alpha.
11140 - Stop calling SetProcessDEPPolicy() on 64-bit Windows. It is not
11141 supported, and always fails. Some compilers warn about the
11142 function pointer cast on 64-bit Windows. Fixes bug 27461; bugfix
11145 o Minor bugfixes (compilation, windows, backport from 0.3.4.7-rc):
11146 - Don't link or search for pthreads when building for Windows, even
11147 if we are using build environment (like mingw) that provides a
11148 pthreads library. Fixes bug 27081; bugfix on 0.1.0.1-rc.
11150 o Minor bugfixes (continuous integration, backport from 0.3.4.6-rc):
11151 - Skip a pair of unreliable key generation tests on Windows, until
11152 the underlying issue in bug 26076 is resolved. Fixes bug 26830 and
11153 bug 26853; bugfix on 0.2.7.3-rc and 0.3.2.1-alpha respectively.
11155 o Minor bugfixes (continuous integration, backport from 0.3.4.7-rc):
11156 - Build with zstd on macOS. Fixes bug 27090; bugfix on 0.3.1.5-alpha.
11157 - Pass the module flags to distcheck configure, and log the flags
11158 before running configure. (Backported to 0.2.9 and later as a
11159 precaution.) Fixes bug 27088; bugfix on 0.3.4.1-alpha.
11161 o Minor bugfixes (continuous integration, backport from 0.3.4.8):
11162 - When a Travis build fails, and showing a log fails, keep trying to
11163 show the other logs. Fixes bug 27453; bugfix on 0.3.4.7-rc.
11164 - When we use echo in Travis, don't pass a --flag as the first
11165 argument. Fixes bug 27418; bugfix on 0.3.4.7-rc.
11167 o Minor bugfixes (directory authority, backport from 0.3.4.6-rc):
11168 - When voting for recommended versions, make sure that all of the
11169 versions are well-formed and parsable. Fixes bug 26485; bugfix
11172 o Minor bugfixes (in-process restart, backport from 0.3.4.7-rc):
11173 - Always call tor_free_all() when leaving tor_run_main(). When we
11174 did not, restarting tor in-process would cause an assertion
11175 failure. Fixes bug 26948; bugfix on 0.3.3.1-alpha.
11177 o Minor bugfixes (linux seccomp2 sandbox, backport from 0.3.4.7-rc):
11178 - Fix a bug in our sandboxing rules for the openat() syscall.
11179 Previously, no openat() call would be permitted, which would break
11180 filesystem operations on recent glibc versions. Fixes bug 25440;
11181 bugfix on 0.2.9.15. Diagnosis and patch from Daniel Pinto.
11183 o Minor bugfixes (logging, backport from 0.3.4.6-rc):
11184 - Improve the log message when connection initiators fail to
11185 authenticate direct connections to relays. Fixes bug 26927; bugfix
11188 o Minor bugfixes (onion services, backport from 0.3.4.7-rc):
11189 - Fix bug that causes services to not ever rotate their descriptors
11190 if they were getting SIGHUPed often. Fixes bug 26932; bugfix
11193 o Minor bugfixes (onion services, backport from 0.3.4.8):
11194 - Silence a spurious compiler warning in
11195 rend_client_send_introduction(). Fixes bug 27463; bugfix
11198 o Minor bugfixes (portability, backport from 0.3.4.6-rc):
11199 - Work around two different bugs in the OS X 10.10 and later SDKs
11200 that would prevent us from successfully targeting earlier versions
11201 of OS X. Fixes bug 26876; bugfix on 0.3.3.1-alpha.
11203 o Minor bugfixes (portability, backport from 0.3.4.7-rc):
11204 - Fix compilation of the unit tests on GNU/Hurd, which does not
11205 define PATH_MAX. Fixes bug 26873; bugfix on 0.3.3.1-alpha. Patch
11208 o Minor bugfixes (rust, backport from 0.3.4.7-rc):
11209 - Backport test_rust.sh from master. Fixes bug 26497; bugfix
11211 - Consistently use ../../.. as a fallback for $abs_top_srcdir in
11212 test_rust.sh. Fixes bug 27093; bugfix on 0.3.4.3-alpha.
11213 - Protover parsing was accepting the presence of whitespace in
11214 version strings, which the C implementation would choke on, e.g.
11215 "Desc=1\t,2". Fixes bug 27177; bugfix on 0.3.3.5-rc.
11216 - Protover parsing was ignoring a 2nd hyphen and everything after
11217 it, accepting entries like "Link=1-5-foo". Fixes bug 27164; bugfix
11219 - Stop setting $CARGO_HOME. cargo will use the user's $CARGO_HOME, or
11220 $HOME/.cargo by default. Fixes bug 26497; bugfix on 0.3.1.5-alpha.
11221 - cd to ${abs_top_builddir}/src/rust before running cargo in
11222 src/test/test_rust.sh. This makes the working directory consistent
11223 between builds and tests. Fixes bug 26497; bugfix on 0.3.3.2-alpha.
11225 o Minor bugfixes (single onion services, Tor2web, backport from 0.3.4.6-rc):
11226 - Log a protocol warning when single onion services or Tor2web clients
11227 fail to authenticate direct connections to relays.
11228 Fixes bug 26924; bugfix on 0.2.9.1-alpha.
11230 o Minor bugfixes (testing, backport from 0.3.4.6-rc):
11231 - Disable core dumps in test_bt.sh, to avoid failures in "make
11232 distcheck". Fixes bug 26787; bugfix on 0.2.5.2-alpha.
11234 o Minor bugfixes (testing, chutney, backport from 0.3.4.8):
11235 - When running make test-network-all, use the mixed+hs-v2 network.
11236 (A previous fix to chutney removed v3 onion services from the
11237 mixed+hs-v23 network, so seeing "mixed+hs-v23" in tests is
11238 confusing.) Fixes bug 27345; bugfix on 0.3.2.1-alpha.
11239 - Before running make test-network-all, delete old logs and test
11240 result files, to avoid spurious failures. Fixes bug 27295; bugfix
11243 o Minor bugfixes (testing, openssl compatibility, backport from 0.3.4.7-rc):
11244 - Our "tortls/cert_matches_key" unit test no longer relies on
11245 OpenSSL internals. Previously, it relied on unsupported OpenSSL
11246 behavior in a way that caused it to crash with OpenSSL 1.0.2p.
11247 Fixes bug 27226; bugfix on 0.2.5.1-alpha.
11249 o Minor bugfixes (v3 onion services, backport from 0.3.4.6-rc):
11250 - Stop sending ed25519 link specifiers in v3 onion service introduce
11251 cells and descriptors, when the rendezvous or introduction point
11252 doesn't support ed25519 link authentication. Fixes bug 26627;
11253 bugfix on 0.3.2.4-alpha.
11255 o Minor bugfixes (Windows, compilation, backport from 0.3.4.7-rc):
11256 - Silence a compilation warning on MSVC 2017 and clang-cl. Fixes bug
11257 27185; bugfix on 0.2.2.2-alpha.
11260 Changes in version 0.3.4.8 - 2018-09-10
11261 Tor 0.3.4.8 is the first stable release in its series; it includes
11262 compilation and portability fixes.
11264 The Tor 0.3.4 series includes improvements for running Tor in
11265 low-power and embedded environments, which should help performance in
11266 general. We've begun work on better modularity, and included preliminary
11267 changes on the directory authority side to accommodate a new bandwidth
11268 measurement system. We've also integrated more continuous-integration
11269 systems into our development process, and made corresponding changes to
11270 Tor's testing infrastructure. Finally, we've continued to refine
11271 our anti-denial-of-service code.
11273 Below are the changes since 0.3.4.7-rc. For a complete list of changes
11274 since 0.3.3.9, see the ReleaseNotes file.
11276 o Minor features (compatibility):
11277 - Tell OpenSSL to maintain backward compatibility with previous
11278 RSA1024/DH1024 users in Tor. With OpenSSL 1.1.1-pre6, these
11279 ciphers are disabled by default. Closes ticket 27344.
11281 o Minor features (continuous integration):
11282 - Log the compiler path and version during Appveyor builds.
11283 Implements ticket 27449.
11284 - Show config.log and test-suite.log after failed Appveyor builds.
11285 Also upload the zipped full logs as a build artifact. Implements
11288 o Minor bugfixes (compilation):
11289 - Silence a spurious compiler warning on the GetAdaptersAddresses
11290 function pointer cast. This issue is already fixed by 26481 in
11291 0.3.5 and later, by removing the lookup and cast. Fixes bug 27465;
11292 bugfix on 0.2.3.11-alpha.
11293 - Stop calling SetProcessDEPPolicy() on 64-bit Windows. It is not
11294 supported, and always fails. Some compilers warn about the
11295 function pointer cast on 64-bit Windows. Fixes bug 27461; bugfix
11298 o Minor bugfixes (continuous integration):
11299 - Disable gcc hardening in Appveyor Windows 64-bit builds. As of
11300 August 29 2018, Appveyor images come with gcc 8.2.0 by default.
11301 Executables compiled for 64-bit Windows with this version of gcc
11302 crash when Tor's --enable-gcc-hardening flag is set. Fixes bug
11303 27460; bugfix on 0.3.4.1-alpha.
11304 - When a Travis build fails, and showing a log fails, keep trying to
11305 show the other logs. Fixes bug 27453; bugfix on 0.3.4.7-rc.
11306 - When we use echo in Travis, don't pass a --flag as the first
11307 argument. Fixes bug 27418; bugfix on 0.3.4.7-rc.
11309 o Minor bugfixes (onion services):
11310 - Silence a spurious compiler warning in
11311 rend_client_send_introduction(). Fixes bug 27463; bugfix
11314 o Minor bugfixes (testing, chutney):
11315 - When running make test-network-all, use the mixed+hs-v2 network.
11316 (A previous fix to chutney removed v3 onion services from the
11317 mixed+hs-v23 network, so seeing "mixed+hs-v23" in tests is
11318 confusing.) Fixes bug 27345; bugfix on 0.3.2.1-alpha.
11319 - Before running make test-network-all, delete old logs and test
11320 result files, to avoid spurious failures. Fixes bug 27295; bugfix
11323 Changes in version 0.3.4.7-rc - 2018-08-24
11324 Tor 0.3.4.7-rc fixes several small compilation, portability, and
11325 correctness issues in previous versions of Tor. This version is a
11326 release candidate: if no serious bugs are found, we expect that the
11327 stable 0.3.4 release will be (almost) the same as this release.
11329 o Minor features (bug workaround):
11330 - Compile correctly on systems that provide the C11 stdatomic.h
11331 header, but where C11 atomic functions don't actually compile.
11332 Closes ticket 26779; workaround for Debian issue 903709.
11334 o Minor features (continuous integration):
11335 - Backport Travis rust distcheck to 0.3.3. Closes ticket 24629.
11336 - Enable macOS builds in our Travis CI configuration. Closes
11338 - Install libcap-dev and libseccomp2-dev so these optional
11339 dependencies get tested on Travis CI. Closes ticket 26560.
11340 - Only post Appveyor IRC notifications when the build fails.
11341 Implements ticket 27275.
11342 - Run asciidoc during Travis CI. Implements ticket 27087.
11343 - Use ccache in our Travis CI configuration. Closes ticket 26952.
11345 o Minor features (continuous integration, rust):
11346 - Use cargo cache in our Travis CI configuration. Closes
11349 o Minor features (directory authorities):
11350 - Authorities no longer vote to make the subprotocol version
11351 "LinkAuth=1" a requirement: it is unsupportable with NSS, and
11352 hasn't been needed since Tor 0.3.0.1-alpha. Closes ticket 27286.
11354 o Minor features (geoip):
11355 - Update geoip and geoip6 to the August 7 2018 Maxmind GeoLite2
11356 Country database. Closes ticket 27089.
11358 o Minor bugfixes (compilation, windows):
11359 - Don't link or search for pthreads when building for Windows, even
11360 if we are using build environment (like mingw) that provides a
11361 pthreads library. Fixes bug 27081; bugfix on 0.1.0.1-rc.
11363 o Minor bugfixes (continuous integration):
11364 - Improve Appveyor CI IRC logging. Generate correct branches and
11365 URLs for pull requests and tags. Use unambiguous short commits.
11366 Fixes bug 26979; bugfix on master.
11367 - Build with zstd on macOS. Fixes bug 27090; bugfix on 0.3.1.5-alpha.
11368 - Pass the module flags to distcheck configure, and log the flags
11369 before running configure. (Backported to 0.2.9 and later as a
11370 precaution.) Fixes bug 27088; bugfix on 0.3.4.1-alpha.
11372 o Minor bugfixes (in-process restart):
11373 - Always call tor_free_all() when leaving tor_run_main(). When we
11374 did not, restarting tor in-process would cause an assertion
11375 failure. Fixes bug 26948; bugfix on 0.3.3.1-alpha.
11377 o Minor bugfixes (linux seccomp2 sandbox):
11378 - Fix a bug in out sandboxing rules for the openat() syscall.
11379 Previously, no openat() call would be permitted, which would break
11380 filesystem operations on recent glibc versions. Fixes bug 25440;
11381 bugfix on 0.2.9.15. Diagnosis and patch from Daniel Pinto.
11383 o Minor bugfixes (onion services):
11384 - Fix bug that causes services to not ever rotate their descriptors
11385 if they were getting SIGHUPed often. Fixes bug 26932; bugfix
11388 o Minor bugfixes (portability):
11389 - Fix compilation of the unit tests on GNU/Hurd, which does not
11390 define PATH_MAX. Fixes bug 26873; bugfix on 0.3.3.1-alpha. Patch
11393 o Minor bugfixes (rust):
11394 - Backport test_rust.sh from master. Fixes bug 26497; bugfix
11396 - Consistently use ../../.. as a fallback for $abs_top_srcdir in
11397 test_rust.sh. Fixes bug 27093; bugfix on 0.3.4.3-alpha.
11398 - Protover parsing was accepting the presence of whitespace in
11399 version strings, which the C implementation would choke on, e.g.
11400 "Desc=1\t,2". Fixes bug 27177; bugfix on 0.3.3.5-rc.
11401 - Protover parsing was ignoring a 2nd hyphen and everything after
11402 it, accepting entries like "Link=1-5-foo". Fixes bug 27164; bugfix
11404 - Stop setting $CARGO_HOME. cargo will use the user's $CARGO_HOME, or
11405 $HOME/.cargo by default. Fixes bug 26497; bugfix on 0.3.1.5-alpha.
11406 - cd to ${abs_top_builddir}/src/rust before running cargo in
11407 src/test/test_rust.sh. This makes the working directory consistent
11408 between builds and tests. Fixes bug 26497; bugfix on 0.3.3.2-alpha.
11410 o Minor bugfixes (testing, bootstrap):
11411 - When calculating bootstrap progress, check exit policies and the
11412 exit flag. Previously, Tor would only check the exit flag, which
11413 caused race conditions in small and fast networks like chutney.
11414 Fixes bug 27236; bugfix on 0.2.6.3-alpha.
11416 o Minor bugfixes (testing, openssl compatibility):
11417 - Our "tortls/cert_matches_key" unit test no longer relies on
11418 OpenSSL internals. Previously, it relied on unsupported OpenSSL
11419 behavior in a way that caused it to crash with OpenSSL 1.0.2p.
11420 Fixes bug 27226; bugfix on 0.2.5.1-alpha.
11422 o Minor bugfixes (Windows, compilation):
11423 - Silence a compilation warning on MSVC 2017 and clang-cl. Fixes bug
11424 27185; bugfix on 0.2.2.2-alpha.
11427 Changes in version 0.3.4.6-rc - 2018-08-06
11428 Tor 0.3.4.6-rc fixes several small compilation, portability, and
11429 correctness issues in previous versions of Tor. This version is a
11430 release candidate: if no serious bugs are found, we expect that the
11431 stable 0.3.4 release will be (almost) the same as this release.
11433 o Major bugfixes (event scheduler):
11434 - When we enable a periodic event, schedule it in the event loop
11435 rather than running it immediately. Previously, we would re-run
11436 periodic events immediately in the middle of (for example)
11437 changing our options, with unpredictable effects. Fixes bug 27003;
11438 bugfix on 0.3.4.1-alpha.
11440 o Minor features (compilation):
11441 - When building Tor, prefer to use Python 3 over Python 2, and more
11442 recent (contemplated) versions over older ones. Closes
11444 - When compiling with --enable-openbsd-malloc or --enable-tcmalloc,
11445 tell the compiler not to include the system malloc implementation.
11446 Fixes bug 20424; bugfix on 0.2.0.20-rc.
11447 - Don't try to use a pragma to temporarily disable the
11448 -Wunused-const-variable warning if the compiler doesn't support
11449 it. Fixes bug 26785; bugfix on 0.3.2.11.
11451 o Minor bugfixes (continuous integration):
11452 - Skip a pair of unreliable key generation tests on Windows, until
11453 the underlying issue in bug 26076 is resolved. Fixes bug 26830 and
11454 bug 26853; bugfix on 0.2.7.3-rc and 0.3.2.1-alpha respectively.
11456 o Minor features (controller):
11457 - The control port now exposes the list of HTTPTunnelPorts and
11458 ExtOrPorts via GETINFO net/listeners/httptunnel and
11459 net/listeners/extor respectively. Closes ticket 26647.
11461 o Minor bugfixes (directory authority):
11462 - When voting for recommended versions, make sure that all of the
11463 versions are well-formed and parsable. Fixes bug 26485; bugfix
11466 o Minor features (geoip):
11467 - Update geoip and geoip6 to the July 3 2018 Maxmind GeoLite2
11468 Country database. Closes ticket 26674.
11470 o Minor features (Rust, portability):
11471 - Rust cross-compilation is now supported. Closes ticket 25895.
11473 o Minor bugfixes (compilation):
11474 - Update build system so that tor builds again with --disable-unittests
11475 after recent refactoring. Fixes bug 26789; bugfix on 0.3.4.3-alpha.
11476 - Fix a compilation warning on some versions of GCC when building
11477 code that calls routerinfo_get_my_routerinfo() twice, assuming
11478 that the second call will succeed if the first one did. Fixes bug
11479 26269; bugfix on 0.2.8.2-alpha.
11481 o Minor bugfixes (controller):
11482 - Report the port correctly when a port is configured to bind to
11483 "auto". Fixes bug 26568; bugfix on 0.3.4.1-alpha.
11484 - Parse the "HSADDRESS=" parameter in HSPOST commands properly.
11485 Previously, it was misparsed and ignored. Fixes bug 26523; bugfix
11486 on 0.3.3.1-alpha. Patch by "akwizgran".
11488 o Minor bugfixes (correctness, flow control):
11489 - Upon receiving a stream-level SENDME cell, verify that our window
11490 has not grown too large. Fixes bug 26214; bugfix on svn
11493 o Minor bugfixes (memory, correctness):
11494 - Fix a number of small memory leaks identified by coverity. Fixes
11495 bug 26467; bugfix on numerous Tor versions.
11497 o Minor bugfixes (logging):
11498 - Improve the log message when connection initiators fail to
11499 authenticate direct connections to relays. Fixes bug 26927; bugfix
11502 o Minor bugfixes (portability):
11503 - Avoid a compilation error in test_bwmgt.c on Solaris 10. Fixes bug
11504 26994; bugfix on 0.3.4.1-alpha.
11505 - Work around two different bugs in the OS X 10.10 and later SDKs
11506 that would prevent us from successfully targeting earlier versions
11507 of OS X. Fixes bug 26876; bugfix on 0.3.3.1-alpha.
11509 o Minor bugfixes (single onion services, Tor2web):
11510 - Log a protocol warning when single onion services or Tor2web
11511 clients fail to authenticate direct connections to relays. Fixes
11512 bug 26924; bugfix on 0.2.9.1-alpha.
11514 o Minor bugfixes (testing):
11515 - Disable core dumps in test_bt.sh, to avoid failures in "make
11516 distcheck". Fixes bug 26787; bugfix on 0.2.5.2-alpha.
11518 o Minor bugfixes (testing, compatibility):
11519 - When running the ntor_ref.py and hs_ntor_ref.py tests, make sure
11520 only to pass strings (rather than "bytes" objects) to the Python
11521 subprocess module. Python 3 on Windows seems to require this.
11522 Fixes bug 26535; bugfix on 0.2.5.5-alpha (for ntor_ref.py) and
11523 0.3.1.1-alpha (for hs_ntor_ref.py).
11525 o Minor bugfixes (v3 onion services):
11526 - Stop sending ed25519 link specifiers in v3 onion service introduce
11527 cells and descriptors, when the rendezvous or introduction point
11528 doesn't support ed25519 link authentication. Fixes bug 26627;
11529 bugfix on 0.3.2.4-alpha.
11532 Changes in version 0.3.4.5-rc - 2018-07-13
11533 Tor 0.3.4.5-rc moves to a new bridge authority, meaning people running
11534 bridge relays should upgrade.
11536 o Directory authority changes:
11537 - The "Bifroest" bridge authority has been retired; the new bridge
11538 authority is "Serge", and it is operated by George from the
11539 TorBSD project. Closes ticket 26771.
11542 Changes in version 0.3.3.9 - 2018-07-13
11543 Tor 0.3.3.9 moves to a new bridge authority, meaning people running
11544 bridge relays should upgrade.
11546 o Directory authority changes:
11547 - The "Bifroest" bridge authority has been retired; the new bridge
11548 authority is "Serge", and it is operated by George from the
11549 TorBSD project. Closes ticket 26771.
11552 Changes in version 0.3.2.11 - 2018-07-13
11553 Tor 0.3.2.11 moves to a new bridge authority, meaning people running
11554 bridge relays should upgrade. We also take this opportunity to backport
11557 o Directory authority changes:
11558 - The "Bifroest" bridge authority has been retired; the new bridge
11559 authority is "Serge", and it is operated by George from the
11560 TorBSD project. Closes ticket 26771.
11562 o Directory authority changes (backport from 0.3.3.7):
11563 - Add an IPv6 address for the "dannenberg" directory authority.
11564 Closes ticket 26343.
11566 o Major bugfixes (directory authorities, backport from 0.3.4.1-alpha):
11567 - When directory authorities read a zero-byte bandwidth file, they
11568 would previously log a warning with the contents of an
11569 uninitialised buffer. They now log a warning about the empty file
11570 instead. Fixes bug 26007; bugfix on 0.2.2.1-alpha.
11572 o Major bugfixes (onion service, backport from 0.3.4.1-alpha):
11573 - Correctly detect when onion services get disabled after HUP. Fixes
11574 bug 25761; bugfix on 0.3.2.1.
11576 o Minor features (sandbox, backport from 0.3.3.4-alpha):
11577 - Explicitly permit the poll() system call when the Linux
11578 seccomp2-based sandbox is enabled: apparently, some versions of
11579 libc use poll() when calling getpwnam(). Closes ticket 25313.
11581 o Minor feature (continuous integration, backport from 0.3.3.5-rc):
11582 - Update the Travis CI configuration to use the stable Rust channel,
11583 now that we have decided to require that. Closes ticket 25714.
11585 o Minor features (continuous integration, backport from 0.3.4.1-alpha):
11586 - Our .travis.yml configuration now includes support for testing the
11587 results of "make distcheck". (It's not uncommon for "make check"
11588 to pass but "make distcheck" to fail.) Closes ticket 25814.
11589 - Our Travis CI configuration now integrates with the Coveralls
11590 coverage analysis tool. Closes ticket 25818.
11592 o Minor features (relay, diagnostic, backport from 0.3.4.3-alpha):
11593 - Add several checks to detect whether Tor relays are uploading
11594 their descriptors without specifying why they regenerated them.
11595 Diagnostic for ticket 25686.
11597 o Minor features (compilation, backport from 0.3.4.4-rc):
11598 - When building Tor, prefer to use Python 3 over Python 2, and more
11599 recent (contemplated) versions over older ones. Closes
11602 o Minor features (geoip):
11603 - Update geoip and geoip6 to the July 3 2018 Maxmind GeoLite2
11604 Country database. Closes ticket 26674.
11606 o Minor bugfixes (correctness, client, backport from 0.3.4.1-alpha):
11607 - Upon receiving a malformed connected cell, stop processing the
11608 cell immediately. Previously we would mark the connection for
11609 close, but continue processing the cell as if the connection were
11610 open. Fixes bug 26072; bugfix on 0.2.4.7-alpha.
11612 o Minor bugfixes (Linux seccomp2 sandbox, backport from 0.3.4.1-alpha):
11613 - Allow the nanosleep() system call, which glibc uses to implement
11614 sleep() and usleep(). Fixes bug 24969; bugfix on 0.2.5.1-alpha.
11616 o Minor bugfixes (testing, compatibility, backport from 0.3.4.4-rc):
11617 - When running the hs_ntor_ref.py test, make sure only to pass
11618 strings (rather than "bytes" objects) to the Python subprocess
11619 module. Python 3 on Windows seems to require this. Fixes bug
11620 26535; bugfix on 0.3.1.1-alpha.
11621 - When running the ntor_ref.py test, make sure only to pass strings
11622 (rather than "bytes" objects) to the Python subprocess module.
11623 Python 3 on Windows seems to require this. Fixes bug 26535; bugfix
11626 o Minor bugfixes (compatibility, openssl, backport from 0.3.4.2-alpha):
11627 - Work around a change in OpenSSL 1.1.1 where return values that
11628 would previously indicate "no password" now indicate an empty
11629 password. Without this workaround, Tor instances running with
11630 OpenSSL 1.1.1 would accept descriptors that other Tor instances
11631 would reject. Fixes bug 26116; bugfix on 0.2.5.16.
11633 o Minor bugfixes (documentation, backport from 0.3.3.5-rc):
11634 - Document that the PerConnBW{Rate,Burst} options will fall back to
11635 their corresponding consensus parameters only if those parameters
11636 are set. Previously we had claimed that these values would always
11637 be set in the consensus. Fixes bug 25296; bugfix on 0.2.2.7-alpha.
11639 o Minor bugfixes (compilation, backport from 0.3.4.4-rc):
11640 - Fix a compilation warning on some versions of GCC when building
11641 code that calls routerinfo_get_my_routerinfo() twice, assuming
11642 that the second call will succeed if the first one did. Fixes bug
11643 26269; bugfix on 0.2.8.2-alpha.
11645 o Minor bugfixes (client, backport from 0.3.4.1-alpha):
11646 - Don't consider Tor running as a client if the ControlPort is open,
11647 but no actual client ports are open. Fixes bug 26062; bugfix
11650 o Minor bugfixes (hardening, backport from 0.3.4.2-alpha):
11651 - Prevent a possible out-of-bounds smartlist read in
11652 protover_compute_vote(). Fixes bug 26196; bugfix on 0.2.9.4-alpha.
11654 o Minor bugfixes (C correctness, backport from 0.3.3.4-alpha):
11655 - Fix a very unlikely (impossible, we believe) null pointer
11656 dereference. Fixes bug 25629; bugfix on 0.2.9.15. Found by
11657 Coverity; this is CID 1430932.
11659 o Minor bugfixes (onion service, backport from 0.3.4.1-alpha):
11660 - Fix a memory leak when a v3 onion service is configured and gets a
11661 SIGHUP signal. Fixes bug 25901; bugfix on 0.3.2.1-alpha.
11662 - When parsing the descriptor signature, look for the token plus an
11663 extra white-space at the end. This is more correct but also will
11664 allow us to support new fields that might start with "signature".
11665 Fixes bug 26069; bugfix on 0.3.0.1-alpha.
11667 o Minor bugfixes (relay, backport from 0.3.4.3-alpha):
11668 - Relays now correctly block attempts to re-extend to the previous
11669 relay by Ed25519 identity. Previously they would warn in this
11670 case, but not actually reject the attempt. Fixes bug 26158; bugfix
11673 o Minor bugfixes (relay, crash, backport from 0.3.4.1-alpha):
11674 - Avoid a crash when running with DirPort set but ORPort turned off.
11675 Fixes a case of bug 23693; bugfix on 0.3.1.1-alpha.
11677 o Minor bugfixes (compilation, backport from 0.3.4.2-alpha):
11678 - Silence unused-const-variable warnings in zstd.h with some GCC
11679 versions. Fixes bug 26272; bugfix on 0.3.1.1-alpha.
11681 o Minor bugfixes (testing, backport from 0.3.3.4-alpha):
11682 - Avoid intermittent test failures due to a test that had relied on
11683 onion service introduction point creation finishing within 5
11684 seconds of real clock time. Fixes bug 25450; bugfix
11687 o Minor bugfixes (compilation, backport from 0.3.3.4-alpha):
11688 - Fix a C99 compliance issue in our configuration script that caused
11689 compilation issues when compiling Tor with certain versions of
11690 xtools. Fixes bug 25474; bugfix on 0.3.2.5-alpha.
11692 o Minor bugfixes (memory, correctness, backport from 0.3.4.4-rc):
11693 - Fix a number of small memory leaks identified by coverity. Fixes
11694 bug 26467; bugfix on numerous Tor versions.
11696 o Code simplification and refactoring (backport from 0.3.3.5-rc):
11697 - Move the list of default directory authorities to its own file.
11698 Closes ticket 24854. Patch by "beastr0".
11701 Changes in version 0.2.9.16 - 2018-07-13
11702 Tor 0.2.9.16 moves to a new bridge authority, meaning people running
11703 bridge relays should upgrade. We also take this opportunity to backport
11706 o Directory authority changes:
11707 - The "Bifroest" bridge authority has been retired; the new bridge
11708 authority is "Serge", and it is operated by George from the
11709 TorBSD project. Closes ticket 26771.
11711 o Directory authority changes (backport from 0.3.3.7):
11712 - Add an IPv6 address for the "dannenberg" directory authority.
11713 Closes ticket 26343.
11715 o Major bugfixes (directory authorities, backport from 0.3.4.1-alpha):
11716 - When directory authorities read a zero-byte bandwidth file, they
11717 would previously log a warning with the contents of an
11718 uninitialised buffer. They now log a warning about the empty file
11719 instead. Fixes bug 26007; bugfix on 0.2.2.1-alpha.
11721 o Minor features (sandbox, backport from 0.3.3.4-alpha):
11722 - Explicitly permit the poll() system call when the Linux
11723 seccomp2-based sandbox is enabled: apparently, some versions of
11724 libc use poll() when calling getpwnam(). Closes ticket 25313.
11726 o Minor features (continuous integration, backport from 0.3.4.1-alpha):
11727 - Our .travis.yml configuration now includes support for testing the
11728 results of "make distcheck". (It's not uncommon for "make check"
11729 to pass but "make distcheck" to fail.) Closes ticket 25814.
11730 - Our Travis CI configuration now integrates with the Coveralls
11731 coverage analysis tool. Closes ticket 25818.
11733 o Minor features (compilation, backport from 0.3.4.4-rc):
11734 - When building Tor, prefer to use Python 3 over Python 2, and more
11735 recent (contemplated) versions over older ones. Closes
11738 o Minor features (geoip):
11739 - Update geoip and geoip6 to the July 3 2018 Maxmind GeoLite2
11740 Country database. Closes ticket 26674.
11742 o Minor bugfixes (correctness, client, backport from 0.3.4.1-alpha):
11743 - Upon receiving a malformed connected cell, stop processing the
11744 cell immediately. Previously we would mark the connection for
11745 close, but continue processing the cell as if the connection were
11746 open. Fixes bug 26072; bugfix on 0.2.4.7-alpha.
11748 o Minor bugfixes (Linux seccomp2 sandbox, backport from 0.3.4.1-alpha):
11749 - Allow the nanosleep() system call, which glibc uses to implement
11750 sleep() and usleep(). Fixes bug 24969; bugfix on 0.2.5.1-alpha.
11752 o Minor bugfixes (testing, compatibility, backport from 0.3.4.4-rc):
11753 - When running the ntor_ref.py test, make sure only to pass strings
11754 (rather than "bytes" objects) to the Python subprocess module.
11755 Python 3 on Windows seems to require this. Fixes bug 26535; bugfix
11758 o Minor bugfixes (compatibility, openssl, backport from 0.3.4.2-alpha):
11759 - Work around a change in OpenSSL 1.1.1 where return values that
11760 would previously indicate "no password" now indicate an empty
11761 password. Without this workaround, Tor instances running with
11762 OpenSSL 1.1.1 would accept descriptors that other Tor instances
11763 would reject. Fixes bug 26116; bugfix on 0.2.5.16.
11765 o Minor bugfixes (compilation, backport from 0.3.4.4-rc):
11766 - Fix a compilation warning on some versions of GCC when building
11767 code that calls routerinfo_get_my_routerinfo() twice, assuming
11768 that the second call will succeed if the first one did. Fixes bug
11769 26269; bugfix on 0.2.8.2-alpha.
11771 o Minor bugfixes (client, backport from 0.3.4.1-alpha):
11772 - Don't consider Tor running as a client if the ControlPort is open,
11773 but no actual client ports are open. Fixes bug 26062; bugfix
11776 o Minor bugfixes (hardening, backport from 0.3.4.2-alpha):
11777 - Prevent a possible out-of-bounds smartlist read in
11778 protover_compute_vote(). Fixes bug 26196; bugfix on 0.2.9.4-alpha.
11780 o Minor bugfixes (C correctness, backport from 0.3.3.4-alpha):
11781 - Fix a very unlikely (impossible, we believe) null pointer
11782 dereference. Fixes bug 25629; bugfix on 0.2.9.15. Found by
11783 Coverity; this is CID 1430932.
11785 o Minor bugfixes (memory, correctness, backport from 0.3.4.4-rc):
11786 - Fix a number of small memory leaks identified by coverity. Fixes
11787 bug 26467; bugfix on numerous Tor versions.
11789 o Code simplification and refactoring (backport from 0.3.3.5-rc):
11790 - Move the list of default directory authorities to its own file.
11791 Closes ticket 24854. Patch by "beastr0".
11794 Changes in version 0.3.4.4-rc - 2018-07-09
11795 Tor 0.3.4.4-rc fixes several small compilation, portability, and
11796 correctness issues in previous versions of Tor. This version is a
11797 release candidate: if no serious bugs are found, we expect that the
11798 stable 0.3.4 release will be (almost) the same as this release.
11800 o Minor features (compilation):
11801 - When building Tor, prefer to use Python 3 over Python 2, and more
11802 recent (contemplated) versions over older ones. Closes
11805 o Minor features (geoip):
11806 - Update geoip and geoip6 to the July 3 2018 Maxmind GeoLite2
11807 Country database. Closes ticket 26674.
11809 o Minor features (Rust, portability):
11810 - Rust cross-compilation is now supported. Closes ticket 25895.
11812 o Minor bugfixes (compilation):
11813 - Fix a compilation warning on some versions of GCC when building
11814 code that calls routerinfo_get_my_routerinfo() twice, assuming
11815 that the second call will succeed if the first one did. Fixes bug
11816 26269; bugfix on 0.2.8.2-alpha.
11818 o Minor bugfixes (control port):
11819 - Report the port correctly when a port is configured to bind to
11820 "auto". Fixes bug 26568; bugfix on 0.3.4.1-alpha.
11821 - Handle the HSADDRESS= argument to the HSPOST command properly.
11822 (Previously, this argument was misparsed and thus ignored.) Fixes
11823 bug 26523; bugfix on 0.3.3.1-alpha. Patch by "akwizgran".
11825 o Minor bugfixes (correctness, flow control):
11826 - Upon receiving a stream-level SENDME cell, verify that our window
11827 has not grown too large. Fixes bug 26214; bugfix on svn
11830 o Minor bugfixes (memory, correctness):
11831 - Fix a number of small memory leaks identified by coverity. Fixes
11832 bug 26467; bugfix on numerous Tor versions.
11834 o Minor bugfixes (testing, compatibility):
11835 - When running the hs_ntor_ref.py test, make sure only to pass
11836 strings (rather than "bytes" objects) to the Python subprocess
11837 module. Python 3 on Windows seems to require this. Fixes bug
11838 26535; bugfix on 0.3.1.1-alpha.
11839 - When running the ntor_ref.py test, make sure only to pass strings
11840 (rather than "bytes" objects) to the Python subprocess module.
11841 Python 3 on Windows seems to require this. Fixes bug 26535; bugfix
11845 Changes in version 0.3.3.8 - 2018-07-09
11846 Tor 0.3.3.8 backports several changes from the 0.3.4.x series, including
11847 fixes for a memory leak affecting directory authorities.
11849 o Major bugfixes (directory authority, backport from 0.3.4.3-alpha):
11850 - Stop leaking memory on directory authorities when planning to
11851 vote. This bug was crashing authorities by exhausting their
11852 memory. Fixes bug 26435; bugfix on 0.3.3.6.
11854 o Major bugfixes (rust, testing, backport from 0.3.4.3-alpha):
11855 - Make sure that failing tests in Rust will actually cause the build
11856 to fail: previously, they were ignored. Fixes bug 26258; bugfix
11859 o Minor features (compilation, backport from 0.3.4.4-rc):
11860 - When building Tor, prefer to use Python 3 over Python 2, and more
11861 recent (contemplated) versions over older ones. Closes
11864 o Minor features (geoip):
11865 - Update geoip and geoip6 to the July 3 2018 Maxmind GeoLite2
11866 Country database. Closes ticket 26674.
11868 o Minor features (relay, diagnostic, backport from 0.3.4.3-alpha):
11869 - Add several checks to detect whether Tor relays are uploading
11870 their descriptors without specifying why they regenerated them.
11871 Diagnostic for ticket 25686.
11873 o Minor bugfixes (circuit path selection, backport from 0.3.4.1-alpha):
11874 - Don't count path selection failures as circuit build failures.
11875 This change should eliminate cases where Tor blames its guard or
11876 the network for situations like insufficient microdescriptors
11877 and/or overly restrictive torrc settings. Fixes bug 25705; bugfix
11880 o Minor bugfixes (compilation, backport from 0.3.4.4-rc):
11881 - Fix a compilation warning on some versions of GCC when building
11882 code that calls routerinfo_get_my_routerinfo() twice, assuming
11883 that the second call will succeed if the first one did. Fixes bug
11884 26269; bugfix on 0.2.8.2-alpha.
11886 o Minor bugfixes (control port, backport from 0.3.4.4-rc):
11887 - Handle the HSADDRESS= argument to the HSPOST command properly.
11888 (Previously, this argument was misparsed and thus ignored.) Fixes
11889 bug 26523; bugfix on 0.3.3.1-alpha. Patch by "akwizgran".
11891 o Minor bugfixes (memory, correctness, backport from 0.3.4.4-rc):
11892 - Fix a number of small memory leaks identified by coverity. Fixes
11893 bug 26467; bugfix on numerous Tor versions.
11895 o Minor bugfixes (relay, backport from 0.3.4.3-alpha):
11896 - Relays now correctly block attempts to re-extend to the previous
11897 relay by Ed25519 identity. Previously they would warn in this
11898 case, but not actually reject the attempt. Fixes bug 26158; bugfix
11901 o Minor bugfixes (restart-in-process, backport from 0.3.4.1-alpha):
11902 - When shutting down, Tor now clears all the flags in the control.c
11903 module. This should prevent a bug where authentication cookies are
11904 not generated on restart. Fixes bug 25512; bugfix on 0.3.3.1-alpha.
11906 o Minor bugfixes (testing, compatibility, backport from 0.3.4.4-rc):
11907 - When running the hs_ntor_ref.py test, make sure only to pass
11908 strings (rather than "bytes" objects) to the Python subprocess
11909 module. Python 3 on Windows seems to require this. Fixes bug
11910 26535; bugfix on 0.3.1.1-alpha.
11911 - When running the ntor_ref.py test, make sure only to pass strings
11912 (rather than "bytes" objects) to the Python subprocess module.
11913 Python 3 on Windows seems to require this. Fixes bug 26535; bugfix
11917 Changes in version 0.3.4.3-alpha - 2018-06-26
11918 Tor 0.3.4.3-alpha fixes several bugs in earlier versions, including
11919 one that was causing stability issues on directory authorities.
11921 o Major bugfixes (directory authority):
11922 - Stop leaking memory on directory authorities when planning to
11923 vote. This bug was crashing authorities by exhausting their
11924 memory. Fixes bug 26435; bugfix on 0.3.3.6.
11926 o Major bugfixes (rust, testing):
11927 - Make sure that failing tests in Rust will actually cause the build
11928 to fail: previously, they were ignored. Fixes bug 26258; bugfix
11931 o Minor feature (directory authorities):
11932 - Stop warning about incomplete bw lines before the first complete
11933 bw line has been found, so that additional header lines can be
11934 ignored. Fixes bug 25960; bugfix on 0.2.2.1-alpha
11936 o Minor features (relay, diagnostic):
11937 - Add several checks to detect whether Tor relays are uploading
11938 their descriptors without specifying why they regenerated them.
11939 Diagnostic for ticket 25686.
11941 o Minor features (unit tests):
11942 - Test complete bandwidth measurements files, and test that
11943 incomplete bandwidth lines only give warnings when the end of the
11944 header has not been detected. Fixes bug 25947; bugfix
11947 o Minor bugfixes (compilation):
11948 - Refrain from compiling unit testing related object files when
11949 --disable-unittests is set to configure script. Fixes bug 24891;
11950 bugfix on 0.2.5.1-alpha.
11951 - When linking the libtor_testing.a library, only include the
11952 dirauth object files once. Previously, they were getting added
11953 twice. Fixes bug 26402; bugfix on 0.3.4.1-alpha.
11954 - The --enable-fatal-warnings flag now affects Rust code as well.
11955 Closes ticket 26245.
11957 o Minor bugfixes (onion services):
11958 - Recompute some consensus information after detecting a clock jump,
11959 or after transitioning from a non-live consensus to a live
11960 consensus. We do this to avoid having an outdated state, and
11961 miscalculating the index for next-generation onion services. Fixes
11962 bug 24977; bugfix on 0.3.2.1-alpha.
11964 o Minor bugfixes (relay):
11965 - Relays now correctly block attempts to re-extend to the previous
11966 relay by Ed25519 identity. Previously they would warn in this
11967 case, but not actually reject the attempt. Fixes bug 26158; bugfix
11970 o Minor bugfixes (testing):
11971 - Fix compilation of the doctests in the Rust crypto crate. Fixes
11972 bug 26415; bugfix on 0.3.4.1-alpha.
11973 - Instead of trying to read the geoip configuration files from
11974 within the unit tests, instead create our own ersatz files with
11975 just enough geoip data in the format we expect. Trying to read
11976 from the source directory created problems on Windows with mingw,
11977 where the build system's paths are not the same as the platform's
11978 paths. Fixes bug 25787; bugfix on 0.3.4.1-alpha.
11979 - Refrain from trying to get an item from an empty smartlist in
11980 test_bridges_clear_bridge_list. Set DEBUG_SMARTLIST in unit tests
11981 to catch improper smartlist usage. Furthermore, enable
11982 DEBUG_SMARTLIST globally when build is configured with fragile
11983 hardening. Fixes bug 26196; bugfix on 0.3.4.1-alpha.
11986 Changes in version 0.3.3.7 - 2018-06-12
11987 Tor 0.3.3.7 backports several changes from the 0.3.4.x series, including
11988 fixes for bugs affecting compatibility and stability.
11990 o Directory authority changes:
11991 - Add an IPv6 address for the "dannenberg" directory authority.
11992 Closes ticket 26343.
11994 o Minor features (geoip):
11995 - Update geoip and geoip6 to the June 7 2018 Maxmind GeoLite2
11996 Country database. Closes ticket 26351.
11998 o Minor bugfixes (compatibility, openssl, backport from 0.3.4.2-alpha):
11999 - Work around a change in OpenSSL 1.1.1 where return values that
12000 would previously indicate "no password" now indicate an empty
12001 password. Without this workaround, Tor instances running with
12002 OpenSSL 1.1.1 would accept descriptors that other Tor instances
12003 would reject. Fixes bug 26116; bugfix on 0.2.5.16.
12005 o Minor bugfixes (compilation, backport from 0.3.4.2-alpha):
12006 - Silence unused-const-variable warnings in zstd.h with some GCC
12007 versions. Fixes bug 26272; bugfix on 0.3.1.1-alpha.
12009 o Minor bugfixes (controller, backport from 0.3.4.2-alpha):
12010 - Improve accuracy of the BUILDTIMEOUT_SET control port event's
12011 TIMEOUT_RATE and CLOSE_RATE fields. (We were previously
12012 miscounting the total number of circuits for these field values.)
12013 Fixes bug 26121; bugfix on 0.3.3.1-alpha.
12015 o Minor bugfixes (hardening, backport from 0.3.4.2-alpha):
12016 - Prevent a possible out-of-bounds smartlist read in
12017 protover_compute_vote(). Fixes bug 26196; bugfix on 0.2.9.4-alpha.
12019 o Minor bugfixes (path selection, backport from 0.3.4.1-alpha):
12020 - Only select relays when they have the descriptors we prefer to use
12021 for them. This change fixes a bug where we could select a relay
12022 because it had _some_ descriptor, but reject it later with a
12023 nonfatal assertion error because it didn't have the exact one we
12024 wanted. Fixes bugs 25691 and 25692; bugfix on 0.3.3.4-alpha.
12027 Changes in version 0.3.4.2-alpha - 2018-06-12
12028 Tor 0.3.4.2-alpha fixes several minor bugs in the previous alpha
12029 release, and forward-ports an authority-only security fix from 0.3.3.6.
12031 o Directory authority changes:
12032 - Add an IPv6 address for the "dannenberg" directory authority.
12033 Closes ticket 26343.
12035 o Major bugfixes (security, directory authority, denial-of-service, also in 0.3.3.6):
12036 - Fix a bug that could have allowed an attacker to force a directory
12037 authority to use up all its RAM by passing it a maliciously
12038 crafted protocol versions string. Fixes bug 25517; bugfix on
12039 0.2.9.4-alpha. This issue is also tracked as TROVE-2018-005.
12041 o Minor features (continuous integration):
12042 - Add the necessary configuration files for continuous integration
12043 testing on Windows, via the Appveyor platform. Closes ticket
12044 25549. Patches from Marcin Cieślak and Isis Lovecruft.
12046 o Minor features (geoip):
12047 - Update geoip and geoip6 to the June 7 2018 Maxmind GeoLite2
12048 Country database. Closes ticket 26351.
12050 o Minor bugfixes (compatibility, openssl):
12051 - Work around a change in OpenSSL 1.1.1 where return values that
12052 would previously indicate "no password" now indicate an empty
12053 password. Without this workaround, Tor instances running with
12054 OpenSSL 1.1.1 would accept descriptors that other Tor instances
12055 would reject. Fixes bug 26116; bugfix on 0.2.5.16.
12057 o Minor bugfixes (compilation):
12058 - Silence unused-const-variable warnings in zstd.h with some GCC
12059 versions. Fixes bug 26272; bugfix on 0.3.1.1-alpha.
12060 - Fix compilation when using OpenSSL 1.1.0 with the "no-deprecated"
12061 flag enabled. Fixes bug 26156; bugfix on 0.3.4.1-alpha.
12062 - Avoid a compiler warning when casting the return value of
12063 smartlist_len() to double with DEBUG_SMARTLIST enabled. Fixes bug
12064 26283; bugfix on 0.2.4.10-alpha.
12066 o Minor bugfixes (control port):
12067 - Do not count 0-length RELAY_COMMAND_DATA cells as valid data in
12068 CIRC_BW events. Previously, such cells were counted entirely in
12069 the OVERHEAD field. Now they are not. Fixes bug 26259; bugfix
12072 o Minor bugfixes (controller):
12073 - Improve accuracy of the BUILDTIMEOUT_SET control port event's
12074 TIMEOUT_RATE and CLOSE_RATE fields. (We were previously
12075 miscounting the total number of circuits for these field values.)
12076 Fixes bug 26121; bugfix on 0.3.3.1-alpha.
12078 o Minor bugfixes (hardening):
12079 - Prevent a possible out-of-bounds smartlist read in
12080 protover_compute_vote(). Fixes bug 26196; bugfix on 0.2.9.4-alpha.
12082 o Minor bugfixes (onion services):
12083 - Fix a bug that blocked the creation of ephemeral v3 onion
12084 services. Fixes bug 25939; bugfix on 0.3.4.1-alpha.
12086 o Minor bugfixes (test coverage tools):
12087 - Update our "cov-diff" script to handle output from the latest
12088 version of gcov, and to remove extraneous timestamp information
12089 from its output. Fixes bugs 26101 and 26102; bugfix
12093 Changes in version 0.3.3.6 - 2018-05-22
12094 Tor 0.3.3.6 is the first stable release in the 0.3.3 series. It
12095 backports several important fixes from the 0.3.4.1-alpha.
12097 The Tor 0.3.3 series includes controller support and other
12098 improvements for v3 onion services, official support for embedding Tor
12099 within other applications, and our first non-trivial module written in
12100 the Rust programming language. (Rust is still not enabled by default
12101 when building Tor.) And as usual, there are numerous other smaller
12102 bugfixes, features, and improvements.
12104 Below are the changes since 0.3.3.5-rc. For a list of all changes
12105 since 0.3.2.10, see the ReleaseNotes file.
12107 o Major bugfixes (directory authorities, security, backport from 0.3.4.1-alpha):
12108 - When directory authorities read a zero-byte bandwidth file, they
12109 would previously log a warning with the contents of an
12110 uninitialised buffer. They now log a warning about the empty file
12111 instead. Fixes bug 26007; bugfix on 0.2.2.1-alpha.
12113 o Major bugfixes (security, directory authority, denial-of-service):
12114 - Fix a bug that could have allowed an attacker to force a directory
12115 authority to use up all its RAM by passing it a maliciously
12116 crafted protocol versions string. Fixes bug 25517; bugfix on
12117 0.2.9.4-alpha. This issue is also tracked as TROVE-2018-005.
12119 o Major bugfixes (crash, backport from 0.3.4.1-alpha):
12120 - Avoid a rare assertion failure in the circuit build timeout code
12121 if we fail to allow any circuits to actually complete. Fixes bug
12122 25733; bugfix on 0.2.2.2-alpha.
12124 o Major bugfixes (directory authorities, backport from 0.3.4.1-alpha):
12125 - Avoid a crash when testing router reachability on a router that
12126 could have an ed25519 ID, but which does not. Fixes bug 25415;
12127 bugfix on 0.3.3.2-alpha.
12129 o Major bugfixes (onion service, backport from 0.3.4.1-alpha):
12130 - Correctly detect when onion services get disabled after HUP. Fixes
12131 bug 25761; bugfix on 0.3.2.1.
12133 o Major bugfixes (relay, denial of service, backport from 0.3.4.1-alpha):
12134 - Impose a limit on circuit cell queue size. The limit can be
12135 controlled by a consensus parameter. Fixes bug 25226; bugfix
12138 o Minor features (compatibility, backport from 0.3.4.1-alpha):
12139 - Avoid some compilation warnings with recent versions of LibreSSL.
12140 Closes ticket 26006.
12142 o Minor features (continuous integration, backport from 0.3.4.1-alpha):
12143 - Our .travis.yml configuration now includes support for testing the
12144 results of "make distcheck". (It's not uncommon for "make check"
12145 to pass but "make distcheck" to fail.) Closes ticket 25814.
12146 - Our Travis CI configuration now integrates with the Coveralls
12147 coverage analysis tool. Closes ticket 25818.
12149 o Minor features (geoip):
12150 - Update geoip and geoip6 to the May 1 2018 Maxmind GeoLite2 Country
12151 database. Closes ticket 26104.
12153 o Minor bugfixes (client, backport from 0.3.4.1-alpha):
12154 - Don't consider Tor running as a client if the ControlPort is open,
12155 but no actual client ports are open. Fixes bug 26062; bugfix
12158 o Minor bugfixes (correctness, client, backport from 0.3.4.1-alpha):
12159 - Upon receiving a malformed connected cell, stop processing the
12160 cell immediately. Previously we would mark the connection for
12161 close, but continue processing the cell as if the connection were
12162 open. Fixes bug 26072; bugfix on 0.2.4.7-alpha.
12164 o Minor bugfixes (documentation, backport from 0.3.4.1-alpha):
12165 - Stop saying in the manual that clients cache ipv4 dns answers from
12166 exit relays. We haven't used them since 0.2.6.3-alpha, and in
12167 ticket 24050 we stopped even caching them as of 0.3.2.6-alpha, but
12168 we forgot to say so in the man page. Fixes bug 26052; bugfix
12171 o Minor bugfixes (Linux seccomp2 sandbox, backport from 0.3.4.1-alpha):
12172 - Allow the nanosleep() system call, which glibc uses to implement
12173 sleep() and usleep(). Fixes bug 24969; bugfix on 0.2.5.1-alpha.
12175 o Minor bugfixes (onion service, backport from 0.3.4.1-alpha):
12176 - Fix a memory leak when a v3 onion service is configured and gets a
12177 SIGHUP signal. Fixes bug 25901; bugfix on 0.3.2.1-alpha.
12178 - When parsing the descriptor signature, look for the token plus an
12179 extra white-space at the end. This is more correct but also will
12180 allow us to support new fields that might start with "signature".
12181 Fixes bug 26069; bugfix on 0.3.0.1-alpha.
12183 o Minor bugfixes (relay, crash, backport from 0.3.4.1-alpha):
12184 - Avoid a crash when running with DirPort set but ORPort turned off.
12185 Fixes a case of bug 23693; bugfix on 0.3.1.1-alpha.
12187 o Documentation (backport from 0.3.4.1-alpha):
12188 - Correct an IPv6 error in the documentation for ExitPolicy. Closes
12189 ticket 25857. Patch from "CTassisF".
12192 Changes in version 0.3.4.1-alpha - 2018-05-17
12193 Tor 0.3.4.1-alpha is the first release in the 0.3.4.x series. It
12194 includes refactoring to begin reducing Tor's binary size and idle CPU
12195 usage on mobile, along with prep work for new bandwidth scanners,
12196 improvements to the experimental "vanguards" feature, and numerous
12197 other small features and bugfixes.
12199 o New system requirements:
12200 - Tor no longer tries to support old operating systems without
12201 mmap() or some local equivalent. Apparently, compilation on such
12202 systems has been broken for some time, without anybody noticing or
12203 complaining. Closes ticket 25398.
12205 o Major feature (directory authority, modularization):
12206 - The directory authority subsystem has been modularized. The code
12207 is now located in src/or/dirauth/, and is compiled in by default.
12208 To disable the module, the configure option
12209 --disable-module-dirauth has been added. This module may be
12210 disabled by default in some future release. Closes ticket 25610.
12212 o Major features (main loop, CPU usage):
12213 - When Tor is disabled (via DisableNetwork or via hibernation), it
12214 no longer needs to run any per-second events. This change should
12215 make it easier for mobile applications to disable Tor while the
12216 device is sleeping, or Tor is not running. Closes ticket 26063.
12217 - Tor no longer enables all of its periodic events by default.
12218 Previously, Tor would enable all possible main loop events,
12219 regardless of whether it needed them. Furthermore, many of these
12220 events are now disabled with Tor is hibernating or DisableNetwork
12221 is set. This is a big step towards reducing client CPU usage by
12222 reducing the amount of wake-ups the daemon does. Closes ticket
12224 - The bandwidth-limitation logic has been refactored so that
12225 bandwidth calculations are performed on-demand, rather than every
12226 TokenBucketRefillInterval milliseconds. This change should improve
12227 the granularity of our bandwidth calculations, and limit the
12228 number of times that the Tor process needs to wake up when it is
12229 idle. Closes ticket 25373.
12230 - Move responsibility for many operations from a once-per-second
12231 callback to a callback that is only scheduled as needed. Moving
12232 this functionality has allowed us to disable the callback when
12233 Tor's network is disabled. Once enough items are removed from our
12234 once-per-second callback, we can eliminate it entirely to conserve
12235 CPU when idle. The functionality removed includes: closing
12236 connections, circuits, and channels (ticket 25932); consensus
12237 voting (25937); flushing log callbacks (25951); honoring delayed
12238 SIGNEWNYM requests (25949); rescanning the consensus cache
12239 (25931); saving the state file to disk (25948); warning relay
12240 operators about unreachable ports (25952); and keeping track of
12241 Tor's uptime (26009).
12243 o Major bugfixes (directory authorities, security):
12244 - When directory authorities read a zero-byte bandwidth file, they
12245 would previously log a warning with the contents of an
12246 uninitialised buffer. They now log a warning about the empty file
12247 instead. Fixes bug 26007; bugfix on 0.2.2.1-alpha.
12249 o Major bugfixes (crash):
12250 - Avoid a rare assertion failure in the circuit build timeout code
12251 if we fail to allow any circuits to actually complete. Fixes bug
12252 25733; bugfix on 0.2.2.2-alpha.
12254 o Major bugfixes (directory authority):
12255 - Avoid a crash when testing router reachability on a router that
12256 could have an ed25519 ID, but which does not. Fixes bug 25415;
12257 bugfix on 0.3.3.2-alpha.
12259 o Major bugfixes (onion service):
12260 - Correctly detect when onion services get disabled after HUP. Fixes
12261 bug 25761; bugfix on 0.3.2.1.
12263 o Major bugfixes (protover, voting):
12264 - Revise Rust implementation of protover to use a more memory-
12265 efficient voting algorithm and corresponding data structures, thus
12266 avoiding a potential (but small impact) DoS attack where specially
12267 crafted protocol strings would expand to several potential
12268 megabytes in memory. In the process, several portions of code were
12269 revised to be methods on new, custom types, rather than functions
12270 taking interchangeable types, thus increasing type safety of the
12271 module. Custom error types and handling were added as well, in
12272 order to facilitate better error dismissal/handling in outside
12273 crates and avoid mistakenly passing an internal error string to C
12274 over the FFI boundary. Many tests were added, and some previous
12275 differences between the C and Rust implementations have been
12276 remedied. Fixes bug 24031; bugfix on 0.3.3.1-alpha.
12278 o Major bugfixes (relay, denial of service):
12279 - Impose a limit on circuit cell queue size. The limit can be
12280 controlled by a consensus parameter. Fixes bug 25226; bugfix
12283 o Minor features (accounting):
12284 - When Tor becomes dormant, it now uses a scheduled event to wake up
12285 at the right time. Previously, we would use the per-second timer
12286 to check whether to wake up, but we no longer have any per-second
12287 timers enabled when the network is disabled. Closes ticket 26064.
12289 o Minor features (code quality):
12290 - Add optional spell-checking for the Tor codebase, using the
12291 "misspell" program. To use this feature, run "make check-typos".
12292 Closes ticket 25024.
12294 o Minor features (compatibility):
12295 - Tor now detects versions of OpenSSL 1.1.0 and later compiled with
12296 the no-deprecated option, and builds correctly with them. Closes
12297 tickets 19429, 19981, and 25353.
12298 - Avoid some compilation warnings with recent versions of LibreSSL.
12299 Closes ticket 26006.
12301 o Minor features (compression, zstd):
12302 - When running with zstd, Tor now considers using advanced functions
12303 that the zstd maintainers have labeled as potentially unstable. To
12304 prevent breakage, Tor will only use this functionality when the
12305 runtime version of the zstd library matches the version with which
12306 Tor was compiled. Closes ticket 25162.
12308 o Minor features (configuration):
12309 - The "DownloadSchedule" options have been renamed to end with
12310 "DownloadInitialDelay". The old names are still allowed, but will
12311 produce a warning. Comma-separated lists are still permitted for
12312 these options, but all values after the first are ignored (as they
12313 have been since 0.2.9). Closes ticket 23354.
12315 o Minor features (continuous integration):
12316 - Our .travis.yml configuration now includes support for testing the
12317 results of "make distcheck". (It's not uncommon for "make check"
12318 to pass but "make distcheck" to fail.) Closes ticket 25814.
12319 - Our Travis CI configuration now integrates with the Coveralls
12320 coverage analysis tool. Closes ticket 25818.
12322 o Minor features (control port):
12323 - Introduce GETINFO "current-time/{local,utc}" to return the local
12324 and UTC times respectively in ISO format. This helps a controller
12325 like Tor Browser detect a time-related error. Closes ticket 25511.
12326 Patch by Neel Chauhan.
12327 - Introduce new fields to the CIRC_BW event. There are two new
12328 fields in each of the read and written directions. The DELIVERED
12329 fields report the total valid data on the circuit, as measured by
12330 the payload sizes of verified and error-checked relay command
12331 cells. The OVERHEAD fields report the total unused bytes in each
12332 of these cells. Closes ticket 25903.
12334 o Minor features (directory authority):
12335 - Directory authorities now open their key-pinning files as O_SYNC,
12336 to limit their chances of accidentally writing partial lines.
12337 Closes ticket 23909.
12339 o Minor features (directory authority, forward compatibility):
12340 - Make the lines of the measured bandwidth file able to contain
12341 their entries in any order. Previously, the node_id entry needed
12342 to come first. Closes ticket 26004.
12344 o Minor features (entry guards):
12345 - Introduce a new torrc option NumPrimaryGuards for controlling the
12346 number of primary guards. Closes ticket 25843.
12348 o Minor features (geoip):
12349 - Update geoip and geoip6 to the May 1 2018 Maxmind GeoLite2 Country
12350 database. Closes ticket 26104.
12352 o Minor features (performance):
12353 - Avoid a needless call to malloc() when processing an incoming
12354 relay cell. Closes ticket 24914.
12355 - Make our timing-wheel code run a tiny bit faster on 32-bit
12356 platforms, by preferring 32-bit math to 64-bit. Closes
12358 - Avoid a needless malloc()/free() pair every time we handle an ntor
12359 handshake. Closes ticket 25150.
12361 o Minor features (testing):
12362 - Add a unit test for voting_schedule_get_start_of_next_interval().
12363 Closes ticket 26014, and helps make unit test coverage
12364 more deterministic.
12365 - A new unittests module specifically for testing the functions in
12366 the (new-ish) bridges.c module has been created with new
12367 unittests, raising the code coverage percentages. Closes 25425.
12368 - We now have improved testing for addressmap_get_virtual_address()
12369 function. This should improve our test coverage, and make our test
12370 coverage more deterministic. Closes ticket 25993.
12372 o Minor features (timekeeping, circuit scheduling):
12373 - When keeping track of how busy each circuit have been recently on
12374 a given connection, use coarse-grained monotonic timers rather
12375 than gettimeofday(). This change should marginally increase
12376 accuracy and performance. Implements part of ticket 25927.
12378 o Minor bugfixes (bandwidth management):
12379 - Consider ourselves "low on write bandwidth" if we have exhausted
12380 our write bandwidth some time in the last second. This was the
12381 documented behavior before, but the actual behavior was to change
12382 this value every TokenBucketRefillInterval. Fixes bug 25828;
12383 bugfix on 0.2.3.5-alpha.
12385 o Minor bugfixes (C correctness):
12386 - Add a missing lock acquisition in the shutdown code of the control
12387 subsystem. Fixes bug 25675; bugfix on 0.2.7.3-rc. Found by
12388 Coverity; this is CID 1433643.
12390 o Minor bugfixes (circuit path selection):
12391 - Don't count path selection failures as circuit build failures.
12392 This change should eliminate cases where Tor blames its guard or
12393 the network for situations like insufficient microdescriptors
12394 and/or overly restrictive torrc settings. Fixes bug 25705; bugfix
12397 o Minor bugfixes (client):
12398 - Don't consider Tor running as a client if the ControlPort is open,
12399 but no actual client ports are open. Fixes bug 26062; bugfix
12402 o Minor bugfixes (code style):
12403 - Fixed multiple includes of transports.h in src/or/connection.c
12404 Fixes bug 25261; bugfix on 0.2.5.1-alpha.
12405 - Remove the unused variable n_possible from the function
12406 channel_get_for_extend(). Fixes bug 25645; bugfix on 0.2.4.4-alpha
12408 o Minor bugfixes (control interface):
12409 - Respond with more human-readable error messages to GETINFO exit-
12410 policy/* requests. Also, let controller know if an error is
12411 transient (response code 551) or not (response code 552). Fixes
12412 bug 25852; bugfix on 0.2.8.1-alpha.
12414 o Minor bugfixes (controller):
12415 - Make CIRC_BW event reflect the total of all data sent on a
12416 circuit, including padding and dropped cells. Also fix a mis-
12417 counting bug when STREAM_BW events were enabled. Fixes bug 25400;
12418 bugfix on 0.2.5.2-alpha.
12420 o Minor bugfixes (correctness, client):
12421 - Upon receiving a malformed connected cell, stop processing the cell
12422 immediately. Previously we would mark the connection for close, but
12423 continue processing the cell as if the connection were open. Fixes bug
12424 26072; bugfix on 0.2.4.7-alpha.
12426 o Minor bugfixes (directory client):
12427 - When unverified-consensus is verified, rename it to cached-
12428 consenus. Fixes bug 4187; bugfix on 0.2.0.3-alpha.
12429 - Fixed launching a certificate fetch always during the scheduled
12430 periodic consensus fetch by fetching only in those cases when
12431 consensus are waiting for certs. Fixes bug 24740; bugfix
12434 o Minor bugfixes (documentation):
12435 - Stop saying in the manual that clients cache ipv4 dns answers from
12436 exit relays. We haven't used them since 0.2.6.3-alpha, and in
12437 ticket 24050 we stopped even caching them as of 0.3.2.6-alpha, but
12438 we forgot to say so in the man page. Fixes bug 26052; bugfix
12441 o Minor bugfixes (error reporting):
12442 - Improve tolerance for directory authorities with skewed clocks.
12443 Previously, an authority with a clock more than 60 seconds ahead
12444 could cause a client with a correct clock to warn that the
12445 client's clock was behind. Now the clocks of a majority of
12446 directory authorities have to be ahead of the client before this
12447 warning will occur. Fixes bug 25756; bugfix on 0.2.2.25-alpha.
12449 o Minor bugfixes (Linux seccomp2 sandbox):
12450 - Allow the nanosleep() system call, which glibc uses to implement
12451 sleep() and usleep(). Fixes bug 24969; bugfix on 0.2.5.1-alpha.
12453 o Minor bugfixes (onion service):
12454 - Fix a memory leak when a v3 onion service is configured and gets a
12455 SIGHUP signal. Fixes bug 25901; bugfix on 0.3.2.1-alpha.
12456 - When parsing the descriptor signature, look for the token plus an
12457 extra white-space at the end. This is more correct but also will
12458 allow us to support new fields that might start with "signature".
12459 Fixes bug 26069; bugfix on 0.3.0.1-alpha.
12461 o Minor bugfixes (path selection):
12462 - Only select relays when they have the descriptors we prefer to use
12463 for them. This change fixes a bug where we could select a relay
12464 because it had _some_ descriptor, but reject it later with a
12465 nonfatal assertion error because it didn't have the exact one we
12466 wanted. Fixes bugs 25691 and 25692; bugfix on 0.3.3.4-alpha.
12468 o Minor bugfixes (portability):
12469 - Do not align mmap length, as it is not required by POSIX, and the
12470 getpagesize function is deprecated. Fixes bug 25399; bugfix
12473 o Minor bugfixes (portability, FreeBSD):
12474 - In have_enough_mem_for_dircache(), the variable DIRCACHE_MIN_MEM_MB
12475 does not stringify on FreeBSD, so we switch to tor_asprintf().
12476 Fixes bug 20887; bugfix on 0.2.8.1-alpha. Patch by Neel Chauhan.
12478 o Minor bugfixes (relay statistics):
12479 - When a relay is collecting internal statistics about how many
12480 create cell requests it has seen of each type, accurately count
12481 the requests from relays that temporarily fall out of the
12482 consensus. (To be extra conservative, we were already ignoring
12483 requests from clients in our counts, and we continue ignoring them
12484 here.) Fixes bug 24910; bugfix on 0.2.4.17-rc.
12486 o Minor bugfixes (relay, crash):
12487 - Avoid a crash when running with DirPort set but ORPort turned off.
12488 Fixes a case of bug 23693; bugfix on 0.3.1.1-alpha.
12490 o Minor bugfixes (restart-in-process):
12491 - When shutting down, Tor now clears all the flags in the control.c
12492 module. This should prevent a bug where authentication cookies are
12493 not generated on restart. Fixes bug 25512; bugfix on 0.3.3.1-alpha.
12495 o Minor bugfixes (testing):
12496 - When testing workqueue event-cancellation, make sure that we
12497 actually cancel an event, and that cancel each event with equal
12498 probability. (It was previously possible, though extremely
12499 unlikely, for our event-canceling test not to cancel any events.)
12500 Fixes bug 26008; bugfix on 0.2.6.3-alpha.
12501 - Repeat part of the test in test_client_pick_intro() a number of
12502 times, to give it consistent coverage. Fixes bug 25996; bugfix
12504 - Remove randomness from the hs_common/responsible_hsdirs test, so
12505 that it always takes the same path through the function it tests.
12506 Fixes bug 25997; bugfix on 0.3.2.1-alpha.
12507 - Change the behavior of the "channel/outbound" test so that it
12508 never causes a 10-second rollover for the EWMA circuitmux code.
12509 Previously, this behavior would happen randomly, and result in
12510 fluctuating test coverage. Fixes bug 25994; bugfix
12512 - Use X509_new() to allocate certificates that will be freed later
12513 with X509_free(). Previously, some parts of the unit tests had
12514 used tor_malloc_zero(), which is incorrect, and which caused test
12515 failures on Windows when they were built with extra hardening.
12516 Fixes bugs 25943 and 25944; bugfix on 0.2.8.1-alpha. Patch by
12518 - While running the circuit_timeout test, fix the PRNG to a
12519 deterministic AES stream, so that the test coverage from this test
12520 will itself be deterministic. Fixes bug 25995; bugfix
12523 o Minor bugfixes (vanguards):
12524 - Allow the last hop in a vanguard circuit to be the same as our
12525 first, to prevent the adversary from influencing guard node choice
12526 by choice of last hop. Also prevent the creation of A - B - A
12527 paths, or A - A paths, which are forbidden by relays. Fixes bug
12528 25870; bugfix on 0.3.3.1-alpha.
12530 o Code simplification and refactoring:
12531 - Remove duplicate code in parse_{c,s}method_line and bootstrap
12532 their functionalities into a single function. Fixes bug 6236;
12533 bugfix on 0.2.3.6-alpha.
12534 - We remove the PortForwarding and PortForwardingHelper options,
12535 related functions, and the port_forwarding tests. These options
12536 were used by the now-deprecated Vidalia to help ordinary users
12537 become Tor relays or bridges. Closes ticket 25409. Patch by
12539 - In order to make the OR and dir checking function in router.c less
12540 confusing we renamed some functions and
12541 consider_testing_reachability() has been split into
12542 router_should_check_reachability() and
12543 router_do_reachability_checks(). Also we improved the documentation
12544 in some functions. Closes ticket 18918.
12545 - Initial work to isolate Libevent usage to a handful of modules in
12546 our codebase, to simplify our call structure, and so that we can
12547 more easily change event loops in the future if needed. Closes
12549 - Introduce a function to call getsockname() and return tor_addr_t,
12550 to save a little complexity throughout the codebase. Closes
12552 - Make hsdir_index in node_t a hsdir_index_t rather than a pointer
12553 as hsdir_index is always present. Also, we move hsdir_index_t into
12554 or.h. Closes ticket 23094. Patch by Neel Chauhan.
12555 - Merge functions used for describing nodes and suppress the
12556 functions that do not allocate memory for the output buffer
12557 string. NODE_DESC_BUF_LEN constant and format_node_description()
12558 function cannot be used externally from router.c module anymore.
12559 Closes ticket 25432. Patch by valentecaio.
12560 - Our main loop has been simplified so that all important operations
12561 happen inside events. Previously, some operations had to happen
12562 outside the event loop, to prevent infinite sequences of event
12563 activations. Closes ticket 25374.
12564 - Put a SHA1 public key digest in hs_service_intro_point_t, and use
12565 it in register_intro_circ() and service_intro_point_new(). This
12566 prevents the digest from being re-calculated each time. Closes
12567 ticket 23107. Patch by Neel Chauhan.
12568 - Refactor token-bucket implementations to use a common backend.
12569 Closes ticket 25766.
12570 - Remove extern declaration of stats_n_seconds_working variable from
12571 main, protecting its accesses with get_uptime() and reset_uptime()
12572 functions. Closes ticket 25081, patch by “valentecaio”.
12573 - Remove our previous logic for "cached gettimeofday()" -- our
12574 coarse monotonic timers are fast enough for this purpose, and far
12575 less error-prone. Implements part of ticket 25927.
12576 - Remove the return value for fascist_firewall_choose_address_base(),
12577 and sister functions such as fascist_firewall_choose_address_node()
12578 and fascist_firewall_choose_address_rs(). Also, while we're here,
12579 initialize the ap argument as leaving it uninitialized can pose a
12580 security hazard. Closes ticket 24734. Patch by Neel Chauhan.
12581 - Rename two fields of connection_t struct. timestamp_lastwritten is
12582 renamed to timestamp_last_write_allowed and timestamp_lastread is
12583 renamed to timestamp_last_read_allowed. Closes ticket 24714, patch
12585 - Since Tor requires C99, remove our old workaround code for libc
12586 implementations where free(NULL) doesn't work. Closes ticket 24484.
12587 - Use our standard rate-limiting code to deal with excessive
12588 libevent failures, rather than the hand-rolled logic we had
12589 before. Closes ticket 26016.
12590 - We remove the return value of node_get_prim_orport() and
12591 node_get_prim_dirport(), and introduce node_get_prim_orport() in
12592 node_ipv6_or_preferred() and node_ipv6_dir_preferred() in order to
12593 check for a null address. Closes ticket 23873. Patch by
12595 - We switch to should_record_bridge_info() in
12596 geoip_note_client_seen() and options_need_geoip_info() instead of
12597 accessing the configuration values directly. Fixes bug 25290;
12598 bugfix on 0.2.1.6-alpha. Patch by Neel Chauhan.
12600 o Deprecated features:
12601 - As we are not recommending 0.2.5 anymore, we require relays that
12602 once had an ed25519 key associated with their RSA key to always
12603 have that key, instead of allowing them to drop back to a version
12604 that didn't support ed25519. This means they need to use a new RSA
12605 key if they want to downgrade to an older version of tor without
12606 ed25519. Closes ticket 20522.
12609 - Correct an IPv6 error in the documentation for ExitPolicy. Closes
12610 ticket 25857. Patch from "CTassisF".
12612 o Removed features:
12613 - Directory authorities will no longer support voting according to
12614 any consensus method before consensus method 25. This keeps
12615 authorities compatible with all authorities running 0.2.9.8 and
12616 later, and does not break any clients or relays. Implements ticket
12617 24378 and proposal 290.
12618 - The PortForwarding and PortForwardingHelper features have been
12619 removed. The reasoning is, given that implementations of NAT
12620 traversal protocols within common consumer grade routers are
12621 frequently buggy, and that the target audience for a NAT punching
12622 feature is a perhaps less-technically-inclined relay operator,
12623 when the helper fails to setup traversal the problems are usually
12624 deep, ugly, and very router specific, making them horrendously
12625 impossible for technical support to reliable assist with, and thus
12626 resulting in frustration all around. Unfortunately, relay
12627 operators who would like to run relays behind NATs will need to
12628 become more familiar with the port forwarding configurations on
12629 their local router. Closes 25409.
12630 - The TestingEnableTbEmptyEvent option has been removed. It was used
12631 in testing simulations to measure how often connection buckets
12632 were emptied, in order to improve our scheduling, but it has not
12633 been actively used in years. Closes ticket 25760.
12634 - The old "round-robin" circuit multiplexer (circuitmux)
12635 implementation has been removed, along with a fairly large set of
12636 code that existed to support it. It has not been the default
12637 circuitmux since we introduced the "EWMA" circuitmux in 0.2.4.x,
12638 but it still required an unreasonable amount of memory and CPU.
12639 Closes ticket 25268.
12642 Changes in version 0.3.3.5-rc - 2018-04-15
12643 Tor 0.3.3.5-rc fixes various bugs in earlier versions of Tor,
12644 including some that could affect reliability or correctness.
12646 This is the first release candidate in the 0.3.3 series. If we find no
12647 new bugs or regression here, then the first stable 0.3.3 release will
12648 be nearly identical to this one.
12650 o Major bugfixes (security, protover, voting):
12651 - Revise Rust implementation of protover to use a more memory-
12652 efficient voting algorithm and corresponding data structures, thus
12653 avoiding a potential memory-based DoS attack where specially
12654 crafted protocol strings would expand to fill available memory.
12655 Fixes bug 24031; bugfix on 0.3.3.1-alpha.
12657 o Major bugfixes (performance, load balancing):
12658 - Directory authorities no longer vote in favor of the Guard flag
12659 for relays without directory support. Starting in Tor
12660 0.3.0.1-alpha, clients have been avoiding using such relays in the
12661 Guard position, leading to increasingly broken load balancing for
12662 the 5%-or-so of Guards that don't advertise directory support.
12663 Fixes bug 22310; bugfix on 0.3.0.6.
12665 o Minor feature (continuous integration):
12666 - Update the Travis CI configuration to use the stable Rust channel,
12667 now that we have decided to require that. Closes ticket 25714.
12669 o Minor features (config options):
12670 - Change the way the default value for MaxMemInQueues is calculated.
12671 We now use 40% of the hardware RAM if the system has 8 GB RAM or
12672 more. Otherwise we use the former value of 75%. Closes
12675 o Minor features (geoip):
12676 - Update geoip and geoip6 to the April 3 2018 Maxmind GeoLite2
12677 Country database. Closes ticket 25718.
12679 o Minor bugfixes (client):
12680 - When using a listed relay as a bridge, and also using
12681 microdescriptors, and considering that relay as a non-bridge in a
12682 circuit, treat its microdescriptor as a valid source of
12683 information about that relay. This change should prevent a non-
12684 fatal assertion error. Fixes bug 25691; bugfix on 0.3.3.4-alpha.
12686 o Minor bugfixes (controller):
12687 - Restore the correct operation of the RESOLVE command, which had
12688 been broken since we added the ability to enable/disable DNS on
12689 specific listener ports. Fixes bug 25617; bugfix on 0.2.9.3-alpha.
12691 o Minor bugfixes (distribution, compilation, rust):
12692 - Build correctly when the rust dependencies submodule is loaded,
12693 but the TOR_RUST_DEPENDENCIES environment variable is not set.
12694 Fixes bug 25679; bugfix on 0.3.3.1-alpha.
12695 - Actually include all of our Rust source in our source
12696 distributions. (Previously, a few of the files were accidentally
12697 omitted.) Fixes bug 25732; bugfix on 0.3.3.2-alpha.
12699 o Minor bugfixes (documentation):
12700 - Document that the PerConnBW{Rate,Burst} options will fall back to
12701 their corresponding consensus parameters only if those parameters
12702 are set. Previously we had claimed that these values would always
12703 be set in the consensus. Fixes bug 25296; bugfix on 0.2.2.7-alpha.
12704 - Revert a misformatting issue in the ExitPolicy documentation.
12705 Fixes bug 25582; bugfix on 0.3.3.1-alpha.
12707 o Minor bugfixes (exit relay DNS retries):
12708 - Re-attempt timed-out DNS queries 3 times before failure, since our
12709 timeout is 5 seconds for them, but clients wait 10-15. Also allow
12710 slightly more timeouts per resolver when an exit has multiple
12711 resolvers configured. Fixes bug 21394; bugfix on 0.3.1.9.
12713 o Minor bugfixes (onion services):
12714 - Re-instate counting the client HSDir fetch circuits against the
12715 MaxClientCircuitsPending rate limit. Fixes bug 24989; bugfix
12717 - Remove underscores from the _HSLayer{2,3}Nodes options. This
12718 expert-user configuration can now be enabled as HSLayer{2,3}Nodes.
12719 Fixes bug 25581; bugfix on 0.3.3.1-alpha
12721 o Code simplification and refactoring:
12722 - Move the list of default directory authorities to its own file.
12723 Closes ticket 24854. Patch by "beastr0".
12725 o Documentation (manpage, denial of service):
12726 - Provide more detail about the denial-of-service options, by
12727 listing each mitigation and explaining how they relate. Closes
12731 Changes in version 0.3.3.4-alpha - 2018-03-29
12732 Tor 0.3.3.4-alpha includes various bugfixes for issues found during
12733 the alpha testing of earlier releases in its series. We are
12734 approaching a stable 0.3.3.4-alpha release: more testing is welcome!
12736 o New system requirements:
12737 - When built with Rust, Tor now depends on version 0.2.39 of the
12738 libc crate. Closes tickets 25310 and 25664.
12740 o Major bugfixes (relay, connection):
12741 - If we have failed to connect to a relay and received a connection
12742 refused, timeout, or similar error (at the TCP level), do not try
12743 that same address/port again for 60 seconds after the failure has
12744 occurred. Fixes bug 24767; bugfix on 0.0.6.
12746 o Minor features (geoip):
12747 - Update geoip and geoip6 to the March 8 2018 Maxmind GeoLite2
12748 Country database. Closes ticket 25469.
12750 o Minor features (log messages):
12751 - Improve log message in the out-of-memory handler to include
12752 information about memory usage from the different compression
12753 backends. Closes ticket 25372.
12755 o Minor features (sandbox):
12756 - Explicitly permit the poll() system call when the Linux
12757 seccomp2-based sandbox is enabled: apparently, some versions of
12758 libc use poll() when calling getpwnam(). Closes ticket 25313.
12760 o Minor bugfixes (C correctness):
12761 - Fix a very unlikely (impossible, we believe) null pointer
12762 dereference. Fixes bug 25629; bugfix on 0.2.9.15. Found by
12763 Coverity; this is CID 1430932.
12765 o Minor bugfixes (channel, client):
12766 - Better identify client connection when reporting to the geoip
12767 client cache. Fixes bug 24904; bugfix on 0.3.1.7.
12769 o Minor bugfixes (compilation):
12770 - Fix a C99 compliance issue in our configuration script that caused
12771 compilation issues when compiling Tor with certain versions of
12772 xtools. Fixes bug 25474; bugfix on 0.3.2.5-alpha.
12774 o Minor bugfixes (controller, reliability):
12775 - Avoid a (nonfatal) assertion failure when extending a one-hop
12776 circuit from the controller to become a multihop circuit. Fixes
12777 bug 24903; bugfix on 0.2.5.2-alpha.
12779 o Major bugfixes (networking):
12780 - Tor will no longer reject IPv6 address strings from Tor Browser
12781 when they are passed as hostnames in SOCKS5 requests. Fixes bug
12782 25036, bugfix on Tor 0.3.1.2.
12784 o Minor bugfixes (networking):
12785 - string_is_valid_hostname() will not consider IP strings to be
12786 valid hostnames. Fixes bug 25055; bugfix on Tor 0.2.5.5.
12788 o Minor bugfixes (onion service v3):
12789 - Avoid an assertion failure when the next onion service
12790 descriptor rotation type is out of sync with the consensus's
12791 valid-after time. Instead, log a warning message with extra
12792 information, so we can better hunt down the cause of this
12793 assertion. Fixes bug 25306; bugfix on 0.3.2.1-alpha.
12795 o Minor bugfixes (testing):
12796 - Avoid intermittent test failures due to a test that had relied on
12797 onion service introduction point creation finishing within 5
12798 seconds of real clock time. Fixes bug 25450; bugfix
12800 - Rust crates are now automatically detected and tested. Previously,
12801 some crates were not tested by `make test-rust` due to a static
12802 string in the `src/test/test_rust.sh` script specifying which
12803 crates to test. Fixes bug 25560; bugfix on 0.3.3.3-alpha.
12805 o Minor bugfixes (testing, benchmarks):
12806 - Fix a crash when running benchmark tests on win32 systems. The
12807 crash was due to a mutex that wasn't initialized before logging
12808 and options were initialized. Fixes bug 25479; bugfix
12811 o Minor bugfixes (warnings, ipv6):
12812 - Avoid a bug warning that could occur when trying to connect to a
12813 relay over IPv6. This warning would occur on a Tor instance that
12814 downloads router descriptors, but prefers to use microdescriptors.
12815 Fixes bug 25213; bugfix on 0.3.3.1-alpha.
12817 o Code simplification and refactoring:
12818 - Remove the old (deterministic) directory retry logic entirely:
12819 We've used exponential backoff exclusively for some time. Closes
12823 - Improved the documentation of AccountingStart parameter. Closes
12825 - Update the documentation for "Log" to include the current list of
12826 logging domains. Closes ticket 25378.
12829 Changes in version 0.3.1.10 - 2018-03-03
12830 Tor 0.3.1.10 backports a number of bugfixes, including important fixes for
12833 It includes an important security fix for a remote crash attack
12834 against directory authorities, tracked as TROVE-2018-001.
12836 This release also backports our new system for improved resistance to
12837 denial-of-service attacks against relays.
12839 This release also fixes several minor bugs and annoyances from
12842 All directory authorities should upgrade to one of the versions
12843 released today. Relays running 0.3.1.x may wish to update to one of
12844 the versions released today, for the DoS mitigations.
12846 Please note: according to our release calendar, Tor 0.3.1 will no
12847 longer be supported after 1 July 2018. If you will be running Tor
12848 after that date, you should make sure to plan to upgrade to the latest
12849 stable version, or downgrade to 0.2.9 (which will receive long-term
12852 o Major bugfixes (denial-of-service, directory authority, backport from 0.3.3.3-alpha):
12853 - Fix a protocol-list handling bug that could be used to remotely crash
12854 directory authorities with a null-pointer exception. Fixes bug 25074;
12855 bugfix on 0.2.9.4-alpha. Also tracked as TROVE-2018-001 and
12858 o Major features (denial-of-service mitigation, backport from 0.3.3.2-alpha):
12859 - Give relays some defenses against the recent network overload. We
12860 start with three defenses (default parameters in parentheses).
12861 First: if a single client address makes too many concurrent
12862 connections (>100), hang up on further connections. Second: if a
12863 single client address makes circuits too quickly (more than 3 per
12864 second, with an allowed burst of 90) while also having too many
12865 connections open (3), refuse new create cells for the next while
12866 (1-2 hours). Third: if a client asks to establish a rendezvous
12867 point to you directly, ignore the request. These defenses can be
12868 manually controlled by new torrc options, but relays will also
12869 take guidance from consensus parameters, so there's no need to
12870 configure anything manually. Implements ticket 24902.
12872 o Minor features (linux seccomp2 sandbox, backport from 0.3.2.5-alpha):
12873 - Update the sandbox rules so that they should now work correctly
12874 with Glibc 2.26. Closes ticket 24315.
12876 o Major bugfixes (onion services, retry behavior, backport from 0.3.3.1-alpha):
12877 - Fix an "off by 2" error in counting rendezvous failures on the
12878 onion service side. While we thought we would stop the rendezvous
12879 attempt after one failed circuit, we were actually making three
12880 circuit attempts before giving up. Now switch to a default of 2,
12881 and allow the consensus parameter "hs_service_max_rdv_failures" to
12882 override. Fixes bug 24895; bugfix on 0.0.6.
12884 o Major bugfixes (protocol versions, backport from 0.3.3.2-alpha):
12885 - Add Link protocol version 5 to the supported protocols list. Fixes
12886 bug 25070; bugfix on 0.3.1.1-alpha.
12888 o Major bugfixes (relay, backport from 0.3.3.1-alpha):
12889 - Fix a set of false positives where relays would consider
12890 connections to other relays as being client-only connections (and
12891 thus e.g. deserving different link padding schemes) if those
12892 relays fell out of the consensus briefly. Now we look only at the
12893 initial handshake and whether the connection authenticated as a
12894 relay. Fixes bug 24898; bugfix on 0.3.1.1-alpha.
12896 o Minor features (denial-of-service avoidance, backport from 0.3.3.2-alpha):
12897 - Make our OOM handler aware of the geoip client history cache so it
12898 doesn't fill up the memory. This check is important for IPv6 and
12899 our DoS mitigation subsystem. Closes ticket 25122.
12901 o Minor feature (relay statistics, backport from 0.3.2.6-alpha):
12902 - Change relay bandwidth reporting stats interval from 4 hours to 24
12903 hours in order to reduce the efficiency of guard discovery
12904 attacks. Fixes ticket 23856.
12906 o Minor features (compatibility, OpenSSL, backport from 0.3.3.3-alpha):
12907 - Tor will now support TLS1.3 once OpenSSL 1.1.1 is released.
12908 Previous versions of Tor would not have worked with OpenSSL 1.1.1,
12909 since they neither disabled TLS 1.3 nor enabled any of the
12910 ciphersuites it requires. Now we enable the TLS 1.3 ciphersuites.
12911 Closes ticket 24978.
12913 o Minor features (fallback directory mirrors, backport from 0.3.2.9):
12914 - The fallback directory list has been re-generated based on the
12915 current status of the network. Tor uses fallback directories to
12916 bootstrap when it doesn't yet have up-to-date directory
12917 information. Closes ticket 24801.
12918 - Make the default DirAuthorityFallbackRate 0.1, so that clients
12919 prefer to bootstrap from fallback directory mirrors. This is a
12920 follow-up to 24679, which removed weights from the default
12921 fallbacks. Implements ticket 24681.
12923 o Minor features (geoip):
12924 - Update geoip and geoip6 to the February 7 2018 Maxmind GeoLite2
12927 o Minor bugfix (channel connection, backport from 0.3.3.2-alpha):
12928 - Use the actual observed address of an incoming relay connection,
12929 not the canonical address of the relay from its descriptor, when
12930 making decisions about how to handle the incoming connection.
12931 Fixes bug 24952; bugfix on 0.2.4.11-alpha. Patch by "ffmancera".
12933 o Minor bugfix (directory authority, backport from 0.3.3.2-alpha):
12934 - Directory authorities, when refusing a descriptor from a rejected
12935 relay, now explicitly tell the relay (in its logs) to set a valid
12936 ContactInfo address and contact the bad-relays@ mailing list.
12937 Fixes bug 25170; bugfix on 0.2.9.1.
12939 o Minor bugfixes (address selection, backport from 0.3.2.9):
12940 - When the fascist_firewall_choose_address_ functions don't find a
12941 reachable address, set the returned address to the null address
12942 and port. This is a precautionary measure, because some callers do
12943 not check the return value. Fixes bug 24736; bugfix
12946 o Major bugfixes (bootstrapping, backport from 0.3.2.5-alpha):
12947 - Fetch descriptors aggressively whenever we lack enough to build
12948 circuits, regardless of how many descriptors we are missing.
12949 Previously, we would delay launching the fetch when we had fewer
12950 than 15 missing descriptors, even if some of those descriptors
12951 were blocking circuits from building. Fixes bug 23985; bugfix on
12952 0.1.1.11-alpha. The effects of this bug became worse in
12953 0.3.0.3-alpha, when we began treating missing descriptors from our
12954 primary guards as a reason to delay circuits.
12955 - Don't try fetching microdescriptors from relays that have failed
12956 to deliver them in the past. Fixes bug 23817; bugfix
12959 o Minor bugfixes (compilation, backport from 0.3.2.7-rc):
12960 - Fix a signed/unsigned comparison warning introduced by our fix to
12961 TROVE-2017-009. Fixes bug 24480; bugfix on 0.2.5.16.
12963 o Minor bugfixes (control port, linux seccomp2 sandbox, backport from 0.3.2.5-alpha):
12964 - Avoid a crash when attempting to use the seccomp2 sandbox together
12965 with the OwningControllerProcess feature. Fixes bug 24198; bugfix
12968 o Minor bugfixes (denial-of-service, backport from 0.3.3.3-alpha):
12969 - Fix a possible crash on malformed consensus. If a consensus had
12970 contained an unparseable protocol line, it could have made clients
12971 and relays crash with a null-pointer exception. To exploit this
12972 issue, however, an attacker would need to be able to subvert the
12973 directory authority system. Fixes bug 25251; bugfix on
12974 0.2.9.4-alpha. Also tracked as TROVE-2018-004.
12976 o Minor bugfixes (directory cache, backport from 0.3.2.5-alpha):
12977 - Recover better from empty or corrupt files in the consensus cache
12978 directory. Fixes bug 24099; bugfix on 0.3.1.1-alpha.
12979 - When a consensus diff calculation is only partially successful,
12980 only record the successful parts as having succeeded. Partial
12981 success can happen if (for example) one compression method fails
12982 but the others succeed. Previously we misrecorded all the
12983 calculations as having succeeded, which would later cause a
12984 nonfatal assertion failure. Fixes bug 24086; bugfix
12987 o Minor bugfixes (entry guards, backport from 0.3.2.3-alpha):
12988 - Tor now updates its guard state when it reads a consensus
12989 regardless of whether it's missing descriptors. That makes tor use
12990 its primary guards to fetch descriptors in some edge cases where
12991 it would previously have used fallback directories. Fixes bug
12992 23862; bugfix on 0.3.0.1-alpha.
12994 o Minor bugfixes (logging, backport from 0.3.3.2-alpha):
12995 - Don't treat inability to store a cached consensus object as a bug:
12996 it can happen normally when we are out of disk space. Fixes bug
12997 24859; bugfix on 0.3.1.1-alpha.
12999 o Minor bugfixes (memory usage, backport from 0.3.2.8-rc):
13000 - When queuing DESTROY cells on a channel, only queue the circuit-id
13001 and reason fields: not the entire 514-byte cell. This fix should
13002 help mitigate any bugs or attacks that fill up these queues, and
13003 free more RAM for other uses. Fixes bug 24666; bugfix
13006 o Minor bugfixes (network layer, backport from 0.3.2.5-alpha):
13007 - When closing a connection via close_connection_immediately(), we
13008 mark it as "not blocked on bandwidth", to prevent later calls from
13009 trying to unblock it, and give it permission to read. This fixes a
13010 backtrace warning that can happen on relays under various
13011 circumstances. Fixes bug 24167; bugfix on 0.1.0.1-rc.
13013 o Minor bugfixes (path selection, backport from 0.3.2.4-alpha):
13014 - When selecting relays by bandwidth, avoid a rounding error that
13015 could sometimes cause load to be imbalanced incorrectly.
13016 Previously, we would always round upwards; now, we round towards
13017 the nearest integer. This had the biggest effect when a relay's
13018 weight adjustments should have given it weight 0, but it got
13019 weight 1 instead. Fixes bug 23318; bugfix on 0.2.4.3-alpha.
13020 - When calculating the fraction of nodes that have descriptors, and
13021 all nodes in the network have zero bandwidths, count the number of
13022 nodes instead. Fixes bug 23318; bugfix on 0.2.4.10-alpha.
13023 - Actually log the total bandwidth in compute_weighted_bandwidths().
13024 Fixes bug 24170; bugfix on 0.2.4.3-alpha.
13026 o Minor bugfixes (performance, fragile-hardening, backport from 0.3.3.1-alpha):
13027 - Improve the performance of our consensus-diff application code
13028 when Tor is built with the --enable-fragile-hardening option set.
13029 Fixes bug 24826; bugfix on 0.3.1.1-alpha.
13031 o Minor bugfixes (OSX, backport from 0.3.3.1-alpha):
13032 - Don't exit the Tor process if setrlimit() fails to change the file
13033 limit (which can happen sometimes on some versions of OSX). Fixes
13034 bug 21074; bugfix on 0.0.9pre5.
13036 o Minor bugfixes (portability, msvc, backport from 0.3.2.9):
13037 - Fix a bug in the bit-counting parts of our timing-wheel code on
13038 MSVC. (Note that MSVC is still not a supported build platform, due
13039 to cyptographic timing channel risks.) Fixes bug 24633; bugfix
13042 o Minor bugfixes (relay, partial backport):
13043 - Make the internal channel_is_client() function look at what sort
13044 of connection handshake the other side used, rather than whether
13045 the other side ever sent a create_fast cell to us. Backports part
13046 of the fixes from bugs 22805 and 24898.
13048 o Minor bugfixes (spec conformance, backport from 0.3.3.3-alpha):
13049 - Forbid "-0" as a protocol version. Fixes part of bug 25249; bugfix on
13051 - Forbid UINT32_MAX as a protocol version. Fixes part of bug 25249;
13052 bugfix on 0.2.9.4-alpha.
13054 o Code simplification and refactoring (backport from 0.3.3.3-alpha):
13055 - Update the "rust dependencies" submodule to be a project-level
13056 repository, rather than a user repository. Closes ticket 25323.
13059 Changes in version 0.2.9.15 - 2018-03-03
13060 Tor 0.2.9.15 backports important security and stability bugfixes from
13061 later Tor releases.
13063 It includes an important security fix for a remote crash attack
13064 against directory authorities, tracked as TROVE-2018-001.
13066 This release also backports our new system for improved resistance to
13067 denial-of-service attacks against relays.
13069 This release also fixes several minor bugs and annoyances from
13072 All directory authorities should upgrade to one of the versions
13073 released today. Relays running 0.2.9.x may wish to update to one of
13074 the versions released today, for the DoS mitigations.
13076 o Major bugfixes (denial-of-service, directory authority, backport from 0.3.3.3-alpha):
13077 - Fix a protocol-list handling bug that could be used to remotely crash
13078 directory authorities with a null-pointer exception. Fixes bug 25074;
13079 bugfix on 0.2.9.4-alpha. Also tracked as TROVE-2018-001 and
13082 o Major features (denial-of-service mitigation):
13083 - Give relays some defenses against the recent network overload. We
13084 start with three defenses (default parameters in parentheses).
13085 First: if a single client address makes too many concurrent
13086 connections (>100), hang up on further connections. Second: if a
13087 single client address makes circuits too quickly (more than 3 per
13088 second, with an allowed burst of 90) while also having too many
13089 connections open (3), refuse new create cells for the next while
13090 (1-2 hours). Third: if a client asks to establish a rendezvous
13091 point to you directly, ignore the request. These defenses can be
13092 manually controlled by new torrc options, but relays will also
13093 take guidance from consensus parameters, so there's no need to
13094 configure anything manually. Implements ticket 24902.
13096 o Major bugfixes (bootstrapping):
13097 - Fetch descriptors aggressively whenever we lack enough to build
13098 circuits, regardless of how many descriptors we are missing.
13099 Previously, we would delay launching the fetch when we had fewer
13100 than 15 missing descriptors, even if some of those descriptors
13101 were blocking circuits from building. Fixes bug 23985; bugfix on
13102 0.1.1.11-alpha. The effects of this bug became worse in
13103 0.3.0.3-alpha, when we began treating missing descriptors from our
13104 primary guards as a reason to delay circuits.
13106 o Major bugfixes (onion services, retry behavior):
13107 - Fix an "off by 2" error in counting rendezvous failures on the
13108 onion service side. While we thought we would stop the rendezvous
13109 attempt after one failed circuit, we were actually making three
13110 circuit attempts before giving up. Now switch to a default of 2,
13111 and allow the consensus parameter "hs_service_max_rdv_failures" to
13112 override. Fixes bug 24895; bugfix on 0.0.6.
13114 o Minor feature (relay statistics):
13115 - Change relay bandwidth reporting stats interval from 4 hours to 24
13116 hours in order to reduce the efficiency of guard discovery
13117 attacks. Fixes ticket 23856.
13119 o Minor features (compatibility, OpenSSL):
13120 - Tor will now support TLS1.3 once OpenSSL 1.1.1 is released.
13121 Previous versions of Tor would not have worked with OpenSSL 1.1.1,
13122 since they neither disabled TLS 1.3 nor enabled any of the
13123 ciphersuites it requires. Now we enable the TLS 1.3 ciphersuites.
13124 Closes ticket 24978.
13126 o Minor features (denial-of-service avoidance):
13127 - Make our OOM handler aware of the geoip client history cache so it
13128 doesn't fill up the memory. This check is important for IPv6 and
13129 our DoS mitigation subsystem. Closes ticket 25122.
13131 o Minor features (fallback directory mirrors):
13132 - The fallback directory list has been re-generated based on the
13133 current status of the network. Tor uses fallback directories to
13134 bootstrap when it doesn't yet have up-to-date directory
13135 information. Closes ticket 24801.
13136 - Make the default DirAuthorityFallbackRate 0.1, so that clients
13137 prefer to bootstrap from fallback directory mirrors. This is a
13138 follow-up to 24679, which removed weights from the default
13139 fallbacks. Implements ticket 24681.
13141 o Minor features (geoip):
13142 - Update geoip and geoip6 to the February 7 2018 Maxmind GeoLite2
13145 o Minor features (linux seccomp2 sandbox):
13146 - Update the sandbox rules so that they should now work correctly
13147 with Glibc 2.26. Closes ticket 24315.
13149 o Minor bugfix (channel connection):
13150 - Use the actual observed address of an incoming relay connection,
13151 not the canonical address of the relay from its descriptor, when
13152 making decisions about how to handle the incoming connection.
13153 Fixes bug 24952; bugfix on 0.2.4.11-alpha. Patch by "ffmancera".
13155 o Minor bugfix (directory authority):
13156 - Directory authorities, when refusing a descriptor from a rejected
13157 relay, now explicitly tell the relay (in its logs) to set a valid
13158 ContactInfo address and contact the bad-relays@ mailing list.
13159 Fixes bug 25170; bugfix on 0.2.9.1.
13161 o Minor bugfixes (address selection):
13162 - When the fascist_firewall_choose_address_ functions don't find a
13163 reachable address, set the returned address to the null address
13164 and port. This is a precautionary measure, because some callers do
13165 not check the return value. Fixes bug 24736; bugfix
13168 o Minor bugfixes (compilation):
13169 - Fix a signed/unsigned comparison warning introduced by our fix to
13170 TROVE-2017-009. Fixes bug 24480; bugfix on 0.2.5.16.
13172 o Minor bugfixes (control port, linux seccomp2 sandbox):
13173 - Avoid a crash when attempting to use the seccomp2 sandbox together
13174 with the OwningControllerProcess feature. Fixes bug 24198; bugfix
13177 o Minor bugfixes (denial-of-service, backport from 0.3.3.3-alpha):
13178 - Fix a possible crash on malformed consensus. If a consensus had
13179 contained an unparseable protocol line, it could have made clients
13180 and relays crash with a null-pointer exception. To exploit this
13181 issue, however, an attacker would need to be able to subvert the
13182 directory authority system. Fixes bug 25251; bugfix on
13183 0.2.9.4-alpha. Also tracked as TROVE-2018-004.
13185 o Minor bugfixes (memory usage):
13186 - When queuing DESTROY cells on a channel, only queue the circuit-id
13187 and reason fields: not the entire 514-byte cell. This fix should
13188 help mitigate any bugs or attacks that fill up these queues, and
13189 free more RAM for other uses. Fixes bug 24666; bugfix
13192 o Minor bugfixes (network layer):
13193 - When closing a connection via close_connection_immediately(), we
13194 mark it as "not blocked on bandwidth", to prevent later calls from
13195 trying to unblock it, and give it permission to read. This fixes a
13196 backtrace warning that can happen on relays under various
13197 circumstances. Fixes bug 24167; bugfix on 0.1.0.1-rc.
13199 o Minor bugfixes (OSX):
13200 - Don't exit the Tor process if setrlimit() fails to change the file
13201 limit (which can happen sometimes on some versions of OSX). Fixes
13202 bug 21074; bugfix on 0.0.9pre5.
13204 o Minor bugfixes (path selection):
13205 - When selecting relays by bandwidth, avoid a rounding error that
13206 could sometimes cause load to be imbalanced incorrectly.
13207 Previously, we would always round upwards; now, we round towards
13208 the nearest integer. This had the biggest effect when a relay's
13209 weight adjustments should have given it weight 0, but it got
13210 weight 1 instead. Fixes bug 23318; bugfix on 0.2.4.3-alpha.
13211 - When calculating the fraction of nodes that have descriptors, and
13212 all nodes in the network have zero bandwidths, count the number of
13213 nodes instead. Fixes bug 23318; bugfix on 0.2.4.10-alpha.
13214 - Actually log the total bandwidth in compute_weighted_bandwidths().
13215 Fixes bug 24170; bugfix on 0.2.4.3-alpha.
13217 o Minor bugfixes (portability, msvc):
13218 - Fix a bug in the bit-counting parts of our timing-wheel code on
13219 MSVC. (Note that MSVC is still not a supported build platform, due
13220 to cryptographic timing channel risks.) Fixes bug 24633; bugfix
13223 o Minor bugfixes (relay):
13224 - Make the internal channel_is_client() function look at what sort
13225 of connection handshake the other side used, rather than whether
13226 the other side ever sent a create_fast cell to us. Backports part
13227 of the fixes from bugs 22805 and 24898.
13229 o Minor bugfixes (spec conformance, backport from 0.3.3.3-alpha):
13230 - Forbid "-0" as a protocol version. Fixes part of bug 25249; bugfix on
13232 - Forbid UINT32_MAX as a protocol version. Fixes part of bug 25249;
13233 bugfix on 0.2.9.4-alpha.
13236 Changes in version 0.3.2.10 - 2018-03-03
13237 Tor 0.3.2.10 is the second stable release in the 0.3.2 series. It
13238 backports a number of bugfixes, including important fixes for security
13241 It includes an important security fix for a remote crash attack
13242 against directory authorities, tracked as TROVE-2018-001.
13244 Additionally, it backports a fix for a bug whose severity we have
13245 upgraded: Bug 24700, which was fixed in 0.3.3.2-alpha, can be remotely
13246 triggered in order to crash relays with a use-after-free pattern. As
13247 such, we are now tracking that bug as TROVE-2018-002 and
13248 CVE-2018-0491, and backporting it to earlier releases. This bug
13249 affected versions 0.3.2.1-alpha through 0.3.2.9, as well as version
13252 This release also backports our new system for improved resistance to
13253 denial-of-service attacks against relays.
13255 This release also fixes several minor bugs and annoyances from
13258 Relays running 0.3.2.x SHOULD upgrade to one of the versions released
13259 today, for the fix to TROVE-2018-002. Directory authorities should
13260 also upgrade. (Relays on earlier versions might want to update too for
13261 the DoS mitigations.)
13263 o Major bugfixes (denial-of-service, directory authority, backport from 0.3.3.3-alpha):
13264 - Fix a protocol-list handling bug that could be used to remotely crash
13265 directory authorities with a null-pointer exception. Fixes bug 25074;
13266 bugfix on 0.2.9.4-alpha. Also tracked as TROVE-2018-001 and
13269 o Major bugfixes (scheduler, KIST, denial-of-service, backport from 0.3.3.2-alpha):
13270 - Avoid adding the same channel twice in the KIST scheduler pending
13271 list, which could lead to remote denial-of-service use-after-free
13272 attacks against relays. Fixes bug 24700; bugfix on 0.3.2.1-alpha.
13274 o Major features (denial-of-service mitigation, backport from 0.3.3.2-alpha):
13275 - Give relays some defenses against the recent network overload. We
13276 start with three defenses (default parameters in parentheses).
13277 First: if a single client address makes too many concurrent
13278 connections (>100), hang up on further connections. Second: if a
13279 single client address makes circuits too quickly (more than 3 per
13280 second, with an allowed burst of 90) while also having too many
13281 connections open (3), refuse new create cells for the next while
13282 (1-2 hours). Third: if a client asks to establish a rendezvous
13283 point to you directly, ignore the request. These defenses can be
13284 manually controlled by new torrc options, but relays will also
13285 take guidance from consensus parameters, so there's no need to
13286 configure anything manually. Implements ticket 24902.
13288 o Major bugfixes (onion services, retry behavior, backport from 0.3.3.1-alpha):
13289 - Fix an "off by 2" error in counting rendezvous failures on the
13290 onion service side. While we thought we would stop the rendezvous
13291 attempt after one failed circuit, we were actually making three
13292 circuit attempts before giving up. Now switch to a default of 2,
13293 and allow the consensus parameter "hs_service_max_rdv_failures" to
13294 override. Fixes bug 24895; bugfix on 0.0.6.
13295 - New-style (v3) onion services now obey the "max rendezvous circuit
13296 attempts" logic. Previously they would make as many rendezvous
13297 circuit attempts as they could fit in the MAX_REND_TIMEOUT second
13298 window before giving up. Fixes bug 24894; bugfix on 0.3.2.1-alpha.
13300 o Major bugfixes (protocol versions, backport from 0.3.3.2-alpha):
13301 - Add Link protocol version 5 to the supported protocols list. Fixes
13302 bug 25070; bugfix on 0.3.1.1-alpha.
13304 o Major bugfixes (relay, backport from 0.3.3.1-alpha):
13305 - Fix a set of false positives where relays would consider
13306 connections to other relays as being client-only connections (and
13307 thus e.g. deserving different link padding schemes) if those
13308 relays fell out of the consensus briefly. Now we look only at the
13309 initial handshake and whether the connection authenticated as a
13310 relay. Fixes bug 24898; bugfix on 0.3.1.1-alpha.
13312 o Major bugfixes (scheduler, consensus, backport from 0.3.3.2-alpha):
13313 - The scheduler subsystem was failing to promptly notice changes in
13314 consensus parameters, making it harder to switch schedulers
13315 network-wide. Fixes bug 24975; bugfix on 0.3.2.1-alpha.
13317 o Minor features (denial-of-service avoidance, backport from 0.3.3.2-alpha):
13318 - Make our OOM handler aware of the geoip client history cache so it
13319 doesn't fill up the memory. This check is important for IPv6 and
13320 our DoS mitigation subsystem. Closes ticket 25122.
13322 o Minor features (compatibility, OpenSSL, backport from 0.3.3.3-alpha):
13323 - Tor will now support TLS1.3 once OpenSSL 1.1.1 is released.
13324 Previous versions of Tor would not have worked with OpenSSL 1.1.1,
13325 since they neither disabled TLS 1.3 nor enabled any of the
13326 ciphersuites it requires. Now we enable the TLS 1.3 ciphersuites.
13327 Closes ticket 24978.
13329 o Minor features (geoip):
13330 - Update geoip and geoip6 to the February 7 2018 Maxmind GeoLite2
13333 o Minor features (logging, diagnostic, backport from 0.3.3.2-alpha):
13334 - When logging a failure to create an onion service's descriptor,
13335 also log what the problem with the descriptor was. Diagnostic
13338 o Minor bugfix (channel connection, backport from 0.3.3.2-alpha):
13339 - Use the actual observed address of an incoming relay connection,
13340 not the canonical address of the relay from its descriptor, when
13341 making decisions about how to handle the incoming connection.
13342 Fixes bug 24952; bugfix on 0.2.4.11-alpha. Patch by "ffmancera".
13344 o Minor bugfixes (denial-of-service, backport from 0.3.3.3-alpha):
13345 - Fix a possible crash on malformed consensus. If a consensus had
13346 contained an unparseable protocol line, it could have made clients
13347 and relays crash with a null-pointer exception. To exploit this
13348 issue, however, an attacker would need to be able to subvert the
13349 directory authority system. Fixes bug 25251; bugfix on
13350 0.2.9.4-alpha. Also tracked as TROVE-2018-004.
13352 o Minor bugfix (directory authority, backport from 0.3.3.2-alpha):
13353 - Directory authorities, when refusing a descriptor from a rejected
13354 relay, now explicitly tell the relay (in its logs) to set a valid
13355 ContactInfo address and contact the bad-relays@ mailing list.
13356 Fixes bug 25170; bugfix on 0.2.9.1.
13358 o Minor bugfixes (build, rust, backport from 0.3.3.1-alpha):
13359 - When building with Rust on OSX, link against libresolv, to work
13360 around the issue at https://github.com/rust-lang/rust/issues/46797.
13361 Fixes bug 24652; bugfix on 0.3.1.1-alpha.
13363 o Minor bugfixes (onion services, backport from 0.3.3.2-alpha):
13364 - Remove a BUG() statement when a client fetches an onion descriptor
13365 that has a lower revision counter than the one in its cache. This
13366 can happen in normal circumstances due to HSDir desync. Fixes bug
13367 24976; bugfix on 0.3.2.1-alpha.
13369 o Minor bugfixes (logging, backport from 0.3.3.2-alpha):
13370 - Don't treat inability to store a cached consensus object as a bug:
13371 it can happen normally when we are out of disk space. Fixes bug
13372 24859; bugfix on 0.3.1.1-alpha.
13374 o Minor bugfixes (performance, fragile-hardening, backport from 0.3.3.1-alpha):
13375 - Improve the performance of our consensus-diff application code
13376 when Tor is built with the --enable-fragile-hardening option set.
13377 Fixes bug 24826; bugfix on 0.3.1.1-alpha.
13379 o Minor bugfixes (OSX, backport from 0.3.3.1-alpha):
13380 - Don't exit the Tor process if setrlimit() fails to change the file
13381 limit (which can happen sometimes on some versions of OSX). Fixes
13382 bug 21074; bugfix on 0.0.9pre5.
13384 o Minor bugfixes (spec conformance, backport from 0.3.3.3-alpha):
13385 - Forbid "-0" as a protocol version. Fixes part of bug 25249; bugfix on
13387 - Forbid UINT32_MAX as a protocol version. Fixes part of bug 25249;
13388 bugfix on 0.2.9.4-alpha.
13390 o Minor bugfixes (testing, backport from 0.3.3.1-alpha):
13391 - Fix a memory leak in the scheduler/loop_kist unit test. Fixes bug
13392 25005; bugfix on 0.3.2.7-rc.
13394 o Minor bugfixes (v3 onion services, backport from 0.3.3.2-alpha):
13395 - Look at the "HSRend" protocol version, not the "HSDir" protocol
13396 version, when deciding whether a consensus entry can support the
13397 v3 onion service protocol as a rendezvous point. Fixes bug 25105;
13398 bugfix on 0.3.2.1-alpha.
13400 o Code simplification and refactoring (backport from 0.3.3.3-alpha):
13401 - Update the "rust dependencies" submodule to be a project-level
13402 repository, rather than a user repository. Closes ticket 25323.
13404 o Documentation (backport from 0.3.3.1-alpha)
13405 - Document that operators who run more than one relay or bridge are
13406 expected to set MyFamily and ContactInfo correctly. Closes
13410 Changes in version 0.3.3.3-alpha - 2018-03-03
13411 Tor 0.3.3.3-alpha is the third alpha release for the 0.3.3.x series.
13412 It includes an important security fix for a remote crash attack
13413 against directory authorities tracked as TROVE-2018-001.
13415 Additionally, with this release, we are upgrading the severity of a
13416 bug fixed in 0.3.3.2-alpha. Bug 24700, which was fixed in
13417 0.3.3.2-alpha, can be remotely triggered in order to crash relays with
13418 a use-after-free pattern. As such, we are now tracking that bug as
13419 TROVE-2018-002 and CVE-2018-0491. This bug affected versions
13420 0.3.2.1-alpha through 0.3.2.9, as well as 0.3.3.1-alpha.
13422 This release also fixes several minor bugs and annoyances from
13425 Relays running 0.3.2.x should upgrade to one of the versions released
13426 today, for the fix to TROVE-2018-002. Directory authorities should
13427 also upgrade. (Relays on earlier versions might want to update too for
13428 the DoS mitigations.)
13430 o Major bugfixes (denial-of-service, directory authority):
13431 - Fix a protocol-list handling bug that could be used to remotely crash
13432 directory authorities with a null-pointer exception. Fixes bug 25074;
13433 bugfix on 0.2.9.4-alpha. Also tracked as TROVE-2018-001 and
13436 o Minor features (compatibility, OpenSSL):
13437 - Tor will now support TLS1.3 once OpenSSL 1.1.1 is released.
13438 Previous versions of Tor would not have worked with OpenSSL 1.1.1,
13439 since they neither disabled TLS 1.3 nor enabled any of the
13440 ciphersuites it requires. Now we enable the TLS 1.3 ciphersuites.
13441 Closes ticket 24978.
13443 o Minor features (logging):
13444 - Clarify the log messages produced when getrandom() or a related
13445 entropy-generation mechanism gives an error. Closes ticket 25120.
13447 o Minor features (testing):
13448 - Add a "make test-rust" target to run the rust tests only. Closes
13451 o Minor bugfixes (denial-of-service):
13452 - Fix a possible crash on malformed consensus. If a consensus had
13453 contained an unparseable protocol line, it could have made clients
13454 and relays crash with a null-pointer exception. To exploit this
13455 issue, however, an attacker would need to be able to subvert the
13456 directory authority system. Fixes bug 25251; bugfix on
13457 0.2.9.4-alpha. Also tracked as TROVE-2018-004.
13459 o Minor bugfixes (DoS mitigation):
13460 - Add extra safety checks when refilling the circuit creation bucket
13461 to ensure we never set a value above the allowed maximum burst.
13462 Fixes bug 25202; bugfix on 0.3.3.2-alpha.
13463 - When a new consensus arrives, don't update our DoS-mitigation
13464 parameters if we aren't a public relay. Fixes bug 25223; bugfix
13467 o Minor bugfixes (man page, SocksPort):
13468 - Remove dead code from the old "SocksSocket" option, and rename
13469 SocksSocketsGroupWritable to UnixSocksGroupWritable. The old option
13470 still works, but is deprecated. Fixes bug 24343; bugfix on 0.2.6.3.
13472 o Minor bugfixes (performance):
13473 - Reduce the number of circuits that will be opened at once during
13474 the circuit build timeout phase. This is done by increasing the
13475 idle timeout to 3 minutes, and lowering the maximum number of
13476 concurrent learning circuits to 10. Fixes bug 24769; bugfix
13479 o Minor bugfixes (spec conformance):
13480 - Forbid "-0" as a protocol version. Fixes part of bug 25249; bugfix on
13482 - Forbid UINT32_MAX as a protocol version. Fixes part of bug 25249;
13483 bugfix on 0.2.9.4-alpha.
13485 o Minor bugfixes (spec conformance, rust):
13486 - Resolve a denial-of-service issue caused by an infinite loop in
13487 the rust protover code. Fixes bug 25250, bugfix on 0.3.3.1-alpha.
13488 Also tracked as TROVE-2018-003.
13490 o Code simplification and refactoring:
13491 - Update the "rust dependencies" submodule to be a project-level
13492 repository, rather than a user repository. Closes ticket 25323.
13495 Changes in version 0.3.3.2-alpha - 2018-02-10
13496 Tor 0.3.3.2-alpha is the second alpha in the 0.3.3.x series. It
13497 introduces a mechanism to handle the high loads that many relay
13498 operators have been reporting recently. It also fixes several bugs in
13499 older releases. If this new code proves reliable, we plan to backport
13500 it to older supported release series.
13502 o Major features (denial-of-service mitigation):
13503 - Give relays some defenses against the recent network overload. We
13504 start with three defenses (default parameters in parentheses).
13505 First: if a single client address makes too many concurrent
13506 connections (>100), hang up on further connections. Second: if a
13507 single client address makes circuits too quickly (more than 3 per
13508 second, with an allowed burst of 90) while also having too many
13509 connections open (3), refuse new create cells for the next while
13510 (1-2 hours). Third: if a client asks to establish a rendezvous
13511 point to you directly, ignore the request. These defenses can be
13512 manually controlled by new torrc options, but relays will also
13513 take guidance from consensus parameters, so there's no need to
13514 configure anything manually. Implements ticket 24902.
13516 o Major bugfixes (netflow padding):
13517 - Stop adding unneeded channel padding right after we finish
13518 flushing to a connection that has been trying to flush for many
13519 seconds. Instead, treat all partial or complete flushes as
13520 activity on the channel, which will defer the time until we need
13521 to add padding. This fix should resolve confusing and scary log
13522 messages like "Channel padding timeout scheduled 221453ms in the
13523 past." Fixes bug 22212; bugfix on 0.3.1.1-alpha.
13525 o Major bugfixes (protocol versions):
13526 - Add Link protocol version 5 to the supported protocols list. Fixes
13527 bug 25070; bugfix on 0.3.1.1-alpha.
13529 o Major bugfixes (scheduler, consensus):
13530 - The scheduler subsystem was failing to promptly notice changes in
13531 consensus parameters, making it harder to switch schedulers
13532 network-wide. Fixes bug 24975; bugfix on 0.3.2.1-alpha.
13534 o Minor features (denial-of-service avoidance):
13535 - Make our OOM handler aware of the geoip client history cache so it
13536 doesn't fill up the memory. This check is important for IPv6 and
13537 our DoS mitigation subsystem. Closes ticket 25122.
13539 o Minor features (directory authority):
13540 - When directory authorities are unable to add signatures to a
13541 pending consensus, log the reason why. Closes ticket 24849.
13543 o Minor features (geoip):
13544 - Update geoip and geoip6 to the February 7 2018 Maxmind GeoLite2
13547 o Minor features (logging, diagnostic):
13548 - When logging a failure to create an onion service's descriptor,
13549 also log what the problem with the descriptor was. Diagnostic for
13552 o Minor bugfix (channel connection):
13553 - Use the actual observed address of an incoming relay connection,
13554 not the canonical address of the relay from its descriptor, when
13555 making decisions about how to handle the incoming connection.
13556 Fixes bug 24952; bugfix on 0.2.4.11-alpha. Patch by "ffmancera".
13558 o Minor bugfix (directory authority):
13559 - Directory authorities, when refusing a descriptor from a rejected
13560 relay, now explicitly tell the relay (in its logs) to set a valid
13561 ContactInfo address and contact the bad-relays@ mailing list.
13562 Fixes bug 25170; bugfix on 0.2.9.1.
13564 o Minor bugfixes (all versions of Tor):
13565 - Use the "misspell" tool to detect and fix typos throughout the
13566 source code. Fixes bug 23650; bugfix on various versions of Tor.
13567 Patch from Deepesh Pathak.
13569 o Minor bugfixes (circuit, cannibalization):
13570 - Don't cannibalize preemptively-built circuits if we no longer
13571 recognize their first hop. This situation can happen if our Guard
13572 relay went off the consensus after the circuit was created. Fixes
13573 bug 24469; bugfix on 0.0.6.
13575 o Minor bugfixes (correctness):
13576 - Remove a nonworking, unnecessary check to see whether a circuit
13577 hop's identity digest was set when the circuit failed. Fixes bug
13578 24927; bugfix on 0.2.4.4-alpha.
13580 o Minor bugfixes (logging):
13581 - Don't treat inability to store a cached consensus object as a bug:
13582 it can happen normally when we are out of disk space. Fixes bug
13583 24859; bugfix on 0.3.1.1-alpha.
13584 - Fix a (mostly harmless) race condition when invoking
13585 LOG_PROTOCOL_WARN message from a subthread while the torrc options
13586 are changing. Fixes bug 23954; bugfix on 0.1.1.9-alpha.
13588 o Minor bugfixes (onion services):
13589 - Remove a BUG() statement when a client fetches an onion descriptor
13590 that has a lower revision counter than the one in its cache. This
13591 can happen in normal circumstances due to HSDir desync. Fixes bug
13592 24976; bugfix on 0.3.2.1-alpha.
13593 - If we are configured to offer a single onion service, don't log
13594 long-term established one hop rendezvous points in the heartbeat.
13595 Fixes bug 25116; bugfix on 0.2.9.6-rc.
13597 o Minor bugfixes (performance):
13598 - Avoid calling protocol_list_supports_protocol() from inside tight
13599 loops when running with cached routerinfo_t objects. Instead,
13600 summarize the relevant protocols as flags in the routerinfo_t, as
13601 we do for routerstatus_t objects. This change simplifies our code
13602 a little, and saves a large amount of short-term memory allocation
13603 operations. Fixes bug 25008; bugfix on 0.2.9.4-alpha.
13605 o Minor bugfixes (Rust FFI):
13606 - Fix a minor memory leak which would happen whenever the C code
13607 would call the Rust implementation of
13608 protover_get_supported_protocols(). This was due to the C version
13609 returning a static string, whereas the Rust version newly allocated
13610 a CString to pass across the FFI boundary. Consequently, the C
13611 code was not expecting to need to free() what it was given. Fixes
13612 bug 25127; bugfix on 0.3.2.1-alpha.
13614 o Minor bugfixes (scheduler, KIST):
13615 - Avoid adding the same channel twice in the KIST scheduler pending
13616 list, which would waste CPU cycles. Fixes bug 24700; bugfix
13619 o Minor bugfixes (unit test, monotonic time):
13620 - Increase a constant (1msec to 10msec) in the monotonic time test
13621 that makes sure the nsec/usec/msec times read are synchronized.
13622 This change was needed to accommodate slow systems like armel or
13623 when the clock_gettime() is not a VDSO on the running kernel.
13624 Fixes bug 25113; bugfix on 0.2.9.1.
13626 o Minor bugfixes (v3 onion services):
13627 - Look at the "HSRend" protocol version, not the "HSDir" protocol
13628 version, when deciding whether a consensus entry can support the
13629 v3 onion service protocol as a rendezvous point. Fixes bug 25105;
13630 bugfix on 0.3.2.1-alpha.
13632 o Code simplification and refactoring:
13633 - Remove the unused nodelist_recompute_all_hsdir_indices(). Closes
13635 - Remove a series of counters used to track circuit extend attempts
13636 and connection status but that in reality we aren't using for
13637 anything other than stats logged by a SIGUSR1 signal. Closes
13640 o Documentation (man page):
13641 - The HiddenServiceVersion torrc option accepts only one number:
13642 either version 2 or 3. Closes ticket 25026; bugfix
13646 Changes in version 0.3.3.1-alpha - 2018-01-25
13647 Tor 0.3.3.1-alpha is the first release in the 0.3.3.x series. It adds
13648 several new features to Tor, including several improvements to
13649 bootstrapping, and support for an experimental "vanguards" feature to
13650 resist guard discovery attacks. This series also includes better
13651 support for applications that need to embed Tor or manage v3
13654 o Major features (embedding):
13655 - There is now a documented stable API for programs that need to
13656 embed Tor. See tor_api.h for full documentation and known bugs.
13657 Closes ticket 23684.
13658 - Tor now has support for restarting in the same process.
13659 Controllers that run Tor using the "tor_api.h" interface can now
13660 restart Tor after Tor has exited. This support is incomplete,
13661 however: we fixed crash bugs that prevented it from working at
13662 all, but many bugs probably remain, including a possibility of
13663 security issues. Implements ticket 24581.
13665 o Major features (IPv6, directory documents):
13666 - Add consensus method 27, which adds IPv6 ORPorts to the microdesc
13667 consensus. This information makes it easier for IPv6 clients to
13668 bootstrap and choose reachable entry guards. Implements ticket 23826.
13669 - Add consensus method 28, which removes IPv6 ORPorts from
13670 microdescriptors. Now that the consensus contains IPv6 ORPorts, they
13671 are redundant in microdescs. This change will be used by Tor clients
13672 on 0.2.8.x and later. (That is to say, with all Tor clients that
13673 have IPv6 bootstrap and guard support.) Implements ticket 23828.
13674 - Expand the documentation for AuthDirHasIPv6Connectivity when it is
13675 set by different numbers of authorities. Fixes 23870
13678 o Major features (onion service v3, control port):
13679 - The control port now supports commands and events for v3 onion
13680 services. It is now possible to create ephemeral v3 services using
13681 ADD_ONION. Additionally, several events (HS_DESC, HS_DESC_CONTENT,
13682 CIRC and CIRC_MINOR) and commands (GETINFO, HSPOST, ADD_ONION and
13683 DEL_ONION) have been extended to support v3 onion services. Closes
13684 ticket 20699; implements proposal 284.
13686 o Major features (onion services):
13687 - Provide torrc options to pin the second and third hops of onion
13688 service circuits to a list of nodes. The option HSLayer2Guards
13689 pins the second hop, and the option HSLayer3Guards pins the third
13690 hop. These options are for use in conjunction with experiments
13691 with "vanguards" for preventing guard enumeration attacks. Closes
13694 o Major features (rust, portability, experimental):
13695 - Tor now ships with an optional implementation of one of its
13696 smaller modules (protover.c) in the Rust programming language. To
13697 try it out, install a Rust build environment, and configure Tor
13698 with "--enable-rust --enable-cargo-online-mode". This should not
13699 cause any user-visible changes, but should help us gain more
13700 experience with Rust, and plan future Rust integration work.
13701 Implementation by Chelsea Komlo. Closes ticket 22840.
13703 o Minor features (storage, configuration):
13704 - Users can store cached directory documents somewhere other than
13705 the DataDirectory by using the CacheDirectory option. Similarly,
13706 the storage location for relay's keys can be overridden with the
13707 KeyDirectory option. Closes ticket 22703.
13709 o Major features (v3 onion services, ipv6):
13710 - When v3 onion service clients send introduce cells, they now
13711 include the IPv6 address of the rendezvous point, if it has one.
13712 Current v3 onion services running 0.3.2 ignore IPv6 addresses, but
13713 in future Tor versions, IPv6-only v3 single onion services will be
13714 able to use IPv6 addresses to connect directly to the rendezvous
13715 point. Closes ticket 23577. Patch by Neel Chauhan.
13717 o Major bugfixes (onion services, retry behavior):
13718 - Fix an "off by 2" error in counting rendezvous failures on the
13719 onion service side. While we thought we would stop the rendezvous
13720 attempt after one failed circuit, we were actually making three
13721 circuit attempts before giving up. Now switch to a default of 2,
13722 and allow the consensus parameter "hs_service_max_rdv_failures" to
13723 override. Fixes bug 24895; bugfix on 0.0.6.
13724 - New-style (v3) onion services now obey the "max rendezvous circuit
13725 attempts" logic. Previously they would make as many rendezvous
13726 circuit attempts as they could fit in the MAX_REND_TIMEOUT second
13727 window before giving up. Fixes bug 24894; bugfix on 0.3.2.1-alpha.
13729 o Major bugfixes (relays):
13730 - Fix a set of false positives where relays would consider
13731 connections to other relays as being client-only connections (and
13732 thus e.g. deserving different link padding schemes) if those
13733 relays fell out of the consensus briefly. Now we look only at the
13734 initial handshake and whether the connection authenticated as a
13735 relay. Fixes bug 24898; bugfix on 0.3.1.1-alpha.
13737 o Minor feature (IPv6):
13738 - Make IPv6-only clients wait for microdescs for relays, even if we
13739 were previously using descriptors (or were using them as a bridge)
13740 and have a cached descriptor for them. Implements ticket 23827.
13741 - When a consensus has IPv6 ORPorts, make IPv6-only clients use
13742 them, rather than waiting to download microdescriptors.
13743 Implements ticket 23827.
13745 o Minor features (cleanup):
13746 - Tor now deletes the CookieAuthFile and ExtORPortCookieAuthFile
13747 when it stops. Closes ticket 23271.
13749 o Minor features (defensive programming):
13750 - Most of the functions in Tor that free objects have been replaced
13751 with macros that free the objects and set the corresponding
13752 pointers to NULL. This change should help prevent a large class of
13753 dangling pointer bugs. Closes ticket 24337.
13754 - Where possible, the tor_free() macro now only evaluates its input
13755 once. Part of ticket 24337.
13756 - Check that microdesc ed25519 ids are non-zero in
13757 node_get_ed25519_id() before returning them. Implements ticket
13758 24001, patch by "aruna1234".
13760 o Minor features (embedding):
13761 - Tor can now start with a preauthenticated control connection
13762 created by the process that launched it. This feature is meant for
13763 use by programs that want to launch and manage a Tor process
13764 without allowing other programs to manage it as well. For more
13765 information, see the __OwningControllerFD option documented in
13766 control-spec.txt. Closes ticket 23900.
13767 - On most errors that would cause Tor to exit, it now tries to
13768 return from the tor_main() function, rather than calling the
13769 system exit() function. Most users won't notice a difference here,
13770 but it should be significant for programs that run Tor inside
13771 a separate thread: they should now be able to survive Tor's exit
13772 conditions rather than having Tor shut down the entire process.
13773 Closes ticket 23848.
13774 - Applications that want to embed Tor can now tell Tor not to
13775 register any of its own POSIX signal handlers, using the
13776 __DisableSignalHandlers option. Closes ticket 24588.
13778 o Minor features (fallback directory list):
13779 - Avoid selecting fallbacks that change their IP addresses too
13780 often. Select more fallbacks by ignoring the Guard flag, and
13781 allowing lower cutoffs for the Running and V2Dir flags. Also allow
13782 a lower bandwidth, and a higher number of fallbacks per operator
13783 (5% of the list). Implements ticket 24785.
13784 - Update the fallback whitelist and blacklist based on opt-ins and
13785 relay changes. Closes tickets 22321, 24678, 22527, 24135,
13788 o Minor features (fallback directory mirror configuration):
13789 - Add a nickname to each fallback in a C comment. This makes it
13790 easier for operators to find their relays, and allows stem to use
13791 nicknames to identify fallbacks. Implements ticket 24600.
13792 - Add a type and version header to the fallback directory mirror
13793 file. Also add a delimiter to the end of each fallback entry. This
13794 helps external parsers like stem and Relay Search. Implements
13796 - Add an extrainfo cache flag for each fallback in a C comment. This
13797 allows stem to use fallbacks to fetch extra-info documents, rather
13798 than using authorities. Implements ticket 22759.
13799 - Add the generateFallbackDirLine.py script for automatically
13800 generating fallback directory mirror lines from relay fingerprints.
13801 No more typos! Add the lookupFallbackDirContact.py script for
13802 automatically looking up operator contact info from relay
13803 fingerprints. Implements ticket 24706, patch by teor and atagar.
13804 - Reject any fallback directory mirror that serves an expired
13805 consensus. Implements ticket 20942, patch by "minik".
13806 - Remove commas and equals signs from external string inputs to the
13807 fallback list. This avoids format confusion attacks. Implements
13809 - Remove the "weight=10" line from fallback directory mirror
13810 entries. Ticket 24681 will maintain the current fallback weights
13811 by changing Tor's default fallback weight to 10. Implements
13813 - Stop logging excessive information about fallback netblocks.
13814 Implements ticket 24791.
13816 o Minor features (forward-compatibility):
13817 - If a relay supports some link authentication protocol that we do
13818 not recognize, then include that relay's ed25519 key when telling
13819 other relays to extend to it. Previously, we treated future
13820 versions as if they were too old to support ed25519 link
13821 authentication. Closes ticket 20895.
13823 o Minor features (heartbeat):
13824 - Add onion service information to our heartbeat logs, displaying
13825 stats about the activity of configured onion services. Closes
13828 o Minor features (instrumentation, development):
13829 - Add the MainloopStats option to allow developers to get
13830 instrumentation information from the main event loop via the
13831 heartbeat messages. We hope to use this to improve Tor's behavior
13832 when it's trying to sleep. Closes ticket 24605.
13834 o Minor features (log messages):
13835 - Improve a warning message that happens when we fail to re-parse an
13836 old router because of an expired certificate. Closes ticket 20020.
13837 - Make the log more quantitative when we hit MaxMemInQueues
13838 threshold exposing some values. Closes ticket 24501.
13840 o Minor features (logging, android):
13841 - Added support for the Android logging subsystem. Closes
13844 o Minor features (performance):
13845 - Support predictive circuit building for onion service circuits
13846 with multiple layers of guards. Closes ticket 23101.
13847 - Use stdatomic.h where available, rather than mutexes, to implement
13848 atomic_counter_t. Closes ticket 23953.
13850 o Minor features (performance, 32-bit):
13851 - Improve performance on 32-bit systems by avoiding 64-bit division
13852 when calculating the timestamp in milliseconds for channel padding
13853 computations. Implements ticket 24613.
13854 - Improve performance on 32-bit systems by avoiding 64-bit division
13855 when timestamping cells and buffer chunks for OOM calculations.
13856 Implements ticket 24374.
13858 o Minor features (performance, OSX, iOS):
13859 - Use the mach_approximate_time() function (when available) to
13860 implement coarse monotonic time. Having a coarse time function
13861 should avoid a large number of system calls, and improve
13862 performance slightly, especially under load. Closes ticket 24427.
13864 o Minor features (performance, windows):
13865 - Improve performance on Windows Vista and Windows 7 by adjusting
13866 TCP send window size according to the recommendation from
13867 SIO_IDEAL_SEND_BACKLOG_QUERY. Closes ticket 22798. Patch
13870 o Major features (relay):
13871 - Implement an option, ReducedExitPolicy, to allow an Tor exit relay
13872 operator to use a more reasonable ("reduced") exit policy, rather
13873 than the default one. If you want to run an exit node without
13874 thinking too hard about which ports to allow, this one is for you.
13875 Closes ticket 13605. Patch from Neel Chauhan.
13877 o Minor features (testing, debugging, embedding):
13878 - For development purposes, Tor now has a mode in which it runs for
13879 a few seconds, then stops, and starts again without exiting the
13880 process. This mode is meant to help us debug various issues with
13881 ticket 23847. To use this feature, compile with
13882 --enable-restart-debugging, and set the TOR_DEBUG_RESTART
13883 environment variable. This is expected to crash a lot, and is
13884 really meant for developers only. It will likely be removed in a
13885 future release. Implements ticket 24583.
13887 o Minor bugfix (network IPv6 test):
13888 - Tor's test scripts now check if "ping -6 ::1" works when the user
13889 runs "make test-network-all". Fixes bug 24677; bugfix on
13890 0.2.9.3-alpha. Patch by "ffmancera".
13892 o Minor bugfixes (build, rust):
13893 - Fix output of autoconf checks to display success messages for Rust
13894 dependencies and a suitable rustc compiler version. Fixes bug
13895 24612; bugfix on 0.3.1.3-alpha.
13896 - When building with Rust on OSX, link against libresolv, to work
13897 around the issue at https://github.com/rust-lang/rust/issues/46797.
13898 Fixes bug 24652; bugfix on 0.3.1.1-alpha.
13899 - Don't pass the --quiet option to cargo: it seems to suppress some
13900 errors, which is not what we want to do when building. Fixes bug
13901 24518; bugfix on 0.3.1.7.
13902 - Build correctly when building from outside Tor's source tree with
13903 the TOR_RUST_DEPENDENCIES option set. Fixes bug 22768; bugfix
13906 o Minor bugfixes (directory authorities, IPv6):
13907 - When creating a routerstatus (vote) from a routerinfo (descriptor),
13908 set the IPv6 address to the unspecified IPv6 address, and
13909 explicitly initialize the port to zero. Fixes bug 24488; bugfix
13912 o Minor bugfixes (fallback directory mirrors):
13913 - Make updateFallbackDirs.py search harder for python. (Some OSs
13914 don't put it in /usr/bin.) Fixes bug 24708; bugfix
13917 o Minor bugfixes (hibernation, bandwidth accounting, shutdown):
13918 - When hibernating, close connections normally and allow them to
13919 flush. Fixes bug 23571; bugfix on 0.2.4.7-alpha. Also fixes
13921 - Do not attempt to launch self-reachability tests when entering
13922 hibernation. Fixes a case of bug 12062; bugfix on 0.0.9pre5.
13923 - Resolve several bugs related to descriptor fetching on bridge
13924 clients with bandwidth accounting enabled. (This combination is
13925 not recommended!) Fixes a case of bug 12062; bugfix
13927 - When hibernating, do not attempt to launch DNS checks. Fixes a
13928 case of bug 12062; bugfix on 0.1.2.2-alpha.
13929 - When hibernating, do not try to upload or download descriptors.
13930 Fixes a case of bug 12062; bugfix on 0.0.9pre5.
13932 o Minor bugfixes (IPv6, bridges):
13933 - Tor now always sets IPv6 preferences for bridges. Fixes bug 24573;
13934 bugfix on 0.2.8.2-alpha.
13935 - Tor now sets IPv6 address in the routerstatus as well as in the
13936 router descriptors when updating addresses for a bridge. Closes
13937 ticket 24572; bugfix on 0.2.4.5-alpha. Patch by "ffmancera".
13939 o Minor bugfixes (linux seccomp2 sandbox):
13940 - When running with the sandbox enabled, reload configuration files
13941 correctly even when %include was used. Previously we would crash.
13942 Fixes bug 22605; bugfix on 0.3.1. Patch from Daniel Pinto.
13944 o Minor bugfixes (memory leaks):
13945 - Avoid possible at-exit memory leaks related to use of Libevent's
13946 event_base_once() function. (This function tends to leak memory if
13947 the event_base is closed before the event fires.) Fixes bug 24584;
13948 bugfix on 0.2.8.1-alpha.
13949 - Fix a harmless memory leak in tor-resolve. Fixes bug 24582; bugfix
13952 o Minor bugfixes (OSX):
13953 - Don't exit the Tor process if setrlimit() fails to change the file
13954 limit (which can happen sometimes on some versions of OSX). Fixes
13955 bug 21074; bugfix on 0.0.9pre5.
13957 o Minor bugfixes (performance, fragile-hardening):
13958 - Improve the performance of our consensus-diff application code
13959 when Tor is built with the --enable-fragile-hardening option set.
13960 Fixes bug 24826; bugfix on 0.3.1.1-alpha.
13962 o Minor bugfixes (performance, timeouts):
13963 - Consider circuits for timeout as soon as they complete a hop. This
13964 is more accurate than applying the timeout in
13965 circuit_expire_building() because that function is only called
13966 once per second, which is now too slow for typical timeouts on the
13967 current network. Fixes bug 23114; bugfix on 0.2.2.2-alpha.
13968 - Use onion service circuits (and other circuits longer than 3 hops)
13969 to calculate a circuit build timeout. Previously, Tor only
13970 calculated its build timeout based on circuits that planned to be
13971 exactly 3 hops long. With this change, we include measurements
13972 from all circuits at the point where they complete their third
13973 hop. Fixes bug 23100; bugfix on 0.2.2.2-alpha.
13975 o Minor bugfixes (testing):
13976 - Give out Exit flags in bootstrapping networks. Fixes bug 24137;
13977 bugfix on 0.2.3.1-alpha.
13978 - Fix a memory leak in the scheduler/loop_kist unit test. Fixes bug
13979 25005; bugfix on 0.3.2.7-rc.
13981 o Code simplification and refactoring:
13982 - Remove /usr/athena from search path in configure.ac. Closes
13984 - Remove duplicate code in node_has_curve25519_onion_key() and
13985 node_get_curve25519_onion_key(), and add a check for a zero
13986 microdesc curve25519 onion key. Closes ticket 23966, patch by
13987 "aruna1234" and teor.
13988 - Rewrite channel_rsa_id_group_set_badness to reduce temporary
13989 memory allocations with large numbers of OR connections (e.g.
13990 relays). Closes ticket 24119.
13991 - Separate the function that deletes ephemeral files when Tor
13993 - Small changes to Tor's buf_t API to make it suitable for use as a
13994 general-purpose safe string constructor. Closes ticket 22342.
13995 - Switch -Wnormalized=id to -Wnormalized=nfkc in configure.ac to
13996 avoid source code identifier confusion. Closes ticket 24467.
13997 - The tor_git_revision[] constant no longer needs to be redeclared
13998 by everything that links against the rest of Tor. Done as part of
13999 ticket 23845, to simplify our external API.
14000 - We make extend_info_from_node() use node_get_curve25519_onion_key()
14001 introduced in ticket 23577 to access the curve25519 public keys
14002 rather than accessing it directly. Closes ticket 23760. Patch by
14004 - Add a function to log channels' scheduler state changes to aid
14005 debugging efforts. Closes ticket 24531.
14008 - Add documentation on how to build tor with Rust dependencies
14009 without having to be online. Closes ticket 22907; bugfix
14011 - Clarify the behavior of RelayBandwidth{Rate,Burst} with client
14012 traffic. Closes ticket 24318.
14013 - Document that OutboundBindAddress doesn't apply to DNS requests.
14014 Closes ticket 22145. Patch from Aruna Maurya.
14015 - Document that operators who run more than one relay or bridge are
14016 expected to set MyFamily and ContactInfo correctly. Closes
14019 o Code simplification and refactoring (channels):
14020 - Remove the incoming and outgoing channel queues. These were never
14021 used, but still took up a step in our fast path.
14022 - The majority of the channel unit tests have been rewritten and the
14023 code coverage has now been raised to 83.6% for channel.c. Closes
14025 - Remove other dead code from the channel subsystem: All together,
14026 this cleanup has removed more than 1500 lines of code overall and
14027 adding very little except for unit test.
14029 o Code simplification and refactoring (circuit rendezvous):
14030 - Split the client-side rendezvous circuit lookup into two
14031 functions: one that returns only established circuits and another
14032 that returns all kinds of circuits. Closes ticket 23459.
14034 o Code simplification and refactoring (controller):
14035 - Make most of the variables in networkstatus_getinfo_by_purpose()
14036 const. Implements ticket 24489.
14039 Changes in version 0.3.2.9 - 2018-01-09
14040 Tor 0.3.2.9 is the first stable release in the 0.3.2 series.
14042 The 0.3.2 series includes our long-anticipated new onion service
14043 design, with numerous security features. (For more information, see
14044 our blog post at https://blog.torproject.org/fall-harvest.) We also
14045 have a new circuit scheduler algorithm for improved performance on
14046 relays everywhere (see https://blog.torproject.org/kist-and-tell),
14047 along with many smaller features and bugfixes.
14049 Per our stable release policy, we plan to support each stable release
14050 series for at least the next nine months, or for three months after
14051 the first stable release of the next series: whichever is longer. If
14052 you need a release with long-term support, we recommend that you stay
14053 with the 0.2.9 series.
14055 Below is a list of the changes since 0.3.2.8-rc. For a list of all
14056 changes since 0.3.1, see the ReleaseNotes file.
14058 o Minor features (fallback directory mirrors):
14059 - The fallback directory list has been re-generated based on the
14060 current status of the network. Tor uses fallback directories to
14061 bootstrap when it doesn't yet have up-to-date directory
14062 information. Closes ticket 24801.
14063 - Make the default DirAuthorityFallbackRate 0.1, so that clients
14064 prefer to bootstrap from fallback directory mirrors. This is a
14065 follow-up to 24679, which removed weights from the default
14066 fallbacks. Implements ticket 24681.
14068 o Minor features (geoip):
14069 - Update geoip and geoip6 to the January 5 2018 Maxmind GeoLite2
14072 o Minor bugfixes (address selection):
14073 - When the fascist_firewall_choose_address_ functions don't find a
14074 reachable address, set the returned address to the null address
14075 and port. This is a precautionary measure, because some callers do
14076 not check the return value. Fixes bug 24736; bugfix
14079 o Minor bugfixes (compilation):
14080 - Resolve a few shadowed-variable warnings in the onion service
14081 code. Fixes bug 24634; bugfix on 0.3.2.1-alpha.
14083 o Minor bugfixes (portability, msvc):
14084 - Fix a bug in the bit-counting parts of our timing-wheel code on
14085 MSVC. (Note that MSVC is still not a supported build platform, due
14086 to cryptographic timing channel risks.) Fixes bug 24633; bugfix
14090 Changes in version 0.3.2.8-rc - 2017-12-21
14091 Tor 0.3.2.8-rc fixes a pair of bugs in the KIST and KISTLite
14092 schedulers that had led servers under heavy load to overload their
14093 outgoing connections. All relay operators running earlier 0.3.2.x
14094 versions should upgrade. This version also includes a mitigation for
14095 over-full DESTROY queues leading to out-of-memory conditions: if it
14096 works, we will soon backport it to earlier release series.
14098 This is the second release candidate in the 0.3.2 series. If we find
14099 no new bugs or regression here, then the first stable 0.3.2 release
14100 will be nearly identical to this.
14102 o Major bugfixes (KIST, scheduler):
14103 - The KIST scheduler did not correctly account for data already
14104 enqueued in each connection's send socket buffer, particularly in
14105 cases when the TCP/IP congestion window was reduced between
14106 scheduler calls. This situation lead to excessive per-connection
14107 buffering in the kernel, and a potential memory DoS. Fixes bug
14108 24665; bugfix on 0.3.2.1-alpha.
14110 o Minor features (geoip):
14111 - Update geoip and geoip6 to the December 6 2017 Maxmind GeoLite2
14114 o Minor bugfixes (hidden service v3):
14115 - Bump hsdir_spread_store parameter from 3 to 4 in order to increase
14116 the probability of reaching a service for a client missing
14117 microdescriptors. Fixes bug 24425; bugfix on 0.3.2.1-alpha.
14119 o Minor bugfixes (memory usage):
14120 - When queuing DESTROY cells on a channel, only queue the circuit-id
14121 and reason fields: not the entire 514-byte cell. This fix should
14122 help mitigate any bugs or attacks that fill up these queues, and
14123 free more RAM for other uses. Fixes bug 24666; bugfix
14126 o Minor bugfixes (scheduler, KIST):
14127 - Use a sane write limit for KISTLite when writing onto a connection
14128 buffer instead of using INT_MAX and shoving as much as it can.
14129 Because the OOM handler cleans up circuit queues, we are better
14130 off at keeping them in that queue instead of the connection's
14131 buffer. Fixes bug 24671; bugfix on 0.3.2.1-alpha.
14134 Changes in version 0.3.2.7-rc - 2017-12-14
14135 Tor 0.3.2.7-rc fixes various bugs in earlier versions of Tor,
14136 including some that could affect reliability or correctness.
14138 This is the first release candidate in the 0.3.2 series. If we find no
14139 new bugs or regression here, then the first stable 0.3.2. release will
14140 be nearly identical to this.
14142 o Major bugfixes (circuit prediction):
14143 - Fix circuit prediction logic so that a client doesn't treat a port
14144 as being "handled" by a circuit if that circuit already has
14145 isolation settings on it. This change should make Tor clients more
14146 responsive by improving their chances of having a pre-created
14147 circuit ready for use when a request arrives. Fixes bug 18859;
14148 bugfix on 0.2.3.3-alpha.
14150 o Minor features (logging):
14151 - Provide better warnings when the getrandom() syscall fails. Closes
14154 o Minor features (portability):
14155 - Tor now compiles correctly on arm64 with libseccomp-dev installed.
14156 (It doesn't yet work with the sandbox enabled.) Closes
14159 o Minor bugfixes (bridge clients, bootstrap):
14160 - Retry directory downloads when we get our first bridge descriptor
14161 during bootstrap or while reconnecting to the network. Keep
14162 retrying every time we get a bridge descriptor, until we have a
14163 reachable bridge. Fixes part of bug 24367; bugfix on 0.2.0.3-alpha.
14164 - Stop delaying bridge descriptor fetches when we have cached bridge
14165 descriptors. Instead, only delay bridge descriptor fetches when we
14166 have at least one reachable bridge. Fixes part of bug 24367;
14167 bugfix on 0.2.0.3-alpha.
14168 - Stop delaying directory fetches when we have cached bridge
14169 descriptors. Instead, only delay bridge descriptor fetches when
14170 all our bridges are definitely unreachable. Fixes part of bug
14171 24367; bugfix on 0.2.0.3-alpha.
14173 o Minor bugfixes (compilation):
14174 - Fix a signed/unsigned comparison warning introduced by our fix to
14175 TROVE-2017-009. Fixes bug 24480; bugfix on 0.2.5.16.
14177 o Minor bugfixes (correctness):
14178 - Fix several places in our codebase where a C compiler would be
14179 likely to eliminate a check, based on assuming that undefined
14180 behavior had not happened elsewhere in the code. These cases are
14181 usually a sign of redundant checking or dubious arithmetic. Found
14182 by Georg Koppen using the "STACK" tool from Wang, Zeldovich,
14183 Kaashoek, and Solar-Lezama. Fixes bug 24423; bugfix on various
14186 o Minor bugfixes (onion service v3):
14187 - Fix a race where an onion service would launch a new intro circuit
14188 after closing an old one, but fail to register it before freeing
14189 the previously closed circuit. This bug was making the service
14190 unable to find the established intro circuit and thus not upload
14191 its descriptor, thus making a service unavailable for up to 24
14192 hours. Fixes bug 23603; bugfix on 0.3.2.1-alpha.
14194 o Minor bugfixes (scheduler, KIST):
14195 - Properly set the scheduler state of an unopened channel in the
14196 KIST scheduler main loop. This prevents a harmless but annoying
14197 log warning. Fixes bug 24502; bugfix on 0.3.2.4-alpha.
14198 - Avoid a possible integer overflow when computing the available
14199 space on the TCP buffer of a channel. This had no security
14200 implications; but could make KIST allow too many cells on a
14201 saturated connection. Fixes bug 24590; bugfix on 0.3.2.1-alpha.
14202 - Downgrade to "info" a harmless warning about the monotonic time
14203 moving backwards: This can happen on platform not supporting
14204 monotonic time. Fixes bug 23696; bugfix on 0.3.2.1-alpha.
14207 Changes in version 0.3.2.6-alpha - 2017-12-01
14208 This version of Tor is the latest in the 0.3.2 alpha series. It
14209 includes fixes for several important security issues. All Tor users
14210 should upgrade to this release, or to one of the other releases coming
14213 o Major bugfixes (security):
14214 - Fix a denial of service bug where an attacker could use a
14215 malformed directory object to cause a Tor instance to pause while
14216 OpenSSL would try to read a passphrase from the terminal. (Tor
14217 instances run without a terminal, which is the case for most Tor
14218 packages, are not impacted.) Fixes bug 24246; bugfix on every
14219 version of Tor. Also tracked as TROVE-2017-011 and CVE-2017-8821.
14220 Found by OSS-Fuzz as testcase 6360145429790720.
14221 - Fix a denial of service issue where an attacker could crash a
14222 directory authority using a malformed router descriptor. Fixes bug
14223 24245; bugfix on 0.2.9.4-alpha. Also tracked as TROVE-2017-010
14225 - When checking for replays in the INTRODUCE1 cell data for a
14226 (legacy) onion service, correctly detect replays in the RSA-
14227 encrypted part of the cell. We were previously checking for
14228 replays on the entire cell, but those can be circumvented due to
14229 the malleability of Tor's legacy hybrid encryption. This fix helps
14230 prevent a traffic confirmation attack. Fixes bug 24244; bugfix on
14231 0.2.4.1-alpha. This issue is also tracked as TROVE-2017-009
14234 o Major bugfixes (security, onion service v2):
14235 - Fix a use-after-free error that could crash v2 Tor onion services
14236 when they failed to open circuits while expiring introduction
14237 points. Fixes bug 24313; bugfix on 0.2.7.2-alpha. This issue is
14238 also tracked as TROVE-2017-013 and CVE-2017-8823.
14240 o Major bugfixes (security, relay):
14241 - When running as a relay, make sure that we never build a path
14242 through ourselves, even in the case where we have somehow lost the
14243 version of our descriptor appearing in the consensus. Fixes part
14244 of bug 21534; bugfix on 0.2.0.1-alpha. This issue is also tracked
14245 as TROVE-2017-012 and CVE-2017-8822.
14246 - When running as a relay, make sure that we never choose ourselves
14247 as a guard. Fixes part of bug 21534; bugfix on 0.3.0.1-alpha. This
14248 issue is also tracked as TROVE-2017-012 and CVE-2017-8822.
14250 o Minor feature (relay statistics):
14251 - Change relay bandwidth reporting stats interval from 4 hours to 24
14252 hours in order to reduce the efficiency of guard discovery
14253 attacks. Fixes ticket 23856.
14255 o Minor features (directory authority):
14256 - Add an IPv6 address for the "bastet" directory authority. Closes
14259 o Minor bugfixes (client):
14260 - By default, do not enable storage of client-side DNS values. These
14261 values were unused by default previously, but they should not have
14262 been cached at all. Fixes bug 24050; bugfix on 0.2.6.3-alpha.
14265 Changes in version 0.3.1.9 - 2017-12-01:
14266 Tor 0.3.1.9 backports important security and stability fixes from the
14267 0.3.2 development series. All Tor users should upgrade to this
14268 release, or to another of the releases coming out today.
14270 o Major bugfixes (security, backport from 0.3.2.6-alpha):
14271 - Fix a denial of service bug where an attacker could use a
14272 malformed directory object to cause a Tor instance to pause while
14273 OpenSSL would try to read a passphrase from the terminal. (Tor
14274 instances run without a terminal, which is the case for most Tor
14275 packages, are not impacted.) Fixes bug 24246; bugfix on every
14276 version of Tor. Also tracked as TROVE-2017-011 and CVE-2017-8821.
14277 Found by OSS-Fuzz as testcase 6360145429790720.
14278 - Fix a denial of service issue where an attacker could crash a
14279 directory authority using a malformed router descriptor. Fixes bug
14280 24245; bugfix on 0.2.9.4-alpha. Also tracked as TROVE-2017-010
14282 - When checking for replays in the INTRODUCE1 cell data for a
14283 (legacy) onion service, correctly detect replays in the RSA-
14284 encrypted part of the cell. We were previously checking for
14285 replays on the entire cell, but those can be circumvented due to
14286 the malleability of Tor's legacy hybrid encryption. This fix helps
14287 prevent a traffic confirmation attack. Fixes bug 24244; bugfix on
14288 0.2.4.1-alpha. This issue is also tracked as TROVE-2017-009
14291 o Major bugfixes (security, onion service v2, backport from 0.3.2.6-alpha):
14292 - Fix a use-after-free error that could crash v2 Tor onion services
14293 when they failed to open circuits while expiring introduction
14294 points. Fixes bug 24313; bugfix on 0.2.7.2-alpha. This issue is
14295 also tracked as TROVE-2017-013 and CVE-2017-8823.
14297 o Major bugfixes (security, relay, backport from 0.3.2.6-alpha):
14298 - When running as a relay, make sure that we never build a path
14299 through ourselves, even in the case where we have somehow lost the
14300 version of our descriptor appearing in the consensus. Fixes part
14301 of bug 21534; bugfix on 0.2.0.1-alpha. This issue is also tracked
14302 as TROVE-2017-012 and CVE-2017-8822.
14303 - When running as a relay, make sure that we never choose ourselves
14304 as a guard. Fixes part of bug 21534; bugfix on 0.3.0.1-alpha. This
14305 issue is also tracked as TROVE-2017-012 and CVE-2017-8822.
14307 o Major bugfixes (exit relays, DNS, backport from 0.3.2.4-alpha):
14308 - Fix an issue causing DNS to fail on high-bandwidth exit nodes,
14309 making them nearly unusable. Fixes bugs 21394 and 18580; bugfix on
14310 0.1.2.2-alpha, which introduced eventdns. Thanks to Dhalgren for
14311 identifying and finding a workaround to this bug and to Moritz,
14312 Arthur Edelstein, and Roger for helping to track it down and
14315 o Minor features (bridge):
14316 - Bridges now include notice in their descriptors that they are
14317 bridges, and notice of their distribution status, based on their
14318 publication settings. Implements ticket 18329. For more fine-
14319 grained control of how a bridge is distributed, upgrade to 0.3.2.x
14322 o Minor features (directory authority, backport from 0.3.2.6-alpha):
14323 - Add an IPv6 address for the "bastet" directory authority. Closes
14326 o Minor features (geoip):
14327 - Update geoip and geoip6 to the November 6 2017 Maxmind GeoLite2
14330 o Minor bugfix (relay address resolution, backport from 0.3.2.1-alpha):
14331 - Avoid unnecessary calls to directory_fetches_from_authorities() on
14332 relays, to prevent spurious address resolutions and descriptor
14333 rebuilds. This is a mitigation for bug 21789. Fixes bug 23470;
14334 bugfix on in 0.2.8.1-alpha.
14336 o Minor bugfixes (compilation, backport from 0.3.2.1-alpha):
14337 - Fix unused variable warnings in donna's Curve25519 SSE2 code.
14338 Fixes bug 22895; bugfix on 0.2.7.2-alpha.
14340 o Minor bugfixes (logging, relay shutdown, annoyance, backport from 0.3.2.2-alpha):
14341 - When a circuit is marked for close, do not attempt to package any
14342 cells for channels on that circuit. Previously, we would detect
14343 this condition lower in the call stack, when we noticed that the
14344 circuit had no attached channel, and log an annoying message.
14345 Fixes bug 8185; bugfix on 0.2.5.4-alpha.
14347 o Minor bugfixes (onion service, backport from 0.3.2.5-alpha):
14348 - Rename the consensus parameter "hsdir-interval" to "hsdir_interval"
14349 so it matches dir-spec.txt. Fixes bug 24262; bugfix
14352 o Minor bugfixes (relay, crash, backport from 0.3.2.4-alpha):
14353 - Avoid a crash when transitioning from client mode to bridge mode.
14354 Previously, we would launch the worker threads whenever our
14355 "public server" mode changed, but not when our "server" mode
14356 changed. Fixes bug 23693; bugfix on 0.2.6.3-alpha.
14359 Changes in version 0.3.0.13 - 2017-12-01
14360 Tor 0.3.0.13 backports important security and stability bugfixes from
14361 later Tor releases. All Tor users should upgrade to this release, or
14362 to another of the releases coming out today.
14364 Note: the Tor 0.3.0 series will no longer be supported after 26 Jan
14365 2018. If you need a release with long-term support, please stick with
14366 the 0.2.9 series. Otherwise, please upgrade to 0.3.1 or later.
14368 o Major bugfixes (security, backport from 0.3.2.6-alpha):
14369 - Fix a denial of service bug where an attacker could use a
14370 malformed directory object to cause a Tor instance to pause while
14371 OpenSSL would try to read a passphrase from the terminal. (Tor
14372 instances run without a terminal, which is the case for most Tor
14373 packages, are not impacted.) Fixes bug 24246; bugfix on every
14374 version of Tor. Also tracked as TROVE-2017-011 and CVE-2017-8821.
14375 Found by OSS-Fuzz as testcase 6360145429790720.
14376 - Fix a denial of service issue where an attacker could crash a
14377 directory authority using a malformed router descriptor. Fixes bug
14378 24245; bugfix on 0.2.9.4-alpha. Also tracked as TROVE-2017-010
14380 - When checking for replays in the INTRODUCE1 cell data for a
14381 (legacy) onion service, correctly detect replays in the RSA-
14382 encrypted part of the cell. We were previously checking for
14383 replays on the entire cell, but those can be circumvented due to
14384 the malleability of Tor's legacy hybrid encryption. This fix helps
14385 prevent a traffic confirmation attack. Fixes bug 24244; bugfix on
14386 0.2.4.1-alpha. This issue is also tracked as TROVE-2017-009
14389 o Major bugfixes (security, onion service v2, backport from 0.3.2.6-alpha):
14390 - Fix a use-after-free error that could crash v2 Tor onion services
14391 when they failed to open circuits while expiring introduction
14392 points. Fixes bug 24313; bugfix on 0.2.7.2-alpha. This issue is
14393 also tracked as TROVE-2017-013 and CVE-2017-8823.
14395 o Major bugfixes (security, relay, backport from 0.3.2.6-alpha):
14396 - When running as a relay, make sure that we never build a path
14397 through ourselves, even in the case where we have somehow lost the
14398 version of our descriptor appearing in the consensus. Fixes part
14399 of bug 21534; bugfix on 0.2.0.1-alpha. This issue is also tracked
14400 as TROVE-2017-012 and CVE-2017-8822.
14401 - When running as a relay, make sure that we never choose ourselves
14402 as a guard. Fixes part of bug 21534; bugfix on 0.3.0.1-alpha. This
14403 issue is also tracked as TROVE-2017-012 and CVE-2017-8822.
14405 o Major bugfixes (exit relays, DNS, backport from 0.3.2.4-alpha):
14406 - Fix an issue causing DNS to fail on high-bandwidth exit nodes,
14407 making them nearly unusable. Fixes bugs 21394 and 18580; bugfix on
14408 0.1.2.2-alpha, which introduced eventdns. Thanks to Dhalgren for
14409 identifying and finding a workaround to this bug and to Moritz,
14410 Arthur Edelstein, and Roger for helping to track it down and
14413 o Minor features (security, windows, backport from 0.3.1.1-alpha):
14414 - Enable a couple of pieces of Windows hardening: one
14415 (HeapEnableTerminationOnCorruption) that has been on-by-default
14416 since Windows 8, and unavailable before Windows 7; and one
14417 (PROCESS_DEP_DISABLE_ATL_THUNK_EMULATION) which we believe doesn't
14418 affect us, but shouldn't do any harm. Closes ticket 21953.
14420 o Minor features (bridge, backport from 0.3.1.9):
14421 - Bridges now include notice in their descriptors that they are
14422 bridges, and notice of their distribution status, based on their
14423 publication settings. Implements ticket 18329. For more fine-
14424 grained control of how a bridge is distributed, upgrade to 0.3.2.x
14427 o Minor features (directory authority, backport from 0.3.2.6-alpha):
14428 - Add an IPv6 address for the "bastet" directory authority. Closes
14431 o Minor features (geoip):
14432 - Update geoip and geoip6 to the November 6 2017 Maxmind GeoLite2
14435 o Minor bugfix (relay address resolution, backport from 0.3.2.1-alpha):
14436 - Avoid unnecessary calls to directory_fetches_from_authorities() on
14437 relays, to prevent spurious address resolutions and descriptor
14438 rebuilds. This is a mitigation for bug 21789. Fixes bug 23470;
14439 bugfix on in 0.2.8.1-alpha.
14441 o Minor bugfixes (compilation, backport from 0.3.2.1-alpha):
14442 - Fix unused variable warnings in donna's Curve25519 SSE2 code.
14443 Fixes bug 22895; bugfix on 0.2.7.2-alpha.
14445 o Minor bugfixes (logging, relay shutdown, annoyance, backport from 0.3.2.2-alpha):
14446 - When a circuit is marked for close, do not attempt to package any
14447 cells for channels on that circuit. Previously, we would detect
14448 this condition lower in the call stack, when we noticed that the
14449 circuit had no attached channel, and log an annoying message.
14450 Fixes bug 8185; bugfix on 0.2.5.4-alpha.
14452 o Minor bugfixes (relay, crash, backport from 0.3.2.4-alpha):
14453 - Avoid a crash when transitioning from client mode to bridge mode.
14454 Previously, we would launch the worker threads whenever our
14455 "public server" mode changed, but not when our "server" mode
14456 changed. Fixes bug 23693; bugfix on 0.2.6.3-alpha.
14458 o Minor bugfixes (testing, backport from 0.3.1.6-rc):
14459 - Fix an undersized buffer in test-memwipe.c. Fixes bug 23291;
14460 bugfix on 0.2.7.2-alpha. Found and patched by Ties Stuij.
14463 Changes in version 0.2.9.14 - 2017-12-01
14464 Tor 0.3.0.13 backports important security and stability bugfixes from
14465 later Tor releases. All Tor users should upgrade to this release, or
14466 to another of the releases coming out today.
14468 o Major bugfixes (exit relays, DNS, backport from 0.3.2.4-alpha):
14469 - Fix an issue causing DNS to fail on high-bandwidth exit nodes,
14470 making them nearly unusable. Fixes bugs 21394 and 18580; bugfix on
14471 0.1.2.2-alpha, which introduced eventdns. Thanks to Dhalgren for
14472 identifying and finding a workaround to this bug and to Moritz,
14473 Arthur Edelstein, and Roger for helping to track it down and
14476 o Major bugfixes (security, backport from 0.3.2.6-alpha):
14477 - Fix a denial of service bug where an attacker could use a
14478 malformed directory object to cause a Tor instance to pause while
14479 OpenSSL would try to read a passphrase from the terminal. (Tor
14480 instances run without a terminal, which is the case for most Tor
14481 packages, are not impacted.) Fixes bug 24246; bugfix on every
14482 version of Tor. Also tracked as TROVE-2017-011 and CVE-2017-8821.
14483 Found by OSS-Fuzz as testcase 6360145429790720.
14484 - Fix a denial of service issue where an attacker could crash a
14485 directory authority using a malformed router descriptor. Fixes bug
14486 24245; bugfix on 0.2.9.4-alpha. Also tracked as TROVE-2017-010
14488 - When checking for replays in the INTRODUCE1 cell data for a
14489 (legacy) onion service, correctly detect replays in the RSA-
14490 encrypted part of the cell. We were previously checking for
14491 replays on the entire cell, but those can be circumvented due to
14492 the malleability of Tor's legacy hybrid encryption. This fix helps
14493 prevent a traffic confirmation attack. Fixes bug 24244; bugfix on
14494 0.2.4.1-alpha. This issue is also tracked as TROVE-2017-009
14497 o Major bugfixes (security, onion service v2, backport from 0.3.2.6-alpha):
14498 - Fix a use-after-free error that could crash v2 Tor onion services
14499 when they failed to open circuits while expiring introduction
14500 points. Fixes bug 24313; bugfix on 0.2.7.2-alpha. This issue is
14501 also tracked as TROVE-2017-013 and CVE-2017-8823.
14503 o Major bugfixes (security, relay, backport from 0.3.2.6-alpha):
14504 - When running as a relay, make sure that we never build a path
14505 through ourselves, even in the case where we have somehow lost the
14506 version of our descriptor appearing in the consensus. Fixes part
14507 of bug 21534; bugfix on 0.2.0.1-alpha. This issue is also tracked
14508 as TROVE-2017-012 and CVE-2017-8822.
14510 o Minor features (bridge, backport from 0.3.1.9):
14511 - Bridges now include notice in their descriptors that they are
14512 bridges, and notice of their distribution status, based on their
14513 publication settings. Implements ticket 18329. For more fine-
14514 grained control of how a bridge is distributed, upgrade to 0.3.2.x
14517 o Minor features (directory authority, backport from 0.3.2.6-alpha):
14518 - Add an IPv6 address for the "bastet" directory authority. Closes
14521 o Minor features (geoip):
14522 - Update geoip and geoip6 to the November 6 2017 Maxmind GeoLite2
14525 o Minor features (security, windows, backport from 0.3.1.1-alpha):
14526 - Enable a couple of pieces of Windows hardening: one
14527 (HeapEnableTerminationOnCorruption) that has been on-by-default
14528 since Windows 8, and unavailable before Windows 7; and one
14529 (PROCESS_DEP_DISABLE_ATL_THUNK_EMULATION) which we believe doesn't
14530 affect us, but shouldn't do any harm. Closes ticket 21953.
14532 o Minor bugfix (relay address resolution, backport from 0.3.2.1-alpha):
14533 - Avoid unnecessary calls to directory_fetches_from_authorities() on
14534 relays, to prevent spurious address resolutions and descriptor
14535 rebuilds. This is a mitigation for bug 21789. Fixes bug 23470;
14536 bugfix on in 0.2.8.1-alpha.
14538 o Minor bugfixes (compilation, backport from 0.3.2.1-alpha):
14539 - Fix unused variable warnings in donna's Curve25519 SSE2 code.
14540 Fixes bug 22895; bugfix on 0.2.7.2-alpha.
14542 o Minor bugfixes (logging, relay shutdown, annoyance, backport from 0.3.2.2-alpha):
14543 - When a circuit is marked for close, do not attempt to package any
14544 cells for channels on that circuit. Previously, we would detect
14545 this condition lower in the call stack, when we noticed that the
14546 circuit had no attached channel, and log an annoying message.
14547 Fixes bug 8185; bugfix on 0.2.5.4-alpha.
14549 o Minor bugfixes (relay, crash, backport from 0.3.2.4-alpha):
14550 - Avoid a crash when transitioning from client mode to bridge mode.
14551 Previously, we would launch the worker threads whenever our
14552 "public server" mode changed, but not when our "server" mode
14553 changed. Fixes bug 23693; bugfix on 0.2.6.3-alpha.
14555 o Minor bugfixes (testing, backport from 0.3.1.6-rc):
14556 - Fix an undersized buffer in test-memwipe.c. Fixes bug 23291;
14557 bugfix on 0.2.7.2-alpha. Found and patched by Ties Stuij.
14560 Changes in version 0.2.8.17 - 2017-12-01
14561 Tor 0.2.8.17 backports important security and stability bugfixes from
14562 later Tor releases. All Tor users should upgrade to this release, or
14563 to another of the releases coming out today.
14565 Note: the Tor 0.2.8 series will no longer be supported after 1 Jan
14566 2018. If you need a release with long-term support, please upgrade with
14567 the 0.2.9 series. Otherwise, please upgrade to 0.3.1 or later.
14569 o Major bugfixes (security, backport from 0.3.2.6-alpha):
14570 - Fix a denial of service bug where an attacker could use a
14571 malformed directory object to cause a Tor instance to pause while
14572 OpenSSL would try to read a passphrase from the terminal. (Tor
14573 instances run without a terminal, which is the case for most Tor
14574 packages, are not impacted.) Fixes bug 24246; bugfix on every
14575 version of Tor. Also tracked as TROVE-2017-011 and CVE-2017-8821.
14576 Found by OSS-Fuzz as testcase 6360145429790720.
14577 - When checking for replays in the INTRODUCE1 cell data for a
14578 (legacy) onion service, correctly detect replays in the RSA-
14579 encrypted part of the cell. We were previously checking for
14580 replays on the entire cell, but those can be circumvented due to
14581 the malleability of Tor's legacy hybrid encryption. This fix helps
14582 prevent a traffic confirmation attack. Fixes bug 24244; bugfix on
14583 0.2.4.1-alpha. This issue is also tracked as TROVE-2017-009
14586 o Major bugfixes (security, onion service v2, backport from 0.3.2.6-alpha):
14587 - Fix a use-after-free error that could crash v2 Tor onion services
14588 when they failed to open circuits while expiring introduction
14589 points. Fixes bug 24313; bugfix on 0.2.7.2-alpha. This issue is
14590 also tracked as TROVE-2017-013 and CVE-2017-8823.
14592 o Major bugfixes (security, relay, backport from 0.3.2.6-alpha):
14593 - When running as a relay, make sure that we never build a path through
14594 ourselves, even in the case where we have somehow lost the version of
14595 our descriptor appearing in the consensus. Fixes part of bug 21534;
14596 bugfix on 0.2.0.1-alpha. This issue is also tracked as TROVE-2017-012
14599 o Minor features (bridge, backport from 0.3.1.9):
14600 - Bridges now include notice in their descriptors that they are
14601 bridges, and notice of their distribution status, based on their
14602 publication settings. Implements ticket 18329. For more fine-
14603 grained control of how a bridge is distributed, upgrade to 0.3.2.x
14606 o Minor features (directory authority, backport from 0.3.2.6-alpha):
14607 - Add an IPv6 address for the "bastet" directory authority. Closes
14610 o Minor features (geoip):
14611 - Update geoip and geoip6 to the November 6 2017 Maxmind GeoLite2
14614 o Minor bugfixes (testing, backport from 0.3.1.6-rc):
14615 - Fix an undersized buffer in test-memwipe.c. Fixes bug 23291;
14616 bugfix on 0.2.7.2-alpha. Found and patched by Ties Stuij.
14619 Changes in version 0.2.5.16 - 2017-12-01
14620 Tor 0.2.5.13 backports important security and stability bugfixes from
14621 later Tor releases. All Tor users should upgrade to this release, or
14622 to another of the releases coming out today.
14624 Note: the Tor 0.2.5 series will no longer be supported after 1 May
14625 2018. If you need a release with long-term support, please upgrade to
14626 the 0.2.9 series. Otherwise, please upgrade to 0.3.1 or later.
14628 o Major bugfixes (security, backport from 0.3.2.6-alpha):
14629 - Fix a denial of service bug where an attacker could use a
14630 malformed directory object to cause a Tor instance to pause while
14631 OpenSSL would try to read a passphrase from the terminal. (Tor
14632 instances run without a terminal, which is the case for most Tor
14633 packages, are not impacted.) Fixes bug 24246; bugfix on every
14634 version of Tor. Also tracked as TROVE-2017-011 and CVE-2017-8821.
14635 Found by OSS-Fuzz as testcase 6360145429790720.
14636 - When checking for replays in the INTRODUCE1 cell data for a
14637 (legacy) onion service, correctly detect replays in the RSA-
14638 encrypted part of the cell. We were previously checking for
14639 replays on the entire cell, but those can be circumvented due to
14640 the malleability of Tor's legacy hybrid encryption. This fix helps
14641 prevent a traffic confirmation attack. Fixes bug 24244; bugfix on
14642 0.2.4.1-alpha. This issue is also tracked as TROVE-2017-009
14645 o Major bugfixes (security, relay, backport from 0.3.2.6-alpha):
14646 - When running as a relay, make sure that we never build a path
14647 through ourselves, even in the case where we have somehow lost the
14648 version of our descriptor appearing in the consensus. Fixes part
14649 of bug 21534; bugfix on 0.2.0.1-alpha. This issue is also tracked
14650 as TROVE-2017-012 and CVE-2017-8822.
14652 o Minor features (bridge, backport from 0.3.1.9):
14653 - Bridges now include notice in their descriptors that they are
14654 bridges, and notice of their distribution status, based on their
14655 publication settings. Implements ticket 18329. For more fine-
14656 grained control of how a bridge is distributed, upgrade to 0.3.2.x
14659 o Minor features (geoip):
14660 - Update geoip and geoip6 to the November 6 2017 Maxmind GeoLite2
14664 Changes in version 0.3.2.5-alpha - 2017-11-22
14665 Tor 0.3.2.5-alpha is the fifth alpha release in the 0.3.2.x series. It
14666 fixes several stability and reliability bugs, including a fix for
14667 intermittent bootstrapping failures that some people have been seeing
14668 since the 0.3.0.x series.
14670 Please test this alpha out -- many of these fixes will soon be
14671 backported to stable Tor versions if no additional bugs are found
14674 o Major bugfixes (bootstrapping):
14675 - Fetch descriptors aggressively whenever we lack enough to build
14676 circuits, regardless of how many descriptors we are missing.
14677 Previously, we would delay launching the fetch when we had fewer
14678 than 15 missing descriptors, even if some of those descriptors
14679 were blocking circuits from building. Fixes bug 23985; bugfix on
14680 0.1.1.11-alpha. The effects of this bug became worse in
14681 0.3.0.3-alpha, when we began treating missing descriptors from our
14682 primary guards as a reason to delay circuits.
14683 - Don't try fetching microdescriptors from relays that have failed
14684 to deliver them in the past. Fixes bug 23817; bugfix
14687 o Minor features (directory authority):
14688 - Make the "Exit" flag assignment only depend on whether the exit
14689 policy allows connections to ports 80 and 443. Previously relays
14690 would get the Exit flag if they allowed connections to one of
14691 these ports and also port 6667. Resolves ticket 23637.
14693 o Minor features (geoip):
14694 - Update geoip and geoip6 to the November 6 2017 Maxmind GeoLite2
14697 o Minor features (linux seccomp2 sandbox):
14698 - Update the sandbox rules so that they should now work correctly
14699 with Glibc 2.26. Closes ticket 24315.
14701 o Minor features (logging):
14702 - Downgrade a pair of log messages that could occur when an exit's
14703 resolver gave us an unusual (but not forbidden) response. Closes
14705 - Improve the message we log when re-enabling circuit build timeouts
14706 after having received a consensus. Closes ticket 20963.
14708 o Minor bugfixes (compilation):
14709 - Fix a memory leak warning in one of the libevent-related
14710 configuration tests that could occur when manually specifying
14711 -fsanitize=address. Fixes bug 24279; bugfix on 0.3.0.2-alpha.
14712 Found and patched by Alex Xu.
14713 - When detecting OpenSSL on Windows from our configure script, make
14714 sure to try linking with the ws2_32 library. Fixes bug 23783;
14715 bugfix on 0.3.2.2-alpha.
14717 o Minor bugfixes (control port, linux seccomp2 sandbox):
14718 - Avoid a crash when attempting to use the seccomp2 sandbox together
14719 with the OwningControllerProcess feature. Fixes bug 24198; bugfix
14722 o Minor bugfixes (control port, onion services):
14723 - Report "FAILED" instead of "UPLOAD_FAILED" "FAILED" for the
14724 HS_DESC event when a service is not able to upload a descriptor.
14725 Fixes bug 24230; bugfix on 0.2.7.1-alpha.
14727 o Minor bugfixes (directory cache):
14728 - Recover better from empty or corrupt files in the consensus cache
14729 directory. Fixes bug 24099; bugfix on 0.3.1.1-alpha.
14730 - When a consensus diff calculation is only partially successful,
14731 only record the successful parts as having succeeded. Partial
14732 success can happen if (for example) one compression method fails
14733 but the others succeed. Previously we misrecorded all the
14734 calculations as having succeeded, which would later cause a
14735 nonfatal assertion failure. Fixes bug 24086; bugfix
14738 o Minor bugfixes (logging):
14739 - Only log once if we notice that KIST support is gone. Fixes bug
14740 24158; bugfix on 0.3.2.1-alpha.
14741 - Suppress a log notice when relay descriptors arrive. We already
14742 have a bootstrap progress for this so no need to log notice
14743 everytime tor receives relay descriptors. Microdescriptors behave
14744 the same. Fixes bug 23861; bugfix on 0.2.8.2-alpha.
14746 o Minor bugfixes (network layer):
14747 - When closing a connection via close_connection_immediately(), we
14748 mark it as "not blocked on bandwidth", to prevent later calls from
14749 trying to unblock it, and give it permission to read. This fixes a
14750 backtrace warning that can happen on relays under various
14751 circumstances. Fixes bug 24167; bugfix on 0.1.0.1-rc.
14753 o Minor bugfixes (onion services):
14754 - The introduction circuit was being timed out too quickly while
14755 waiting for the rendezvous circuit to complete. Keep the intro
14756 circuit around longer instead of timing out and reopening new ones
14757 constantly. Fixes bug 23681; bugfix on 0.2.4.8-alpha.
14758 - Rename the consensus parameter "hsdir-interval" to "hsdir_interval"
14759 so it matches dir-spec.txt. Fixes bug 24262; bugfix
14761 - Silence a warning about failed v3 onion descriptor uploads that
14762 can happen naturally under certain edge cases. Fixes part of bug
14763 23662; bugfix on 0.3.2.1-alpha.
14765 o Minor bugfixes (tests):
14766 - Fix a memory leak in one of the bridge-distribution test cases.
14767 Fixes bug 24345; bugfix on 0.3.2.3-alpha.
14768 - Fix a bug in our fuzzing mock replacement for crypto_pk_checksig(),
14769 to correctly handle cases where a caller gives it an RSA key of
14770 under 160 bits. (This is not actually a bug in Tor itself, but
14771 rather in our fuzzing code.) Fixes bug 24247; bugfix on
14772 0.3.0.3-alpha. Found by OSS-Fuzz as issue 4177.
14775 - Add notes in man page regarding OS support for the various
14776 scheduler types. Attempt to use less jargon in the scheduler
14777 section. Closes ticket 24254.
14780 Changes in version 0.3.2.4-alpha - 2017-11-08
14781 Tor 0.3.2.4-alpha is the fourth alpha release in the 0.3.2.x series.
14782 It fixes several stability and reliability bugs, especially including
14783 a major reliability issue that has been plaguing fast exit relays in
14786 o Major bugfixes (exit relays, DNS):
14787 - Fix an issue causing DNS to fail on high-bandwidth exit nodes,
14788 making them nearly unusable. Fixes bugs 21394 and 18580; bugfix on
14789 0.1.2.2-alpha, which introduced eventdns. Thanks to Dhalgren for
14790 identifying and finding a workaround to this bug and to Moritz,
14791 Arthur Edelstein, and Roger for helping to track it down and
14794 o Major bugfixes (scheduler, channel):
14795 - Stop processing scheduled channels if they closed while flushing
14796 cells. This can happen if the write on the connection fails
14797 leading to the channel being closed while in the scheduler loop.
14798 Fixes bug 23751; bugfix on 0.3.2.1-alpha.
14800 o Minor features (logging, scheduler):
14801 - Introduce a SCHED_BUG() function to log extra information about
14802 the scheduler state if we ever catch a bug in the scheduler.
14803 Closes ticket 23753.
14805 o Minor features (removed deprecations):
14806 - The ClientDNSRejectInternalAddresses flag can once again be set in
14807 non-testing Tor networks, so long as they do not use the default
14808 directory authorities. This change also removes the deprecation of
14809 this flag from 0.2.9.2-alpha. Closes ticket 21031.
14811 o Minor features (testing):
14812 - Our fuzzing tests now test the encrypted portions of v3 onion
14813 service descriptors. Implements more of 21509.
14815 o Minor bugfixes (directory client):
14816 - On failure to download directory information, delay retry attempts
14817 by a random amount based on the "decorrelated jitter" algorithm.
14818 Our previous delay algorithm tended to produce extra-long delays
14819 too easily. Fixes bug 23816; bugfix on 0.2.9.1-alpha.
14821 o Minor bugfixes (IPv6, v3 single onion services):
14822 - Remove buggy code for IPv6-only v3 single onion services, and
14823 reject attempts to configure them. This release supports IPv4,
14824 dual-stack, and IPv6-only v3 onion services; and IPv4 and dual-
14825 stack v3 single onion services. Fixes bug 23820; bugfix
14828 o Minor bugfixes (logging, relay):
14829 - Give only a protocol warning when the ed25519 key is not
14830 consistent between the descriptor and microdescriptor of a relay.
14831 This can happen, for instance, if the relay has been flagged
14832 NoEdConsensus. Fixes bug 24025; bugfix on 0.3.2.1-alpha.
14834 o Minor bugfixes (manpage, onion service):
14835 - Document that the HiddenServiceNumIntroductionPoints option is
14836 0-10 for v2 services and 0-20 for v3 services. Fixes bug 24115;
14837 bugfix on 0.3.2.1-alpha.
14839 o Minor bugfixes (memory leaks):
14840 - Fix a minor memory leak at exit in the KIST scheduler. This bug
14841 should have no user-visible impact. Fixes bug 23774; bugfix
14843 - Fix a memory leak when decrypting a badly formatted v3 onion
14844 service descriptor. Fixes bug 24150; bugfix on 0.3.2.1-alpha.
14845 Found by OSS-Fuzz; this is OSS-Fuzz issue 3994.
14847 o Minor bugfixes (onion services):
14848 - Cache some needed onion service client information instead of
14849 constantly computing it over and over again. Fixes bug 23623;
14850 bugfix on 0.3.2.1-alpha.
14851 - Properly retry HSv3 descriptor fetches when missing required
14852 directory information. Fixes bug 23762; bugfix on 0.3.2.1-alpha.
14854 o Minor bugfixes (path selection):
14855 - When selecting relays by bandwidth, avoid a rounding error that
14856 could sometimes cause load to be imbalanced incorrectly.
14857 Previously, we would always round upwards; now, we round towards
14858 the nearest integer. This had the biggest effect when a relay's
14859 weight adjustments should have given it weight 0, but it got
14860 weight 1 instead. Fixes bug 23318; bugfix on 0.2.4.3-alpha.
14861 - When calculating the fraction of nodes that have descriptors, and
14862 all nodes in the network have zero bandwidths, count the number of
14863 nodes instead. Fixes bug 23318; bugfix on 0.2.4.10-alpha.
14864 - Actually log the total bandwidth in compute_weighted_bandwidths().
14865 Fixes bug 24170; bugfix on 0.2.4.3-alpha.
14867 o Minor bugfixes (relay, crash):
14868 - Avoid a crash when transitioning from client mode to bridge mode.
14869 Previously, we would launch the worker threads whenever our
14870 "public server" mode changed, but not when our "server" mode
14871 changed. Fixes bug 23693; bugfix on 0.2.6.3-alpha.
14873 o Minor bugfixes (testing):
14874 - Fix a spurious fuzzing-only use of an uninitialized value. Found
14875 by Brian Carpenter. Fixes bug 24082; bugfix on 0.3.0.3-alpha.
14876 - Test that IPv6-only clients can use microdescriptors when running
14877 "make test-network-all". Requires chutney master 61c28b9 or later.
14878 Closes ticket 24109.
14881 Changes in version 0.3.2.3-alpha - 2017-10-27
14882 Tor 0.3.2.3-alpha is the third release in the 0.3.2 series. It fixes
14883 numerous small bugs in earlier versions of 0.3.2.x, and adds a new
14884 directory authority, Bastet.
14886 o Directory authority changes:
14887 - Add "Bastet" as a ninth directory authority to the default list.
14888 Closes ticket 23910.
14889 - The directory authority "Longclaw" has changed its IP address.
14890 Closes ticket 23592.
14892 o Minor features (bridge):
14893 - Bridge relays can now set the BridgeDistribution config option to
14894 add a "bridge-distribution-request" line to their bridge
14895 descriptor, which tells BridgeDB how they'd like their bridge
14896 address to be given out. (Note that as of Oct 2017, BridgeDB does
14897 not yet implement this feature.) As a side benefit, this feature
14898 provides a way to distinguish bridge descriptors from non-bridge
14899 descriptors. Implements tickets 18329.
14901 o Minor features (client, entry guards):
14902 - Improve log messages when missing descriptors for primary guards.
14903 Resolves ticket 23670.
14905 o Minor features (geoip):
14906 - Update geoip and geoip6 to the October 4 2017 Maxmind GeoLite2
14909 o Minor bugfixes (bridge):
14910 - Overwrite the bridge address earlier in the process of retrieving
14911 its descriptor, to make sure we reach it on the configured
14912 address. Fixes bug 20532; bugfix on 0.2.0.10-alpha.
14914 o Minor bugfixes (documentation):
14915 - Document better how to read gcov, and what our gcov postprocessing
14916 scripts do. Fixes bug 23739; bugfix on 0.2.9.1-alpha.
14918 o Minor bugfixes (entry guards):
14919 - Tor now updates its guard state when it reads a consensus
14920 regardless of whether it's missing descriptors. That makes tor use
14921 its primary guards to fetch descriptors in some edge cases where
14922 it would previously have used fallback directories. Fixes bug
14923 23862; bugfix on 0.3.0.1-alpha.
14925 o Minor bugfixes (hidden service client):
14926 - When handling multiple SOCKS request for the same .onion address,
14927 only fetch the service descriptor once.
14928 - When a descriptor fetch fails with a non-recoverable error, close
14929 all pending SOCKS requests for that .onion. Fixes bug 23653;
14930 bugfix on 0.3.2.1-alpha.
14932 o Minor bugfixes (hidden service):
14933 - Always regenerate missing hidden service public key files. Prior
14934 to this, if the public key was deleted from disk, it wouldn't get
14935 recreated. Fixes bug 23748; bugfix on 0.3.2.2-alpha. Patch
14937 - Make sure that we have a usable ed25519 key when the intro point
14938 relay supports ed25519 link authentication. Fixes bug 24002;
14939 bugfix on 0.3.2.1-alpha.
14941 o Minor bugfixes (hidden service, v2):
14942 - When reloading configured hidden services, copy all information
14943 from the old service object. Previously, some data was omitted,
14944 causing delays in descriptor upload, and other bugs. Fixes bug
14945 23790; bugfix on 0.2.1.9-alpha.
14947 o Minor bugfixes (memory safety, defensive programming):
14948 - Clear the target address when node_get_prim_orport() returns
14949 early. Fixes bug 23874; bugfix on 0.2.8.2-alpha.
14951 o Minor bugfixes (relay):
14952 - Avoid a BUG warning when receiving a dubious CREATE cell while an
14953 option transition is in progress. Fixes bug 23952; bugfix
14956 o Minor bugfixes (testing):
14957 - Adjust the GitLab CI configuration to more closely match that of
14958 Travis CI. Fixes bug 23757; bugfix on 0.3.2.2-alpha.
14959 - Prevent scripts/test/coverage from attempting to move gcov output
14960 to the root directory. Fixes bug 23741; bugfix on 0.2.5.1-alpha.
14961 - When running unit tests as root, skip a test that would fail
14962 because it expects a permissions error. This affects some
14963 continuous integration setups. Fixes bug 23758; bugfix
14965 - Stop unconditionally mirroring the tor repository in GitLab CI.
14966 This prevented developers from enabling GitLab CI on master. Fixes
14967 bug 23755; bugfix on 0.3.2.2-alpha.
14968 - Fix the hidden service v3 descriptor decoding fuzzing to use the
14969 latest decoding API correctly. Fixes bug 21509; bugfix
14972 o Minor bugfixes (warnings):
14973 - When we get an HTTP request on a SOCKS port, tell the user about
14974 the new HTTPTunnelPort option. Previously, we would give a "Tor is
14975 not an HTTP Proxy" message, which stopped being true when
14976 HTTPTunnelPort was introduced. Fixes bug 23678; bugfix
14980 Changes in version 0.2.5.15 - 2017-10-25
14981 Tor 0.2.5.15 backports a collection of bugfixes from later Tor release
14982 series. It also adds a new directory authority, Bastet.
14984 Note: the Tor 0.2.5 series will no longer be supported after 1 May
14985 2018. If you need a release with long-term support, please upgrade to
14986 the 0.2.9 series. Otherwise, please upgrade to 0.3.1 or later.
14988 o Directory authority changes:
14989 - Add "Bastet" as a ninth directory authority to the default list.
14990 Closes ticket 23910.
14991 - The directory authority "Longclaw" has changed its IP address.
14992 Closes ticket 23592.
14994 o Major bugfixes (openbsd, denial-of-service, backport from 0.3.1.5-alpha):
14995 - Avoid an assertion failure bug affecting our implementation of
14996 inet_pton(AF_INET6) on certain OpenBSD systems whose strtol()
14997 handling of "0xx" differs from what we had expected. Fixes bug
14998 22789; bugfix on 0.2.3.8-alpha. Also tracked as TROVE-2017-007.
15000 o Minor features (geoip):
15001 - Update geoip and geoip6 to the October 4 2017 Maxmind GeoLite2
15004 o Minor bugfixes (defensive programming, undefined behavior, backport from 0.3.1.4-alpha):
15005 - Fix a memset() off the end of an array when packing cells. This
15006 bug should be harmless in practice, since the corrupted bytes are
15007 still in the same structure, and are always padding bytes,
15008 ignored, or immediately overwritten, depending on compiler
15009 behavior. Nevertheless, because the memset()'s purpose is to make
15010 sure that any other cell-handling bugs can't expose bytes to the
15011 network, we need to fix it. Fixes bug 22737; bugfix on
15012 0.2.4.11-alpha. Fixes CID 1401591.
15014 o Build features (backport from 0.3.1.5-alpha):
15015 - Tor's repository now includes a Travis Continuous Integration (CI)
15016 configuration file (.travis.yml). This is meant to help new
15017 developers and contributors who fork Tor to a Github repository be
15018 better able to test their changes, and understand what we expect
15019 to pass. To use this new build feature, you must fork Tor to your
15020 Github account, then go into the "Integrations" menu in the
15021 repository settings for your fork and enable Travis, then push
15022 your changes. Closes ticket 22636.
15025 Changes in version 0.2.8.16 - 2017-10-25
15026 Tor 0.2.8.16 backports a collection of bugfixes from later Tor release
15027 series, including a bugfix for a crash issue that had affected relays
15028 under memory pressure. It also adds a new directory authority, Bastet.
15030 Note: the Tor 0.2.8 series will no longer be supported after 1 Jan
15031 2018. If you need a release with long-term support, please stick with
15032 the 0.2.9 series. Otherwise, please upgrade to 0.3.1 or later.
15034 o Directory authority changes:
15035 - Add "Bastet" as a ninth directory authority to the default list.
15036 Closes ticket 23910.
15037 - The directory authority "Longclaw" has changed its IP address.
15038 Closes ticket 23592.
15040 o Major bugfixes (relay, crash, assertion failure, backport from 0.3.2.2-alpha):
15041 - Fix a timing-based assertion failure that could occur when the
15042 circuit out-of-memory handler freed a connection's output buffer.
15043 Fixes bug 23690; bugfix on 0.2.6.1-alpha.
15045 o Minor features (directory authorities, backport from 0.3.2.2-alpha):
15046 - Remove longclaw's IPv6 address, as it will soon change. Authority
15047 IPv6 addresses were originally added in 0.2.8.1-alpha. This leaves
15048 3/8 directory authorities with IPv6 addresses, but there are also
15049 52 fallback directory mirrors with IPv6 addresses. Resolves 19760.
15051 o Minor features (geoip):
15052 - Update geoip and geoip6 to the October 4 2017 Maxmind GeoLite2
15056 Changes in version 0.2.9.13 - 2017-10-25
15057 Tor 0.2.9.13 backports a collection of bugfixes from later Tor release
15058 series, including a bugfix for a crash issue that had affected relays
15059 under memory pressure. It also adds a new directory authority, Bastet.
15061 o Directory authority changes:
15062 - Add "Bastet" as a ninth directory authority to the default list.
15063 Closes ticket 23910.
15064 - The directory authority "Longclaw" has changed its IP address.
15065 Closes ticket 23592.
15067 o Major bugfixes (relay, crash, assertion failure, backport from 0.3.2.2-alpha):
15068 - Fix a timing-based assertion failure that could occur when the
15069 circuit out-of-memory handler freed a connection's output buffer.
15070 Fixes bug 23690; bugfix on 0.2.6.1-alpha.
15072 o Minor features (directory authorities, backport from 0.3.2.2-alpha):
15073 - Remove longclaw's IPv6 address, as it will soon change. Authority
15074 IPv6 addresses were originally added in 0.2.8.1-alpha. This leaves
15075 3/8 directory authorities with IPv6 addresses, but there are also
15076 52 fallback directory mirrors with IPv6 addresses. Resolves 19760.
15078 o Minor features (geoip):
15079 - Update geoip and geoip6 to the October 4 2017 Maxmind GeoLite2
15082 o Minor bugfixes (directory authority, backport from 0.3.1.5-alpha):
15083 - When a directory authority rejects a descriptor or extrainfo with
15084 a given digest, mark that digest as undownloadable, so that we do
15085 not attempt to download it again over and over. We previously
15086 tried to avoid downloading such descriptors by other means, but we
15087 didn't notice if we accidentally downloaded one anyway. This
15088 behavior became problematic in 0.2.7.2-alpha, when authorities
15089 began pinning Ed25519 keys. Fixes bug 22349; bugfix
15092 o Minor bugfixes (memory safety, backport from 0.3.2.3-alpha):
15093 - Clear the address when node_get_prim_orport() returns early.
15094 Fixes bug 23874; bugfix on 0.2.8.2-alpha.
15096 o Minor bugfixes (Windows service, backport from 0.3.1.6-rc):
15097 - When running as a Windows service, set the ID of the main thread
15098 correctly. Failure to do so made us fail to send log messages to
15099 the controller in 0.2.1.16-rc, slowed down controller event
15100 delivery in 0.2.7.3-rc and later, and crash with an assertion
15101 failure in 0.3.1.1-alpha. Fixes bug 23081; bugfix on 0.2.1.6-alpha.
15102 Patch and diagnosis from "Vort".
15105 Changes in version 0.3.0.12 - 2017-10-25
15106 Tor 0.3.0.12 backports a collection of bugfixes from later Tor release
15107 series, including a bugfix for a crash issue that had affected relays
15108 under memory pressure. It also adds a new directory authority, Bastet.
15110 Note: the Tor 0.3.0 series will no longer be supported after 26 Jan
15111 2018. If you need a release with long-term support, please stick with
15112 the 0.2.9 series. Otherwise, please upgrade to 0.3.1 or later.
15114 o Directory authority changes:
15115 - Add "Bastet" as a ninth directory authority to the default list.
15116 Closes ticket 23910.
15117 - The directory authority "Longclaw" has changed its IP address.
15118 Closes ticket 23592.
15120 o Major bugfixes (relay, crash, assertion failure, backport from 0.3.2.2-alpha):
15121 - Fix a timing-based assertion failure that could occur when the
15122 circuit out-of-memory handler freed a connection's output buffer.
15123 Fixes bug 23690; bugfix on 0.2.6.1-alpha.
15125 o Minor features (directory authorities, backport from 0.3.2.2-alpha):
15126 - Remove longclaw's IPv6 address, as it will soon change. Authority
15127 IPv6 addresses were originally added in 0.2.8.1-alpha. This leaves
15128 3/8 directory authorities with IPv6 addresses, but there are also
15129 52 fallback directory mirrors with IPv6 addresses. Resolves 19760.
15131 o Minor features (geoip):
15132 - Update geoip and geoip6 to the October 4 2017 Maxmind GeoLite2
15135 o Minor bugfixes (directory authority, backport from 0.3.1.5-alpha):
15136 - When a directory authority rejects a descriptor or extrainfo with
15137 a given digest, mark that digest as undownloadable, so that we do
15138 not attempt to download it again over and over. We previously
15139 tried to avoid downloading such descriptors by other means, but we
15140 didn't notice if we accidentally downloaded one anyway. This
15141 behavior became problematic in 0.2.7.2-alpha, when authorities
15142 began pinning Ed25519 keys. Fixes bug 22349; bugfix
15145 o Minor bugfixes (hidden service, relay, backport from 0.3.2.2-alpha):
15146 - Avoid a possible double close of a circuit by the intro point on
15147 error of sending the INTRO_ESTABLISHED cell. Fixes bug 23610;
15148 bugfix on 0.3.0.1-alpha.
15150 o Minor bugfixes (memory safety, backport from 0.3.2.3-alpha):
15151 - Clear the address when node_get_prim_orport() returns early.
15152 Fixes bug 23874; bugfix on 0.2.8.2-alpha.
15154 o Minor bugfixes (Windows service, backport from 0.3.1.6-rc):
15155 - When running as a Windows service, set the ID of the main thread
15156 correctly. Failure to do so made us fail to send log messages to
15157 the controller in 0.2.1.16-rc, slowed down controller event
15158 delivery in 0.2.7.3-rc and later, and crash with an assertion
15159 failure in 0.3.1.1-alpha. Fixes bug 23081; bugfix on 0.2.1.6-alpha.
15160 Patch and diagnosis from "Vort".
15163 Changes in version 0.3.1.8 - 2017-10-25
15164 Tor 0.3.1.8 is the second stable release in the 0.3.1 series.
15165 It includes several bugfixes, including a bugfix for a crash issue
15166 that had affected relays under memory pressure. It also adds
15167 a new directory authority, Bastet.
15169 o Directory authority changes:
15170 - Add "Bastet" as a ninth directory authority to the default list.
15171 Closes ticket 23910.
15172 - The directory authority "Longclaw" has changed its IP address.
15173 Closes ticket 23592.
15175 o Major bugfixes (relay, crash, assertion failure, backport from 0.3.2.2-alpha):
15176 - Fix a timing-based assertion failure that could occur when the
15177 circuit out-of-memory handler freed a connection's output buffer.
15178 Fixes bug 23690; bugfix on 0.2.6.1-alpha.
15180 o Minor features (directory authorities, backport from 0.3.2.2-alpha):
15181 - Remove longclaw's IPv6 address, as it will soon change. Authority
15182 IPv6 addresses were originally added in 0.2.8.1-alpha. This leaves
15183 3/8 directory authorities with IPv6 addresses, but there are also
15184 52 fallback directory mirrors with IPv6 addresses. Resolves 19760.
15186 o Minor features (geoip):
15187 - Update geoip and geoip6 to the October 4 2017 Maxmind GeoLite2
15190 o Minor bugfixes (compilation, backport from 0.3.2.2-alpha):
15191 - Fix a compilation warning when building with zstd support on
15192 32-bit platforms. Fixes bug 23568; bugfix on 0.3.1.1-alpha. Found
15193 and fixed by Andreas Stieger.
15195 o Minor bugfixes (compression, backport from 0.3.2.2-alpha):
15196 - Handle a pathological case when decompressing Zstandard data when
15197 the output buffer size is zero. Fixes bug 23551; bugfix
15200 o Minor bugfixes (directory authority, backport from 0.3.2.1-alpha):
15201 - Remove the length limit on HTTP status lines that authorities can
15202 send in their replies. Fixes bug 23499; bugfix on 0.3.1.6-rc.
15204 o Minor bugfixes (hidden service, relay, backport from 0.3.2.2-alpha):
15205 - Avoid a possible double close of a circuit by the intro point on
15206 error of sending the INTRO_ESTABLISHED cell. Fixes bug 23610;
15207 bugfix on 0.3.0.1-alpha.
15209 o Minor bugfixes (memory safety, backport from 0.3.2.3-alpha):
15210 - Clear the address when node_get_prim_orport() returns early.
15211 Fixes bug 23874; bugfix on 0.2.8.2-alpha.
15213 o Minor bugfixes (unit tests, backport from 0.3.2.2-alpha):
15214 - Fix additional channelpadding unit test failures by using mocked
15215 time instead of actual time for all tests. Fixes bug 23608; bugfix
15219 Changes in version 0.3.2.2-alpha - 2017-09-29
15220 Tor 0.3.2.2-alpha is the second release in the 0.3.2 series. This
15221 release fixes several minor bugs in the new scheduler and next-
15222 generation onion services; both features were newly added in the 0.3.2
15223 series. Other fixes in this alpha include several fixes for non-fatal
15224 tracebacks which would appear in logs.
15226 With the aim to stabilise the 0.3.2 series by 15 December 2017, this
15227 alpha does not contain any substantial new features. Minor features
15228 include better testing and logging.
15230 The following comprises the complete list of changes included
15233 o Major bugfixes (relay, crash, assertion failure):
15234 - Fix a timing-based assertion failure that could occur when the
15235 circuit out-of-memory handler freed a connection's output buffer.
15236 Fixes bug 23690; bugfix on 0.2.6.1-alpha.
15238 o Major bugfixes (scheduler):
15239 - If a channel is put into the scheduler's pending list, then it
15240 starts closing, and then if the scheduler runs before it finishes
15241 closing, the scheduler will get stuck trying to flush its cells
15242 while the lower layers refuse to cooperate. Fix that race
15243 condition by giving the scheduler an escape method. Fixes bug
15244 23676; bugfix on 0.3.2.1-alpha.
15246 o Minor features (build, compilation):
15247 - The "check-changes" feature is now part of the "make check" tests;
15248 we'll use it to try to prevent misformed changes files from
15249 accumulating. Closes ticket 23564.
15250 - Tor builds should now fail if there are any mismatches between the
15251 C type representing a configuration variable and the C type the
15252 data-driven parser uses to store a value there. Previously, we
15253 needed to check these by hand, which sometimes led to mistakes.
15254 Closes ticket 23643.
15256 o Minor features (directory authorities):
15257 - Remove longclaw's IPv6 address, as it will soon change. Authority
15258 IPv6 addresses were originally added in 0.2.8.1-alpha. This leaves
15259 3/8 directory authorities with IPv6 addresses, but there are also
15260 52 fallback directory mirrors with IPv6 addresses. Resolves 19760.
15262 o Minor features (hidden service, circuit, logging):
15263 - Improve logging of many callsite in the circuit subsystem to print
15264 the circuit identifier(s).
15265 - Log when we cleanup an intro point from a service so we know when
15266 and for what reason it happened. Closes ticket 23604.
15268 o Minor features (logging):
15269 - Log more circuit information whenever we are about to try to
15270 package a relay cell on a circuit with a nonexistent n_chan.
15271 Attempt to diagnose ticket 8185.
15272 - Improve info-level log identification of particular circuits, to
15273 help with debugging. Closes ticket 23645.
15275 o Minor features (relay):
15276 - When choosing which circuits can be expired as unused, consider
15277 circuits from clients even if those clients used regular CREATE
15278 cells to make them; and do not consider circuits from relays even
15279 if they were made with CREATE_FAST. Part of ticket 22805.
15281 o Minor features (robustness):
15282 - Change several fatal assertions when flushing buffers into non-
15283 fatal assertions, to prevent any recurrence of 23690.
15285 o Minor features (spec conformance, bridge, diagnostic):
15286 - When handling the USERADDR command on an ExtOrPort, warn when the
15287 transports provides a USERADDR with no port. In a future version,
15288 USERADDR commands of this format may be rejected. Detects problems
15289 related to ticket 23080.
15291 o Minor features (testing):
15292 - Add a unit test to make sure that our own generated platform
15293 string will be accepted by directory authorities. Closes
15296 o Minor bugfixes (bootstrapping):
15297 - When warning about state file clock skew, report the correct
15298 direction for the detected skew. Fixes bug 23606; bugfix
15300 - Avoid an assertion failure when logging a state file clock skew
15301 very early in bootstrapping. Fixes bug 23607; bugfix
15304 o Minor bugfixes (build, compilation):
15305 - Fix a compilation warning when building with zstd support on
15306 32-bit platforms. Fixes bug 23568; bugfix on 0.3.1.1-alpha. Found
15307 and fixed by Andreas Stieger.
15308 - When searching for OpenSSL, don't accept any OpenSSL library that
15309 lacks TLSv1_1_method(): Tor doesn't build with those versions.
15310 Additionally, look in /usr/local/opt/openssl, if it's present.
15311 These changes together repair the default build on OSX systems
15312 with Homebrew installed. Fixes bug 23602; bugfix on 0.2.7.2-alpha.
15314 o Minor bugfixes (compression):
15315 - Handle a pathological case when decompressing Zstandard data when
15316 the output buffer size is zero. Fixes bug 23551; bugfix
15319 o Minor bugfixes (documentation):
15320 - Fix manpage to not refer to the obsolete (and misspelled)
15321 UseEntryGuardsAsDirectoryGuards parameter in the description of
15322 NumDirectoryGuards. Fixes bug 23611; bugfix on 0.2.4.8-alpha.
15324 o Minor bugfixes (hidden service v3):
15325 - Don't log an assertion failure when we can't find the right
15326 information to extend to an introduction point. In rare cases,
15327 this could happen, causing a warning, even though tor would
15328 recover gracefully. Fixes bug 23159; bugfix on 0.3.2.1-alpha.
15329 - Pad RENDEZVOUS cell up to the size of the legacy cell which is
15330 much bigger so the rendezvous point can't distinguish which hidden
15331 service protocol is being used. Fixes bug 23420; bugfix
15334 o Minor bugfixes (hidden service, relay):
15335 - Avoid a possible double close of a circuit by the intro point on
15336 error of sending the INTRO_ESTABLISHED cell. Fixes bug 23610;
15337 bugfix on 0.3.0.1-alpha.
15339 o Minor bugfixes (logging, relay shutdown, annoyance):
15340 - When a circuit is marked for close, do not attempt to package any
15341 cells for channels on that circuit. Previously, we would detect
15342 this condition lower in the call stack, when we noticed that the
15343 circuit had no attached channel, and log an annoying message.
15344 Fixes bug 8185; bugfix on 0.2.5.4-alpha.
15346 o Minor bugfixes (scheduler):
15347 - When switching schedulers due to a consensus change, we didn't
15348 give the new scheduler a chance to react to the consensus. Fix
15349 that. Fixes bug 23537; bugfix on 0.3.2.1-alpha.
15350 - Make the KISTSchedRunInterval option a non negative value. With
15351 this, the way to disable KIST through the consensus is to set it
15352 to 0. Fixes bug 23539; bugfix on 0.3.2.1-alpha.
15353 - Only notice log the selected scheduler when we switch scheduler
15354 types. Fixes bug 23552; bugfix on 0.3.2.1-alpha.
15355 - Avoid a compilation warning on macOS in scheduler_ev_add() caused
15356 by a different tv_usec data type. Fixes bug 23575; bugfix
15358 - Make a hard exit if tor is unable to pick a scheduler which can
15359 happen if the user specifies a scheduler type that is not
15360 supported and not other types in Schedulers. Fixes bug 23581;
15361 bugfix on 0.3.2.1-alpha.
15362 - Properly initialize the scheduler last run time counter so it is
15363 not 0 at the first tick. Fixes bug 23696; bugfix on 0.3.2.1-alpha.
15365 o Minor bugfixes (testing):
15366 - Capture and detect several "Result does not fit" warnings in unit
15367 tests on platforms with 32-bit time_t. Fixes bug 21800; bugfix
15369 - Fix additional channelpadding unit test failures by using mocked
15370 time instead of actual time for all tests. Fixes bug 23608; bugfix
15372 - The removal of some old scheduler options caused some tests to
15373 fail on BSD systems. Assume current behavior is correct and make
15374 the tests pass again. Fixes bug 23566; bugfix on 0.3.2.1-alpha.
15376 o Code simplification and refactoring:
15377 - Remove various ways of testing circuits and connections for
15378 "clientness"; instead, favor channel_is_client(). Part of
15381 o Deprecated features:
15382 - The ReachableDirAddresses and ClientPreferIPv6DirPort options are
15383 now deprecated; they do not apply to relays, and they have had no
15384 effect on clients since 0.2.8.x. Closes ticket 19704.
15387 - HiddenServiceVersion man page entry wasn't mentioning the now
15388 supported version 3. Fixes ticket 23580; bugfix on 0.3.2.1-alpha.
15389 - Clarify that the Address option is entirely about setting an
15390 advertised IPv4 address. Closes ticket 18891.
15391 - Clarify the manpage's use of the term "address" to clarify what
15392 kind of address is intended. Closes ticket 21405.
15393 - Document that onion service subdomains are allowed, and ignored.
15394 Closes ticket 18736.
15397 Changes in version 0.3.2.1-alpha - 2017-09-18
15398 Tor 0.3.2.1-alpha is the first release in the 0.3.2.x series. It
15399 includes support for our next-generation ("v3") onion service
15400 protocol, and adds a new circuit scheduler for more responsive
15401 forwarding decisions from relays. There are also numerous other small
15402 features and bugfixes here.
15404 Below are the changes since Tor 0.3.1.7.
15406 o Major feature (scheduler, channel):
15407 - Tor now uses new schedulers to decide which circuits should
15408 deliver cells first, in order to improve congestion at relays. The
15409 first type is called "KIST" ("Kernel Informed Socket Transport"),
15410 and is only available on Linux-like systems: it uses feedback from
15411 the kernel to prevent the kernel's TCP buffers from growing too
15412 full. The second new scheduler type is called "KISTLite": it
15413 behaves the same as KIST, but runs on systems without kernel
15414 support for inspecting TCP implementation details. The old
15415 scheduler is still available, under the name "Vanilla". To change
15416 the default scheduler preference order, use the new "Schedulers"
15417 option. (The default preference order is "KIST,KISTLite,Vanilla".)
15419 Matt Traudt implemented KIST, based on research by Rob Jansen,
15420 John Geddes, Christ Wacek, Micah Sherr, and Paul Syverson. For
15421 more information, see the design paper at
15422 http://www.robgjansen.com/publications/kist-sec2014.pdf and the
15423 followup implementation paper at https://arxiv.org/abs/1709.01044.
15424 Closes ticket 12541.
15426 o Major features (next-generation onion services):
15427 - Tor now supports the next-generation onion services protocol for
15428 clients and services! As part of this release, the core of
15429 proposal 224 has been implemented and is available for
15430 experimentation and testing by our users. This newer version of
15431 onion services ("v3") features many improvements over the legacy
15434 a) Better crypto (replaced SHA1/DH/RSA1024
15435 with SHA3/ed25519/curve25519)
15437 b) Improved directory protocol, leaking much less information to
15440 c) Improved directory protocol, with smaller surface for
15443 d) Better onion address security against impersonation.
15445 e) More extensible introduction/rendezvous protocol.
15447 f) A cleaner and more modular codebase.
15449 You can identify a next-generation onion address by its length:
15450 they are 56 characters long, as in
15451 "4acth47i6kxnvkewtm6q7ib2s3ufpo5sqbsnzjpbi7utijcltosqemad.onion".
15453 In the future, we will release more options and features for v3
15454 onion services, but we first need a testing period, so that the
15455 current codebase matures and becomes more robust. Planned features
15456 include: offline keys, advanced client authorization, improved
15457 guard algorithms, and statistics. For full details, see
15460 Legacy ("v2") onion services will still work for the foreseeable
15461 future, and will remain the default until this new codebase gets
15462 tested and hardened. Service operators who want to experiment with
15463 the new system can use the 'HiddenServiceVersion 3' torrc
15464 directive along with the regular onion service configuration
15465 options. We will publish a blog post about this new feature
15468 o Major bugfixes (usability, control port):
15469 - Report trusted clock skew indications as bootstrap errors, so
15470 controllers can more easily alert users when their clocks are
15471 wrong. Fixes bug 23506; bugfix on 0.1.2.6-alpha.
15473 o Minor features (bug detection):
15474 - Log a warning message with a stack trace for any attempt to call
15475 get_options() during option validation. This pattern has caused
15476 subtle bugs in the past. Closes ticket 22281.
15478 o Minor features (client):
15479 - You can now use Tor as a tunneled HTTP proxy: use the new
15480 HTTPTunnelPort option to open a port that accepts HTTP CONNECT
15481 requests. Closes ticket 22407.
15482 - Add an extra check to make sure that we always use the newer guard
15483 selection code for picking our guards. Closes ticket 22779.
15484 - When downloading (micro)descriptors, don't split the list into
15485 multiple requests unless we want at least 32 descriptors.
15486 Previously, we split at 4, not 32, which led to significant
15487 overhead in HTTP request size and degradation in compression
15488 performance. Closes ticket 23220.
15490 o Minor features (command line):
15491 - Add a new commandline option, --key-expiration, which prints when
15492 the current signing key is going to expire. Implements ticket
15493 17639; patch by Isis Lovecruft.
15495 o Minor features (control port):
15496 - If an application tries to use the control port as an HTTP proxy,
15497 respond with a meaningful "This is the Tor control port" message,
15498 and log the event. Closes ticket 1667. Patch from Ravi
15500 - Provide better error message for GETINFO desc/(id|name) when not
15501 fetching router descriptors. Closes ticket 5847. Patch by
15503 - Add GETINFO "{desc,md}/download-enabled", to inform the controller
15504 whether Tor will try to download router descriptors and
15505 microdescriptors respectively. Closes ticket 22684.
15506 - Added new GETINFO targets "ip-to-country/{ipv4,ipv6}-available",
15507 so controllers can tell whether the geoip databases are loaded.
15508 Closes ticket 23237.
15509 - Adds a timestamp field to the CIRC_BW and STREAM_BW bandwidth
15510 events. Closes ticket 19254. Patch by "DonnchaC".
15512 o Minor features (development support):
15513 - Developers can now generate a call-graph for Tor using the
15514 "calltool" python program, which post-processes object dumps. It
15515 should work okay on many Linux and OSX platforms, and might work
15516 elsewhere too. To run it, install calltool from
15517 https://gitweb.torproject.org/user/nickm/calltool.git and run
15518 "make callgraph". Closes ticket 19307.
15520 o Minor features (ed25519):
15521 - Add validation function to checks for torsion components in
15522 ed25519 public keys, used by prop224 client-side code. Closes
15523 ticket 22006. Math help by Ian Goldberg.
15525 o Minor features (exit relay, DNS):
15526 - Improve the clarity and safety of the log message from evdns when
15527 receiving an apparently spoofed DNS reply. Closes ticket 3056.
15529 o Minor features (integration, hardening):
15530 - Add a new NoExec option to prevent Tor from running other
15531 programs. When this option is set to 1, Tor will never try to run
15532 another program, regardless of the settings of
15533 PortForwardingHelper, ClientTransportPlugin, or
15534 ServerTransportPlugin. Once NoExec is set, it cannot be disabled
15535 without restarting Tor. Closes ticket 22976.
15537 o Minor features (logging):
15538 - Improve the warning message for specifying a relay by nickname.
15539 The previous message implied that nickname registration was still
15540 part of the Tor network design, which it isn't. Closes
15542 - If the sandbox filter fails to load, suggest to the user that
15543 their kernel might not support seccomp2. Closes ticket 23090.
15545 o Minor features (portability):
15546 - Check at configure time whether uint8_t is the same type as
15547 unsigned char. Lots of existing code already makes this
15548 assumption, and there could be strict aliasing issues if the
15549 assumption is violated. Closes ticket 22410.
15551 o Minor features (relay, configuration):
15552 - Reject attempts to use relative file paths when RunAsDaemon is
15553 set. Previously, Tor would accept these, but the directory-
15554 changing step of RunAsDaemon would give strange and/or confusing
15555 results. Closes ticket 22731.
15557 o Minor features (startup, safety):
15558 - When configured to write a PID file, Tor now exits if it is unable
15559 to do so. Previously, it would warn and continue. Closes
15562 o Minor features (static analysis):
15563 - The BUG() macro has been changed slightly so that Coverity no
15564 longer complains about dead code if the bug is impossible. Closes
15567 o Minor features (testing):
15568 - The default chutney network tests now include tests for the v3
15569 hidden service design. Make sure you have the latest version of
15570 chutney if you want to run these. Closes ticket 22437.
15571 - Add a unit test to verify that we can parse a hardcoded v2 hidden
15572 service descriptor. Closes ticket 15554.
15574 o Minor bugfixes (certificate handling):
15575 - Fix a time handling bug in Tor certificates set to expire after
15576 the year 2106. Fixes bug 23055; bugfix on 0.3.0.1-alpha. Found by
15577 Coverity as CID 1415728.
15579 o Minor bugfixes (client, usability):
15580 - Refrain from needlessly rejecting SOCKS5-with-hostnames and
15581 SOCKS4a requests that contain IP address strings, even when
15582 SafeSocks in enabled, as this prevents user from connecting to
15583 known IP addresses without relying on DNS for resolving. SafeSocks
15584 still rejects SOCKS connections that connect to IP addresses when
15585 those addresses are _not_ encoded as hostnames. Fixes bug 22461;
15586 bugfix on Tor 0.2.6.2-alpha.
15588 o Minor bugfixes (code correctness):
15589 - Call htons() in extend_cell_format() for encoding a 16-bit value.
15590 Previously we used ntohs(), which happens to behave the same on
15591 all the platforms we support, but which isn't really correct.
15592 Fixes bug 23106; bugfix on 0.2.4.8-alpha.
15593 - For defense-in-depth, make the controller's write_escaped_data()
15594 function robust to extremely long inputs. Fixes bug 19281; bugfix
15595 on 0.1.1.1-alpha. Reported by Guido Vranken.
15597 o Minor bugfixes (compilation):
15598 - Fix unused-variable warnings in donna's Curve25519 SSE2 code.
15599 Fixes bug 22895; bugfix on 0.2.7.2-alpha.
15601 o Minor bugfixes (consensus expiry):
15602 - Check for adequate directory information correctly. Previously, Tor
15603 would reconsider whether it had sufficient directory information
15604 every 2 minutes. Fixes bug 23091; bugfix on 0.2.0.19-alpha.
15606 o Minor bugfixes (directory protocol):
15607 - Directory servers now include a "Date:" http header for response
15608 codes other than 200. Clients starting with a skewed clock and a
15609 recent consensus were getting "304 Not modified" responses from
15610 directory authorities, so without the Date header, the client
15611 would never hear about a wrong clock. Fixes bug 23499; bugfix
15613 - Make clients wait for 6 seconds before trying to download a
15614 consensus from an authority. Fixes bug 17750; bugfix
15617 o Minor bugfixes (DoS-resistance):
15618 - If future code asks if there are any running bridges, without
15619 checking if bridges are enabled, log a BUG warning rather than
15620 crashing. Fixes bug 23524; bugfix on 0.3.0.1-alpha.
15622 o Minor bugfixes (format strictness):
15623 - Restrict several data formats to decimal. Previously, the
15624 BuildTimeHistogram entries in the state file, the "bw=" entries in
15625 the bandwidth authority file, and the process IDs passed to the
15626 __OwningControllerProcess option could all be specified in hex or
15627 octal as well as in decimal. This was not an intentional feature.
15628 Fixes bug 22802; bugfixes on 0.2.2.1-alpha, 0.2.2.2-alpha,
15631 o Minor bugfixes (heartbeat):
15632 - If we fail to write a heartbeat message, schedule a retry for the
15633 minimum heartbeat interval number of seconds in the future. Fixes
15634 bug 19476; bugfix on 0.2.3.1-alpha.
15636 o Minor bugfixes (linux seccomp2 sandbox, logging):
15637 - Fix some messages on unexpected errors from the seccomp2 library.
15638 Fixes bug 22750; bugfix on 0.2.5.1-alpha. Patch from "cypherpunks".
15640 o Minor bugfixes (logging):
15641 - Remove duplicate log messages regarding opening non-local
15642 SocksPorts upon parsing config and opening listeners at startup.
15643 Fixes bug 4019; bugfix on 0.2.3.3-alpha.
15644 - Use a more comprehensible log message when telling the user
15645 they've excluded every running exit node. Fixes bug 7890; bugfix
15647 - When logging the number of descriptors we intend to download per
15648 directory request, do not log a number higher than then the number
15649 of descriptors we're fetching in total. Fixes bug 19648; bugfix
15651 - When warning about a directory owned by the wrong user, log the
15652 actual name of the user owning the directory. Previously, we'd log
15653 the name of the process owner twice. Fixes bug 23487; bugfix
15655 - The tor specification says hop counts are 1-based, so fix two log
15656 messages that mistakenly logged 0-based hop counts. Fixes bug
15657 18982; bugfix on 0.2.6.2-alpha and 0.2.4.5-alpha. Patch by teor.
15658 Credit to Xiaofan Li for reporting this issue.
15660 o Minor bugfixes (portability):
15661 - Stop using the PATH_MAX variable, which is not defined on GNU
15662 Hurd. Fixes bug 23098; bugfix on 0.3.1.1-alpha.
15664 o Minor bugfixes (relay):
15665 - When uploading our descriptor for the first time after startup,
15666 report the reason for uploading as "Tor just started" rather than
15667 leaving it blank. Fixes bug 22885; bugfix on 0.2.3.4-alpha.
15668 - Avoid unnecessary calls to directory_fetches_from_authorities() on
15669 relays, to prevent spurious address resolutions and descriptor
15670 rebuilds. This is a mitigation for bug 21789. Fixes bug 23470;
15671 bugfix on in 0.2.8.1-alpha.
15673 o Minor bugfixes (tests):
15674 - Fix a broken unit test for the OutboundAddress option: the parsing
15675 function was never returning an error on failure. Fixes bug 23366;
15676 bugfix on 0.3.0.3-alpha.
15677 - Fix a signed-integer overflow in the unit tests for
15678 dir/download_status_random_backoff, which was untriggered until we
15679 fixed bug 17750. Fixes bug 22924; bugfix on 0.2.9.1-alpha.
15681 o Minor bugfixes (usability, control port):
15682 - Stop making an unnecessary routerlist check in NETINFO clock skew
15683 detection; this was preventing clients from reporting NETINFO clock
15684 skew to controllers. Fixes bug 23532; bugfix on 0.2.4.4-alpha.
15686 o Code simplification and refactoring:
15687 - Extract the code for handling newly-open channels into a separate
15688 function from the general code to handle channel state
15689 transitions. This change simplifies our callgraph, reducing the
15690 size of the largest strongly connected component by roughly a
15691 factor of two. Closes ticket 22608.
15692 - Remove dead code for largely unused statistics on the number of
15693 times we've attempted various public key operations. Fixes bug
15694 19871; bugfix on 0.1.2.4-alpha. Fix by Isis Lovecruft.
15695 - Remove several now-obsolete functions for asking about old
15696 variants directory authority status. Closes ticket 22311; patch
15698 - Remove some of the code that once supported "Named" and "Unnamed"
15699 routers. Authorities no longer vote for these flags. Closes
15701 - Rename the obsolete malleable hybrid_encrypt functions used in TAP
15702 and old hidden services, to indicate that they aren't suitable for
15703 new protocols or formats. Closes ticket 23026.
15704 - Replace our STRUCT_OFFSET() macro with offsetof(). Closes ticket
15705 22521. Patch from Neel Chauhan.
15706 - Split the enormous circuit_send_next_onion_skin() function into
15707 multiple subfunctions. Closes ticket 22804.
15708 - Split the portions of the buffer.c module that handle particular
15709 protocols into separate modules. Part of ticket 23149.
15710 - Use our test macros more consistently, to produce more useful
15711 error messages when our unit tests fail. Add coccinelle patches to
15712 allow us to re-check for test macro uses. Closes ticket 22497.
15714 o Deprecated features:
15715 - Deprecate HTTPProxy/HTTPProxyAuthenticator config options. They
15716 only applies to direct unencrypted HTTP connections to your
15717 directory server, which your Tor probably isn't using. Closes
15721 - Clarify in the manual that "Sandbox 1" is only supported on Linux
15722 kernels. Closes ticket 22677.
15723 - Document all values of PublishServerDescriptor in the manpage.
15724 Closes ticket 15645.
15725 - Improve the documentation for the directory port part of the
15726 DirAuthority line. Closes ticket 20152.
15727 - Restore documentation for the authorities' "approved-routers"
15728 file. Closes ticket 21148.
15730 o Removed features:
15731 - The AllowDotExit option has been removed as unsafe. It has been
15732 deprecated since 0.2.9.2-alpha. Closes ticket 23426.
15733 - The ClientDNSRejectInternalAddresses flag can no longer be set on
15734 non-testing networks. It has been deprecated since 0.2.9.2-alpha.
15735 Closes ticket 21031.
15736 - The controller API no longer includes an AUTHDIR_NEWDESCS event:
15737 nobody was using it any longer. Closes ticket 22377.
15740 Changes in version 0.2.8.15 - 2017-09-18
15741 Tor 0.2.8.15 backports a collection of bugfixes from later
15744 Most significantly, it includes a fix for TROVE-2017-008, a
15745 security bug that affects hidden services running with the
15746 SafeLogging option disabled. For more information, see
15747 https://trac.torproject.org/projects/tor/ticket/23490
15749 Note that Tor 0.2.8.x will no longer be supported after 1 Jan
15750 2018. We suggest that you upgrade to the latest stable release if
15751 possible. If you can't, we recommend that you upgrade at least to
15752 0.2.9, which will be supported until 2020.
15754 o Major bugfixes (openbsd, denial-of-service, backport from 0.3.1.5-alpha):
15755 - Avoid an assertion failure bug affecting our implementation of
15756 inet_pton(AF_INET6) on certain OpenBSD systems whose strtol()
15757 handling of "0xx" differs from what we had expected. Fixes bug
15758 22789; bugfix on 0.2.3.8-alpha. Also tracked as TROVE-2017-007.
15761 - Update geoip and geoip6 to the September 6 2017 Maxmind GeoLite2
15764 o Minor bugfixes (compilation, mingw, backport from 0.3.1.1-alpha):
15765 - Backport a fix for an "unused variable" warning that appeared
15766 in some versions of mingw. Fixes bug 22838; bugfix on
15769 o Minor bugfixes (defensive programming, undefined behavior, backport from 0.3.1.4-alpha):
15770 - Fix a memset() off the end of an array when packing cells. This
15771 bug should be harmless in practice, since the corrupted bytes are
15772 still in the same structure, and are always padding bytes,
15773 ignored, or immediately overwritten, depending on compiler
15774 behavior. Nevertheless, because the memset()'s purpose is to make
15775 sure that any other cell-handling bugs can't expose bytes to the
15776 network, we need to fix it. Fixes bug 22737; bugfix on
15777 0.2.4.11-alpha. Fixes CID 1401591.
15779 o Build features (backport from 0.3.1.5-alpha):
15780 - Tor's repository now includes a Travis Continuous Integration (CI)
15781 configuration file (.travis.yml). This is meant to help new
15782 developers and contributors who fork Tor to a Github repository be
15783 better able to test their changes, and understand what we expect
15784 to pass. To use this new build feature, you must fork Tor to your
15785 Github account, then go into the "Integrations" menu in the
15786 repository settings for your fork and enable Travis, then push
15787 your changes. Closes ticket 22636.
15790 Changes in version 0.2.9.12 - 2017-09-18
15791 Tor 0.2.9.12 backports a collection of bugfixes from later
15794 Most significantly, it includes a fix for TROVE-2017-008, a
15795 security bug that affects hidden services running with the
15796 SafeLogging option disabled. For more information, see
15797 https://trac.torproject.org/projects/tor/ticket/23490
15799 o Major features (security, backport from 0.3.0.2-alpha):
15800 - Change the algorithm used to decide DNS TTLs on client and server
15801 side, to better resist DNS-based correlation attacks like the
15802 DefecTor attack of Greschbach, Pulls, Roberts, Winter, and
15803 Feamster. Now relays only return one of two possible DNS TTL
15804 values, and clients are willing to believe DNS TTL values up to 3
15805 hours long. Closes ticket 19769.
15807 o Major bugfixes (crash, directory connections, backport from 0.3.0.5-rc):
15808 - Fix a rare crash when sending a begin cell on a circuit whose
15809 linked directory connection had already been closed. Fixes bug
15810 21576; bugfix on 0.2.9.3-alpha. Reported by Alec Muffett.
15812 o Major bugfixes (DNS, backport from 0.3.0.2-alpha):
15813 - Fix a bug that prevented exit nodes from caching DNS records for
15814 more than 60 seconds. Fixes bug 19025; bugfix on 0.2.4.7-alpha.
15816 o Major bugfixes (linux TPROXY support, backport from 0.3.1.1-alpha):
15817 - Fix a typo that had prevented TPROXY-based transparent proxying
15818 from working under Linux. Fixes bug 18100; bugfix on 0.2.6.3-alpha.
15819 Patch from "d4fq0fQAgoJ".
15821 o Major bugfixes (openbsd, denial-of-service, backport from 0.3.1.5-alpha):
15822 - Avoid an assertion failure bug affecting our implementation of
15823 inet_pton(AF_INET6) on certain OpenBSD systems whose strtol()
15824 handling of "0xx" differs from what we had expected. Fixes bug
15825 22789; bugfix on 0.2.3.8-alpha. Also tracked as TROVE-2017-007.
15827 o Minor features (code style, backport from 0.3.1.3-alpha):
15828 - Add "Falls through" comments to our codebase, in order to silence
15829 GCC 7's -Wimplicit-fallthrough warnings. Patch from Andreas
15830 Stieger. Closes ticket 22446.
15832 o Minor features (geoip):
15833 - Update geoip and geoip6 to the September 6 2017 Maxmind GeoLite2
15836 o Minor bugfixes (bandwidth accounting, backport from 0.3.1.1-alpha):
15837 - Roll over monthly accounting at the configured hour and minute,
15838 rather than always at 00:00. Fixes bug 22245; bugfix on 0.0.9rc1.
15839 Found by Andrey Karpov with PVS-Studio.
15841 o Minor bugfixes (compilation, backport from 0.3.1.5-alpha):
15842 - Suppress -Wdouble-promotion warnings with clang 4.0. Fixes bug 22915;
15843 bugfix on 0.2.8.1-alpha.
15844 - Fix warnings when building with libscrypt and openssl scrypt support
15845 on Clang. Fixes bug 22916; bugfix on 0.2.7.2-alpha.
15846 - When building with certain versions the mingw C header files, avoid
15847 float-conversion warnings when calling the C functions isfinite(),
15848 isnan(), and signbit(). Fixes bug 22801; bugfix on 0.2.8.1-alpha.
15850 o Minor bugfixes (compilation, backport from 0.3.1.7):
15851 - Avoid compiler warnings in the unit tests for running tor_sscanf()
15852 with wide string outputs. Fixes bug 15582; bugfix on 0.2.6.2-alpha.
15854 o Minor bugfixes (compilation, mingw, backport from 0.3.1.1-alpha):
15855 - Backport a fix for an "unused variable" warning that appeared
15856 in some versions of mingw. Fixes bug 22838; bugfix on
15859 o Minor bugfixes (controller, backport from 0.3.1.7):
15860 - Do not crash when receiving a HSPOST command with an empty body.
15861 Fixes part of bug 22644; bugfix on 0.2.7.1-alpha.
15862 - Do not crash when receiving a POSTDESCRIPTOR command with an
15863 empty body. Fixes part of bug 22644; bugfix on 0.2.0.1-alpha.
15865 o Minor bugfixes (coverity build support, backport from 0.3.1.5-alpha):
15866 - Avoid Coverity build warnings related to our BUG() macro. By
15867 default, Coverity treats BUG() as the Linux kernel does: an
15868 instant abort(). We need to override that so our BUG() macro
15869 doesn't prevent Coverity from analyzing functions that use it.
15870 Fixes bug 23030; bugfix on 0.2.9.1-alpha.
15872 o Minor bugfixes (defensive programming, undefined behavior, backport from 0.3.1.4-alpha):
15873 - Fix a memset() off the end of an array when packing cells. This
15874 bug should be harmless in practice, since the corrupted bytes are
15875 still in the same structure, and are always padding bytes,
15876 ignored, or immediately overwritten, depending on compiler
15877 behavior. Nevertheless, because the memset()'s purpose is to make
15878 sure that any other cell-handling bugs can't expose bytes to the
15879 network, we need to fix it. Fixes bug 22737; bugfix on
15880 0.2.4.11-alpha. Fixes CID 1401591.
15882 o Minor bugfixes (file limits, osx, backport from 0.3.1.5-alpha):
15883 - When setting the maximum number of connections allowed by the OS,
15884 always allow some extra file descriptors for other files. Fixes
15885 bug 22797; bugfix on 0.2.0.10-alpha.
15887 o Minor bugfixes (linux seccomp2 sandbox, backport from 0.3.1.5-alpha):
15888 - Avoid a sandbox failure when trying to re-bind to a socket and
15889 mark it as IPv6-only. Fixes bug 20247; bugfix on 0.2.5.1-alpha.
15891 o Minor bugfixes (linux seccomp2 sandbox, backport from 0.3.1.4-alpha):
15892 - Permit the fchmod system call, to avoid crashing on startup when
15893 starting with the seccomp2 sandbox and an unexpected set of
15894 permissions on the data directory or its contents. Fixes bug
15895 22516; bugfix on 0.2.5.4-alpha.
15897 o Minor bugfixes (relay, backport from 0.3.0.5-rc):
15898 - Avoid a double-marked-circuit warning that could happen when we
15899 receive DESTROY cells under heavy load. Fixes bug 20059; bugfix
15902 o Minor bugfixes (voting consistency, backport from 0.3.1.1-alpha):
15903 - Reject version numbers with non-numeric prefixes (such as +, -, or
15904 whitespace). Disallowing whitespace prevents differential version
15905 parsing between POSIX-based and Windows platforms. Fixes bug 21507
15906 and part of 21508; bugfix on 0.0.8pre1.
15908 o Build features (backport from 0.3.1.5-alpha):
15909 - Tor's repository now includes a Travis Continuous Integration (CI)
15910 configuration file (.travis.yml). This is meant to help new
15911 developers and contributors who fork Tor to a Github repository be
15912 better able to test their changes, and understand what we expect
15913 to pass. To use this new build feature, you must fork Tor to your
15914 Github account, then go into the "Integrations" menu in the
15915 repository settings for your fork and enable Travis, then push
15916 your changes. Closes ticket 22636.
15919 Changes in version 0.3.0.11 - 2017-09-18
15920 Tor 0.3.0.11 backports a collection of bugfixes from Tor the 0.3.1
15923 Most significantly, it includes a fix for TROVE-2017-008, a
15924 security bug that affects hidden services running with the
15925 SafeLogging option disabled. For more information, see
15926 https://trac.torproject.org/projects/tor/ticket/23490
15928 o Minor features (code style, backport from 0.3.1.7):
15929 - Add "Falls through" comments to our codebase, in order to silence
15930 GCC 7's -Wimplicit-fallthrough warnings. Patch from Andreas
15931 Stieger. Closes ticket 22446.
15934 - Update geoip and geoip6 to the September 6 2017 Maxmind GeoLite2
15937 o Minor bugfixes (compilation, backport from 0.3.1.7):
15938 - Avoid compiler warnings in the unit tests for calling tor_sscanf()
15939 with wide string outputs. Fixes bug 15582; bugfix on 0.2.6.2-alpha.
15941 o Minor bugfixes (controller, backport from 0.3.1.7):
15942 - Do not crash when receiving a HSPOST command with an empty body.
15943 Fixes part of bug 22644; bugfix on 0.2.7.1-alpha.
15944 - Do not crash when receiving a POSTDESCRIPTOR command with an empty
15945 body. Fixes part of bug 22644; bugfix on 0.2.0.1-alpha.
15947 o Minor bugfixes (file limits, osx, backport from 0.3.1.5-alpha):
15948 - When setting the maximum number of connections allowed by the OS,
15949 always allow some extra file descriptors for other files. Fixes
15950 bug 22797; bugfix on 0.2.0.10-alpha.
15952 o Minor bugfixes (logging, relay, backport from 0.3.1.6-rc):
15953 - Remove a forgotten debugging message when an introduction point
15954 successfully establishes a hidden service prop224 circuit with
15956 - Change three other log_warn() for an introduction point to
15957 protocol warnings, because they can be failure from the network
15958 and are not relevant to the operator. Fixes bug 23078; bugfix on
15959 0.3.0.1-alpha and 0.3.0.2-alpha.
15962 Changes in version 0.3.1.7 - 2017-09-18
15963 Tor 0.3.1.7 is the first stable release in the 0.3.1 series.
15965 With the 0.3.1 series, Tor now serves and downloads directory
15966 information in more compact formats, to save on bandwidth overhead. It
15967 also contains a new padding system to resist netflow-based traffic
15968 analysis, and experimental support for building parts of Tor in Rust
15969 (though no parts of Tor are in Rust yet). There are also numerous
15970 small features, bugfixes on earlier release series, and groundwork for
15971 the hidden services revamp of 0.3.2.
15973 This release also includes a fix for TROVE-2017-008, a security bug
15974 that affects hidden services running with the SafeLogging option
15975 disabled. For more information, see
15976 https://trac.torproject.org/projects/tor/ticket/23490
15978 Per our stable release policy, we plan to support each stable release
15979 series for at least the next nine months, or for three months after
15980 the first stable release of the next series: whichever is longer. If
15981 you need a release with long-term support, we recommend that you stay
15982 with the 0.2.9 series.
15984 Below is a list of the changes since 0.3.1.6-rc. For a list of all
15985 changes since 0.3.0, see the ReleaseNotes file.
15987 o Major bugfixes (security, hidden services, loggging):
15988 - Fix a bug where we could log uninitialized stack when a certain
15989 hidden service error occurred while SafeLogging was disabled.
15990 Fixes bug #23490; bugfix on 0.2.7.2-alpha. This is also tracked as
15991 TROVE-2017-008 and CVE-2017-0380.
15993 o Minor features (defensive programming):
15994 - Create a pair of consensus parameters, nf_pad_tor2web and
15995 nf_pad_single_onion, to disable netflow padding in the consensus
15996 for non-anonymous connections in case the overhead is high. Closes
15999 o Minor features (diagnostic):
16000 - Add a stack trace to the bug warnings that can be logged when
16001 trying to send an outgoing relay cell with n_chan == 0. Diagnostic
16002 attempt for bug 23105.
16004 o Minor features (geoip):
16005 - Update geoip and geoip6 to the September 6 2017 Maxmind GeoLite2
16008 o Minor bugfixes (compilation):
16009 - Avoid compiler warnings in the unit tests for calling tor_sscanf()
16010 with wide string outputs. Fixes bug 15582; bugfix on 0.2.6.2-alpha.
16012 o Minor bugfixes (controller):
16013 - Do not crash when receiving a HSPOST command with an empty body.
16014 Fixes part of bug 22644; bugfix on 0.2.7.1-alpha.
16015 - Do not crash when receiving a POSTDESCRIPTOR command with an empty
16016 body. Fixes part of bug 22644; bugfix on 0.2.0.1-alpha.
16018 o Minor bugfixes (relay):
16019 - Inform the geoip and rephist modules about all requests, even on
16020 relays that are only fetching microdescriptors. Fixes a bug
16021 related to 21585; bugfix on 0.3.0.1-alpha.
16023 o Minor bugfixes (unit tests):
16024 - Fix a channelpadding unit test failure on slow systems by using
16025 mocked time instead of actual time. Fixes bug 23077; bugfix
16029 Changes in version 0.3.1.6-rc - 2017-09-05
16030 Tor 0.3.1.6-rc fixes a few small bugs and annoyances in the 0.3.1
16031 release series, including a bug that produced weird behavior on
16032 Windows directory caches.
16034 This is the first release candidate in the Tor 0.3.1 series. If we
16035 find no new bugs or regressions here, the first stable 0.3.1 release
16036 will be nearly identical to it.
16038 o Major bugfixes (windows, directory cache):
16039 - On Windows, do not try to delete cached consensus documents and
16040 diffs before they are unmapped from memory--Windows won't allow
16041 that. Instead, allow the consensus cache directory to grow larger,
16042 to hold files that might need to stay around longer. Fixes bug
16043 22752; bugfix on 0.3.1.1-alpha.
16045 o Minor features (directory authority):
16046 - Improve the message that authorities report to relays that present
16047 RSA/Ed25519 keypairs that conflict with previously pinned keys.
16048 Closes ticket 22348.
16050 o Minor features (geoip):
16051 - Update geoip and geoip6 to the August 3 2017 Maxmind GeoLite2
16054 o Minor features (testing):
16055 - Add more tests for compression backend initialization. Closes
16058 o Minor bugfixes (directory cache):
16059 - Fix a memory leak when recovering space in the consensus cache.
16060 Fixes bug 23139; bugfix on 0.3.1.1-alpha.
16062 o Minor bugfixes (hidden service):
16063 - Increase the number of circuits that a service is allowed to
16064 open over a specific period of time. The value was lower than it
16065 should be (8 vs 12) in the normal case of 3 introduction points.
16066 Fixes bug 22159; bugfix on 0.3.0.5-rc.
16067 - Fix a BUG warning during HSv3 descriptor decoding that could be
16068 cause by a specially crafted descriptor. Fixes bug 23233; bugfix
16069 on 0.3.0.1-alpha. Bug found by "haxxpop".
16070 - Rate-limit the log messages if we exceed the maximum number of
16071 allowed intro circuits. Fixes bug 22159; bugfix on 0.3.1.1-alpha.
16073 o Minor bugfixes (logging, relay):
16074 - Remove a forgotten debugging message when an introduction point
16075 successfully establishes a hidden service prop224 circuit with
16077 - Change three other log_warn() for an introduction point to
16078 protocol warnings, because they can be failure from the network
16079 and are not relevant to the operator. Fixes bug 23078; bugfix on
16080 0.3.0.1-alpha and 0.3.0.2-alpha.
16082 o Minor bugfixes (relay):
16083 - When a relay is not running as a directory cache, it will no
16084 longer generate compressed consensuses and consensus diff
16085 information. Previously, this was a waste of disk and CPU. Fixes
16086 bug 23275; bugfix on 0.3.1.1-alpha.
16088 o Minor bugfixes (robustness, error handling):
16089 - Improve our handling of the cases where OpenSSL encounters a
16090 memory error while encoding keys and certificates. We haven't
16091 observed these errors in the wild, but if they do happen, we now
16092 detect and respond better. Fixes bug 19418; bugfix on all versions
16093 of Tor. Reported by Guido Vranken.
16095 o Minor bugfixes (stability):
16096 - Avoid crashing on a double-free when unable to load or process an
16097 included file. Fixes bug 23155; bugfix on 0.3.1.1-alpha. Found
16098 with the clang static analyzer.
16100 o Minor bugfixes (testing):
16101 - Fix an undersized buffer in test-memwipe.c. Fixes bug 23291;
16102 bugfix on 0.2.7.2-alpha. Found and patched by Ties Stuij.
16103 - Port the hs_ntor handshake test to work correctly with recent
16104 versions of the pysha3 module. Fixes bug 23071; bugfix
16107 o Minor bugfixes (Windows service):
16108 - When running as a Windows service, set the ID of the main thread
16109 correctly. Failure to do so made us fail to send log messages to
16110 the controller in 0.2.1.16-rc, slowed down controller event
16111 delivery in 0.2.7.3-rc and later, and crash with an assertion
16112 failure in 0.3.1.1-alpha. Fixes bug 23081; bugfix on 0.2.1.6-alpha.
16113 Patch and diagnosis from "Vort".
16116 Changes in version 0.3.0.10 - 2017-08-02
16117 Tor 0.3.0.10 backports a collection of small-to-medium bugfixes
16118 from the current Tor alpha series. OpenBSD users and TPROXY users
16119 should upgrade; others are probably okay sticking with 0.3.0.9.
16121 o Major features (build system, continuous integration, backport from 0.3.1.5-alpha):
16122 - Tor's repository now includes a Travis Continuous Integration (CI)
16123 configuration file (.travis.yml). This is meant to help new
16124 developers and contributors who fork Tor to a Github repository be
16125 better able to test their changes, and understand what we expect
16126 to pass. To use this new build feature, you must fork Tor to your
16127 Github account, then go into the "Integrations" menu in the
16128 repository settings for your fork and enable Travis, then push
16129 your changes. Closes ticket 22636.
16131 o Major bugfixes (linux TPROXY support, backport from 0.3.1.1-alpha):
16132 - Fix a typo that had prevented TPROXY-based transparent proxying
16133 from working under Linux. Fixes bug 18100; bugfix on 0.2.6.3-alpha.
16134 Patch from "d4fq0fQAgoJ".
16136 o Major bugfixes (openbsd, denial-of-service, backport from 0.3.1.5-alpha):
16137 - Avoid an assertion failure bug affecting our implementation of
16138 inet_pton(AF_INET6) on certain OpenBSD systems whose strtol()
16139 handling of "0xbar" differs from what we had expected. Fixes bug
16140 22789; bugfix on 0.2.3.8-alpha. Also tracked as TROVE-2017-007.
16142 o Minor features (backport from 0.3.1.5-alpha):
16143 - Update geoip and geoip6 to the July 4 2017 Maxmind GeoLite2
16146 o Minor bugfixes (bandwidth accounting, backport from 0.3.1.2-alpha):
16147 - Roll over monthly accounting at the configured hour and minute,
16148 rather than always at 00:00. Fixes bug 22245; bugfix on 0.0.9rc1.
16149 Found by Andrey Karpov with PVS-Studio.
16151 o Minor bugfixes (compilation warnings, backport from 0.3.1.5-alpha):
16152 - Suppress -Wdouble-promotion warnings with clang 4.0. Fixes bug 22915;
16153 bugfix on 0.2.8.1-alpha.
16154 - Fix warnings when building with libscrypt and openssl scrypt
16155 support on Clang. Fixes bug 22916; bugfix on 0.2.7.2-alpha.
16156 - When building with certain versions of the mingw C header files,
16157 avoid float-conversion warnings when calling the C functions
16158 isfinite(), isnan(), and signbit(). Fixes bug 22801; bugfix
16161 o Minor bugfixes (compilation, mingw, backport from 0.3.1.1-alpha):
16162 - Backport a fix for an "unused variable" warning that appeared
16163 in some versions of mingw. Fixes bug 22838; bugfix on
16166 o Minor bugfixes (coverity build support, backport from 0.3.1.5-alpha):
16167 - Avoid Coverity build warnings related to our BUG() macro. By
16168 default, Coverity treats BUG() as the Linux kernel does: an
16169 instant abort(). We need to override that so our BUG() macro
16170 doesn't prevent Coverity from analyzing functions that use it.
16171 Fixes bug 23030; bugfix on 0.2.9.1-alpha.
16173 o Minor bugfixes (directory authority, backport from 0.3.1.1-alpha):
16174 - When rejecting a router descriptor for running an obsolete version
16175 of Tor without ntor support, warn about the obsolete tor version,
16176 not the missing ntor key. Fixes bug 20270; bugfix on 0.2.9.3-alpha.
16178 o Minor bugfixes (linux seccomp2 sandbox, backport from 0.3.1.5-alpha):
16179 - Avoid a sandbox failure when trying to re-bind to a socket and
16180 mark it as IPv6-only. Fixes bug 20247; bugfix on 0.2.5.1-alpha.
16182 o Minor bugfixes (unit tests, backport from 0.3.1.5-alpha)
16183 - Fix a memory leak in the link-handshake/certs_ok_ed25519 test.
16184 Fixes bug 22803; bugfix on 0.3.0.1-alpha.
16187 Changes in version 0.3.1.5-alpha - 2017-08-01
16188 Tor 0.3.1.5-alpha improves the performance of consensus diff
16189 calculation, fixes a crash bug on older versions of OpenBSD, and fixes
16190 several other bugs. If no serious bugs are found in this version, the
16191 next version will be a release candidate.
16193 This release also marks the end of support for the Tor 0.2.4.x,
16194 0.2.6.x, and 0.2.7.x release series. Those releases will receive no
16195 further bug or security fixes. Anyone still running or distributing
16196 one of those versions should upgrade.
16198 o Major features (build system, continuous integration):
16199 - Tor's repository now includes a Travis Continuous Integration (CI)
16200 configuration file (.travis.yml). This is meant to help new
16201 developers and contributors who fork Tor to a Github repository be
16202 better able to test their changes, and understand what we expect
16203 to pass. To use this new build feature, you must fork Tor to your
16204 Github account, then go into the "Integrations" menu in the
16205 repository settings for your fork and enable Travis, then push
16206 your changes. Closes ticket 22636.
16208 o Major bugfixes (openbsd, denial-of-service):
16209 - Avoid an assertion failure bug affecting our implementation of
16210 inet_pton(AF_INET6) on certain OpenBSD systems whose strtol()
16211 handling of "0xbar" differs from what we had expected. Fixes bug
16212 22789; bugfix on 0.2.3.8-alpha. Also tracked as TROVE-2017-007.
16214 o Major bugfixes (relay, performance):
16215 - Perform circuit handshake operations at a higher priority than we
16216 use for consensus diff creation and compression. This should
16217 prevent circuits from starving when a relay or bridge receives a
16218 new consensus, especially on lower-powered machines. Fixes bug
16219 22883; bugfix on 0.3.1.1-alpha.
16221 o Minor features (bridge authority):
16222 - Add "fingerprint" lines to the networkstatus-bridges file produced
16223 by bridge authorities. Closes ticket 22207.
16225 o Minor features (directory cache, consensus diff):
16226 - Add a new MaxConsensusAgeForDiffs option to allow directory cache
16227 operators with low-resource environments to adjust the number of
16228 consensuses they'll store and generate diffs from. Most cache
16229 operators should leave it unchanged. Helps to work around
16232 o Minor features (geoip):
16233 - Update geoip and geoip6 to the July 4 2017 Maxmind GeoLite2
16236 o Minor features (relay, performance):
16237 - Always start relays with at least two worker threads, to prevent
16238 priority inversion on slow tasks. Part of the fix for bug 22883.
16239 - Allow background work to be queued with different priorities, so
16240 that a big pile of slow low-priority jobs will not starve out
16241 higher priority jobs. This lays the groundwork for a fix for
16244 o Minor bugfixes (build system, rust):
16245 - Fix a problem where Rust toolchains were not being found when
16246 building without --enable-cargo-online-mode, due to setting the
16247 $HOME environment variable instead of $CARGO_HOME. Fixes bug
16248 22830; bugfix on 0.3.1.1-alpha. Fix by Chelsea Komlo.
16250 o Minor bugfixes (compatibility, zstd):
16251 - Write zstd epilogues correctly when the epilogue requires
16252 reallocation of the output buffer, even with zstd 1.3.0.
16253 (Previously, we worked on 1.2.0 and failed with 1.3.0). Fixes bug
16254 22927; bugfix on 0.3.1.1-alpha.
16256 o Minor bugfixes (compilation warnings):
16257 - Suppress -Wdouble-promotion warnings with clang 4.0. Fixes bug
16258 22915; bugfix on 0.2.8.1-alpha.
16259 - Fix warnings when building with libscrypt and openssl scrypt
16260 support on Clang. Fixes bug 22916; bugfix on 0.2.7.2-alpha.
16261 - Compile correctly when both openssl 1.1.0 and libscrypt are
16262 detected. Previously this would cause an error. Fixes bug 22892;
16263 bugfix on 0.3.1.1-alpha.
16264 - When building with certain versions of the mingw C header files,
16265 avoid float-conversion warnings when calling the C functions
16266 isfinite(), isnan(), and signbit(). Fixes bug 22801; bugfix
16269 o Minor bugfixes (coverity build support):
16270 - Avoid Coverity build warnings related to our BUG() macro. By
16271 default, Coverity treats BUG() as the Linux kernel does: an
16272 instant abort(). We need to override that so our BUG() macro
16273 doesn't prevent Coverity from analyzing functions that use it.
16274 Fixes bug 23030; bugfix on 0.2.9.1-alpha.
16276 o Minor bugfixes (directory authority):
16277 - When a directory authority rejects a descriptor or extrainfo with
16278 a given digest, mark that digest as undownloadable, so that we do
16279 not attempt to download it again over and over. We previously
16280 tried to avoid downloading such descriptors by other means, but we
16281 didn't notice if we accidentally downloaded one anyway. This
16282 behavior became problematic in 0.2.7.2-alpha, when authorities
16283 began pinning Ed25519 keys. Fixes bug 22349; bugfix
16286 o Minor bugfixes (error reporting, windows):
16287 - When formatting Windows error messages, use the English format to
16288 avoid codepage issues. Fixes bug 22520; bugfix on 0.1.2.8-alpha.
16291 o Minor bugfixes (file limits, osx):
16292 - When setting the maximum number of connections allowed by the OS,
16293 always allow some extra file descriptors for other files. Fixes
16294 bug 22797; bugfix on 0.2.0.10-alpha.
16296 o Minor bugfixes (linux seccomp2 sandbox):
16297 - Avoid a sandbox failure when trying to re-bind to a socket and
16298 mark it as IPv6-only. Fixes bug 20247; bugfix on 0.2.5.1-alpha.
16300 o Minor bugfixes (memory leaks):
16301 - Fix a small memory leak when validating a configuration that uses
16302 two or more AF_UNIX sockets for the same port type. Fixes bug
16303 23053; bugfix on 0.2.6.3-alpha. This is CID 1415725.
16305 o Minor bugfixes (unit tests):
16306 - test_consdiff_base64cmp would fail on OS X because while OS X
16307 follows the standard of (less than zero/zero/greater than zero),
16308 it doesn't follow the convention of (-1/0/+1). Make the test
16309 comply with the standard. Fixes bug 22870; bugfix on 0.3.1.1-alpha.
16310 - Fix a memory leak in the link-handshake/certs_ok_ed25519 test.
16311 Fixes bug 22803; bugfix on 0.3.0.1-alpha.
16314 Changes in version 0.3.1.4-alpha - 2017-06-29
16315 Tor 0.3.1.4-alpha fixes a path selection bug that would allow a client
16316 to use a guard that was in the same network family as a chosen exit
16317 relay. This is a security regression; all clients running earlier
16318 versions of 0.3.0.x or 0.3.1.x should upgrade to 0.3.0.9
16321 This release also fixes several other bugs introduced in 0.3.0.x
16322 and 0.3.1.x, including others that can affect bandwidth usage
16325 o New dependencies:
16326 - To build with zstd and lzma support, Tor now requires the
16327 pkg-config tool at build time. (This requirement was new in
16328 0.3.1.1-alpha, but was not noted at the time. Noting it here to
16329 close ticket 22623.)
16331 o Major bugfixes (path selection, security):
16332 - When choosing which guard to use for a circuit, avoid the exit's
16333 family along with the exit itself. Previously, the new guard
16334 selection logic avoided the exit, but did not consider its family.
16335 Fixes bug 22753; bugfix on 0.3.0.1-alpha. Tracked as TROVE-2017-
16336 006 and CVE-2017-0377.
16338 o Major bugfixes (compression, zstd):
16339 - Correctly detect a full buffer when decompressing a large zstd-
16340 compressed input. Previously, we would sometimes treat a full
16341 buffer as an error. Fixes bug 22628; bugfix on 0.3.1.1-alpha.
16343 o Major bugfixes (directory protocol):
16344 - Ensure that we send "304 Not modified" as HTTP status code when a
16345 client is attempting to fetch a consensus or consensus diff, and
16346 the best one we can send them is one they already have. Fixes bug
16347 22702; bugfix on 0.3.1.1-alpha.
16349 o Major bugfixes (entry guards):
16350 - When starting with an old consensus, do not add new entry guards
16351 unless the consensus is "reasonably live" (under 1 day old). Fixes
16352 one root cause of bug 22400; bugfix on 0.3.0.1-alpha.
16354 o Minor features (bug mitigation, diagnostics, logging):
16355 - Avoid an assertion failure, and log a better error message, when
16356 unable to remove a file from the consensus cache on Windows.
16357 Attempts to mitigate and diagnose bug 22752.
16359 o Minor features (geoip):
16360 - Update geoip and geoip6 to the June 8 2017 Maxmind GeoLite2
16363 o Minor bugfixes (compression):
16364 - When compressing or decompressing a buffer, check for a failure to
16365 create a compression object. Fixes bug 22626; bugfix
16367 - When decompressing a buffer, check for extra data after the end of
16368 the compressed data. Fixes bug 22629; bugfix on 0.3.1.1-alpha.
16369 - When decompressing an object received over an anonymous directory
16370 connection, if we have already decompressed it using an acceptable
16371 compression method, do not reject it for looking like an
16372 unacceptable compression method. Fixes part of bug 22670; bugfix
16374 - When serving directory votes compressed with zlib, do not claim to
16375 have compressed them with zstd. Fixes bug 22669; bugfix
16377 - When spooling compressed data to an output buffer, don't try to
16378 spool more data when there is no more data to spool and we are not
16379 trying to flush the input. Previously, we would sometimes launch
16380 compression requests with nothing to do, which interferes with our
16381 22672 checks. Fixes bug 22719; bugfix on 0.2.0.16-alpha.
16383 o Minor bugfixes (defensive programming):
16384 - Detect and break out of infinite loops in our compression code. We
16385 don't think that any such loops exist now, but it's best to be
16386 safe. Closes ticket 22672.
16387 - Fix a memset() off the end of an array when packing cells. This
16388 bug should be harmless in practice, since the corrupted bytes are
16389 still in the same structure, and are always padding bytes,
16390 ignored, or immediately overwritten, depending on compiler
16391 behavior. Nevertheless, because the memset()'s purpose is to make
16392 sure that any other cell-handling bugs can't expose bytes to the
16393 network, we need to fix it. Fixes bug 22737; bugfix on
16394 0.2.4.11-alpha. Fixes CID 1401591.
16396 o Minor bugfixes (linux seccomp2 sandbox):
16397 - Permit the fchmod system call, to avoid crashing on startup when
16398 starting with the seccomp2 sandbox and an unexpected set of
16399 permissions on the data directory or its contents. Fixes bug
16400 22516; bugfix on 0.2.5.4-alpha.
16401 - Fix a crash in the LZMA module, when the sandbox was enabled, and
16402 liblzma would allocate more than 16 MB of memory. We solve this by
16403 bumping the mprotect() limit in the sandbox module from 16 MB to
16404 20 MB. Fixes bug 22751; bugfix on 0.3.1.1-alpha.
16406 o Minor bugfixes (logging):
16407 - When decompressing, do not warn if we fail to decompress using a
16408 compression method that we merely guessed. Fixes part of bug
16409 22670; bugfix on 0.1.1.14-alpha.
16410 - When decompressing, treat mismatch between content-encoding and
16411 actual compression type as a protocol warning. Fixes part of bug
16412 22670; bugfix on 0.1.1.9-alpha.
16413 - Downgrade "assigned_to_cpuworker failed" message to info-level
16414 severity. In every case that can reach it, either a better warning
16415 has already been logged, or no warning is warranted. Fixes bug
16416 22356; bugfix on 0.2.6.3-alpha.
16417 - Demote a warn that was caused by libevent delays to info if
16418 netflow padding is less than 4.5 seconds late, or to notice
16419 if it is more (4.5 seconds is the amount of time that a netflow
16420 record might be emitted after, if we chose the maximum timeout).
16421 Fixes bug 22212; bugfix on 0.3.1.1-alpha.
16423 o Minor bugfixes (process behavior):
16424 - When exiting because of an error, always exit with a nonzero exit
16425 status. Previously, we would fail to report an error in our exit
16426 status in cases related to __OwningControllerProcess failure,
16427 lockfile contention, and Ed25519 key initialization. Fixes bug
16428 22720; bugfix on versions 0.2.1.6-alpha, 0.2.2.28-beta, and
16429 0.2.7.2-alpha respectively. Reported by "f55jwk4f"; patch
16433 - Add a manpage description for the key-pinning-journal file. Closes
16435 - Correctly note that bandwidth accounting values are stored in the
16436 state file, and the bw_accounting file is now obsolete. Closes
16438 - Document more of the files in the Tor data directory, including
16439 cached-extrainfo, secret_onion_key{,_ntor}.old, hidserv-stats,
16440 approved-routers, sr-random, and diff-cache. Found while fixing
16444 Changes in version 0.3.0.9 - 2017-06-29
16445 Tor 0.3.0.9 fixes a path selection bug that would allow a client
16446 to use a guard that was in the same network family as a chosen exit
16447 relay. This is a security regression; all clients running earlier
16448 versions of 0.3.0.x or 0.3.1.x should upgrade to 0.3.0.9 or
16451 This release also backports several other bugfixes from the 0.3.1.x
16454 o Major bugfixes (path selection, security, backport from 0.3.1.4-alpha):
16455 - When choosing which guard to use for a circuit, avoid the exit's
16456 family along with the exit itself. Previously, the new guard
16457 selection logic avoided the exit, but did not consider its family.
16458 Fixes bug 22753; bugfix on 0.3.0.1-alpha. Tracked as TROVE-2017-
16459 006 and CVE-2017-0377.
16461 o Major bugfixes (entry guards, backport from 0.3.1.1-alpha):
16462 - Don't block bootstrapping when a primary bridge is offline and we
16463 can't get its descriptor. Fixes bug 22325; fixes one case of bug
16464 21969; bugfix on 0.3.0.3-alpha.
16466 o Major bugfixes (entry guards, backport from 0.3.1.4-alpha):
16467 - When starting with an old consensus, do not add new entry guards
16468 unless the consensus is "reasonably live" (under 1 day old). Fixes
16469 one root cause of bug 22400; bugfix on 0.3.0.1-alpha.
16471 o Minor features (geoip):
16472 - Update geoip and geoip6 to the June 8 2017 Maxmind GeoLite2
16475 o Minor bugfixes (voting consistency, backport from 0.3.1.1-alpha):
16476 - Reject version numbers with non-numeric prefixes (such as +, -, or
16477 whitespace). Disallowing whitespace prevents differential version
16478 parsing between POSIX-based and Windows platforms. Fixes bug 21507
16479 and part of 21508; bugfix on 0.0.8pre1.
16481 o Minor bugfixes (linux seccomp2 sandbox, backport from 0.3.1.4-alpha):
16482 - Permit the fchmod system call, to avoid crashing on startup when
16483 starting with the seccomp2 sandbox and an unexpected set of
16484 permissions on the data directory or its contents. Fixes bug
16485 22516; bugfix on 0.2.5.4-alpha.
16487 o Minor bugfixes (defensive programming, backport from 0.3.1.4-alpha):
16488 - Fix a memset() off the end of an array when packing cells. This
16489 bug should be harmless in practice, since the corrupted bytes are
16490 still in the same structure, and are always padding bytes,
16491 ignored, or immediately overwritten, depending on compiler
16492 behavior. Nevertheless, because the memset()'s purpose is to make
16493 sure that any other cell-handling bugs can't expose bytes to the
16494 network, we need to fix it. Fixes bug 22737; bugfix on
16495 0.2.4.11-alpha. Fixes CID 1401591.
16498 Changes in version 0.3.1.3-alpha - 2017-06-08
16499 Tor 0.3.1.3-alpha fixes a pair of bugs that would allow an attacker to
16500 remotely crash a hidden service with an assertion failure. Anyone
16501 running a hidden service should upgrade to this version, or to some
16502 other version with fixes for TROVE-2017-004 and TROVE-2017-005.
16504 Tor 0.3.1.3-alpha also includes fixes for several key management bugs
16505 that sometimes made relays unreliable, as well as several other
16506 bugfixes described below.
16508 o Major bugfixes (hidden service, relay, security):
16509 - Fix a remotely triggerable assertion failure when a hidden service
16510 handles a malformed BEGIN cell. Fixes bug 22493, tracked as
16511 TROVE-2017-004 and as CVE-2017-0375; bugfix on 0.3.0.1-alpha.
16512 - Fix a remotely triggerable assertion failure caused by receiving a
16513 BEGIN_DIR cell on a hidden service rendezvous circuit. Fixes bug
16514 22494, tracked as TROVE-2017-005 and CVE-2017-0376; bugfix
16517 o Major bugfixes (relay, link handshake):
16518 - When performing the v3 link handshake on a TLS connection, report
16519 that we have the x509 certificate that we actually used on that
16520 connection, even if we have changed certificates since that
16521 connection was first opened. Previously, we would claim to have
16522 used our most recent x509 link certificate, which would sometimes
16523 make the link handshake fail. Fixes one case of bug 22460; bugfix
16526 o Major bugfixes (relays, key management):
16527 - Regenerate link and authentication certificates whenever the key
16528 that signs them changes; also, regenerate link certificates
16529 whenever the signed key changes. Previously, these processes were
16530 only weakly coupled, and we relays could (for minutes to hours)
16531 wind up with an inconsistent set of keys and certificates, which
16532 other relays would not accept. Fixes two cases of bug 22460;
16533 bugfix on 0.3.0.1-alpha.
16534 - When sending an Ed25519 signing->link certificate in a CERTS cell,
16535 send the certificate that matches the x509 certificate that we
16536 used on the TLS connection. Previously, there was a race condition
16537 if the TLS context rotated after we began the TLS handshake but
16538 before we sent the CERTS cell. Fixes a case of bug 22460; bugfix
16541 o Major bugfixes (torrc, crash):
16542 - Fix a crash bug when using %include in torrc. Fixes bug 22417;
16543 bugfix on 0.3.1.1-alpha. Patch by Daniel Pinto.
16545 o Minor features (code style):
16546 - Add "Falls through" comments to our codebase, in order to silence
16547 GCC 7's -Wimplicit-fallthrough warnings. Patch from Andreas
16548 Stieger. Closes ticket 22446.
16550 o Minor features (diagnostic):
16551 - Add logging messages to try to diagnose a rare bug that seems to
16552 generate RSA->Ed25519 cross-certificates dated in the 1970s. We
16553 think this is happening because of incorrect system clocks, but
16554 we'd like to know for certain. Diagnostic for bug 22466.
16556 o Minor bugfixes (correctness):
16557 - Avoid undefined behavior when parsing IPv6 entries from the geoip6
16558 file. Fixes bug 22490; bugfix on 0.2.4.6-alpha.
16560 o Minor bugfixes (directory protocol):
16561 - Check for libzstd >= 1.1, because older versions lack the
16562 necessary streaming API. Fixes bug 22413; bugfix on 0.3.1.1-alpha.
16564 o Minor bugfixes (link handshake):
16565 - Lower the lifetime of the RSA->Ed25519 cross-certificate to six
16566 months, and regenerate it when it is within one month of expiring.
16567 Previously, we had generated this certificate at startup with a
16568 ten-year lifetime, but that could lead to weird behavior when Tor
16569 was started with a grossly inaccurate clock. Mitigates bug 22466;
16570 mitigation on 0.3.0.1-alpha.
16572 o Minor bugfixes (storage directories):
16573 - Always check for underflows in the cached storage directory usage.
16574 If the usage does underflow, re-calculate it. Also, avoid a
16575 separate underflow when the usage is not known. Fixes bug 22424;
16576 bugfix on 0.3.1.1-alpha.
16578 o Minor bugfixes (unit tests):
16579 - The unit tests now pass on systems where localhost is misconfigured
16580 to some IPv4 address other than 127.0.0.1. Fixes bug 6298; bugfix
16584 - Clarify the manpage for the (deprecated) torify script. Closes
16587 Changes in version 0.3.0.8 - 2017-06-08
16588 Tor 0.3.0.8 fixes a pair of bugs that would allow an attacker to
16589 remotely crash a hidden service with an assertion failure. Anyone
16590 running a hidden service should upgrade to this version, or to some
16591 other version with fixes for TROVE-2017-004 and TROVE-2017-005.
16593 Tor 0.3.0.8 also includes fixes for several key management bugs
16594 that sometimes made relays unreliable, as well as several other
16595 bugfixes described below.
16597 o Major bugfixes (hidden service, relay, security, backport
16598 from 0.3.1.3-alpha):
16599 - Fix a remotely triggerable assertion failure when a hidden service
16600 handles a malformed BEGIN cell. Fixes bug 22493, tracked as
16601 TROVE-2017-004 and as CVE-2017-0375; bugfix on 0.3.0.1-alpha.
16602 - Fix a remotely triggerable assertion failure caused by receiving a
16603 BEGIN_DIR cell on a hidden service rendezvous circuit. Fixes bug
16604 22494, tracked as TROVE-2017-005 and CVE-2017-0376; bugfix
16607 o Major bugfixes (relay, link handshake, backport from 0.3.1.3-alpha):
16608 - When performing the v3 link handshake on a TLS connection, report
16609 that we have the x509 certificate that we actually used on that
16610 connection, even if we have changed certificates since that
16611 connection was first opened. Previously, we would claim to have
16612 used our most recent x509 link certificate, which would sometimes
16613 make the link handshake fail. Fixes one case of bug 22460; bugfix
16616 o Major bugfixes (relays, key management, backport from 0.3.1.3-alpha):
16617 - Regenerate link and authentication certificates whenever the key
16618 that signs them changes; also, regenerate link certificates
16619 whenever the signed key changes. Previously, these processes were
16620 only weakly coupled, and we relays could (for minutes to hours)
16621 wind up with an inconsistent set of keys and certificates, which
16622 other relays would not accept. Fixes two cases of bug 22460;
16623 bugfix on 0.3.0.1-alpha.
16624 - When sending an Ed25519 signing->link certificate in a CERTS cell,
16625 send the certificate that matches the x509 certificate that we
16626 used on the TLS connection. Previously, there was a race condition
16627 if the TLS context rotated after we began the TLS handshake but
16628 before we sent the CERTS cell. Fixes a case of bug 22460; bugfix
16631 o Major bugfixes (hidden service v3, backport from 0.3.1.1-alpha):
16632 - Stop rejecting v3 hidden service descriptors because their size
16633 did not match an old padding rule. Fixes bug 22447; bugfix on
16636 o Minor features (fallback directory list, backport from 0.3.1.3-alpha):
16637 - Replace the 177 fallbacks originally introduced in Tor 0.2.9.8 in
16638 December 2016 (of which ~126 were still functional) with a list of
16639 151 fallbacks (32 new, 119 unchanged, 58 removed) generated in May
16640 2017. Resolves ticket 21564.
16642 o Minor bugfixes (configuration, backport from 0.3.1.1-alpha):
16643 - Do not crash when starting with LearnCircuitBuildTimeout 0. Fixes
16644 bug 22252; bugfix on 0.2.9.3-alpha.
16646 o Minor bugfixes (correctness, backport from 0.3.1.3-alpha):
16647 - Avoid undefined behavior when parsing IPv6 entries from the geoip6
16648 file. Fixes bug 22490; bugfix on 0.2.4.6-alpha.
16650 o Minor bugfixes (link handshake, backport from 0.3.1.3-alpha):
16651 - Lower the lifetime of the RSA->Ed25519 cross-certificate to six
16652 months, and regenerate it when it is within one month of expiring.
16653 Previously, we had generated this certificate at startup with a
16654 ten-year lifetime, but that could lead to weird behavior when Tor
16655 was started with a grossly inaccurate clock. Mitigates bug 22466;
16656 mitigation on 0.3.0.1-alpha.
16658 o Minor bugfixes (memory leak, directory authority, backport from
16660 - When directory authorities reject a router descriptor due to
16661 keypinning, free the router descriptor rather than leaking the
16662 memory. Fixes bug 22370; bugfix on 0.2.7.2-alpha.
16665 Changes in version 0.2.9.11 - 2017-06-08
16666 Tor 0.2.9.11 backports a fix for a bug that would allow an attacker to
16667 remotely crash a hidden service with an assertion failure. Anyone
16668 running a hidden service should upgrade to this version, or to some
16669 other version with fixes for TROVE-2017-005. (Versions before 0.3.0
16670 are not affected by TROVE-2017-004.)
16672 Tor 0.2.9.11 also backports fixes for several key management bugs
16673 that sometimes made relays unreliable, as well as several other
16674 bugfixes described below.
16676 o Major bugfixes (hidden service, relay, security, backport
16677 from 0.3.1.3-alpha):
16678 - Fix a remotely triggerable assertion failure caused by receiving a
16679 BEGIN_DIR cell on a hidden service rendezvous circuit. Fixes bug
16680 22494, tracked as TROVE-2017-005 and CVE-2017-0376; bugfix
16683 o Major bugfixes (relay, link handshake, backport from 0.3.1.3-alpha):
16684 - When performing the v3 link handshake on a TLS connection, report
16685 that we have the x509 certificate that we actually used on that
16686 connection, even if we have changed certificates since that
16687 connection was first opened. Previously, we would claim to have
16688 used our most recent x509 link certificate, which would sometimes
16689 make the link handshake fail. Fixes one case of bug 22460; bugfix
16692 o Minor features (fallback directory list, backport from 0.3.1.3-alpha):
16693 - Replace the 177 fallbacks originally introduced in Tor 0.2.9.8 in
16694 December 2016 (of which ~126 were still functional) with a list of
16695 151 fallbacks (32 new, 119 unchanged, 58 removed) generated in May
16696 2017. Resolves ticket 21564.
16698 o Minor features (future-proofing, backport from 0.3.0.7):
16699 - Tor no longer refuses to download microdescriptors or descriptors if
16700 they are listed as "published in the future". This change will
16701 eventually allow us to stop listing meaningful "published" dates
16702 in microdescriptor consensuses, and thereby allow us to reduce the
16703 resources required to download consensus diffs by over 50%.
16704 Implements part of ticket 21642; implements part of proposal 275.
16706 o Minor features (directory authorities, backport from 0.3.0.4-rc)
16707 - Directory authorities now reject relays running versions
16708 0.2.9.1-alpha through 0.2.9.4-alpha, because those relays
16709 suffer from bug 20499 and don't keep their consensus cache
16710 up-to-date. Resolves ticket 20509.
16712 o Minor features (geoip):
16713 - Update geoip and geoip6 to the May 2 2017 Maxmind GeoLite2
16716 o Minor bugfixes (control port, backport from 0.3.0.6):
16717 - The GETINFO extra-info/digest/<digest> command was broken because
16718 of a wrong base16 decode return value check, introduced when
16719 refactoring that API. Fixes bug 22034; bugfix on 0.2.9.1-alpha.
16721 o Minor bugfixes (correctness, backport from 0.3.1.3-alpha):
16722 - Avoid undefined behavior when parsing IPv6 entries from the geoip6
16723 file. Fixes bug 22490; bugfix on 0.2.4.6-alpha.
16725 o Minor bugfixes (Linux seccomp2 sandbox, backport from 0.3.0.7):
16726 - The getpid() system call is now permitted under the Linux seccomp2
16727 sandbox, to avoid crashing with versions of OpenSSL (and other
16728 libraries) that attempt to learn the process's PID by using the
16729 syscall rather than the VDSO code. Fixes bug 21943; bugfix
16732 o Minor bugfixes (memory leak, directory authority, backport
16733 from 0.3.1.2-alpha):
16734 - When directory authorities reject a router descriptor due to
16735 keypinning, free the router descriptor rather than leaking the
16736 memory. Fixes bug 22370; bugfix on 0.2.7.2-alpha.
16738 Changes in version 0.2.8.14 - 2017-06-08
16739 Tor 0.2.7.8 backports a fix for a bug that would allow an attacker to
16740 remotely crash a hidden service with an assertion failure. Anyone
16741 running a hidden service should upgrade to this version, or to some
16742 other version with fixes for TROVE-2017-005. (Versions before 0.3.0
16743 are not affected by TROVE-2017-004.)
16745 o Major bugfixes (hidden service, relay, security):
16746 - Fix a remotely triggerable assertion failure caused by receiving a
16747 BEGIN_DIR cell on a hidden service rendezvous circuit. Fixes bug
16748 22494, tracked as TROVE-2017-005 and CVE-2017-0376; bugfix
16751 o Minor features (geoip):
16752 - Update geoip and geoip6 to the May 2 2017 Maxmind GeoLite2
16755 o Minor features (fallback directory list, backport from 0.3.1.3-alpha):
16756 - Replace the 177 fallbacks originally introduced in Tor 0.2.9.8 in
16757 December 2016 (of which ~126 were still functional) with a list of
16758 151 fallbacks (32 new, 119 unchanged, 58 removed) generated in May
16759 2017. Resolves ticket 21564.
16761 o Minor bugfixes (correctness):
16762 - Avoid undefined behavior when parsing IPv6 entries from the geoip6
16763 file. Fixes bug 22490; bugfix on 0.2.4.6-alpha.
16765 Changes in version 0.2.7.8 - 2017-06-08
16766 Tor 0.2.7.8 backports a fix for a bug that would allow an attacker to
16767 remotely crash a hidden service with an assertion failure. Anyone
16768 running a hidden service should upgrade to this version, or to some
16769 other version with fixes for TROVE-2017-005. (Versions before 0.3.0
16770 are not affected by TROVE-2017-004.)
16772 o Major bugfixes (hidden service, relay, security):
16773 - Fix a remotely triggerable assertion failure caused by receiving a
16774 BEGIN_DIR cell on a hidden service rendezvous circuit. Fixes bug
16775 22494, tracked as TROVE-2017-005 and CVE-2017-0376; bugfix
16778 o Minor features (geoip):
16779 - Update geoip and geoip6 to the May 2 2017 Maxmind GeoLite2
16782 o Minor bugfixes (correctness):
16783 - Avoid undefined behavior when parsing IPv6 entries from the geoip6
16784 file. Fixes bug 22490; bugfix on 0.2.4.6-alpha.
16787 Changes in version 0.2.6.12 - 2017-06-08
16788 Tor 0.2.6.12 backports a fix for a bug that would allow an attacker to
16789 remotely crash a hidden service with an assertion failure. Anyone
16790 running a hidden service should upgrade to this version, or to some
16791 other version with fixes for TROVE-2017-005. (Versions before 0.3.0
16792 are not affected by TROVE-2017-004.)
16794 o Major bugfixes (hidden service, relay, security):
16795 - Fix a remotely triggerable assertion failure caused by receiving a
16796 BEGIN_DIR cell on a hidden service rendezvous circuit. Fixes bug
16797 22494, tracked as TROVE-2017-005 and CVE-2017-0376; bugfix
16800 o Minor features (geoip):
16801 - Update geoip and geoip6 to the May 2 2017 Maxmind GeoLite2
16804 o Minor bugfixes (correctness):
16805 - Avoid undefined behavior when parsing IPv6 entries from the geoip6
16806 file. Fixes bug 22490; bugfix on 0.2.4.6-alpha.
16808 Changes in version 0.2.5.14 - 2017-06-08
16809 Tor 0.2.5.14 backports a fix for a bug that would allow an attacker to
16810 remotely crash a hidden service with an assertion failure. Anyone
16811 running a hidden service should upgrade to this version, or to some
16812 other version with fixes for TROVE-2017-005. (Versions before 0.3.0
16813 are not affected by TROVE-2017-004.)
16815 o Major bugfixes (hidden service, relay, security):
16816 - Fix a remotely triggerable assertion failure caused by receiving a
16817 BEGIN_DIR cell on a hidden service rendezvous circuit. Fixes bug
16818 22494, tracked as TROVE-2017-005 and CVE-2017-0376; bugfix
16821 o Minor features (geoip):
16822 - Update geoip and geoip6 to the May 2 2017 Maxmind GeoLite2
16825 o Minor bugfixes (correctness):
16826 - Avoid undefined behavior when parsing IPv6 entries from the geoip6
16827 file. Fixes bug 22490; bugfix on 0.2.4.6-alpha.
16829 Changes in version 0.2.4.29 - 2017-06-08
16830 Tor 0.2.4.29 backports a fix for a bug that would allow an attacker to
16831 remotely crash a hidden service with an assertion failure. Anyone
16832 running a hidden service should upgrade to this version, or to some
16833 other version with fixes for TROVE-2017-005. (Versions before 0.3.0
16834 are not affected by TROVE-2017-004.)
16836 o Major bugfixes (hidden service, relay, security):
16837 - Fix a remotely triggerable assertion failure caused by receiving a
16838 BEGIN_DIR cell on a hidden service rendezvous circuit. Fixes bug
16839 22494, tracked as TROVE-2017-005 and CVE-2017-0376; bugfix
16842 o Minor features (geoip):
16843 - Update geoip and geoip6 to the May 2 2017 Maxmind GeoLite2
16846 o Minor bugfixes (correctness):
16847 - Avoid undefined behavior when parsing IPv6 entries from the geoip6
16848 file. Fixes bug 22490; bugfix on 0.2.4.6-alpha.
16851 Changes in version 0.3.1.2-alpha - 2017-05-26
16852 Tor 0.3.1.2-alpha is the second release in the 0.3.1.x series. It
16853 fixes a few bugs found while testing 0.3.1.1-alpha, including a
16854 memory corruption bug that affected relay stability.
16856 o Major bugfixes (crash, relay):
16857 - Fix a memory-corruption bug in relays that set MyFamily.
16858 Previously, they would double-free MyFamily elements when making
16859 the next descriptor or when changing their configuration. Fixes
16860 bug 22368; bugfix on 0.3.1.1-alpha.
16862 o Minor bugfixes (logging):
16863 - Log a better message when a directory authority replies to an
16864 upload with an unexpected status code. Fixes bug 11121; bugfix
16867 o Minor bugfixes (memory leak, directory authority):
16868 - When directory authorities reject a router descriptor due to
16869 keypinning, free the router descriptor rather than leaking the
16870 memory. Fixes bug 22370; bugfix on 0.2.7.2-alpha.
16873 Changes in version 0.3.1.1-alpha - 2017-05-22
16874 Tor 0.3.1.1-alpha is the first release in the 0.3.1.x series. It
16875 reduces the bandwidth usage for Tor's directory protocol, adds some
16876 basic padding to resist netflow-based traffic analysis and to serve as
16877 the basis of other padding in the future, and adds rust support to the
16880 It also contains numerous other small features and improvements to
16881 security, correctness, and performance.
16883 Below are the changes since 0.3.0.7.
16885 o Major features (directory protocol):
16886 - Tor relays and authorities can now serve clients an abbreviated
16887 version of the consensus document, containing only the changes
16888 since an older consensus document that the client holds. Clients
16889 now request these documents when available. When both client and
16890 server use this new protocol, they will use far less bandwidth (up
16891 to 94% less) to keep the client's consensus up-to-date. Implements
16892 proposal 140; closes ticket 13339. Based on work by Daniel Martí.
16893 - Tor can now compress directory traffic with lzma or with zstd
16894 compression algorithms, which can deliver better bandwidth
16895 performance. Because lzma is computationally expensive, it's only
16896 used for documents that can be compressed once and served many
16897 times. Support for these algorithms requires that tor is built
16898 with the libzstd and/or liblzma libraries available. Implements
16899 proposal 278; closes ticket 21662.
16900 - Relays now perform the more expensive compression operations, and
16901 consensus diff generation, in worker threads. This separation
16902 avoids delaying the main thread when a new consensus arrives.
16904 o Major features (experimental):
16905 - Tor can now build modules written in Rust. To turn this on, pass
16906 the "--enable-rust" flag to the configure script. It's not time to
16907 get excited yet: currently, there is no actual Rust functionality
16908 beyond some simple glue code, and a notice at startup to tell you
16909 that Rust is running. Still, we hope that programmers and
16910 packagers will try building Tor with Rust support, so that we can
16911 find issues and solve portability problems. Closes ticket 22106.
16913 o Major features (traffic analysis resistance):
16914 - Connections between clients and relays now send a padding cell in
16915 each direction every 1.5 to 9.5 seconds (tunable via consensus
16916 parameters). This padding will not resist specialized
16917 eavesdroppers, but it should be enough to make many ISPs' routine
16918 network flow logging less useful in traffic analysis against
16921 Padding is negotiated using Tor's link protocol, so both relays
16922 and clients must upgrade for this to take effect. Clients may
16923 still send padding despite the relay's version by setting
16924 ConnectionPadding 1 in torrc, and may disable padding by setting
16925 ConnectionPadding 0 in torrc. Padding may be minimized for mobile
16926 users with the torrc option ReducedConnectionPadding. Implements
16927 Proposal 251 and Section 2 of Proposal 254; closes ticket 16861.
16928 - Relays will publish 24 hour totals of padding and non-padding cell
16929 counts to their extra-info descriptors, unless PaddingStatistics 0
16930 is set in torrc. These 24 hour totals are also rounded to
16931 multiples of 10000.
16933 o Major bugfixes (connection usage):
16934 - We use NETINFO cells to try to determine if both relays involved
16935 in a connection will agree on the canonical status of that
16936 connection. We prefer the connections where this is the case for
16937 extend cells, and try to close connections where relays disagree
16938 on their canonical status early. Also, we now prefer the oldest
16939 valid connection for extend cells. These two changes should reduce
16940 the number of long-term connections that are kept open between
16941 relays. Fixes bug 17604; bugfix on 0.2.5.5-alpha.
16942 - Relays now log hourly statistics (look for
16943 "channel_check_for_duplicates" lines) on the total number of
16944 connections to other relays. If the number of connections per
16945 relay is unexpectedly large, this log message is at notice level.
16946 Otherwise it is at info.
16948 o Major bugfixes (entry guards):
16949 - Don't block bootstrapping when a primary bridge is offline and we
16950 can't get its descriptor. Fixes bug 22325; fixes one case of bug
16951 21969; bugfix on 0.3.0.3-alpha.
16953 o Major bugfixes (linux TPROXY support):
16954 - Fix a typo that had prevented TPROXY-based transparent proxying
16955 from working under Linux. Fixes bug 18100; bugfix on 0.2.6.3-alpha.
16956 Patch from "d4fq0fQAgoJ".
16958 o Minor features (security, windows):
16959 - Enable a couple of pieces of Windows hardening: one
16960 (HeapEnableTerminationOnCorruption) that has been on-by-default
16961 since Windows 8, and unavailable before Windows 7; and one
16962 (PROCESS_DEP_DISABLE_ATL_THUNK_EMULATION) which we believe doesn't
16963 affect us, but shouldn't do any harm. Closes ticket 21953.
16965 o Minor features (config options):
16966 - Allow "%include" directives in torrc configuration files. These
16967 directives import the settings from other files, or from all the
16968 files in a directory. Closes ticket 1922. Code by Daniel Pinto.
16969 - Make SAVECONF return an error when overwriting a torrc that has
16970 includes. Using SAVECONF with the FORCE option will allow it to
16971 overwrite torrc even if includes are used. Related to ticket 1922.
16972 - Add "GETINFO config-can-saveconf" to tell controllers if SAVECONF
16973 will work without the FORCE option. Related to ticket 1922.
16975 o Minor features (controller):
16976 - Warn the first time that a controller requests data in the long-
16977 deprecated 'GETINFO network-status' format. Closes ticket 21703.
16979 o Minor features (defaults):
16980 - The default value for UseCreateFast is now 0: clients which
16981 haven't yet received a consensus document will now use a proper
16982 ntor handshake to talk to their directory servers whenever they
16983 can. Closes ticket 21407.
16984 - Onion key rotation and expiry intervals are now defined as a
16985 network consensus parameter, per proposal 274. The default
16986 lifetime of an onion key is increased from 7 to 28 days. Old onion
16987 keys will expire after 7 days by default. This change will make
16988 consensus diffs much smaller, and save significant bandwidth.
16989 Closes ticket 21641.
16991 o Minor features (fallback directory list):
16992 - Update the fallback directory mirror whitelist and blacklist based
16993 on operator emails. Closes task 21121.
16994 - Replace the 177 fallbacks originally introduced in Tor 0.2.9.8 in
16995 December 2016 (of which ~126 were still functional) with a list of
16996 151 fallbacks (32 new, 119 unchanged, 58 removed) generated in May
16997 2017. Resolves ticket 21564.
16999 o Minor features (hidden services, logging):
17000 - Log a message when a hidden service descriptor has fewer
17001 introduction points than specified in
17002 HiddenServiceNumIntroductionPoints. Closes tickets 21598.
17003 - Log a message when a hidden service reaches its introduction point
17004 circuit limit, and when that limit is reset. Follow up to ticket
17005 21594; closes ticket 21622.
17006 - Warn user if multiple entries in EntryNodes and at least one
17007 HiddenService are used together. Pinning EntryNodes along with a
17008 hidden service can be possibly harmful; for instance see ticket
17009 14917 or 21155. Closes ticket 21155.
17011 o Minor features (linux seccomp2 sandbox):
17012 - We now have a document storage backend compatible with the Linux
17013 seccomp2 sandbox. This backend is used for consensus documents and
17014 diffs between them; in the long term, we'd like to use it for
17015 unparseable directory material too. Closes ticket 21645
17016 - Increase the maximum allowed size passed to mprotect(PROT_WRITE)
17017 from 1MB to 16MB. This was necessary with the glibc allocator in
17018 order to allow worker threads to allocate more memory -- which in
17019 turn is necessary because of our new use of worker threads for
17020 compression. Closes ticket 22096.
17022 o Minor features (logging):
17023 - Log files are no longer created world-readable by default.
17024 (Previously, most distributors would store the logs in a non-
17025 world-readable location to prevent inappropriate access. This
17026 change is an extra precaution.) Closes ticket 21729; patch
17029 o Minor features (performance):
17030 - Our Keccak (SHA-3) implementation now accesses memory more
17031 efficiently, especially on little-endian systems. Closes
17033 - Add an O(1) implementation of channel_find_by_global_id(), to
17034 speed some controller functions.
17036 o Minor features (relay, configuration):
17037 - The MyFamily option may now be repeated as many times as desired,
17038 for relays that want to configure large families. Closes ticket
17039 4998; patch by Daniel Pinto.
17041 o Minor features (safety):
17042 - Add an explicit check to extrainfo_parse_entry_from_string() for
17043 NULL inputs. We don't believe this can actually happen, but it may
17044 help silence a warning from the Clang analyzer. Closes
17047 o Minor features (testing):
17048 - Add a "--disable-memory-sentinels" feature to help with fuzzing.
17049 When Tor is compiled with this option, we disable a number of
17050 redundant memory-safety failsafes that are intended to stop bugs
17051 from becoming security issues. This makes it easier to hunt for
17052 bugs that would be security issues without the failsafes turned
17053 on. Closes ticket 21439.
17054 - Add a general event-tracing instrumentation support to Tor. This
17055 subsystem will enable developers and researchers to add fine-
17056 grained instrumentation to their Tor instances, for use when
17057 examining Tor network performance issues. There are no trace
17058 events yet, and event-tracing is off by default unless enabled at
17059 compile time. Implements ticket 13802.
17060 - Improve our version parsing tests: add tests for typical version
17061 components, add tests for invalid versions, including numeric
17062 range and non-numeric prefixes. Unit tests 21278, 21450, and
17063 21507. Partially implements 21470.
17065 o Minor bugfixes (bandwidth accounting):
17066 - Roll over monthly accounting at the configured hour and minute,
17067 rather than always at 00:00. Fixes bug 22245; bugfix on 0.0.9rc1.
17068 Found by Andrey Karpov with PVS-Studio.
17070 o Minor bugfixes (code correctness):
17071 - Accurately identify client connections by their lack of peer
17072 authentication. This means that we bail out earlier if asked to
17073 extend to a client. Follow-up to 21407. Fixes bug 21406; bugfix
17076 o Minor bugfixes (configuration):
17077 - Do not crash when starting with LearnCircuitBuildTimeout 0. Fixes
17078 bug 22252; bugfix on 0.2.9.3-alpha.
17080 o Minor bugfixes (connection lifespan):
17081 - Allow more control over how long TLS connections are kept open:
17082 unify CircuitIdleTimeout and PredictedPortsRelevanceTime into a
17083 single option called CircuitsAvailableTimeout. Also, allow the
17084 consensus to control the default values for both this preference
17085 and the lifespan of relay-to-relay connections. Fixes bug 17592;
17086 bugfix on 0.2.5.5-alpha.
17087 - Increase the initial circuit build timeout testing frequency, to
17088 help ensure that ReducedConnectionPadding clients finish learning
17089 a timeout before their orconn would expire. The initial testing
17090 rate was set back in the days of TAP and before the Tor Browser
17091 updater, when we had to be much more careful about new clients
17092 making lots of circuits. With this change, a circuit build timeout
17093 is learned in about 15-20 minutes, instead of 100-120 minutes.
17095 o Minor bugfixes (controller):
17096 - GETINFO onions/current and onions/detached no longer respond with
17097 551 on empty lists. Fixes bug 21329; bugfix on 0.2.7.1-alpha.
17098 - Trigger HS descriptor events on the control port when the client
17099 fails to pick a hidden service directory for a hidden service.
17100 This can happen if all the hidden service directories are in
17101 ExcludeNodes, or they have all been queried within the last 15
17102 minutes. Fixes bug 22042; bugfix on 0.2.5.2-alpha.
17104 o Minor bugfixes (directory authority):
17105 - When rejecting a router descriptor for running an obsolete version
17106 of Tor without ntor support, warn about the obsolete tor version,
17107 not the missing ntor key. Fixes bug 20270; bugfix on 0.2.9.3-alpha.
17108 - Prevent the shared randomness subsystem from asserting when
17109 initialized by a bridge authority with an incomplete configuration
17110 file. Fixes bug 21586; bugfix on 0.2.9.8.
17112 o Minor bugfixes (exit-side DNS):
17113 - Fix an untriggerable assertion that checked the output of a
17114 libevent DNS error, so that the assertion actually behaves as
17115 expected. Fixes bug 22244; bugfix on 0.2.0.20-rc. Found by Andrey
17116 Karpov using PVS-Studio.
17118 o Minor bugfixes (fallback directories):
17119 - Make the usage example in updateFallbackDirs.py actually work, and
17120 explain what it does. Fixes bug 22270; bugfix on 0.3.0.3-alpha.
17121 - Decrease the guard flag average required to be a fallback. This
17122 allows us to keep relays that have their guard flag removed when
17123 they restart. Fixes bug 20913; bugfix on 0.2.8.1-alpha.
17124 - Decrease the minimum number of fallbacks to 100. Fixes bug 20913;
17125 bugfix on 0.2.8.1-alpha.
17126 - Make sure fallback directory mirrors have the same address, port,
17127 and relay identity key for at least 30 days before they are
17128 selected. Fixes bug 20913; bugfix on 0.2.8.1-alpha.
17130 o Minor bugfixes (hidden services):
17131 - Stop printing a cryptic warning when a hidden service gets a
17132 request to connect to a virtual port that it hasn't configured.
17133 Fixes bug 16706; bugfix on 0.2.6.3-alpha.
17134 - Simplify hidden service descriptor creation by using an existing
17135 flag to check if an introduction point is established. Fixes bug
17136 21599; bugfix on 0.2.7.2-alpha.
17138 o Minor bugfixes (memory leak):
17139 - Fix a small memory leak at exit from the backtrace handler code.
17140 Fixes bug 21788; bugfix on 0.2.5.2-alpha. Patch from Daniel Pinto.
17142 o Minor bugfixes (protocol, logging):
17143 - Downgrade a log statement about unexpected relay cells from "bug"
17144 to "protocol warning", because there is at least one use case
17145 where it can be triggered by a buggy tor implementation. Fixes bug
17146 21293; bugfix on 0.1.1.14-alpha.
17148 o Minor bugfixes (testing):
17149 - Use unbuffered I/O for utility functions around the
17150 process_handle_t type. This fixes unit test failures reported on
17151 OpenBSD and FreeBSD. Fixes bug 21654; bugfix on 0.2.3.1-alpha.
17152 - Make display of captured unit test log messages consistent. Fixes
17153 bug 21510; bugfix on 0.2.9.3-alpha.
17154 - Make test-network.sh always call chutney's test-network.sh.
17155 Previously, this only worked on systems which had bash installed,
17156 due to some bash-specific code in the script. Fixes bug 19699;
17157 bugfix on 0.3.0.4-rc. Follow-up to ticket 21581.
17159 o Minor bugfixes (voting consistency):
17160 - Reject version numbers with non-numeric prefixes (such as +, -, or
17161 whitespace). Disallowing whitespace prevents differential version
17162 parsing between POSIX-based and Windows platforms. Fixes bug 21507
17163 and part of 21508; bugfix on 0.0.8pre1.
17165 o Minor bugfixes (windows, relay):
17166 - Resolve "Failure from drain_fd: No error" warnings on Windows
17167 relays. Fixes bug 21540; bugfix on 0.2.6.3-alpha.
17169 o Code simplification and refactoring:
17170 - Break up the 630-line function connection_dir_client_reached_eof()
17171 into a dozen smaller functions. This change should help
17172 maintainability and readability of the client directory code.
17173 - Isolate our use of the openssl headers so that they are only
17174 included from our crypto wrapper modules, and from tests that
17175 examine those modules' internals. Closes ticket 21841.
17176 - Simplify our API to launch directory requests, making it more
17177 extensible and less error-prone. Now it's easier to add extra
17178 headers to directory requests. Closes ticket 21646.
17179 - Our base64 decoding functions no longer overestimate the output
17180 space that they need when parsing unpadded inputs. Closes
17182 - Remove unused "ROUTER_ADDED_NOTIFY_GENERATOR" internal value.
17183 Resolves ticket 22213.
17184 - The logic that directory caches use to spool request to clients,
17185 serving them one part at a time so as not to allocate too much
17186 memory, has been refactored for consistency. Previously there was
17187 a separate spooling implementation per type of spoolable data. Now
17188 there is one common spooling implementation, with extensible data
17189 types. Closes ticket 21651.
17190 - Tor's compression module now supports multiple backends. Part of
17191 the implementation for proposal 278; closes ticket 21663.
17194 - Clarify the behavior of the KeepAliveIsolateSOCKSAuth sub-option.
17195 Closes ticket 21873.
17196 - Correct documentation about the default DataDirectory value.
17197 Closes ticket 21151.
17198 - Document the default behavior of NumEntryGuards and
17199 NumDirectoryGuards correctly. Fixes bug 21715; bugfix
17201 - Document key=value pluggable transport arguments for Bridge lines
17202 in torrc. Fixes bug 20341; bugfix on 0.2.5.1-alpha.
17203 - Note that bandwidth-limiting options don't affect TCP headers or
17204 DNS. Closes ticket 17170.
17206 o Removed features (configuration options, all in ticket 22060):
17207 - These configuration options are now marked Obsolete, and no longer
17208 have any effect: AllowInvalidNodes, AllowSingleHopCircuits,
17209 AllowSingleHopExits, ExcludeSingleHopRelays, FastFirstHopPK,
17210 TLSECGroup, WarnUnsafeSocks. They were first marked as deprecated
17211 in 0.2.9.2-alpha and have now been removed. The previous default
17212 behavior is now always chosen; the previous (less secure) non-
17213 default behavior is now unavailable.
17214 - CloseHSClientCircuitsImmediatelyOnTimeout and
17215 CloseHSServiceRendCircuitsImmediatelyOnTimeout were deprecated in
17216 0.2.9.2-alpha and now have been removed. HS circuits never close
17217 on circuit build timeout; they have a longer timeout period.
17218 - {Control,DNS,Dir,Socks,Trans,NATD,OR}ListenAddress were deprecated
17219 in 0.2.9.2-alpha and now have been removed. Use the ORPort option
17220 (and others) to configure listen-only and advertise-only addresses.
17222 o Removed features (tools):
17223 - We've removed the tor-checkkey tool from src/tools. Long ago, we
17224 used it to help people detect RSA keys that were generated by
17225 versions of Debian affected by CVE-2008-0166. But those keys have
17226 been out of circulation for ages, and this tool is no longer
17227 required. Closes ticket 21842.
17230 Changes in version 0.3.0.7 - 2017-05-15
17231 Tor 0.3.0.7 fixes a medium-severity security bug in earlier versions
17232 of Tor 0.3.0.x, where an attacker could cause a Tor relay process
17233 to exit. Relays running earlier versions of Tor 0.3.0.x should upgrade;
17234 clients are not affected.
17236 o Major bugfixes (hidden service directory, security):
17237 - Fix an assertion failure in the hidden service directory code, which
17238 could be used by an attacker to remotely cause a Tor relay process to
17239 exit. Relays running earlier versions of Tor 0.3.0.x should upgrade.
17240 should upgrade. This security issue is tracked as TROVE-2017-002.
17241 Fixes bug 22246; bugfix on 0.3.0.1-alpha.
17244 - Update geoip and geoip6 to the May 2 2017 Maxmind GeoLite2
17247 o Minor features (future-proofing):
17248 - Tor no longer refuses to download microdescriptors or descriptors
17249 if they are listed as "published in the future". This change will
17250 eventually allow us to stop listing meaningful "published" dates
17251 in microdescriptor consensuses, and thereby allow us to reduce the
17252 resources required to download consensus diffs by over 50%.
17253 Implements part of ticket 21642; implements part of proposal 275.
17255 o Minor bugfixes (Linux seccomp2 sandbox):
17256 - The getpid() system call is now permitted under the Linux seccomp2
17257 sandbox, to avoid crashing with versions of OpenSSL (and other
17258 libraries) that attempt to learn the process's PID by using the
17259 syscall rather than the VDSO code. Fixes bug 21943; bugfix
17263 Changes in version 0.3.0.6 - 2017-04-26
17264 Tor 0.3.0.6 is the first stable release of the Tor 0.3.0 series.
17266 With the 0.3.0 series, clients and relays now use Ed25519 keys to
17267 authenticate their link connections to relays, rather than the old
17268 RSA1024 keys that they used before. (Circuit crypto has been
17269 Curve25519-authenticated since 0.2.4.8-alpha.) We have also replaced
17270 the guard selection and replacement algorithm to behave more robustly
17271 in the presence of unreliable networks, and to resist guard-
17274 This series also includes numerous other small features and bugfixes,
17275 along with more groundwork for the upcoming hidden-services revamp.
17277 Per our stable release policy, we plan to support the Tor 0.3.0
17278 release series for at least the next nine months, or for three months
17279 after the first stable release of the 0.3.1 series: whichever is
17280 longer. If you need a release with long-term support, we recommend
17281 that you stay with the 0.2.9 series.
17283 Below are the changes since 0.3.0.5-rc. For a list of all changes
17284 since 0.2.9, see the ReleaseNotes file.
17286 o Minor features (geoip):
17287 - Update geoip and geoip6 to the April 4 2017 Maxmind GeoLite2
17290 o Minor bugfixes (control port):
17291 - The GETINFO extra-info/digest/<digest> command was broken because
17292 of a wrong base16 decode return value check, introduced when
17293 refactoring that API. Fixes bug 22034; bugfix on 0.2.9.1-alpha.
17295 o Minor bugfixes (crash prevention):
17296 - Fix a (currently untriggerable, but potentially dangerous) crash
17297 bug when base32-encoding inputs whose sizes are not a multiple of
17298 5. Fixes bug 21894; bugfix on 0.2.9.1-alpha.
17301 Changes in version 0.3.0.5-rc - 2017-04-05
17302 Tor 0.3.0.5-rc fixes a few remaining bugs, large and small, in the
17303 0.3.0 release series.
17305 This is the second release candidate in the Tor 0.3.0 series, and has
17306 much fewer changes than the first. If we find no new bugs or
17307 regressions here, the first stable 0.3.0 release will be nearly
17310 o Major bugfixes (crash, directory connections):
17311 - Fix a rare crash when sending a begin cell on a circuit whose
17312 linked directory connection had already been closed. Fixes bug
17313 21576; bugfix on 0.2.9.3-alpha. Reported by Alec Muffett.
17315 o Major bugfixes (guard selection):
17316 - Fix a guard selection bug where Tor would refuse to bootstrap in
17317 some cases if the user swapped a bridge for another bridge in
17318 their configuration file. Fixes bug 21771; bugfix on 0.3.0.1-alpha.
17319 Reported by "torvlnt33r".
17321 o Minor features (geoip):
17322 - Update geoip and geoip6 to the March 7 2017 Maxmind GeoLite2
17325 o Minor bugfix (compilation):
17326 - Fix a warning when compiling hs_service.c. Previously, it had no
17327 exported symbols when compiled for libor.a, resulting in a
17328 compilation warning from clang. Fixes bug 21825; bugfix
17331 o Minor bugfixes (hidden services):
17332 - Make hidden services check for failed intro point connections,
17333 even when they have exceeded their intro point creation limit.
17334 Fixes bug 21596; bugfix on 0.2.7.2-alpha. Reported by Alec Muffett.
17335 - Make hidden services with 8 to 10 introduction points check for
17336 failed circuits immediately after startup. Previously, they would
17337 wait for 5 minutes before performing their first checks. Fixes bug
17338 21594; bugfix on 0.2.3.9-alpha. Reported by Alec Muffett.
17340 o Minor bugfixes (memory leaks):
17341 - Fix a memory leak when using GETCONF on a port option. Fixes bug
17342 21682; bugfix on 0.3.0.3-alpha.
17344 o Minor bugfixes (relay):
17345 - Avoid a double-marked-circuit warning that could happen when we
17346 receive DESTROY cells under heavy load. Fixes bug 20059; bugfix
17349 o Minor bugfixes (tests):
17350 - Run the entry_guard_parse_from_state_full() test with the time set
17351 to a specific date. (The guard state that this test was parsing
17352 contained guards that had expired since the test was first
17353 written.) Fixes bug 21799; bugfix on 0.3.0.1-alpha.
17356 - Update the description of the directory server options in the
17357 manual page, to clarify that a relay no longer needs to set
17358 DirPort in order to be a directory cache. Closes ticket 21720.
17362 Changes in version 0.2.8.13 - 2017-03-03
17363 Tor 0.2.8.13 backports a security fix from later Tor
17364 releases. Anybody running Tor 0.2.8.12 or earlier should upgrade to this
17365 this release, if for some reason they cannot upgrade to a later
17366 release series, and if they build Tor with the --enable-expensive-hardening
17369 Note that support for Tor 0.2.8.x is ending next year: we will not issue
17370 any fixes for the Tor 0.2.8.x series after 1 Jan 2018. If you need
17371 a Tor release series with longer-term support, we recommend Tor 0.2.9.x.
17373 o Major bugfixes (parsing, backported from 0.3.0.4-rc):
17374 - Fix an integer underflow bug when comparing malformed Tor
17375 versions. This bug could crash Tor when built with
17376 --enable-expensive-hardening, or on Tor 0.2.9.1-alpha through Tor
17377 0.2.9.8, which were built with -ftrapv by default. In other cases
17378 it was harmless. Part of TROVE-2017-001. Fixes bug 21278; bugfix
17379 on 0.0.8pre1. Found by OSS-Fuzz.
17381 o Minor features (geoip):
17382 - Update geoip and geoip6 to the February 8 2017 Maxmind GeoLite2
17386 Changes in version 0.2.7.7 - 2017-03-03
17387 Tor 0.2.7.7 backports a number of security fixes from later Tor
17388 releases. Anybody running Tor 0.2.7.6 or earlier should upgrade to
17389 this release, if for some reason they cannot upgrade to a later
17392 Note that support for Tor 0.2.7.x is ending this year: we will not issue
17393 any fixes for the Tor 0.2.7.x series after 1 August 2017. If you need
17394 a Tor release series with longer-term support, we recommend Tor 0.2.9.x.
17396 o Directory authority changes (backport from 0.2.8.5-rc):
17397 - Urras is no longer a directory authority. Closes ticket 19271.
17399 o Directory authority changes (backport from 0.2.9.2-alpha):
17400 - The "Tonga" bridge authority has been retired; the new bridge
17401 authority is "Bifroest". Closes tickets 19728 and 19690.
17403 o Directory authority key updates (backport from 0.2.8.1-alpha):
17404 - Update the V3 identity key for the dannenberg directory authority:
17405 it was changed on 18 November 2015. Closes task 17906. Patch
17408 o Major bugfixes (parsing, security, backport from 0.2.9.8):
17409 - Fix a bug in parsing that could cause clients to read a single
17410 byte past the end of an allocated region. This bug could be used
17411 to cause hardened clients (built with --enable-expensive-hardening)
17412 to crash if they tried to visit a hostile hidden service. Non-
17413 hardened clients are only affected depending on the details of
17414 their platform's memory allocator. Fixes bug 21018; bugfix on
17415 0.2.0.8-alpha. Found by using libFuzzer. Also tracked as TROVE-
17416 2016-12-002 and as CVE-2016-1254.
17418 o Major bugfixes (security, client, DNS proxy, backport from 0.2.8.3-alpha):
17419 - Stop a crash that could occur when a client running with DNSPort
17420 received a query with multiple address types, and the first
17421 address type was not supported. Found and fixed by Scott Dial.
17422 Fixes bug 18710; bugfix on 0.2.5.4-alpha.
17423 - Prevent a class of security bugs caused by treating the contents
17424 of a buffer chunk as if they were a NUL-terminated string. At
17425 least one such bug seems to be present in all currently used
17426 versions of Tor, and would allow an attacker to remotely crash
17427 most Tor instances, especially those compiled with extra compiler
17428 hardening. With this defense in place, such bugs can't crash Tor,
17429 though we should still fix them as they occur. Closes ticket
17430 20384 (TROVE-2016-10-001).
17432 o Major bugfixes (security, pointers, backport from 0.2.8.2-alpha):
17433 - Avoid a difficult-to-trigger heap corruption attack when extending
17434 a smartlist to contain over 16GB of pointers. Fixes bug 18162;
17435 bugfix on 0.1.1.11-alpha, which fixed a related bug incompletely.
17436 Reported by Guido Vranken.
17438 o Major bugfixes (dns proxy mode, crash, backport from 0.2.8.2-alpha):
17439 - Avoid crashing when running as a DNS proxy. Fixes bug 16248;
17440 bugfix on 0.2.0.1-alpha. Patch from "cypherpunks".
17442 o Major bugfixes (key management, backport from 0.2.8.3-alpha):
17443 - If OpenSSL fails to generate an RSA key, do not retain a dangling
17444 pointer to the previous (uninitialized) key value. The impact here
17445 should be limited to a difficult-to-trigger crash, if OpenSSL is
17446 running an engine that makes key generation failures possible, or
17447 if OpenSSL runs out of memory. Fixes bug 19152; bugfix on
17448 0.2.1.10-alpha. Found by Yuan Jochen Kang, Suman Jana, and
17451 o Major bugfixes (parsing, backported from 0.3.0.4-rc):
17452 - Fix an integer underflow bug when comparing malformed Tor
17453 versions. This bug could crash Tor when built with
17454 --enable-expensive-hardening, or on Tor 0.2.9.1-alpha through Tor
17455 0.2.9.8, which were built with -ftrapv by default. In other cases
17456 it was harmless. Part of TROVE-2017-001. Fixes bug 21278; bugfix
17457 on 0.0.8pre1. Found by OSS-Fuzz.
17459 o Minor features (security, memory erasure, backport from 0.2.8.1-alpha):
17460 - Make memwipe() do nothing when passed a NULL pointer or buffer of
17461 zero size. Check size argument to memwipe() for underflow. Fixes
17462 bug 18089; bugfix on 0.2.3.25 and 0.2.4.6-alpha. Reported by "gk",
17465 o Minor features (bug-resistance, backport from 0.2.8.2-alpha):
17466 - Make Tor survive errors involving connections without a
17467 corresponding event object. Previously we'd fail with an
17468 assertion; now we produce a log message. Related to bug 16248.
17470 o Minor features (geoip):
17471 - Update geoip and geoip6 to the February 8 2017 Maxmind GeoLite2
17475 Changes in version 0.2.6.11 - 2017-03-03
17476 Tor 0.2.6.11 backports a number of security fixes from later Tor
17477 releases. Anybody running Tor 0.2.6.10 or earlier should upgrade to
17478 this release, if for some reason they cannot upgrade to a later
17481 Note that support for Tor 0.2.6.x is ending this year: we will not issue
17482 any fixes for the Tor 0.2.6.x series after 1 August 2017. If you need
17483 a Tor release series with longer-term support, we recommend Tor 0.2.9.x.
17485 o Directory authority changes (backport from 0.2.8.5-rc):
17486 - Urras is no longer a directory authority. Closes ticket 19271.
17488 o Directory authority changes (backport from 0.2.9.2-alpha):
17489 - The "Tonga" bridge authority has been retired; the new bridge
17490 authority is "Bifroest". Closes tickets 19728 and 19690.
17492 o Directory authority key updates (backport from 0.2.8.1-alpha):
17493 - Update the V3 identity key for the dannenberg directory authority:
17494 it was changed on 18 November 2015. Closes task 17906. Patch
17497 o Major features (security fixes, backport from 0.2.9.4-alpha):
17498 - Prevent a class of security bugs caused by treating the contents
17499 of a buffer chunk as if they were a NUL-terminated string. At
17500 least one such bug seems to be present in all currently used
17501 versions of Tor, and would allow an attacker to remotely crash
17502 most Tor instances, especially those compiled with extra compiler
17503 hardening. With this defense in place, such bugs can't crash Tor,
17504 though we should still fix them as they occur. Closes ticket
17505 20384 (TROVE-2016-10-001).
17507 o Major bugfixes (parsing, security, backport from 0.2.9.8):
17508 - Fix a bug in parsing that could cause clients to read a single
17509 byte past the end of an allocated region. This bug could be used
17510 to cause hardened clients (built with --enable-expensive-hardening)
17511 to crash if they tried to visit a hostile hidden service. Non-
17512 hardened clients are only affected depending on the details of
17513 their platform's memory allocator. Fixes bug 21018; bugfix on
17514 0.2.0.8-alpha. Found by using libFuzzer. Also tracked as TROVE-
17515 2016-12-002 and as CVE-2016-1254.
17517 o Major bugfixes (security, client, DNS proxy, backport from 0.2.8.3-alpha):
17518 - Stop a crash that could occur when a client running with DNSPort
17519 received a query with multiple address types, and the first
17520 address type was not supported. Found and fixed by Scott Dial.
17521 Fixes bug 18710; bugfix on 0.2.5.4-alpha.
17523 o Major bugfixes (security, correctness, backport from 0.2.7.4-rc):
17524 - Fix an error that could cause us to read 4 bytes before the
17525 beginning of an openssl string. This bug could be used to cause
17526 Tor to crash on systems with unusual malloc implementations, or
17527 systems with unusual hardening installed. Fixes bug 17404; bugfix
17530 o Major bugfixes (security, pointers, backport from 0.2.8.2-alpha):
17531 - Avoid a difficult-to-trigger heap corruption attack when extending
17532 a smartlist to contain over 16GB of pointers. Fixes bug 18162;
17533 bugfix on 0.1.1.11-alpha, which fixed a related bug incompletely.
17534 Reported by Guido Vranken.
17536 o Major bugfixes (dns proxy mode, crash, backport from 0.2.8.2-alpha):
17537 - Avoid crashing when running as a DNS proxy. Fixes bug 16248;
17538 bugfix on 0.2.0.1-alpha. Patch from "cypherpunks".
17540 o Major bugfixes (guard selection, backport from 0.2.7.6):
17541 - Actually look at the Guard flag when selecting a new directory
17542 guard. When we implemented the directory guard design, we
17543 accidentally started treating all relays as if they have the Guard
17544 flag during guard selection, leading to weaker anonymity and worse
17545 performance. Fixes bug 17772; bugfix on 0.2.4.8-alpha. Discovered
17548 o Major bugfixes (key management, backport from 0.2.8.3-alpha):
17549 - If OpenSSL fails to generate an RSA key, do not retain a dangling
17550 pointer to the previous (uninitialized) key value. The impact here
17551 should be limited to a difficult-to-trigger crash, if OpenSSL is
17552 running an engine that makes key generation failures possible, or
17553 if OpenSSL runs out of memory. Fixes bug 19152; bugfix on
17554 0.2.1.10-alpha. Found by Yuan Jochen Kang, Suman Jana, and
17557 o Major bugfixes (parsing, backported from 0.3.0.4-rc):
17558 - Fix an integer underflow bug when comparing malformed Tor
17559 versions. This bug could crash Tor when built with
17560 --enable-expensive-hardening, or on Tor 0.2.9.1-alpha through Tor
17561 0.2.9.8, which were built with -ftrapv by default. In other cases
17562 it was harmless. Part of TROVE-2017-001. Fixes bug 21278; bugfix
17563 on 0.0.8pre1. Found by OSS-Fuzz.
17565 o Minor features (security, memory erasure, backport from 0.2.8.1-alpha):
17566 - Make memwipe() do nothing when passed a NULL pointer or buffer of
17567 zero size. Check size argument to memwipe() for underflow. Fixes
17568 bug 18089; bugfix on 0.2.3.25 and 0.2.4.6-alpha. Reported by "gk",
17571 o Minor features (bug-resistance, backport from 0.2.8.2-alpha):
17572 - Make Tor survive errors involving connections without a
17573 corresponding event object. Previously we'd fail with an
17574 assertion; now we produce a log message. Related to bug 16248.
17576 o Minor features (geoip):
17577 - Update geoip and geoip6 to the February 8 2017 Maxmind GeoLite2
17580 o Minor bugfixes (compilation, backport from 0.2.7.6):
17581 - Fix a compilation warning with Clang 3.6: Do not check the
17582 presence of an address which can never be NULL. Fixes bug 17781.
17585 Changes in version 0.2.5.13 - 2017-03-03
17586 Tor 0.2.5.13 backports a number of security fixes from later Tor
17587 releases. Anybody running Tor 0.2.5.13 or earlier should upgrade to
17588 this release, if for some reason they cannot upgrade to a later
17591 Note that support for Tor 0.2.5.x is ending next year: we will not issue
17592 any fixes for the Tor 0.2.5.x series after 1 May 2018. If you need
17593 a Tor release series with longer-term support, we recommend Tor 0.2.9.x.
17595 o Directory authority changes (backport from 0.2.8.5-rc):
17596 - Urras is no longer a directory authority. Closes ticket 19271.
17598 o Directory authority changes (backport from 0.2.9.2-alpha):
17599 - The "Tonga" bridge authority has been retired; the new bridge
17600 authority is "Bifroest". Closes tickets 19728 and 19690.
17602 o Directory authority key updates (backport from 0.2.8.1-alpha):
17603 - Update the V3 identity key for the dannenberg directory authority:
17604 it was changed on 18 November 2015. Closes task 17906. Patch
17607 o Major features (security fixes, backport from 0.2.9.4-alpha):
17608 - Prevent a class of security bugs caused by treating the contents
17609 of a buffer chunk as if they were a NUL-terminated string. At
17610 least one such bug seems to be present in all currently used
17611 versions of Tor, and would allow an attacker to remotely crash
17612 most Tor instances, especially those compiled with extra compiler
17613 hardening. With this defense in place, such bugs can't crash Tor,
17614 though we should still fix them as they occur. Closes ticket
17615 20384 (TROVE-2016-10-001).
17617 o Major bugfixes (parsing, security, backport from 0.2.9.8):
17618 - Fix a bug in parsing that could cause clients to read a single
17619 byte past the end of an allocated region. This bug could be used
17620 to cause hardened clients (built with --enable-expensive-hardening)
17621 to crash if they tried to visit a hostile hidden service. Non-
17622 hardened clients are only affected depending on the details of
17623 their platform's memory allocator. Fixes bug 21018; bugfix on
17624 0.2.0.8-alpha. Found by using libFuzzer. Also tracked as TROVE-
17625 2016-12-002 and as CVE-2016-1254.
17627 o Major bugfixes (security, client, DNS proxy, backport from 0.2.8.3-alpha):
17628 - Stop a crash that could occur when a client running with DNSPort
17629 received a query with multiple address types, and the first
17630 address type was not supported. Found and fixed by Scott Dial.
17631 Fixes bug 18710; bugfix on 0.2.5.4-alpha.
17633 o Major bugfixes (security, correctness, backport from 0.2.7.4-rc):
17634 - Fix an error that could cause us to read 4 bytes before the
17635 beginning of an openssl string. This bug could be used to cause
17636 Tor to crash on systems with unusual malloc implementations, or
17637 systems with unusual hardening installed. Fixes bug 17404; bugfix
17640 o Major bugfixes (security, pointers, backport from 0.2.8.2-alpha):
17641 - Avoid a difficult-to-trigger heap corruption attack when extending
17642 a smartlist to contain over 16GB of pointers. Fixes bug 18162;
17643 bugfix on 0.1.1.11-alpha, which fixed a related bug incompletely.
17644 Reported by Guido Vranken.
17646 o Major bugfixes (dns proxy mode, crash, backport from 0.2.8.2-alpha):
17647 - Avoid crashing when running as a DNS proxy. Fixes bug 16248;
17648 bugfix on 0.2.0.1-alpha. Patch from "cypherpunks".
17650 o Major bugfixes (guard selection, backport from 0.2.7.6):
17651 - Actually look at the Guard flag when selecting a new directory
17652 guard. When we implemented the directory guard design, we
17653 accidentally started treating all relays as if they have the Guard
17654 flag during guard selection, leading to weaker anonymity and worse
17655 performance. Fixes bug 17772; bugfix on 0.2.4.8-alpha. Discovered
17658 o Major bugfixes (key management, backport from 0.2.8.3-alpha):
17659 - If OpenSSL fails to generate an RSA key, do not retain a dangling
17660 pointer to the previous (uninitialized) key value. The impact here
17661 should be limited to a difficult-to-trigger crash, if OpenSSL is
17662 running an engine that makes key generation failures possible, or
17663 if OpenSSL runs out of memory. Fixes bug 19152; bugfix on
17664 0.2.1.10-alpha. Found by Yuan Jochen Kang, Suman Jana, and
17667 o Major bugfixes (parsing, backported from 0.3.0.4-rc):
17668 - Fix an integer underflow bug when comparing malformed Tor
17669 versions. This bug could crash Tor when built with
17670 --enable-expensive-hardening, or on Tor 0.2.9.1-alpha through Tor
17671 0.2.9.8, which were built with -ftrapv by default. In other cases
17672 it was harmless. Part of TROVE-2017-001. Fixes bug 21278; bugfix
17673 on 0.0.8pre1. Found by OSS-Fuzz.
17675 o Minor features (security, memory erasure, backport from 0.2.8.1-alpha):
17676 - Make memwipe() do nothing when passed a NULL pointer or buffer of
17677 zero size. Check size argument to memwipe() for underflow. Fixes
17678 bug 18089; bugfix on 0.2.3.25 and 0.2.4.6-alpha. Reported by "gk",
17681 o Minor features (bug-resistance, backport from 0.2.8.2-alpha):
17682 - Make Tor survive errors involving connections without a
17683 corresponding event object. Previously we'd fail with an
17684 assertion; now we produce a log message. Related to bug 16248.
17686 o Minor features (geoip):
17687 - Update geoip and geoip6 to the February 8 2017 Maxmind GeoLite2
17690 o Minor bugfixes (compilation, backport from 0.2.7.6):
17691 - Fix a compilation warning with Clang 3.6: Do not check the
17692 presence of an address which can never be NULL. Fixes bug 17781.
17694 o Minor bugfixes (crypto error-handling, backport from 0.2.7.2-alpha):
17695 - Check for failures from crypto_early_init, and refuse to continue.
17696 A previous typo meant that we could keep going with an
17697 uninitialized crypto library, and would have OpenSSL initialize
17698 its own PRNG. Fixes bug 16360; bugfix on 0.2.5.2-alpha, introduced
17699 when implementing ticket 4900. Patch by "teor".
17701 o Minor bugfixes (hidden service, backport from 0.2.7.1-alpha):
17702 - Fix an out-of-bounds read when parsing invalid INTRODUCE2 cells on
17703 a client authorized hidden service. Fixes bug 15823; bugfix
17707 Changes in version 0.2.4.28 - 2017-03-03
17708 Tor 0.2.4.28 backports a number of security fixes from later Tor
17709 releases. Anybody running Tor 0.2.4.27 or earlier should upgrade to
17710 this release, if for some reason they cannot upgrade to a later
17713 Note that support for Tor 0.2.4.x is ending soon: we will not issue
17714 any fixes for the Tor 0.2.4.x series after 1 August 2017. If you need
17715 a Tor release series with long-term support, we recommend Tor 0.2.9.x.
17717 o Directory authority changes (backport from 0.2.8.5-rc):
17718 - Urras is no longer a directory authority. Closes ticket 19271.
17720 o Directory authority changes (backport from 0.2.9.2-alpha):
17721 - The "Tonga" bridge authority has been retired; the new bridge
17722 authority is "Bifroest". Closes tickets 19728 and 19690.
17724 o Directory authority key updates (backport from 0.2.8.1-alpha):
17725 - Update the V3 identity key for the dannenberg directory authority:
17726 it was changed on 18 November 2015. Closes task 17906. Patch
17729 o Major features (security fixes, backport from 0.2.9.4-alpha):
17730 - Prevent a class of security bugs caused by treating the contents
17731 of a buffer chunk as if they were a NUL-terminated string. At
17732 least one such bug seems to be present in all currently used
17733 versions of Tor, and would allow an attacker to remotely crash
17734 most Tor instances, especially those compiled with extra compiler
17735 hardening. With this defense in place, such bugs can't crash Tor,
17736 though we should still fix them as they occur. Closes ticket
17737 20384 (TROVE-2016-10-001).
17739 o Major bugfixes (parsing, security, backport from 0.2.9.8):
17740 - Fix a bug in parsing that could cause clients to read a single
17741 byte past the end of an allocated region. This bug could be used
17742 to cause hardened clients (built with --enable-expensive-hardening)
17743 to crash if they tried to visit a hostile hidden service. Non-
17744 hardened clients are only affected depending on the details of
17745 their platform's memory allocator. Fixes bug 21018; bugfix on
17746 0.2.0.8-alpha. Found by using libFuzzer. Also tracked as TROVE-
17747 2016-12-002 and as CVE-2016-1254.
17749 o Major bugfixes (security, correctness, backport from 0.2.7.4-rc):
17750 - Fix an error that could cause us to read 4 bytes before the
17751 beginning of an openssl string. This bug could be used to cause
17752 Tor to crash on systems with unusual malloc implementations, or
17753 systems with unusual hardening installed. Fixes bug 17404; bugfix
17756 o Major bugfixes (security, pointers, backport from 0.2.8.2-alpha):
17757 - Avoid a difficult-to-trigger heap corruption attack when extending
17758 a smartlist to contain over 16GB of pointers. Fixes bug 18162;
17759 bugfix on 0.1.1.11-alpha, which fixed a related bug incompletely.
17760 Reported by Guido Vranken.
17762 o Major bugfixes (dns proxy mode, crash, backport from 0.2.8.2-alpha):
17763 - Avoid crashing when running as a DNS proxy. Fixes bug 16248;
17764 bugfix on 0.2.0.1-alpha. Patch from "cypherpunks".
17766 o Major bugfixes (guard selection, backport from 0.2.7.6):
17767 - Actually look at the Guard flag when selecting a new directory
17768 guard. When we implemented the directory guard design, we
17769 accidentally started treating all relays as if they have the Guard
17770 flag during guard selection, leading to weaker anonymity and worse
17771 performance. Fixes bug 17772; bugfix on 0.2.4.8-alpha. Discovered
17774 o Major bugfixes (key management, backport from 0.2.8.3-alpha):
17775 - If OpenSSL fails to generate an RSA key, do not retain a dangling
17776 pointer to the previous (uninitialized) key value. The impact here
17777 should be limited to a difficult-to-trigger crash, if OpenSSL is
17778 running an engine that makes key generation failures possible, or
17779 if OpenSSL runs out of memory. Fixes bug 19152; bugfix on
17780 0.2.1.10-alpha. Found by Yuan Jochen Kang, Suman Jana, and
17783 o Major bugfixes (parsing, backported from 0.3.0.4-rc):
17784 - Fix an integer underflow bug when comparing malformed Tor
17785 versions. This bug could crash Tor when built with
17786 --enable-expensive-hardening, or on Tor 0.2.9.1-alpha through Tor
17787 0.2.9.8, which were built with -ftrapv by default. In other cases
17788 it was harmless. Part of TROVE-2017-001. Fixes bug 21278; bugfix
17789 on 0.0.8pre1. Found by OSS-Fuzz.
17791 o Minor features (security, memory erasure, backport from 0.2.8.1-alpha):
17792 - Make memwipe() do nothing when passed a NULL pointer or buffer of
17793 zero size. Check size argument to memwipe() for underflow. Fixes
17794 bug 18089; bugfix on 0.2.3.25 and 0.2.4.6-alpha. Reported by "gk",
17797 o Minor features (bug-resistance, backport from 0.2.8.2-alpha):
17798 - Make Tor survive errors involving connections without a
17799 corresponding event object. Previously we'd fail with an
17800 assertion; now we produce a log message. Related to bug 16248.
17802 o Minor features (DoS-resistance, backport from 0.2.7.1-alpha):
17803 - Make it harder for attackers to overload hidden services with
17804 introductions, by blocking multiple introduction requests on the
17805 same circuit. Resolves ticket 15515.
17807 o Minor features (geoip):
17808 - Update geoip and geoip6 to the February 8 2017 Maxmind GeoLite2
17811 o Minor bugfixes (compilation, backport from 0.2.7.6):
17812 - Fix a compilation warning with Clang 3.6: Do not check the
17813 presence of an address which can never be NULL. Fixes bug 17781.
17815 o Minor bugfixes (hidden service, backport from 0.2.7.1-alpha):
17816 - Fix an out-of-bounds read when parsing invalid INTRODUCE2 cells on
17817 a client authorized hidden service. Fixes bug 15823; bugfix
17821 Changes in version 0.3.0.4-rc - 2017-03-01
17822 Tor 0.3.0.4-rc fixes some remaining bugs, large and small, in the
17823 0.3.0 release series, and introduces a few reliability features to
17824 keep them from coming back.
17826 This is the first release candidate in the Tor 0.3.0 series. If we
17827 find no new bugs or regressions here, the first stable 0.3.0 release
17828 will be nearly identical to it.
17830 o Major bugfixes (bridges):
17831 - When the same bridge is configured multiple times with the same
17832 identity, but at different address:port combinations, treat those
17833 bridge instances as separate guards. This fix restores the ability
17834 of clients to configure the same bridge with multiple pluggable
17835 transports. Fixes bug 21027; bugfix on 0.3.0.1-alpha.
17837 o Major bugfixes (hidden service directory v3):
17838 - Stop crashing on a failed v3 hidden service descriptor lookup
17839 failure. Fixes bug 21471; bugfixes on 0.3.0.1-alpha.
17841 o Major bugfixes (parsing):
17842 - When parsing a malformed content-length field from an HTTP
17843 message, do not read off the end of the buffer. This bug was a
17844 potential remote denial-of-service attack against Tor clients and
17845 relays. A workaround was released in October 2016, to prevent this
17846 bug from crashing Tor. This is a fix for the underlying issue,
17847 which should no longer matter (if you applied the earlier patch).
17848 Fixes bug 20894; bugfix on 0.2.0.16-alpha. Bug found by fuzzing
17849 using AFL (http://lcamtuf.coredump.cx/afl/).
17850 - Fix an integer underflow bug when comparing malformed Tor
17851 versions. This bug could crash Tor when built with
17852 --enable-expensive-hardening, or on Tor 0.2.9.1-alpha through Tor
17853 0.2.9.8, which were built with -ftrapv by default. In other cases
17854 it was harmless. Part of TROVE-2017-001. Fixes bug 21278; bugfix
17855 on 0.0.8pre1. Found by OSS-Fuzz.
17857 o Minor feature (protocol versioning):
17858 - Add new protocol version for proposal 224. HSIntro now advertises
17859 version "3-4" and HSDir version "1-2". Fixes ticket 20656.
17861 o Minor features (directory authorities):
17862 - Directory authorities now reject descriptors that claim to be
17863 malformed versions of Tor. Helps prevent exploitation of
17865 - Reject version numbers with components that exceed INT32_MAX.
17866 Otherwise 32-bit and 64-bit platforms would behave inconsistently.
17867 Fixes bug 21450; bugfix on 0.0.8pre1.
17868 - Directory authorities now reject relays running versions
17869 0.2.9.1-alpha through 0.2.9.4-alpha, because those relays
17870 suffer from bug 20499 and don't keep their consensus cache
17871 up-to-date. Resolves ticket 20509.
17873 o Minor features (geoip):
17874 - Update geoip and geoip6 to the February 8 2017 Maxmind GeoLite2
17877 o Minor features (reliability, crash):
17878 - Try better to detect problems in buffers where they might grow (or
17879 think they have grown) over 2 GB in size. Diagnostic for
17882 o Minor features (testing):
17883 - During 'make test-network-all', if tor logs any warnings, ask
17884 chutney to output them. Requires a recent version of chutney with
17885 the 21572 patch. Implements 21570.
17887 o Minor bugfixes (certificate expiration time):
17888 - Avoid using link certificates that don't become valid till some
17889 time in the future. Fixes bug 21420; bugfix on 0.2.4.11-alpha
17891 o Minor bugfixes (code correctness):
17892 - Repair a couple of (unreachable or harmless) cases of the risky
17893 comparison-by-subtraction pattern that caused bug 21278.
17894 - Remove a redundant check for the UseEntryGuards option from the
17895 options_transition_affects_guards() function. Fixes bug 21492;
17896 bugfix on 0.3.0.1-alpha.
17898 o Minor bugfixes (directory mirrors):
17899 - Allow relays to use directory mirrors without a DirPort: these
17900 relays need to be contacted over their ORPorts using a begindir
17901 connection. Fixes one case of bug 20711; bugfix on 0.2.8.2-alpha.
17902 - Clarify the message logged when a remote relay is unexpectedly
17903 missing an ORPort or DirPort: users were confusing this with a
17904 local port. Fixes another case of bug 20711; bugfix
17907 o Minor bugfixes (guards):
17908 - Don't warn about a missing guard state on timeout-measurement
17909 circuits: they aren't supposed to be using guards. Fixes an
17910 instance of bug 21007; bugfix on 0.3.0.1-alpha.
17911 - Silence a BUG() warning when attempting to use a guard whose
17912 descriptor we don't know, and make this scenario less likely to
17913 happen. Fixes bug 21415; bugfix on 0.3.0.1-alpha.
17915 o Minor bugfixes (hidden service):
17916 - Pass correct buffer length when encoding legacy ESTABLISH_INTRO
17917 cells. Previously, we were using sizeof() on a pointer, instead of
17918 the real destination buffer. Fortunately, that value was only used
17919 to double-check that there was enough room--which was already
17920 enforced elsewhere. Fixes bug 21553; bugfix on 0.3.0.1-alpha.
17922 o Minor bugfixes (testing):
17923 - Fix Raspbian build issues related to missing socket errno in
17924 test_util.c. Fixes bug 21116; bugfix on 0.2.8.2. Patch
17926 - Rename "make fuzz" to "make test-fuzz-corpora", since it doesn't
17927 actually fuzz anything. Fixes bug 21447; bugfix on 0.3.0.3-alpha.
17928 - Use bash in src/test/test-network.sh. This ensures we reliably
17929 call chutney's newer tools/test-network.sh when available. Fixes
17930 bug 21562; bugfix on 0.2.9.1-alpha.
17933 - Small fixes to the fuzzing documentation. Closes ticket 21472.
17936 Changes in version 0.2.9.10 - 2017-03-01
17937 Tor 0.2.9.10 backports a security fix from later Tor release. It also
17938 includes fixes for some major issues affecting directory authorities,
17939 LibreSSL compatibility, and IPv6 correctness.
17941 The Tor 0.2.9.x release series is now marked as a long-term-support
17942 series. We intend to backport security fixes to 0.2.9.x until at
17943 least January of 2020.
17945 o Major bugfixes (directory authority, 0.3.0.3-alpha):
17946 - During voting, when marking a relay as a probable sybil, do not
17947 clear its BadExit flag: sybils can still be bad in other ways
17948 too. (We still clear the other flags.) Fixes bug 21108; bugfix
17951 o Major bugfixes (IPv6 Exits, backport from 0.3.0.3-alpha):
17952 - Stop rejecting all IPv6 traffic on Exits whose exit policy rejects
17953 any IPv6 addresses. Instead, only reject a port over IPv6 if the
17954 exit policy rejects that port on more than an IPv6 /16 of
17955 addresses. This bug was made worse by 17027 in 0.2.8.1-alpha,
17956 which rejected a relay's own IPv6 address by default. Fixes bug
17957 21357; bugfix on commit 004f3f4e53 in 0.2.4.7-alpha.
17959 o Major bugfixes (parsing, also in 0.3.0.4-rc):
17960 - Fix an integer underflow bug when comparing malformed Tor
17961 versions. This bug could crash Tor when built with
17962 --enable-expensive-hardening, or on Tor 0.2.9.1-alpha through Tor
17963 0.2.9.8, which were built with -ftrapv by default. In other cases
17964 it was harmless. Part of TROVE-2017-001. Fixes bug 21278; bugfix
17965 on 0.0.8pre1. Found by OSS-Fuzz.
17967 o Minor features (directory authorities, also in 0.3.0.4-rc):
17968 - Directory authorities now reject descriptors that claim to be
17969 malformed versions of Tor. Helps prevent exploitation of
17971 - Reject version numbers with components that exceed INT32_MAX.
17972 Otherwise 32-bit and 64-bit platforms would behave inconsistently.
17973 Fixes bug 21450; bugfix on 0.0.8pre1.
17975 o Minor features (geoip):
17976 - Update geoip and geoip6 to the February 8 2017 Maxmind GeoLite2
17979 o Minor features (portability, compilation, backport from 0.3.0.3-alpha):
17980 - Autoconf now checks to determine if OpenSSL structures are opaque,
17981 instead of explicitly checking for OpenSSL version numbers. Part
17983 - Support building with recent LibreSSL code that uses opaque
17984 structures. Closes ticket 21359.
17986 o Minor bugfixes (code correctness, also in 0.3.0.4-rc):
17987 - Repair a couple of (unreachable or harmless) cases of the risky
17988 comparison-by-subtraction pattern that caused bug 21278.
17990 o Minor bugfixes (tor-resolve, backport from 0.3.0.3-alpha):
17991 - The tor-resolve command line tool now rejects hostnames over 255
17992 characters in length. Previously, it would silently truncate them,
17993 which could lead to bugs. Fixes bug 21280; bugfix on 0.0.9pre5.
17994 Patch by "junglefowl".
17997 Changes in version 0.3.0.3-alpha - 2017-02-03
17998 Tor 0.3.0.3-alpha fixes a few significant bugs introduced over the
17999 0.3.0.x development series, including some that could cause
18000 authorities to behave badly. There is also a fix for a longstanding
18001 bug that could prevent IPv6 exits from working. Tor 0.3.0.3-alpha also
18002 includes some smaller features and bugfixes.
18004 The Tor 0.3.0.x release series is now in patch-freeze: no additional
18005 features will be considered for inclusion in 0.3.0.x. We suspect that
18006 some bugs will probably remain, however, and we encourage people to
18009 o Major bugfixes (directory authority):
18010 - During voting, when marking a relay as a probable sybil, do not
18011 clear its BadExit flag: sybils can still be bad in other ways
18012 too. (We still clear the other flags.) Fixes bug 21108; bugfix
18014 - When deciding whether we have just found a router to be reachable,
18015 do not penalize it for not having performed an Ed25519 link
18016 handshake if it does not claim to support an Ed25519 handshake.
18017 Previously, we would treat such relays as non-running. Fixes bug
18018 21107; bugfix on 0.3.0.1-alpha.
18020 o Major bugfixes (entry guards):
18021 - Stop trying to build circuits through entry guards for which we
18022 have no descriptor. Also, stop crashing in the case that we *do*
18023 accidentally try to build a circuit in such a state. Fixes bug
18024 21242; bugfix on 0.3.0.1-alpha.
18026 o Major bugfixes (IPv6 Exits):
18027 - Stop rejecting all IPv6 traffic on Exits whose exit policy rejects
18028 any IPv6 addresses. Instead, only reject a port over IPv6 if the
18029 exit policy rejects that port on more than an IPv6 /16 of
18030 addresses. This bug was made worse by 17027 in 0.2.8.1-alpha,
18031 which rejected a relay's own IPv6 address by default. Fixes bug
18032 21357; bugfix on commit 004f3f4e53 in 0.2.4.7-alpha.
18034 o Minor feature (client):
18035 - Enable IPv6 traffic on the SocksPort by default. To disable this,
18036 a user will have to specify "NoIPv6Traffic". Closes ticket 21269.
18038 o Minor feature (fallback scripts):
18039 - Add a check_existing mode to updateFallbackDirs.py, which checks
18040 if fallbacks in the hard-coded list are working. Closes ticket
18041 20174. Patch by haxxpop.
18043 o Minor features (ciphersuite selection):
18044 - Clients now advertise a list of ciphersuites closer to the ones
18045 preferred by Firefox. Closes part of ticket 15426.
18046 - Allow relays to accept a wider range of ciphersuites, including
18047 chacha20-poly1305 and AES-CCM. Closes the other part of 15426.
18049 o Minor features (controller, configuration):
18050 - Each of the *Port options, such as SocksPort, ORPort, ControlPort,
18051 and so on, now comes with a __*Port variant that will not be saved
18052 to the torrc file by the controller's SAVECONF command. This
18053 change allows TorBrowser to set up a single-use domain socket for
18054 each time it launches Tor. Closes ticket 20956.
18055 - The GETCONF command can now query options that may only be
18056 meaningful in context-sensitive lists. This allows the controller
18057 to query the mixed SocksPort/__SocksPort style options introduced
18058 in feature 20956. Implements ticket 21300.
18060 o Minor features (portability, compilation):
18061 - Autoconf now checks to determine if OpenSSL structures are opaque,
18062 instead of explicitly checking for OpenSSL version numbers. Part
18064 - Support building with recent LibreSSL code that uses opaque
18065 structures. Closes ticket 21359.
18067 o Minor features (relay):
18068 - We now allow separation of exit and relay traffic to different
18069 source IP addresses, using the OutboundBindAddressExit and
18070 OutboundBindAddressOR options respectively. Closes ticket 17975.
18071 Written by Michael Sonntag.
18073 o Minor bugfix (logging):
18074 - Don't recommend the use of Tor2web in non-anonymous mode.
18075 Recommending Tor2web is a bad idea because the client loses all
18076 anonymity. Tor2web should only be used in specific cases by users
18077 who *know* and understand the issues. Fixes bug 21294; bugfix
18080 o Minor bugfixes (client):
18081 - Always recover from failures in extend_info_from_node(), in an
18082 attempt to prevent any recurrence of bug 21242. Fixes bug 21372;
18083 bugfix on 0.2.3.1-alpha.
18085 o Minor bugfixes (client, entry guards):
18086 - Fix a bug warning (with backtrace) when we fail a channel that
18087 circuits to fallback directories on it. Fixes bug 21128; bugfix
18089 - Fix a spurious bug warning (with backtrace) when removing an
18090 expired entry guard. Fixes bug 21129; bugfix on 0.3.0.1-alpha.
18091 - Fix a bug of the new guard algorithm where tor could stall for up
18092 to 10 minutes before retrying a guard after a long period of no
18093 network. Fixes bug 21052; bugfix on 0.3.0.1-alpha.
18094 - Do not try to build circuits until we have descriptors for our
18095 primary entry guards. Related to fix for bug 21242.
18097 o Minor bugfixes (configure, autoconf):
18098 - Rename the configure option --enable-expensive-hardening to
18099 --enable-fragile-hardening. Expensive hardening makes the tor
18100 daemon abort when some kinds of issues are detected. Thus, it
18101 makes tor more at risk of remote crashes but safer against RCE or
18102 heartbleed bug category. We now try to explain this issue in a
18103 message from the configure script. Fixes bug 21290; bugfix
18106 o Minor bugfixes (controller):
18107 - Restore the (deprecated) DROPGUARDS controller command. Fixes bug
18108 20824; bugfix on 0.3.0.1-alpha.
18110 o Minor bugfixes (hidden service):
18111 - Clean up the code for expiring intro points with no associated
18112 circuits. It was causing, rarely, a service with some expiring
18113 introduction points to not open enough additional introduction
18114 points. Fixes part of bug 21302; bugfix on 0.2.7.2-alpha.
18115 - Stop setting the torrc option HiddenServiceStatistics to "0" just
18116 because we're not a bridge or relay. Instead, we preserve whatever
18117 value the user set (or didn't set). Fixes bug 21150; bugfix
18119 - Resolve two possible underflows which could lead to creating and
18120 closing a lot of introduction point circuits in a non-stop loop.
18121 Fixes bug 21302; bugfix on 0.2.7.2-alpha.
18123 o Minor bugfixes (portability):
18124 - Use "OpenBSD" compiler macro instead of "OPENBSD" or "__OpenBSD__".
18125 It is supported by OpenBSD itself, and also by most OpenBSD
18126 variants (such as Bitrig). Fixes bug 20980; bugfix
18128 - When mapping a file of length greater than SIZE_MAX, do not
18129 silently truncate its contents. This issue could occur on 32 bit
18130 systems with large file support and files which are larger than 4
18131 GB. Fixes bug 21134; bugfix on 0.3.0.1-alpha.
18133 o Minor bugfixes (tor-resolve):
18134 - The tor-resolve command line tool now rejects hostnames over 255
18135 characters in length. Previously, it would silently truncate them,
18136 which could lead to bugs. Fixes bug 21280; bugfix on 0.0.9pre5.
18137 Patch by "junglefowl".
18139 o Minor bugfixes (Windows services):
18140 - Be sure to initialize the monotonic time subsystem before using
18141 it, even when running as an NT service. Fixes bug 21356; bugfix
18145 Changes in version 0.3.0.2-alpha - 2017-01-23
18146 Tor 0.3.0.2-alpha fixes a denial-of-service bug where an attacker could
18147 cause relays and clients to crash, even if they were not built with
18148 the --enable-expensive-hardening option. This bug affects all 0.2.9.x
18149 versions, and also affects 0.3.0.1-alpha: all relays running an affected
18150 version should upgrade.
18152 Tor 0.3.0.2-alpha also improves how exit relays and clients handle DNS
18153 time-to-live values, makes directory authorities enforce the 1-to-1
18154 mapping of relay RSA identity keys to ED25519 identity keys, fixes a
18155 client-side onion service reachability bug, does better at selecting
18156 the set of fallback directories, and more.
18158 o Major bugfixes (security, also in 0.2.9.9):
18159 - Downgrade the "-ftrapv" option from "always on" to "only on when
18160 --enable-expensive-hardening is provided." This hardening option, like
18161 others, can turn survivable bugs into crashes--and having it on by
18162 default made a (relatively harmless) integer overflow bug into a
18163 denial-of-service bug. Fixes bug 21278 (TROVE-2017-001); bugfix on
18166 o Major features (security):
18167 - Change the algorithm used to decide DNS TTLs on client and server
18168 side, to better resist DNS-based correlation attacks like the
18169 DefecTor attack of Greschbach, Pulls, Roberts, Winter, and
18170 Feamster. Now relays only return one of two possible DNS TTL
18171 values, and clients are willing to believe DNS TTL values up to 3
18172 hours long. Closes ticket 19769.
18174 o Major features (directory authority, security):
18175 - The default for AuthDirPinKeys is now 1: directory authorities
18176 will reject relays where the RSA identity key matches a previously
18177 seen value, but the Ed25519 key has changed. Closes ticket 18319.
18179 o Major bugfixes (client, guard, crash):
18180 - In circuit_get_global_origin_list(), return the actual list of
18181 origin circuits. The previous version of this code returned the
18182 list of all the circuits, and could have caused strange bugs,
18183 including possible crashes. Fixes bug 21118; bugfix
18186 o Major bugfixes (client, onion service, also in 0.2.9.9):
18187 - Fix a client-side onion service reachability bug, where multiple
18188 socks requests to an onion service (or a single slow request)
18189 could cause us to mistakenly mark some of the service's
18190 introduction points as failed, and we cache that failure so
18191 eventually we run out and can't reach the service. Also resolves a
18192 mysterious "Remote server sent bogus reason code 65021" log
18193 warning. The bug was introduced in ticket 17218, where we tried to
18194 remember the circuit end reason as a uint16_t, which mangled
18195 negative values. Partially fixes bug 21056 and fixes bug 20307;
18196 bugfix on 0.2.8.1-alpha.
18198 o Major bugfixes (DNS):
18199 - Fix a bug that prevented exit nodes from caching DNS records for
18200 more than 60 seconds. Fixes bug 19025; bugfix on 0.2.4.7-alpha.
18202 o Minor features (controller):
18203 - Add "GETINFO sr/current" and "GETINFO sr/previous" keys, to expose
18204 shared-random values to the controller. Closes ticket 19925.
18206 o Minor features (entry guards):
18207 - Add UseEntryGuards to TEST_OPTIONS_DEFAULT_VALUES in order to not
18208 break regression tests.
18209 - Require UseEntryGuards when UseBridges is set, in order to make
18210 sure bridges aren't bypassed. Resolves ticket 20502.
18212 o Minor features (fallback directories):
18213 - Select 200 fallback directories for each release. Closes
18215 - Allow 3 fallback relays per operator, which is safe now that we
18216 are choosing 200 fallback relays. Closes ticket 20912.
18217 - Exclude relays affected by bug 20499 from the fallback list.
18218 Exclude relays from the fallback list if they are running versions
18219 known to be affected by bug 20499, or if in our tests they deliver
18220 a stale consensus (i.e. one that expired more than 24 hours ago).
18221 Closes ticket 20539.
18222 - Reduce the minimum fallback bandwidth to 1 MByte/s. Part of
18224 - Require fallback directories to have the same address and port for
18225 7 days (now that we have enough relays with this stability).
18226 Relays whose OnionOO stability timer is reset on restart by bug
18227 18050 should upgrade to Tor 0.2.8.7 or later, which has a fix for
18228 this issue. Closes ticket 20880; maintains short-term fix
18230 - Require fallbacks to have flags for 90% of the time (weighted
18231 decaying average), rather than 95%. This allows at least 73% of
18232 clients to bootstrap in the first 5 seconds without contacting an
18233 authority. Part of ticket 18828.
18234 - Annotate updateFallbackDirs.py with the bandwidth and consensus
18235 weight for each candidate fallback. Closes ticket 20878.
18236 - Make it easier to change the output sort order of fallbacks.
18237 Closes ticket 20822.
18238 - Display the relay fingerprint when downloading consensuses from
18239 fallbacks. Closes ticket 20908.
18241 o Minor features (geoip, also in 0.2.9.9):
18242 - Update geoip and geoip6 to the January 4 2017 Maxmind GeoLite2
18245 o Minor features (next-gen onion service directories):
18246 - Remove the "EnableOnionServicesV3" consensus parameter that we
18247 introduced in 0.3.0.1-alpha: relays are now always willing to act
18248 as v3 onion service directories. Resolves ticket 19899.
18250 o Minor features (linting):
18251 - Enhance the changes file linter to warn on Tor versions that are
18252 prefixed with "tor-". Closes ticket 21096.
18254 o Minor features (logging):
18255 - In several places, describe unset ed25519 keys as "<unset>",
18256 rather than the scary "AAAAAAAA...AAA". Closes ticket 21037.
18258 o Minor bugfix (control protocol):
18259 - The reply to a "GETINFO config/names" request via the control
18260 protocol now spells the type "Dependent" correctly. This is a
18261 breaking change in the control protocol. (The field seems to be
18262 ignored by the most common known controllers.) Fixes bug 18146;
18263 bugfix on 0.1.1.4-alpha.
18265 o Minor bugfixes (bug resilience):
18266 - Fix an unreachable size_t overflow in base64_decode(). Fixes bug
18267 19222; bugfix on 0.2.0.9-alpha. Found by Guido Vranken; fixed by
18268 Hans Jerry Illikainen.
18270 o Minor bugfixes (build):
18271 - Replace obsolete Autoconf macros with their modern equivalent and
18272 prevent similar issues in the future. Fixes bug 20990; bugfix
18275 o Minor bugfixes (client, guards):
18276 - Fix bug where Tor would think that there are circuits waiting for
18277 better guards even though those circuits have been freed. Fixes
18278 bug 21142; bugfix on 0.3.0.1-alpha.
18280 o Minor bugfixes (config):
18281 - Don't assert on startup when trying to get the options list and
18282 LearnCircuitBuildTimeout is set to 0: we are currently parsing the
18283 options so of course they aren't ready yet. Fixes bug 21062;
18284 bugfix on 0.2.9.3-alpha.
18286 o Minor bugfixes (controller):
18287 - Make the GETINFO interface for inquiring about entry guards
18288 support the new guards backend. Fixes bug 20823; bugfix
18291 o Minor bugfixes (dead code):
18292 - Remove a redundant check for PidFile changes at runtime in
18293 options_transition_allowed(): this check is already performed
18294 regardless of whether the sandbox is active. Fixes bug 21123;
18295 bugfix on 0.2.5.4-alpha.
18297 o Minor bugfixes (documentation):
18298 - Update the tor manual page to document every option that can not
18299 be changed while tor is running. Fixes bug 21122.
18301 o Minor bugfixes (fallback directories):
18302 - Stop failing when a relay has no uptime data in
18303 updateFallbackDirs.py. Fixes bug 20945; bugfix on 0.2.8.1-alpha.
18304 - Avoid checking fallback candidates' DirPorts if they are down in
18305 OnionOO. When a relay operator has multiple relays, this
18306 prioritizes relays that are up over relays that are down. Fixes
18307 bug 20926; bugfix on 0.2.8.3-alpha.
18308 - Stop failing when OUTPUT_COMMENTS is True in updateFallbackDirs.py.
18309 Fixes bug 20877; bugfix on 0.2.8.3-alpha.
18311 o Minor bugfixes (guards, bootstrapping):
18312 - When connecting to a directory guard during bootstrap, do not mark
18313 the guard as successful until we receive a good-looking directory
18314 response from it. Fixes bug 20974; bugfix on 0.3.0.1-alpha.
18316 o Minor bugfixes (onion services):
18317 - Fix the config reload pruning of old vs new services so it
18318 actually works when both ephemeral and non-ephemeral services are
18319 configured. Fixes bug 21054; bugfix on 0.3.0.1-alpha.
18320 - Allow the number of introduction points to be as low as 0, rather
18321 than as low as 3. Fixes bug 21033; bugfix on 0.2.7.2-alpha.
18323 o Minor bugfixes (IPv6):
18324 - Make IPv6-using clients try harder to find an IPv6 directory
18325 server. Fixes bug 20999; bugfix on 0.2.8.2-alpha.
18326 - When IPv6 addresses have not been downloaded yet (microdesc
18327 consensus documents don't list relay IPv6 addresses), use hard-
18328 coded addresses for authorities, fallbacks, and configured
18329 bridges. Now IPv6-only clients can use microdescriptors. Fixes bug
18330 20996; bugfix on b167e82 from 19608 in 0.2.8.5-alpha.
18332 o Minor bugfixes (memory leaks):
18333 - Fix a memory leak when configuring hidden services. Fixes bug
18334 20987; bugfix on 0.3.0.1-alpha.
18336 o Minor bugfixes (portability, also in 0.2.9.9):
18337 - Avoid crashing when Tor is built using headers that contain
18338 CLOCK_MONOTONIC_COARSE, but then tries to run on an older kernel
18339 without CLOCK_MONOTONIC_COARSE. Fixes bug 21035; bugfix
18341 - Fix Libevent detection on platforms without Libevent 1 headers
18342 installed. Fixes bug 21051; bugfix on 0.2.9.1-alpha.
18344 o Minor bugfixes (relay):
18345 - Honor DataDirectoryGroupReadable when tor is a relay. Previously,
18346 initializing the keys would reset the DataDirectory to 0700
18347 instead of 0750 even if DataDirectoryGroupReadable was set to 1.
18348 Fixes bug 19953; bugfix on 0.0.2pre16. Patch by "redfish".
18350 o Minor bugfixes (testing):
18351 - Remove undefined behavior from the backtrace generator by removing
18352 its signal handler. Fixes bug 21026; bugfix on 0.2.5.2-alpha.
18354 o Minor bugfixes (unit tests):
18355 - Allow the unit tests to pass even when DNS lookups of bogus
18356 addresses do not fail as expected. Fixes bug 20862 and 20863;
18357 bugfix on unit tests introduced in 0.2.8.1-alpha
18358 through 0.2.9.4-alpha.
18360 o Code simplification and refactoring:
18361 - Refactor code to manipulate global_origin_circuit_list into
18362 separate functions. Closes ticket 20921.
18364 o Documentation (formatting):
18365 - Clean up formatting of tor.1 man page and HTML doc, where <pre>
18366 blocks were incorrectly appearing. Closes ticket 20885.
18368 o Documentation (man page):
18369 - Clarify many options in tor.1 and add some min/max values for
18370 HiddenService options. Closes ticket 21058.
18373 Changes in version 0.2.9.9 - 2017-01-23
18374 Tor 0.2.9.9 fixes a denial-of-service bug where an attacker could
18375 cause relays and clients to crash, even if they were not built with
18376 the --enable-expensive-hardening option. This bug affects all 0.2.9.x
18377 versions, and also affects 0.3.0.1-alpha: all relays running an affected
18378 version should upgrade.
18380 This release also resolves a client-side onion service reachability
18381 bug, and resolves a pair of small portability issues.
18383 o Major bugfixes (security):
18384 - Downgrade the "-ftrapv" option from "always on" to "only on when
18385 --enable-expensive-hardening is provided." This hardening option,
18386 like others, can turn survivable bugs into crashes -- and having
18387 it on by default made a (relatively harmless) integer overflow bug
18388 into a denial-of-service bug. Fixes bug 21278 (TROVE-2017-001);
18389 bugfix on 0.2.9.1-alpha.
18391 o Major bugfixes (client, onion service):
18392 - Fix a client-side onion service reachability bug, where multiple
18393 socks requests to an onion service (or a single slow request)
18394 could cause us to mistakenly mark some of the service's
18395 introduction points as failed, and we cache that failure so
18396 eventually we run out and can't reach the service. Also resolves a
18397 mysterious "Remote server sent bogus reason code 65021" log
18398 warning. The bug was introduced in ticket 17218, where we tried to
18399 remember the circuit end reason as a uint16_t, which mangled
18400 negative values. Partially fixes bug 21056 and fixes bug 20307;
18401 bugfix on 0.2.8.1-alpha.
18403 o Minor features (geoip):
18404 - Update geoip and geoip6 to the January 4 2017 Maxmind GeoLite2
18407 o Minor bugfixes (portability):
18408 - Avoid crashing when Tor is built using headers that contain
18409 CLOCK_MONOTONIC_COARSE, but then tries to run on an older kernel
18410 without CLOCK_MONOTONIC_COARSE. Fixes bug 21035; bugfix
18412 - Fix Libevent detection on platforms without Libevent 1 headers
18413 installed. Fixes bug 21051; bugfix on 0.2.9.1-alpha.
18416 Changes in version 0.3.0.1-alpha - 2016-12-19
18417 Tor 0.3.0.1-alpha is the first alpha release in the 0.3.0 development
18418 series. It strengthens Tor's link and circuit handshakes by
18419 identifying relays by their Ed25519 keys, improves the algorithm that
18420 clients use to choose and maintain their list of guards, and includes
18421 additional backend support for the next-generation hidden service
18422 design. It also contains numerous other small features and
18423 improvements to security, correctness, and performance.
18425 Below are the changes since 0.2.9.8.
18427 o Major features (guard selection algorithm):
18428 - Tor's guard selection algorithm has been redesigned from the
18429 ground up, to better support unreliable networks and restrictive
18430 sets of entry nodes, and to better resist guard-capture attacks by
18431 hostile local networks. Implements proposal 271; closes
18434 o Major features (next-generation hidden services):
18435 - Relays can now handle v3 ESTABLISH_INTRO cells as specified by
18436 prop224 aka "Next Generation Hidden Services". Service and clients
18437 don't use this functionality yet. Closes ticket 19043. Based on
18438 initial code by Alec Heifetz.
18439 - Relays now support the HSDir version 3 protocol, so that they can
18440 can store and serve v3 descriptors. This is part of the next-
18441 generation onion service work detailed in proposal 224. Closes
18444 o Major features (protocol, ed25519 identity keys):
18445 - Relays now use Ed25519 to prove their Ed25519 identities and to
18446 one another, and to clients. This algorithm is faster and more
18447 secure than the RSA-based handshake we've been doing until now.
18448 Implements the second big part of proposal 220; Closes
18450 - Clients now support including Ed25519 identity keys in the EXTEND2
18451 cells they generate. By default, this is controlled by a consensus
18452 parameter, currently disabled. You can turn this feature on for
18453 testing by setting ExtendByEd25519ID in your configuration. This
18454 might make your traffic appear different than the traffic
18455 generated by other users, however. Implements part of ticket
18456 15056; part of proposal 220.
18457 - Relays now understand requests to extend to other relays by their
18458 Ed25519 identity keys. When an Ed25519 identity key is included in
18459 an EXTEND2 cell, the relay will only extend the circuit if the
18460 other relay can prove ownership of that identity. Implements part
18461 of ticket 15056; part of proposal 220.
18463 o Major bugfixes (scheduler):
18464 - Actually compare circuit policies in ewma_cmp_cmux(). This bug
18465 caused the channel scheduler to behave more or less randomly,
18466 rather than preferring channels with higher-priority circuits.
18467 Fixes bug 20459; bugfix on 0.2.6.2-alpha.
18469 o Minor features (controller):
18470 - When HSFETCH arguments cannot be parsed, say "Invalid argument"
18471 rather than "unrecognized." Closes ticket 20389; patch from
18474 o Minor features (diagnostic, directory client):
18475 - Warn when we find an unexpected inconsistency in directory
18476 download status objects. Prevents some negative consequences of
18479 o Minor features (directory authority):
18480 - Add a new authority-only AuthDirTestEd25519LinkKeys option (on by
18481 default) to control whether authorities should try to probe relays
18482 by their Ed25519 link keys. This option will go away in a few
18483 releases--unless we encounter major trouble in our ed25519 link
18484 protocol rollout, in which case it will serve as a safety option.
18486 o Minor features (directory cache):
18487 - Relays and bridges will now refuse to serve the consensus they
18488 have if they know it is too old for a client to use. Closes
18491 o Minor features (ed25519 link handshake):
18492 - Advertise support for the ed25519 link handshake using the
18493 subprotocol-versions mechanism, so that clients can tell which
18494 relays can identity themselves by Ed25519 ID. Closes ticket 20552.
18496 o Minor features (fingerprinting resistance, authentication):
18497 - Extend the length of RSA keys used for TLS link authentication to
18498 2048 bits. (These weren't used for forward secrecy; for forward
18499 secrecy, we used P256.) Closes ticket 13752.
18501 o Minor features (infrastructure):
18502 - Implement smartlist_add_strdup() function. Replaces the use of
18503 smartlist_add(sl, tor_strdup(str)). Closes ticket 20048.
18505 o Minor bugfixes (client):
18506 - When clients that use bridges start up with a cached consensus on
18507 disk, they were ignoring it and downloading a new one. Now they
18508 use the cached one. Fixes bug 20269; bugfix on 0.2.3.12-alpha.
18510 o Minor bugfixes (configuration):
18511 - Accept non-space whitespace characters after the severity level in
18512 the `Log` option. Fixes bug 19965; bugfix on 0.2.1.1-alpha.
18513 - Support "TByte" and "TBytes" units in options given in bytes.
18514 "TB", "terabyte(s)", "TBit(s)" and "terabit(s)" were already
18515 supported. Fixes bug 20622; bugfix on 0.2.0.14-alpha.
18517 o Minor bugfixes (consensus weight):
18518 - Add new consensus method that initializes bw weights to 1 instead
18519 of 0. This prevents a zero weight from making it all the way to
18520 the end (happens in small testing networks) and causing an error.
18521 Fixes bug 14881; bugfix on 0.2.2.17-alpha.
18523 o Minor bugfixes (descriptors):
18524 - Correctly recognise downloaded full descriptors as valid, even
18525 when using microdescriptors as circuits. This affects clients with
18526 FetchUselessDescriptors set, and may affect directory authorities.
18527 Fixes bug 20839; bugfix on 0.2.3.2-alpha.
18529 o Minor bugfixes (directory system):
18530 - Download all consensus flavors, descriptors, and authority
18531 certificates when FetchUselessDescriptors is set, regardless of
18532 whether tor is a directory cache or not. Fixes bug 20667; bugfix
18533 on all recent tor versions.
18534 - Bridges and relays now use microdescriptors (like clients do)
18535 rather than old-style router descriptors. Now bridges will blend
18536 in with clients in terms of the circuits they build. Fixes bug
18537 6769; bugfix on 0.2.3.2-alpha.
18539 o Minor bugfixes (ed25519 certificates):
18540 - Correctly interpret ed25519 certificates that would expire some
18541 time after 19 Jan 2038. Fixes bug 20027; bugfix on 0.2.7.2-alpha.
18543 o Minor bugfixes (hidden services):
18544 - Stop ignoring misconfigured hidden services. Instead, refuse to
18545 start tor until the misconfigurations have been corrected. Fixes
18546 bug 20559; bugfix on multiple commits in 0.2.7.1-alpha
18549 o Minor bugfixes (memory leak at exit):
18550 - Fix a small harmless memory leak at exit of the previously unused
18551 RSA->Ed identity cross-certificate. Fixes bug 17779; bugfix
18554 o Minor bugfixes (util):
18555 - When finishing writing a file to disk, if we were about to replace
18556 the file with the temporary file created before and we fail to
18557 replace it, remove the temporary file so it doesn't stay on disk.
18558 Fixes bug 20646; bugfix on 0.2.0.7-alpha. Patch by fk.
18560 o Minor bugfixes (Windows):
18561 - Check for getpagesize before using it to mmap files. This fixes
18562 compilation in some MinGW environments. Fixes bug 20530; bugfix on
18563 0.1.2.1-alpha. Reported by "ice".
18565 o Code simplification and refactoring:
18566 - Abolish all global guard context in entrynodes.c; replace with new
18567 guard_selection_t structure as preparation for proposal 271.
18568 Closes ticket 19858.
18569 - Introduce rend_service_is_ephemeral() that tells if given onion
18570 service is ephemeral. Replace unclear NULL-checkings for service
18571 directory with this function. Closes ticket 20526.
18572 - Extract magic numbers in circuituse.c into defined variables.
18573 - Refactor circuit_is_available_for_use to remove unnecessary check.
18574 - Refactor circuit_predict_and_launch_new for readability and
18575 testability. Closes ticket 18873.
18576 - Refactor large if statement in purpose_needs_anonymity to use
18577 switch statement instead. Closes part of ticket 20077.
18578 - Refactor the hashing API to return negative values for errors, as
18579 is done as throughout the codebase. Closes ticket 20717.
18580 - Remove data structures that were used to index or_connection
18581 objects by their RSA identity digests. These structures are fully
18582 redundant with the similar structures used in the
18583 channel abstraction.
18584 - Remove duplicate code in the channel_write_*cell() functions.
18585 Closes ticket 13827; patch from Pingl.
18586 - Remove redundant behavior of is_sensitive_dir_purpose, refactor to
18587 use only purpose_needs_anonymity. Closes part of ticket 20077.
18588 - The code to generate and parse EXTEND and EXTEND2 cells has been
18589 replaced with code automatically generated by the
18593 - Include the "TBits" unit in Tor's man page. Fixes part of bug
18594 20622; bugfix on 0.2.5.1-alpha.
18595 - Change '1' to 'weight_scale' in consensus bw weights calculation
18596 comments, as that is reality. Closes ticket 20273. Patch
18598 - Correct the value for AuthDirGuardBWGuarantee in the manpage, from
18599 250 KBytes to 2 MBytes. Fixes bug 20435; bugfix
18601 - Stop the man page from incorrectly stating that HiddenServiceDir
18602 must already exist. Fixes 20486.
18603 - Clarify that when ClientRejectInternalAddresses is enabled (which
18604 is the default), multicast DNS hostnames for machines on the local
18605 network (of the form *.local) are also rejected. Closes
18608 o Removed features:
18609 - The AuthDirMaxServersPerAuthAddr option no longer exists: The same
18610 limit for relays running on a single IP applies to authority IP
18611 addresses as well as to non-authority IP addresses. Closes
18613 - The UseDirectoryGuards torrc option no longer exists: all users
18614 that use entry guards will also use directory guards. Related to
18615 proposal 271; implements part of ticket 20831.
18618 - New unit tests for tor_htonll(). Closes ticket 19563. Patch
18619 from "overcaffeinated".
18620 - Perform the coding style checks when running the tests and fail
18621 when coding style violations are found. Closes ticket 5500.
18622 - Add tests for networkstatus_compute_bw_weights_v10.
18623 - Add unit tests circuit_predict_and_launch_new.
18624 - Extract dummy_origin_circuit_new so it can be used by other
18628 Changes in version 0.2.8.12 - 2016-12-19
18629 Tor 0.2.8.12 backports a fix for a medium-severity issue (bug 21018
18630 below) where Tor clients could crash when attempting to visit a
18631 hostile hidden service. Clients are recommended to upgrade as packages
18632 become available for their systems.
18634 It also includes an updated list of fallback directories, backported
18637 Now that the Tor 0.2.9 series is stable, only major bugfixes will be
18638 backported to 0.2.8 in the future.
18640 o Major bugfixes (parsing, security, backported from 0.2.9.8):
18641 - Fix a bug in parsing that could cause clients to read a single
18642 byte past the end of an allocated region. This bug could be used
18643 to cause hardened clients (built with --enable-expensive-hardening)
18644 to crash if they tried to visit a hostile hidden service. Non-
18645 hardened clients are only affected depending on the details of
18646 their platform's memory allocator. Fixes bug 21018; bugfix on
18647 0.2.0.8-alpha. Found by using libFuzzer. Also tracked as TROVE-
18648 2016-12-002 and as CVE-2016-1254.
18650 o Minor features (fallback directory list, backported from 0.2.9.8):
18651 - Replace the 81 remaining fallbacks of the 100 originally
18652 introduced in Tor 0.2.8.3-alpha in March 2016, with a list of 177
18653 fallbacks (123 new, 54 existing, 27 removed) generated in December
18654 2016. Resolves ticket 20170.
18656 o Minor features (geoip, backported from 0.2.9.7-rc):
18657 - Update geoip and geoip6 to the December 7 2016 Maxmind GeoLite2
18661 Changes in version 0.2.9.8 - 2016-12-19
18662 Tor 0.2.9.8 is the first stable release of the Tor 0.2.9 series.
18664 The Tor 0.2.9 series makes mandatory a number of security features
18665 that were formerly optional. It includes support for a new shared-
18666 randomness protocol that will form the basis for next generation
18667 hidden services, includes a single-hop hidden service mode for
18668 optimizing .onion services that don't actually want to be hidden,
18669 tries harder not to overload the directory authorities with excessive
18670 downloads, and supports a better protocol versioning scheme for
18671 improved compatibility with other implementations of the Tor protocol.
18673 And of course, there are numerous other bugfixes and improvements.
18675 This release also includes a fix for a medium-severity issue (bug
18676 21018 below) where Tor clients could crash when attempting to visit a
18677 hostile hidden service. Clients are recommended to upgrade as packages
18678 become available for their systems.
18680 Below are the changes since 0.2.9.7-rc. For a list of all changes
18681 since 0.2.8, see the ReleaseNotes file.
18683 o Major bugfixes (parsing, security):
18684 - Fix a bug in parsing that could cause clients to read a single
18685 byte past the end of an allocated region. This bug could be used
18686 to cause hardened clients (built with --enable-expensive-hardening)
18687 to crash if they tried to visit a hostile hidden service. Non-
18688 hardened clients are only affected depending on the details of
18689 their platform's memory allocator. Fixes bug 21018; bugfix on
18690 0.2.0.8-alpha. Found by using libFuzzer. Also tracked as TROVE-
18691 2016-12-002 and as CVE-2016-1254.
18693 o Minor features (fallback directory list):
18694 - Replace the 81 remaining fallbacks of the 100 originally
18695 introduced in Tor 0.2.8.3-alpha in March 2016, with a list of 177
18696 fallbacks (123 new, 54 existing, 27 removed) generated in December
18697 2016. Resolves ticket 20170.
18700 Changes in version 0.2.9.7-rc - 2016-12-12
18701 Tor 0.2.9.7-rc fixes a few small bugs remaining in Tor 0.2.9.6-rc,
18702 including a few that had prevented tests from passing on
18705 o Minor features (geoip):
18706 - Update geoip and geoip6 to the December 7 2016 Maxmind GeoLite2
18709 o Minor bugfix (build):
18710 - The current Git revision when building from a local repository is
18711 now detected correctly when using git worktrees. Fixes bug 20492;
18712 bugfix on 0.2.3.9-alpha.
18714 o Minor bugfixes (directory authority):
18715 - When computing old Tor protocol line version in protover, we were
18716 looking at 0.2.7.5 twice instead of a specific case for
18717 0.2.9.1-alpha. Fixes bug 20810; bugfix on 0.2.9.4-alpha.
18719 o Minor bugfixes (download scheduling):
18720 - Resolve a "bug" warning when considering a download schedule whose
18721 delay had approached INT_MAX. Fixes 20875; bugfix on 0.2.9.5-alpha.
18723 o Minor bugfixes (logging):
18724 - Downgrade a harmless log message about the
18725 pending_entry_connections list from "warn" to "info". Mitigates
18728 o Minor bugfixes (memory leak):
18729 - Fix a small memory leak when receiving AF_UNIX connections on a
18730 SocksPort. Fixes bug 20716; bugfix on 0.2.6.3-alpha.
18731 - When moving a signed descriptor object from a source to an
18732 existing destination, free the allocated memory inside that
18733 destination object. Fixes bug 20715; bugfix on 0.2.8.3-alpha.
18735 o Minor bugfixes (memory leak, use-after-free, linux seccomp2 sandbox):
18736 - Fix a memory leak and use-after-free error when removing entries
18737 from the sandbox's getaddrinfo() cache. Fixes bug 20710; bugfix on
18738 0.2.5.5-alpha. Patch from "cypherpunks".
18740 o Minor bugfixes (portability):
18741 - Use the correct spelling of MAC_OS_X_VERSION_10_12 on configure.ac
18742 Fixes bug 20935; bugfix on 0.2.9.6-rc.
18744 o Minor bugfixes (unit tests):
18745 - Stop expecting NetBSD unit tests to report success for ipfw. Part
18746 of a fix for bug 19960; bugfix on 0.2.9.5-alpha.
18747 - Fix tolerances in unit tests for monotonic time comparisons
18748 between nanoseconds and microseconds. Previously, we accepted a 10
18749 us difference only, which is not realistic on every platform's
18750 clock_gettime(). Fixes bug 19974; bugfix on 0.2.9.1-alpha.
18751 - Remove a double-free in the single onion service unit test. Stop
18752 ignoring a return value. Make future changes less error-prone.
18753 Fixes bug 20864; bugfix on 0.2.9.6-rc.
18756 Changes in version 0.2.8.11 - 2016-12-08
18757 Tor 0.2.8.11 backports fixes for additional portability issues that
18758 could prevent Tor from building correctly on OSX Sierra, or with
18759 OpenSSL 1.1. Affected users should upgrade; others can safely stay
18762 o Minor bugfixes (portability):
18763 - Avoid compilation errors when building on OSX Sierra. Sierra began
18764 to support the getentropy() and clock_gettime() APIs, but created
18765 a few problems in doing so. Tor 0.2.9 has a more thorough set of
18766 workarounds; in 0.2.8, we are just using the /dev/urandom and mach
18767 monotonic time interfaces. Fixes bug 20865. Bugfix
18770 o Minor bugfixes (portability, backport from 0.2.9.5-alpha):
18771 - Fix compilation with OpenSSL 1.1 and less commonly-used CPU
18772 architectures. Closes ticket 20588.
18775 Changes in version 0.2.8.10 - 2016-12-02
18776 Tor 0.2.8.10 backports a fix for a bug that would sometimes make clients
18777 unusable after they left standby mode. It also backports fixes for
18778 a few portability issues and a small but problematic memory leak.
18780 o Major bugfixes (client reliability, backport from 0.2.9.5-alpha):
18781 - When Tor leaves standby because of a new application request, open
18782 circuits as needed to serve that request. Previously, we would
18783 potentially wait a very long time. Fixes part of bug 19969; bugfix
18786 o Major bugfixes (client performance, backport from 0.2.9.5-alpha):
18787 - Clients now respond to new application stream requests immediately
18788 when they arrive, rather than waiting up to one second before
18789 starting to handle them. Fixes part of bug 19969; bugfix
18792 o Minor bugfixes (portability, backport from 0.2.9.6-rc):
18793 - Work around a bug in the OSX 10.12 SDK that would prevent us from
18794 successfully targeting earlier versions of OSX. Resolves
18797 o Minor bugfixes (portability, backport from 0.2.9.5-alpha):
18798 - Fix implicit conversion warnings under OpenSSL 1.1. Fixes bug
18799 20551; bugfix on 0.2.1.1-alpha.
18801 o Minor bugfixes (relay, backport from 0.2.9.5-alpha):
18802 - Work around a memory leak in OpenSSL 1.1 when encoding public
18803 keys. Fixes bug 20553; bugfix on 0.0.2pre8.
18805 o Minor features (geoip):
18806 - Update geoip and geoip6 to the November 3 2016 Maxmind GeoLite2
18809 Changes in version 0.2.9.6-rc - 2016-12-02
18810 Tor 0.2.9.6-rc fixes a few remaining bugs found in the previous alpha
18811 version. We hope that it will be ready to become stable soon, and we
18812 encourage everyone to test this release. If no showstopper bugs are
18813 found here, the next 0.2.9 release will be stable.
18815 o Major bugfixes (relay, resolver, logging):
18816 - For relays that don't know their own address, avoid attempting a
18817 local hostname resolve for each descriptor we download. This
18818 will cut down on the number of "Success: chose address 'x.x.x.x'"
18819 log lines, and also avoid confusing clock jumps if the resolver
18820 is slow. Fixes bugs 20423 and 20610; bugfix on 0.2.8.1-alpha.
18822 o Minor bugfixes (client, fascistfirewall):
18823 - Avoid spurious warnings when ReachableAddresses or FascistFirewall
18824 is set. Fixes bug 20306; bugfix on 0.2.8.2-alpha.
18826 o Minor bugfixes (hidden services):
18827 - Stop ignoring the anonymity status of saved keys for hidden
18828 services and single onion services when first starting tor.
18829 Instead, refuse to start tor if any hidden service key has been
18830 used in a different hidden service anonymity mode. Fixes bug
18831 20638; bugfix on 17178 in 0.2.9.3-alpha; reported by ahf.
18833 o Minor bugfixes (portability):
18834 - Work around a bug in the OSX 10.12 SDK that would prevent us from
18835 successfully targeting earlier versions of OSX. Resolves
18837 - Run correctly when built on Windows build environments that
18838 require _vcsprintf(). Fixes bug 20560; bugfix on 0.2.2.11-alpha.
18840 o Minor bugfixes (single onion services, Tor2web):
18841 - Stop complaining about long-term one-hop circuits deliberately
18842 created by single onion services and Tor2web. These log messages
18843 are intended to diagnose issue 8387, which relates to circuits
18844 hanging around forever for no reason. Fixes bug 20613; bugfix on
18845 0.2.9.1-alpha. Reported by "pastly".
18847 o Minor bugfixes (unit tests):
18848 - Stop spurious failures in the local interface address discovery
18849 unit tests. Fixes bug 20634; bugfix on 0.2.8.1-alpha; patch by
18853 - Correct the minimum bandwidth value in torrc.sample, and queue a
18854 corresponding change for torrc.minimal. Closes ticket 20085.
18857 Changes in version 0.2.9.5-alpha - 2016-11-08
18858 Tor 0.2.9.5-alpha fixes numerous bugs discovered in the previous alpha
18859 version. We believe one or two probably remain, and we encourage
18860 everyone to test this release.
18862 o Major bugfixes (client performance):
18863 - Clients now respond to new application stream requests immediately
18864 when they arrive, rather than waiting up to one second before
18865 starting to handle them. Fixes part of bug 19969; bugfix
18868 o Major bugfixes (client reliability):
18869 - When Tor leaves standby because of a new application request, open
18870 circuits as needed to serve that request. Previously, we would
18871 potentially wait a very long time. Fixes part of bug 19969; bugfix
18874 o Major bugfixes (download scheduling):
18875 - When using an exponential backoff schedule, do not give up on
18876 downloading just because we have failed a bunch of times. Since
18877 each delay is longer than the last, retrying indefinitely won't
18878 hurt. Fixes bug 20536; bugfix on 0.2.9.1-alpha.
18879 - If a consensus expires while we are waiting for certificates to
18880 download, stop waiting for certificates.
18881 - If we stop waiting for certificates less than a minute after we
18882 started downloading them, do not consider the certificate download
18883 failure a separate failure. Fixes bug 20533; bugfix
18885 - Remove the maximum delay on exponential-backoff scheduling. Since
18886 we now allow an infinite number of failures (see ticket 20536), we
18887 must now allow the time to grow longer on each failure. Fixes part
18888 of bug 20534; bugfix on 0.2.9.1-alpha.
18889 - Make our initial download delays closer to those from 0.2.8. Fixes
18890 another part of bug 20534; bugfix on 0.2.9.1-alpha.
18891 - When determining when to download a directory object, handle times
18892 after 2038 if the operating system supports them. (Someday this
18893 will be important!) Fixes bug 20587; bugfix on 0.2.8.1-alpha.
18894 - When using exponential backoff in test networks, use a lower
18895 exponent, so the delays do not vary as much. This helps test
18896 networks bootstrap consistently. Fixes bug 20597; bugfix on 20499.
18898 o Minor features (geoip):
18899 - Update geoip and geoip6 to the November 3 2016 Maxmind GeoLite2
18902 o Minor bugfixes (client directory scheduling):
18903 - Treat "relay too busy to answer request" as a failed request and a
18904 reason to back off on our retry frequency. This is safe now that
18905 exponential backoffs retry indefinitely, and avoids a bug where we
18906 would reset our download schedule erroneously. Fixes bug 20593;
18907 bugfix on 0.2.9.1-alpha.
18909 o Minor bugfixes (client, logging):
18910 - Remove a BUG warning in circuit_pick_extend_handshake(). Instead,
18911 assume all nodes support EXTEND2. Use ntor whenever a key is
18912 available. Fixes bug 20472; bugfix on 0.2.9.3-alpha.
18913 - On DNSPort, stop logging a BUG warning on a failed hostname
18914 lookup. Fixes bug 19869; bugfix on 0.2.9.1-alpha.
18916 o Minor bugfixes (hidden services):
18917 - When configuring hidden services, check every hidden service
18918 directory's permissions. Previously, we only checked the last
18919 hidden service. Fixes bug 20529; bugfix the work to fix 13942
18922 o Minor bugfixes (portability):
18923 - Fix compilation with OpenSSL 1.1 and less commonly-used CPU
18924 architectures. Closes ticket 20588.
18925 - Use ECDHE ciphers instead of ECDH in tortls tests. LibreSSL has
18926 removed the ECDH ciphers which caused the tests to fail on
18927 platforms which use it. Fixes bug 20460; bugfix on 0.2.8.1-alpha.
18928 - Fix implicit conversion warnings under OpenSSL 1.1. Fixes bug
18929 20551; bugfix on 0.2.1.1-alpha.
18931 o Minor bugfixes (relay bootstrap):
18932 - Ensure relays don't make multiple connections during bootstrap.
18933 Fixes bug 20591; bugfix on 0.2.8.1-alpha.
18935 o Minor bugfixes (relay):
18936 - Work around a memory leak in OpenSSL 1.1 when encoding public
18937 keys. Fixes bug 20553; bugfix on 0.0.2pre8.
18938 - Avoid a small memory leak when informing worker threads about
18939 rotated onion keys. Fixes bug 20401; bugfix on 0.2.6.3-alpha.
18940 - Do not try to parallelize workers more than 16x without the user
18941 explicitly configuring us to do so, even if we do detect more than
18942 16 CPU cores. Fixes bug 19968; bugfix on 0.2.3.1-alpha.
18944 o Minor bugfixes (single onion services):
18945 - Start correctly when creating a single onion service in a
18946 directory that did not previously exist. Fixes bug 20484; bugfix
18949 o Minor bugfixes (testing):
18950 - Avoid a unit test failure on systems with over 16 detectable CPU
18951 cores. Fixes bug 19968; bugfix on 0.2.3.1-alpha.
18954 - Clarify that setting HiddenServiceNonAnonymousMode requires you to
18955 also set "SOCKSPort 0". Fixes bug 20487; bugfix on 0.2.9.3-alpha.
18956 - Module-level documentation for several more modules. Closes
18957 tickets 19287 and 19290.
18960 Changes in version 0.2.8.9 - 2016-10-17
18961 Tor 0.2.8.9 backports a fix for a security hole in previous versions
18962 of Tor that would allow a remote attacker to crash a Tor client,
18963 hidden service, relay, or authority. All Tor users should upgrade to
18964 this version, or to 0.2.9.4-alpha. Patches will be released for older
18967 o Major features (security fixes, also in 0.2.9.4-alpha):
18968 - Prevent a class of security bugs caused by treating the contents
18969 of a buffer chunk as if they were a NUL-terminated string. At
18970 least one such bug seems to be present in all currently used
18971 versions of Tor, and would allow an attacker to remotely crash
18972 most Tor instances, especially those compiled with extra compiler
18973 hardening. With this defense in place, such bugs can't crash Tor,
18974 though we should still fix them as they occur. Closes ticket
18975 20384 (TROVE-2016-10-001).
18977 o Minor features (geoip):
18978 - Update geoip and geoip6 to the October 4 2016 Maxmind GeoLite2
18982 Changes in version 0.2.9.4-alpha - 2016-10-17
18983 Tor 0.2.9.4-alpha fixes a security hole in previous versions of Tor
18984 that would allow a remote attacker to crash a Tor client, hidden
18985 service, relay, or authority. All Tor users should upgrade to this
18986 version, or to 0.2.8.9. Patches will be released for older versions
18989 Tor 0.2.9.4-alpha also adds numerous small features and fix-ups to
18990 previous versions of Tor, including the implementation of a feature to
18991 future- proof the Tor ecosystem against protocol changes, some bug
18992 fixes necessary for Tor Browser to use unix domain sockets correctly,
18993 and several portability improvements. We anticipate that this will be
18994 the last alpha in the Tor 0.2.9 series, and that the next release will
18995 be a release candidate.
18997 o Major features (security fixes):
18998 - Prevent a class of security bugs caused by treating the contents
18999 of a buffer chunk as if they were a NUL-terminated string. At
19000 least one such bug seems to be present in all currently used
19001 versions of Tor, and would allow an attacker to remotely crash
19002 most Tor instances, especially those compiled with extra compiler
19003 hardening. With this defense in place, such bugs can't crash Tor,
19004 though we should still fix them as they occur. Closes ticket
19005 20384 (TROVE-2016-10-001).
19007 o Major features (subprotocol versions):
19008 - Tor directory authorities now vote on a set of recommended
19009 subprotocol versions, and on a set of required subprotocol
19010 versions. Clients and relays that lack support for a _required_
19011 subprotocol version will not start; those that lack support for a
19012 _recommended_ subprotocol version will warn the user to upgrade.
19013 Closes ticket 19958; implements part of proposal 264.
19014 - Tor now uses "subprotocol versions" to indicate compatibility.
19015 Previously, versions of Tor looked at the declared Tor version of
19016 a relay to tell whether they could use a given feature. Now, they
19017 should be able to rely on its declared subprotocol versions. This
19018 change allows compatible implementations of the Tor protocol(s) to
19019 exist without pretending to be 100% bug-compatible with particular
19020 releases of Tor itself. Closes ticket 19958; implements part of
19023 o Minor feature (fallback directories):
19024 - Remove broken fallbacks from the hard-coded fallback directory
19025 list. Closes ticket 20190; patch by teor.
19027 o Minor features (client, directory):
19028 - Since authorities now omit all routers that lack the Running and
19029 Valid flags, we assume that any relay listed in the consensus must
19030 have those flags. Closes ticket 20001; implements part of
19033 o Minor features (compilation, portability):
19034 - Compile correctly on MacOS 10.12 (aka "Sierra"). Closes
19037 o Minor features (development tools, etags):
19038 - Teach the "make tags" Makefile target how to correctly find
19039 "MOCK_IMPL" function definitions. Patch from nherring; closes
19042 o Minor features (geoip):
19043 - Update geoip and geoip6 to the October 4 2016 Maxmind GeoLite2
19046 o Minor features (unix domain sockets):
19047 - When configuring a unix domain socket for a SocksPort,
19048 ControlPort, or Hidden service, you can now wrap the address in
19049 quotes, using C-style escapes inside the quotes. This allows unix
19050 domain socket paths to contain spaces.
19052 o Minor features (virtual addresses):
19053 - Increase the maximum number of bits for the IPv6 virtual network
19054 prefix from 16 to 104. In this way, the condition for address
19055 allocation is less restrictive. Closes ticket 20151; feature
19058 o Minor bugfixes (address discovery):
19059 - Stop reordering IP addresses returned by the OS. This makes it
19060 more likely that Tor will guess the same relay IP address every
19061 time. Fixes issue 20163; bugfix on 0.2.7.1-alpha, ticket 17027.
19062 Reported by René Mayrhofer, patch by "cypherpunks".
19064 o Minor bugfixes (client, unix domain sockets):
19065 - Disable IsolateClientAddr when using AF_UNIX backed SocksPorts as
19066 the client address is meaningless. Fixes bug 20261; bugfix
19069 o Minor bugfixes (compilation, OpenBSD):
19070 - Detect Libevent2 functions correctly on systems that provide
19071 libevent2, but where libevent1 is linked with -levent. Fixes bug
19072 19904; bugfix on 0.2.2.24-alpha. Patch from Rubiate.
19074 o Minor bugfixes (configuration):
19075 - When parsing quoted configuration values from the torrc file,
19076 handle windows line endings correctly. Fixes bug 19167; bugfix on
19077 0.2.0.16-alpha. Patch from "Pingl".
19079 o Minor bugfixes (getpass):
19080 - Defensively fix a non-triggerable heap corruption at do_getpass()
19081 to protect ourselves from mistakes in the future. Fixes bug
19082 19223; bugfix on 0.2.7.3-rc. Bug found by Guido Vranken, patch
19085 o Minor bugfixes (hidden service):
19086 - Allow hidden services to run on IPv6 addresses even when the
19087 IPv6Exit option is not set. Fixes bug 18357; bugfix
19091 - Add module-level internal documentation for 36 C files that
19092 previously didn't have a high-level overview. Closes ticket #20385.
19094 o Required libraries:
19095 - When building with OpenSSL, Tor now requires version 1.0.1 or
19096 later. OpenSSL 1.0.0 and earlier are no longer supported by the
19097 OpenSSL team, and should not be used. Closes ticket 20303.
19100 Changes in version 0.2.9.3-alpha - 2016-09-23
19101 Tor 0.2.9.3-alpha adds improved support for entities that want to make
19102 high-performance services available through the Tor .onion mechanism
19103 without themselves receiving anonymity as they host those services. It
19104 also tries harder to ensure that all steps on a circuit are using the
19105 strongest crypto possible, strengthens some TLS properties, and
19106 resolves several bugs -- including a pair of crash bugs from the 0.2.8
19107 series. Anybody running an earlier version of 0.2.9.x should upgrade.
19109 o Major bugfixes (crash, also in 0.2.8.8):
19110 - Fix a complicated crash bug that could affect Tor clients
19111 configured to use bridges when replacing a networkstatus consensus
19112 in which one of their bridges was mentioned. OpenBSD users saw
19113 more crashes here, but all platforms were potentially affected.
19114 Fixes bug 20103; bugfix on 0.2.8.2-alpha.
19116 o Major bugfixes (relay, OOM handler, also in 0.2.8.8):
19117 - Fix a timing-dependent assertion failure that could occur when we
19118 tried to flush from a circuit after having freed its cells because
19119 of an out-of-memory condition. Fixes bug 20203; bugfix on
19120 0.2.8.1-alpha. Thanks to "cypherpunks" for help diagnosing
19123 o Major features (circuit building, security):
19124 - Authorities, relays and clients now require ntor keys in all
19125 descriptors, for all hops (except for rare hidden service protocol
19126 cases), for all circuits, and for all other roles. Part of
19128 - Tor authorities, relays, and clients only use ntor, except for
19129 rare cases in the hidden service protocol. Part of ticket 19163.
19131 o Major features (single-hop "hidden" services):
19132 - Add experimental HiddenServiceSingleHopMode and
19133 HiddenServiceNonAnonymousMode options. When both are set to 1,
19134 every hidden service on a Tor instance becomes a non-anonymous
19135 Single Onion Service. Single Onions make one-hop (direct)
19136 connections to their introduction and rendezvous points. One-hop
19137 circuits make Single Onion servers easily locatable, but clients
19138 remain location-anonymous. This is compatible with the existing
19139 hidden service implementation, and works on the current tor
19140 network without any changes to older relays or clients. Implements
19141 proposal 260, completes ticket 17178. Patch by teor and asn.
19143 o Major features (resource management):
19144 - Tor can now notice it is about to run out of sockets, and
19145 preemptively close connections of lower priority. (This feature is
19146 off by default for now, since the current prioritizing method is
19147 yet not mature enough. You can enable it by setting
19148 "DisableOOSCheck 0", but watch out: it might close some sockets
19149 you would rather have it keep.) Closes ticket 18640.
19151 o Major bugfixes (circuit building):
19152 - Hidden service client-to-intro-point and service-to-rendezvous-
19153 point circuits use the TAP key supplied by the protocol, to avoid
19154 epistemic attacks. Fixes bug 19163; bugfix on 0.2.4.18-rc.
19156 o Major bugfixes (compilation, OpenBSD):
19157 - Fix a Libevent-detection bug in our autoconf script that would
19158 prevent Tor from linking successfully on OpenBSD. Patch from
19159 rubiate. Fixes bug 19902; bugfix on 0.2.9.1-alpha.
19161 o Major bugfixes (hidden services):
19162 - Clients now require hidden services to include the TAP keys for
19163 their intro points in the hidden service descriptor. This prevents
19164 an inadvertent upgrade to ntor, which a malicious hidden service
19165 could use to distinguish clients by consensus version. Fixes bug
19166 20012; bugfix on 0.2.4.8-alpha. Patch by teor.
19168 o Minor features (security, TLS):
19169 - Servers no longer support clients that without AES ciphersuites.
19170 (3DES is no longer considered an acceptable cipher.) We believe
19171 that no such Tor clients currently exist, since Tor has required
19172 OpenSSL 0.9.7 or later since 2009. Closes ticket 19998.
19174 o Minor feature (fallback directories):
19175 - Remove 8 fallbacks that are no longer suitable, leaving 81 of the
19176 100 fallbacks originally introduced in Tor 0.2.8.2-alpha in March
19177 2016. Closes ticket 20190; patch by teor.
19179 o Minor features (geoip, also in 0.2.8.8):
19180 - Update geoip and geoip6 to the September 6 2016 Maxmind GeoLite2
19183 o Minor feature (port flags):
19184 - Add new flags to the *Port options to finer control over which
19185 requests are allowed. The flags are NoDNSRequest, NoOnionTraffic,
19186 and the synthetic flag OnionTrafficOnly, which is equivalent to
19187 NoDNSRequest, NoIPv4Traffic, and NoIPv6Traffic. Closes enhancement
19188 18693; patch by "teor".
19190 o Minor features (directory authority):
19191 - After voting, if the authorities decide that a relay is not
19192 "Valid", they no longer include it in the consensus at all. Closes
19193 ticket 20002; implements part of proposal 272.
19195 o Minor features (testing):
19196 - Disable memory protections on OpenBSD when performing our unit
19197 tests for memwipe(). The test deliberately invokes undefined
19198 behavior, and the OpenBSD protections interfere with this. Patch
19199 from "rubiate". Closes ticket 20066.
19201 o Minor features (testing, ipv6):
19202 - Add the single-onion and single-onion-ipv6 chutney targets to
19203 "make test-network-all". This requires a recent chutney version
19204 with the single onion network flavours (git c72a652 or later).
19205 Closes ticket 20072; patch by teor.
19206 - Add the hs-ipv6 chutney target to make test-network-all's IPv6
19207 tests. Remove bridges+hs, as it's somewhat redundant. This
19208 requires a recent chutney version that supports IPv6 clients,
19209 relays, and authorities. Closes ticket 20069; patch by teor.
19211 o Minor features (Tor2web):
19212 - Make Tor2web clients respect ReachableAddresses. This feature was
19213 inadvertently enabled in 0.2.8.6, then removed by bugfix 19973 on
19214 0.2.8.7. Implements feature 20034. Patch by teor.
19216 o Minor features (unit tests):
19217 - We've done significant work to make the unit tests run faster.
19218 - Our link-handshake unit tests now check that when invalid
19219 handshakes fail, they fail with the error messages we expected.
19220 - Our unit testing code that captures log messages no longer
19221 prevents them from being written out if the user asked for them
19222 (by passing --debug or --info or or --notice --warn to the "test"
19223 binary). This change prevents us from missing unexpected log
19224 messages simply because we were looking for others. Related to
19226 - The unit tests now log all warning messages with the "BUG" flag.
19227 Previously, they only logged errors by default. This change will
19228 help us make our testing code more correct, and make sure that we
19229 only hit this code when we mean to. In the meantime, however,
19230 there will be more warnings in the unit test logs than before.
19231 This is preparatory work for ticket 19999.
19232 - The unit tests now treat any failure of a "tor_assert_nonfatal()"
19233 assertion as a test failure.
19235 o Minor bug fixes (circuits):
19236 - Use the CircuitBuildTimeout option whenever
19237 LearnCircuitBuildTimeout is disabled. Previously, we would respect
19238 the option when a user disabled it, but not when it was disabled
19239 because some other option was set. Fixes bug 20073; bugfix on
19240 0.2.4.12-alpha. Patch by teor.
19242 o Minor bugfixes (allocation):
19243 - Change how we allocate memory for large chunks on buffers, to
19244 avoid a (currently impossible) integer overflow, and to waste less
19245 space when allocating unusually large chunks. Fixes bug 20081;
19246 bugfix on 0.2.0.16-alpha. Issue identified by Guido Vranken.
19247 - Always include orconfig.h before including any other C headers.
19248 Sometimes, it includes macros that affect the behavior of the
19249 standard headers. Fixes bug 19767; bugfix on 0.2.9.1-alpha (the
19250 first version to use AC_USE_SYSTEM_EXTENSIONS).
19251 - Fix a syntax error in the IF_BUG_ONCE__() macro in non-GCC-
19252 compatible compilers. Fixes bug 20141; bugfix on 0.2.9.1-alpha.
19253 Patch from Gisle Vanem.
19254 - Stop trying to build with Clang 4.0's -Wthread-safety warnings.
19255 They apparently require a set of annotations that we aren't
19256 currently using, and they create false positives in our pthreads
19257 wrappers. Fixes bug 20110; bugfix on 0.2.9.1-alpha.
19259 o Minor bugfixes (directory authority):
19260 - Die with a more useful error when the operator forgets to place
19261 the authority_signing_key file into the keys directory. This
19262 avoids an uninformative assert & traceback about having an invalid
19263 key. Fixes bug 20065; bugfix on 0.2.0.1-alpha.
19264 - When allowing private addresses, mark Exits that only exit to
19265 private locations as such. Fixes bug 20064; bugfix
19268 o Minor bugfixes (documentation):
19269 - Document the default PathsNeededToBuildCircuits value that's used
19270 by clients when the directory authorities don't set
19271 min_paths_for_circs_pct. Fixes bug 20117; bugfix on 02c320916e02
19272 in 0.2.4.10-alpha. Patch by teor, reported by Jesse V.
19273 - Fix manual for the User option: it takes a username, not a UID.
19274 Fixes bug 19122; bugfix on 0.0.2pre16 (the first version to have
19277 o Minor bugfixes (hidden services):
19278 - Stop logging intro point details to the client log on certain
19279 error conditions. Fixed as part of bug 20012; bugfix on
19280 0.2.4.8-alpha. Patch by teor.
19282 o Minor bugfixes (IPv6, testing):
19283 - Check for IPv6 correctly on Linux when running test networks.
19284 Fixes bug 19905; bugfix on 0.2.7.3-rc; patch by teor.
19286 o Minor bugfixes (Linux seccomp2 sandbox):
19287 - Add permission to run the sched_yield() and sigaltstack() system
19288 calls, in order to support versions of Tor compiled with asan or
19289 ubsan code that use these calls. Now "sandbox 1" and
19290 "--enable-expensive-hardening" should be compatible on more
19291 systems. Fixes bug 20063; bugfix on 0.2.5.1-alpha.
19293 o Minor bugfixes (logging):
19294 - When logging a message from the BUG() macro, be explicit about
19295 what we were asserting. Previously we were confusing what we were
19296 asserting with what the bug was. Fixes bug 20093; bugfix
19298 - When we are unable to remove the bw_accounting file, do not warn
19299 if the reason we couldn't remove it was that it didn't exist.
19300 Fixes bug 19964; bugfix on 0.2.5.4-alpha. Patch from 'pastly'.
19302 o Minor bugfixes (option parsing):
19303 - Count unix sockets when counting client listeners (SOCKS, Trans,
19304 NATD, and DNS). This has no user-visible behaviour changes: these
19305 options are set once, and never read. Required for correct
19306 behaviour in ticket 17178. Fixes bug 19677; bugfix on
19307 0.2.6.3-alpha. Patch by teor.
19309 o Minor bugfixes (options):
19310 - Check the consistency of UseEntryGuards and EntryNodes more
19311 reliably. Fixes bug 20074; bugfix on 0.2.4.12-alpha. Patch
19313 - Stop changing the configured value of UseEntryGuards on
19314 authorities and Tor2web clients. Fixes bug 20074; bugfix on
19315 commits 51fc6799 in 0.1.1.16-rc and acda1735 in 0.2.4.3-alpha.
19318 o Minor bugfixes (Tor2web):
19319 - Prevent Tor2web clients running hidden services, these services
19320 are not anonymous due to the one-hop client paths. Fixes bug
19321 19678. Patch by teor.
19323 o Minor bugfixes (unit tests):
19324 - Fix a shared-random unit test that was failing on big endian
19325 architectures due to internal representation of a integer copied
19326 to a buffer. The test is changed to take a full 32 bytes of data
19327 and use the output of a python script that make the COMMIT and
19328 REVEAL calculation according to the spec. Fixes bug 19977; bugfix
19330 - The tor_tls_server_info_callback unit test no longer crashes when
19331 debug-level logging is turned on. Fixes bug 20041; bugfix
19335 Changes in version 0.2.8.8 - 2016-09-23
19336 Tor 0.2.8.8 fixes two crash bugs present in previous versions of the
19337 0.2.8.x series. Relays running 0.2.8.x should upgrade, as should users
19338 who select public relays as their bridges.
19340 o Major bugfixes (crash):
19341 - Fix a complicated crash bug that could affect Tor clients
19342 configured to use bridges when replacing a networkstatus consensus
19343 in which one of their bridges was mentioned. OpenBSD users saw
19344 more crashes here, but all platforms were potentially affected.
19345 Fixes bug 20103; bugfix on 0.2.8.2-alpha.
19347 o Major bugfixes (relay, OOM handler):
19348 - Fix a timing-dependent assertion failure that could occur when we
19349 tried to flush from a circuit after having freed its cells because
19350 of an out-of-memory condition. Fixes bug 20203; bugfix on
19351 0.2.8.1-alpha. Thanks to "cypherpunks" for help diagnosing
19354 o Minor feature (fallback directories):
19355 - Remove 8 fallbacks that are no longer suitable, leaving 81 of the
19356 100 fallbacks originally introduced in Tor 0.2.8.2-alpha in March
19357 2016. Closes ticket 20190; patch by teor.
19359 o Minor features (geoip):
19360 - Update geoip and geoip6 to the September 6 2016 Maxmind GeoLite2
19364 Changes in version 0.2.9.2-alpha - 2016-08-24
19365 Tor 0.2.9.2-alpha continues development of the 0.2.9 series with
19366 several new features and bugfixes. It also includes an important
19367 authority update and an important bugfix from 0.2.8.7. Everyone who
19368 sets the ReachableAddresses option, and all bridges, are strongly
19369 encouraged to upgrade to 0.2.8.7, or to 0.2.9.2-alpha.
19371 o Directory authority changes (also in 0.2.8.7):
19372 - The "Tonga" bridge authority has been retired; the new bridge
19373 authority is "Bifroest". Closes tickets 19728 and 19690.
19375 o Major bugfixes (client, security, also in 0.2.8.7):
19376 - Only use the ReachableAddresses option to restrict the first hop
19377 in a path. In earlier versions of 0.2.8.x, it would apply to
19378 every hop in the path, with a possible degradation in anonymity
19379 for anyone using an uncommon ReachableAddress setting. Fixes bug
19380 19973; bugfix on 0.2.8.2-alpha.
19382 o Major features (user interface):
19383 - Tor now supports the ability to declare options deprecated, so
19384 that we can recommend that people stop using them. Previously,
19385 this was done in an ad-hoc way. Closes ticket 19820.
19387 o Major bugfixes (directory downloads):
19388 - Avoid resetting download status for consensuses hourly, since we
19389 already have another, smarter retry mechanism. Fixes bug 8625;
19390 bugfix on 0.2.0.9-alpha.
19392 o Minor features (config):
19393 - Warn users when descriptor and port addresses are inconsistent.
19394 Mitigates bug 13953; patch by teor.
19396 o Minor features (geoip):
19397 - Update geoip and geoip6 to the August 2 2016 Maxmind GeoLite2
19400 o Minor features (user interface):
19401 - There is a new --list-deprecated-options command-line option to
19402 list all of the deprecated options. Implemented as part of
19405 o Minor bugfixes (code style):
19406 - Fix an integer signedness conversion issue in the case conversion
19407 tables. Fixes bug 19168; bugfix on 0.2.1.11-alpha.
19409 o Minor bugfixes (compilation):
19410 - Build correctly on versions of libevent2 without support for
19411 evutil_secure_rng_add_bytes(). Fixes bug 19904; bugfix
19413 - Fix a compilation warning on GCC versions before 4.6. Our
19414 ENABLE_GCC_WARNING macro used the word "warning" as an argument,
19415 when it is also required as an argument to the compiler pragma.
19416 Fixes bug 19901; bugfix on 0.2.9.1-alpha.
19418 o Minor bugfixes (compilation, also in 0.2.8.7):
19419 - Remove an inappropriate "inline" in tortls.c that was causing
19420 warnings on older versions of GCC. Fixes bug 19903; bugfix
19423 o Minor bugfixes (fallback directories, also in 0.2.8.7):
19424 - Avoid logging a NULL string pointer when loading fallback
19425 directory information. Fixes bug 19947; bugfix on 0.2.4.7-alpha
19426 and 0.2.8.1-alpha. Report and patch by "rubiate".
19428 o Minor bugfixes (logging):
19429 - Log a more accurate message when we fail to dump a microdescriptor.
19430 Fixes bug 17758; bugfix on 0.2.2.8-alpha. Patch from Daniel Pinto.
19432 o Minor bugfixes (memory leak):
19433 - Fix a series of slow memory leaks related to parsing torrc files
19434 and options. Fixes bug 19466; bugfix on 0.2.1.6-alpha.
19436 o Deprecated features:
19437 - A number of DNS-cache-related sub-options for client ports are now
19438 deprecated for security reasons, and may be removed in a future
19439 version of Tor. (We believe that client-side DNS caching is a bad
19440 idea for anonymity, and you should not turn it on.) The options
19441 are: CacheDNS, CacheIPv4DNS, CacheIPv6DNS, UseDNSCache,
19442 UseIPv4Cache, and UseIPv6Cache.
19443 - A number of options are deprecated for security reasons, and may
19444 be removed in a future version of Tor. The options are:
19445 AllowDotExit, AllowInvalidNodes, AllowSingleHopCircuits,
19446 AllowSingleHopExits, ClientDNSRejectInternalAddresses,
19447 CloseHSClientCircuitsImmediatelyOnTimeout,
19448 CloseHSServiceRendCircuitsImmediatelyOnTimeout,
19449 ExcludeSingleHopRelays, FastFirstHopPK, TLSECGroup,
19450 UseNTorHandshake, and WarnUnsafeSocks.
19451 - The *ListenAddress options are now deprecated as unnecessary: the
19452 corresponding *Port options should be used instead. These options
19453 may someday be removed. The affected options are:
19454 ControlListenAddress, DNSListenAddress, DirListenAddress,
19455 NATDListenAddress, ORListenAddress, SocksListenAddress,
19456 and TransListenAddress.
19459 - Correct the IPv6 syntax in our documentation for the
19460 VirtualAddrNetworkIPv6 torrc option. Closes ticket 19743.
19463 - We no longer include the (dead, deprecated) bufferevent code in
19464 Tor. Closes ticket 19450. Based on a patch from U+039b.
19467 Changes in version 0.2.8.7 - 2016-08-24
19468 Tor 0.2.8.7 fixes an important bug related to the ReachableAddresses
19469 option in 0.2.8.6, and replaces a retiring bridge authority. Everyone
19470 who sets the ReachableAddresses option, and all bridges, are strongly
19471 encouraged to upgrade.
19473 o Directory authority changes:
19474 - The "Tonga" bridge authority has been retired; the new bridge
19475 authority is "Bifroest". Closes tickets 19728 and 19690.
19477 o Major bugfixes (client, security):
19478 - Only use the ReachableAddresses option to restrict the first hop
19479 in a path. In earlier versions of 0.2.8.x, it would apply to
19480 every hop in the path, with a possible degradation in anonymity
19481 for anyone using an uncommon ReachableAddress setting. Fixes bug
19482 19973; bugfix on 0.2.8.2-alpha.
19484 o Minor features (geoip):
19485 - Update geoip and geoip6 to the August 2 2016 Maxmind GeoLite2
19488 o Minor bugfixes (compilation):
19489 - Remove an inappropriate "inline" in tortls.c that was causing
19490 warnings on older versions of GCC. Fixes bug 19903; bugfix
19493 o Minor bugfixes (fallback directories):
19494 - Avoid logging a NULL string pointer when loading fallback
19495 directory information. Fixes bug 19947; bugfix on 0.2.4.7-alpha
19496 and 0.2.8.1-alpha. Report and patch by "rubiate".
19499 Changes in version 0.2.9.1-alpha - 2016-08-08
19500 Tor 0.2.9.1-alpha is the first alpha release in the 0.2.9 development
19501 series. It improves our support for hardened builds and compiler
19502 warnings, deploys some critical infrastructure for improvements to
19503 hidden services, includes a new timing backend that we hope to use for
19504 better support for traffic padding, makes it easier for programmers to
19505 log unexpected events, and contains other small improvements to
19506 security, correctness, and performance.
19508 Below are the changes since 0.2.8.6.
19510 o New system requirements:
19511 - Tor now requires Libevent version 2.0.10-stable or later. Older
19512 versions of Libevent have less efficient backends for several
19513 platforms, and lack the DNS code that we use for our server-side
19514 DNS support. This implements ticket 19554.
19515 - Tor now requires zlib version 1.2 or later, for security,
19516 efficiency, and (eventually) gzip support. (Back when we started,
19517 zlib 1.1 and zlib 1.0 were still found in the wild. 1.2 was
19518 released in 2003. We recommend the latest version.)
19520 o Major features (build, hardening):
19521 - Tor now builds with -ftrapv by default on compilers that support
19522 it. This option detects signed integer overflow (which C forbids),
19523 and turns it into a hard-failure. We do not apply this option to
19524 code that needs to run in constant time to avoid side-channels;
19525 instead, we use -fwrapv in that code. Closes ticket 17983.
19526 - When --enable-expensive-hardening is selected, stop applying the
19527 clang/gcc sanitizers to code that needs to run in constant time.
19528 Although we are aware of no introduced side-channels, we are not
19529 able to prove that there are none. Related to ticket 17983.
19531 o Major features (compilation):
19532 - Our big list of extra GCC warnings is now enabled by default when
19533 building with GCC (or with anything like Clang that claims to be
19534 GCC-compatible). To make all warnings into fatal compilation
19535 errors, pass --enable-fatal-warnings to configure. Closes
19537 - Use the Autoconf macro AC_USE_SYSTEM_EXTENSIONS to automatically
19538 turn on C and POSIX extensions. (Previously, we attempted to do
19539 this on an ad hoc basis.) Closes ticket 19139.
19541 o Major features (directory authorities, hidden services):
19542 - Directory authorities can now perform the shared randomness
19543 protocol specified by proposal 250. Using this protocol, directory
19544 authorities generate a global fresh random value every day. In the
19545 future, this value will be used by hidden services to select
19546 HSDirs. This release implements the directory authority feature;
19547 the hidden service side will be implemented in the future as part
19548 of proposal 224. Resolves ticket 16943; implements proposal 250.
19550 o Major features (downloading, random exponential backoff):
19551 - When we fail to download an object from a directory service, wait
19552 for an (exponentially increasing) randomized amount of time before
19553 retrying, rather than a fixed interval as we did before. This
19554 prevents a group of Tor instances from becoming too synchronized,
19555 or a single Tor instance from becoming too predictable, in its
19556 download schedule. Closes ticket 15942.
19558 o Major bugfixes (exit policies):
19559 - Avoid disclosing exit outbound bind addresses, configured port
19560 bind addresses, and local interface addresses in relay descriptors
19561 by default under ExitPolicyRejectPrivate. Instead, only reject
19562 these (otherwise unlisted) addresses if
19563 ExitPolicyRejectLocalInterfaces is set. Fixes bug 18456; bugfix on
19564 0.2.7.2-alpha. Patch by teor.
19566 o Major bugfixes (hidden service client):
19567 - Allow Tor clients with appropriate controllers to work with
19568 FetchHidServDescriptors set to 0. Previously, this option also
19569 disabled descriptor cache lookup, thus breaking hidden services
19570 entirely. Fixes bug 18704; bugfix on 0.2.0.20-rc. Patch by "twim".
19572 o Minor features (build, hardening):
19573 - Detect and work around a libclang_rt problem that would prevent
19574 clang from finding __mulodi4() on some 32-bit platforms, and thus
19575 keep -ftrapv from linking on those systems. Closes ticket 19079.
19576 - When building on a system without runtime support for the runtime
19577 hardening options, try to log a useful warning at configuration
19578 time, rather than an incomprehensible warning at link time. If
19579 expensive hardening was requested, this warning becomes an error.
19580 Closes ticket 18895.
19582 o Minor features (code safety):
19583 - In our integer-parsing functions, ensure that maxiumum value we
19584 give is no smaller than the minimum value. Closes ticket 19063;
19587 o Minor features (controller):
19588 - Implement new GETINFO queries for all downloads that use
19589 download_status_t to schedule retries. This allows controllers to
19590 examine the schedule for pending downloads. Closes ticket 19323.
19591 - Allow controllers to configure basic client authorization on
19592 hidden services when they create them with the ADD_ONION control
19593 command. Implements ticket 15588. Patch by "special".
19594 - Fire a STATUS_SERVER controller event whenever the hibernation
19595 status changes between "awake"/"soft"/"hard". Closes ticket 18685.
19597 o Minor features (directory authority):
19598 - Directory authorities now only give the Guard flag to a relay if
19599 they are also giving it the Stable flag. This change allows us to
19600 simplify path selection for clients. It should have minimal effect
19601 in practice, since >99% of Guards already have the Stable flag.
19602 Implements ticket 18624.
19603 - Directory authorities now write their v3-status-votes file out to
19604 disk earlier in the consensus process, so we have a record of the
19605 votes even if we abort the consensus process. Resolves
19608 o Minor features (hidden service):
19609 - Stop being so strict about the payload length of "rendezvous1"
19610 cells. We used to be locked in to the "TAP" handshake length, and
19611 now we can handle better handshakes like "ntor". Resolves
19614 o Minor features (infrastructure, time):
19615 - Tor now uses the operating system's monotonic timers (where
19616 available) for internal fine-grained timing. Previously we would
19617 look at the system clock, and then attempt to compensate for the
19618 clock running backwards. Closes ticket 18908.
19619 - Tor now includes an improved timer backend, so that we can
19620 efficiently support tens or hundreds of thousands of concurrent
19621 timers, as will be needed for some of our planned anti-traffic-
19622 analysis work. This code is based on William Ahern's "timeout.c"
19623 project, which implements a "tickless hierarchical timing wheel".
19624 Closes ticket 18365.
19626 o Minor features (logging):
19627 - Provide a more useful warning message when configured with an
19628 invalid Nickname. Closes ticket 18300; patch from "icanhasaccount".
19629 - When dumping unparseable router descriptors, optionally store them
19630 in separate files, named by digest, up to a configurable size
19631 limit. You can change the size limit by setting the
19632 MaxUnparseableDescSizeToLog option, and disable this feature by
19633 setting that option to 0. Closes ticket 18322.
19634 - Add a set of macros to check nonfatal assertions, for internal
19635 use. Migrating more of our checks to these should help us avoid
19636 needless crash bugs. Closes ticket 18613.
19638 o Minor features (performance):
19639 - Change the "optimistic data" extension from "off by default" to
19640 "on by default". The default was ordinarily overridden by a
19641 consensus option, but when clients were bootstrapping for the
19642 first time, they would not have a consensus to get the option
19643 from. Changing this default saves a round-trip during startup.
19644 Closes ticket 18815.
19646 o Minor features (relay, usability):
19647 - When the directory authorities refuse a bad relay's descriptor,
19648 encourage the relay operator to contact us. Many relay operators
19649 won't notice this line in their logs, but it's a win if even a few
19650 learn why we don't like what their relay was doing. Resolves
19653 o Minor features (testing):
19654 - Let backtrace tests work correctly under AddressSanitizer. Fixes
19655 part of bug 18934; bugfix on 0.2.5.2-alpha.
19656 - Move the test-network.sh script to chutney, and modify tor's test-
19657 network.sh to call the (newer) chutney version when available.
19658 Resolves ticket 19116. Patch by teor.
19659 - Use the lcov convention for marking lines as unreachable, so that
19660 we don't count them when we're generating test coverage data.
19661 Update our coverage tools to understand this convention. Closes
19664 o Minor bugfixes (bootstrap):
19665 - Remember the directory we fetched the consensus or previous
19666 certificates from, and use it to fetch future authority
19667 certificates. This change improves bootstrapping performance.
19668 Fixes bug 18963; bugfix on 0.2.8.1-alpha.
19670 o Minor bugfixes (build):
19671 - The test-stem and test-network makefile targets now depend only on
19672 the tor binary that they are testing. Previously, they depended on
19673 "make all". Fixes bug 18240; bugfix on 0.2.8.2-alpha. Based on a
19674 patch from "cypherpunks".
19676 o Minor bugfixes (circuits):
19677 - Make sure extend_info_from_router() is only called on servers.
19678 Fixes bug 19639; bugfix on 0.2.8.1-alpha.
19680 o Minor bugfixes (compilation):
19681 - When building with Clang, use a full set of GCC warnings.
19682 (Previously, we included only a subset, because of the way we
19683 detected them.) Fixes bug 19216; bugfix on 0.2.0.1-alpha.
19685 o Minor bugfixes (directory authority):
19686 - Authorities now sort the "package" lines in their votes, for ease
19687 of debugging. (They are already sorted in consensus documents.)
19688 Fixes bug 18840; bugfix on 0.2.6.3-alpha.
19689 - When parsing a detached signature, make sure we use the length of
19690 the digest algorithm instead of an hardcoded DIGEST256_LEN in
19691 order to avoid comparing bytes out-of-bounds with a smaller digest
19692 length such as SHA1. Fixes bug 19066; bugfix on 0.2.2.6-alpha.
19694 o Minor bugfixes (documentation):
19695 - Document the --passphrase-fd option in the tor manpage. Fixes bug
19696 19504; bugfix on 0.2.7.3-rc.
19697 - Fix the description of the --passphrase-fd option in the
19698 tor-gencert manpage. The option is used to pass the number of a
19699 file descriptor to read the passphrase from, not to read the file
19700 descriptor from. Fixes bug 19505; bugfix on 0.2.0.20-alpha.
19702 o Minor bugfixes (ephemeral hidden service):
19703 - When deleting an ephemeral hidden service, close its intro points
19704 even if they are not completely open. Fixes bug 18604; bugfix
19707 o Minor bugfixes (guard selection):
19708 - Use a single entry guard even if the NumEntryGuards consensus
19709 parameter is not provided. Fixes bug 17688; bugfix
19711 - Don't mark guards as unreachable if connection_connect() fails.
19712 That function fails for local reasons, so it shouldn't reveal
19713 anything about the status of the guard. Fixes bug 14334; bugfix
19716 o Minor bugfixes (hidden service client):
19717 - Increase the minimum number of internal circuits we preemptively
19718 build from 2 to 3, so a circuit is available when a client
19719 connects to another onion service. Fixes bug 13239; bugfix
19722 o Minor bugfixes (logging):
19723 - When logging a directory ownership mismatch, log the owning
19724 username correctly. Fixes bug 19578; bugfix on 0.2.2.29-beta.
19726 o Minor bugfixes (memory leaks):
19727 - Fix a small, uncommon memory leak that could occur when reading a
19728 truncated ed25519 key file. Fixes bug 18956; bugfix
19731 o Minor bugfixes (testing):
19732 - Allow clients to retry HSDirs much faster in test networks. Fixes
19733 bug 19702; bugfix on 0.2.7.1-alpha. Patch by teor.
19734 - Disable ASAN's detection of segmentation faults while running
19735 test_bt.sh, so that we can make sure that our own backtrace
19736 generation code works. Fixes another aspect of bug 18934; bugfix
19737 on 0.2.5.2-alpha. Patch from "cypherpunks".
19738 - Fix the test-network-all target on out-of-tree builds by using the
19739 correct path to the test driver script. Fixes bug 19421; bugfix
19742 o Minor bugfixes (time):
19743 - Improve overflow checks in tv_udiff and tv_mdiff. Fixes bug 19483;
19744 bugfix on all released tor versions.
19745 - When computing the difference between two times in milliseconds,
19746 we now round to the nearest millisecond correctly. Previously, we
19747 could sometimes round in the wrong direction. Fixes bug 19428;
19748 bugfix on 0.2.2.2-alpha.
19750 o Minor bugfixes (user interface):
19751 - Display a more accurate number of suppressed messages in the log
19752 rate-limiter. Previously, there was a potential integer overflow
19753 in the counter. Now, if the number of messages hits a maximum, the
19754 rate-limiter doesn't count any further. Fixes bug 19435; bugfix
19756 - Fix a typo in the passphrase prompt for the ed25519 identity key.
19757 Fixes bug 19503; bugfix on 0.2.7.2-alpha.
19759 o Code simplification and refactoring:
19760 - Remove redundant declarations of the MIN macro. Closes
19762 - Rename tor_dup_addr() to tor_addr_to_str_dup() to avoid confusion.
19763 Closes ticket 18462; patch from "icanhasaccount".
19764 - Split the 600-line directory_handle_command_get function into
19765 separate functions for different URL types. Closes ticket 16698.
19768 - Fix spelling of "--enable-tor2web-mode" in the manpage. Closes
19769 ticket 19153. Patch from "U+039b".
19771 o Removed features:
19772 - Remove support for "GET /tor/bytes.txt" DirPort request, and
19773 "GETINFO dir-usage" controller request, which were only available
19774 via a compile-time option in Tor anyway. Feature was added in
19775 0.2.2.1-alpha. Resolves ticket 19035.
19776 - There is no longer a compile-time option to disable support for
19777 TransPort. (If you don't want TransPort; just don't use it.) Patch
19778 from "U+039b". Closes ticket 19449.
19781 - Run more workqueue tests as part of "make check". These had
19782 previously been implemented, but you needed to know special
19783 command-line options to enable them.
19784 - We now have unit tests for our code to reject zlib "compression
19785 bombs". (Fortunately, the code works fine.)
19788 Changes in version 0.2.8.6 - 2016-08-02
19790 Tor 0.2.8.6 is the first stable version of the Tor 0.2.8 series.
19792 The Tor 0.2.8 series improves client bootstrapping performance,
19793 completes the authority-side implementation of improved identity
19794 keys for relays, and includes numerous bugfixes and performance
19795 improvements throughout the program. This release continues to
19796 improve the coverage of Tor's test suite. For a full list of
19797 changes since Tor 0.2.7, see the ReleaseNotes file.
19799 Changes since 0.2.8.5-rc:
19801 o Minor features (geoip):
19802 - Update geoip and geoip6 to the July 6 2016 Maxmind GeoLite2
19805 o Minor bugfixes (compilation):
19806 - Fix a compilation warning in the unit tests on systems where char
19807 is signed. Fixes bug 19682; bugfix on 0.2.8.1-alpha.
19809 o Minor bugfixes (fallback directories):
19810 - Remove 1 fallback that was on the hardcoded list, then opted-out,
19811 leaving 89 of the 100 fallbacks originally introduced in Tor
19812 0.2.8.2-alpha in March 2016. Closes ticket 19782; patch by teor.
19814 o Minor bugfixes (Linux seccomp2 sandbox):
19815 - Allow more syscalls when running with "Sandbox 1" enabled:
19816 sysinfo, getsockopt(SO_SNDBUF), and setsockopt(SO_SNDBUFFORCE). On
19817 some systems, these are required for Tor to start. Fixes bug
19818 18397; bugfix on 0.2.5.1-alpha. Patch from Daniel Pinto.
19819 - Allow IPPROTO_UDP datagram sockets when running with "Sandbox 1",
19820 so that get_interface_address6_via_udp_socket_hack() can work.
19821 Fixes bug 19660; bugfix on 0.2.5.1-alpha.
19824 Changes in version 0.2.8.5-rc - 2016-07-07
19825 Tor 0.2.8.5-rc is the second release candidate in the Tor 0.2.8
19826 series. If we find no new bugs or regressions here, the first stable
19827 0.2.8 release will be identical to it. It has a few small bugfixes
19828 against previous versions.
19830 o Directory authority changes:
19831 - Urras is no longer a directory authority. Closes ticket 19271.
19833 o Major bugfixes (heartbeat):
19834 - Fix a regression that would crash Tor when the periodic
19835 "heartbeat" log messages were disabled. Fixes bug 19454; bugfix on
19836 0.2.8.1-alpha. Reported by "kubaku".
19838 o Minor features (build):
19839 - Tor now again builds with the recent OpenSSL 1.1 development
19840 branch (tested against 1.1.0-pre6-dev). Closes ticket 19499.
19841 - When building manual pages, set the timezone to "UTC", so that the
19842 output is reproducible. Fixes bug 19558; bugfix on 0.2.2.9-alpha.
19843 Patch from intrigeri.
19845 o Minor bugfixes (fallback directory selection):
19846 - Avoid errors during fallback selection if there are no eligible
19847 fallbacks. Fixes bug 19480; bugfix on 0.2.8.3-alpha. Patch
19850 o Minor bugfixes (IPv6, microdescriptors):
19851 - Don't check node addresses when we only have a routerstatus. This
19852 allows IPv6-only clients to bootstrap by fetching microdescriptors
19853 from fallback directory mirrors. (The microdescriptor consensus
19854 has no IPv6 addresses in it.) Fixes bug 19608; bugfix
19857 o Minor bugfixes (logging):
19858 - Reduce pointlessly verbose log messages when directory servers
19859 can't be found. Fixes bug 18849; bugfix on 0.2.8.3-alpha and
19860 0.2.8.1-alpha. Patch by teor.
19861 - When a fallback directory changes its fingerprint from the hard-
19862 coded fingerprint, log a less severe, more explanatory log
19863 message. Fixes bug 18812; bugfix on 0.2.8.1-alpha. Patch by teor.
19865 o Minor bugfixes (Linux seccomp2 sandboxing):
19866 - Allow statistics to be written to disk when "Sandbox 1" is
19867 enabled. Fixes bugs 19556 and 19957; bugfix on 0.2.5.1-alpha and
19868 0.2.6.1-alpha respectively.
19870 o Minor bugfixes (user interface):
19871 - Remove a warning message "Service [scrubbed] not found after
19872 descriptor upload". This message appears when one uses HSPOST
19873 control command to upload a service descriptor. Since there is
19874 only a descriptor and no service, showing this message is
19875 pointless and confusing. Fixes bug 19464; bugfix on 0.2.7.2-alpha.
19877 o Fallback directory list:
19878 - Add a comment to the generated fallback directory list that
19879 explains how to comment out unsuitable fallbacks in a way that's
19880 compatible with the stem fallback parser.
19881 - Update fallback whitelist and blacklist based on relay operator
19882 emails. Blacklist unsuitable (non-working, over-volatile)
19883 fallbacks. Resolves ticket 19071. Patch by teor.
19884 - Remove 10 unsuitable fallbacks, leaving 90 of the 100 fallbacks
19885 originally introduced in Tor 0.2.8.2-alpha in March 2016. Closes
19886 ticket 19071; patch by teor.
19889 Changes in version 0.2.8.4-rc - 2016-06-15
19890 Tor 0.2.8.4-rc is the first release candidate in the Tor 0.2.8 series.
19891 If we find no new bugs or regressions here, the first stable 0.2.8
19892 release will be identical to it. It has a few small bugfixes against
19895 o Major bugfixes (user interface):
19896 - Correctly give a warning in the cases where a relay is specified
19897 by nickname, and one such relay is found, but it is not officially
19898 Named. Fixes bug 19203; bugfix on 0.2.3.1-alpha.
19900 o Minor features (build):
19901 - Tor now builds once again with the recent OpenSSL 1.1 development
19902 branch (tested against 1.1.0-pre5 and 1.1.0-pre6-dev).
19904 o Minor features (geoip):
19905 - Update geoip and geoip6 to the June 7 2016 Maxmind GeoLite2
19908 o Minor bugfixes (compilation):
19909 - Cause the unit tests to compile correctly on mingw64 versions that
19910 lack sscanf. Fixes bug 19213; bugfix on 0.2.7.1-alpha.
19912 o Minor bugfixes (downloading):
19913 - Predict more correctly whether we'll be downloading over HTTP when
19914 we determine the maximum length of a URL. This should avoid a
19915 "BUG" warning about the Squid HTTP proxy and its URL limits. Fixes
19919 Changes in version 0.2.8.3-alpha - 2016-05-26
19920 Tor 0.2.8.3-alpha resolves several bugs, most of them introduced over
19921 the course of the 0.2.8 development cycle. It improves the behavior of
19922 directory clients, fixes several crash bugs, fixes a gap in compiler
19923 hardening, and allows the full integration test suite to run on
19926 o Major bugfixes (security, client, DNS proxy):
19927 - Stop a crash that could occur when a client running with DNSPort
19928 received a query with multiple address types, and the first
19929 address type was not supported. Found and fixed by Scott Dial.
19930 Fixes bug 18710; bugfix on 0.2.5.4-alpha.
19932 o Major bugfixes (security, compilation):
19933 - Correctly detect compiler flags on systems where _FORTIFY_SOURCE
19934 is predefined. Previously, our use of -D_FORTIFY_SOURCE would
19935 cause a compiler warning, thereby making other checks fail, and
19936 needlessly disabling compiler-hardening support. Fixes one case of
19937 bug 18841; bugfix on 0.2.3.17-beta. Patch from "trudokal".
19939 o Major bugfixes (security, directory authorities):
19940 - Fix a crash and out-of-bounds write during authority voting, when
19941 the list of relays includes duplicate ed25519 identity keys. Fixes
19942 bug 19032; bugfix on 0.2.8.2-alpha.
19944 o Major bugfixes (client, bootstrapping):
19945 - Check if bootstrap consensus downloads are still needed when the
19946 linked connection attaches. This prevents tor making unnecessary
19947 begindir-style connections, which are the only directory
19948 connections tor clients make since the fix for 18483 was merged.
19949 - Fix some edge cases where consensus download connections may not
19950 have been closed, even though they were not needed. Related to fix
19952 - Make relays retry consensus downloads the correct number of times,
19953 rather than the more aggressive client retry count. Fixes part of
19955 - Stop downloading consensuses when we have a consensus, even if we
19956 don't have all the certificates for it yet. Fixes bug 18809;
19957 bugfix on 0.2.8.1-alpha. Patches by arma and teor.
19959 o Major bugfixes (directory mirrors):
19960 - Decide whether to advertise begindir support in the the same way
19961 we decide whether to advertise our DirPort. Allowing these
19962 decisions to become out-of-sync led to surprising behavior like
19963 advertising begindir support when hibernation made us not
19964 advertise a DirPort. Resolves bug 18616; bugfix on 0.2.8.1-alpha.
19967 o Major bugfixes (IPv6 bridges, client):
19968 - Actually use IPv6 addresses when selecting directory addresses for
19969 IPv6 bridges. Fixes bug 18921; bugfix on 0.2.8.1-alpha. Patch
19972 o Major bugfixes (key management):
19973 - If OpenSSL fails to generate an RSA key, do not retain a dangling
19974 pointer to the previous (uninitialized) key value. The impact here
19975 should be limited to a difficult-to-trigger crash, if OpenSSL is
19976 running an engine that makes key generation failures possible, or
19977 if OpenSSL runs out of memory. Fixes bug 19152; bugfix on
19978 0.2.1.10-alpha. Found by Yuan Jochen Kang, Suman Jana, and
19981 o Major bugfixes (testing):
19982 - Fix a bug that would block 'make test-network-all' on systems where
19983 IPv6 packets were lost. Fixes bug 19008; bugfix on 0.2.7.3-rc.
19984 - Avoid "WSANOTINITIALISED" warnings in the unit tests. Fixes bug 18668;
19985 bugfix on 0.2.8.1-alpha.
19987 o Minor features (clients):
19988 - Make clients, onion services, and bridge relays always use an
19989 encrypted begindir connection for directory requests. Resolves
19990 ticket 18483. Patch by "teor".
19992 o Minor features (fallback directory mirrors):
19993 - Give each fallback the same weight for client selection; restrict
19994 fallbacks to one per operator; report fallback directory detail
19995 changes when rebuilding list; add new fallback directory mirrors
19996 to the whitelist; and many other minor simplifications and fixes.
19997 Closes tasks 17905, 18749, bug 18689, and fixes part of bug 18812 on
19998 0.2.8.1-alpha; patch by "teor".
19999 - Replace the 21 fallbacks generated in January 2016 and included in
20000 Tor 0.2.8.1-alpha, with a list of 100 fallbacks generated in March
20001 2016. Closes task 17158; patch by "teor".
20003 o Minor features (geoip):
20004 - Update geoip and geoip6 to the May 4 2016 Maxmind GeoLite2
20007 o Minor bugfixes (assert, portability):
20008 - Fix an assertion failure in memarea.c on systems where "long" is
20009 shorter than the size of a pointer. Fixes bug 18716; bugfix
20012 o Minor bugfixes (bootstrap):
20013 - Consistently use the consensus download schedule for authority
20014 certificates. Fixes bug 18816; bugfix on 0.2.4.13-alpha.
20016 o Minor bugfixes (build):
20017 - Remove a pair of redundant AM_CONDITIONAL declarations from
20018 configure.ac. Fixes one final case of bug 17744; bugfix
20020 - Resolve warnings when building on systems that are concerned with
20021 signed char. Fixes bug 18728; bugfix on 0.2.7.2-alpha
20023 - When libscrypt.h is found, but no libscrypt library can be linked,
20024 treat libscrypt as absent. Fixes bug 19161; bugfix
20027 o Minor bugfixes (client):
20028 - Turn all TestingClientBootstrap* into non-testing torrc options.
20029 This changes simply renames them by removing "Testing" in front of
20030 them and they do not require TestingTorNetwork to be enabled
20031 anymore. Fixes bug 18481; bugfix on 0.2.8.1-alpha.
20032 - Make directory node selection more reliable, mainly for IPv6-only
20033 clients and clients with few reachable addresses. Fixes bug 18929;
20034 bugfix on 0.2.8.1-alpha. Patch by "teor".
20036 o Minor bugfixes (controller, microdescriptors):
20037 - Make GETINFO dir/status-vote/current/consensus conform to the
20038 control specification by returning "551 Could not open cached
20039 consensus..." when not caching consensuses. Fixes bug 18920;
20040 bugfix on 0.2.2.6-alpha.
20042 o Minor bugfixes (crypto, portability):
20043 - The SHA3 and SHAKE routines now produce the correct output on Big
20044 Endian systems. No code calls either algorithm yet, so this is
20045 primarily a build fix. Fixes bug 18943; bugfix on 0.2.8.1-alpha.
20046 - Tor now builds again with the recent OpenSSL 1.1 development
20047 branch (tested against 1.1.0-pre4 and 1.1.0-pre5-dev). Closes
20050 o Minor bugfixes (directories):
20051 - When fetching extrainfo documents, compare their SHA256 digests
20052 and Ed25519 signing key certificates with the routerinfo that led
20053 us to fetch them, rather than with the most recent routerinfo.
20054 Otherwise we generate many spurious warnings about mismatches.
20055 Fixes bug 17150; bugfix on 0.2.7.2-alpha.
20057 o Minor bugfixes (logging):
20058 - When we can't generate a signing key because OfflineMasterKey is
20059 set, do not imply that we should have been able to load it. Fixes
20060 bug 18133; bugfix on 0.2.7.2-alpha.
20061 - Stop periodic_event_dispatch() from blasting twelve lines per
20062 second at loglevel debug. Fixes bug 18729; fix on 0.2.8.1-alpha.
20063 - When rejecting a misformed INTRODUCE2 cell, only log at
20064 PROTOCOL_WARN severity. Fixes bug 18761; bugfix on 0.2.8.2-alpha.
20066 o Minor bugfixes (pluggable transports):
20067 - Avoid reporting a spurious error when we decide that we don't need
20068 to terminate a pluggable transport because it has already exited.
20069 Fixes bug 18686; bugfix on 0.2.5.5-alpha.
20071 o Minor bugfixes (pointer arithmetic):
20072 - Fix a bug in memarea_alloc() that could have resulted in remote
20073 heap write access, if Tor had ever passed an unchecked size to
20074 memarea_alloc(). Fortunately, all the sizes we pass to
20075 memarea_alloc() are pre-checked to be less than 128 kilobytes.
20076 Fixes bug 19150; bugfix on 0.2.1.1-alpha. Bug found by
20079 o Minor bugfixes (relays):
20080 - Consider more config options when relays decide whether to
20081 regenerate their descriptor. Fixes more of bug 12538; bugfix
20083 - Resolve some edge cases where we might launch an ORPort
20084 reachability check even when DisableNetwork is set. Noticed while
20085 fixing bug 18616; bugfix on 0.2.3.9-alpha.
20087 o Minor bugfixes (statistics):
20088 - We now include consensus downloads via IPv6 in our directory-
20089 request statistics. Fixes bug 18460; bugfix on 0.2.3.14-alpha.
20091 o Minor bugfixes (testing):
20092 - Allow directories in small networks to bootstrap by skipping
20093 DirPort checks when the consensus has no exits. Fixes bug 19003;
20094 bugfix on 0.2.8.1-alpha. Patch by teor.
20095 - Fix a small memory leak that would occur when the
20096 TestingEnableCellStatsEvent option was turned on. Fixes bug 18673;
20097 bugfix on 0.2.5.2-alpha.
20099 o Minor bugfixes (time handling):
20100 - When correcting a corrupt 'struct tm' value, fill in the tm_wday
20101 field. Otherwise, our unit tests crash on Windows. Fixes bug
20102 18977; bugfix on 0.2.2.25-alpha.
20105 - Document the contents of the 'datadir/keys' subdirectory in the
20106 manual page. Closes ticket 17621.
20107 - Stop recommending use of nicknames to identify relays in our
20108 MapAddress documentation. Closes ticket 18312.
20111 Changes in version 0.2.8.2-alpha - 2016-03-28
20112 Tor 0.2.8.2-alpha is the second alpha in its series. It fixes numerous
20113 bugs in earlier versions of Tor, including some that prevented
20114 authorities using Tor 0.2.7.x from running correctly. IPv6 and
20115 directory support should also be much improved.
20117 o New system requirements:
20118 - Tor no longer supports versions of OpenSSL with a broken
20119 implementation of counter mode. (This bug was present in OpenSSL
20120 1.0.0, and was fixed in OpenSSL 1.0.0a.) Tor still detects, but no
20121 longer runs with, these versions.
20122 - Tor no longer attempts to support platforms where the "time_t"
20123 type is unsigned. (To the best of our knowledge, only OpenVMS does
20124 this, and Tor has never actually built on OpenVMS.) Closes
20126 - Tor now uses Autoconf version 2.63 or later, and Automake 1.11 or
20127 later (released in 2008 and 2009 respectively). If you are
20128 building Tor from the git repository instead of from the source
20129 distribution, and your tools are older than this, you will need to
20130 upgrade. Closes ticket 17732.
20132 o Major bugfixes (security, pointers):
20133 - Avoid a difficult-to-trigger heap corruption attack when extending
20134 a smartlist to contain over 16GB of pointers. Fixes bug 18162;
20135 bugfix on 0.1.1.11-alpha, which fixed a related bug incompletely.
20136 Reported by Guido Vranken.
20138 o Major bugfixes (bridges, pluggable transports):
20139 - Modify the check for OR connections to private addresses. Allow
20140 bridges on private addresses, including pluggable transports that
20141 ignore the (potentially private) address in the bridge line. Fixes
20142 bug 18517; bugfix on 0.2.8.1-alpha. Reported by gk, patch by teor.
20144 o Major bugfixes (compilation):
20145 - Repair hardened builds under the clang compiler. Previously, our
20146 use of _FORTIFY_SOURCE would conflict with clang's address
20147 sanitizer. Fixes bug 14821; bugfix on 0.2.5.4-alpha.
20149 o Major bugfixes (crash on shutdown):
20150 - Correctly handle detaching circuits from muxes when shutting down.
20151 Fixes bug 18116; bugfix on 0.2.8.1-alpha.
20152 - Fix an assert-on-exit bug related to counting memory usage in
20153 rephist.c. Fixes bug 18651; bugfix on 0.2.8.1-alpha.
20155 o Major bugfixes (crash on startup):
20156 - Fix a segfault during startup: If a Unix domain socket was
20157 configured as listener (such as a ControlSocket or a SocksPort
20158 "unix:" socket), and tor was started as root but not configured to
20159 switch to another user, tor would segfault while trying to string
20160 compare a NULL value. Fixes bug 18261; bugfix on 0.2.8.1-alpha.
20163 o Major bugfixes (dns proxy mode, crash):
20164 - Avoid crashing when running as a DNS proxy. Fixes bug 16248;
20165 bugfix on 0.2.0.1-alpha. Patch from "cypherpunks".
20167 o Major bugfixes (relays, bridge clients):
20168 - Ensure relays always allow IPv4 OR and Dir connections. Ensure
20169 bridge clients use the address configured in the bridge line.
20170 Fixes bug 18348; bugfix on 0.2.8.1-alpha. Reported by sysrqb,
20173 o Major bugfixes (voting):
20174 - Actually enable support for authorities to match routers by their
20175 Ed25519 identities. Previously, the code had been written, but
20176 some debugging code that had accidentally been left in the
20177 codebase made it stay turned off. Fixes bug 17702; bugfix
20179 - When collating votes by Ed25519 identities, authorities now
20180 include a "NoEdConsensus" flag if the ed25519 value (or lack
20181 thereof) for a server does not reflect the majority consensus.
20182 Related to bug 17668; bugfix on 0.2.7.2-alpha.
20183 - When generating a vote with keypinning disabled, never include two
20184 entries for the same ed25519 identity. This bug was causing
20185 authorities to generate votes that they could not parse when a
20186 router violated key pinning by changing its RSA identity but
20187 keeping its Ed25519 identity. Fixes bug 17668; fixes part of bug
20188 18318. Bugfix on 0.2.7.2-alpha.
20190 o Minor features (security, win32):
20191 - Set SO_EXCLUSIVEADDRUSE on Win32 to avoid a local port-stealing
20192 attack. Fixes bug 18123; bugfix on all tor versions. Patch
20195 o Minor features (bug-resistance):
20196 - Make Tor survive errors involving connections without a
20197 corresponding event object. Previously we'd fail with an
20198 assertion; now we produce a log message. Related to bug 16248.
20200 o Minor features (build):
20201 - Detect systems with FreeBSD-derived kernels (such as GNU/kFreeBSD)
20202 as having possible IPFW support. Closes ticket 18448. Patch from
20203 Steven Chamberlain.
20205 o Minor features (code hardening):
20206 - Use tor_snprintf() and tor_vsnprintf() even in external and low-
20207 level code, to harden against accidental failures to NUL-
20208 terminate. Part of ticket 17852. Patch from jsturgix. Found
20211 o Minor features (crypto):
20212 - Validate the hard-coded Diffie-Hellman parameters and ensure that
20213 p is a safe prime, and g is a suitable generator. Closes
20216 o Minor features (geoip):
20217 - Update geoip and geoip6 to the March 3 2016 Maxmind GeoLite2
20220 o Minor features (hidden service directory):
20221 - Streamline relay-side hsdir handling: when relays consider whether
20222 to accept an uploaded hidden service descriptor, they no longer
20223 check whether they are one of the relays in the network that is
20224 "supposed" to handle that descriptor. Implements ticket 18332.
20226 o Minor features (IPv6):
20227 - Add ClientPreferIPv6DirPort, which is set to 0 by default. If set
20228 to 1, tor prefers IPv6 directory addresses.
20229 - Add ClientUseIPv4, which is set to 1 by default. If set to 0, tor
20230 avoids using IPv4 for client OR and directory connections.
20231 - Try harder to obey the IP version restrictions "ClientUseIPv4 0",
20232 "ClientUseIPv6 0", "ClientPreferIPv6ORPort", and
20233 "ClientPreferIPv6DirPort". Closes ticket 17840; patch by teor.
20235 o Minor features (linux seccomp2 sandbox):
20236 - Reject attempts to change our Address with "Sandbox 1" enabled.
20237 Changing Address with Sandbox turned on would never actually work,
20238 but previously it would fail in strange and confusing ways. Found
20239 while fixing 18548.
20241 o Minor features (robustness):
20242 - Exit immediately with an error message if the code attempts to use
20243 Libevent without having initialized it. This should resolve some
20244 frequently-made mistakes in our unit tests. Closes ticket 18241.
20246 o Minor features (unix domain sockets):
20247 - Add a new per-socket option, RelaxDirModeCheck, to allow creating
20248 Unix domain sockets without checking the permissions on the parent
20249 directory. (Tor checks permissions by default because some
20250 operating systems only check permissions on the parent directory.
20251 However, some operating systems do look at permissions on the
20252 socket, and tor's default check is unneeded.) Closes ticket 18458.
20255 o Minor bugfixes (exit policies, security):
20256 - Refresh an exit relay's exit policy when interface addresses
20257 change. Previously, tor only refreshed the exit policy when the
20258 configured external address changed. Fixes bug 18208; bugfix on
20259 0.2.7.3-rc. Patch by teor.
20261 o Minor bugfixes (security, hidden services):
20262 - Prevent hidden services connecting to client-supplied rendezvous
20263 addresses that are reserved as internal or multicast. Fixes bug
20264 8976; bugfix on 0.2.3.21-rc. Patch by dgoulet and teor.
20266 o Minor bugfixes (build):
20267 - Do not link the unit tests against both the testing and non-
20268 testing versions of the static libraries. Fixes bug 18490; bugfix
20270 - Avoid spurious failures from configure files related to calling
20271 exit(0) in TOR_SEARCH_LIBRARY. Fixes bug 18626; bugfix on
20272 0.2.0.1-alpha. Patch from "cypherpunks".
20273 - Silence spurious clang-scan warnings in the ed25519_donna code by
20274 explicitly initializing some objects. Fixes bug 18384; bugfix on
20275 0.2.7.2-alpha. Patch by teor.
20277 o Minor bugfixes (client, bootstrap):
20278 - Count receipt of new microdescriptors as progress towards
20279 bootstrapping. Previously, with EntryNodes set, Tor might not
20280 successfully repopulate the guard set on bootstrapping. Fixes bug
20281 16825; bugfix on 0.2.3.1-alpha.
20283 o Minor bugfixes (code correctness):
20284 - Update to the latest version of Trunnel, which tries harder to
20285 avoid generating code that can invoke memcpy(p,NULL,0). Bug found
20286 by clang address sanitizer. Fixes bug 18373; bugfix
20289 o Minor bugfixes (configuration):
20290 - Fix a tiny memory leak when parsing a port configuration ending in
20291 ":auto". Fixes bug 18374; bugfix on 0.2.3.3-alpha.
20293 o Minor bugfixes (containers):
20294 - If we somehow attempt to construct a heap with more than
20295 1073741822 elements, avoid an integer overflow when maintaining
20296 the heap property. Fixes bug 18296; bugfix on 0.1.2.1-alpha.
20298 o Minor bugfixes (correctness):
20299 - Fix a bad memory handling bug that would occur if we had queued a
20300 cell on a channel's incoming queue. Fortunately, we can't actually
20301 queue a cell like that as our code is constructed today, but it's
20302 best to avoid this kind of error, even if there isn't any code
20303 that triggers it today. Fixes bug 18570; bugfix on 0.2.4.4-alpha.
20305 o Minor bugfixes (directory):
20306 - When generating a URL for a directory server on an IPv6 address,
20307 wrap the IPv6 address in square brackets. Fixes bug 18051; bugfix
20308 on 0.2.3.9-alpha. Patch from Malek.
20310 o Minor bugfixes (fallback directory mirrors):
20311 - When requesting extrainfo descriptors from a trusted directory
20312 server, check whether it is an authority or a fallback directory
20313 which supports extrainfo descriptors. Fixes bug 18489; bugfix on
20314 0.2.4.7-alpha. Reported by atagar, patch by teor.
20316 o Minor bugfixes (hidden service, client):
20317 - Handle the case where the user makes several fast consecutive
20318 requests to the same .onion address. Previously, the first six
20319 requests would each trigger a descriptor fetch, each picking a
20320 directory (there are 6 overall) and the seventh one would fail
20321 because no directories were left, thereby triggering a close on
20322 all current directory connections asking for the hidden service.
20323 The solution here is to not close the connections if we have
20324 pending directory fetches. Fixes bug 15937; bugfix
20327 o Minor bugfixes (hidden service, control port):
20328 - Add the onion address to the HS_DESC event for the UPLOADED action
20329 both on success or failure. It was previously hardcoded with
20330 UNKNOWN. Fixes bug 16023; bugfix on 0.2.7.2-alpha.
20332 o Minor bugfixes (hidden service, directory):
20333 - Bridges now refuse "rendezvous2" (hidden service descriptor)
20334 publish attempts. Suggested by ticket 18332.
20336 o Minor bugfixes (linux seccomp2 sandbox):
20337 - Allow the setrlimit syscall, and the prlimit and prlimit64
20338 syscalls, which some libc implementations use under the hood.
20339 Fixes bug 15221; bugfix on 0.2.5.1-alpha.
20340 - Avoid a 10-second delay when starting as a client with "Sandbox 1"
20341 enabled and no DNS resolvers configured. This should help TAILS
20342 start up faster. Fixes bug 18548; bugfix on 0.2.5.1-alpha.
20343 - Fix the sandbox's interoperability with unix domain sockets under
20344 setuid. Fixes bug 18253; bugfix on 0.2.8.1-alpha.
20346 o Minor bugfixes (logging):
20347 - When logging information about an unparsable networkstatus vote or
20348 consensus, do not say "vote" when we mean consensus. Fixes bug
20349 18368; bugfix on 0.2.0.8-alpha.
20350 - Scrub service name in "unrecognized service ID" log messages.
20351 Fixes bug 18600; bugfix on 0.2.4.11-alpha.
20352 - Downgrade logs and backtraces about IP versions to info-level.
20353 Only log backtraces once each time tor runs. Assists in diagnosing
20354 bug 18351; bugfix on 0.2.8.1-alpha. Reported by sysrqb and
20355 Christian, patch by teor.
20357 o Minor bugfixes (memory safety):
20358 - Avoid freeing an uninitialized pointer when opening a socket fails
20359 in get_interface_addresses_ioctl(). Fixes bug 18454; bugfix on
20360 0.2.3.11-alpha. Reported by toralf and "cypherpunks", patch
20362 - Correctly duplicate addresses in get_interface_address6_list().
20363 Fixes bug 18454; bugfix on 0.2.8.1-alpha. Reported by toralf,
20364 patch by "cypherpunks".
20365 - Fix a memory leak in tor-gencert. Fixes part of bug 18672; bugfix
20367 - Fix a memory leak in "tor --list-fingerprint". Fixes part of bug
20368 18672; bugfix on 0.2.5.1-alpha.
20370 o Minor bugfixes (private directory):
20371 - Prevent a race condition when creating private directories. Fixes
20372 part of bug 17852; bugfix on 0.0.2pre13. Part of ticket 17852.
20373 Patch from jsturgix. Found with Flawfinder.
20375 o Minor bugfixes (test networks, IPv6):
20376 - Allow internal IPv6 addresses in descriptors in test networks.
20377 Fixes bug 17153; bugfix on 0.2.3.16-alpha. Patch by teor, reported
20380 o Minor bugfixes (testing):
20381 - We no longer disable assertions in the unit tests when coverage is
20382 enabled. Instead, we require you to say --disable-asserts-in-tests
20383 to the configure script if you need assertions disabled in the
20384 unit tests (for example, if you want to perform branch coverage).
20385 Fixes bug 18242; bugfix on 0.2.7.1-alpha.
20387 o Minor bugfixes (time parsing):
20388 - Avoid overflow in tor_timegm when parsing dates in and after 2038
20389 on platforms with 32-bit time_t. Fixes bug 18479; bugfix on
20390 0.0.2pre14. Patch by teor.
20392 o Minor bugfixes (tor-gencert):
20393 - Correctly handle the case where an authority operator enters a
20394 passphrase but sends an EOF before sending a newline. Fixes bug
20395 17443; bugfix on 0.2.0.20-rc. Found by junglefowl.
20397 o Code simplification and refactoring:
20398 - Quote all the string interpolations in configure.ac -- even those
20399 which we are pretty sure can't contain spaces. Closes ticket
20400 17744. Patch from zerosion.
20401 - Remove specialized code for non-inplace AES_CTR. 99% of our AES is
20402 inplace, so there's no need to have a separate implementation for
20403 the non-inplace code. Closes ticket 18258. Patch from Malek.
20404 - Simplify return types for some crypto functions that can't
20405 actually fail. Patch from Hassan Alsibyani. Closes ticket 18259.
20408 - Change build messages to refer to "Fedora" instead of "Fedora
20409 Core", and "dnf" instead of "yum". Closes tickets 18459 and 18426.
20410 Patches from "icanhasaccount" and "cypherpunks".
20412 o Removed features:
20413 - We no longer maintain an internal freelist in memarea.c.
20414 Allocators should be good enough to make this code unnecessary,
20415 and it's doubtful that it ever had any performance benefit.
20418 - Fix several warnings from clang's address sanitizer produced in
20420 - Treat backtrace test failures as expected on FreeBSD until we
20421 solve bug 17808. Closes ticket 18204.
20424 Changes in version 0.2.8.1-alpha - 2016-02-04
20425 Tor 0.2.8.1-alpha is the first alpha release in its series. It
20426 includes numerous small features and bugfixes against previous Tor
20427 versions, and numerous small infrastructure improvements. The most
20428 notable features are a set of improvements to the directory subsystem.
20430 o Major features (security, Linux):
20431 - When Tor starts as root on Linux and is told to switch user ID, it
20432 can now retain the capability to bind to low ports. By default,
20433 Tor will do this only when it's switching user ID and some low
20434 ports have been configured. You can change this behavior with the
20435 new option KeepBindCapabilities. Closes ticket 8195.
20437 o Major features (directory system):
20438 - When bootstrapping multiple consensus downloads at a time, use the
20439 first one that starts downloading, and close the rest. This
20440 reduces failures when authorities or fallback directories are slow
20441 or down. Together with the code for feature 15775, this feature
20442 should reduces failures due to fallback churn. Implements ticket
20443 4483. Patch by "teor". Implements IPv4 portions of proposal 210 by
20444 "mikeperry" and "teor".
20445 - Include a trial list of 21 default fallback directories, generated
20446 in January 2016, based on an opt-in survey of suitable relays.
20447 Doing this should make clients bootstrap more quickly and reliably,
20448 and reduce the load on the directory authorities. Closes ticket
20449 15775. Patch by "teor".
20450 Candidates identified using an OnionOO script by "weasel", "teor",
20451 "gsathya", and "karsten".
20452 - Previously only relays that explicitly opened a directory port
20453 (DirPort) accepted directory requests from clients. Now all
20454 relays, with and without a DirPort, accept and serve tunneled
20455 directory requests that they receive through their ORPort. You can
20456 disable this behavior using the new DirCache option. Closes
20459 o Major key updates:
20460 - Update the V3 identity key for the dannenberg directory authority:
20461 it was changed on 18 November 2015. Closes task 17906. Patch
20464 o Minor features (security, clock):
20465 - Warn when the system clock appears to move back in time (when the
20466 state file was last written in the future). Tor doesn't know that
20467 consensuses have expired if the clock is in the past. Patch by
20468 "teor". Implements ticket 17188.
20470 o Minor features (security, exit policies):
20471 - ExitPolicyRejectPrivate now rejects more private addresses by
20472 default. Specifically, it now rejects the relay's outbound bind
20473 addresses (if configured), and the relay's configured port
20474 addresses (such as ORPort and DirPort). Fixes bug 17027; bugfix on
20475 0.2.0.11-alpha. Patch by "teor".
20477 o Minor features (security, memory erasure):
20478 - Set the unused entries in a smartlist to NULL. This helped catch
20479 a (harmless) bug, and shouldn't affect performance too much.
20480 Implements ticket 17026.
20481 - Use SecureMemoryWipe() function to securely clean memory on
20482 Windows. Previously we'd use OpenSSL's OPENSSL_cleanse() function.
20483 Implements feature 17986.
20484 - Use explicit_bzero or memset_s when present. Previously, we'd use
20485 OpenSSL's OPENSSL_cleanse() function. Closes ticket 7419; patches
20486 from <logan@hackers.mu> and <selven@hackers.mu>.
20487 - Make memwipe() do nothing when passed a NULL pointer or buffer of
20488 zero size. Check size argument to memwipe() for underflow. Fixes
20489 bug 18089; bugfix on 0.2.3.25 and 0.2.4.6-alpha. Reported by "gk",
20492 o Minor features (security, RNG):
20493 - Adjust Tor's use of OpenSSL's RNG APIs so that they absolutely,
20494 positively are not allowed to fail. Previously we depended on
20495 internal details of OpenSSL's behavior. Closes ticket 17686.
20496 - Never use the system entropy output directly for anything besides
20497 seeding the PRNG. When we want to generate important keys, instead
20498 of using system entropy directly, we now hash it with the PRNG
20499 stream. This may help resist certain attacks based on broken OS
20500 entropy implementations. Closes part of ticket 17694.
20501 - Use modern system calls (like getentropy() or getrandom()) to
20502 generate strong entropy on platforms that have them. Closes
20505 o Minor features (accounting):
20506 - Added two modes to the AccountingRule option: One for limiting
20507 only the number of bytes sent ("AccountingRule out"), and one for
20508 limiting only the number of bytes received ("AccountingRule in").
20509 Closes ticket 15989; patch from "unixninja92".
20511 o Minor features (build):
20512 - Since our build process now uses "make distcheck", we no longer
20513 force "make dist" to depend on "make check". Closes ticket 17893;
20514 patch from "cypherpunks."
20515 - Tor now builds successfully with the recent OpenSSL 1.1
20516 development branch, and with the latest LibreSSL. Closes tickets
20517 17549, 17921, and 17984.
20519 o Minor features (controller):
20520 - Adds the FallbackDir entries to 'GETINFO config/defaults'. Closes
20521 tickets 16774 and 17817. Patch by George Tankersley.
20522 - New 'GETINFO hs/service/desc/id/' command to retrieve a hidden
20523 service descriptor from a service's local hidden service
20524 descriptor cache. Closes ticket 14846.
20525 - Add 'GETINFO exit-policy/reject-private/[default,relay]', so
20526 controllers can examine the the reject rules added by
20527 ExitPolicyRejectPrivate. This makes it easier for stem to display
20530 o Minor features (crypto):
20531 - Add SHA512 support to crypto.c. Closes ticket 17663; patch from
20533 - Add SHA3 and SHAKE support to crypto.c. Closes ticket 17783.
20534 - When allocating a digest state object, allocate no more space than
20535 we actually need. Previously, we would allocate as much space as
20536 the state for the largest algorithm would need. This change saves
20537 up to 672 bytes per circuit. Closes ticket 17796.
20538 - Improve performance when hashing non-multiple of 8 sized buffers,
20539 based on Andrew Moon's public domain SipHash-2-4 implementation.
20540 Fixes bug 17544; bugfix on 0.2.5.3-alpha.
20542 o Minor features (directory downloads):
20543 - Wait for busy authorities and fallback directories to become non-
20544 busy when bootstrapping. (A similar change was made in 6c443e987d
20545 for directory caches chosen from the consensus.) Closes ticket
20546 17864; patch by "teor".
20547 - Add UseDefaultFallbackDirs, which enables any hard-coded fallback
20548 directory mirrors. The default is 1; set it to 0 to disable
20549 fallbacks. Implements ticket 17576. Patch by "teor".
20551 o Minor features (geoip):
20552 - Update geoip and geoip6 to the January 5 2016 Maxmind GeoLite2
20555 o Minor features (IPv6):
20556 - Add an argument 'ipv6=address:orport' to the DirAuthority and
20557 FallbackDir torrc options, to specify an IPv6 address for an
20558 authority or fallback directory. Add hard-coded ipv6 addresses for
20559 directory authorities that have them. Closes ticket 17327; patch
20560 from Nick Mathewson and "teor".
20561 - Add address policy assume_action support for IPv6 addresses.
20562 - Limit IPv6 mask bits to 128.
20563 - Warn when comparing against an AF_UNSPEC address in a policy, it's
20564 almost always a bug. Closes ticket 17863; patch by "teor".
20565 - Allow users to configure directory authorities and fallback
20566 directory servers with IPv6 addresses and ORPorts. Resolves
20568 - routerset_parse now accepts IPv6 literal addresses. Fixes bug
20569 17060; bugfix on 0.2.1.3-alpha. Patch by "teor".
20570 - Make tor_ersatz_socketpair work on IPv6-only systems. Fixes bug
20571 17638; bugfix on 0.0.2pre8. Patch by "teor".
20573 o Minor features (logging):
20574 - When logging to syslog, allow a tag to be added to the syslog
20575 identity (the string prepended to every log message). The tag can
20576 be configured with SyslogIdentityTag and defaults to none. Setting
20577 it to "foo" will cause logs to be tagged as "Tor-foo". Closes
20580 o Minor features (portability):
20581 - Use timingsafe_memcmp() where available. Closes ticket 17944;
20582 patch from <logan@hackers.mu>.
20584 o Minor features (relay, address discovery):
20585 - Add a family argument to get_interface_addresses_raw() and
20586 subfunctions to make network interface address interogation more
20587 efficient. Now Tor can specifically ask for IPv4, IPv6 or both
20588 types of interfaces from the operating system. Resolves
20590 - When get_interface_address6_list(.,AF_UNSPEC,.) is called and
20591 fails to enumerate interface addresses using the platform-specific
20592 API, have it rely on the UDP socket fallback technique to try and
20593 find out what IP addresses (both IPv4 and IPv6) our machine has.
20594 Resolves ticket 17951.
20596 o Minor features (replay cache):
20597 - The replay cache now uses SHA256 instead of SHA1. Implements
20598 feature 8961. Patch by "teor", issue reported by "rransom".
20600 o Minor features (unix file permissions):
20601 - Defer creation of Unix sockets until after setuid. This avoids
20602 needing CAP_CHOWN and CAP_FOWNER when using systemd's
20603 CapabilityBoundingSet, or chown and fowner when using SELinux.
20604 Implements part of ticket 17562. Patch from Jamie Nguyen.
20605 - If any directory created by Tor is marked as group readable, the
20606 filesystem group is allowed to be either the default GID or the
20607 root user. Allowing root to read the DataDirectory prevents the
20608 need for CAP_READ_SEARCH when using systemd's
20609 CapabilityBoundingSet, or dac_read_search when using SELinux.
20610 Implements part of ticket 17562. Patch from Jamie Nguyen.
20611 - Introduce a new DataDirectoryGroupReadable option. If it is set to
20612 1, the DataDirectory will be made readable by the default GID.
20613 Implements part of ticket 17562. Patch from Jamie Nguyen.
20615 o Minor bugfixes (accounting):
20616 - The max bandwidth when using 'AccountRule sum' is now correctly
20617 logged. Fixes bug 18024; bugfix on 0.2.6.1-alpha. Patch
20618 from "unixninja92".
20620 o Minor bugfixes (code correctness):
20621 - When closing an entry connection, generate a warning if we should
20622 have sent an end cell for it but we haven't. Fixes bug 17876;
20623 bugfix on 0.2.3.2-alpha.
20624 - Assert that allocated memory held by the reputation code is freed
20625 according to its internal counters. Fixes bug 17753; bugfix
20627 - Assert when the TLS contexts fail to initialize. Fixes bug 17683;
20630 o Minor bugfixes (compilation):
20631 - Mark all object files that include micro-revision.i as depending
20632 on it, so as to make parallel builds more reliable. Fixes bug
20633 17826; bugfix on 0.2.5.1-alpha.
20634 - Don't try to use the pthread_condattr_setclock() function unless
20635 it actually exists. Fixes compilation on NetBSD-6.x. Fixes bug
20636 17819; bugfix on 0.2.6.3-alpha.
20637 - Fix backtrace compilation on FreeBSD. Fixes bug 17827; bugfix
20639 - Fix compilation of sandbox.c with musl-libc. Fixes bug 17347;
20640 bugfix on 0.2.5.1-alpha. Patch from 'jamestk'.
20641 - Fix search for libevent libraries on OpenBSD (and other systems
20642 that install libevent 1 and libevent 2 in parallel). Fixes bug
20643 16651; bugfix on 0.1.0.7-rc. Patch from "rubiate".
20644 - Isolate environment variables meant for tests from the rest of the
20645 build system. Fixes bug 17818; bugfix on 0.2.7.3-rc.
20646 - Replace usage of 'INLINE' with 'inline'. Fixes bug 17804; bugfix
20648 - Remove config.log only from make distclean, not from make clean.
20649 Fixes bug 17924; bugfix on 0.2.4.1-alpha.
20651 o Minor bugfixes (crypto):
20652 - Check the return value of HMAC() and assert on failure. Fixes bug
20653 17658; bugfix on 0.2.3.6-alpha. Patch by "teor".
20655 o Minor bugfixes (fallback directories):
20656 - Mark fallbacks as "too busy" when they return a 503 response,
20657 rather than just marking authorities. Fixes bug 17572; bugfix on
20658 0.2.4.7-alpha. Patch by "teor".
20660 o Minor bugfixes (IPv6):
20661 - Update the limits in max_dl_per_request for IPv6 address length.
20662 Fixes bug 17573; bugfix on 0.2.1.5-alpha.
20664 o Minor bugfixes (linux seccomp2 sandbox):
20665 - Fix a crash when using offline master ed25519 keys with the Linux
20666 seccomp2 sandbox enabled. Fixes bug 17675; bugfix on 0.2.7.3-rc.
20668 o Minor bugfixes (logging):
20669 - In log messages that include a function name, use __FUNCTION__
20670 instead of __PRETTY_FUNCTION__. In GCC, these are synonymous, but
20671 with clang __PRETTY_FUNCTION__ has extra information we don't
20672 need. Fixes bug 16563; bugfix on 0.0.2pre8. Fix by Tom van
20674 - Remove needless quotes from a log message about unparseable
20675 addresses. Fixes bug 17843; bugfix on 0.2.3.3-alpha.
20677 o Minor bugfixes (portability):
20678 - Remove an #endif from configure.ac so that we correctly detect the
20679 presence of in6_addr.s6_addr32. Fixes bug 17923; bugfix
20682 o Minor bugfixes (relays):
20683 - Check that both the ORPort and DirPort (if present) are reachable
20684 before publishing a relay descriptor. Otherwise, relays publish a
20685 descriptor with DirPort 0 when the DirPort reachability test takes
20686 longer than the ORPort reachability test. Fixes bug 18050; bugfix
20687 on 0.1.0.1-rc. Reported by "starlight", patch by "teor".
20689 o Minor bugfixes (relays, hidden services):
20690 - Refuse connection requests to private OR addresses unless
20691 ExtendAllowPrivateAddresses is set. Previously, tor would connect,
20692 then refuse to send any cells to a private address. Fixes bugs
20693 17674 and 8976; bugfix on 0.2.3.21-rc. Patch by "teor".
20695 o Minor bugfixes (safe logging):
20696 - When logging a malformed hostname received through socks4, scrub
20697 it if SafeLogging says we should. Fixes bug 17419; bugfix
20700 o Minor bugfixes (statistics code):
20701 - Consistently check for overflow in round_*_to_next_multiple_of
20702 functions, and add unit tests with additional and maximal values.
20703 Fixes part of bug 13192; bugfix on 0.2.2.1-alpha.
20704 - Handle edge cases in the laplace functions: avoid division by
20705 zero, avoid taking the log of zero, and silence clang type
20706 conversion warnings using round and trunc. Add unit tests for edge
20707 cases with maximal values. Fixes part of bug 13192; bugfix
20710 o Minor bugfixes (testing):
20711 - The test for log_heartbeat was incorrectly failing in timezones
20712 with non-integer offsets. Instead of comparing the end of the time
20713 string against a constant, compare it to the output of
20714 format_local_iso_time when given the correct input. Fixes bug
20715 18039; bugfix on 0.2.5.4-alpha.
20716 - Make unit tests pass on IPv6-only systems, and systems without
20717 localhost addresses (like some FreeBSD jails). Fixes bug 17632;
20718 bugfix on 0.2.7.3-rc. Patch by "teor".
20719 - Fix a memory leak in the ntor test. Fixes bug 17778; bugfix
20721 - Check the full results of SHA256 and SHA512 digests in the unit
20722 tests. Bugfix on 0.2.2.4-alpha. Patch by "teor".
20724 o Code simplification and refactoring:
20725 - Move logging of redundant policy entries in
20726 policies_parse_exit_policy_internal into its own function. Closes
20727 ticket 17608; patch from "juce".
20728 - Extract the more complicated parts of circuit_mark_for_close()
20729 into a new function that we run periodically before circuits are
20730 freed. This change removes more than half of the functions
20731 currently in the "blob". Closes ticket 17218.
20732 - Clean up a little duplicated code in
20733 crypto_expand_key_material_TAP(). Closes ticket 17587; patch
20735 - Decouple the list of streams waiting to be attached to circuits
20736 from the overall connection list. This change makes it possible to
20737 attach streams quickly while simplifying Tor's callgraph and
20738 avoiding O(N) scans of the entire connection list. Closes
20740 - When a direct directory request fails immediately on launch,
20741 instead of relaunching that request from inside the code that
20742 launches it, instead mark the connection for teardown. This change
20743 simplifies Tor's callback and prevents the directory-request
20744 launching code from invoking itself recursively. Closes
20746 - Remove code for configuring OpenSSL dynamic locks; OpenSSL doesn't
20747 use them. Closes ticket 17926.
20750 - Add a description of the correct use of the '--keygen' command-
20751 line option. Closes ticket 17583; based on text by 's7r'.
20752 - Document the minimum HeartbeatPeriod value. Closes ticket 15638.
20753 - Explain actual minima for BandwidthRate. Closes ticket 16382.
20754 - Fix a minor formatting typo in the manpage. Closes ticket 17791.
20755 - Mention torspec URL in the manpage and point the reader to it
20756 whenever we mention a document that belongs in torspce. Fixes
20759 o Removed features:
20760 - Remove client-side support for connecting to Tor relays running
20761 versions of Tor before 0.2.3.6-alpha. These relays didn't support
20762 the v3 TLS handshake protocol, and are no longer allowed on the
20763 Tor network. Implements the client side of ticket 11150. Based on
20764 patches by Tom van der Woerdt.
20767 - Add unit tests to check for common RNG failure modes, such as
20768 returning all zeroes, identical values, or incrementing values
20769 (OpenSSL's rand_predictable feature). Patch by "teor".
20770 - Log more information when the backtrace tests fail. Closes ticket
20771 17892. Patch from "cypherpunks."
20772 - Always test both ed25519 backends, so that we can be sure that our
20773 batch-open replacement code works. Part of ticket 16794.
20774 - Cover dns_resolve_impl() in dns.c with unit tests. Implements a
20775 portion of ticket 16831.
20776 - More unit tests for compat_libevent.c, procmon.c, tortls.c,
20777 util_format.c, directory.c, and options_validate.c. Closes tickets
20778 17075, 17082, 17084, 17003, and 17076 respectively. Patches from
20780 - Unit tests for directory_handle_command_get. Closes ticket 17004.
20781 Patch from Reinaldo de Souza Jr.
20784 Changes in version 0.2.7.6 - 2015-12-10
20785 Tor version 0.2.7.6 fixes a major bug in entry guard selection, as
20786 well as a minor bug in hidden service reliability.
20788 o Major bugfixes (guard selection):
20789 - Actually look at the Guard flag when selecting a new directory
20790 guard. When we implemented the directory guard design, we
20791 accidentally started treating all relays as if they have the Guard
20792 flag during guard selection, leading to weaker anonymity and worse
20793 performance. Fixes bug 17772; bugfix on 0.2.4.8-alpha. Discovered
20796 o Minor features (geoip):
20797 - Update geoip and geoip6 to the December 1 2015 Maxmind GeoLite2
20800 o Minor bugfixes (compilation):
20801 - When checking for net/pfvar.h, include netinet/in.h if possible.
20802 This fixes transparent proxy detection on OpenBSD. Fixes bug
20803 17551; bugfix on 0.1.2.1-alpha. Patch from "rubiate".
20804 - Fix a compilation warning with Clang 3.6: Do not check the
20805 presence of an address which can never be NULL. Fixes bug 17781.
20807 o Minor bugfixes (correctness):
20808 - When displaying an IPv6 exit policy, include the mask bits
20809 correctly even when the number is greater than 31. Fixes bug
20810 16056; bugfix on 0.2.4.7-alpha. Patch from "gturner".
20811 - The wrong list was used when looking up expired intro points in a
20812 rend service object, causing what we think could be reachability
20813 issues for hidden services, and triggering a BUG log. Fixes bug
20814 16702; bugfix on 0.2.7.2-alpha.
20815 - Fix undefined behavior in the tor_cert_checksig function. Fixes
20816 bug 17722; bugfix on 0.2.7.2-alpha.
20819 Changes in version 0.2.7.5 - 2015-11-20
20820 The Tor 0.2.7 release series is dedicated to the memory of Tor user
20821 and privacy advocate Caspar Bowden (1961-2015). Caspar worked
20822 tirelessly to advocate human rights regardless of national borders,
20823 and oppose the encroachments of mass surveillance. He opposed national
20824 exceptionalism, he brought clarity to legal and policy debates, he
20825 understood and predicted the impact of mass surveillance on the world,
20826 and he laid the groundwork for resisting it. While serving on the Tor
20827 Project's board of directors, he brought us his uncompromising focus
20828 on technical excellence in the service of humankind. Caspar was an
20829 inimitable force for good and a wonderful friend. He was kind,
20830 humorous, generous, gallant, and believed we should protect one
20831 another without exception. We honor him here for his ideals, his
20832 efforts, and his accomplishments. Please honor his memory with works
20833 that would make him proud.
20835 Tor 0.2.7.5 is the first stable release in the Tor 0.2.7 series.
20837 The 0.2.7 series adds a more secure identity key type for relays,
20838 improves cryptography performance, resolves several longstanding
20839 hidden-service performance issues, improves controller support for
20840 hidden services, and includes small bugfixes and performance
20841 improvements throughout the program. This release series also includes
20842 more tests than before, and significant simplifications to which parts
20843 of Tor invoke which others.
20845 (This release contains no code changes since 0.2.7.4-rc.)
20848 Changes in version 0.2.7.4-rc - 2015-10-21
20849 Tor 0.2.7.4-rc is the second release candidate in the 0.2.7 series. It
20850 fixes some important memory leaks, and a scary-looking (but mostly
20851 harmless in practice) invalid-read bug. It also has a few small
20852 bugfixes, notably fixes for compilation and portability on different
20853 platforms. If no further significant bounds are found, the next
20854 release will the the official stable release.
20856 o Major bugfixes (security, correctness):
20857 - Fix an error that could cause us to read 4 bytes before the
20858 beginning of an openssl string. This bug could be used to cause
20859 Tor to crash on systems with unusual malloc implementations, or
20860 systems with unusual hardening installed. Fixes bug 17404; bugfix
20863 o Major bugfixes (correctness):
20864 - Fix a use-after-free bug in validate_intro_point_failure(). Fixes
20865 bug 17401; bugfix on 0.2.7.3-rc.
20867 o Major bugfixes (memory leaks):
20868 - Fix a memory leak in ed25519 batch signature checking. Fixes bug
20869 17398; bugfix on 0.2.6.1-alpha.
20870 - Fix a memory leak in rend_cache_failure_entry_free(). Fixes bug
20871 17402; bugfix on 0.2.7.3-rc.
20872 - Fix a memory leak when reading an expired signing key from disk.
20873 Fixes bug 17403; bugfix on 0.2.7.2-rc.
20875 o Minor features (geoIP):
20876 - Update geoip and geoip6 to the October 9 2015 Maxmind GeoLite2
20879 o Minor bugfixes (compilation):
20880 - Repair compilation with the most recent (unreleased, alpha)
20881 vesions of OpenSSL 1.1. Fixes part of ticket 17237.
20882 - Fix an integer overflow warning in test_crypto_slow.c. Fixes bug
20883 17251; bugfix on 0.2.7.2-alpha.
20884 - Fix compilation of sandbox.c with musl-libc. Fixes bug 17347;
20885 bugfix on 0.2.5.1-alpha. Patch from 'jamestk'.
20887 o Minor bugfixes (portability):
20888 - Use libexecinfo on FreeBSD to enable backtrace support. Fixes
20889 part of bug 17151; bugfix on 0.2.5.2-alpha. Patch from
20892 o Minor bugfixes (sandbox):
20893 - Add the "hidserv-stats" filename to our sandbox filter for the
20894 HiddenServiceStatistics option to work properly. Fixes bug 17354;
20895 bugfix on 0.2.6.2-alpha. Patch from David Goulet.
20897 o Minor bugfixes (testing):
20898 - Add unit tests for get_interface_address* failure cases. Fixes bug
20899 17173; bugfix on 0.2.7.3-rc. Patch by fk/teor.
20900 - Fix breakage when running 'make check' with BSD make. Fixes bug
20901 17154; bugfix on 0.2.7.3-rc. Patch by Marcin Cieślak.
20902 - Make the get_ifaddrs_* unit tests more tolerant of different
20903 network configurations. (Don't assume every test box has an IPv4
20904 address, and don't assume every test box has a non-localhost
20905 address.) Fixes bug 17255; bugfix on 0.2.7.3-rc. Patch by "teor".
20906 - Skip backtrace tests when backtrace support is not compiled in.
20907 Fixes part of bug 17151; bugfix on 0.2.7.1-alpha. Patch from
20911 - Fix capitalization of SOCKS in sample torrc. Closes ticket 15609.
20912 - Note that HiddenServicePorts can take a unix domain socket. Closes
20916 Changes in version 0.2.7.3-rc - 2015-09-25
20917 Tor 0.2.7.3-rc is the first release candidate in the 0.2.7 series. It
20918 contains numerous usability fixes for Ed25519 keys, safeguards against
20919 several misconfiguration problems, significant simplifications to
20920 Tor's callgraph, and numerous bugfixes and small features.
20922 This is the most tested release of Tor to date. The unit tests cover
20923 39.40% of the code, and the integration tests (accessible with "make
20924 test-full-online", requiring stem and chutney and a network
20925 connection) raise the coverage to 64.49%.
20927 o Major features (security, hidden services):
20928 - Hidden services, if using the EntryNodes option, are required to
20929 use more than one EntryNode, in order to avoid a guard discovery
20930 attack. (This would only affect people who had configured hidden
20931 services and manually specified the EntryNodes option with a
20932 single entry-node. The impact was that it would be easy to
20933 remotely identify the guard node used by such a hidden service.
20934 See ticket for more information.) Fixes ticket 14917.
20936 o Major features (Ed25519 keys, keypinning):
20937 - The key-pinning option on directory authorities is now advisory-
20938 only by default. In a future version, or when the AuthDirPinKeys
20939 option is set, pins are enforced again. Disabling key-pinning
20940 seemed like a good idea so that we can survive the fallout of any
20941 usability problems associated with Ed25519 keys. Closes
20944 o Major features (Ed25519 performance):
20945 - Improve the speed of Ed25519 operations and Curve25519 keypair
20946 generation when built targeting 32 bit x86 platforms with SSE2
20947 available. Implements ticket 16535.
20948 - Improve the runtime speed of Ed25519 signature verification by
20949 using Ed25519-donna's batch verification support. Implements
20952 o Major features (performance testing):
20953 - The test-network.sh script now supports performance testing.
20954 Requires corresponding chutney performance testing changes. Patch
20955 by "teor". Closes ticket 14175.
20957 o Major features (relay, Ed25519):
20958 - Significant usability improvements for Ed25519 key management. Log
20959 messages are better, and the code can recover from far more
20960 failure conditions. Thanks to "s7r" for reporting and diagnosing
20962 - Add a new OfflineMasterKey option to tell Tor never to try loading
20963 or generating a secret Ed25519 identity key. You can use this in
20964 combination with tor --keygen to manage offline and/or encrypted
20965 Ed25519 keys. Implements ticket 16944.
20966 - Add a --newpass option to allow changing or removing the
20967 passphrase of an encrypted key with tor --keygen. Implements part
20969 - On receiving a HUP signal, check to see whether the Ed25519
20970 signing key has changed, and reload it if so. Closes ticket 16790.
20972 o Major bugfixes (relay, Ed25519):
20973 - Avoid crashing on 'tor --keygen'. Fixes bug 16679; bugfix on
20974 0.2.7.2-alpha. Reported by "s7r".
20975 - Improve handling of expired signing keys with offline master keys.
20976 Fixes bug 16685; bugfix on 0.2.7.2-alpha. Reported by "s7r".
20978 o Minor features (client-side privacy):
20979 - New KeepAliveIsolateSOCKSAuth option to indefinitely extend circuit
20980 lifespan when IsolateSOCKSAuth and streams with SOCKS
20981 authentication are attached to the circuit. This allows
20982 applications like TorBrowser to manage circuit lifetime on their
20983 own. Implements feature 15482.
20984 - When logging malformed hostnames from SOCKS5 requests, respect
20985 SafeLogging configuration. Fixes bug 16891; bugfix on 0.1.1.16-rc.
20987 o Minor features (compilation):
20988 - Give a warning as early as possible when trying to build with an
20989 unsupported OpenSSL version. Closes ticket 16901.
20990 - Fail during configure if we're trying to build against an OpenSSL
20991 built without ECC support. Fixes bug 17109, bugfix on 0.2.7.1-alpha
20992 which started requiring ECC.
20994 o Minor features (geoip):
20995 - Update geoip and geoip6 to the September 3 2015 Maxmind GeoLite2
20998 o Minor features (hidden services):
20999 - Relays need to have the Fast flag to get the HSDir flag. As this
21000 is being written, we'll go from 2745 HSDirs down to 2342, a ~14%
21001 drop. This change should make some attacks against the hidden
21002 service directory system harder. Fixes ticket 15963.
21003 - Turn on hidden service statistics collection by setting the torrc
21004 option HiddenServiceStatistics to "1" by default. (This keeps
21005 track only of the fraction of traffic used by hidden services, and
21006 the total number of hidden services in existence.) Closes
21008 - Client now uses an introduction point failure cache to know when
21009 to fetch or keep a descriptor in their cache. Previously, failures
21010 were recorded implicitly, but not explicitly remembered. Closes
21013 o Minor features (testing, authorities, documentation):
21014 - New TestingDirAuthVote{Exit,Guard,HSDir}IsStrict flags to
21015 explicitly manage consensus flags in testing networks. Patch by
21016 "robgjansen", modified by "teor". Implements part of ticket 14882.
21018 o Minor bugfixes (security, exit policies):
21019 - ExitPolicyRejectPrivate now also rejects the relay's published
21020 IPv6 address (if any), and any publicly routable IPv4 or IPv6
21021 addresses on any local interfaces. ticket 17027. Patch by "teor".
21022 Fixes bug 17027; bugfix on 0.2.0.11-alpha.
21024 o Minor bug fixes (torrc exit policies):
21025 - In torrc, "accept6 *" and "reject6 *" ExitPolicy lines now only
21026 produce IPv6 wildcard addresses. Previously they would produce
21027 both IPv4 and IPv6 wildcard addresses. Patch by "teor". Fixes part
21028 of bug 16069; bugfix on 0.2.4.7-alpha.
21029 - When parsing torrc ExitPolicies, we now warn for a number of cases
21030 where the user's intent is likely to differ from Tor's actual
21031 behavior. These include: using an IPv4 address with an accept6 or
21032 reject6 line; using "private" on an accept6 or reject6 line; and
21033 including any ExitPolicy lines after accept *:* or reject *:*.
21034 Related to ticket 16069.
21035 - When parsing torrc ExitPolicies, we now issue an info-level
21036 message when expanding an "accept/reject *" line to include both
21037 IPv4 and IPv6 wildcard addresses. Related to ticket 16069.
21038 - In each instance above, usage advice is provided to avoid the
21039 message. Resolves ticket 16069. Patch by "teor". Fixes part of bug
21040 16069; bugfix on 0.2.4.7-alpha.
21042 o Minor bugfixes (authority):
21043 - Don't assign "HSDir" to a router if it isn't Valid and Running.
21044 Fixes bug 16524; bugfix on 0.2.7.2-alpha.
21045 - Downgrade log messages about Ed25519 key issues if they are in old
21046 cached router descriptors. Fixes part of bug 16286; bugfix
21048 - When we find an Ed25519 key issue in a cached descriptor, stop
21049 saying the descriptor was just "uploaded". Fixes another part of
21050 bug 16286; bugfix on 0.2.7.2-alpha.
21052 o Minor bugfixes (control port):
21053 - Repair a warning and a spurious result when getting the maximum
21054 number of file descriptors from the controller. Fixes bug 16697;
21055 bugfix on 0.2.7.2-alpha.
21057 o Minor bugfixes (correctness):
21058 - When calling channel_free_list(), avoid calling smartlist_remove()
21059 while inside a FOREACH loop. This partially reverts commit
21060 17356fe7fd96af where the correct SMARTLIST_DEL_CURRENT was
21061 incorrectly removed. Fixes bug 16924; bugfix on 0.2.4.4-alpha.
21063 o Minor bugfixes (documentation):
21064 - Advise users on how to configure separate IPv4 and IPv6 exit
21065 policies in the manpage and sample torrcs. Related to ticket 16069.
21066 - Fix the usage message of tor-resolve(1) so that it no longer lists
21067 the removed -F option. Fixes bug 16913; bugfix on 0.2.2.28-beta.
21068 - Fix an error in the manual page and comments for
21069 TestingDirAuthVoteHSDir[IsStrict], which suggested that a HSDir
21070 required "ORPort connectivity". While this is true, it is in no
21071 way unique to the HSDir flag. Of all the flags, only HSDirs need a
21072 DirPort configured in order for the authorities to assign that
21073 particular flag. Patch by "teor". Fixed as part of 14882; bugfix
21076 o Minor bugfixes (Ed25519):
21077 - Fix a memory leak when reading router descriptors with expired
21078 Ed25519 certificates. Fixes bug 16539; bugfix on 0.2.7.2-alpha.
21080 o Minor bugfixes (linux seccomp2 sandbox):
21081 - Allow bridge authorities to run correctly under the seccomp2
21082 sandbox. Fixes bug 16964; bugfix on 0.2.5.1-alpha.
21083 - Allow routers with ed25519 keys to run correctly under the
21084 seccomp2 sandbox. Fixes bug 16965; bugfix on 0.2.7.2-alpha.
21086 o Minor bugfixes (open file limit):
21087 - Fix set_max_file_descriptors() to set by default the max open file
21088 limit to the current limit when setrlimit() fails. Fixes bug
21089 16274; bugfix on 0.2.0.10-alpha. Patch by dgoulet.
21091 o Minor bugfixes (portability):
21092 - Try harder to normalize the exit status of the Tor process to the
21093 standard-provided range. Fixes bug 16975; bugfix on every version
21095 - Check correctly for Windows socket errors in the workqueue
21096 backend. Fixes bug 16741; bugfix on 0.2.6.3-alpha.
21097 - Fix the behavior of crypto_rand_time_range() when told to consider
21098 times before 1970. (These times were possible when running in a
21099 simulated network environment where time()'s output starts at
21100 zero.) Fixes bug 16980; bugfix on 0.2.7.1-alpha.
21101 - Restore correct operation of TLS client-cipher detection on
21102 OpenSSL 1.1. Fixes bug 14047; bugfix on 0.2.7.2-alpha.
21104 o Minor bugfixes (relay):
21105 - Ensure that worker threads actually exit when a fatal error or
21106 shutdown is indicated. This fix doesn't currently affect the
21107 behavior of Tor, because Tor workers never indicates fatal error
21108 or shutdown except in the unit tests. Fixes bug 16868; bugfix
21110 - Unblock threads before releasing the work queue mutex to ensure
21111 predictable scheduling behavior. Fixes bug 16644; bugfix
21114 o Code simplification and refactoring:
21115 - Change the function that's called when we need to retry all
21116 downloads so that it only reschedules the downloads to happen
21117 immediately, rather than launching them all at once itself. This
21118 further simplifies Tor's callgraph.
21119 - Move some format-parsing functions out of crypto.c and
21120 crypto_curve25519.c into crypto_format.c and/or util_format.c.
21121 - Move the client-only parts of init_keys() into a separate
21122 function. Closes ticket 16763.
21123 - Simplify the microdesc_free() implementation so that it no longer
21124 appears (to code analysis tools) to potentially invoke a huge
21125 suite of other microdesc functions.
21126 - Simply the control graph further by deferring the inner body of
21127 directory_all_unreachable() into a callback. Closes ticket 16762.
21128 - Treat the loss of an owning controller as equivalent to a SIGTERM
21129 signal. This removes a tiny amount of duplicated code, and
21130 simplifies our callgraph. Closes ticket 16788.
21131 - When generating an event to send to the controller, we no longer
21132 put the event over the network immediately. Instead, we queue
21133 these events, and use a Libevent callback to deliver them. This
21134 change simplifies Tor's callgraph by reducing the number of
21135 functions from which all other Tor functions are reachable. Closes
21137 - Wrap Windows-only C files inside '#ifdef _WIN32' so that tools
21138 that try to scan or compile every file on Unix won't decide that
21140 - Remove the unused "nulterminate" argument from buf_pullup().
21143 - Recommend a 40 GB example AccountingMax in torrc.sample rather
21144 than a 4 GB max. Closes ticket 16742.
21145 - Include the TUNING document in our source tarball. It is referred
21146 to in the ChangeLog and an error message. Fixes bug 16929; bugfix
21150 - The internal pure-C tor-fw-helper tool is now removed from the Tor
21151 distribution, in favor of the pure-Go clone available from
21152 https://gitweb.torproject.org/tor-fw-helper.git/ . The libraries
21153 used by the C tor-fw-helper are not, in our opinion, very
21154 confidence- inspiring in their secure-programming techniques.
21155 Closes ticket 13338.
21156 - Remove the code that would try to aggressively flush controller
21157 connections while writing to them. This code was introduced in
21158 0.1.2.7-alpha, in order to keep output buffers from exceeding
21159 their limits. But there is no longer a maximum output buffer size,
21160 and flushing data in this way caused some undesirable recursions
21161 in our call graph. Closes ticket 16480.
21164 - Make "bridges+hs" the default test network. This tests almost all
21165 tor functionality during make test-network, while allowing tests
21166 to succeed on non-IPv6 systems. Requires chutney commit 396da92 in
21167 test-network-bridges-hs. Closes tickets 16945 (tor) and 16946
21168 (chutney). Patches by "teor".
21169 - Autodetect CHUTNEY_PATH if the chutney and Tor sources are side-
21170 by-side in the same parent directory. Closes ticket 16903. Patch
21172 - Use environment variables rather than autoconf substitutions to
21173 send variables from the build system to the test scripts. This
21174 change should be easier to maintain, and cause 'make distcheck' to
21175 work better than before. Fixes bug 17148.
21176 - Add a new set of callgraph analysis scripts that use clang to
21177 produce a list of which Tor functions are reachable from which
21178 other Tor functions. We're planning to use these to help simplify
21179 our code structure by identifying illogical dependencies.
21180 - Add new 'test-full' and 'test-full-online' targets to run all
21181 tests, including integration tests with stem and chutney.
21182 - Make the test-workqueue test work on Windows by initializing the
21183 network before we begin.
21184 - New make target (make test-network-all) to run multiple applicable
21185 chutney test cases. Patch from Teor; closes 16953.
21186 - Unit test dns_resolve(), dns_clip_ttl() and dns_get_expiry_ttl()
21187 functions in dns.c. Implements a portion of ticket 16831.
21188 - When building Tor with testing coverage enabled, run Chutney tests
21189 (if any) using the 'tor-cov' coverage binary.
21190 - When running test-network or test-stem, check for the absence of
21191 stem/chutney before doing any build operations.
21194 Changes in version 0.2.7.2-alpha - 2015-07-27
21195 This, the second alpha in the Tor 0.2.7 series, has a number of new
21196 features, including a way to manually pick the number of introduction
21197 points for hidden services, and the much stronger Ed25519 signing key
21198 algorithm for regular Tor relays (including support for encrypted
21199 offline identity keys in the new algorithm).
21201 Support for Ed25519 on relays is currently limited to signing router
21202 descriptors; later alphas in this series will extend Ed25519 key
21203 support to more parts of the Tor protocol.
21205 o Major features (Ed25519 identity keys, Proposal 220):
21206 - All relays now maintain a stronger identity key, using the Ed25519
21207 elliptic curve signature format. This master key is designed so
21208 that it can be kept offline. Relays also generate an online
21209 signing key, and a set of other Ed25519 keys and certificates.
21210 These are all automatically regenerated and rotated as needed.
21211 Implements part of ticket 12498.
21212 - Directory authorities now vote on Ed25519 identity keys along with
21213 RSA1024 keys. Implements part of ticket 12498.
21214 - Directory authorities track which Ed25519 identity keys have been
21215 used with which RSA1024 identity keys, and do not allow them to
21216 vary freely. Implements part of ticket 12498.
21217 - Microdescriptors now include Ed25519 identity keys. Implements
21218 part of ticket 12498.
21219 - Add support for offline encrypted Ed25519 master keys. To use this
21220 feature on your tor relay, run "tor --keygen" to make a new master
21221 key (or to make a new signing key if you already have a master
21222 key). Closes ticket 13642.
21224 o Major features (Hidden services):
21225 - Add the torrc option HiddenServiceNumIntroductionPoints, to
21226 specify a fixed number of introduction points. Its maximum value
21227 is 10 and default is 3. Using this option can increase a hidden
21228 service's reliability under load, at the cost of making it more
21229 visible that the hidden service is facing extra load. Closes
21231 - Remove the adaptive algorithm for choosing the number of
21232 introduction points, which used to change the number of
21233 introduction points (poorly) depending on the number of
21234 connections the HS sees. Closes ticket 4862.
21236 o Major features (onion key cross-certification):
21237 - Relay descriptors now include signatures of their own identity
21238 keys, made using the TAP and ntor onion keys. These signatures
21239 allow relays to prove ownership of their own onion keys. Because
21240 of this change, microdescriptors will no longer need to include
21241 RSA identity keys. Implements proposal 228; closes ticket 12499.
21243 o Major features (performance):
21244 - Improve the runtime speed of Ed25519 operations by using the
21245 public-domain Ed25519-donna by Andrew M. ("floodyberry").
21246 Implements ticket 16467.
21247 - Improve the runtime speed of the ntor handshake by using an
21248 optimized curve25519 basepoint scalarmult implementation from the
21249 public-domain Ed25519-donna by Andrew M. ("floodyberry"), based on
21250 ideas by Adam Langley. Implements ticket 9663.
21252 o Major bugfixes (client-side privacy, also in 0.2.6.9):
21253 - Properly separate out each SOCKSPort when applying stream
21254 isolation. The error occurred because each port's session group
21255 was being overwritten by a default value when the listener
21256 connection was initialized. Fixes bug 16247; bugfix on
21257 0.2.6.3-alpha. Patch by "jojelino".
21259 o Major bugfixes (hidden service clients, stability, also in 0.2.6.10):
21260 - Stop refusing to store updated hidden service descriptors on a
21261 client. This reverts commit 9407040c59218 (which indeed fixed bug
21262 14219, but introduced a major hidden service reachability
21263 regression detailed in bug 16381). This is a temporary fix since
21264 we can live with the minor issue in bug 14219 (it just results in
21265 some load on the network) but the regression of 16381 is too much
21266 of a setback. First-round fix for bug 16381; bugfix
21269 o Major bugfixes (hidden services):
21270 - When cannibalizing a circuit for an introduction point, always
21271 extend to the chosen exit node (creating a 4 hop circuit).
21272 Previously Tor would use the current circuit exit node, which
21273 changed the original choice of introduction point, and could cause
21274 the hidden service to skip excluded introduction points or
21275 reconnect to a skipped introduction point. Fixes bug 16260; bugfix
21278 o Major bugfixes (open file limit):
21279 - The open file limit wasn't checked before calling
21280 tor_accept_socket_nonblocking(), which would make Tor exceed the
21281 limit. Now, before opening a new socket, Tor validates the open
21282 file limit just before, and if the max has been reached, return an
21283 error. Fixes bug 16288; bugfix on 0.1.1.1-alpha.
21285 o Major bugfixes (stability, also in 0.2.6.10):
21286 - Stop crashing with an assertion failure when parsing certain kinds
21287 of malformed or truncated microdescriptors. Fixes bug 16400;
21288 bugfix on 0.2.6.1-alpha. Found by "torkeln"; fix based on a patch
21289 by "cypherpunks_backup".
21290 - Stop random client-side assertion failures that could occur when
21291 connecting to a busy hidden service, or connecting to a hidden
21292 service while a NEWNYM is in progress. Fixes bug 16013; bugfix
21295 o Minor features (directory authorities, security, also in 0.2.6.9):
21296 - The HSDir flag given by authorities now requires the Stable flag.
21297 For the current network, this results in going from 2887 to 2806
21298 HSDirs. Also, it makes it harder for an attacker to launch a sybil
21299 attack by raising the effort for a relay to become Stable to
21300 require at the very least 7 days, while maintaining the 96 hours
21301 uptime requirement for HSDir. Implements ticket 8243.
21303 o Minor features (client):
21304 - Relax the validation of hostnames in SOCKS5 requests, allowing the
21305 character '_' to appear, in order to cope with domains observed in
21306 the wild that are serving non-RFC compliant records. Resolves
21308 - Relax the validation done to hostnames in SOCKS5 requests, and
21309 allow a single trailing '.' to cope with clients that pass FQDNs
21310 using that syntax to explicitly indicate that the domain name is
21311 fully-qualified. Fixes bug 16674; bugfix on 0.2.6.2-alpha.
21312 - Add GroupWritable and WorldWritable options to unix-socket based
21313 SocksPort and ControlPort options. These options apply to a single
21314 socket, and override {Control,Socks}SocketsGroupWritable. Closes
21317 o Minor features (control protocol):
21318 - Support network-liveness GETINFO key and NETWORK_LIVENESS event in
21319 the control protocol. Resolves ticket 15358.
21321 o Minor features (directory authorities):
21322 - Directory authorities no longer vote against the "Fast", "Stable",
21323 and "HSDir" flags just because they were going to vote against
21324 "Running": if the consensus turns out to be that the router was
21325 running, then the authority's vote should count. Patch from Peter
21326 Retzlaff; closes issue 8712.
21328 o Minor features (geoip, also in 0.2.6.10):
21329 - Update geoip to the June 3 2015 Maxmind GeoLite2 Country database.
21330 - Update geoip6 to the June 3 2015 Maxmind GeoLite2 Country database.
21332 o Minor features (hidden services):
21333 - Add the new options "HiddenServiceMaxStreams" and
21334 "HiddenServiceMaxStreamsCloseCircuit" to allow hidden services to
21335 limit the maximum number of simultaneous streams per circuit, and
21336 optionally tear down the circuit when the limit is exceeded. Part
21339 o Minor features (portability):
21340 - Use C99 variadic macros when the compiler is not GCC. This avoids
21341 failing compilations on MSVC, and fixes a log-file-based race
21342 condition in our old workarounds. Original patch from Gisle Vanem.
21344 o Minor bugfixes (compilation, also in 0.2.6.9):
21345 - Build with --enable-systemd correctly when libsystemd is
21346 installed, but systemd is not. Fixes bug 16164; bugfix on
21347 0.2.6.3-alpha. Patch from Peter Palfrader.
21349 o Minor bugfixes (controller):
21350 - Add the descriptor ID in each HS_DESC control event. It was
21351 missing, but specified in control-spec.txt. Fixes bug 15881;
21352 bugfix on 0.2.5.2-alpha.
21354 o Minor bugfixes (crypto error-handling, also in 0.2.6.10):
21355 - Check for failures from crypto_early_init, and refuse to continue.
21356 A previous typo meant that we could keep going with an
21357 uninitialized crypto library, and would have OpenSSL initialize
21358 its own PRNG. Fixes bug 16360; bugfix on 0.2.5.2-alpha, introduced
21359 when implementing ticket 4900. Patch by "teor".
21361 o Minor bugfixes (hidden services):
21362 - Fix a crash when reloading configuration while at least one
21363 configured and one ephemeral hidden service exists. Fixes bug
21364 16060; bugfix on 0.2.7.1-alpha.
21365 - Avoid crashing with a double-free bug when we create an ephemeral
21366 hidden service but adding it fails for some reason. Fixes bug
21367 16228; bugfix on 0.2.7.1-alpha.
21369 o Minor bugfixes (Linux seccomp2 sandbox):
21370 - Use the sandbox in tor_open_cloexec whether or not O_CLOEXEC is
21371 defined. Patch by "teor". Fixes bug 16515; bugfix on 0.2.3.1-alpha.
21373 o Minor bugfixes (Linux seccomp2 sandbox, also in 0.2.6.10):
21374 - Allow pipe() and pipe2() syscalls in the seccomp2 sandbox: we need
21375 these when eventfd2() support is missing. Fixes bug 16363; bugfix
21376 on 0.2.6.3-alpha. Patch from "teor".
21378 o Minor bugfixes (Linux seccomp2 sandbox, also in 0.2.6.9):
21379 - Fix sandboxing to work when running as a relay, by allowing the
21380 renaming of secret_id_key, and allowing the eventfd2 and futex
21381 syscalls. Fixes bug 16244; bugfix on 0.2.6.1-alpha. Patch by
21383 - Allow systemd connections to work with the Linux seccomp2 sandbox
21384 code. Fixes bug 16212; bugfix on 0.2.6.2-alpha. Patch by
21387 o Minor bugfixes (relay):
21388 - Fix a rarely-encountered memory leak when failing to initialize
21389 the thread pool. Fixes bug 16631; bugfix on 0.2.6.3-alpha. Patch
21390 from "cypherpunks".
21392 o Minor bugfixes (systemd):
21393 - Fix an accidental formatting error that broke the systemd
21394 configuration file. Fixes bug 16152; bugfix on 0.2.7.1-alpha.
21395 - Tor's systemd unit file no longer contains extraneous spaces.
21396 These spaces would sometimes confuse tools like deb-systemd-
21397 helper. Fixes bug 16162; bugfix on 0.2.5.5-alpha.
21399 o Minor bugfixes (tests):
21400 - Use the configured Python executable when running test-stem-full.
21401 Fixes bug 16470; bugfix on 0.2.7.1-alpha.
21403 o Minor bugfixes (tests, also in 0.2.6.9):
21404 - Fix a crash in the unit tests when built with MSVC2013. Fixes bug
21405 16030; bugfix on 0.2.6.2-alpha. Patch from "NewEraCracker".
21407 o Minor bugfixes (threads, comments):
21408 - Always initialize return value in compute_desc_id in rendcommon.c
21409 Patch by "teor". Fixes part of bug 16115; bugfix on 0.2.7.1-alpha.
21410 - Check for NULL values in getinfo_helper_onions(). Patch by "teor".
21411 Fixes part of bug 16115; bugfix on 0.2.7.1-alpha.
21412 - Remove undefined directive-in-macro in test_util_writepid clang
21413 3.7 complains that using a preprocessor directive inside a macro
21414 invocation in test_util_writepid in test_util.c is undefined.
21415 Patch by "teor". Fixes part of bug 16115; bugfix on 0.2.7.1-alpha.
21417 o Code simplification and refactoring:
21418 - Define WINVER and _WIN32_WINNT centrally, in orconfig.h, in order
21419 to ensure they remain consistent and visible everywhere.
21420 - Remove some vestigial workarounds for the MSVC6 compiler. We
21421 haven't supported that in ages.
21422 - The link authentication code has been refactored for better
21423 testability and reliability. It now uses code generated with the
21424 "trunnel" binary encoding generator, to reduce the risk of bugs
21425 due to programmer error. Done as part of ticket 12498.
21428 - Include a specific and (hopefully) accurate documentation of the
21429 torrc file's meta-format in doc/torrc_format.txt. This is mainly
21430 of interest to people writing programs to parse or generate torrc
21431 files. This document is not a commitment to long-term
21432 compatibility; some aspects of the current format are a bit
21433 ridiculous. Closes ticket 2325.
21435 o Removed features:
21436 - Tor no longer supports copies of OpenSSL that are missing support
21437 for Elliptic Curve Cryptography. (We began using ECC when
21438 available in 0.2.4.8-alpha, for more safe and efficient key
21439 negotiation.) In particular, support for at least one of P256 or
21440 P224 is now required, with manual configuration needed if only
21441 P224 is available. Resolves ticket 16140.
21442 - Tor no longer supports versions of OpenSSL before 1.0. (If you are
21443 on an operating system that has not upgraded to OpenSSL 1.0 or
21444 later, and you compile Tor from source, you will need to install a
21445 more recent OpenSSL to link Tor against.) These versions of
21446 OpenSSL are still supported by the OpenSSL, but the numerous
21447 cryptographic improvements in later OpenSSL releases makes them a
21448 clear choice. Resolves ticket 16034.
21449 - Remove the HidServDirectoryV2 option. Now all relays offer to
21450 store hidden service descriptors. Related to 16543.
21451 - Remove the VoteOnHidServDirectoriesV2 option, since all
21452 authorities have long set it to 1. Closes ticket 16543.
21455 - Document use of coverity, clang static analyzer, and clang dynamic
21456 undefined behavior and address sanitizers in doc/HACKING. Include
21457 detailed usage instructions in the blacklist. Patch by "teor".
21458 Closes ticket 15817.
21459 - The link authentication protocol code now has extensive tests.
21460 - The relay descriptor signature testing code now has
21462 - The test_workqueue program now runs faster, and is enabled by
21463 default as a part of "make check".
21464 - Now that OpenSSL has its own scrypt implementation, add an unit
21465 test that checks for interoperability between libscrypt_scrypt()
21466 and OpenSSL's EVP_PBE_scrypt() so that we could not use libscrypt
21467 and rely on EVP_PBE_scrypt() whenever possible. Resolves
21471 Changes in version 0.2.6.10 - 2015-07-12
21472 Tor version 0.2.6.10 fixes some significant stability and hidden
21473 service client bugs, bulletproofs the cryptography init process, and
21474 fixes a bug when using the sandbox code with some older versions of
21475 Linux. Everyone running an older version, especially an older version
21476 of 0.2.6, should upgrade.
21478 o Major bugfixes (hidden service clients, stability):
21479 - Stop refusing to store updated hidden service descriptors on a
21480 client. This reverts commit 9407040c59218 (which indeed fixed bug
21481 14219, but introduced a major hidden service reachability
21482 regression detailed in bug 16381). This is a temporary fix since
21483 we can live with the minor issue in bug 14219 (it just results in
21484 some load on the network) but the regression of 16381 is too much
21485 of a setback. First-round fix for bug 16381; bugfix
21488 o Major bugfixes (stability):
21489 - Stop crashing with an assertion failure when parsing certain kinds
21490 of malformed or truncated microdescriptors. Fixes bug 16400;
21491 bugfix on 0.2.6.1-alpha. Found by "torkeln"; fix based on a patch
21492 by "cypherpunks_backup".
21493 - Stop random client-side assertion failures that could occur when
21494 connecting to a busy hidden service, or connecting to a hidden
21495 service while a NEWNYM is in progress. Fixes bug 16013; bugfix
21498 o Minor features (geoip):
21499 - Update geoip to the June 3 2015 Maxmind GeoLite2 Country database.
21500 - Update geoip6 to the June 3 2015 Maxmind GeoLite2 Country database.
21502 o Minor bugfixes (crypto error-handling):
21503 - Check for failures from crypto_early_init, and refuse to continue.
21504 A previous typo meant that we could keep going with an
21505 uninitialized crypto library, and would have OpenSSL initialize
21506 its own PRNG. Fixes bug 16360; bugfix on 0.2.5.2-alpha, introduced
21507 when implementing ticket 4900. Patch by "teor".
21509 o Minor bugfixes (Linux seccomp2 sandbox):
21510 - Allow pipe() and pipe2() syscalls in the seccomp2 sandbox: we need
21511 these when eventfd2() support is missing. Fixes bug 16363; bugfix
21512 on 0.2.6.3-alpha. Patch from "teor".
21515 Changes in version 0.2.6.9 - 2015-06-11
21516 Tor 0.2.6.9 fixes a regression in the circuit isolation code, increases the
21517 requirements for receiving an HSDir flag, and addresses some other small
21518 bugs in the systemd and sandbox code. Clients using circuit isolation
21519 should upgrade; all directory authorities should upgrade.
21521 o Major bugfixes (client-side privacy):
21522 - Properly separate out each SOCKSPort when applying stream
21523 isolation. The error occurred because each port's session group was
21524 being overwritten by a default value when the listener connection
21525 was initialized. Fixes bug 16247; bugfix on 0.2.6.3-alpha. Patch
21528 o Minor feature (directory authorities, security):
21529 - The HSDir flag given by authorities now requires the Stable flag.
21530 For the current network, this results in going from 2887 to 2806
21531 HSDirs. Also, it makes it harder for an attacker to launch a sybil
21532 attack by raising the effort for a relay to become Stable which
21533 takes at the very least 7 days to do so and by keeping the 96
21534 hours uptime requirement for HSDir. Implements ticket 8243.
21536 o Minor bugfixes (compilation):
21537 - Build with --enable-systemd correctly when libsystemd is
21538 installed, but systemd is not. Fixes bug 16164; bugfix on
21539 0.2.6.3-alpha. Patch from Peter Palfrader.
21541 o Minor bugfixes (Linux seccomp2 sandbox):
21542 - Fix sandboxing to work when running as a relaymby renaming of
21543 secret_id_key, and allowing the eventfd2 and futex syscalls. Fixes
21544 bug 16244; bugfix on 0.2.6.1-alpha. Patch by Peter Palfrader.
21545 - Allow systemd connections to work with the Linux seccomp2 sandbox
21546 code. Fixes bug 16212; bugfix on 0.2.6.2-alpha. Patch by
21549 o Minor bugfixes (tests):
21550 - Fix a crash in the unit tests when built with MSVC2013. Fixes bug
21551 16030; bugfix on 0.2.6.2-alpha. Patch from "NewEraCracker".
21554 Changes in version 0.2.6.8 - 2015-05-21
21555 Tor 0.2.6.8 fixes a bit of dodgy code in parsing INTRODUCE2 cells, and
21556 fixes an authority-side bug in assigning the HSDir flag. All directory
21557 authorities should upgrade.
21559 o Major bugfixes (hidden services, backport from 0.2.7.1-alpha):
21560 - Revert commit that made directory authorities assign the HSDir
21561 flag to relays without a DirPort; this was bad because such relays
21562 can't handle BEGIN_DIR cells. Fixes bug 15850; bugfix
21565 o Minor bugfixes (hidden service, backport from 0.2.7.1-alpha):
21566 - Fix an out-of-bounds read when parsing invalid INTRODUCE2 cells on
21567 a client authorized hidden service. Fixes bug 15823; bugfix
21570 o Minor features (geoip):
21571 - Update geoip to the April 8 2015 Maxmind GeoLite2 Country database.
21572 - Update geoip6 to the April 8 2015 Maxmind GeoLite2
21576 Changes in version 0.2.7.1-alpha - 2015-05-12
21577 Tor 0.2.7.1-alpha is the first alpha release in its series. It
21578 includes numerous small features and bugfixes against previous Tor
21579 versions, and numerous small infrastructure improvements. The most
21580 notable features are several new ways for controllers to interact with
21581 the hidden services subsystem.
21583 o New system requirements:
21584 - Tor no longer includes workarounds to support Libevent versions
21585 before 1.3e. Libevent 2.0 or later is recommended. Closes
21588 o Major features (controller):
21589 - Add the ADD_ONION and DEL_ONION commands that allow the creation
21590 and management of hidden services via the controller. Closes
21592 - New "GETINFO onions/current" and "GETINFO onions/detached"
21593 commands to get information about hidden services created via the
21594 controller. Part of ticket 6411.
21595 - New HSFETCH command to launch a request for a hidden service
21596 descriptor. Closes ticket 14847.
21597 - New HSPOST command to upload a hidden service descriptor. Closes
21598 ticket 3523. Patch by "DonnchaC".
21600 o Major bugfixes (hidden services):
21601 - Revert commit that made directory authorities assign the HSDir
21602 flag to relays without a DirPort; this was bad because such relays
21603 can't handle BEGIN_DIR cells. Fixes bug 15850; bugfix
21606 o Minor features (clock-jump tolerance):
21607 - Recover better when our clock jumps back many hours, like might
21608 happen for Tails or Whonix users who start with a very wrong
21609 hardware clock, use Tor to discover a more accurate time, and then
21610 fix their clock. Resolves part of ticket 8766.
21612 o Minor features (command-line interface):
21613 - Make --hash-password imply --hush to prevent unnecessary noise.
21614 Closes ticket 15542. Patch from "cypherpunks".
21615 - Print a warning whenever we find a relative file path being used
21616 as torrc option. Resolves issue 14018.
21618 o Minor features (controller):
21619 - Add DirAuthority lines for default directory authorities to the
21620 output of the "GETINFO config/defaults" command if not already
21621 present. Implements ticket 14840.
21622 - Controllers can now use "GETINFO hs/client/desc/id/..." to
21623 retrieve items from the client's hidden service descriptor cache.
21624 Closes ticket 14845.
21625 - Implement a new controller command "GETINFO status/fresh-relay-
21626 descs" to fetch a descriptor/extrainfo pair that was generated on
21627 demand just for the controller's use. Implements ticket 14784.
21629 o Minor features (DoS-resistance):
21630 - Make it harder for attackers to overload hidden services with
21631 introductions, by blocking multiple introduction requests on the
21632 same circuit. Resolves ticket 15515.
21634 o Minor features (geoip):
21635 - Update geoip to the April 8 2015 Maxmind GeoLite2 Country database.
21636 - Update geoip6 to the April 8 2015 Maxmind GeoLite2
21639 o Minor features (HS popularity countermeasure):
21640 - To avoid leaking HS popularity, don't cycle the introduction point
21641 when we've handled a fixed number of INTRODUCE2 cells but instead
21642 cycle it when a random number of introductions is reached, thus
21643 making it more difficult for an attacker to find out the amount of
21644 clients that have used the introduction point for a specific HS.
21645 Closes ticket 15745.
21647 o Minor features (logging):
21648 - Include the Tor version in all LD_BUG log messages, since people
21649 tend to cut and paste those into the bugtracker. Implements
21652 o Minor features (pluggable transports):
21653 - When launching managed pluggable transports on Linux systems,
21654 attempt to have the kernel deliver a SIGTERM on tor exit if the
21655 pluggable transport process is still running. Resolves
21657 - When launching managed pluggable transports, setup a valid open
21658 stdin in the child process that can be used to detect if tor has
21659 terminated. The "TOR_PT_EXIT_ON_STDIN_CLOSE" environment variable
21660 can be used by implementations to detect this new behavior.
21661 Resolves ticket 15435.
21663 o Minor features (testing):
21664 - Add a test to verify that the compiler does not eliminate our
21665 memwipe() implementation. Closes ticket 15377.
21666 - Add make rule `check-changes` to verify the format of changes
21667 files. Closes ticket 15180.
21668 - Add unit tests for control_event_is_interesting(). Add a compile-
21669 time check that the number of events doesn't exceed the capacity
21670 of control_event_t.event_mask. Closes ticket 15431, checks for
21671 bugs similar to 13085. Patch by "teor".
21672 - Command-line argument tests moved to Stem. Resolves ticket 14806.
21673 - Integrate the ntor, backtrace, and zero-length keys tests into the
21674 automake test suite. Closes ticket 15344.
21675 - Remove assertions during builds to determine Tor's test coverage.
21676 We don't want to trigger these even in assertions, so including
21677 them artificially makes our branch coverage look worse than it is.
21678 This patch provides the new test-stem-full and coverage-html-full
21679 configure options. Implements ticket 15400.
21681 o Minor bugfixes (build):
21682 - Improve out-of-tree builds by making non-standard rules work and
21683 clean up additional files and directories. Fixes bug 15053; bugfix
21686 o Minor bugfixes (command-line interface):
21687 - When "--quiet" is provided along with "--validate-config", do not
21688 write anything to stdout on success. Fixes bug 14994; bugfix
21690 - When complaining about bad arguments to "--dump-config", use
21691 stderr, not stdout.
21693 o Minor bugfixes (configuration, unit tests):
21694 - Only add the default fallback directories when the DirAuthorities,
21695 AlternateDirAuthority, and FallbackDir directory config options
21696 are set to their defaults. The default fallback directory list is
21697 currently empty, this fix will only change tor's behavior when it
21698 has default fallback directories. Includes unit tests for
21699 consider_adding_dir_servers(). Fixes bug 15642; bugfix on
21700 90f6071d8dc0 in 0.2.4.7-alpha. Patch by "teor".
21702 o Minor bugfixes (correctness):
21703 - For correctness, avoid modifying a constant string in
21704 handle_control_postdescriptor. Fixes bug 15546; bugfix
21706 - Remove side-effects from tor_assert() calls. This was harmless,
21707 because we never disable assertions, but it is bad style and
21708 unnecessary. Fixes bug 15211; bugfix on 0.2.5.5, 0.2.2.36,
21711 o Minor bugfixes (hidden service):
21712 - Fix an out-of-bounds read when parsing invalid INTRODUCE2 cells on
21713 a client authorized hidden service. Fixes bug 15823; bugfix
21715 - Remove an extraneous newline character from the end of hidden
21716 service descriptors. Fixes bug 15296; bugfix on 0.2.0.10-alpha.
21718 o Minor bugfixes (interface):
21719 - Print usage information for --dump-config when it is used without
21720 an argument. Also, fix the error message to use different wording
21721 and add newline at the end. Fixes bug 15541; bugfix
21724 o Minor bugfixes (logs):
21725 - When building Tor under Clang, do not include an extra set of
21726 parentheses in log messages that include function names. Fixes bug
21727 15269; bugfix on every released version of Tor when compiled with
21728 recent enough Clang.
21730 o Minor bugfixes (network):
21731 - When attempting to use fallback technique for network interface
21732 lookup, disregard loopback and multicast addresses since they are
21733 unsuitable for public communications.
21735 o Minor bugfixes (statistics):
21736 - Disregard the ConnDirectionStatistics torrc options when Tor is
21737 not a relay since in that mode of operation no sensible data is
21738 being collected and because Tor might run into measurement hiccups
21739 when running as a client for some time, then becoming a relay.
21740 Fixes bug 15604; bugfix on 0.2.2.35.
21742 o Minor bugfixes (test networks):
21743 - When self-testing reachability, use ExtendAllowPrivateAddresses to
21744 determine if local/private addresses imply reachability. The
21745 previous fix used TestingTorNetwork, which implies
21746 ExtendAllowPrivateAddresses, but this excluded rare configurations
21747 where ExtendAllowPrivateAddresses is set but TestingTorNetwork is
21748 not. Fixes bug 15771; bugfix on 0.2.6.1-alpha. Patch by "teor",
21749 issue discovered by CJ Ess.
21751 o Minor bugfixes (testing):
21752 - Check for matching value in server response in ntor_ref.py. Fixes
21753 bug 15591; bugfix on 0.2.4.8-alpha. Reported and fixed
21755 - Set the severity correctly when testing
21756 get_interface_addresses_ifaddrs() and
21757 get_interface_addresses_win32(), so that the tests fail gracefully
21758 instead of triggering an assertion. Fixes bug 15759; bugfix on
21759 0.2.6.3-alpha. Reported by Nicolas Derive.
21761 o Code simplification and refactoring:
21762 - Move the hacky fallback code out of get_interface_address6() into
21763 separate function and get it covered with unit-tests. Resolves
21765 - Refactor hidden service client-side cache lookup to intelligently
21766 report its various failure cases, and disentangle failure cases
21767 involving a lack of introduction points. Closes ticket 14391.
21768 - Use our own Base64 encoder instead of OpenSSL's, to allow more
21769 control over the output. Part of ticket 15652.
21772 - Improve the descriptions of statistics-related torrc options in
21773 the manpage to describe rationale and possible uses cases. Fixes
21775 - Improve the layout and formatting of ./configure --help messages.
21776 Closes ticket 15024. Patch from "cypherpunks".
21777 - Standardize on the term "server descriptor" in the manual page.
21778 Previously, we had used "router descriptor", "server descriptor",
21779 and "relay descriptor" interchangeably. Part of ticket 14987.
21782 - Remove `USE_OPENSSL_BASE64` and the corresponding fallback code
21783 and always use the internal Base64 decoder. The internal decoder
21784 has been part of tor since 0.2.0.10-alpha, and no one should
21785 be using the OpenSSL one. Part of ticket 15652.
21786 - Remove the 'tor_strclear()' function; use memwipe() instead.
21787 Closes ticket 14922.
21789 o Removed features:
21790 - Remove the (seldom-used) DynamicDHGroups feature. For anti-
21791 fingerprinting we now recommend pluggable transports; for forward-
21792 secrecy in TLS, we now use the P-256 group. Closes ticket 13736.
21793 - Remove the undocumented "--digests" command-line option. It
21794 complicated our build process, caused subtle build issues on
21795 multiple platforms, and is now redundant since we started
21796 including git version identifiers. Closes ticket 14742.
21797 - Tor no longer contains checks for ancient directory cache versions
21798 that didn't know about microdescriptors.
21799 - Tor no longer contains workarounds for stat files generated by
21800 super-old versions of Tor that didn't choose guards sensibly.
21803 Changes in version 0.2.4.27 - 2015-04-06
21804 Tor 0.2.4.27 backports two fixes from 0.2.6.7 for security issues that
21805 could be used by an attacker to crash hidden services, or crash clients
21806 visiting hidden services. Hidden services should upgrade as soon as
21807 possible; clients should upgrade whenever packages become available.
21809 This release also backports a simple improvement to make hidden
21810 services a bit less vulnerable to denial-of-service attacks.
21812 o Major bugfixes (security, hidden service):
21813 - Fix an issue that would allow a malicious client to trigger an
21814 assertion failure and halt a hidden service. Fixes bug 15600;
21815 bugfix on 0.2.1.6-alpha. Reported by "disgleirio".
21816 - Fix a bug that could cause a client to crash with an assertion
21817 failure when parsing a malformed hidden service descriptor. Fixes
21818 bug 15601; bugfix on 0.2.1.5-alpha. Found by "DonnchaC".
21820 o Minor features (DoS-resistance, hidden service):
21821 - Introduction points no longer allow multiple INTRODUCE1 cells to
21822 arrive on the same circuit. This should make it more expensive for
21823 attackers to overwhelm hidden services with introductions.
21824 Resolves ticket 15515.
21827 Changes in version 0.2.5.12 - 2015-04-06
21828 Tor 0.2.5.12 backports two fixes from 0.2.6.7 for security issues that
21829 could be used by an attacker to crash hidden services, or crash clients
21830 visiting hidden services. Hidden services should upgrade as soon as
21831 possible; clients should upgrade whenever packages become available.
21833 This release also backports a simple improvement to make hidden
21834 services a bit less vulnerable to denial-of-service attacks.
21836 o Major bugfixes (security, hidden service):
21837 - Fix an issue that would allow a malicious client to trigger an
21838 assertion failure and halt a hidden service. Fixes bug 15600;
21839 bugfix on 0.2.1.6-alpha. Reported by "disgleirio".
21840 - Fix a bug that could cause a client to crash with an assertion
21841 failure when parsing a malformed hidden service descriptor. Fixes
21842 bug 15601; bugfix on 0.2.1.5-alpha. Found by "DonnchaC".
21844 o Minor features (DoS-resistance, hidden service):
21845 - Introduction points no longer allow multiple INTRODUCE1 cells to
21846 arrive on the same circuit. This should make it more expensive for
21847 attackers to overwhelm hidden services with introductions.
21848 Resolves ticket 15515.
21851 Changes in version 0.2.6.7 - 2015-04-06
21852 Tor 0.2.6.7 fixes two security issues that could be used by an
21853 attacker to crash hidden services, or crash clients visiting hidden
21854 services. Hidden services should upgrade as soon as possible; clients
21855 should upgrade whenever packages become available.
21857 This release also contains two simple improvements to make hidden
21858 services a bit less vulnerable to denial-of-service attacks.
21860 o Major bugfixes (security, hidden service):
21861 - Fix an issue that would allow a malicious client to trigger an
21862 assertion failure and halt a hidden service. Fixes bug 15600;
21863 bugfix on 0.2.1.6-alpha. Reported by "disgleirio".
21864 - Fix a bug that could cause a client to crash with an assertion
21865 failure when parsing a malformed hidden service descriptor. Fixes
21866 bug 15601; bugfix on 0.2.1.5-alpha. Found by "DonnchaC".
21868 o Minor features (DoS-resistance, hidden service):
21869 - Introduction points no longer allow multiple INTRODUCE1 cells to
21870 arrive on the same circuit. This should make it more expensive for
21871 attackers to overwhelm hidden services with introductions.
21872 Resolves ticket 15515.
21873 - Decrease the amount of reattempts that a hidden service performs
21874 when its rendezvous circuits fail. This reduces the computational
21875 cost for running a hidden service under heavy load. Resolves
21879 Changes in version 0.2.6.6 - 2015-03-24
21880 Tor 0.2.6.6 is the first stable release in the 0.2.6 series.
21882 It adds numerous safety, security, correctness, and performance
21883 improvements. Client programs can be configured to use more kinds of
21884 sockets, AutomapHosts works better, the multithreading backend is
21885 improved, cell transmission is refactored, test coverage is much
21886 higher, more denial-of-service attacks are handled, guard selection is
21887 improved to handle long-term guards better, pluggable transports
21888 should work a bit better, and some annoying hidden service performance
21889 bugs should be addressed.
21891 o Minor bugfixes (portability):
21892 - Use the correct datatype in the SipHash-2-4 function to prevent
21893 compilers from assuming any sort of alignment. Fixes bug 15436;
21894 bugfix on 0.2.5.3-alpha.
21896 Changes in version 0.2.6.5-rc - 2015-03-18
21897 Tor 0.2.6.5-rc is the second and (hopefully) last release candidate in
21898 the 0.2.6. It fixes a small number of bugs found in 0.2.6.4-rc.
21900 o Major bugfixes (client):
21901 - Avoid crashing when making certain configuration option changes on
21902 clients. Fixes bug 15245; bugfix on 0.2.6.3-alpha. Reported
21905 o Major bugfixes (pluggable transports):
21906 - Initialize the extended OR Port authentication cookie before
21907 launching pluggable transports. This prevents a race condition
21908 that occurred when server-side pluggable transports would cache the
21909 authentication cookie before it has been (re)generated. Fixes bug
21910 15240; bugfix on 0.2.5.1-alpha.
21912 o Major bugfixes (portability):
21913 - Do not crash on startup when running on Solaris. Fixes a bug
21914 related to our fix for 9495; bugfix on 0.2.6.1-alpha. Reported
21917 o Minor features (heartbeat):
21918 - On relays, report how many connections we negotiated using each
21919 version of the Tor link protocols. This information will let us
21920 know if removing support for very old versions of the Tor
21921 protocols is harming the network. Closes ticket 15212.
21923 o Code simplification and refactoring:
21924 - Refactor main loop to extract the 'loop' part. This makes it
21925 easier to run Tor under Shadow. Closes ticket 15176.
21928 Changes in version 0.2.5.11 - 2015-03-17
21929 Tor 0.2.5.11 is the second stable release in the 0.2.5 series.
21931 It backports several bugfixes from the 0.2.6 branch, including a
21932 couple of medium-level security fixes for relays and exit nodes.
21933 It also updates the list of directory authorities.
21935 o Directory authority changes:
21936 - Remove turtles as a directory authority.
21937 - Add longclaw as a new (v3) directory authority. This implements
21938 ticket 13296. This keeps the directory authority count at 9.
21939 - The directory authority Faravahar has a new IP address. This
21940 closes ticket 14487.
21942 o Major bugfixes (crash, OSX, security):
21943 - Fix a remote denial-of-service opportunity caused by a bug in
21944 OSX's _strlcat_chk() function. Fixes bug 15205; bug first appeared
21947 o Major bugfixes (relay, stability, possible security):
21948 - Fix a bug that could lead to a relay crashing with an assertion
21949 failure if a buffer of exactly the wrong layout was passed to
21950 buf_pullup() at exactly the wrong time. Fixes bug 15083; bugfix on
21951 0.2.0.10-alpha. Patch from 'cypherpunks'.
21952 - Do not assert if the 'data' pointer on a buffer is advanced to the
21953 very end of the buffer; log a BUG message instead. Only assert if
21954 it is past that point. Fixes bug 15083; bugfix on 0.2.0.10-alpha.
21956 o Major bugfixes (exit node stability):
21957 - Fix an assertion failure that could occur under high DNS load.
21958 Fixes bug 14129; bugfix on Tor 0.0.7rc1. Found by "jowr";
21959 diagnosed and fixed by "cypherpunks".
21961 o Major bugfixes (Linux seccomp2 sandbox):
21962 - Upon receiving sighup with the seccomp2 sandbox enabled, do not
21963 crash during attempts to call wait4. Fixes bug 15088; bugfix on
21964 0.2.5.1-alpha. Patch from "sanic".
21966 o Minor features (controller):
21967 - New "GETINFO bw-event-cache" to get information about recent
21968 bandwidth events. Closes ticket 14128. Useful for controllers to
21969 get recent bandwidth history after the fix for ticket 13988.
21971 o Minor features (geoip):
21972 - Update geoip to the March 3 2015 Maxmind GeoLite2 Country database.
21973 - Update geoip6 to the March 3 2015 Maxmind GeoLite2
21976 o Minor bugfixes (client, automapping):
21977 - Avoid crashing on torrc lines for VirtualAddrNetworkIPv[4|6] when
21978 no value follows the option. Fixes bug 14142; bugfix on
21979 0.2.4.7-alpha. Patch by "teor".
21980 - Fix a memory leak when using AutomapHostsOnResolve. Fixes bug
21981 14195; bugfix on 0.1.0.1-rc.
21983 o Minor bugfixes (compilation):
21984 - Build without warnings with the stock OpenSSL srtp.h header, which
21985 has a duplicate declaration of SSL_get_selected_srtp_profile().
21986 Fixes bug 14220; this is OpenSSL's bug, not ours.
21988 o Minor bugfixes (directory authority):
21989 - Allow directory authorities to fetch more data from one another if
21990 they find themselves missing lots of votes. Previously, they had
21991 been bumping against the 10 MB queued data limit. Fixes bug 14261;
21992 bugfix on 0.1.2.5-alpha.
21993 - Enlarge the buffer to read bwauth generated files to avoid an
21994 issue when parsing the file in dirserv_read_measured_bandwidths().
21995 Fixes bug 14125; bugfix on 0.2.2.1-alpha.
21997 o Minor bugfixes (statistics):
21998 - Increase period over which bandwidth observations are aggregated
21999 from 15 minutes to 4 hours. Fixes bug 13988; bugfix on 0.0.8pre1.
22001 o Minor bugfixes (preventative security, C safety):
22002 - When reading a hexadecimal, base-32, or base-64 encoded value from
22003 a string, always overwrite the whole output buffer. This prevents
22004 some bugs where we would look at (but fortunately, not reveal)
22005 uninitialized memory on the stack. Fixes bug 14013; bugfix on all
22009 Changes in version 0.2.4.26 - 2015-03-17
22010 Tor 0.2.4.26 includes an updated list of directory authorities. It
22011 also backports a couple of stability and security bugfixes from 0.2.5
22014 o Directory authority changes:
22015 - Remove turtles as a directory authority.
22016 - Add longclaw as a new (v3) directory authority. This implements
22017 ticket 13296. This keeps the directory authority count at 9.
22018 - The directory authority Faravahar has a new IP address. This
22019 closes ticket 14487.
22021 o Major bugfixes (exit node stability, also in 0.2.6.3-alpha):
22022 - Fix an assertion failure that could occur under high DNS load.
22023 Fixes bug 14129; bugfix on Tor 0.0.7rc1. Found by "jowr";
22024 diagnosed and fixed by "cypherpunks".
22026 o Major bugfixes (relay, stability, possible security, also in 0.2.6.4-rc):
22027 - Fix a bug that could lead to a relay crashing with an assertion
22028 failure if a buffer of exactly the wrong layout was passed to
22029 buf_pullup() at exactly the wrong time. Fixes bug 15083; bugfix on
22030 0.2.0.10-alpha. Patch from 'cypherpunks'.
22031 - Do not assert if the 'data' pointer on a buffer is advanced to the
22032 very end of the buffer; log a BUG message instead. Only assert if
22033 it is past that point. Fixes bug 15083; bugfix on 0.2.0.10-alpha.
22035 o Minor features (geoip):
22036 - Update geoip to the March 3 2015 Maxmind GeoLite2 Country database.
22037 - Update geoip6 to the March 3 2015 Maxmind GeoLite2
22040 Changes in version 0.2.6.4-rc - 2015-03-09
22041 Tor 0.2.6.4-alpha fixes an issue in the directory code that an
22042 attacker might be able to use in order to crash certain Tor
22043 directories. It also resolves some minor issues left over from, or
22044 introduced in, Tor 0.2.6.3-alpha or earlier.
22046 o Major bugfixes (crash, OSX, security):
22047 - Fix a remote denial-of-service opportunity caused by a bug in
22048 OSX's _strlcat_chk() function. Fixes bug 15205; bug first appeared
22051 o Major bugfixes (relay, stability, possible security):
22052 - Fix a bug that could lead to a relay crashing with an assertion
22053 failure if a buffer of exactly the wrong layout is passed to
22054 buf_pullup() at exactly the wrong time. Fixes bug 15083; bugfix on
22055 0.2.0.10-alpha. Patch from "cypherpunks".
22056 - Do not assert if the 'data' pointer on a buffer is advanced to the
22057 very end of the buffer; log a BUG message instead. Only assert if
22058 it is past that point. Fixes bug 15083; bugfix on 0.2.0.10-alpha.
22060 o Major bugfixes (FreeBSD IPFW transparent proxy):
22061 - Fix address detection with FreeBSD transparent proxies, when
22062 "TransProxyType ipfw" is in use. Fixes bug 15064; bugfix
22065 o Major bugfixes (Linux seccomp2 sandbox):
22066 - Pass IPPROTO_TCP rather than 0 to socket(), so that the Linux
22067 seccomp2 sandbox doesn't fail. Fixes bug 14989; bugfix
22069 - Allow AF_UNIX hidden services to be used with the seccomp2
22070 sandbox. Fixes bug 15003; bugfix on 0.2.6.3-alpha.
22071 - Upon receiving sighup with the seccomp2 sandbox enabled, do not
22072 crash during attempts to call wait4. Fixes bug 15088; bugfix on
22073 0.2.5.1-alpha. Patch from "sanic".
22075 o Minor features (controller):
22076 - Messages about problems in the bootstrap process now include
22077 information about the server we were trying to connect to when we
22078 noticed the problem. Closes ticket 15006.
22080 o Minor features (geoip):
22081 - Update geoip to the March 3 2015 Maxmind GeoLite2 Country database.
22082 - Update geoip6 to the March 3 2015 Maxmind GeoLite2
22085 o Minor features (logs):
22086 - Quiet some log messages in the heartbeat and at startup. Closes
22089 o Minor bugfixes (certificate handling):
22090 - If an authority operator accidentally makes a signing certificate
22091 with a future publication time, do not discard its real signing
22092 certificates. Fixes bug 11457; bugfix on 0.2.0.3-alpha.
22093 - Remove any old authority certificates that have been superseded
22094 for at least two days. Previously, we would keep superseded
22095 certificates until they expired, if they were published close in
22096 time to the certificate that superseded them. Fixes bug 11454;
22097 bugfix on 0.2.1.8-alpha.
22099 o Minor bugfixes (compilation):
22100 - Fix a compilation warning on s390. Fixes bug 14988; bugfix
22102 - Fix a compilation warning on FreeBSD. Fixes bug 15151; bugfix
22105 o Minor bugfixes (testing):
22106 - Fix endianness issues in unit test for resolve_my_address() to
22107 have it pass on big endian systems. Fixes bug 14980; bugfix on
22109 - Avoid a side-effect in a tor_assert() in the unit tests. Fixes bug
22110 15188; bugfix on 0.1.2.3-alpha. Patch from Tom van der Woerdt.
22111 - When running the new 'make test-stem' target, use the configured
22112 python binary. Fixes bug 15037; bugfix on 0.2.6.3-alpha. Patch
22113 from "cypherpunks".
22114 - When running the zero-length-keys tests, do not use the default
22115 torrc file. Fixes bug 15033; bugfix on 0.2.6.3-alpha. Reported
22118 o Directory authority IP change:
22119 - The directory authority Faravahar has a new IP address. This
22120 closes ticket 14487.
22123 - Remove some lingering dead code that once supported mempools.
22124 Mempools were disabled by default in 0.2.5, and removed entirely
22125 in 0.2.6.3-alpha. Closes more of ticket 14848; patch
22129 Changes in version 0.2.6.3-alpha - 2015-02-19
22130 Tor 0.2.6.3-alpha is the third (and hopefully final) alpha release in
22131 the 0.2.6.x series. It introduces support for more kinds of sockets,
22132 makes it harder to accidentally run an exit, improves our
22133 multithreading backend, incorporates several fixes for the
22134 AutomapHostsOnResolve option, and fixes numerous other bugs besides.
22136 If no major regressions or security holes are found in this version,
22137 the next version will be a release candidate.
22139 o Deprecated versions:
22140 - Tor relays older than 0.2.4.18-rc are no longer allowed to
22141 advertise themselves on the network. Closes ticket 13555.
22143 o Major features (security, unix domain sockets):
22144 - Allow SocksPort to be an AF_UNIX Unix Domain Socket. Now high risk
22145 applications can reach Tor without having to create AF_INET or
22146 AF_INET6 sockets, meaning they can completely disable their
22147 ability to make non-Tor network connections. To create a socket of
22148 this type, use "SocksPort unix:/path/to/socket". Implements
22150 - Support mapping hidden service virtual ports to AF_UNIX sockets.
22151 The syntax is "HiddenServicePort 80 unix:/path/to/socket".
22152 Implements ticket 11485.
22154 o Major features (changed defaults):
22155 - Prevent relay operators from unintentionally running exits: When a
22156 relay is configured as an exit node, we now warn the user unless
22157 the "ExitRelay" option is set to 1. We warn even more loudly if
22158 the relay is configured with the default exit policy, since this
22159 can indicate accidental misconfiguration. Setting "ExitRelay 0"
22160 stops Tor from running as an exit relay. Closes ticket 10067.
22162 o Major features (directory system):
22163 - When downloading server- or microdescriptors from a directory
22164 server, we no longer launch multiple simultaneous requests to the
22165 same server. This reduces load on the directory servers,
22166 especially when directory guards are in use. Closes ticket 9969.
22167 - When downloading server- or microdescriptors over a tunneled
22168 connection, do not limit the length of our requests to what the
22169 Squid proxy is willing to handle. Part of ticket 9969.
22170 - Authorities can now vote on the correct digests and latest
22171 versions for different software packages. This allows packages
22172 that include Tor to use the Tor authority system as a way to get
22173 notified of updates and their correct digests. Implements proposal
22174 227. Closes ticket 10395.
22176 o Major features (guards):
22177 - Introduce the Guardfraction feature to improves load balancing on
22178 guard nodes. Specifically, it aims to reduce the traffic gap that
22179 guard nodes experience when they first get the Guard flag. This is
22180 a required step if we want to increase the guard lifetime to 9
22181 months or greater. Closes ticket 9321.
22183 o Major features (performance):
22184 - Make the CPU worker implementation more efficient by avoiding the
22185 kernel and lengthening pipelines. The original implementation used
22186 sockets to transfer data from the main thread to the workers, and
22187 didn't allow any thread to be assigned more than a single piece of
22188 work at once. The new implementation avoids communications
22189 overhead by making requests in shared memory, avoiding kernel IO
22190 where possible, and keeping more requests in flight at once.
22191 Implements ticket 9682.
22193 o Major features (relay):
22194 - Raise the minimum acceptable configured bandwidth rate for bridges
22195 to 50 KiB/sec and for relays to 75 KiB/sec. (The old values were
22196 20 KiB/sec.) Closes ticket 13822.
22198 o Major bugfixes (exit node stability):
22199 - Fix an assertion failure that could occur under high DNS load.
22200 Fixes bug 14129; bugfix on Tor 0.0.7rc1. Found by "jowr";
22201 diagnosed and fixed by "cypherpunks".
22203 o Major bugfixes (mixed relay-client operation):
22204 - When running as a relay and client at the same time (not
22205 recommended), if we decide not to use a new guard because we want
22206 to retry older guards, only close the locally-originating circuits
22207 passing through that guard. Previously we would close all the
22208 circuits through that guard. Fixes bug 9819; bugfix on
22209 0.2.1.1-alpha. Reported by "skruffy".
22211 o Minor features (build):
22212 - New --disable-system-torrc compile-time option to prevent Tor from
22213 looking for the system-wide torrc or torrc-defaults files.
22214 Resolves ticket 13037.
22216 o Minor features (controller):
22217 - Include SOCKS_USERNAME and SOCKS_PASSWORD values in controller
22218 events so controllers can observe circuit isolation inputs. Closes
22220 - ControlPort now supports the unix:/path/to/socket syntax as an
22221 alternative to the ControlSocket option, for consistency with
22222 SocksPort and HiddenServicePort. Closes ticket 14451.
22223 - New "GETINFO bw-event-cache" to get information about recent
22224 bandwidth events. Closes ticket 14128. Useful for controllers to
22225 get recent bandwidth history after the fix for ticket 13988.
22227 o Minor features (Denial of service resistance):
22228 - Count the total number of bytes used storing hidden service
22229 descriptors against the value of MaxMemInQueues. If we're low on
22230 memory, and more than 20% of our memory is used holding hidden
22231 service descriptors, free them until no more than 10% of our
22232 memory holds hidden service descriptors. Free the least recently
22233 fetched descriptors first. Resolves ticket 13806.
22234 - When we have recently been under memory pressure (over 3/4 of
22235 MaxMemInQueues is allocated), then allocate smaller zlib objects
22236 for small requests. Closes ticket 11791.
22238 o Minor features (geoip):
22239 - Update geoip and geoip6 files to the January 7 2015 Maxmind
22240 GeoLite2 Country database.
22242 o Minor features (guard nodes):
22243 - Reduce the time delay before saving guard status to disk from 10
22244 minutes to 30 seconds (or from one hour to 10 minutes if
22245 AvoidDiskWrites is set). Closes ticket 12485.
22247 o Minor features (hidden service):
22248 - Make Sybil attacks against hidden services harder by changing the
22249 minimum time required to get the HSDir flag from 25 hours up to 96
22250 hours. Addresses ticket 14149.
22251 - New option "HiddenServiceAllowUnknownPorts" to allow hidden
22252 services to disable the anti-scanning feature introduced in
22253 0.2.6.2-alpha. With this option not set, a connection to an
22254 unlisted port closes the circuit. With this option set, only a
22255 RELAY_DONE cell is sent. Closes ticket 14084.
22257 o Minor features (interface):
22258 - Implement "-f -" command-line option to read torrc configuration
22259 from standard input, if you don't want to store the torrc file in
22260 the file system. Implements feature 13865.
22262 o Minor features (logging):
22263 - Add a count of unique clients to the bridge heartbeat message.
22264 Resolves ticket 6852.
22265 - Suppress "router info incompatible with extra info" message when
22266 reading extrainfo documents from cache. (This message got loud
22267 around when we closed bug 9812 in 0.2.6.2-alpha.) Closes
22269 - Elevate hidden service authorized-client message from DEBUG to
22270 INFO. Closes ticket 14015.
22272 o Minor features (stability):
22273 - Add assertions in our hash-table iteration code to check for
22274 corrupted values that could cause infinite loops. Closes
22277 o Minor features (systemd):
22278 - Various improvements and modernizations in systemd hardening
22279 support. Closes ticket 13805. Patch from Craig Andrews.
22281 o Minor features (testing networks):
22282 - Drop the minimum RendPostPeriod on a testing network to 5 seconds,
22283 and the default on a testing network to 2 minutes. Drop the
22284 MIN_REND_INITIAL_POST_DELAY on a testing network to 5 seconds, but
22285 keep the default on a testing network at 30 seconds. This reduces
22286 HS bootstrap time to around 25 seconds. Also, change the default
22287 time in test-network.sh to match. Closes ticket 13401. Patch
22289 - Create TestingDirAuthVoteHSDir to correspond to
22290 TestingDirAuthVoteExit/Guard. Ensures that authorities vote the
22291 HSDir flag for the listed relays regardless of uptime or ORPort
22292 connectivity. Respects the value of VoteOnHidServDirectoriesV2.
22293 Partial implementation for ticket 14067. Patch by "teor".
22295 o Minor features (tor2web mode):
22296 - Introduce the config option Tor2webRendezvousPoints, which allows
22297 clients in Tor2webMode to select a specific Rendezvous Point to be
22298 used in HS circuits. This might allow better performance for
22299 Tor2Web nodes. Implements ticket 12844.
22301 o Minor bugfixes (client DNS):
22302 - Report the correct cached DNS expiration times on SOCKS port or in
22303 DNS replies. Previously, we would report everything as "never
22304 expires." Fixes bug 14193; bugfix on 0.2.3.17-beta.
22305 - Avoid a small memory leak when we find a cached answer for a
22306 reverse DNS lookup in a client-side DNS cache. (Remember, client-
22307 side DNS caching is off by default, and is not recommended.) Fixes
22308 bug 14259; bugfix on 0.2.0.1-alpha.
22310 o Minor bugfixes (client, automapping):
22311 - Avoid crashing on torrc lines for VirtualAddrNetworkIPv[4|6] when
22312 no value follows the option. Fixes bug 14142; bugfix on
22313 0.2.4.7-alpha. Patch by "teor".
22314 - Fix a memory leak when using AutomapHostsOnResolve. Fixes bug
22315 14195; bugfix on 0.1.0.1-rc.
22316 - Prevent changes to other options from removing the wildcard value
22317 "." from "AutomapHostsSuffixes". Fixes bug 12509; bugfix
22319 - Allow MapAddress and AutomapHostsOnResolve to work together when
22320 an address is mapped into another address type (like .onion) that
22321 must be automapped at resolve time. Fixes bug 7555; bugfix
22324 o Minor bugfixes (client, bridges):
22325 - When we are using bridges and we had a network connectivity
22326 problem, only retry connecting to our currently configured
22327 bridges, not all bridges we know about and remember using. Fixes
22328 bug 14216; bugfix on 0.2.2.17-alpha.
22330 o Minor bugfixes (client, IPv6):
22331 - Reject socks requests to literal IPv6 addresses when IPv6Traffic
22332 flag is not set; and not because the NoIPv4Traffic flag was set.
22333 Previously we'd looked at the NoIPv4Traffic flag for both types of
22334 literal addresses. Fixes bug 14280; bugfix on 0.2.4.7-alpha.
22336 o Minor bugfixes (compilation):
22337 - The address of an array in the middle of a structure will always
22338 be non-NULL. clang recognises this and complains. Disable the
22339 tautologous and redundant check to silence this warning. Fixes bug
22340 14001; bugfix on 0.2.1.2-alpha.
22341 - Avoid warnings when building with systemd 209 or later. Fixes bug
22342 14072; bugfix on 0.2.6.2-alpha. Patch from "h.venev".
22343 - Compile correctly with (unreleased) OpenSSL 1.1.0 headers.
22344 Addresses ticket 14188.
22345 - Build without warnings with the stock OpenSSL srtp.h header, which
22346 has a duplicate declaration of SSL_get_selected_srtp_profile().
22347 Fixes bug 14220; this is OpenSSL's bug, not ours.
22348 - Do not compile any code related to Tor2Web mode when Tor2Web mode
22349 is not enabled at compile time. Previously, this code was included
22350 in a disabled state. See discussion on ticket 12844.
22351 - Remove the --disable-threads configure option again. It was
22352 accidentally partially reintroduced in 29ac883606d6d. Fixes bug
22353 14819; bugfix on 0.2.6.2-alpha.
22355 o Minor bugfixes (controller):
22356 - Report "down" in response to the "GETINFO entry-guards" command
22357 when relays are down with an unreachable_since value. Previously,
22358 we would report "up". Fixes bug 14184; bugfix on 0.1.2.2-alpha.
22359 - Avoid crashing on a malformed EXTENDCIRCUIT command. Fixes bug
22360 14116; bugfix on 0.2.2.9-alpha.
22361 - Add a code for the END_CIRC_REASON_IP_NOW_REDUNDANT circuit close
22362 reason. Fixes bug 14207; bugfix on 0.2.6.2-alpha.
22364 o Minor bugfixes (directory authority):
22365 - Allow directory authorities to fetch more data from one another if
22366 they find themselves missing lots of votes. Previously, they had
22367 been bumping against the 10 MB queued data limit. Fixes bug 14261;
22368 bugfix on 0.1.2.5-alpha.
22369 - Do not attempt to download extrainfo documents which we will be
22370 unable to validate with a matching server descriptor. Fixes bug
22371 13762; bugfix on 0.2.0.1-alpha.
22372 - Fix a bug that was truncating AUTHDIR_NEWDESC events sent to the
22373 control port. Fixes bug 14953; bugfix on 0.2.0.1-alpha.
22374 - Enlarge the buffer to read bwauth generated files to avoid an
22375 issue when parsing the file in dirserv_read_measured_bandwidths().
22376 Fixes bug 14125; bugfix on 0.2.2.1-alpha.
22378 o Minor bugfixes (file handling):
22379 - Stop failing when key files are zero-length. Instead, generate new
22380 keys, and overwrite the empty key files. Fixes bug 13111; bugfix
22381 on all versions of Tor. Patch by "teor".
22382 - Stop generating a fresh .old RSA onion key file when the .old file
22383 is missing. Fixes part of 13111; bugfix on 0.0.6rc1.
22384 - Avoid overwriting .old key files with empty key files.
22385 - Skip loading zero-length extrainfo store, router store, stats,
22386 state, and key files.
22387 - Avoid crashing when trying to reload a torrc specified as a
22388 relative path with RunAsDaemon turned on. Fixes bug 13397; bugfix
22391 o Minor bugfixes (hidden services):
22392 - Close the introduction circuit when we have no more usable intro
22393 points, instead of waiting for it to time out. This also ensures
22394 that no follow-up HS descriptor fetch is triggered when the
22395 circuit eventually times out. Fixes bug 14224; bugfix on 0.0.6.
22396 - When fetching a hidden service descriptor for a down service that
22397 was recently up, do not keep refetching until we try the same
22398 replica twice in a row. Fixes bug 14219; bugfix on 0.2.0.10-alpha.
22399 - Successfully launch Tor with a nonexistent hidden service
22400 directory. Our fix for bug 13942 didn't catch this case. Fixes bug
22401 14106; bugfix on 0.2.6.2-alpha.
22403 o Minor bugfixes (logging):
22404 - Avoid crashing when there are more log domains than entries in
22405 domain_list. Bugfix on 0.2.3.1-alpha.
22406 - Add a string representation for LD_SCHED. Fixes bug 14740; bugfix
22408 - Don't log messages to stdout twice when starting up. Fixes bug
22409 13993; bugfix on 0.2.6.1-alpha.
22411 o Minor bugfixes (parsing):
22412 - Stop accepting milliseconds (or other junk) at the end of
22413 descriptor publication times. Fixes bug 9286; bugfix on 0.0.2pre25.
22414 - Support two-number and three-number version numbers correctly, in
22415 case we change the Tor versioning system in the future. Fixes bug
22416 13661; bugfix on 0.0.8pre1.
22418 o Minor bugfixes (path counting):
22419 - When deciding whether the consensus lists any exit nodes, count
22420 the number listed in the consensus, not the number we have
22421 descriptors for. Fixes part of bug 14918; bugfix on 0.2.6.2-alpha.
22422 - When deciding whether we have any exit nodes, only examine
22423 ExitNodes when the ExitNodes option is actually set. Fixes part of
22424 bug 14918; bugfix on 0.2.6.2-alpha.
22425 - Get rid of redundant and possibly scary warnings that we are
22426 missing directory information while we bootstrap. Fixes part of
22427 bug 14918; bugfix on 0.2.6.2-alpha.
22429 o Minor bugfixes (portability):
22430 - Fix the ioctl()-based network interface lookup code so that it
22431 will work on systems that have variable-length struct ifreq, for
22433 - Fix scheduler compilation on targets where char is unsigned. Fixes
22434 bug 14764; bugfix on 0.2.6.2-alpha. Reported by Christian Kujau.
22436 o Minor bugfixes (sandbox):
22437 - Allow glibc fatal errors to be sent to stderr before Tor exits.
22438 Previously, glibc would try to write them to /dev/tty, and the
22439 sandbox would trap the call and make Tor exit prematurely. Fixes
22440 bug 14759; bugfix on 0.2.5.1-alpha.
22442 o Minor bugfixes (shutdown):
22443 - When shutting down, always call event_del() on lingering read or
22444 write events before freeing them. Otherwise, we risk double-frees
22445 or read-after-frees in event_base_free(). Fixes bug 12985; bugfix
22448 o Minor bugfixes (small memory leaks):
22449 - Avoid leaking memory when using IPv6 virtual address mappings.
22450 Fixes bug 14123; bugfix on 0.2.4.7-alpha. Patch by Tom van
22453 o Minor bugfixes (statistics):
22454 - Increase period over which bandwidth observations are aggregated
22455 from 15 minutes to 4 hours. Fixes bug 13988; bugfix on 0.0.8pre1.
22457 o Minor bugfixes (systemd support):
22458 - Fix detection and operation of systemd watchdog. Fixes part of bug
22459 14141; bugfix on 0.2.6.2-alpha. Patch from Tomasz Torcz.
22460 - Run correctly under systemd with the RunAsDaemon option set. Fixes
22461 part of bug 14141; bugfix on 0.2.5.7-rc. Patch from Tomasz Torcz.
22462 - Inform the systemd supervisor about more changes in the Tor
22463 process status. Implements part of ticket 14141. Patch from
22465 - Cause the "--disable-systemd" option to actually disable systemd
22466 support. Fixes bug 14350; bugfix on 0.2.6.2-alpha. Patch
22469 o Minor bugfixes (TLS):
22470 - Check more thoroughly throughout the TLS code for possible
22471 unlogged TLS errors. Possible diagnostic or fix for bug 13319.
22473 o Minor bugfixes (transparent proxy):
22474 - Use getsockname, not getsockopt, to retrieve the address for a
22475 TPROXY-redirected connection. Fixes bug 13796; bugfix
22478 o Code simplification and refactoring:
22479 - Move fields related to isolating and configuring client ports into
22480 a shared structure. Previously, they were duplicated across
22481 port_cfg_t, listener_connection_t, and edge_connection_t. Failure
22482 to copy them correctly had been the cause of at least one bug in
22483 the past. Closes ticket 8546.
22484 - Refactor the get_interface_addresses_raw() doom-function into
22485 multiple smaller and simpler subfunctions. Cover the resulting
22486 subfunctions with unit-tests. Fixes a significant portion of
22488 - Remove workaround in dirserv_thinks_router_is_hs_dir() that was
22489 only for version <= 0.2.2.24 which is now deprecated. Closes
22491 - Remove a test for a long-defunct broken version-one
22495 - Adding section on OpenBSD to our TUNING document. Thanks to mmcc
22496 for writing the OpenBSD-specific tips. Resolves ticket 13702.
22497 - Make the tor-resolve documentation match its help string and its
22498 options. Resolves part of ticket 14325.
22499 - Log a more useful error message from tor-resolve when failing to
22500 look up a hidden service address. Resolves part of ticket 14325.
22502 o Downgraded warnings:
22503 - Don't warn when we've attempted to contact a relay using the wrong
22504 ntor onion key. Closes ticket 9635.
22506 o Removed features:
22507 - To avoid confusion with the "ExitRelay" option, "ExitNode" is no
22508 longer silently accepted as an alias for "ExitNodes".
22509 - The --enable-mempool and --enable-buf-freelists options, which
22510 were originally created to work around bad malloc implementations,
22511 no longer exist. They were off-by-default in 0.2.5. Closes
22515 - Make the checkdir/perms test complete successfully even if the
22516 global umask is not 022. Fixes bug 14215; bugfix on 0.2.6.2-alpha.
22517 - Test that tor does not fail when key files are zero-length. Check
22518 that tor generates new keys, and overwrites the empty key files.
22519 - Test that tor generates new keys when keys are missing
22520 (existing behavior).
22521 - Test that tor does not overwrite key files that already contain
22522 data (existing behavior). Tests bug 13111. Patch by "teor".
22523 - New "make test-stem" target to run stem integration tests.
22524 Requires that the "STEM_SOURCE_DIR" environment variable be set.
22525 Closes ticket 14107.
22526 - Make the test_cmdline_args.py script work correctly on Windows.
22527 Patch from Gisle Vanem.
22528 - Move the slower unit tests into a new "./src/test/test-slow"
22529 binary that can be run independently of the other tests. Closes
22531 - Avoid undefined behavior when sampling huge values from the
22532 Laplace distribution. This made unittests fail on Raspberry Pi.
22533 Bug found by Device. Fixes bug 14090; bugfix on 0.2.6.2-alpha.
22536 Changes in version 0.2.6.2-alpha - 2014-12-31
22537 Tor 0.2.6.2-alpha is the second alpha release in the 0.2.6.x series.
22538 It introduces a major new backend for deciding when to send cells on
22539 channels, which should lead down the road to big performance
22540 increases. It contains security and statistics features for better
22541 work on hidden services, and numerous bugfixes.
22543 This release contains many new unit tests, along with major
22544 performance improvements for running testing networks using Chutney.
22545 Thanks to a series of patches contributed by "teor", testing networks
22546 should now bootstrap in seconds, rather than minutes.
22548 o Major features (relay, infrastructure):
22549 - Complete revision of the code that relays use to decide which cell
22550 to send next. Formerly, we selected the best circuit to write on
22551 each channel, but we didn't select among channels in any
22552 sophisticated way. Now, we choose the best circuits globally from
22553 among those whose channels are ready to deliver traffic.
22555 This patch implements a new inter-cmux comparison API, a global
22556 high/low watermark mechanism and a global scheduler loop for
22557 transmission prioritization across all channels as well as among
22558 circuits on one channel. This schedule is currently tuned to
22559 (tolerantly) avoid making changes in network performance, but it
22560 should form the basis for major circuit performance increases in
22561 the future. Code by Andrea; tuning by Rob Jansen; implements
22564 o Major features (hidden services):
22565 - Make HS port scanning more difficult by immediately closing the
22566 circuit when a user attempts to connect to a nonexistent port.
22567 Closes ticket 13667.
22568 - Add a HiddenServiceStatistics option that allows Tor relays to
22569 gather and publish statistics about the overall size and volume of
22570 hidden service usage. Specifically, when this option is turned on,
22571 an HSDir will publish an approximate number of hidden services
22572 that have published descriptors to it the past 24 hours. Also, if
22573 a relay has acted as a hidden service rendezvous point, it will
22574 publish the approximate amount of rendezvous cells it has relayed
22575 the past 24 hours. The statistics themselves are obfuscated so
22576 that the exact values cannot be derived. For more details see
22577 proposal 238, "Better hidden service stats from Tor relays". This
22578 feature is currently disabled by default. Implements feature 13192.
22580 o Major bugfixes (client, automap):
22581 - Repair automapping with IPv6 addresses. This automapping should
22582 have worked previously, but one piece of debugging code that we
22583 inserted to detect a regression actually caused the regression to
22584 manifest itself again. Fixes bug 13811 and bug 12831; bugfix on
22585 0.2.4.7-alpha. Diagnosed and fixed by Francisco Blas
22588 o Major bugfixes (hidden services):
22589 - When closing an introduction circuit that was opened in parallel
22590 with others, don't mark the introduction point as unreachable.
22591 Previously, the first successful connection to an introduction
22592 point would make the other introduction points get marked as
22593 having timed out. Fixes bug 13698; bugfix on 0.0.6rc2.
22595 o Directory authority changes:
22596 - Remove turtles as a directory authority.
22597 - Add longclaw as a new (v3) directory authority. This implements
22598 ticket 13296. This keeps the directory authority count at 9.
22600 o Major removed features:
22601 - Tor clients no longer support connecting to hidden services
22602 running on Tor 0.2.2.x and earlier; the Support022HiddenServices
22603 option has been removed. (There shouldn't be any hidden services
22604 running these versions on the network.) Closes ticket 7803.
22606 o Minor features (client):
22607 - Validate hostnames in SOCKS5 requests more strictly. If SafeSocks
22608 is enabled, reject requests with IP addresses as hostnames.
22609 Resolves ticket 13315.
22611 o Minor features (controller):
22612 - Add a "SIGNAL HEARTBEAT" controller command that tells Tor to
22613 write an unscheduled heartbeat message to the log. Implements
22616 o Minor features (geoip):
22617 - Update geoip and geoip6 to the November 15 2014 Maxmind GeoLite2
22620 o Minor features (hidden services):
22621 - When re-enabling the network, don't try to build introduction
22622 circuits until we have successfully built a circuit. This makes
22623 hidden services come up faster when the network is re-enabled.
22624 Patch from "akwizgran". Closes ticket 13447.
22625 - When we fail to retrieve a hidden service descriptor, send the
22626 controller an "HS_DESC FAILED" controller event. Implements
22628 - New HiddenServiceDirGroupReadable option to cause hidden service
22629 directories and hostname files to be created group-readable. Patch
22630 from "anon", David Stainton, and "meejah". Closes ticket 11291.
22632 o Minor features (systemd):
22633 - Where supported, when running with systemd, report successful
22634 startup to systemd. Part of ticket 11016. Patch by Michael Scherer.
22635 - When running with systemd, support systemd watchdog messages. Part
22636 of ticket 11016. Patch by Michael Scherer.
22638 o Minor features (transparent proxy):
22639 - Update the transparent proxy option checks to allow for both ipfw
22640 and pf on OS X. Closes ticket 14002.
22641 - Use the correct option when using IPv6 with transparent proxy
22642 support on Linux. Resolves 13808. Patch by Francisco Blas
22645 o Minor bugfixes (preventative security, C safety):
22646 - When reading a hexadecimal, base-32, or base-64 encoded value from
22647 a string, always overwrite the whole output buffer. This prevents
22648 some bugs where we would look at (but fortunately, not reveal)
22649 uninitialized memory on the stack. Fixes bug 14013; bugfix on all
22651 - Clear all memory targeted by tor_addr_{to,from}_sockaddr(), not
22652 just the part that's used. This makes it harder for data leak bugs
22653 to occur in the event of other programming failures. Resolves
22656 o Minor bugfixes (client, microdescriptors):
22657 - Use a full 256 bits of the SHA256 digest of a microdescriptor when
22658 computing which microdescriptors to download. This keeps us from
22659 erroneous download behavior if two microdescriptor digests ever
22660 have the same first 160 bits. Fixes part of bug 13399; bugfix
22662 - Reset a router's status if its microdescriptor digest changes,
22663 even if the first 160 bits remain the same. Fixes part of bug
22664 13399; bugfix on 0.2.3.1-alpha.
22666 o Minor bugfixes (compilation):
22667 - Silence clang warnings under --enable-expensive-hardening,
22668 including implicit truncation of 64 bit values to 32 bit, const
22669 char assignment to self, tautological compare, and additional
22670 parentheses around equality tests. Fixes bug 13577; bugfix
22672 - Fix a clang warning about checking whether an address in the
22673 middle of a structure is NULL. Fixes bug 14001; bugfix
22676 o Minor bugfixes (hidden services):
22677 - Correctly send a controller event when we find that a rendezvous
22678 circuit has finished. Fixes bug 13936; bugfix on 0.1.1.5-alpha.
22679 - Pre-check directory permissions for new hidden-services to avoid
22680 at least one case of "Bug: Acting on config options left us in a
22681 broken state. Dying." Fixes bug 13942; bugfix on 0.0.6pre1.
22682 - When adding a new hidden service (for example, via SETCONF), Tor
22683 no longer congratulates the user for running a relay. Fixes bug
22684 13941; bugfix on 0.2.6.1-alpha.
22685 - When fetching hidden service descriptors, we now check not only
22686 for whether we got the hidden service we had in mind, but also
22687 whether we got the particular descriptors we wanted. This prevents
22688 a class of inefficient but annoying DoS attacks by hidden service
22689 directories. Fixes bug 13214; bugfix on 0.2.1.6-alpha. Reported
22692 o Minor bugfixes (Linux seccomp2 sandbox):
22693 - Make transparent proxy support work along with the seccomp2
22694 sandbox. Fixes part of bug 13808; bugfix on 0.2.5.1-alpha. Patch
22695 by Francisco Blas Izquierdo Riera.
22696 - Fix a memory leak in tor-resolve when running with the sandbox
22697 enabled. Fixes bug 14050; bugfix on 0.2.5.9-rc.
22699 o Minor bugfixes (logging):
22700 - Downgrade warnings about RSA signature failures to info log level.
22701 Emit a warning when an extra info document is found incompatible
22702 with a corresponding router descriptor. Fixes bug 9812; bugfix
22704 - Make connection_ap_handshake_attach_circuit() log the circuit ID
22705 correctly. Fixes bug 13701; bugfix on 0.0.6.
22707 o Minor bugfixes (misc):
22708 - Stop allowing invalid address patterns like "*/24" that contain
22709 both a wildcard address and a bit prefix length. This affects all
22710 our address-range parsing code. Fixes bug 7484; bugfix
22713 o Minor bugfixes (testing networks, fast startup):
22714 - Allow Tor to build circuits using a consensus with no exits. If
22715 the consensus has no exits (typical of a bootstrapping test
22716 network), allow Tor to build circuits once enough descriptors have
22717 been downloaded. This assists in bootstrapping a testing Tor
22718 network. Fixes bug 13718; bugfix on 0.2.4.10-alpha. Patch
22720 - When V3AuthVotingInterval is low, give a lower If-Modified-Since
22721 header to directory servers. This allows us to obtain consensuses
22722 promptly when the consensus interval is very short. This assists
22723 in bootstrapping a testing Tor network. Fixes parts of bugs 13718
22724 and 13963; bugfix on 0.2.0.3-alpha. Patch by "teor".
22725 - Stop assuming that private addresses are local when checking
22726 reachability in a TestingTorNetwork. Instead, when testing, assume
22727 all OR connections are remote. (This is necessary due to many test
22728 scenarios running all relays on localhost.) This assists in
22729 bootstrapping a testing Tor network. Fixes bug 13924; bugfix on
22730 0.1.0.1-rc. Patch by "teor".
22731 - Avoid building exit circuits from a consensus with no exits. Now
22732 thanks to our fix for 13718, we accept a no-exit network as not
22733 wholly lost, but we need to remember not to try to build exit
22734 circuits on it. Closes ticket 13814; patch by "teor".
22735 - Stop requiring exits to have non-zero bandwithcapacity in a
22736 TestingTorNetwork. Instead, when TestingMinExitFlagThreshold is 0,
22737 ignore exit bandwidthcapacity. This assists in bootstrapping a
22738 testing Tor network. Fixes parts of bugs 13718 and 13839; bugfix
22739 on 0.2.0.3-alpha. Patch by "teor".
22740 - Add "internal" to some bootstrap statuses when no exits are
22741 available. If the consensus does not contain Exits, Tor will only
22742 build internal circuits. In this case, relevant statuses will
22743 contain the word "internal" as indicated in the Tor control-
22744 spec.txt. When bootstrap completes, Tor will be ready to build
22745 internal circuits. If a future consensus contains Exits, exit
22746 circuits may become available. Fixes part of bug 13718; bugfix on
22747 0.2.4.10-alpha. Patch by "teor".
22748 - Decrease minimum consensus interval to 10 seconds when
22749 TestingTorNetwork is set, or 5 seconds for the first consensus.
22750 Fix assumptions throughout the code that assume larger intervals.
22751 Fixes bugs 13718 and 13823; bugfix on 0.2.0.3-alpha. Patch
22753 - Avoid excluding guards from path building in minimal test
22754 networks, when we're in a test network and excluding guards would
22755 exclude all relays. This typically occurs in incredibly small tor
22756 networks, and those using "TestingAuthVoteGuard *". Fixes part of
22757 bug 13718; bugfix on 0.1.1.11-alpha. Patch by "teor".
22759 o Code simplification and refactoring:
22760 - Stop using can_complete_circuits as a global variable; access it
22761 with a function instead.
22762 - Avoid using operators directly as macro arguments: this lets us
22763 apply coccinelle transformations to our codebase more directly.
22764 Closes ticket 13172.
22765 - Combine the functions used to parse ClientTransportPlugin and
22766 ServerTransportPlugin into a single function. Closes ticket 6456.
22767 - Add inline functions and convenience macros for inspecting channel
22768 state. Refactor the code to use convenience macros instead of
22769 checking channel state directly. Fixes issue 7356.
22770 - Document all members of was_router_added_t and rename
22771 ROUTER_WAS_NOT_NEW to ROUTER_IS_ALREADY_KNOWN to make it less
22772 confusable with ROUTER_WAS_TOO_OLD. Fixes issue 13644.
22773 - In connection_exit_begin_conn(), use END_CIRC_REASON_TORPROTOCOL
22774 constant instead of hardcoded value. Fixes issue 13840.
22775 - Refactor our generic strmap and digestmap types into a single
22776 implementation, so that we can add a new digest256map
22780 - Document the bridge-authority-only 'networkstatus-bridges' file.
22781 Closes ticket 13713; patch from "tom".
22782 - Fix typo in PredictedPortsRelevanceTime option description in
22783 manpage. Resolves issue 13707.
22784 - Stop suggesting that users specify relays by nickname: it isn't a
22785 good idea. Also, properly cross-reference how to specify relays in
22786 all parts of manual documenting options that take a list of
22787 relays. Closes ticket 13381.
22788 - Clarify the HiddenServiceDir option description in manpage to make
22789 it clear that relative paths are taken with respect to the current
22790 working directory. Also clarify that this behavior is not
22791 guaranteed to remain indefinitely. Fixes issue 13913.
22794 - New tests for many parts of channel, relay, and circuitmux
22795 functionality. Code by Andrea; part of 9262.
22796 - New tests for parse_transport_line(). Part of ticket 6456.
22797 - In the unit tests, use chgrp() to change the group of the unit
22798 test temporary directory to the current user, so that the sticky
22799 bit doesn't interfere with tests that check directory groups.
22801 - Add unit tests for resolve_my_addr(). Part of ticket 12376; patch
22805 Changes in version 0.2.6.1-alpha - 2014-10-30
22806 Tor 0.2.6.1-alpha is the first release in the Tor 0.2.6.x series. It
22807 includes numerous code cleanups and new tests, and fixes a large
22808 number of annoying bugs. Out-of-memory conditions are handled better
22809 than in 0.2.5, pluggable transports have improved proxy support, and
22810 clients now use optimistic data for contacting hidden services. Also,
22811 we are now more robust to changes in what we consider a parseable
22812 directory object, so that tightening restrictions does not have a risk
22813 of introducing infinite download loops.
22815 This is the first alpha release in a new series, so expect there to be
22816 bugs. Users who would rather test out a more stable branch should stay
22817 with 0.2.5.x for now.
22819 o New compiler and system requirements:
22820 - Tor 0.2.6.x requires that your compiler support more of the C99
22821 language standard than before. The 'configure' script now detects
22822 whether your compiler supports C99 mid-block declarations and
22823 designated initializers. If it does not, Tor will not compile.
22825 We may revisit this requirement if it turns out that a significant
22826 number of people need to build Tor with compilers that don't
22827 bother implementing a 15-year-old standard. Closes ticket 13233.
22828 - Tor no longer supports systems without threading support. When we
22829 began working on Tor, there were several systems that didn't have
22830 threads, or where the thread support wasn't able to run the
22831 threads of a single process on multiple CPUs. That no longer
22832 holds: every system where Tor needs to run well now has threading
22833 support. Resolves ticket 12439.
22835 o Removed platform support:
22836 - We no longer include special code to build on Windows CE; as far
22837 as we know, nobody has used Tor on Windows CE in a very long time.
22838 Closes ticket 11446.
22840 o Major features (bridges):
22841 - Expose the outgoing upstream HTTP/SOCKS proxy to pluggable
22842 transports if they are configured via the "TOR_PT_PROXY"
22843 environment variable. Implements proposal 232. Resolves
22846 o Major features (client performance, hidden services):
22847 - Allow clients to use optimistic data when connecting to a hidden
22848 service, which should remove a round-trip from hidden service
22849 initialization. See proposal 181 for details. Implements
22852 o Major features (directory system):
22853 - Upon receiving an unparseable directory object, if its digest
22854 matches what we expected, then don't try to download it again.
22855 Previously, when we got a descriptor we didn't like, we would keep
22856 trying to download it over and over. Closes ticket 11243.
22858 o Major features (sample torrc):
22859 - Add a new, infrequently-changed "torrc.minimal". This file is
22860 similar to torrc.sample, but it will change as infrequently as
22861 possible, for the benefit of users whose systems prompt them for
22862 intervention whenever a default configuration file is changed.
22863 Making this change allows us to update torrc.sample to be a more
22864 generally useful "sample torrc".
22866 o Major bugfixes (directory authorities):
22867 - Do not assign the HSDir flag to relays if they are not Valid, or
22868 currently hibernating. Fixes 12573; bugfix on 0.2.0.10-alpha.
22870 o Major bugfixes (directory bandwidth performance):
22871 - Don't flush the zlib buffer aggressively when compressing
22872 directory information for clients. This should save about 7% of
22873 the bandwidth currently used for compressed descriptors and
22874 microdescriptors. Fixes bug 11787; bugfix on 0.1.1.23.
22876 o Minor features (security, memory wiping):
22877 - Ensure we securely wipe keys from memory after
22878 crypto_digest_get_digest and init_curve25519_keypair_from_file
22879 have finished using them. Resolves ticket 13477.
22881 o Minor features (security, out-of-memory handling):
22882 - When handling an out-of-memory condition, allocate less memory for
22883 temporary data structures. Fixes issue 10115.
22884 - When handling an out-of-memory condition, consider more types of
22885 buffers, including those on directory connections, and zlib
22886 buffers. Resolves ticket 11792.
22889 - When identity keypair is generated for first time, log a
22890 congratulatory message that links to the new relay lifecycle
22891 document. Implements feature 10427.
22893 o Minor features (client):
22894 - Clients are now willing to send optimistic data (before they
22895 receive a 'connected' cell) to relays of any version. (Relays
22896 without support for optimistic data are no longer supported on the
22897 Tor network.) Resolves ticket 13153.
22899 o Minor features (directory authorities):
22900 - Don't list relays with a bandwidth estimate of 0 in the consensus.
22901 Implements a feature proposed during discussion of bug 13000.
22902 - In tor-gencert, report an error if the user provides the same
22903 argument more than once.
22904 - If a directory authority can't find a best consensus method in the
22905 votes that it holds, it now falls back to its favorite consensus
22906 method. Previously, it fell back to method 1. Neither of these is
22907 likely to get enough signatures, but "fall back to favorite"
22908 doesn't require us to maintain support an obsolete consensus
22909 method. Implements part of proposal 215.
22911 o Minor features (logging):
22912 - On Unix-like systems, you can now use named pipes as the target of
22913 the Log option, and other options that try to append to files.
22914 Closes ticket 12061. Patch from "carlo von lynX".
22915 - When opening a log file at startup, send it every log message that
22916 we generated between startup and opening it. Previously, log
22917 messages that were generated before opening the log file were only
22918 logged to stdout. Closes ticket 6938.
22919 - Add a TruncateLogFile option to overwrite logs instead of
22920 appending to them. Closes ticket 5583.
22922 o Minor features (portability, Solaris):
22923 - Threads are no longer disabled by default on Solaris; we believe
22924 that the versions of Solaris with broken threading support are all
22925 obsolete by now. Resolves ticket 9495.
22927 o Minor features (relay):
22928 - Re-check our address after we detect a changed IP address from
22929 getsockname(). This ensures that the controller command "GETINFO
22930 address" will report the correct value. Resolves ticket 11582.
22932 - A new AccountingRule option lets Relays set whether they'd like
22933 AccountingMax to be applied separately to inbound and outbound
22934 traffic, or applied to the sum of inbound and outbound traffic.
22935 Resolves ticket 961. Patch by "chobe".
22937 o Minor features (testing networks):
22938 - Add the TestingDirAuthVoteExit option, which lists nodes to assign
22939 the "Exit" flag regardless of their uptime, bandwidth, or exit
22940 policy. TestingTorNetwork must be set for this option to have any
22941 effect. Previously, authorities would take up to 35 minutes to
22942 give nodes the Exit flag in a test network. Partially implements
22945 o Minor features (validation):
22946 - Check all date/time values passed to tor_timegm and
22947 parse_rfc1123_time for validity, taking leap years into account.
22948 Improves HTTP header validation. Implemented with bug 13476.
22949 - In correct_tm(), limit the range of values returned by system
22950 localtime(_r) and gmtime(_r) to be between the years 1 and 8099.
22951 This means we don't have to deal with negative or too large dates,
22952 even if a clock is wrong. Otherwise we might fail to read a file
22953 written by us which includes such a date. Fixes bug 13476.
22955 o Minor bugfixes (bridge clients):
22956 - When configured to use a bridge without an identity digest (not
22957 recommended), avoid launching an extra channel to it when
22958 bootstrapping. Fixes bug 7733; bugfix on 0.2.4.4-alpha.
22960 o Minor bugfixes (bridges):
22961 - When DisableNetwork is set, do not launch pluggable transport
22962 plugins, and if any are running, terminate them. Fixes bug 13213;
22963 bugfix on 0.2.3.6-alpha.
22965 o Minor bugfixes (C correctness):
22966 - Fix several instances of possible integer overflow/underflow/NaN.
22967 Fixes bug 13104; bugfix on 0.2.3.1-alpha and later. Patches
22969 - In circuit_build_times_calculate_timeout() in circuitstats.c,
22970 avoid dividing by zero in the pareto calculations. This traps
22971 under clang's "undefined-trap" sanitizer. Fixes bug 13290; bugfix
22973 - Fix an integer overflow in format_time_interval(). Fixes bug
22974 13393; bugfix on 0.2.0.10-alpha.
22975 - Set the correct day of year value when the system's localtime(_r)
22976 or gmtime(_r) functions fail to set struct tm. Not externally
22977 visible. Fixes bug 13476; bugfix on 0.0.2pre14.
22978 - Avoid unlikely signed integer overflow in tor_timegm on systems
22979 with 32-bit time_t. Fixes bug 13476; bugfix on 0.0.2pre14.
22981 o Minor bugfixes (client):
22982 - Fix smartlist_choose_node_by_bandwidth() so that relays with the
22983 BadExit flag are not considered worthy candidates. Fixes bug
22984 13066; bugfix on 0.1.2.3-alpha.
22985 - Use the consensus schedule for downloading consensuses, and not
22986 the generic schedule. Fixes bug 11679; bugfix on 0.2.2.6-alpha.
22987 - Handle unsupported or malformed SOCKS5 requests properly by
22988 responding with the appropriate error message before closing the
22989 connection. Fixes bugs 12971 and 13314; bugfix on 0.0.2pre13.
22991 o Minor bugfixes (client, torrc):
22992 - Stop modifying the value of our DirReqStatistics torrc option just
22993 because we're not a bridge or relay. This bug was causing Tor
22994 Browser users to write "DirReqStatistics 0" in their torrc files
22995 as if they had chosen to change the config. Fixes bug 4244; bugfix
22997 - When GeoIPExcludeUnknown is enabled, do not incorrectly decide
22998 that our options have changed every time we SIGHUP. Fixes bug
22999 9801; bugfix on 0.2.4.10-alpha. Patch from "qwerty1".
23001 o Minor bugfixes (controller):
23002 - Return an error when the second or later arguments of the
23003 "setevents" controller command are invalid events. Previously we
23004 would return success while silently skipping invalid events. Fixes
23005 bug 13205; bugfix on 0.2.3.2-alpha. Reported by "fpxnns".
23007 o Minor bugfixes (directory system):
23008 - Always believe that v3 directory authorities serve extra-info
23009 documents, whether they advertise "caches-extra-info" or not.
23010 Fixes part of bug 11683; bugfix on 0.2.0.1-alpha.
23011 - When running as a v3 directory authority, advertise that you serve
23012 extra-info documents so that clients who want them can find them
23013 from you too. Fixes part of bug 11683; bugfix on 0.2.0.1-alpha.
23014 - Check the BRIDGE_DIRINFO flag bitwise rather than using equality.
23015 Previously, directories offering BRIDGE_DIRINFO and some other
23016 flag (i.e. microdescriptors or extrainfo) would be ignored when
23017 looking for bridges. Partially fixes bug 13163; bugfix
23020 o Minor bugfixes (networking):
23021 - Check for orconns and use connection_or_close_for_error() rather
23022 than connection_mark_for_close() directly in the getsockopt()
23023 failure case of connection_handle_write_impl(). Fixes bug 11302;
23024 bugfix on 0.2.4.4-alpha.
23026 o Minor bugfixes (relay):
23027 - When generating our family list, remove spaces from around the
23028 entries. Fixes bug 12728; bugfix on 0.2.1.7-alpha.
23029 - If our previous bandwidth estimate was 0 bytes, allow publishing a
23030 new relay descriptor immediately. Fixes bug 13000; bugfix
23033 o Minor bugfixes (testing networks):
23034 - Fix TestingDirAuthVoteGuard to properly give out Guard flags in a
23035 testing network. Fixes bug 13064; bugfix on 0.2.5.2-alpha.
23036 - Stop using the default authorities in networks which provide both
23037 AlternateDirAuthority and AlternateBridgeAuthority. Partially
23038 fixes bug 13163; bugfix on 0.2.0.13-alpha.
23040 o Minor bugfixes (testing):
23041 - Stop spawn test failures due to a race condition between the
23042 SIGCHLD handler updating the process status, and the test reading
23043 it. Fixes bug 13291; bugfix on 0.2.3.3-alpha.
23045 o Minor bugfixes (testing, Windows):
23046 - Avoid passing an extra backslash when creating a temporary
23047 directory for running the unit tests on Windows. Fixes bug 12392;
23048 bugfix on 0.2.2.25-alpha. Patch from Gisle Vanem.
23050 o Minor bugfixes (windows):
23051 - Remove code to special-case handling of NTE_BAD_KEYSET when
23052 acquiring windows CryptoAPI context. This error can't actually
23053 occur for the parameters we're providing. Fixes bug 10816; bugfix
23056 o Minor bugfixes (zlib):
23057 - Avoid truncating a zlib stream when trying to finalize it with an
23058 empty output buffer. Fixes bug 11824; bugfix on 0.1.1.23.
23061 - Allow our configure script to build correctly with autoconf 2.62
23062 again. Fixes bug 12693; bugfix on 0.2.5.2-alpha.
23063 - Improve the error message from ./configure to make it clear that
23064 when asciidoc has not been found, the user will have to either add
23065 --disable-asciidoc argument or install asciidoc. Resolves
23068 o Code simplification and refactoring:
23069 - Change the entry_is_live() function to take named bitfield
23070 elements instead of an unnamed list of booleans. Closes
23072 - Refactor and unit-test entry_is_time_to_retry() in entrynodes.c.
23073 Resolves ticket 12205.
23074 - Use calloc and reallocarray functions instead of multiply-
23075 then-malloc. This makes it less likely for us to fall victim to an
23076 integer overflow attack when allocating. Resolves ticket 12855.
23077 - Use the standard macro name SIZE_MAX, instead of our
23079 - Document usage of the NO_DIRINFO and ALL_DIRINFO flags clearly in
23080 functions which take them as arguments. Replace 0 with NO_DIRINFO
23081 in a function call for clarity. Seeks to prevent future issues
23083 - Avoid 4 null pointer errors under clang static analysis by using
23084 tor_assert() to prove that the pointers aren't null. Fixes
23086 - Rework the API of policies_parse_exit_policy() to use a bitmask to
23087 represent parsing options, instead of a confusing mess of
23088 booleans. Resolves ticket 8197.
23089 - Introduce a helper function to parse ExitPolicy in
23090 or_options_t structure.
23093 - Add a doc/TUNING document with tips for handling large numbers of
23094 TCP connections when running busy Tor relay. Update the warning
23095 message to point to this file when running out of sockets
23096 operating system is allowing to use simultaneously. Resolves
23099 o Removed features:
23100 - We no longer remind the user about configuration options that have
23101 been obsolete since 0.2.3.x or earlier. Patch by Adrien Bak.
23102 - Remove our old, non-weighted bandwidth-based node selection code.
23103 Previously, we used it as a fallback when we couldn't perform
23104 weighted bandwidth-based node selection. But that would only
23105 happen in the cases where we had no consensus, or when we had a
23106 consensus generated by buggy or ancient directory authorities. In
23107 either case, it's better to use the more modern, better maintained
23108 algorithm, with reasonable defaults for the weights. Closes
23110 - Remove the --disable-curve25519 configure option. Relays and
23111 clients now are required to support curve25519 and the
23113 - The old "StrictEntryNodes" and "StrictExitNodes" options, which
23114 used to be deprecated synonyms for "StrictNodes", are now marked
23115 obsolete. Resolves ticket 12226.
23116 - Clients don't understand the BadDirectory flag in the consensus
23117 anymore, and ignore it.
23120 - Refactor the function that chooses guard nodes so that it can more
23121 easily be tested; write some tests for it.
23122 - Fix and re-enable the fgets_eagain unit test. Fixes bug 12503;
23123 bugfix on 0.2.3.1-alpha. Patch from "cypherpunks."
23124 - Create unit tests for format_time_interval(). With bug 13393.
23125 - Add unit tests for tor_timegm signed overflow, tor_timegm and
23126 parse_rfc1123_time validity checks, correct_tm year clamping. Unit
23127 tests (visible) fixes in bug 13476.
23128 - Add a "coverage-html" make target to generate HTML-visualized
23129 coverage results when building with --enable-coverage. (Requires
23130 lcov.) Patch from Kevin Murray.
23131 - Enable the backtrace handler (where supported) when running the
23133 - Revise all unit tests that used the legacy test_* macros to
23134 instead use the recommended tt_* macros. This patch was generated
23135 with coccinelle, to avoid manual errors. Closes ticket 13119.
23137 o Distribution (systemd):
23138 - systemd unit file: only allow tor to write to /var/lib/tor and
23139 /var/log/tor. The rest of the filesystem is accessible for reading
23140 only. Patch by intrigeri; resolves ticket 12751.
23141 - systemd unit file: ensure that the process and all its children
23142 can never gain new privileges. Patch by intrigeri; resolves
23144 - systemd unit file: set up /var/run/tor as writable for the Tor
23145 service. Patch by intrigeri; resolves ticket 13196.
23147 o Removed features (directory authorities):
23148 - Remove code that prevented authorities from listing Tor relays
23149 affected by CVE-2011-2769 as guards. These relays are already
23150 rejected altogether due to the minimum version requirement of
23151 0.2.3.16-alpha. Closes ticket 13152.
23152 - The "AuthDirRejectUnlisted" option no longer has any effect, as
23153 the fingerprints file (approved-routers) has been deprecated.
23154 - Directory authorities do not support being Naming dirauths anymore.
23155 The "NamingAuthoritativeDir" config option is now obsolete.
23156 - Directory authorities do not support giving out the BadDirectory
23158 - Directory authorities no longer advertise or support consensus
23159 methods 1 through 12 inclusive. These consensus methods were
23160 obsolete and/or insecure: maintaining the ability to support them
23161 served no good purpose. Implements part of proposal 215; closes
23164 o Testing (test-network.sh):
23165 - Stop using "echo -n", as some shells' built-in echo doesn't
23166 support "-n". Instead, use "/bin/echo -n". Partially fixes
23168 - Stop an apparent test-network hang when used with make -j2. Fixes
23170 - Add a --delay option to test-network.sh, which configures the
23171 delay before the chutney network tests for data transmission.
23172 Partially implements ticket 13161.
23175 Changes in version 0.2.5.10 - 2014-10-24
23176 Tor 0.2.5.10 is the first stable release in the 0.2.5 series.
23178 It adds several new security features, including improved
23179 denial-of-service resistance for relays, new compiler hardening
23180 options, and a system-call sandbox for hardened installations on Linux
23181 (requires seccomp2). The controller protocol has several new features,
23182 resolving IPv6 addresses should work better than before, and relays
23183 should be a little more CPU-efficient. We've added support for more
23184 OpenBSD and FreeBSD transparent proxy types. We've improved the build
23185 system and testing infrastructure to allow unit testing of more parts
23186 of the Tor codebase. Finally, we've addressed several nagging pluggable
23187 transport usability issues, and included numerous other small bugfixes
23188 and features mentioned below.
23190 This release marks end-of-life for Tor 0.2.3.x; those Tor versions
23191 have accumulated many known flaws; everyone should upgrade.
23193 o Deprecated versions:
23194 - Tor 0.2.3.x has reached end-of-life; it has received no patches or
23195 attention for some while.
23198 Changes in version 0.2.5.9-rc - 2014-10-20
23199 Tor 0.2.5.9-rc is the third release candidate for the Tor 0.2.5.x
23200 series. It disables SSL3 in response to the recent "POODLE" attack
23201 (even though POODLE does not affect Tor). It also works around a crash
23202 bug caused by some operating systems' response to the "POODLE" attack
23203 (which does affect Tor). It also contains a few miscellaneous fixes.
23205 o Major security fixes:
23206 - Disable support for SSLv3. All versions of OpenSSL in use with Tor
23207 today support TLS 1.0 or later, so we can safely turn off support
23208 for this old (and insecure) protocol. Fixes bug 13426.
23210 o Major bugfixes (openssl bug workaround):
23211 - Avoid crashing when using OpenSSL version 0.9.8zc, 1.0.0o, or
23212 1.0.1j, built with the 'no-ssl3' configuration option. Fixes bug
23213 13471. This is a workaround for an OpenSSL bug.
23216 - Disable the sandbox name resolver cache when running tor-resolve:
23217 tor-resolve doesn't use the sandbox code, and turning it on was
23218 breaking attempts to do tor-resolve on a non-default server on
23219 Linux. Fixes bug 13295; bugfix on 0.2.5.3-alpha.
23221 o Compilation fixes:
23222 - Build and run correctly on systems like OpenBSD-current that have
23223 patched OpenSSL to remove get_cipher_by_char and/or its
23224 implementations. Fixes issue 13325.
23226 o Downgraded warnings:
23227 - Downgrade the severity of the 'unexpected sendme cell from client'
23228 from 'warn' to 'protocol warning'. Closes ticket 8093.
23231 Changes in version 0.2.4.25 - 2014-10-20
23232 Tor 0.2.4.25 disables SSL3 in response to the recent "POODLE" attack
23233 (even though POODLE does not affect Tor). It also works around a crash
23234 bug caused by some operating systems' response to the "POODLE" attack
23235 (which does affect Tor).
23237 o Major security fixes (also in 0.2.5.9-rc):
23238 - Disable support for SSLv3. All versions of OpenSSL in use with Tor
23239 today support TLS 1.0 or later, so we can safely turn off support
23240 for this old (and insecure) protocol. Fixes bug 13426.
23242 o Major bugfixes (openssl bug workaround, also in 0.2.5.9-rc):
23243 - Avoid crashing when using OpenSSL version 0.9.8zc, 1.0.0o, or
23244 1.0.1j, built with the 'no-ssl3' configuration option. Fixes bug
23245 13471. This is a workaround for an OpenSSL bug.
23248 Changes in version 0.2.5.8-rc - 2014-09-22
23249 Tor 0.2.5.8-rc is the second release candidate for the Tor 0.2.5.x
23250 series. It fixes a bug that affects consistency and speed when
23251 connecting to hidden services, and it updates the location of one of
23252 the directory authorities.
23255 - Clients now send the correct address for their chosen rendezvous
23256 point when trying to access a hidden service. They used to send
23257 the wrong address, which would still work some of the time because
23258 they also sent the identity digest of the rendezvous point, and if
23259 the hidden service happened to try connecting to the rendezvous
23260 point from a relay that already had a connection open to it,
23261 the relay would reuse that connection. Now connections to hidden
23262 services should be more robust and faster. Also, this bug meant
23263 that clients were leaking to the hidden service whether they were
23264 on a little-endian (common) or big-endian (rare) system, which for
23265 some users might have reduced their anonymity. Fixes bug 13151;
23266 bugfix on 0.2.1.5-alpha.
23268 o Directory authority changes:
23269 - Change IP address for gabelmoo (v3 directory authority).
23272 Changes in version 0.2.4.24 - 2014-09-22
23273 Tor 0.2.4.24 fixes a bug that affects consistency and speed when
23274 connecting to hidden services, and it updates the location of one of
23275 the directory authorities.
23278 - Clients now send the correct address for their chosen rendezvous
23279 point when trying to access a hidden service. They used to send
23280 the wrong address, which would still work some of the time because
23281 they also sent the identity digest of the rendezvous point, and if
23282 the hidden service happened to try connecting to the rendezvous
23283 point from a relay that already had a connection open to it,
23284 the relay would reuse that connection. Now connections to hidden
23285 services should be more robust and faster. Also, this bug meant
23286 that clients were leaking to the hidden service whether they were
23287 on a little-endian (common) or big-endian (rare) system, which for
23288 some users might have reduced their anonymity. Fixes bug 13151;
23289 bugfix on 0.2.1.5-alpha.
23291 o Directory authority changes:
23292 - Change IP address for gabelmoo (v3 directory authority).
23294 o Minor features (geoip):
23295 - Update geoip and geoip6 to the August 7 2014 Maxmind GeoLite2
23299 Changes in version 0.2.5.7-rc - 2014-09-11
23300 Tor 0.2.5.7-rc fixes several regressions from earlier in the 0.2.5.x
23301 release series, and some long-standing bugs related to ORPort reachability
23302 testing and failure to send CREATE cells. It is the first release
23303 candidate for the Tor 0.2.5.x series.
23305 o Major bugfixes (client, startup):
23306 - Start making circuits as soon as DisabledNetwork is turned off.
23307 When Tor started with DisabledNetwork set, it would correctly
23308 conclude that it shouldn't build circuits, but it would mistakenly
23309 cache this conclusion, and continue believing it even when
23310 DisableNetwork is set to 0. Fixes the bug introduced by the fix
23311 for bug 11200; bugfix on 0.2.5.4-alpha.
23312 - Resume expanding abbreviations for command-line options. The fix
23313 for bug 4647 accidentally removed our hack from bug 586 that
23314 rewrote HashedControlPassword to __HashedControlSessionPassword
23315 when it appears on the commandline (which allowed the user to set
23316 her own HashedControlPassword in the torrc file while the
23317 controller generates a fresh session password for each run). Fixes
23318 bug 12948; bugfix on 0.2.5.1-alpha.
23319 - Warn about attempts to run hidden services and relays in the same
23320 process: that's probably not a good idea. Closes ticket 12908.
23322 o Major bugfixes (relay):
23323 - Avoid queuing or sending destroy cells for circuit ID zero when we
23324 fail to send a CREATE cell. Fixes bug 12848; bugfix on 0.0.8pre1.
23325 Found and fixed by "cypherpunks".
23326 - Fix ORPort reachability detection on relays running behind a
23327 proxy, by correctly updating the "local" mark on the controlling
23328 channel when changing the address of an or_connection_t after the
23329 handshake. Fixes bug 12160; bugfix on 0.2.4.4-alpha.
23331 o Minor features (bridge):
23332 - Add an ExtORPortCookieAuthFileGroupReadable option to make the
23333 cookie file for the ExtORPort g+r by default.
23335 o Minor features (geoip):
23336 - Update geoip and geoip6 to the August 7 2014 Maxmind GeoLite2
23339 o Minor bugfixes (logging):
23340 - Reduce the log severity of the "Pluggable transport proxy does not
23341 provide any needed transports and will not be launched." message,
23342 since Tor Browser includes several ClientTransportPlugin lines in
23343 its torrc-defaults file, leading every Tor Browser user who looks
23344 at her logs to see these notices and wonder if they're dangerous.
23345 Resolves bug 13124; bugfix on 0.2.5.3-alpha.
23346 - Downgrade "Unexpected onionskin length after decryption" warning
23347 to a protocol-warn, since there's nothing relay operators can do
23348 about a client that sends them a malformed create cell. Resolves
23349 bug 12996; bugfix on 0.0.6rc1.
23350 - Log more specific warnings when we get an ESTABLISH_RENDEZVOUS
23351 cell on a cannibalized or non-OR circuit. Resolves ticket 12997.
23352 - When logging information about an EXTEND2 or EXTENDED2 cell, log
23353 their names correctly. Fixes part of bug 12700; bugfix
23355 - When logging information about a relay cell whose command we don't
23356 recognize, log its command as an integer. Fixes part of bug 12700;
23357 bugfix on 0.2.1.10-alpha.
23358 - Escape all strings from the directory connection before logging
23359 them. Fixes bug 13071; bugfix on 0.1.1.15. Patch from "teor".
23361 o Minor bugfixes (controller):
23362 - Restore the functionality of CookieAuthFileGroupReadable. Fixes
23363 bug 12864; bugfix on 0.2.5.1-alpha.
23364 - Actually send TRANSPORT_LAUNCHED and HS_DESC events to
23365 controllers. Fixes bug 13085; bugfix on 0.2.5.1-alpha. Patch
23368 o Minor bugfixes (compilation):
23369 - Fix compilation of test.h with MSVC. Patch from Gisle Vanem;
23370 bugfix on 0.2.5.5-alpha.
23371 - Make the nmake make files work again. Fixes bug 13081. Bugfix on
23372 0.2.5.1-alpha. Patch from "NewEraCracker".
23373 - In routerlist_assert_ok(), don't take the address of a
23374 routerinfo's cache_info member unless that routerinfo is non-NULL.
23375 Fixes bug 13096; bugfix on 0.1.1.9-alpha. Patch by "teor".
23376 - Fix a large number of false positive warnings from the clang
23377 analyzer static analysis tool. This should make real warnings
23378 easier for clang analyzer to find. Patch from "teor". Closes
23381 o Distribution (systemd):
23382 - Verify configuration file via ExecStartPre in the systemd unit
23383 file. Patch from intrigeri; resolves ticket 12730.
23384 - Explicitly disable RunAsDaemon in the systemd unit file. Our
23385 current systemd unit uses "Type = simple", so systemd does not
23386 expect tor to fork. If the user has "RunAsDaemon 1" in their
23387 torrc, then things won't work as expected. This is e.g. the case
23388 on Debian (and derivatives), since there we pass "--defaults-torrc
23389 /usr/share/tor/tor-service-defaults-torrc" (that contains
23390 "RunAsDaemon 1") by default. Patch by intrigeri; resolves
23394 - Adjust the URLs in the README to refer to the new locations of
23395 several documents on the website. Fixes bug 12830. Patch from
23397 - Document 'reject6' and 'accept6' ExitPolicy entries. Resolves
23401 Changes in version 0.2.5.6-alpha - 2014-07-28
23402 Tor 0.2.5.6-alpha brings us a big step closer to slowing down the
23403 risk from guard rotation, and fixes a variety of other issues to get
23404 us closer to a release candidate.
23406 o Major features (also in 0.2.4.23):
23407 - Make the number of entry guards configurable via a new
23408 NumEntryGuards consensus parameter, and the number of directory
23409 guards configurable via a new NumDirectoryGuards consensus
23410 parameter. Implements ticket 12688.
23412 o Major bugfixes (also in 0.2.4.23):
23413 - Fix a bug in the bounds-checking in the 32-bit curve25519-donna
23414 implementation that caused incorrect results on 32-bit
23415 implementations when certain malformed inputs were used along with
23416 a small class of private ntor keys. This bug does not currently
23417 appear to allow an attacker to learn private keys or impersonate a
23418 Tor server, but it could provide a means to distinguish 32-bit Tor
23419 implementations from 64-bit Tor implementations. Fixes bug 12694;
23420 bugfix on 0.2.4.8-alpha. Bug found by Robert Ransom; fix from
23424 - Perform circuit cleanup operations even when circuit
23425 construction operations are disabled (because the network is
23426 disabled, or because there isn't enough directory information).
23427 Previously, when we were not building predictive circuits, we
23428 were not closing expired circuits either. Fixes bug 8387; bugfix on
23429 0.1.1.11-alpha. This bug became visible in 0.2.4.10-alpha when we
23430 became more strict about when we have "enough directory information
23431 to build circuits".
23434 - Authorities now assign the Guard flag to the fastest 25% of the
23435 network (it used to be the fastest 50%). Also raise the consensus
23436 weight that guarantees the Guard flag from 250 to 2000. For the
23437 current network, this results in about 1100 guards, down from 2500.
23438 This step paves the way for moving the number of entry guards
23439 down to 1 (proposal 236) while still providing reasonable expected
23440 performance for most users. Implements ticket 12690.
23441 - Update geoip and geoip6 to the July 10 2014 Maxmind GeoLite2
23443 - Slightly enhance the diagnostic message for bug 12184.
23445 o Minor bugfixes (also in 0.2.4.23):
23446 - Warn and drop the circuit if we receive an inbound 'relay early'
23447 cell. Those used to be normal to receive on hidden service circuits
23448 due to bug 1038, but the buggy Tor versions are long gone from
23449 the network so we can afford to resume watching for them. Resolves
23450 the rest of bug 1038; bugfix on 0.2.1.19.
23451 - Correct a confusing error message when trying to extend a circuit
23452 via the control protocol but we don't know a descriptor or
23453 microdescriptor for one of the specified relays. Fixes bug 12718;
23454 bugfix on 0.2.3.1-alpha.
23457 - Fix compilation when building with bufferevents enabled. (This
23458 configuration is still not expected to work, however.)
23459 Fixes bugs 12438, 12474, 11578; bugfixes on 0.2.5.1-alpha and
23460 0.2.5.3-alpha. Patches from Anthony G. Basile and Sathyanarayanan
23462 - Compile correctly with builds and forks of OpenSSL (such as
23463 LibreSSL) that disable compression. Fixes bug 12602; bugfix on
23464 0.2.1.1-alpha. Patch from "dhill".
23467 Changes in version 0.2.4.23 - 2014-07-28
23468 Tor 0.2.4.23 brings us a big step closer to slowing down the risk from
23469 guard rotation, and also backports several important fixes from the
23470 Tor 0.2.5 alpha release series.
23473 - Clients now look at the "usecreatefast" consensus parameter to
23474 decide whether to use CREATE_FAST or CREATE cells for the first hop
23475 of their circuit. This approach can improve security on connections
23476 where Tor's circuit handshake is stronger than the available TLS
23477 connection security levels, but the tradeoff is more computational
23478 load on guard relays. Implements proposal 221. Resolves ticket 9386.
23479 - Make the number of entry guards configurable via a new
23480 NumEntryGuards consensus parameter, and the number of directory
23481 guards configurable via a new NumDirectoryGuards consensus
23482 parameter. Implements ticket 12688.
23485 - Fix a bug in the bounds-checking in the 32-bit curve25519-donna
23486 implementation that caused incorrect results on 32-bit
23487 implementations when certain malformed inputs were used along with
23488 a small class of private ntor keys. This bug does not currently
23489 appear to allow an attacker to learn private keys or impersonate a
23490 Tor server, but it could provide a means to distinguish 32-bit Tor
23491 implementations from 64-bit Tor implementations. Fixes bug 12694;
23492 bugfix on 0.2.4.8-alpha. Bug found by Robert Ransom; fix from
23496 - Warn and drop the circuit if we receive an inbound 'relay early'
23497 cell. Those used to be normal to receive on hidden service circuits
23498 due to bug 1038, but the buggy Tor versions are long gone from
23499 the network so we can afford to resume watching for them. Resolves
23500 the rest of bug 1038; bugfix on 0.2.1.19.
23501 - Correct a confusing error message when trying to extend a circuit
23502 via the control protocol but we don't know a descriptor or
23503 microdescriptor for one of the specified relays. Fixes bug 12718;
23504 bugfix on 0.2.3.1-alpha.
23505 - Avoid an illegal read from stack when initializing the TLS
23506 module using a version of OpenSSL without all of the ciphers
23507 used by the v2 link handshake. Fixes bug 12227; bugfix on
23508 0.2.4.8-alpha. Found by "starlight".
23511 - Update geoip and geoip6 to the July 10 2014 Maxmind GeoLite2
23515 Changes in version 0.2.5.5-alpha - 2014-06-18
23516 Tor 0.2.5.5-alpha fixes a wide variety of remaining issues in the Tor
23517 0.2.5.x release series, including a couple of DoS issues, some
23518 performance regressions, a large number of bugs affecting the Linux
23519 seccomp2 sandbox code, and various other bugfixes. It also adds
23520 diagnostic bugfixes for a few tricky issues that we're trying to
23523 o Major features (security, traffic analysis resistance):
23524 - Several major improvements to the algorithm used to decide when to
23525 close TLS connections. Previous versions of Tor closed connections
23526 at a fixed interval after the last time a non-padding cell was
23527 sent over the connection, regardless of the target of the
23528 connection. Now, we randomize the intervals by adding up to 50% of
23529 their base value, we measure the length of time since connection
23530 last had at least one circuit, and we allow connections to known
23531 ORs to remain open a little longer (15 minutes instead of 3
23532 minutes minimum). These changes should improve Tor's resistance
23533 against some kinds of traffic analysis, and lower some overhead
23534 from needlessly closed connections. Fixes ticket 6799.
23535 Incidentally fixes ticket 12023; bugfix on 0.2.5.1-alpha.
23537 o Major bugfixes (security, OOM, new since 0.2.5.4-alpha, also in 0.2.4.22):
23538 - Fix a memory leak that could occur if a microdescriptor parse
23539 fails during the tokenizing step. This bug could enable a memory
23540 exhaustion attack by directory servers. Fixes bug 11649; bugfix
23543 o Major bugfixes (security, directory authorities):
23544 - Directory authorities now include a digest of each relay's
23545 identity key as a part of its microdescriptor.
23547 This is a workaround for bug 11743 (reported by "cypherpunks"),
23548 where Tor clients do not support receiving multiple
23549 microdescriptors with the same SHA256 digest in the same
23550 consensus. When clients receive a consensus like this, they only
23551 use one of the relays. Without this fix, a hostile relay could
23552 selectively disable some client use of target relays by
23553 constructing a router descriptor with a different identity and the
23554 same microdescriptor parameters and getting the authorities to
23555 list it in a microdescriptor consensus. This fix prevents an
23556 attacker from causing a microdescriptor collision, because the
23557 router's identity is not forgeable.
23559 o Major bugfixes (relay):
23560 - Use a direct dirport connection when uploading non-anonymous
23561 descriptors to the directory authorities. Previously, relays would
23562 incorrectly use tunnel connections under a fairly wide variety of
23563 circumstances. Fixes bug 11469; bugfix on 0.2.4.3-alpha.
23564 - When a circuit accidentally has the same circuit ID for its
23565 forward and reverse direction, correctly detect the direction of
23566 cells using that circuit. Previously, this bug made roughly one
23567 circuit in a million non-functional. Fixes bug 12195; this is a
23568 bugfix on every version of Tor.
23570 o Major bugfixes (client, pluggable transports):
23571 - When managing pluggable transports, use OS notification facilities
23572 to learn if they have crashed, and don't attempt to kill any
23573 process that has already exited. Fixes bug 8746; bugfix
23576 o Minor features (diagnostic):
23577 - When logging a warning because of bug 7164, additionally check the
23578 hash table for consistency (as proposed on ticket 11737). This may
23579 help diagnose bug 7164.
23580 - When we log a heartbeat, log how many one-hop circuits we have
23581 that are at least 30 minutes old, and log status information about
23582 a few of them. This is an attempt to track down bug 8387.
23583 - When encountering an unexpected CR while writing text to a file on
23584 Windows, log the name of the file. Should help diagnosing
23586 - Give more specific warnings when a client notices that an onion
23587 handshake has failed. Fixes ticket 9635.
23588 - Add significant new logging code to attempt to diagnose bug 12184,
23589 where relays seem to run out of available circuit IDs.
23590 - Improve the diagnostic log message for bug 8387 even further to
23591 try to improve our odds of figuring out why one-hop directory
23592 circuits sometimes do not get closed.
23594 o Minor features (security, memory management):
23595 - Memory allocation tricks (mempools and buffer freelists) are now
23596 disabled by default. You can turn them back on with
23597 --enable-mempools and --enable-buf-freelists respectively. We're
23598 disabling these features because malloc performance is good enough
23599 on most platforms, and a similar feature in OpenSSL exacerbated
23600 exploitation of the Heartbleed attack. Resolves ticket 11476.
23602 o Minor features (security):
23603 - Apply the secure SipHash-2-4 function to the hash table mapping
23604 circuit IDs and channels to circuits. We missed this one when we
23605 were converting all the other hash functions to use SipHash back
23606 in 0.2.5.3-alpha. Resolves ticket 11750.
23608 o Minor features (build):
23609 - The configure script has a --disable-seccomp option to turn off
23610 support for libseccomp on systems that have it, in case it (or
23611 Tor's use of it) is broken. Resolves ticket 11628.
23613 o Minor features (other):
23614 - Update geoip and geoip6 to the June 4 2014 Maxmind GeoLite2
23617 o Minor bugfixes (security, new since 0.2.5.4-alpha, also in 0.2.4.22):
23618 - When running a hidden service, do not allow TunneledDirConns 0;
23619 this will keep the hidden service from running, and also
23620 make it publish its descriptors directly over HTTP. Fixes bug 10849;
23621 bugfix on 0.2.1.1-alpha.
23623 o Minor bugfixes (performance):
23624 - Avoid a bug where every successful connection made us recompute
23625 the flag telling us whether we have sufficient information to
23626 build circuits. Previously, we would forget our cached value
23627 whenever we successfully opened a channel (or marked a router as
23628 running or not running for any other reason), regardless of
23629 whether we had previously believed the router to be running. This
23630 forced us to run an expensive update operation far too often.
23631 Fixes bug 12170; bugfix on 0.1.2.1-alpha.
23632 - Avoid using tor_memeq() for checking relay cell integrity. This
23633 removes a possible performance bottleneck. Fixes part of bug
23634 12169; bugfix on 0.2.1.31.
23636 o Minor bugfixes (compilation):
23637 - Fix compilation of test_status.c when building with MVSC. Bugfix
23638 on 0.2.5.4-alpha. Patch from Gisle Vanem.
23639 - Resolve GCC complaints on OpenBSD about discarding constness in
23640 TO_{ORIGIN,OR}_CIRCUIT functions. Fixes part of bug 11633; bugfix
23641 on 0.1.1.23. Patch from Dana Koch.
23642 - Resolve clang complaints on OpenBSD with -Wshorten-64-to-32 due to
23643 treatment of long and time_t as comparable types. Fixes part of
23644 bug 11633. Patch from Dana Koch.
23645 - Make Tor compile correctly with --disable-buf-freelists. Fixes bug
23646 11623; bugfix on 0.2.5.3-alpha.
23647 - When deciding whether to build the 64-bit curve25519
23648 implementation, detect platforms where we can compile 128-bit
23649 arithmetic but cannot link it. Fixes bug 11729; bugfix on
23650 0.2.4.8-alpha. Patch from "conradev".
23651 - Fix compilation when DNS_CACHE_DEBUG is enabled. Fixes bug 11761;
23652 bugfix on 0.2.3.13-alpha. Found by "cypherpunks".
23653 - Fix compilation with dmalloc. Fixes bug 11605; bugfix
23656 o Minor bugfixes (Directory server):
23657 - When sending a compressed set of descriptors or microdescriptors,
23658 make sure to finalize the zlib stream. Previously, we would write
23659 all the compressed data, but if the last descriptor we wanted to
23660 send was missing or too old, we would not mark the stream as
23661 finished. This caused problems for decompression tools. Fixes bug
23662 11648; bugfix on 0.1.1.23.
23664 o Minor bugfixes (Linux seccomp sandbox):
23665 - Make the seccomp sandbox code compile under ARM Linux. Fixes bug
23666 11622; bugfix on 0.2.5.1-alpha.
23667 - Avoid crashing when re-opening listener ports with the seccomp
23668 sandbox active. Fixes bug 12115; bugfix on 0.2.5.1-alpha.
23669 - Avoid crashing with the seccomp sandbox enabled along with
23670 ConstrainedSockets. Fixes bug 12139; bugfix on 0.2.5.1-alpha.
23671 - When we receive a SIGHUP with the sandbox enabled, correctly
23672 support rotating our log files. Fixes bug 12032; bugfix
23674 - Avoid crash when running with sandboxing enabled and
23675 DirReqStatistics not disabled. Fixes bug 12035; bugfix
23677 - Fix a "BUG" warning when trying to write bridge-stats files with
23678 the Linux syscall sandbox filter enabled. Fixes bug 12041; bugfix
23680 - Prevent the sandbox from crashing on startup when run with the
23681 --enable-expensive-hardening configuration option. Fixes bug
23682 11477; bugfix on 0.2.5.4-alpha.
23683 - When running with DirPortFrontPage and sandboxing both enabled,
23684 reload the DirPortFrontPage correctly when restarting. Fixes bug
23685 12028; bugfix on 0.2.5.1-alpha.
23686 - Don't try to enable the sandbox when using the Tor binary to check
23687 its configuration, hash a passphrase, or so on. Doing so was
23688 crashing on startup for some users. Fixes bug 11609; bugfix
23690 - Avoid warnings when running with sandboxing and node statistics
23691 enabled at the same time. Fixes part of 12064; bugfix on
23692 0.2.5.1-alpha. Patch from Michael Wolf.
23693 - Avoid warnings when running with sandboxing enabled at the same
23694 time as cookie authentication, hidden services, or directory
23695 authority voting. Fixes part of 12064; bugfix on 0.2.5.1-alpha.
23696 - Do not allow options that require calls to exec to be enabled
23697 alongside the seccomp2 sandbox: they will inevitably crash. Fixes
23698 bug 12043; bugfix on 0.2.5.1-alpha.
23699 - Handle failures in getpwnam()/getpwuid() when running with the
23700 User option set and the Linux syscall sandbox enabled. Fixes bug
23701 11946; bugfix on 0.2.5.1-alpha.
23702 - Refactor the getaddrinfo workaround that the seccomp sandbox uses
23703 to avoid calling getaddrinfo() after installing the sandbox
23704 filters. Previously, it preloaded a cache with the IPv4 address
23705 for our hostname, and nothing else. Now, it loads the cache with
23706 every address that it used to initialize the Tor process. Fixes
23707 bug 11970; bugfix on 0.2.5.1-alpha.
23709 o Minor bugfixes (pluggable transports):
23710 - Enable the ExtORPortCookieAuthFile option, to allow changing the
23711 default location of the authentication token for the extended OR
23712 Port as used by sever-side pluggable transports. We had
23713 implemented this option before, but the code to make it settable
23714 had been omitted. Fixes bug 11635; bugfix on 0.2.5.1-alpha.
23715 - Avoid another 60-second delay when starting Tor in a pluggable-
23716 transport-using configuration when we already have cached
23717 descriptors for our bridges. Fixes bug 11965; bugfix
23720 o Minor bugfixes (client):
23721 - Avoid "Tried to open a socket with DisableNetwork set" warnings
23722 when starting a client with bridges configured and DisableNetwork
23723 set. (Tor launcher starts Tor with DisableNetwork set the first
23724 time it runs.) Fixes bug 10405; bugfix on 0.2.3.9-alpha.
23726 o Minor bugfixes (testing):
23727 - The Python parts of the test scripts now work on Python 3 as well
23728 as Python 2, so systems where '/usr/bin/python' is Python 3 will
23729 no longer have the tests break. Fixes bug 11608; bugfix
23731 - When looking for versions of python that we could run the tests
23732 with, check for "python2.7" and "python3.3"; previously we were
23733 only looking for "python", "python2", and "python3". Patch from
23734 Dana Koch. Fixes bug 11632; bugfix on 0.2.5.2-alpha.
23735 - Fix all valgrind warnings produced by the unit tests. There were
23736 over a thousand memory leak warnings previously, mostly produced
23737 by forgetting to free things in the unit test code. Fixes bug
23738 11618, bugfixes on many versions of Tor.
23740 o Minor bugfixes (tor-fw-helper):
23741 - Give a correct log message when tor-fw-helper fails to launch.
23742 (Previously, we would say something like "tor-fw-helper sent us a
23743 string we could not parse".) Fixes bug 9781; bugfix
23746 o Minor bugfixes (relay, threading):
23747 - Check return code on spawn_func() in cpuworker code, so that we
23748 don't think we've spawned a nonworking cpuworker and write junk to
23749 it forever. Fix related to bug 4345; bugfix on all released Tor
23750 versions. Found by "skruffy".
23751 - Use a pthread_attr to make sure that spawn_func() cannot return an
23752 error while at the same time launching a thread. Fix related to
23753 bug 4345; bugfix on all released Tor versions. Reported
23756 o Minor bugfixes (relay, oom prevention):
23757 - Correctly detect the total available system memory. We tried to do
23758 this in 0.2.5.4-alpha, but the code was set up to always return an
23759 error value, even on success. Fixes bug 11805; bugfix
23762 o Minor bugfixes (relay, other):
23763 - We now drop CREATE cells for already-existent circuit IDs and for
23764 zero-valued circuit IDs, regardless of other factors that might
23765 otherwise have called for DESTROY cells. Fixes bug 12191; bugfix
23767 - Avoid an illegal read from stack when initializing the TLS module
23768 using a version of OpenSSL without all of the ciphers used by the
23769 v2 link handshake. Fixes bug 12227; bugfix on 0.2.4.8-alpha. Found
23771 - When rejecting DATA cells for stream_id zero, still count them
23772 against the circuit's deliver window so that we don't fail to send
23773 a SENDME. Fixes bug 11246; bugfix on 0.2.4.10-alpha.
23775 o Minor bugfixes (logging):
23776 - Fix a misformatted log message about delayed directory fetches.
23777 Fixes bug 11654; bugfix on 0.2.5.3-alpha.
23778 - Squelch a spurious LD_BUG message "No origin circuit for
23779 successful SOCKS stream" in certain hidden service failure cases;
23783 - Include a tor.service file in contrib/dist for use with systemd.
23784 Some distributions will be able to use this file unmodified;
23785 others will need to tweak it, or write their own. Patch from Jamie
23786 Nguyen; resolves ticket 8368.
23789 - Clean up several option names in the manpage to match their real
23790 names, add the missing documentation for a couple of testing and
23791 directory authority options, remove the documentation for a
23792 V2-directory fetching option that no longer exists. Resolves
23794 - Correct the documentation so that it lists the correct directory
23795 for the stats files. (They are in a subdirectory called "stats",
23797 - In the manpage, move more authority-only options into the
23798 directory authority section so that operators of regular directory
23799 caches don't get confused.
23802 - The contrib directory has been sorted and tidied. Before, it was
23803 an unsorted dumping ground for useful and not-so-useful things.
23804 Now, it is divided based on functionality, and the items which
23805 seemed to be nonfunctional or useless have been removed. Resolves
23806 ticket 8966; based on patches from "rl1987".
23809 - Remove /tor/dbg-stability.txt URL that was meant to help debug WFU
23810 and MTBF calculations, but that nobody was using. Fixes ticket 11742.
23811 - The TunnelDirConns and PreferTunnelledDirConns options no longer
23812 exist; tunneled directory connections have been available since
23813 0.1.2.5-alpha, and turning them off is not a good idea. This is a
23814 brute-force fix for 10849, where "TunnelDirConns 0" would break
23818 Changes in version 0.2.4.22 - 2014-05-16
23819 Tor 0.2.4.22 backports numerous high-priority fixes from the Tor 0.2.5
23820 alpha release series. These include blocking all authority signing
23821 keys that may have been affected by the OpenSSL "heartbleed" bug,
23822 choosing a far more secure set of TLS ciphersuites by default, closing
23823 a couple of memory leaks that could be used to run a target relay out
23824 of RAM, and several others.
23826 o Major features (security, backport from 0.2.5.4-alpha):
23827 - Block authority signing keys that were used on authorities
23828 vulnerable to the "heartbleed" bug in OpenSSL (CVE-2014-0160). (We
23829 don't have any evidence that these keys _were_ compromised; we're
23830 doing this to be prudent.) Resolves ticket 11464.
23832 o Major bugfixes (security, OOM):
23833 - Fix a memory leak that could occur if a microdescriptor parse
23834 fails during the tokenizing step. This bug could enable a memory
23835 exhaustion attack by directory servers. Fixes bug 11649; bugfix
23838 o Major bugfixes (TLS cipher selection, backport from 0.2.5.4-alpha):
23839 - The relay ciphersuite list is now generated automatically based on
23840 uniform criteria, and includes all OpenSSL ciphersuites with
23841 acceptable strength and forward secrecy. Previously, we had left
23842 some perfectly fine ciphersuites unsupported due to omission or
23843 typo. Resolves bugs 11513, 11492, 11498, 11499. Bugs reported by
23844 'cypherpunks'. Bugfix on 0.2.4.8-alpha.
23845 - Relays now trust themselves to have a better view than clients of
23846 which TLS ciphersuites are better than others. (Thanks to bug
23847 11513, the relay list is now well-considered, whereas the client
23848 list has been chosen mainly for anti-fingerprinting purposes.)
23849 Relays prefer: AES over 3DES; then ECDHE over DHE; then GCM over
23850 CBC; then SHA384 over SHA256 over SHA1; and last, AES256 over
23851 AES128. Resolves ticket 11528.
23852 - Clients now try to advertise the same list of ciphersuites as
23853 Firefox 28. This change enables selection of (fast) GCM
23854 ciphersuites, disables some strange old ciphers, and stops
23855 advertising the ECDH (not to be confused with ECDHE) ciphersuites.
23856 Resolves ticket 11438.
23858 o Minor bugfixes (configuration, security):
23859 - When running a hidden service, do not allow TunneledDirConns 0:
23860 trying to set that option together with a hidden service would
23861 otherwise prevent the hidden service from running, and also make
23862 it publish its descriptors directly over HTTP. Fixes bug 10849;
23863 bugfix on 0.2.1.1-alpha.
23865 o Minor bugfixes (controller, backport from 0.2.5.4-alpha):
23866 - Avoid sending a garbage value to the controller when a circuit is
23867 cannibalized. Fixes bug 11519; bugfix on 0.2.3.11-alpha.
23869 o Minor bugfixes (exit relay, backport from 0.2.5.4-alpha):
23870 - Stop leaking memory when we successfully resolve a PTR record.
23871 Fixes bug 11437; bugfix on 0.2.4.7-alpha.
23873 o Minor bugfixes (bridge client, backport from 0.2.5.4-alpha):
23874 - Avoid 60-second delays in the bootstrapping process when Tor is
23875 launching for a second time while using bridges. Fixes bug 9229;
23876 bugfix on 0.2.0.3-alpha.
23878 o Minor bugfixes (relays and bridges, backport from 0.2.5.4-alpha):
23879 - Give the correct URL in the warning message when trying to run a
23880 relay on an ancient version of Windows. Fixes bug 9393.
23882 o Minor bugfixes (compilation):
23883 - Fix a compilation error when compiling with --disable-curve25519.
23884 Fixes bug 9700; bugfix on 0.2.4.17-rc.
23887 - Downgrade the warning severity for the the "md was still
23888 referenced 1 node(s)" warning. Tor 0.2.5.4-alpha has better code
23889 for trying to diagnose this bug, and the current warning in
23890 earlier versions of tor achieves nothing useful. Addresses warning
23893 o Minor features (log verbosity, backport from 0.2.5.4-alpha):
23894 - When we run out of usable circuit IDs on a channel, log only one
23895 warning for the whole channel, and describe how many circuits
23896 there were on the channel. Fixes part of ticket 11553.
23898 o Minor features (security, backport from 0.2.5.4-alpha):
23899 - Decrease the lower limit of MaxMemInCellQueues to 256 MBytes (but
23900 leave the default at 8GBytes), to better support Raspberry Pi
23901 users. Fixes bug 9686; bugfix on 0.2.4.14-alpha.
23903 o Documentation (backport from 0.2.5.4-alpha):
23904 - Correctly document that we search for a system torrc file before
23905 looking in ~/.torrc. Fixes documentation side of 9213; bugfix on
23909 Changes in version 0.2.5.4-alpha - 2014-04-25
23910 Tor 0.2.5.4-alpha includes several security and performance
23911 improvements for clients and relays, including blacklisting authority
23912 signing keys that were used while susceptible to the OpenSSL
23913 "heartbleed" bug, fixing two expensive functions on busy relays,
23914 improved TLS ciphersuite preference lists, support for run-time
23915 hardening on compilers that support AddressSanitizer, and more work on
23916 the Linux sandbox code.
23918 There are also several usability fixes for clients (especially clients
23919 that use bridges), two new TransPort protocols supported (one on
23920 OpenBSD, one on FreeBSD), and various other bugfixes.
23922 This release marks end-of-life for Tor 0.2.2.x; those Tor versions
23923 have accumulated many known flaws; everyone should upgrade.
23925 o Major features (security):
23926 - If you don't specify MaxMemInQueues yourself, Tor now tries to
23927 pick a good value based on your total system memory. Previously,
23928 the default was always 8 GB. You can still override the default by
23929 setting MaxMemInQueues yourself. Resolves ticket 11396.
23930 - Block authority signing keys that were used on authorities
23931 vulnerable to the "heartbleed" bug in OpenSSL (CVE-2014-0160). (We
23932 don't have any evidence that these keys _were_ compromised; we're
23933 doing this to be prudent.) Resolves ticket 11464.
23935 o Major features (relay performance):
23936 - Speed up server-side lookups of rendezvous and introduction point
23937 circuits by using hashtables instead of linear searches. These
23938 functions previously accounted between 3 and 7% of CPU usage on
23939 some busy relays. Resolves ticket 9841.
23940 - Avoid wasting CPU when extending a circuit over a channel that is
23941 nearly out of circuit IDs. Previously, we would do a linear scan
23942 over possible circuit IDs before finding one or deciding that we
23943 had exhausted our possibilities. Now, we try at most 64 random
23944 circuit IDs before deciding that we probably won't succeed. Fixes
23945 a possible root cause of ticket 11553.
23947 o Major features (seccomp2 sandbox, Linux only):
23948 - The seccomp2 sandbox can now run a test network for multiple hours
23949 without crashing. The sandbox is still experimental, and more bugs
23950 will probably turn up. To try it, enable "Sandbox 1" on a Linux
23951 host. Resolves ticket 11351.
23952 - Strengthen sandbox code: the sandbox can now test the arguments
23953 for rename(), and blocks _sysctl() entirely. Resolves another part
23955 - When the sandbox blocks a system call, it now tries to log a stack
23956 trace before exiting. Resolves ticket 11465.
23958 o Major bugfixes (TLS cipher selection):
23959 - The relay ciphersuite list is now generated automatically based on
23960 uniform criteria, and includes all OpenSSL ciphersuites with
23961 acceptable strength and forward secrecy. Previously, we had left
23962 some perfectly fine ciphersuites unsupported due to omission or
23963 typo. Resolves bugs 11513, 11492, 11498, 11499. Bugs reported by
23964 'cypherpunks'. Bugfix on 0.2.4.8-alpha.
23965 - Relays now trust themselves to have a better view than clients of
23966 which TLS ciphersuites are better than others. (Thanks to bug
23967 11513, the relay list is now well-considered, whereas the client
23968 list has been chosen mainly for anti-fingerprinting purposes.)
23969 Relays prefer: AES over 3DES; then ECDHE over DHE; then GCM over
23970 CBC; then SHA384 over SHA256 over SHA1; and last, AES256 over
23971 AES128. Resolves ticket 11528.
23972 - Clients now try to advertise the same list of ciphersuites as
23973 Firefox 28. This change enables selection of (fast) GCM
23974 ciphersuites, disables some strange old ciphers, and stops
23975 advertising the ECDH (not to be confused with ECDHE) ciphersuites.
23976 Resolves ticket 11438.
23978 o Major bugfixes (bridge client):
23979 - Avoid 60-second delays in the bootstrapping process when Tor is
23980 launching for a second time while using bridges. Fixes bug 9229;
23981 bugfix on 0.2.0.3-alpha.
23983 o Minor features (transparent proxy, *BSD):
23984 - Support FreeBSD's ipfw firewall interface for TransPort ports on
23985 FreeBSD. To enable it, set "TransProxyType ipfw". Resolves ticket
23986 10267; patch from "yurivict".
23987 - Support OpenBSD's divert-to rules with the pf firewall for
23988 transparent proxy ports. To enable it, set "TransProxyType
23989 pf-divert". This allows Tor to run a TransPort transparent proxy
23990 port on OpenBSD 4.4 or later without root privileges. See the
23991 pf.conf(5) manual page for information on configuring pf to use
23992 divert-to rules. Closes ticket 10896; patch from Dana Koch.
23994 o Minor features (security):
23995 - New --enable-expensive-hardening option to enable security
23996 hardening options that consume nontrivial amounts of CPU and
23997 memory. Right now, this includes AddressSanitizer and UbSan, which
23998 are supported in newer versions of GCC and Clang. Closes ticket
24001 o Minor features (log verbosity):
24002 - Demote the message that we give when a flushing connection times
24003 out for too long from NOTICE to INFO. It was usually meaningless.
24004 Resolves ticket 5286.
24005 - Don't log so many notice-level bootstrapping messages at startup
24006 about downloading descriptors. Previously, we'd log a notice
24007 whenever we learned about more routers. Now, we only log a notice
24008 at every 5% of progress. Fixes bug 9963.
24009 - Warn less verbosely when receiving a malformed
24010 ESTABLISH_RENDEZVOUS cell. Fixes ticket 11279.
24011 - When we run out of usable circuit IDs on a channel, log only one
24012 warning for the whole channel, and describe how many circuits
24013 there were on the channel. Fixes part of ticket 11553.
24015 o Minor features (relay):
24016 - If a circuit timed out for at least 3 minutes, check if we have a
24017 new external IP address, and publish a new descriptor with the new
24018 IP address if it changed. Resolves ticket 2454.
24020 o Minor features (controller):
24021 - Make the entire exit policy available from the control port via
24022 GETINFO exit-policy/*. Implements enhancement 7952. Patch from
24024 - Because of the fix for ticket 11396, the real limit for memory
24025 usage may no longer match the configured MaxMemInQueues value. The
24026 real limit is now exposed via GETINFO limits/max-mem-in-queues.
24028 o Minor features (bridge client):
24029 - Report a more useful failure message when we can't connect to a
24030 bridge because we don't have the right pluggable transport
24031 configured. Resolves ticket 9665. Patch from Fábio J. Bertinatto.
24033 o Minor features (diagnostic):
24034 - Add more log messages to diagnose bug 7164, which causes
24035 intermittent "microdesc_free() called but md was still referenced"
24036 warnings. We now include more information, to figure out why we
24037 might be cleaning a microdescriptor for being too old if it's
24038 still referenced by a live node_t object.
24040 o Minor bugfixes (client, DNSPort):
24041 - When using DNSPort, try to respond to AAAA requests with AAAA
24042 answers. Previously, we hadn't looked at the request type when
24043 deciding which answer type to prefer. Fixes bug 10468; bugfix on
24045 - When receiving a DNS query for an unsupported record type, reply
24046 with no answer rather than with a NOTIMPL error. This behavior
24047 isn't correct either, but it will break fewer client programs, we
24048 hope. Fixes bug 10268; bugfix on 0.2.0.1-alpha. Original patch
24051 o Minor bugfixes (exit relay):
24052 - Stop leaking memory when we successfully resolve a PTR record.
24053 Fixes bug 11437; bugfix on 0.2.4.7-alpha.
24055 o Minor bugfixes (bridge client):
24056 - Stop accepting bridge lines containing hostnames. Doing so would
24057 cause clients to perform DNS requests on the hostnames, which was
24058 not sensible behavior. Fixes bug 10801; bugfix on 0.2.0.1-alpha.
24059 - Avoid a 60-second delay in the bootstrapping process when a Tor
24060 client with pluggable transports re-reads its configuration at
24061 just the wrong time. Re-fixes bug 11156; bugfix on 0.2.5.3-alpha.
24063 o Minor bugfixes (client, logging during bootstrap):
24064 - Warn only once if we start logging in an unsafe way. Previously,
24065 we complain as many times as we had problems. Fixes bug 9870;
24066 bugfix on 0.2.5.1-alpha.
24067 - Only report the first fatal bootstrap error on a given OR
24068 connection. This stops us from telling the controller bogus error
24069 messages like "DONE". Fixes bug 10431; bugfix on 0.2.1.1-alpha.
24070 - Be more helpful when trying to run sandboxed on Linux without
24071 libseccomp. Instead of saying "Sandbox is not implemented on this
24072 platform", we now explain that we need to be built with
24073 libseccomp. Fixes bug 11543; bugfix on 0.2.5.1-alpha.
24074 - Avoid generating spurious warnings when starting with
24075 DisableNetwork enabled. Fixes bug 11200 and bug 10405; bugfix on
24078 o Minor bugfixes (closing OR connections):
24079 - If write_to_buf() in connection_write_to_buf_impl_() ever fails,
24080 check if it's an or_connection_t and correctly call
24081 connection_or_close_for_error() rather than
24082 connection_mark_for_close() directly. Fixes bug 11304; bugfix on
24084 - When closing all connections on setting DisableNetwork to 1, use
24085 connection_or_close_normally() rather than closing OR connections
24086 out from under the channel layer. Fixes bug 11306; bugfix on
24089 o Minor bugfixes (controller):
24090 - Avoid sending a garbage value to the controller when a circuit is
24091 cannibalized. Fixes bug 11519; bugfix on 0.2.3.11-alpha.
24093 o Minor bugfixes (tor-fw-helper):
24094 - Allow tor-fw-helper to build again by adding src/ext to its
24095 CPPFLAGS. Fixes bug 11296; bugfix on 0.2.5.3-alpha.
24097 o Minor bugfixes (bridges):
24098 - Avoid potential crashes or bad behavior when launching a
24099 server-side managed proxy with ORPort or ExtORPort temporarily
24100 disabled. Fixes bug 9650; bugfix on 0.2.3.16-alpha.
24102 o Minor bugfixes (platform-specific):
24103 - Fix compilation on Solaris, which does not have <endian.h>. Fixes
24104 bug 11426; bugfix on 0.2.5.3-alpha.
24105 - When dumping a malformed directory object to disk, save it in
24106 binary mode on Windows, not text mode. Fixes bug 11342; bugfix on
24108 - Don't report failures from make_socket_reuseable() on incoming
24109 sockets on OSX: this can happen when incoming connections close
24110 early. Fixes bug 10081.
24112 o Minor bugfixes (trivial memory leaks):
24113 - Fix a small memory leak when signing a directory object. Fixes bug
24114 11275; bugfix on 0.2.4.13-alpha.
24115 - Free placeholder entries in our circuit table at exit; fixes a
24116 harmless memory leak. Fixes bug 11278; bugfix on 0.2.5.1-alpha.
24117 - Don't re-initialize a second set of OpenSSL mutexes when starting
24118 up. Previously, we'd make one set of mutexes, and then immediately
24119 replace them with another. Fixes bug 11726; bugfix on
24121 - Resolve some memory leaks found by coverity in the unit tests, on
24122 exit in tor-gencert, and on a failure to compute digests for our
24123 own keys when generating a v3 networkstatus vote. These leaks
24124 should never have affected anyone in practice.
24126 o Minor bugfixes (hidden service):
24127 - Only retry attempts to connect to a chosen rendezvous point 8
24128 times, not 30. Fixes bug 4241; bugfix on 0.1.0.1-rc.
24130 o Minor bugfixes (misc code correctness):
24131 - Fix various instances of undefined behavior in channeltls.c,
24132 tor_memmem(), and eventdns.c that would cause us to construct
24133 pointers to memory outside an allocated object. (These invalid
24134 pointers were not accessed, but C does not even allow them to
24135 exist.) Fixes bug 10363; bugfixes on 0.1.1.1-alpha, 0.1.2.1-alpha,
24136 0.2.0.10-alpha, and 0.2.3.6-alpha. Reported by "bobnomnom".
24137 - Use the AddressSanitizer and Ubsan sanitizers (in clang-3.4) to
24138 fix some miscellaneous errors in our tests and codebase. Fixes bug
24139 11232. Bugfixes on versions back as far as 0.2.1.11-alpha.
24140 - Always check return values for unlink, munmap, UnmapViewOfFile;
24141 check strftime return values more often. In some cases all we can
24142 do is report a warning, but this may help prevent deeper bugs from
24143 going unnoticed. Closes ticket 8787; bugfixes on many, many tor
24145 - Fix numerous warnings from the clang "scan-build" static analyzer.
24146 Some of these are programming style issues; some of them are false
24147 positives that indicated awkward code; some are undefined behavior
24148 cases related to constructing (but not using) invalid pointers;
24149 some are assumptions about API behavior; some are (harmlessly)
24150 logging sizeof(ptr) bytes from a token when sizeof(*ptr) would be
24151 correct; and one or two are genuine bugs that weren't reachable
24152 from the rest of the program. Fixes bug 8793; bugfixes on many,
24156 - Build the torify.1 manpage again. Previously, we were only trying
24157 to build it when also building tor-fw-helper. That's why we didn't
24158 notice that we'd broken the ability to build it. Fixes bug 11321;
24159 bugfix on 0.2.5.1-alpha.
24160 - Fix the layout of the SOCKSPort flags in the manpage. Fixes bug
24161 11061; bugfix on 0.2.4.7-alpha.
24162 - Correctly document that we search for a system torrc file before
24163 looking in ~/.torrc. Fixes documentation side of 9213; bugfix on
24165 - Resolve warnings from Doxygen.
24167 o Code simplifications and refactoring:
24168 - Remove is_internal_IP() function. Resolves ticket 4645.
24169 - Remove unused function circuit_dump_by_chan from circuitlist.c.
24170 Closes issue 9107; patch from "marek".
24171 - Change our use of the ENUM_BF macro to avoid declarations that
24174 o Deprecated versions:
24175 - Tor 0.2.2.x has reached end-of-life; it has received no patches or
24176 attention for some while. Directory authorities no longer accept
24177 descriptors from relays running any version of Tor prior to Tor
24178 0.2.3.16-alpha. Resolves ticket 11149.
24181 - New macros in test.h to simplify writing mock-functions for unit
24182 tests. Part of ticket 11507. Patch from Dana Koch.
24183 - Complete tests for the status.c module. Resolves ticket 11507.
24184 Patch from Dana Koch.
24187 - Remove all code for the long unused v1 directory protocol.
24188 Resolves ticket 11070.
24191 Changes in version 0.2.5.3-alpha - 2014-03-22
24192 Tor 0.2.5.3-alpha includes all the fixes from 0.2.4.21. It contains
24193 two new anti-DoS features for Tor relays, resolves a bug that kept
24194 SOCKS5 support for IPv6 from working, fixes several annoying usability
24195 issues for bridge users, and removes more old code for unused
24198 The Tor 0.2.5.x release series is now in patch-freeze: no feature
24199 patches not already written will be considered for inclusion in 0.2.5.x.
24201 o Major features (relay security, DoS-resistance):
24202 - When deciding whether we have run out of memory and we need to
24203 close circuits, also consider memory allocated in buffers for
24204 streams attached to each circuit.
24206 This change, which extends an anti-DoS feature introduced in
24207 0.2.4.13-alpha and improved in 0.2.4.14-alpha, lets Tor exit relays
24208 better resist more memory-based DoS attacks than before. Since the
24209 MaxMemInCellQueues option now applies to all queues, it is renamed
24210 to MaxMemInQueues. This feature fixes bug 10169.
24211 - Avoid hash-flooding denial-of-service attacks by using the secure
24212 SipHash-2-4 hash function for our hashtables. Without this
24213 feature, an attacker could degrade performance of a targeted
24214 client or server by flooding their data structures with a large
24215 number of entries to be stored at the same hash table position,
24216 thereby slowing down the Tor instance. With this feature, hash
24217 table positions are derived from a randomized cryptographic key,
24218 and an attacker cannot predict which entries will collide. Closes
24220 - Decrease the lower limit of MaxMemInQueues to 256 MBytes (but leave
24221 the default at 8GBytes), to better support Raspberry Pi users. Fixes
24222 bug 9686; bugfix on 0.2.4.14-alpha.
24224 o Minor features (bridges, pluggable transports):
24225 - Bridges now write the SHA1 digest of their identity key
24226 fingerprint (that is, a hash of a hash of their public key) to
24227 notice-level logs, and to a new hashed-fingerprint file. This
24228 information will help bridge operators look up their bridge in
24229 Globe and similar tools. Resolves ticket 10884.
24230 - Improve the message that Tor displays when running as a bridge
24231 using pluggable transports without an Extended ORPort listener.
24232 Also, log the message in the log file too. Resolves ticket 11043.
24234 o Minor features (other):
24235 - Add a new option, PredictedPortsRelevanceTime, to control how long
24236 after having received a request to connect to a given port Tor
24237 will try to keep circuits ready in anticipation of future requests
24238 for that port. Patch from "unixninja92"; implements ticket 9176.
24239 - Generate a warning if any ports are listed in the SocksPolicy,
24240 DirPolicy, AuthDirReject, AuthDirInvalid, AuthDirBadDir, or
24241 AuthDirBadExit options. (These options only support address
24242 ranges.) Fixes part of ticket 11108.
24243 - Update geoip and geoip6 to the February 7 2014 Maxmind GeoLite2
24246 o Minor bugfixes (new since 0.2.5.2-alpha, also in 0.2.4.21):
24247 - Build without warnings under clang 3.4. (We have some macros that
24248 define static functions only some of which will get used later in
24249 the module. Starting with clang 3.4, these give a warning unless the
24250 unused attribute is set on them.) Resolves ticket 10904.
24251 - Fix build warnings about missing "a2x" comment when building the
24252 manpages from scratch on OpenBSD; OpenBSD calls it "a2x.py".
24253 Fixes bug 10929; bugfix on 0.2.2.9-alpha. Patch from Dana Koch.
24255 o Minor bugfixes (client):
24256 - Improve the log message when we can't connect to a hidden service
24257 because all of the hidden service directory nodes hosting its
24258 descriptor are excluded. Improves on our fix for bug 10722, which
24259 was a bugfix on 0.2.0.10-alpha.
24260 - Raise a control port warning when we fail to connect to all of
24261 our bridges. Previously, we didn't inform the controller, and
24262 the bootstrap process would stall. Fixes bug 11069; bugfix on
24264 - Exit immediately when a process-owning controller exits.
24265 Previously, tor relays would wait for a little while after their
24266 controller exited, as if they had gotten an INT signal -- but this
24267 was problematic, since there was no feedback for the user. To do a
24268 clean shutdown, controllers should send an INT signal and give Tor
24269 a chance to clean up. Fixes bug 10449; bugfix on 0.2.2.28-beta.
24270 - Stop attempting to connect to bridges before our pluggable
24271 transports are configured (harmless but resulted in some erroneous
24272 log messages). Fixes bug 11156; bugfix on 0.2.3.2-alpha.
24273 - Fix connections to IPv6 addresses over SOCKS5. Previously, we were
24274 generating incorrect SOCKS5 responses, and confusing client
24275 applications. Fixes bug 10987; bugfix on 0.2.4.7-alpha.
24277 o Minor bugfixes (relays and bridges):
24278 - Avoid crashing on a malformed resolv.conf file when running a
24279 relay using Libevent 1. Fixes bug 8788; bugfix on 0.1.1.23.
24280 - Non-exit relays no longer launch mock DNS requests to check for
24281 DNS hijacking. This has been unnecessary since 0.2.1.7-alpha, when
24282 non-exit relays stopped servicing DNS requests. Fixes bug 965;
24283 bugfix on 0.2.1.7-alpha. Patch from Matt Pagan.
24284 - Bridges now report complete directory request statistics. Related
24285 to bug 5824; bugfix on 0.2.2.1-alpha.
24286 - Bridges now never collect statistics that were designed for
24287 relays. Fixes bug 5824; bugfix on 0.2.3.8-alpha.
24288 - Stop giving annoying warning messages when we decide not to launch
24289 a pluggable transport proxy that we don't need (because there are
24290 no bridges configured to use it). Resolves ticket 5018; bugfix
24292 - Give the correct URL in the warning message when trying to run a
24293 relay on an ancient version of Windows. Fixes bug 9393.
24295 o Minor bugfixes (backtrace support):
24296 - Support automatic backtraces on more platforms by using the
24297 "-fasynchronous-unwind-tables" compiler option. This option is
24298 needed for platforms like 32-bit Intel where "-fomit-frame-pointer"
24299 is on by default and table generation is not. This doesn't yet
24300 add Windows support; only Linux, OSX, and some BSDs are affected.
24301 Reported by 'cypherpunks'; fixes bug 11047; bugfix on 0.2.5.2-alpha.
24302 - Avoid strange behavior if two threads hit failed assertions at the
24303 same time and both try to log backtraces at once. (Previously, if
24304 this had happened, both threads would have stored their intermediate
24305 results in the same buffer, and generated junk outputs.) Reported by
24306 "cypherpunks". Fixes bug 11048; bugfix on 0.2.5.2-alpha.
24307 - Fix a compiler warning in format_number_sigsafe(). Bugfix on
24308 0.2.5.2-alpha; patch from Nick Hopper.
24310 o Minor bugfixes (unit tests):
24311 - Fix a small bug in the unit tests that might have made the tests
24312 call 'chmod' with an uninitialized bitmask. Fixes bug 10928;
24313 bugfix on 0.2.5.1-alpha. Patch from Dana Koch.
24316 - Remove all remaining code related to version-0 hidden service
24317 descriptors: they have not been in use since 0.2.2.1-alpha. Fixes
24318 the rest of bug 10841.
24321 - Document in the manpage that "KBytes" may also be written as
24322 "kilobytes" or "KB", that "Kbits" may also be written as
24323 "kilobits", and so forth. Closes ticket 9222.
24324 - Document that the ClientOnly config option overrides ORPort.
24325 Our old explanation made ClientOnly sound as though it did
24326 nothing at all. Resolves bug 9059.
24327 - Explain that SocksPolicy, DirPolicy, and similar options don't
24328 take port arguments. Fixes the other part of ticket 11108.
24329 - Fix a comment about the rend_server_descriptor_t.protocols field
24330 to more accurately describe its range. Also, make that field
24331 unsigned, to more accurately reflect its usage. Fixes bug 9099;
24332 bugfix on 0.2.1.5-alpha.
24333 - Fix the manpage's description of HiddenServiceAuthorizeClient:
24334 the maximum client name length is 16, not 19. Fixes bug 11118;
24335 bugfix on 0.2.1.6-alpha.
24337 o Code simplifications and refactoring:
24338 - Get rid of router->address, since in all cases it was just the
24339 string representation of router->addr. Resolves ticket 5528.
24341 o Test infrastructure:
24342 - Update to the latest version of tinytest.
24343 - Improve the tinytest implementation of string operation tests so
24344 that comparisons with NULL strings no longer crash the tests; they
24345 now just fail, normally. Fixes bug 9004; bugfix on 0.2.2.4-alpha.
24348 Changes in version 0.2.4.21 - 2014-02-28
24349 Tor 0.2.4.21 further improves security against potential adversaries who
24350 find breaking 1024-bit crypto doable, and backports several stability
24351 and robustness patches from the 0.2.5 branch.
24353 o Major features (client security):
24354 - When we choose a path for a 3-hop circuit, make sure it contains
24355 at least one relay that supports the NTor circuit extension
24356 handshake. Otherwise, there is a chance that we're building
24357 a circuit that's worth attacking by an adversary who finds
24358 breaking 1024-bit crypto doable, and that chance changes the game
24359 theory. Implements ticket 9777.
24362 - Do not treat streams that fail with reason
24363 END_STREAM_REASON_INTERNAL as indicating a definite circuit failure,
24364 since it could also indicate an ENETUNREACH connection error. Fixes
24365 part of bug 10777; bugfix on 0.2.4.8-alpha.
24367 o Code simplification and refactoring:
24368 - Remove data structures which were introduced to implement the
24369 CellStatistics option: they are now redundant with the new timestamp
24370 field in the regular packed_cell_t data structure, which we did
24371 in 0.2.4.18-rc in order to resolve bug 9093. Resolves ticket 10870.
24374 - Always clear OpenSSL bignums before freeing them -- even bignums
24375 that don't contain secrets. Resolves ticket 10793. Patch by
24377 - Build without warnings under clang 3.4. (We have some macros that
24378 define static functions only some of which will get used later in
24379 the module. Starting with clang 3.4, these give a warning unless the
24380 unused attribute is set on them.) Resolves ticket 10904.
24381 - Update geoip and geoip6 files to the February 7 2014 Maxmind
24382 GeoLite2 Country database.
24385 - Set the listen() backlog limit to the largest actually supported
24386 on the system, not to the value in a header file. Fixes bug 9716;
24387 bugfix on every released Tor.
24388 - Treat ENETUNREACH, EACCES, and EPERM connection failures at an
24389 exit node as a NOROUTE error, not an INTERNAL error, since they
24390 can apparently happen when trying to connect to the wrong sort
24391 of netblocks. Fixes part of bug 10777; bugfix on 0.1.0.1-rc.
24392 - Fix build warnings about missing "a2x" comment when building the
24393 manpages from scratch on OpenBSD; OpenBSD calls it "a2x.py".
24394 Fixes bug 10929; bugfix on 0.2.2.9-alpha. Patch from Dana Koch.
24395 - Avoid a segfault on SIGUSR1, where we had freed a connection but did
24396 not entirely remove it from the connection lists. Fixes bug 9602;
24397 bugfix on 0.2.4.4-alpha.
24398 - Fix a segmentation fault in our benchmark code when running with
24399 Fedora's OpenSSL package, or any other OpenSSL that provides
24400 ECDH but not P224. Fixes bug 10835; bugfix on 0.2.4.8-alpha.
24401 - Turn "circuit handshake stats since last time" log messages into a
24402 heartbeat message. Fixes bug 10485; bugfix on 0.2.4.17-rc.
24404 o Documentation fixes:
24405 - Document that all but one DirPort entry must have the NoAdvertise
24406 flag set. Fixes bug 10470; bugfix on 0.2.3.3-alpha / 0.2.3.16-alpha.
24409 Changes in version 0.2.5.2-alpha - 2014-02-13
24410 Tor 0.2.5.2-alpha includes all the fixes from 0.2.4.18-rc and 0.2.4.20,
24411 like the "poor random number generation" fix and the "building too many
24412 circuits" fix. It also further improves security against potential
24413 adversaries who find breaking 1024-bit crypto doable, and launches
24414 pluggable transports on demand (which gets us closer to integrating
24415 pluggable transport support by default -- not to be confused with Tor
24416 bundles enabling pluggable transports and bridges by default).
24418 o Major features (client security):
24419 - When we choose a path for a 3-hop circuit, make sure it contains
24420 at least one relay that supports the NTor circuit extension
24421 handshake. Otherwise, there is a chance that we're building
24422 a circuit that's worth attacking by an adversary who finds
24423 breaking 1024-bit crypto doable, and that chance changes the game
24424 theory. Implements ticket 9777.
24425 - Clients now look at the "usecreatefast" consensus parameter to
24426 decide whether to use CREATE_FAST or CREATE cells for the first hop
24427 of their circuit. This approach can improve security on connections
24428 where Tor's circuit handshake is stronger than the available TLS
24429 connection security levels, but the tradeoff is more computational
24430 load on guard relays. Implements proposal 221. Resolves ticket 9386.
24432 o Major features (bridges):
24433 - Don't launch pluggable transport proxies if we don't have any
24434 bridges configured that would use them. Now we can list many
24435 pluggable transports, and Tor will dynamically start one when it
24436 hears a bridge address that needs it. Resolves ticket 5018.
24437 - The bridge directory authority now assigns status flags (Stable,
24438 Guard, etc) to bridges based on thresholds calculated over all
24439 Running bridges. Now bridgedb can finally make use of its features
24440 to e.g. include at least one Stable bridge in its answers. Fixes
24443 o Major features (other):
24444 - Extend ORCONN controller event to include an "ID" parameter,
24445 and add four new controller event types CONN_BW, CIRC_BW,
24446 CELL_STATS, and TB_EMPTY that show connection and circuit usage.
24447 The new events are emitted in private Tor networks only, with the
24448 goal of being able to better track performance and load during
24449 full-network simulations. Implements proposal 218 and ticket 7359.
24450 - On some platforms (currently: recent OSX versions, glibc-based
24451 platforms that support the ELF format, and a few other
24452 Unix-like operating systems), Tor can now dump stack traces
24453 when a crash occurs or an assertion fails. By default, traces
24454 are dumped to stderr (if possible) and to any logs that are
24455 reporting errors. Implements ticket 9299.
24458 - Avoid a segfault on SIGUSR1, where we had freed a connection but did
24459 not entirely remove it from the connection lists. Fixes bug 9602;
24460 bugfix on 0.2.4.4-alpha.
24461 - Do not treat streams that fail with reason
24462 END_STREAM_REASON_INTERNAL as indicating a definite circuit failure,
24463 since it could also indicate an ENETUNREACH connection error. Fixes
24464 part of bug 10777; bugfix on 0.2.4.8-alpha.
24466 o Major bugfixes (new since 0.2.5.1-alpha, also in 0.2.4.20):
24467 - Do not allow OpenSSL engines to replace the PRNG, even when
24468 HardwareAccel is set. The only default builtin PRNG engine uses
24469 the Intel RDRAND instruction to replace the entire PRNG, and
24470 ignores all attempts to seed it with more entropy. That's
24471 cryptographically stupid: the right response to a new alleged
24472 entropy source is never to discard all previously used entropy
24473 sources. Fixes bug 10402; works around behavior introduced in
24474 OpenSSL 1.0.0. Diagnosis and investigation thanks to "coderman"
24476 - Fix assertion failure when AutomapHostsOnResolve yields an IPv6
24477 address. Fixes bug 10465; bugfix on 0.2.4.7-alpha.
24478 - Avoid launching spurious extra circuits when a stream is pending.
24479 This fixes a bug where any circuit that _wasn't_ unusable for new
24480 streams would be treated as if it were, causing extra circuits to
24481 be launched. Fixes bug 10456; bugfix on 0.2.4.12-alpha.
24483 o Major bugfixes (new since 0.2.5.1-alpha, also in 0.2.4.18-rc):
24484 - No longer stop reading or writing on cpuworker connections when
24485 our rate limiting buckets go empty. Now we should handle circuit
24486 handshake requests more promptly. Resolves bug 9731.
24487 - Stop trying to bootstrap all our directory information from
24488 only our first guard. Discovered while fixing bug 9946; bugfix
24491 o Minor features (bridges, pluggable transports):
24492 - Add threshold cutoffs to the networkstatus document created by
24493 the Bridge Authority. Fixes bug 1117.
24494 - On Windows, spawn background processes using the CREATE_NO_WINDOW
24495 flag. Now Tor Browser Bundle 3.5 with pluggable transports enabled
24496 doesn't pop up a blank console window. (In Tor Browser Bundle 2.x,
24497 Vidalia set this option for us.) Implements ticket 10297.
24499 o Minor features (security):
24500 - Always clear OpenSSL bignums before freeing them -- even bignums
24501 that don't contain secrets. Resolves ticket 10793. Patch by
24504 o Minor features (config options and command line):
24505 - Add an --allow-missing-torrc commandline option that tells Tor to
24506 run even if the configuration file specified by -f is not available.
24507 Implements ticket 10060.
24508 - Add support for the TPROXY transparent proxying facility on Linux.
24509 See documentation for the new TransProxyType option for more
24510 details. Implementation by "thomo". Closes ticket 10582.
24512 o Minor features (controller):
24513 - Add a new "HS_DESC" controller event that reports activities
24514 related to hidden service descriptors. Resolves ticket 8510.
24515 - New "DROPGUARDS" controller command to forget all current entry
24516 guards. Not recommended for ordinary use, since replacing guards
24517 too frequently makes several attacks easier. Resolves ticket 9934;
24520 o Minor features (build):
24521 - Assume that a user using ./configure --host wants to cross-compile,
24522 and give an error if we cannot find a properly named
24523 tool-chain. Add a --disable-tool-name-check option to proceed
24524 nevertheless. Addresses ticket 9869. Patch by Benedikt Gollatz.
24525 - If we run ./configure and the compiler recognizes -fstack-protector
24526 but the linker rejects it, warn the user about a potentially missing
24527 libssp package. Addresses ticket 9948. Patch from Benedikt Gollatz.
24529 o Minor features (testing):
24530 - If Python is installed, "make check" now runs extra tests beyond
24531 the unit test scripts.
24532 - When bootstrapping a test network, sometimes very few relays get
24533 the Guard flag. Now a new option "TestingDirAuthVoteGuard" can
24534 specify a set of relays which should be voted Guard regardless of
24535 their uptime or bandwidth. Addresses ticket 9206.
24537 o Minor features (log messages):
24538 - When ServerTransportPlugin is set on a bridge, Tor can write more
24539 useful statistics about bridge use in its extrainfo descriptors,
24540 but only if the Extended ORPort ("ExtORPort") is set too. Add a
24541 log message to inform the user in this case. Resolves ticket 9651.
24542 - When receiving a new controller connection, log the origin address.
24543 Resolves ticket 9698; patch from "sigpipe".
24544 - When logging OpenSSL engine status at startup, log the status of
24545 more engines. Fixes ticket 10043; patch from Joshua Datko.
24546 - Turn "circuit handshake stats since last time" log messages into a
24547 heartbeat message. Fixes bug 10485; bugfix on 0.2.4.17-rc.
24549 o Minor features (new since 0.2.5.1-alpha, also in 0.2.4.18-rc):
24550 - Improve the circuit queue out-of-memory handler. Previously, when
24551 we ran low on memory, we'd close whichever circuits had the most
24552 queued cells. Now, we close those that have the *oldest* queued
24553 cells, on the theory that those are most responsible for us
24554 running low on memory. Based on analysis from a forthcoming paper
24555 by Jansen, Tschorsch, Johnson, and Scheuermann. Fixes bug 9093.
24556 - Generate bootstrapping status update events correctly when fetching
24557 microdescriptors. Fixes bug 9927.
24558 - Update to the October 2 2013 Maxmind GeoLite Country database.
24560 o Minor bugfixes (clients):
24561 - When closing a channel that has already been open, do not close
24562 pending circuits that were waiting to connect to the same relay.
24563 Fixes bug 9880; bugfix on 0.2.5.1-alpha. Thanks to skruffy for
24566 o Minor bugfixes (relays):
24567 - Treat ENETUNREACH, EACCES, and EPERM connection failures at an
24568 exit node as a NOROUTE error, not an INTERNAL error, since they
24569 can apparently happen when trying to connect to the wrong sort
24570 of netblocks. Fixes part of bug 10777; bugfix on 0.1.0.1-rc.
24572 o Minor bugfixes (bridges):
24573 - Fix a bug where the first connection works to a bridge that uses a
24574 pluggable transport with client-side parameters, but we don't send
24575 the client-side parameters on subsequent connections. (We don't
24576 use any pluggable transports with client-side parameters yet,
24577 but ScrambleSuit will soon become the first one.) Fixes bug 9162;
24578 bugfix on 0.2.0.3-alpha. Based on a patch from "rl1987".
24580 o Minor bugfixes (node selection):
24581 - If ExcludeNodes is set, consider non-excluded hidden service
24582 directory servers before excluded ones. Do not consider excluded
24583 hidden service directory servers at all if StrictNodes is
24584 set. (Previously, we would sometimes decide to connect to those
24585 servers, and then realize before we initiated a connection that
24586 we had excluded them.) Fixes bug 10722; bugfix on 0.2.0.10-alpha.
24587 Reported by "mr-4".
24588 - If we set the ExitNodes option but it doesn't include any nodes
24589 that have the Exit flag, we would choose not to bootstrap. Now we
24590 bootstrap so long as ExitNodes includes nodes which can exit to
24591 some port. Fixes bug 10543; bugfix on 0.2.4.10-alpha.
24593 o Minor bugfixes (controller and command-line):
24594 - If changing a config option via "setconf" fails in a recoverable
24595 way, we used to nonetheless write our new control ports to the
24596 file described by the "ControlPortWriteToFile" option. Now we only
24597 write out that file if we successfully switch to the new config
24598 option. Fixes bug 5605; bugfix on 0.2.2.26-beta. Patch from "Ryman".
24599 - When a command-line option such as --version or --help that
24600 ordinarily implies --hush appears on the command line along with
24601 --quiet, then actually obey --quiet. Previously, we obeyed --quiet
24602 only if it appeared later on the command line. Fixes bug 9578;
24603 bugfix on 0.2.5.1-alpha.
24605 o Minor bugfixes (code correctness):
24606 - Previously we used two temporary files when writing descriptors to
24607 disk; now we only use one. Fixes bug 1376.
24608 - Remove an erroneous (but impossible and thus harmless) pointer
24609 comparison that would have allowed compilers to skip a bounds
24610 check in channeltls.c. Fixes bugs 10313 and 9980; bugfix on
24611 0.2.0.10-alpha. Noticed by Jared L Wong and David Fifield.
24612 - Fix an always-true assertion in pluggable transports code so it
24613 actually checks what it was trying to check. Fixes bug 10046;
24614 bugfix on 0.2.3.9-alpha. Found by "dcb".
24616 o Minor bugfixes (protocol correctness):
24617 - When receiving a VERSIONS cell with an odd number of bytes, close
24618 the connection immediately since the cell is malformed. Fixes bug
24619 10365; bugfix on 0.2.0.10-alpha. Spotted by "bobnomnom"; fix by
24622 o Minor bugfixes (build):
24623 - Restore the ability to compile Tor with V2_HANDSHAKE_SERVER
24624 turned off (that is, without support for v2 link handshakes). Fixes
24625 bug 4677; bugfix on 0.2.3.2-alpha. Patch from "piet".
24626 - Fix compilation warnings and startup issues when running with
24627 "Sandbox 1" and libseccomp-2.1.0. Fixes bug 10563; bugfix on
24629 - Fix compilation on Solaris 9, which didn't like us having an
24630 identifier named "sun". Fixes bug 10565; bugfix in 0.2.5.1-alpha.
24632 o Minor bugfixes (testing):
24633 - Fix a segmentation fault in our benchmark code when running with
24634 Fedora's OpenSSL package, or any other OpenSSL that provides
24635 ECDH but not P224. Fixes bug 10835; bugfix on 0.2.4.8-alpha.
24637 o Minor bugfixes (log messages):
24638 - Fix a bug where clients using bridges would report themselves
24639 as 50% bootstrapped even without a live consensus document.
24640 Fixes bug 9922; bugfix on 0.2.1.1-alpha.
24641 - Suppress a warning where, if there's only one directory authority
24642 in the network, we would complain that votes and signatures cannot
24643 be uploaded to other directory authorities. Fixes bug 10842;
24644 bugfix on 0.2.2.26-beta.
24645 - Report bootstrapping progress correctly when we're downloading
24646 microdescriptors. We had updated our "do we have enough microdescs
24647 to begin building circuits?" logic most recently in 0.2.4.10-alpha
24648 (see bug 5956), but we left the bootstrap status event logic at
24649 "how far through getting 1/4 of them are we?" Fixes bug 9958;
24650 bugfix on 0.2.2.36, which is where they diverged (see bug 5343).
24652 o Minor bugfixes (new since 0.2.5.1-alpha, also in 0.2.4.20):
24653 - Avoid a crash bug when starting with a corrupted microdescriptor
24654 cache file. Fixes bug 10406; bugfix on 0.2.2.6-alpha.
24655 - If we fail to dump a previously cached microdescriptor to disk, avoid
24656 freeing duplicate data later on. Fixes bug 10423; bugfix on
24657 0.2.4.13-alpha. Spotted by "bobnomnom".
24659 o Minor bugfixes on 0.2.4.x (new since 0.2.5.1-alpha, also in 0.2.4.18-rc):
24660 - Correctly log long IPv6 exit policies, instead of truncating them
24661 or reporting an error. Fixes bug 9596; bugfix on 0.2.4.7-alpha.
24662 - Our default TLS ecdhe groups were backwards: we meant to be using
24663 P224 for relays (for performance win) and P256 for bridges (since
24664 it is more common in the wild). Instead we had it backwards. After
24665 reconsideration, we decided that the default should be P256 on all
24666 hosts, since its security is probably better, and since P224 is
24667 reportedly used quite little in the wild. Found by "skruffy" on
24668 IRC. Fix for bug 9780; bugfix on 0.2.4.8-alpha.
24669 - Free directory authority certificate download statuses on exit
24670 rather than leaking them. Fixes bug 9644; bugfix on 0.2.4.13-alpha.
24672 o Minor bugfixes on 0.2.3.x (new since 0.2.5.1-alpha, also in 0.2.4.18-rc):
24673 - If the guard we choose first doesn't answer, we would try the
24674 second guard, but once we connected to the second guard we would
24675 abandon it and retry the first one, slowing down bootstrapping.
24676 The fix is to treat all our initially chosen guards as acceptable
24677 to use. Fixes bug 9946; bugfix on 0.1.1.11-alpha.
24678 - Fix an assertion failure that would occur when disabling the
24679 ORPort setting on a running Tor process while accounting was
24680 enabled. Fixes bug 6979; bugfix on 0.2.2.18-alpha.
24681 - When examining the list of network interfaces to find our address,
24682 do not consider non-running or disabled network interfaces. Fixes
24683 bug 9904; bugfix on 0.2.3.11-alpha. Patch from "hantwister".
24684 - Avoid an off-by-one error when checking buffer boundaries when
24685 formatting the exit status of a pluggable transport helper.
24686 This is probably not an exploitable bug, but better safe than
24687 sorry. Fixes bug 9928; bugfix on 0.2.3.18-rc. Bug found by
24690 o Removed code and features:
24691 - Clients now reject any directory authority certificates lacking
24692 a dir-key-crosscert element. These have been included since
24693 0.2.1.9-alpha, so there's no real reason for them to be optional
24694 any longer. Completes proposal 157. Resolves ticket 10162.
24695 - Remove all code that existed to support the v2 directory system,
24696 since there are no longer any v2 directory authorities. Resolves
24698 - Remove the HSAuthoritativeDir and AlternateHSAuthority torrc
24699 options, which were used for designating authorities as "Hidden
24700 service authorities". There has been no use of hidden service
24701 authorities since 0.2.2.1-alpha, when we stopped uploading or
24702 downloading v0 hidden service descriptors. Fixes bug 10881; also
24703 part of a fix for bug 10841.
24705 o Code simplification and refactoring:
24706 - Remove some old fallback code designed to keep Tor clients working
24707 in a network with only two working relays. Elsewhere in the code we
24708 have long since stopped supporting such networks, so there wasn't
24709 much point in keeping it around. Addresses ticket 9926.
24710 - Reject 0-length EXTEND2 cells more explicitly. Fixes bug 10536;
24711 bugfix on 0.2.4.8-alpha. Reported by "cypherpunks".
24712 - Remove data structures which were introduced to implement the
24713 CellStatistics option: they are now redundant with the addition
24714 of a timestamp to the regular packed_cell_t data structure, which
24715 we did in 0.2.4.18-rc in order to resolve ticket 9093. Implements
24718 o Documentation (man page) fixes:
24719 - Update manpage to describe some of the files you can expect to
24720 find in Tor's DataDirectory. Addresses ticket 9839.
24721 - Document that all but one DirPort entry must have the NoAdvertise
24722 flag set. Fixes bug 10470; bugfix on 0.2.3.3-alpha / 0.2.3.16-alpha.
24724 o Documentation fixes (new since 0.2.5.1-alpha, also in 0.2.4.18-rc):
24725 - Clarify the usage and risks of setting the ContactInfo torrc line
24726 for your relay or bridge. Resolves ticket 9854.
24727 - Add anchors to the manpage so we can link to the html version of
24728 the documentation for specific options. Resolves ticket 9866.
24729 - Replace remaining references to DirServer in man page and
24730 log entries. Resolves ticket 10124.
24733 - Make the "tor-gencert" tool used by directory authority operators
24734 create 2048-bit signing keys by default (rather than 1024-bit, since
24735 1024-bit is uncomfortably small these days). Addresses ticket 10324.
24738 Changes in version 0.2.4.20 - 2013-12-22
24739 Tor 0.2.4.20 fixes potentially poor random number generation for users
24740 who 1) use OpenSSL 1.0.0 or later, 2) set "HardwareAccel 1" in their
24741 torrc file, 3) have "Sandy Bridge" or "Ivy Bridge" Intel processors,
24742 and 4) have no state file in their DataDirectory (as would happen on
24743 first start). Users who generated relay or hidden service identity
24744 keys in such a situation should discard them and generate new ones.
24746 This release also fixes a logic error that caused Tor clients to build
24747 many more preemptive circuits than they actually need.
24750 - Do not allow OpenSSL engines to replace the PRNG, even when
24751 HardwareAccel is set. The only default builtin PRNG engine uses
24752 the Intel RDRAND instruction to replace the entire PRNG, and
24753 ignores all attempts to seed it with more entropy. That's
24754 cryptographically stupid: the right response to a new alleged
24755 entropy source is never to discard all previously used entropy
24756 sources. Fixes bug 10402; works around behavior introduced in
24757 OpenSSL 1.0.0. Diagnosis and investigation thanks to "coderman"
24759 - Fix assertion failure when AutomapHostsOnResolve yields an IPv6
24760 address. Fixes bug 10465; bugfix on 0.2.4.7-alpha.
24761 - Avoid launching spurious extra circuits when a stream is pending.
24762 This fixes a bug where any circuit that _wasn't_ unusable for new
24763 streams would be treated as if it were, causing extra circuits to
24764 be launched. Fixes bug 10456; bugfix on 0.2.4.12-alpha.
24767 - Avoid a crash bug when starting with a corrupted microdescriptor
24768 cache file. Fixes bug 10406; bugfix on 0.2.2.6-alpha.
24769 - If we fail to dump a previously cached microdescriptor to disk, avoid
24770 freeing duplicate data later on. Fixes bug 10423; bugfix on
24771 0.2.4.13-alpha. Spotted by "bobnomnom".
24774 Changes in version 0.2.4.19 - 2013-12-11
24775 The Tor 0.2.4 release series is dedicated to the memory of Aaron Swartz
24776 (1986-2013). Aaron worked on diverse projects including helping to guide
24777 Creative Commons, playing a key role in stopping SOPA/PIPA, bringing
24778 transparency to the U.S government's PACER documents, and contributing
24779 design and development for Tor and Tor2Web. Aaron was one of the latest
24780 martyrs in our collective fight for civil liberties and human rights,
24781 and his death is all the more painful because he was one of us.
24783 Tor 0.2.4.19, the first stable release in the 0.2.4 branch, features
24784 a new circuit handshake and link encryption that use ECC to provide
24785 better security and efficiency; makes relays better manage circuit
24786 creation requests; uses "directory guards" to reduce client enumeration
24787 risks; makes bridges collect and report statistics about the pluggable
24788 transports they support; cleans up and improves our geoip database;
24789 gets much closer to IPv6 support for clients, bridges, and relays; makes
24790 directory authorities use measured bandwidths rather than advertised
24791 ones when computing flags and thresholds; disables client-side DNS
24792 caching to reduce tracking risks; and fixes a big bug in bridge
24793 reachability testing. This release introduces two new design
24794 abstractions in the code: a new "channel" abstraction between circuits
24795 and or_connections to allow for implementing alternate relay-to-relay
24796 transports, and a new "circuitmux" abstraction storing the queue of
24797 circuits for a channel. The release also includes many stability,
24798 security, and privacy fixes.
24801 Changes in version 0.2.4.18-rc - 2013-11-16
24802 Tor 0.2.4.18-rc is the fourth release candidate for the Tor 0.2.4.x
24803 series. It takes a variety of fixes from the 0.2.5.x branch to improve
24804 stability, performance, and better handling of edge cases.
24807 - Re-enable TLS 1.1 and 1.2 when built with OpenSSL 1.0.1e or later.
24808 Resolves ticket 6055. (OpenSSL before 1.0.1 didn't have TLS 1.1 or
24809 1.2, and OpenSSL from 1.0.1 through 1.0.1d had bugs that prevented
24810 renegotiation from working with TLS 1.1 or 1.2, so we had disabled
24811 them to solve bug 6033.)
24814 - No longer stop reading or writing on cpuworker connections when
24815 our rate limiting buckets go empty. Now we should handle circuit
24816 handshake requests more promptly. Resolves bug 9731.
24817 - If we are unable to save a microdescriptor to the journal, do not
24818 drop it from memory and then reattempt downloading it. Fixes bug
24819 9645; bugfix on 0.2.2.6-alpha.
24820 - Stop trying to bootstrap all our directory information from
24821 only our first guard. Discovered while fixing bug 9946; bugfix
24823 - The new channel code sometimes lost track of in-progress circuits,
24824 causing long-running clients to stop building new circuits. The
24825 fix is to always call circuit_n_chan_done(chan, 0) from
24826 channel_closed(). Fixes bug 9776; bugfix on 0.2.4.17-rc.
24828 o Minor bugfixes (on 0.2.4.x):
24829 - Correctly log long IPv6 exit policies, instead of truncating them
24830 or reporting an error. Fixes bug 9596; bugfix on 0.2.4.7-alpha.
24831 - Our default TLS ecdhe groups were backwards: we meant to be using
24832 P224 for relays (for performance win) and P256 for bridges (since
24833 it is more common in the wild). Instead we had it backwards. After
24834 reconsideration, we decided that the default should be P256 on all
24835 hosts, since its security is probably better, and since P224 is
24836 reportedly used quite little in the wild. Found by "skruffy" on
24837 IRC. Fix for bug 9780; bugfix on 0.2.4.8-alpha.
24838 - Free directory authority certificate download statuses on exit
24839 rather than leaking them. Fixes bug 9644; bugfix on 0.2.4.13-alpha.
24841 o Minor bugfixes (on 0.2.3.x and earlier):
24842 - If the guard we choose first doesn't answer, we would try the
24843 second guard, but once we connected to the second guard we would
24844 abandon it and retry the first one, slowing down bootstrapping.
24845 The fix is to treat all our initially chosen guards as acceptable
24846 to use. Fixes bug 9946; bugfix on 0.1.1.11-alpha.
24847 - Fix an assertion failure that would occur when disabling the
24848 ORPort setting on a running Tor process while accounting was
24849 enabled. Fixes bug 6979; bugfix on 0.2.2.18-alpha.
24850 - When examining the list of network interfaces to find our address,
24851 do not consider non-running or disabled network interfaces. Fixes
24852 bug 9904; bugfix on 0.2.3.11-alpha. Patch from "hantwister".
24853 - Avoid an off-by-one error when checking buffer boundaries when
24854 formatting the exit status of a pluggable transport helper.
24855 This is probably not an exploitable bug, but better safe than
24856 sorry. Fixes bug 9928; bugfix on 0.2.3.18-rc. Bug found by
24859 o Minor features (protecting client timestamps):
24860 - Clients no longer send timestamps in their NETINFO cells. These were
24861 not used for anything, and they provided one small way for clients
24862 to be distinguished from each other as they moved from network to
24863 network or behind NAT. Implements part of proposal 222.
24864 - Clients now round timestamps in INTRODUCE cells down to the nearest
24865 10 minutes. If a new Support022HiddenServices option is set to 0, or
24866 if it's set to "auto" and the feature is disabled in the consensus,
24867 the timestamp is sent as 0 instead. Implements part of proposal 222.
24868 - Stop sending timestamps in AUTHENTICATE cells. This is not such
24869 a big deal from a security point of view, but it achieves no actual
24870 good purpose, and isn't needed. Implements part of proposal 222.
24871 - Reduce down accuracy of timestamps in hidden service descriptors.
24872 Implements part of proposal 222.
24874 o Minor features (other):
24875 - Improve the circuit queue out-of-memory handler. Previously, when
24876 we ran low on memory, we'd close whichever circuits had the most
24877 queued cells. Now, we close those that have the *oldest* queued
24878 cells, on the theory that those are most responsible for us
24879 running low on memory. Based on analysis from a forthcoming paper
24880 by Jansen, Tschorsch, Johnson, and Scheuermann. Fixes bug 9093.
24881 - Generate bootstrapping status update events correctly when fetching
24882 microdescriptors. Fixes bug 9927.
24883 - Update to the October 2 2013 Maxmind GeoLite Country database.
24885 o Documentation fixes:
24886 - Clarify the usage and risks of setting the ContactInfo torrc line
24887 for your relay or bridge. Resolves ticket 9854.
24888 - Add anchors to the manpage so we can link to the html version of
24889 the documentation for specific options. Resolves ticket 9866.
24890 - Replace remaining references to DirServer in man page and
24891 log entries. Resolves ticket 10124.
24894 Changes in version 0.2.5.1-alpha - 2013-10-02
24895 Tor 0.2.5.1-alpha introduces experimental support for syscall sandboxing
24896 on Linux, allows bridges that offer pluggable transports to report usage
24897 statistics, fixes many issues to make testing easier, and provides
24898 a pile of minor features and bugfixes that have been waiting for a
24899 release of the new branch.
24901 This is the first alpha release in a new series, so expect there to
24902 be bugs. Users who would rather test out a more stable branch should
24903 stay with 0.2.4.x for now.
24905 o Major features (security):
24906 - Use the seccomp2 syscall filtering facility on Linux to limit
24907 which system calls Tor can invoke. This is an experimental,
24908 Linux-only feature to provide defense-in-depth against unknown
24909 attacks. To try turning it on, set "Sandbox 1" in your torrc
24910 file. Please be ready to report bugs. We hope to add support
24911 for better sandboxing in the future, including more fine-grained
24912 filters, better division of responsibility, and support for more
24913 platforms. This work has been done by Cristian-Matei Toader for
24914 Google Summer of Code.
24915 - Re-enable TLS 1.1 and 1.2 when built with OpenSSL 1.0.1e or later.
24916 Resolves ticket 6055. (OpenSSL before 1.0.1 didn't have TLS 1.1 or
24917 1.2, and OpenSSL from 1.0.1 through 1.0.1d had bugs that prevented
24918 renegotiation from working with TLS 1.1 or 1.2, so we had disabled
24919 them to solve bug 6033.)
24921 o Major features (other):
24922 - Add support for passing arguments to managed pluggable transport
24923 proxies. Implements ticket 3594.
24924 - Bridges now track GeoIP information and the number of their users
24925 even when pluggable transports are in use, and report usage
24926 statistics in their extra-info descriptors. Resolves tickets 4773
24928 - Make testing Tor networks bootstrap better: lower directory fetch
24929 retry schedules and maximum interval without directory requests,
24930 and raise maximum download tries. Implements ticket 6752.
24931 - Add make target 'test-network' to run tests on a Chutney network.
24932 Implements ticket 8530.
24933 - The ntor handshake is now on-by-default, no matter what the
24934 directory authorities recommend. Implements ticket 8561.
24937 - Instead of writing destroy cells directly to outgoing connection
24938 buffers, queue them and intersperse them with other outgoing cells.
24939 This can prevent a set of resource starvation conditions where too
24940 many pending destroy cells prevent data cells from actually getting
24941 delivered. Reported by "oftc_must_be_destroyed". Fixes bug 7912;
24942 bugfix on 0.2.0.1-alpha.
24943 - If we are unable to save a microdescriptor to the journal, do not
24944 drop it from memory and then reattempt downloading it. Fixes bug
24945 9645; bugfix on 0.2.2.6-alpha.
24946 - The new channel code sometimes lost track of in-progress circuits,
24947 causing long-running clients to stop building new circuits. The
24948 fix is to always call circuit_n_chan_done(chan, 0) from
24949 channel_closed(). Fixes bug 9776; bugfix on 0.2.4.17-rc.
24952 - Tor now builds each source file in two modes: a mode that avoids
24953 exposing identifiers needlessly, and another mode that exposes
24954 more identifiers for testing. This lets the compiler do better at
24955 optimizing the production code, while enabling us to take more
24956 radical measures to let the unit tests test things.
24957 - The production builds no longer include functions used only in
24958 the unit tests; all functions exposed from a module only for
24959 unit-testing are now static in production builds.
24960 - Add an --enable-coverage configuration option to make the unit
24961 tests (and a new src/or/tor-cov target) to build with gcov test
24965 - We now have rudimentary function mocking support that our unit
24966 tests can use to test functions in isolation. Function mocking
24967 lets the tests temporarily replace a function's dependencies with
24968 stub functions, so that the tests can check the function without
24969 invoking the other functions it calls.
24970 - Add more unit tests for the <circid,channel>->circuit map, and
24971 the destroy-cell-tracking code to fix bug 7912.
24972 - Unit tests for failing cases of the TAP onion handshake.
24973 - More unit tests for address-manipulation functions.
24975 o Minor features (protecting client timestamps):
24976 - Clients no longer send timestamps in their NETINFO cells. These were
24977 not used for anything, and they provided one small way for clients
24978 to be distinguished from each other as they moved from network to
24979 network or behind NAT. Implements part of proposal 222.
24980 - Clients now round timestamps in INTRODUCE cells down to the nearest
24981 10 minutes. If a new Support022HiddenServices option is set to 0, or
24982 if it's set to "auto" and the feature is disabled in the consensus,
24983 the timestamp is sent as 0 instead. Implements part of proposal 222.
24984 - Stop sending timestamps in AUTHENTICATE cells. This is not such
24985 a big deal from a security point of view, but it achieves no actual
24986 good purpose, and isn't needed. Implements part of proposal 222.
24987 - Reduce down accuracy of timestamps in hidden service descriptors.
24988 Implements part of proposal 222.
24990 o Minor features (config options):
24991 - Config (torrc) lines now handle fingerprints which are missing
24992 their initial '$'. Resolves ticket 4341; improvement over 0.0.9pre5.
24993 - Support a --dump-config option to print some or all of the
24994 configured options. Mainly useful for debugging the command-line
24995 option parsing code. Helps resolve ticket 4647.
24996 - Raise awareness of safer logging: notify user of potentially
24997 unsafe config options, like logging more verbosely than severity
24998 "notice" or setting SafeLogging to 0. Resolves ticket 5584.
24999 - Add a new configuration option TestingV3AuthVotingStartOffset
25000 that bootstraps a network faster by changing the timing for
25001 consensus votes. Addresses ticket 8532.
25002 - Add a new torrc option "ServerTransportOptions" that allows
25003 bridge operators to pass configuration parameters to their
25004 pluggable transports. Resolves ticket 8929.
25005 - The config (torrc) file now accepts bandwidth and space limits in
25006 bits as well as bytes. (Anywhere that you can say "2 Kilobytes",
25007 you can now say "16 kilobits", and so on.) Resolves ticket 9214.
25010 o Minor features (build):
25011 - Add support for `--library-versions` flag. Implements ticket 6384.
25012 - Return the "unexpected sendme" warnings to a warn severity, but make
25013 them rate limited, to help diagnose ticket 8093.
25014 - Detect a missing asciidoc, and warn the user about it, during
25015 configure rather than at build time. Fixes issue 6506. Patch from
25018 o Minor features (other):
25019 - Use the SOCK_NONBLOCK socket type, if supported, to open nonblocking
25020 sockets in a single system call. Implements ticket 5129.
25021 - Log current accounting state (bytes sent and received + remaining
25022 time for the current accounting period) in the relay's heartbeat
25023 message. Implements ticket 5526; patch from Peter Retzlaff.
25024 - Implement the TRANSPORT_LAUNCHED control port event that
25025 notifies controllers about new launched pluggable
25026 transports. Resolves ticket 5609.
25027 - If we're using the pure-C 32-bit curve25519_donna implementation
25028 of curve25519, build it with the -fomit-frame-pointer option to
25029 make it go faster on register-starved hosts. This improves our
25030 handshake performance by about 6% on i386 hosts without nacl.
25031 Closes ticket 8109.
25032 - Update to the September 4 2013 Maxmind GeoLite Country database.
25035 - Set the listen() backlog limit to the largest actually supported
25036 on the system, not to the value in a header file. Fixes bug 9716;
25037 bugfix on every released Tor.
25038 - No longer accept malformed http headers when parsing urls from
25039 headers. Now we reply with Bad Request ("400"). Fixes bug 2767;
25040 bugfix on 0.0.6pre1.
25041 - In munge_extrainfo_into_routerinfo(), check the return value of
25042 memchr(). This would have been a serious issue if we ever passed
25043 it a non-extrainfo. Fixes bug 8791; bugfix on 0.2.0.6-alpha. Patch
25045 - On the chance that somebody manages to build Tor on a
25046 platform where time_t is unsigned, correct the way that
25047 microdesc_add_to_cache() handles negative time arguments.
25048 Fixes bug 8042; bugfix on 0.2.3.1-alpha.
25049 - Reject relative control socket paths and emit a warning. Previously,
25050 single-component control socket paths would be rejected, but Tor
25051 would not log why it could not validate the config. Fixes bug 9258;
25052 bugfix on 0.2.3.16-alpha.
25054 o Minor bugfixes (command line):
25055 - Use a single command-line parser for parsing torrc options on the
25056 command line and for finding special command-line options to avoid
25057 inconsistent behavior for torrc option arguments that have the same
25058 names as command-line options. Fixes bugs 4647 and 9578; bugfix on
25060 - No longer allow 'tor --hash-password' with no arguments. Fixes bug
25061 9573; bugfix on 0.0.9pre5.
25063 o Minor fixes (build, auxiliary programs):
25064 - Stop preprocessing the "torify" script with autoconf, since
25065 it no longer refers to LOCALSTATEDIR. Fixes bug 5505; patch
25067 - The tor-fw-helper program now follows the standard convention and
25068 exits with status code "0" on success. Fixes bug 9030; bugfix on
25069 0.2.3.1-alpha. Patch by Arlo Breault.
25070 - Corrected ./configure advice for what openssl dev package you should
25071 install on Debian. Fixes bug 9207; bugfix on 0.2.0.1-alpha.
25073 o Minor code improvements:
25074 - Remove constants and tests for PKCS1 padding; it's insecure and
25075 shouldn't be used for anything new. Fixes bug 8792; patch
25077 - Remove instances of strcpy() from the unit tests. They weren't
25078 hurting anything, since they were only in the unit tests, but it's
25079 embarrassing to have strcpy() in the code at all, and some analysis
25080 tools don't like it. Fixes bug 8790; bugfix on 0.2.3.6-alpha and
25081 0.2.3.8-alpha. Patch from Arlo Breault.
25083 o Removed features:
25084 - Remove migration code from when we renamed the "cached-routers"
25085 file to "cached-descriptors" back in 0.2.0.8-alpha. This
25086 incidentally resolves ticket 6502 by cleaning up the related code
25087 a bit. Patch from Akshay Hebbar.
25089 o Code simplification and refactoring:
25090 - Extract the common duplicated code for creating a subdirectory
25091 of the data directory and writing to a file in it. Fixes ticket
25092 4282; patch from Peter Retzlaff.
25093 - Since OpenSSL 0.9.7, the i2d_*() functions support allocating output
25094 buffer. Avoid calling twice: i2d_RSAPublicKey(), i2d_DHparams(),
25095 i2d_X509(), and i2d_PublicKey(). Resolves ticket 5170.
25096 - Add a set of accessor functions for the circuit timeout data
25097 structure. Fixes ticket 6153; patch from "piet".
25098 - Clean up exit paths from connection_listener_new(). Closes ticket
25099 8789. Patch from Arlo Breault.
25100 - Since we rely on OpenSSL 0.9.8 now, we can use EVP_PKEY_cmp()
25101 and drop our own custom pkey_eq() implementation. Fixes bug 9043.
25102 - Use a doubly-linked list to implement the global circuit list.
25103 Resolves ticket 9108. Patch from Marek Majkowski.
25104 - Remove contrib/id_to_fp.c since it wasn't used anywhere.
25107 Changes in version 0.2.4.17-rc - 2013-09-05
25108 Tor 0.2.4.17-rc is the third release candidate for the Tor 0.2.4.x
25109 series. It adds an emergency step to help us tolerate the massive
25110 influx of users: 0.2.4 clients using the new (faster and safer) "NTor"
25111 circuit-level handshakes now effectively jump the queue compared to
25112 the 0.2.3 clients using "TAP" handshakes. This release also fixes a
25113 big bug hindering bridge reachability tests.
25116 - Relays now process the new "NTor" circuit-level handshake requests
25117 with higher priority than the old "TAP" circuit-level handshake
25118 requests. We still process some TAP requests to not totally starve
25119 0.2.3 clients when NTor becomes popular. A new consensus parameter
25120 "NumNTorsPerTAP" lets us tune the balance later if we need to.
25121 Implements ticket 9574.
25124 - If the circuit build timeout logic is disabled (via the consensus,
25125 or because we are an authority), then don't build testing circuits.
25126 Fixes bug 9657; bugfix on 0.2.2.14-alpha.
25127 - Bridges now send AUTH_CHALLENGE cells during their v3 handshakes;
25128 previously they did not, which prevented them from receiving
25129 successful connections from relays for self-test or bandwidth
25130 testing. Also, when a relay is extending a circuit to a bridge,
25131 it needs to send a NETINFO cell, even when the bridge hasn't sent
25132 an AUTH_CHALLENGE cell. Fixes bug 9546; bugfix on 0.2.3.6-alpha.
25133 - If the time to download the next old-style networkstatus is in
25134 the future, do not decline to consider whether to download the
25135 next microdescriptor networkstatus. Fixes bug 9564; bugfix on
25139 - Avoid double-closing the listener socket in our socketpair()
25140 replacement (used on Windows) in the case where the addresses on
25141 our opened sockets don't match what we expected. Fixes bug 9400;
25142 bugfix on 0.0.2pre7. Found by Coverity.
25144 o Minor fixes (config options):
25145 - Avoid overflows when the user sets MaxCircuitDirtiness to a
25146 ridiculously high value, by imposing a (ridiculously high) 30-day
25147 maximum on MaxCircuitDirtiness.
25148 - Fix the documentation of HeartbeatPeriod to say that the heartbeat
25149 message is logged at notice, not at info.
25150 - Warn and fail if a server is configured not to advertise any
25151 ORPorts at all. (We need *something* to put in our descriptor,
25152 or we just won't work.)
25155 - Track how many "TAP" and "NTor" circuit handshake requests we get,
25156 and how many we complete, and log it every hour to help relay
25157 operators follow trends in network load. Addresses ticket 9658.
25158 - Update to the August 7 2013 Maxmind GeoLite Country database.
25161 Changes in version 0.2.4.16-rc - 2013-08-10
25162 Tor 0.2.4.16-rc is the second release candidate for the Tor 0.2.4.x
25163 series. It fixes several crash bugs in the 0.2.4 branch.
25166 - Fix a bug in the voting algorithm that could yield incorrect results
25167 when a non-naming authority declared too many flags. Fixes bug 9200;
25168 bugfix on 0.2.0.3-alpha.
25169 - Fix an uninitialized read that could in some cases lead to a remote
25170 crash while parsing INTRODUCE2 cells. Bugfix on 0.2.4.1-alpha.
25171 Anybody running a hidden service on the experimental 0.2.4.x
25172 branch should upgrade. (This is, so far as we know, unrelated to
25174 - Avoid an assertion failure when processing DNS replies without the
25175 answer types we expected. Fixes bug 9337; bugfix on 0.2.4.7-alpha.
25176 - Avoid a crash when using --hash-password. Fixes bug 9295; bugfix on
25177 0.2.4.15-rc. Found by stem integration tests.
25180 - Fix an invalid memory read that occurred when a pluggable
25181 transport proxy failed its configuration protocol.
25182 Fixes bug 9288; bugfix on 0.2.4.1-alpha.
25183 - When evaluating whether to use a connection that we haven't
25184 decided is canonical using a recent link protocol version,
25185 decide that it's canonical only if it used address _does_
25186 match the desired address. Fixes bug 9309; bugfix on
25187 0.2.4.4-alpha. Reported by skruffy.
25188 - Make the default behavior of NumDirectoryGuards be to track
25189 NumEntryGuards. Now a user who changes only NumEntryGuards will get
25190 the behavior she expects. Fixes bug 9354; bugfix on 0.2.4.8-alpha.
25191 - Fix a spurious compilation warning with some older versions of
25192 GCC on FreeBSD. Fixes bug 9254; bugfix on 0.2.4.14-alpha.
25195 - Update to the July 3 2013 Maxmind GeoLite Country database.
25198 Changes in version 0.2.4.15-rc - 2013-07-01
25199 Tor 0.2.4.15-rc is the first release candidate for the Tor 0.2.4.x
25200 series. It fixes a few smaller bugs, but generally appears stable.
25201 Please test it and let us know whether it is!
25204 - When receiving a new configuration file via the control port's
25205 LOADCONF command, do not treat the defaults file as absent.
25206 Fixes bug 9122; bugfix on 0.2.3.9-alpha.
25209 - Issue a warning when running with the bufferevents backend enabled.
25210 It's still not stable, and people should know that they're likely
25211 to hit unexpected problems. Closes ticket 9147.
25214 Changes in version 0.2.4.14-alpha - 2013-06-18
25215 Tor 0.2.4.14-alpha fixes a pair of client guard enumeration problems
25216 present in 0.2.4.13-alpha.
25219 - When we have too much memory queued in circuits (according to a new
25220 MaxMemInCellQueues option), close the circuits consuming the most
25221 memory. This prevents us from running out of memory as a relay if
25222 circuits fill up faster than they can be drained. Fixes bug 9063;
25223 bugfix on the 54th commit of Tor. This bug is a further fix beyond
25224 bug 6252, whose fix was merged into 0.2.3.21-rc.
25226 This change also fixes an earlier approach taken in 0.2.4.13-alpha,
25227 where we tried to solve this issue simply by imposing an upper limit
25228 on the number of queued cells for a single circuit. That approach
25229 proved to be problematic, since there are ways to provoke clients to
25230 send a number of cells in excess of any such reasonable limit. Fixes
25231 bug 9072; bugfix on 0.2.4.13-alpha.
25233 - Limit hidden service descriptors to at most ten introduction
25234 points, to slow one kind of guard enumeration. Fixes bug 9002;
25235 bugfix on 0.1.1.11-alpha.
25238 Changes in version 0.2.4.13-alpha - 2013-06-14
25239 Tor 0.2.4.13-alpha fixes a variety of potential remote crash
25240 vulnerabilities, makes socks5 username/password circuit isolation
25241 actually actually work (this time for sure!), and cleans up a bunch
25242 of other issues in preparation for a release candidate.
25244 o Major bugfixes (robustness):
25245 - Close any circuit that has too many cells queued on it. Fixes
25246 bug 9063; bugfix on the 54th commit of Tor. This bug is a further
25247 fix beyond bug 6252, whose fix was merged into 0.2.3.21-rc.
25248 - Prevent the get_freelists() function from running off the end of
25249 the list of freelists if it somehow gets an unrecognized
25250 allocation. Fixes bug 8844; bugfix on 0.2.0.16-alpha. Reported by
25252 - Avoid an assertion failure on OpenBSD (and perhaps other BSDs)
25253 when an exit connection with optimistic data succeeds immediately
25254 rather than returning EINPROGRESS. Fixes bug 9017; bugfix on
25256 - Fix a directory authority crash bug when building a consensus
25257 using an older consensus as its basis. Fixes bug 8833. Bugfix
25261 - Avoid a memory leak where we would leak a consensus body when we
25262 find that a consensus which we couldn't previously verify due to
25263 missing certificates is now verifiable. Fixes bug 8719; bugfix
25265 - We used to always request authority certificates by identity digest,
25266 meaning we'd get the newest one even when we wanted one with a
25267 different signing key. Then we would complain about being given
25268 a certificate we already had, and never get the one we really
25269 wanted. Now we use the "fp-sk/" resource as well as the "fp/"
25270 resource to request the one we want. Fixes bug 5595; bugfix on
25272 - Follow the socks5 protocol when offering username/password
25273 authentication. The fix for bug 8117 exposed this bug, and it
25274 turns out real-world applications like Pidgin do care. Bugfix on
25275 0.2.3.2-alpha; fixes bug 8879.
25276 - Prevent failures on Windows Vista and later when rebuilding the
25277 microdescriptor cache. Diagnosed by Robert Ransom. Fixes bug 8822;
25278 bugfix on 0.2.4.12-alpha.
25281 - Fix an impossible buffer overrun in the AES unit tests. Fixes
25282 bug 8845; bugfix on 0.2.0.7-alpha. Found by eugenis.
25283 - If for some reason we fail to write a microdescriptor while
25284 rebuilding the cache, do not let the annotations from that
25285 microdescriptor linger in the cache file, and do not let the
25286 microdescriptor stay recorded as present in its old location.
25287 Fixes bug 9047; bugfix on 0.2.2.6-alpha.
25288 - Fix a memory leak that would occur whenever a configuration
25289 option changed. Fixes bug 8718; bugfix on 0.2.3.3-alpha.
25290 - Paste the description for PathBias parameters from the man
25291 page into or.h, so the code documents them too. Fixes bug 7982;
25292 bugfix on 0.2.3.17-beta and 0.2.4.8-alpha.
25293 - Relays now treat a changed IPv6 ORPort as sufficient reason to
25294 publish an updated descriptor. Fixes bug 6026; bugfix on
25296 - When launching a resolve request on behalf of an AF_UNIX control
25297 socket, omit the address field of the new entry connection, used in
25298 subsequent controller events, rather than letting tor_dup_addr()
25299 set it to "<unknown address type>". Fixes bug 8639; bugfix on
25302 o Minor bugfixes (log messages):
25303 - Fix a scaling issue in the path bias accounting code that
25304 resulted in "Bug:" log messages from either
25305 pathbias_scale_close_rates() or pathbias_count_build_success().
25306 This represents a bugfix on a previous bugfix: the original fix
25307 attempted in 0.2.4.10-alpha was incomplete. Fixes bug 8235; bugfix
25309 - Give a less useless error message when the user asks for an IPv4
25310 address on an IPv6-only port, or vice versa. Fixes bug 8846; bugfix
25314 - Downgrade "unexpected SENDME" warnings to protocol-warn for 0.2.4.x,
25315 to tolerate bug 8093 for now.
25316 - Add an "ignoring-advertised-bws" boolean to the flag-threshold lines
25317 in directory authority votes to describe whether they have enough
25318 measured bandwidths to ignore advertised (relay descriptor)
25319 bandwidth claims. Resolves ticket 8711.
25320 - Update to the June 5 2013 Maxmind GeoLite Country database.
25322 o Removed documentation:
25323 - Remove some of the older contents of doc/ as obsolete; move others
25324 to torspec.git. Fixes bug 8965.
25326 o Code simplification and refactoring:
25327 - Avoid using character buffers when constructing most directory
25328 objects: this approach was unwieldy and error-prone. Instead,
25329 build smartlists of strings, and concatenate them when done.
25332 Changes in version 0.2.4.12-alpha - 2013-04-18
25333 Tor 0.2.4.12-alpha moves Tor forward on several fronts: it starts the
25334 process for lengthening the guard rotation period, makes directory
25335 authority opinions in the consensus a bit less gameable, makes socks5
25336 username/password circuit isolation actually work, and fixes a wide
25337 variety of other issues.
25340 - Raise the default time that a client keeps an entry guard from
25341 "1-2 months" to "2-3 months", as suggested by Tariq Elahi's WPES
25342 2012 paper. (We would make it even longer, but we need better client
25343 load balancing first.) Also, make the guard lifetime controllable
25344 via a new GuardLifetime torrc option and a GuardLifetime consensus
25345 parameter. Start of a fix for bug 8240; bugfix on 0.1.1.11-alpha.
25346 - Directory authorities now prefer using measured bandwidths to
25347 advertised ones when computing flags and thresholds. Resolves
25349 - Directory authorities that have more than a threshold number
25350 of relays with measured bandwidths now treat relays with unmeasured
25351 bandwidths as having bandwidth 0. Resolves ticket 8435.
25353 o Major bugfixes (assert / resource use):
25354 - Avoid a bug where our response to TLS renegotiation under certain
25355 network conditions could lead to a busy-loop, with 100% CPU
25356 consumption. Fixes bug 5650; bugfix on 0.2.0.16-alpha.
25357 - Avoid an assertion when we discover that we'd like to write a cell
25358 onto a closing connection: just discard the cell. Fixes another
25359 case of bug 7350; bugfix on 0.2.4.4-alpha.
25361 o Major bugfixes (client-side privacy):
25362 - When we mark a circuit as unusable for new circuits, have it
25363 continue to be unusable for new circuits even if MaxCircuitDirtiness
25364 is increased too much at the wrong time, or the system clock jumps
25365 backwards. Fixes bug 6174; bugfix on 0.0.2pre26.
25366 - If ClientDNSRejectInternalAddresses ("do not believe DNS queries
25367 which have resolved to internal addresses") is set, apply that
25368 rule to IPv6 as well. Fixes bug 8475; bugfix on 0.2.0.7-alpha.
25369 - When an exit relay rejects a stream with reason "exit policy", but
25370 we only know an exit policy summary (e.g. from the microdesc
25371 consensus) for it, do not mark the relay as useless for all exiting.
25372 Instead, mark just the circuit as unsuitable for that particular
25373 address. Fixes part of bug 7582; bugfix on 0.2.3.2-alpha.
25374 - Allow applications to get proper stream isolation with
25375 IsolateSOCKSAuth. Many SOCKS5 clients that want to offer
25376 username/password authentication also offer "no authentication". Tor
25377 had previously preferred "no authentication", so the applications
25378 never actually sent Tor their auth details. Now Tor selects
25379 username/password authentication if it's offered. You can disable
25380 this behavior on a per-SOCKSPort basis via PreferSOCKSNoAuth. Fixes
25381 bug 8117; bugfix on 0.2.3.3-alpha.
25383 o Major bugfixes (other):
25384 - When unable to find any working directory nodes to use as a
25385 directory guard, give up rather than adding the same non-working
25386 nodes to the directory guard list over and over. Fixes bug 8231;
25387 bugfix on 0.2.4.8-alpha.
25390 - Reject as invalid most directory objects containing a NUL.
25391 Belt-and-suspender fix for bug 8037.
25392 - In our testsuite, create temporary directories with a bit more
25393 entropy in their name to make name collisions less likely. Fixes
25395 - Add CACHED keyword to ADDRMAP events in the control protocol
25396 to indicate whether a DNS result will be cached or not. Resolves
25398 - Update to the April 3 2013 Maxmind GeoLite Country database.
25400 o Minor features (build):
25401 - Detect and reject attempts to build Tor with threading support
25402 when OpenSSL has been compiled without threading support.
25404 - Clarify that when autoconf is checking for nacl, it is checking
25405 specifically for nacl with a fast curve25519 implementation.
25407 - Warn if building on a platform with an unsigned time_t: there
25408 are too many places where Tor currently assumes that time_t can
25409 hold negative values. We'd like to fix them all, but probably
25412 o Minor bugfixes (build):
25413 - Fix some bugs in tor-fw-helper-natpmp when trying to build and
25414 run it on Windows. More bugs likely remain. Patch from Gisle Vanem.
25415 Fixes bug 7280; bugfix on 0.2.3.1-alpha.
25416 - Add the old src/or/micro-revision.i filename to CLEANFILES.
25417 On the off chance that somebody has one, it will go away as soon
25418 as they run "make clean". Fix for bug 7143; bugfix on 0.2.4.1-alpha.
25419 - Build Tor correctly on 32-bit platforms where the compiler can build
25420 but not run code using the "uint128_t" construction. Fixes bug 8587;
25421 bugfix on 0.2.4.8-alpha.
25422 - Fix compilation warning with some versions of clang that would
25423 prefer the -Wswitch-enum compiler flag to warn about switch
25424 statements with missing enum values, even if those switch
25425 statements have a "default:" statement. Fixes bug 8598; bugfix
25428 o Minor bugfixes (protocol):
25429 - Fix the handling of a TRUNCATE cell when it arrives while the
25430 circuit extension is in progress. Fixes bug 7947; bugfix on 0.0.7.1.
25431 - Fix a misframing issue when reading the version numbers in a
25432 VERSIONS cell. Previously we would recognize [00 01 00 02] as
25433 'version 1, version 2, and version 0x100', when it should have
25434 only included versions 1 and 2. Fixes bug 8059; bugfix on
25435 0.2.0.10-alpha. Reported pseudonymously.
25436 - Make the format and order of STREAM events for DNS lookups
25437 consistent among the various ways to launch DNS lookups. Fixes
25438 bug 8203; bugfix on 0.2.0.24-rc. Patch by "Desoxy".
25439 - Correct our check for which versions of Tor support the EXTEND2
25440 cell. We had been willing to send it to Tor 0.2.4.7-alpha and
25441 later, when support was really added in version 0.2.4.8-alpha.
25442 Fixes bug 8464; bugfix on 0.2.4.8-alpha.
25444 o Minor bugfixes (other):
25445 - Correctly store microdescriptors and extrainfo descriptors with
25446 an internal NUL byte. Fixes bug 8037; bugfix on 0.2.0.1-alpha.
25447 Bug reported by "cypherpunks".
25448 - Increase the width of the field used to remember a connection's
25449 link protocol version to two bytes. Harmless for now, since the
25450 only currently recognized versions are one byte long. Reported
25451 pseudonymously. Fixes bug 8062; bugfix on 0.2.0.10-alpha.
25452 - If the state file's path bias counts are invalid (presumably from a
25453 buggy Tor prior to 0.2.4.10-alpha), make them correct. Also add
25454 additional checks and log messages to the scaling of Path Bias
25455 counts, in case there still are remaining issues with scaling.
25456 Should help resolve bug 8235.
25457 - Eliminate several instances where we use "Nickname=ID" to refer to
25458 nodes in logs. Use "Nickname (ID)" instead. (Elsewhere, we still use
25459 "$ID=Nickname", which is also acceptable.) Fixes bug 7065. Bugfix
25460 on 0.2.3.21-rc, 0.2.4.5-alpha, 0.2.4.8-alpha, and 0.2.4.10-alpha.
25462 o Minor bugfixes (syscalls):
25463 - Always check the return values of functions fcntl() and
25464 setsockopt(). We don't believe these are ever actually failing in
25465 practice, but better safe than sorry. Also, checking these return
25466 values should please analysis tools like Coverity. Patch from
25467 'flupzor'. Fixes bug 8206; bugfix on all versions of Tor.
25468 - Use direct writes rather than stdio when building microdescriptor
25469 caches, in an attempt to mitigate bug 8031, or at least make it
25472 o Minor bugfixes (config):
25473 - When rejecting a configuration because we were unable to parse a
25474 quoted string, log an actual error message. Fixes bug 7950; bugfix
25476 - Behave correctly when the user disables LearnCircuitBuildTimeout
25477 but doesn't tell us what they would like the timeout to be. Fixes
25478 bug 6304; bugfix on 0.2.2.14-alpha.
25479 - When autodetecting the number of CPUs, use the number of available
25480 CPUs in preference to the number of configured CPUs. Inform the
25481 user if this reduces the number of available CPUs. Fixes bug 8002;
25482 bugfix on 0.2.3.1-alpha.
25483 - Make it an error when you set EntryNodes but disable UseGuardNodes,
25484 since it will (surprisingly to some users) ignore EntryNodes. Fixes
25485 bug 8180; bugfix on 0.2.3.11-alpha.
25486 - Allow TestingTorNetworks to override the 4096-byte minimum for
25487 the Fast threshold. Otherwise they can't bootstrap until they've
25488 observed more traffic. Fixes bug 8508; bugfix on 0.2.4.10-alpha.
25489 - Fix some logic errors when the user manually overrides the
25490 PathsNeededToBuildCircuits option in torrc. Fixes bug 8599; bugfix
25493 o Minor bugfixes (log messages to help diagnose bugs):
25494 - If we fail to free a microdescriptor because of bug 7164, log
25495 the filename and line number from which we tried to free it.
25496 - Add another diagnostic to the heartbeat message: track and log
25497 overhead that TLS is adding to the data we write. If this is
25498 high, we are sending too little data to SSL_write at a time.
25499 Diagnostic for bug 7707.
25500 - Add more detail to a log message about relaxed timeouts, to help
25502 - Warn more aggressively when flushing microdescriptors to a
25503 microdescriptor cache fails, in an attempt to mitigate bug 8031,
25504 or at least make it more diagnosable.
25505 - Improve debugging output to help track down bug 8185 ("Bug:
25506 outgoing relay cell has n_chan==NULL. Dropping.")
25507 - Log the purpose of a path-bias testing circuit correctly.
25508 Improves a log message from bug 8477; bugfix on 0.2.4.8-alpha.
25510 o Minor bugfixes (0.2.4.x log messages that were too noisy):
25511 - Don't attempt to relax the timeout of already opened 1-hop circuits.
25512 They might never timeout. This should eliminate some/all cases of
25513 the relaxed timeout log message.
25514 - Use circuit creation time for network liveness evaluation. This
25515 should eliminate warning log messages about liveness caused
25516 by changes in timeout evaluation. Fixes bug 6572; bugfix on
25518 - Reduce a path bias length check from notice to info. The message
25519 is triggered when creating controller circuits. Fixes bug 8196;
25520 bugfix on 0.2.4.8-alpha.
25521 - Fix a path state issue that triggered a notice during relay startup.
25522 Fixes bug 8320; bugfix on 0.2.4.10-alpha.
25523 - Reduce occurrences of warns about circuit purpose in
25524 connection_ap_expire_building(). Fixes bug 8477; bugfix on
25527 o Minor bugfixes (pre-0.2.4.x log messages that were too noisy):
25528 - If we encounter a write failure on a SOCKS connection before we
25529 finish our SOCKS handshake, don't warn that we closed the
25530 connection before we could send a SOCKS reply. Fixes bug 8427;
25531 bugfix on 0.1.0.1-rc.
25532 - Correctly recognize that [::1] is a loopback address. Fixes
25533 bug 8377; bugfix on 0.2.1.3-alpha.
25534 - Fix a directory authority warn caused when we have a large amount
25535 of badexit bandwidth. Fixes bug 8419; bugfix on 0.2.2.10-alpha.
25536 - Don't log inappropriate heartbeat messages when hibernating: a
25537 hibernating node is _expected_ to drop out of the consensus,
25538 decide it isn't bootstrapped, and so forth. Fixes bug 7302;
25539 bugfix on 0.2.3.1-alpha.
25540 - Don't complain about bootstrapping problems while hibernating.
25541 These complaints reflect a general code problem, but not one
25542 with any problematic effects (no connections are actually
25543 opened). Fixes part of bug 7302; bugfix on 0.2.3.2-alpha.
25545 o Documentation fixes:
25546 - Update tor-fw-helper.1.txt and tor-fw-helper.c to make option
25547 names match. Fixes bug 7768.
25548 - Make the torify manpage no longer refer to tsocks; torify hasn't
25549 supported tsocks since 0.2.3.14-alpha.
25550 - Make the tor manpage no longer reference tsocks.
25551 - Fix the GeoIPExcludeUnknown documentation to refer to
25552 ExcludeExitNodes rather than the currently nonexistent
25553 ExcludeEntryNodes. Spotted by "hamahangi" on tor-talk.
25556 - The tor-tsocks.conf is no longer distributed or installed. We
25557 recommend that tsocks users use torsocks instead. Resolves
25561 Changes in version 0.2.4.11-alpha - 2013-03-11
25562 Tor 0.2.4.11-alpha makes relay measurement by directory authorities
25563 more robust, makes hidden service authentication work again, and
25564 resolves a DPI fingerprint for Tor's SSL transport.
25566 o Major features (directory authorities):
25567 - Directory authorities now support a new consensus method (17)
25568 where they cap the published bandwidth of servers for which
25569 insufficient bandwidth measurements exist. Fixes part of bug 2286.
25570 - Directory authorities that set "DisableV2DirectoryInfo_ 1" no longer
25571 serve any v2 directory information. Now we can test disabling the
25572 old deprecated v2 directory format, and see whether doing so has
25573 any effect on network load. Begins to fix bug 6783.
25574 - Directory authorities now include inside each vote a statement of
25575 the performance thresholds they used when assigning flags.
25576 Implements ticket 8151.
25578 o Major bugfixes (directory authorities):
25579 - Stop marking every relay as having been down for one hour every
25580 time we restart a directory authority. These artificial downtimes
25581 were messing with our Stable and Guard flag calculations. Fixes
25582 bug 8218 (introduced by the fix for 1035). Bugfix on 0.2.2.23-alpha.
25584 o Major bugfixes (hidden services):
25585 - Allow hidden service authentication to succeed again. When we
25586 refactored the hidden service introduction code back
25587 in 0.2.4.1-alpha, we didn't update the code that checks
25588 whether authentication information is present, causing all
25589 authentication checks to return "false". Fix for bug 8207; bugfix
25590 on 0.2.4.1-alpha. Found by Coverity; this is CID 718615.
25592 o Minor features (relays, bridges):
25593 - Make bridge relays check once a minute for whether their IP
25594 address has changed, rather than only every 15 minutes. Resolves
25595 bugs 1913 and 1992.
25596 - Refactor resolve_my_address() so it returns the method by which we
25597 decided our public IP address (explicitly configured, resolved from
25598 explicit hostname, guessed from interfaces, learned by gethostname).
25599 Now we can provide more helpful log messages when a relay guesses
25600 its IP address incorrectly (e.g. due to unexpected lines in
25601 /etc/hosts). Resolves ticket 2267.
25602 - Teach bridge-using clients to avoid 0.2.2 bridges when making
25603 microdescriptor-related dir requests, and only fall back to normal
25604 descriptors if none of their bridges can handle microdescriptors
25605 (as opposed to the fix in ticket 4013, which caused them to fall
25606 back to normal descriptors if *any* of their bridges preferred
25607 them). Resolves ticket 4994.
25608 - Randomize the lifetime of our SSL link certificate, so censors can't
25609 use the static value for filtering Tor flows. Resolves ticket 8443;
25610 related to ticket 4014 which was included in 0.2.2.33.
25611 - Support a new version of the link protocol that allows 4-byte circuit
25612 IDs. Previously, circuit IDs were limited to 2 bytes, which presented
25613 a possible resource exhaustion issue. Closes ticket 7351; implements
25616 o Minor features (portability):
25617 - Tweak the curve25519-donna*.c implementations to tolerate systems
25618 that lack stdint.h. Fixes bug 3894; bugfix on 0.2.4.8-alpha.
25619 - Use Ville Laurikari's implementation of AX_CHECK_SIGN() to determine
25620 the signs of types during autoconf. This is better than our old
25621 approach, which didn't work when cross-compiling.
25622 - Detect the sign of enum values, rather than assuming that MSC is the
25623 only compiler where enum types are all signed. Fixes bug 7727;
25624 bugfix on 0.2.4.10-alpha.
25626 o Minor features (other):
25627 - Say "KBytes" rather than "KB" in the man page (for various values
25628 of K), to further reduce confusion about whether Tor counts in
25629 units of memory or fractions of units of memory. Resolves ticket 7054.
25630 - Clear the high bit on curve25519 public keys before passing them to
25631 our backend, in case we ever wind up using a backend that doesn't do
25632 so itself. If we used such a backend, and *didn't* clear the high bit,
25633 we could wind up in a situation where users with such backends would
25634 be distinguishable from users without. Fixes bug 8121; bugfix on
25636 - Update to the March 6 2013 Maxmind GeoLite Country database.
25638 o Minor bugfixes (clients):
25639 - When we receive a RELAY_END cell with the reason DONE, or with no
25640 reason, before receiving a RELAY_CONNECTED cell, report the SOCKS
25641 status as "connection refused". Previously we reported these cases
25642 as success but then immediately closed the connection. Fixes bug
25643 7902; bugfix on 0.1.0.1-rc. Reported by "oftc_must_be_destroyed".
25644 - Downgrade an assertion in connection_ap_expire_beginning to an
25645 LD_BUG message. The fix for bug 8024 should prevent this message
25646 from displaying, but just in case, a warn that we can diagnose
25647 is better than more assert crashes. Fixes bug 8065; bugfix on
25649 - Lower path use bias thresholds to .80 for notice and .60 for warn.
25650 Also make the rate limiting flags for the path use bias log messages
25651 independent from the original path bias flags. Fixes bug 8161;
25652 bugfix on 0.2.4.10-alpha.
25654 o Minor bugfixes (relays):
25655 - Stop trying to resolve our hostname so often (e.g. every time we
25656 think about doing a directory fetch). Now we reuse the cached
25657 answer in some cases. Fixes bugs 1992 (bugfix on 0.2.0.20-rc)
25658 and 2410 (bugfix on 0.1.2.2-alpha).
25659 - Stop sending a stray "(null)" in some cases for the server status
25660 "EXTERNAL_ADDRESS" controller event. Resolves bug 8200; bugfix
25662 - When choosing which stream on a formerly stalled circuit to wake
25663 first, make better use of the platform's weak RNG. Previously,
25664 we had been using the % ("modulo") operator to try to generate a
25665 1/N chance of picking each stream, but this behaves badly with
25666 many platforms' choice of weak RNG. Fixes bug 7801; bugfix on
25668 - Use our own weak RNG when we need a weak RNG. Windows's rand() and
25669 Irix's random() only return 15 bits; Solaris's random() returns more
25670 bits but its RAND_MAX says it only returns 15, and so on. Motivated
25671 by the fix for bug 7801; bugfix on 0.2.2.20-alpha.
25673 o Minor bugfixes (directory authorities):
25674 - Directory authorities now use less space when formatting identical
25675 microdescriptor lines in directory votes. Fixes bug 8158; bugfix
25678 o Minor bugfixes (memory leaks spotted by Coverity -- bug 7816):
25679 - Avoid leaking memory if we fail to compute a consensus signature
25680 or we generate a consensus we can't parse. Bugfix on 0.2.0.5-alpha.
25681 - Fix a memory leak when receiving headers from an HTTPS proxy. Bugfix
25683 - Fix a memory leak during safe-cookie controller authentication.
25684 Bugfix on 0.2.3.13-alpha.
25685 - Avoid memory leak of IPv6 policy content if we fail to format it into
25686 a router descriptor. Bugfix on 0.2.4.7-alpha.
25688 o Minor bugfixes (other code correctness issues):
25689 - Avoid a crash if we fail to generate an extrainfo descriptor.
25690 Fixes bug 8208; bugfix on 0.2.3.16-alpha. Found by Coverity;
25691 this is CID 718634.
25692 - When detecting the largest possible file descriptor (in order to
25693 close all file descriptors when launching a new program), actually
25694 use _SC_OPEN_MAX. The old code for doing this was very, very broken.
25695 Fixes bug 8209; bugfix on 0.2.3.1-alpha. Found by Coverity; this
25697 - Fix a copy-and-paste error when adding a missing A1 to a routerset
25698 because of GeoIPExcludeUnknown. Fix for Coverity CID 980650.
25699 Bugfix on 0.2.4.10-alpha.
25700 - Fix an impossible-to-trigger integer overflow when estimating how
25701 long our onionskin queue would take. (This overflow would require us
25702 to accept 4 million onionskins before processing 100 of them.) Fixes
25703 bug 8210; bugfix on 0.2.4.10-alpha.
25705 o Code simplification and refactoring:
25706 - Add a wrapper function for the common "log a message with a
25710 Changes in version 0.2.4.10-alpha - 2013-02-04
25711 Tor 0.2.4.10-alpha adds defenses at the directory authority level from
25712 certain attacks that flood the network with relays; changes the queue
25713 for circuit create requests from a sized-based limit to a time-based
25714 limit; resumes building with MSVC on Windows; and fixes a wide variety
25717 o Major bugfixes (directory authority):
25718 - When computing directory thresholds, ignore any rejected-as-sybil
25719 nodes during the computation so that they can't influence Fast,
25720 Guard, etc. (We should have done this for proposal 109.) Fixes
25722 - When marking a node as a likely sybil, reset its uptime metrics
25723 to zero, so that it cannot time towards getting marked as Guard,
25724 Stable, or HSDir. (We should have done this for proposal 109.) Fixes
25728 - When a TLS write is partially successful but incomplete, remember
25729 that the flushed part has been flushed, and notice that bytes were
25730 actually written. Reported and fixed pseudonymously. Fixes bug
25731 7708; bugfix on Tor 0.1.0.5-rc.
25732 - Reject bogus create and relay cells with 0 circuit ID or 0 stream
25733 ID: these could be used to create unexpected streams and circuits
25734 which would count as "present" to some parts of Tor but "absent"
25735 to others, leading to zombie circuits and streams or to a bandwidth
25736 denial-of-service. Fixes bug 7889; bugfix on every released version
25737 of Tor. Reported by "oftc_must_be_destroyed".
25738 - Rename all macros in our local copy of queue.h to begin with "TOR_".
25739 This change seems the only good way to permanently prevent conflicts
25740 with queue.h on various operating systems. Fixes bug 8107; bugfix
25743 o Major features (relay):
25744 - Instead of limiting the number of queued onionskins (aka circuit
25745 create requests) to a fixed, hard-to-configure number, we limit
25746 the size of the queue based on how many we expect to be able to
25747 process in a given amount of time. We estimate the time it will
25748 take to process an onionskin based on average processing time
25749 of previous onionskins. Closes ticket 7291. You'll never have to
25750 configure MaxOnionsPending again.
25752 o Major features (portability):
25753 - Resume building correctly with MSVC and Makefile.nmake. This patch
25754 resolves numerous bugs and fixes reported by ultramage, including
25755 7305, 7308, 7309, 7310, 7312, 7313, 7315, 7316, and 7669.
25756 - Make the ntor and curve25519 code build correctly with MSVC.
25757 Fix on 0.2.4.8-alpha.
25760 - When directory authorities are computing thresholds for flags,
25761 never let the threshold for the Fast flag fall below 4096
25762 bytes. Also, do not consider nodes with extremely low bandwidths
25763 when deciding thresholds for various directory flags. This change
25764 should raise our threshold for Fast relays, possibly in turn
25765 improving overall network performance; see ticket 1854. Resolves
25767 - The Tor client now ignores sub-domain components of a .onion
25768 address. This change makes HTTP "virtual" hosting
25769 possible: http://foo.aaaaaaaaaaaaaaaa.onion/ and
25770 http://bar.aaaaaaaaaaaaaaaa.onion/ can be two different websites
25771 hosted on the same hidden service. Implements proposal 204.
25772 - We compute the overhead from passing onionskins back and forth to
25773 cpuworkers, and report it when dumping statistics in response to
25774 SIGUSR1. Supports ticket 7291.
25776 o Minor features (path selection):
25777 - When deciding whether we have enough descriptors to build circuits,
25778 instead of looking at raw relay counts, look at which fraction
25779 of (bandwidth-weighted) paths we're able to build. This approach
25780 keeps clients from building circuits if their paths are likely to
25781 stand out statistically. The default fraction of paths needed is
25782 taken from the consensus directory; you can override it with the
25783 new PathsNeededToBuildCircuits option. Fixes ticket 5956.
25784 - When any country code is listed in ExcludeNodes or ExcludeExitNodes,
25785 and we have GeoIP information, also exclude all nodes with unknown
25786 countries "??" and "A1". This behavior is controlled by the
25787 new GeoIPExcludeUnknown option: you can make such nodes always
25788 excluded with "GeoIPExcludeUnknown 1", and disable the feature
25789 with "GeoIPExcludeUnknown 0". Setting "GeoIPExcludeUnknown auto"
25790 gets you the default behavior. Implements feature 7706.
25791 - Path Use Bias: Perform separate accounting for successful circuit
25792 use. Keep separate statistics on stream attempt rates versus stream
25793 success rates for each guard. Provide configurable thresholds to
25794 determine when to emit log messages or disable use of guards that
25795 fail too many stream attempts. Resolves ticket 7802.
25797 o Minor features (log messages):
25798 - When learning a fingerprint for a bridge, log its corresponding
25799 transport type. Implements ticket 7896.
25800 - Improve the log message when "Bug/attack: unexpected sendme cell
25801 from client" occurs, to help us track bug 8093.
25804 - Remove a couple of extraneous semicolons that were upsetting the
25805 cparser library. Patch by Christian Grothoff. Fixes bug 7115;
25806 bugfix on 0.2.2.1-alpha.
25807 - Remove a source of rounding error during path bias count scaling;
25808 don't count cannibalized circuits as used for path bias until we
25809 actually try to use them; and fix a circuit_package_relay_cell()
25810 warning message about n_chan==NULL. Fixes bug 7802.
25811 - Detect nacl when its headers are in a nacl/ subdirectory. Also,
25812 actually link against nacl when we're configured to use it. Fixes
25813 bug 7972; bugfix on 0.2.4.8-alpha.
25814 - Compile correctly with the --disable-curve25519 option. Fixes
25815 bug 8153; bugfix on 0.2.4.8-alpha.
25817 o Build improvements:
25818 - Do not report status verbosely from autogen.sh unless the -v flag
25819 is specified. Fixes issue 4664. Patch from Onizuka.
25820 - Replace all calls to snprintf() outside of src/ext with
25821 tor_snprintf(). Also remove the #define to replace snprintf with
25822 _snprintf on Windows; they have different semantics, and all of
25823 our callers should be using tor_snprintf() anyway. Fixes bug 7304.
25824 - Try to detect if we are ever building on a platform where
25825 memset(...,0,...) does not set the value of a double to 0.0. Such
25826 platforms are permitted by the C standard, though in practice
25827 they're pretty rare (since IEEE 754 is nigh-ubiquitous). We don't
25828 currently support them, but it's better to detect them and fail
25829 than to perform erroneously.
25831 o Removed features:
25832 - Stop exporting estimates of v2 and v3 directory traffic shares
25833 in extrainfo documents. They were unneeded and sometimes inaccurate.
25834 Also stop exporting any v2 directory request statistics. Resolves
25836 - Drop support for detecting and warning about versions of Libevent
25837 before 1.3e. Nothing reasonable ships with them any longer;
25838 warning the user about them shouldn't be needed. Resolves ticket
25841 o Code simplifications and refactoring:
25842 - Rename "isin" functions to "contains", for grammar. Resolves
25844 - Rename Tor's logging function log() to tor_log(), to avoid conflicts
25845 with the natural logarithm function from the system libm. Resolves
25849 Changes in version 0.2.4.9-alpha - 2013-01-15
25850 Tor 0.2.4.9-alpha provides a quick fix to make the new ntor handshake
25851 work more robustly.
25854 - Fix backward compatibility logic when receiving an embedded ntor
25855 handshake tunneled in a CREATE cell. This clears up the "Bug:
25856 couldn't format CREATED cell" warning. Fixes bug 7959; bugfix
25860 Changes in version 0.2.4.8-alpha - 2013-01-14
25861 Tor 0.2.4.8-alpha introduces directory guards to reduce user enumeration
25862 risks, adds a new stronger and faster circuit handshake, and offers
25863 stronger and faster link encryption when both sides support it.
25866 - Preliminary support for directory guards (proposal 207): when
25867 possible, clients now use their entry guards for non-anonymous
25868 directory requests. This can help prevent client enumeration. Note
25869 that this behavior only works when we have a usable consensus
25870 directory, and when options about what to download are more or less
25871 standard. In the future we should re-bootstrap from our guards,
25872 rather than re-bootstrapping from the preconfigured list of
25873 directory sources that ships with Tor. Resolves ticket 6526.
25874 - Tor relays and clients now support a better CREATE/EXTEND cell
25875 format, allowing the sender to specify multiple address, identity,
25876 and handshake types. Implements Robert Ransom's proposal 200;
25877 closes ticket 7199.
25879 o Major features (new circuit handshake):
25880 - Tor now supports a new circuit extension handshake designed by Ian
25881 Goldberg, Douglas Stebila, and Berkant Ustaoglu. Our original
25882 circuit extension handshake, later called "TAP", was a bit slow
25883 (especially on the relay side), had a fragile security proof, and
25884 used weaker keys than we'd now prefer. The new circuit handshake
25885 uses Dan Bernstein's "curve25519" elliptic-curve Diffie-Hellman
25886 function, making it significantly more secure than the older
25887 handshake, and significantly faster. Tor can use one of two built-in
25888 pure-C curve25519-donna implementations by Adam Langley, or it
25889 can link against the "nacl" library for a tuned version if present.
25891 The built-in version is very fast for 64-bit systems when building
25892 with GCC. The built-in 32-bit version is still faster than the
25893 old TAP protocol, but using libnacl is better on most such hosts.
25895 Clients don't currently use this protocol by default, since
25896 comparatively few clients support it so far. To try it, set
25897 UseNTorHandshake to 1.
25899 Implements proposal 216; closes ticket 7202.
25901 o Major features (better link encryption):
25902 - Relays can now enable the ECDHE TLS ciphersuites when available
25903 and appropriate. These ciphersuites let us negotiate forward-secure
25904 TLS secret keys more safely and more efficiently than with our
25905 previous use of Diffie-Hellman modulo a 1024-bit prime. By default,
25906 public relays prefer the (faster) P224 group, and bridges prefer
25907 the (more common) P256 group; you can override this with the
25910 Enabling these ciphers was a little tricky, since for a long time,
25911 clients had been claiming to support them without actually doing
25912 so, in order to foil fingerprinting. But with the client-side
25913 implementation of proposal 198 in 0.2.3.17-beta, clients can now
25914 match the ciphers from recent Firefox versions *and* list the
25915 ciphers they actually mean, so relays can believe such clients
25916 when they advertise ECDHE support in their TLS ClientHello messages.
25918 This feature requires clients running 0.2.3.17-beta or later,
25919 and requires both sides to be running OpenSSL 1.0.0 or later
25920 with ECC support. OpenSSL 1.0.1, with the compile-time option
25921 "enable-ec_nistp_64_gcc_128", is highly recommended.
25923 Implements the relay side of proposal 198; closes ticket 7200.
25926 - Avoid crashing when, as a relay without IPv6-exit support, a
25927 client insists on getting an IPv6 address or nothing. Fixes bug
25928 7814; bugfix on 0.2.4.7-alpha.
25931 - Improve circuit build timeout handling for hidden services.
25932 In particular: adjust build timeouts more accurately depending
25933 upon the number of hop-RTTs that a particular circuit type
25934 undergoes. Additionally, launch intro circuits in parallel
25935 if they timeout, and take the first one to reply as valid.
25936 - Work correctly on Unix systems where EAGAIN and EWOULDBLOCK are
25937 separate error codes; or at least, don't break for that reason.
25938 Fixes bug 7935. Reported by "oftc_must_be_destroyed".
25939 - Update to the January 2 2013 Maxmind GeoLite Country database.
25941 o Minor features (testing):
25942 - Add benchmarks for DH (1024-bit multiplicative group) and ECDH
25943 (P-256) Diffie-Hellman handshakes to src/or/bench.
25944 - Add benchmark functions to test onion handshake performance.
25946 o Minor features (path bias detection):
25947 - Alter the Path Bias log messages to be more descriptive in terms
25948 of reporting timeouts and other statistics.
25949 - Create three levels of Path Bias log messages, as opposed to just
25950 two. These are configurable via consensus as well as via the torrc
25951 options PathBiasNoticeRate, PathBiasWarnRate, PathBiasExtremeRate.
25952 The default values are 0.70, 0.50, and 0.30 respectively.
25953 - Separate the log message levels from the decision to drop guards,
25954 which also is available via torrc option PathBiasDropGuards.
25955 PathBiasDropGuards still defaults to 0 (off).
25956 - Deprecate PathBiasDisableRate in favor of PathBiasDropGuards
25957 in combination with PathBiasExtremeRate.
25958 - Increase the default values for PathBiasScaleThreshold and
25959 PathBiasCircThreshold from (200, 20) to (300, 150).
25960 - Add in circuit usage accounting to path bias. If we try to use a
25961 built circuit but fail for any reason, it counts as path bias.
25962 Certain classes of circuits where the adversary gets to pick your
25963 destination node are exempt from this accounting. Usage accounting
25964 can be specifically disabled via consensus parameter or torrc.
25965 - Convert all internal path bias state to double-precision floating
25966 point, to avoid roundoff error and other issues.
25967 - Only record path bias information for circuits that have completed
25968 *two* hops. Assuming end-to-end tagging is the attack vector, this
25969 makes us more resilient to ambient circuit failure without any
25970 detection capability loss.
25972 o Minor bugfixes (log messages):
25973 - Rate-limit the "No circuits are opened. Relaxed timeout for a
25974 circuit with channel state open..." message to once per hour to
25975 keep it from filling the notice logs. Mitigates bug 7799 but does
25976 not fix the underlying cause. Bugfix on 0.2.4.7-alpha.
25977 - Avoid spurious warnings when configuring multiple client ports of
25978 which only some are nonlocal. Previously, we had claimed that some
25979 were nonlocal when in fact they weren't. Fixes bug 7836; bugfix on
25982 o Code simplifications and refactoring:
25983 - Get rid of a couple of harmless clang warnings, where we compared
25984 enums to ints. These warnings are newly introduced in clang 3.2.
25985 - Split the onion.c file into separate modules for the onion queue
25986 and the different handshakes it supports.
25987 - Remove the marshalling/unmarshalling code for sending requests to
25988 cpuworkers over a socket, and instead just send structs. The
25989 recipient will always be the same Tor binary as the sender, so
25990 any encoding is overkill.
25993 Changes in version 0.2.4.7-alpha - 2012-12-24
25994 Tor 0.2.4.7-alpha introduces a new approach to providing fallback
25995 directory mirrors for more robust bootstrapping; fixes more issues where
25996 clients with changing network conditions refuse to make any circuits;
25997 adds initial support for exiting to IPv6 addresses; resumes being able
25998 to update our GeoIP database, and includes the geoip6 file this time;
25999 turns off the client-side DNS cache by default due to privacy risks;
26000 and fixes a variety of other issues.
26002 o Major features (client resilience):
26003 - Add a new "FallbackDir" torrc option to use when we can't use
26004 a directory mirror from the consensus (either because we lack a
26005 consensus, or because they're all down). Currently, all authorities
26006 are fallbacks by default, and there are no other default fallbacks,
26007 but that will change. This option will allow us to give clients a
26008 longer list of servers to try to get a consensus from when first
26009 connecting to the Tor network, and thereby reduce load on the
26010 directory authorities. Implements proposal 206, "Preconfigured
26011 directory sources for bootstrapping". We also removed the old
26012 "FallbackNetworkstatus" option, since we never got it working well
26013 enough to use it. Closes bug 572.
26014 - If we have no circuits open, use a relaxed timeout (the
26015 95-percentile cutoff) until a circuit succeeds. This heuristic
26016 should allow Tor to succeed at building circuits even when the
26017 network connection drastically changes. Should help with bug 3443.
26019 o Major features (IPv6):
26020 - Relays can now exit to IPv6 addresses: make sure that you have IPv6
26021 connectivity, then set the IPv6Exit flag to 1. Also make sure your
26022 exit policy reads as you would like: the address * applies to all
26023 address families, whereas *4 is IPv4 address only, and *6 is IPv6
26024 addresses only. On the client side, you'll need to wait until the
26025 authorities have upgraded, wait for enough exits to support IPv6,
26026 apply the "IPv6Traffic" flag to a SocksPort, and use Socks5. Closes
26027 ticket 5547, implements proposal 117 as revised in proposal 208.
26029 We DO NOT recommend that clients with actual anonymity needs start
26030 using IPv6 over Tor yet, since not enough exits support it yet.
26032 o Major features (geoip database):
26033 - Maxmind began labelling Tor relays as being in country "A1",
26034 which breaks by-country node selection inside Tor. Now we use a
26035 script to replace "A1" ("Anonymous Proxy") entries in our geoip
26036 file with real country codes. This script fixes about 90% of "A1"
26037 entries automatically and uses manual country code assignments to
26038 fix the remaining 10%. See src/config/README.geoip for details.
26039 Fixes bug 6266. Also update to the December 5 2012 Maxmind GeoLite
26040 Country database, as modified above.
26042 o Major bugfixes (client-side DNS):
26043 - Turn off the client-side DNS cache by default. Updating and using
26044 the DNS cache is now configurable on a per-client-port
26045 level. SOCKSPort, DNSPort, etc lines may now contain
26046 {No,}Cache{IPv4,IPv6,}DNS lines to indicate that we shouldn't
26047 cache these types of DNS answers when we receive them from an
26048 exit node in response to an application request on this port, and
26049 {No,}UseCached{IPv4,IPv6,DNS} lines to indicate that if we have
26050 cached DNS answers of these types, we shouldn't use them. It's
26051 potentially risky to use cached DNS answers at the client, since
26052 doing so can indicate to one exit what answers we've gotten
26053 for DNS lookups in the past. With IPv6, this becomes especially
26054 problematic. Using cached DNS answers for requests on the same
26055 circuit would present less linkability risk, since all traffic
26056 on a circuit is already linkable, but it would also provide
26057 little performance benefit: the exit node caches DNS replies
26058 too. Implements a simplified version of Proposal 205. Implements
26061 o Major bugfixes (other):
26062 - Alter circuit build timeout measurement to start at the point
26063 where we begin the CREATE/CREATE_FAST step (as opposed to circuit
26064 initialization). This should make our timeout measurements more
26065 uniform. Previously, we were sometimes including ORconn setup time
26066 in our circuit build time measurements. Should resolve bug 3443.
26067 - Fix an assertion that could trigger in hibernate_go_dormant() when
26068 closing an or_connection_t: call channel_mark_for_close() rather
26069 than connection_mark_for_close(). Fixes bug 7267. Bugfix on
26071 - Include the geoip6 IPv6 GeoIP database in the tarball. Fixes bug
26072 7655; bugfix on 0.2.4.6-alpha.
26075 - Add a new torrc option "ServerTransportListenAddr" to let bridge
26076 operators select the address where their pluggable transports will
26077 listen for connections. Resolves ticket 7013.
26078 - Allow an optional $ before the node identity digest in the
26079 controller command GETINFO ns/id/<identity>, for consistency with
26080 md/id/<identity> and desc/id/<identity>. Resolves ticket 7059.
26081 - Log packaged cell fullness as part of the heartbeat message.
26082 Diagnosis to try to determine the extent of bug 7743.
26084 o Minor features (IPv6):
26085 - AutomapHostsOnResolve now supports IPv6 addresses. By default, we
26086 prefer to hand out virtual IPv6 addresses, since there are more of
26087 them and we can't run out. To override this behavior and make IPv4
26088 addresses preferred, set NoPreferIPv6Automap on whatever SOCKSPort
26089 or DNSPort you're using for resolving. Implements ticket 7571.
26090 - AutomapHostsOnResolve responses are now randomized, to avoid
26091 annoying situations where Tor is restarted and applications
26092 connect to the wrong addresses.
26093 - Never try more than 1000 times to pick a new virtual address when
26094 AutomapHostsOnResolve is set. That's good enough so long as we
26095 aren't close to handing out our entire virtual address space;
26096 if you're getting there, it's best to switch to IPv6 virtual
26100 - The ADDRMAP command can no longer generate an ill-formed error
26101 code on a failed MAPADDRESS. It now says "internal" rather than
26102 an English sentence fragment with spaces in the middle. Bugfix on
26103 Tor 0.2.0.19-alpha.
26104 - Fix log messages and comments to avoid saying "GMT" when we mean
26105 "UTC". Fixes bug 6113.
26106 - Compile on win64 using mingw64. Fixes bug 7260; patches from
26108 - Fix a crash when debugging unit tests on Windows: deallocate a
26109 shared library with FreeLibrary, not CloseHandle. Fixes bug 7306;
26110 bugfix on 0.2.2.17-alpha. Reported by "ultramage".
26113 - The DirServer option is now DirAuthority, for consistency with
26114 current naming patterns. You can still use the old DirServer form.
26116 o Code simplification and refactoring:
26117 - Move the client-side address-map/virtual-address/DNS-cache code
26118 out of connection_edge.c into a new addressmap.c module.
26119 - Remove unused code for parsing v1 directories and "running routers"
26120 documents. Fixes bug 6887.
26123 Changes in version 0.2.3.25 - 2012-11-19
26124 The Tor 0.2.3 release series is dedicated to the memory of Len "rabbi"
26125 Sassaman (1980-2011), a long-time cypherpunk, anonymity researcher,
26126 Mixmaster maintainer, Pynchon Gate co-designer, CodeCon organizer,
26127 programmer, and friend. Unstinting in his dedication to the cause of
26128 freedom, he inspired and helped many of us as we began our work on
26129 anonymity, and inspires us still. Please honor his memory by writing
26130 software to protect people's freedoms, and by helping others to do so.
26132 Tor 0.2.3.25, the first stable release in the 0.2.3 branch, features
26133 significantly reduced directory overhead (via microdescriptors),
26134 enormous crypto performance improvements for fast relays on new
26135 enough hardware, a new v3 TLS handshake protocol that can better
26136 resist fingerprinting, support for protocol obfuscation plugins (aka
26137 pluggable transports), better scalability for hidden services, IPv6
26138 support for bridges, performance improvements like allowing clients
26139 to skip the first round-trip on the circuit ("optimistic data") and
26140 refilling token buckets more often, a new "stream isolation" design
26141 to isolate different applications on different circuits, and many
26142 stability, security, and privacy fixes.
26145 - Tor tries to wipe potentially sensitive data after using it, so
26146 that if some subsequent security failure exposes Tor's memory,
26147 the damage will be limited. But we had a bug where the compiler
26148 was eliminating these wipe operations when it decided that the
26149 memory was no longer visible to a (correctly running) program,
26150 hence defeating our attempt at defense in depth. We fix that
26151 by using OpenSSL's OPENSSL_cleanse() operation, which a compiler
26152 is unlikely to optimize away. Future versions of Tor may use
26153 a less ridiculously heavy approach for this. Fixes bug 7352.
26154 Reported in an article by Andrey Karpov.
26157 - Fix a harmless bug when opting against publishing a relay descriptor
26158 because DisableNetwork is set. Fixes bug 7464; bugfix on
26162 Changes in version 0.2.4.6-alpha - 2012-11-13
26163 Tor 0.2.4.6-alpha fixes an assert bug that has been plaguing relays,
26164 makes our defense-in-depth memory wiping more reliable, and begins to
26165 count IPv6 addresses in bridge statistics,
26168 - Fix an assertion failure that could occur when closing a connection
26169 with a spliced rendezvous circuit. Fix for bug 7212; bugfix on
26171 - Tor tries to wipe potentially sensitive data after using it, so
26172 that if some subsequent security failure exposes Tor's memory,
26173 the damage will be limited. But we had a bug where the compiler
26174 was eliminating these wipe operations when it decided that the
26175 memory was no longer visible to a (correctly running) program,
26176 hence defeating our attempt at defense in depth. We fix that
26177 by using OpenSSL's OPENSSL_cleanse() operation, which a compiler
26178 is unlikely to optimize away. Future versions of Tor may use
26179 a less ridiculously heavy approach for this. Fixes bug 7352.
26180 Reported in an article by Andrey Karpov.
26183 - Add GeoIP database for IPv6 addresses. The new config option
26185 - Bridge statistics now count bridge clients connecting over IPv6:
26186 bridge statistics files now list "bridge-ip-versions" and
26187 extra-info documents list "geoip6-db-digest". The control protocol
26188 "CLIENTS_SEEN" and "ip-to-country" queries now support IPv6. Initial
26189 implementation by "shkoo", addressing ticket 5055.
26192 - Warn when we are binding low ports when hibernation is enabled;
26193 previously we had warned when we were _advertising_ low ports with
26194 hibernation enabled. Fixes bug 7285; bugfix on 0.2.3.9-alpha.
26195 - Fix a harmless bug when opting against publishing a relay descriptor
26196 because DisableNetwork is set. Fixes bug 7464; bugfix on
26198 - Add warning message when a managed proxy dies during configuration.
26199 Fixes bug 7195; bugfix on 0.2.4.2-alpha.
26200 - Fix a linking error when building tor-fw-helper without miniupnp.
26201 Fixes bug 7235; bugfix on 0.2.4.2-alpha. Fix by Anthony G. Basile.
26202 - Check for closing an or_connection_t without going through correct
26203 channel functions; emit a warning and then call
26204 connection_or_close_for_error() so we don't assert as in bugs 7212
26206 - Compile correctly on compilers without C99 designated initializer
26207 support. Fixes bug 7286; bugfix on 0.2.4.4-alpha.
26208 - Avoid a possible assert that can occur when channel_send_destroy() is
26209 called on a channel in CHANNEL_STATE_CLOSING, CHANNEL_STATE_CLOSED,
26210 or CHANNEL_STATE_ERROR when the Tor process is resumed after being
26211 blocked for a long interval. Fixes bug 7350; bugfix on 0.2.4.4-alpha.
26212 - Fix a memory leak on failing cases of channel_tls_process_certs_cell.
26213 Fixes bug 7422; bugfix on 0.2.4.4-alpha.
26215 o Code simplification and refactoring:
26216 - Start using OpenBSD's implementation of queue.h, so that we don't
26217 need to hand-roll our own pointer and list structures whenever we
26218 need them. (We can't rely on a sys/queue.h, since some operating
26219 systems don't have them, and the ones that do have them don't all
26220 present the same extensions.)
26223 Changes in version 0.2.4.5-alpha - 2012-10-25
26224 Tor 0.2.4.5-alpha comes hard at the heels of 0.2.4.4-alpha, to fix
26225 two important security vulnerabilities that could lead to remotely
26226 triggerable relay crashes, fix a major bug that was preventing clients
26227 from choosing suitable exit nodes, and refactor some of our code.
26229 o Major bugfixes (security, also in 0.2.3.24-rc):
26230 - Fix a group of remotely triggerable assertion failures related to
26231 incorrect link protocol negotiation. Found, diagnosed, and fixed
26232 by "some guy from France". Fix for CVE-2012-2250; bugfix on
26234 - Fix a denial of service attack by which any directory authority
26235 could crash all the others, or by which a single v2 directory
26236 authority could crash everybody downloading v2 directory
26237 information. Fixes bug 7191; bugfix on 0.2.0.10-alpha.
26239 o Major bugfixes (also in 0.2.3.24-rc):
26240 - When parsing exit policy summaries from microdescriptors, we had
26241 previously been ignoring the last character in each one, so that
26242 "accept 80,443,8080" would be treated by clients as indicating
26243 a node that allows access to ports 80, 443, and 808. That would
26244 lead to clients attempting connections that could never work,
26245 and ignoring exit nodes that would support their connections. Now
26246 clients parse these exit policy summaries correctly. Fixes bug 7192;
26247 bugfix on 0.2.3.1-alpha.
26249 o Minor bugfixes (also in 0.2.3.24-rc):
26250 - Clients now consider the ClientRejectInternalAddresses config option
26251 when using a microdescriptor consensus stanza to decide whether
26252 an exit relay would allow exiting to an internal address. Fixes
26253 bug 7190; bugfix on 0.2.3.1-alpha.
26256 - Only disable TLS session ticket support when running as a TLS
26257 server. Now clients will blend better with regular Firefox
26258 connections. Fixes bug 7189; bugfix on Tor 0.2.3.23-rc.
26260 o Code simplification and refactoring:
26261 - Start using OpenBSD's implementation of queue.h (originally by
26263 - Move the entry node code from circuitbuild.c to its own file.
26264 - Move the circuit build timeout tracking code from circuitbuild.c
26268 Changes in version 0.2.3.24-rc - 2012-10-25
26269 Tor 0.2.3.24-rc fixes two important security vulnerabilities that
26270 could lead to remotely triggerable relay crashes, and fixes
26271 a major bug that was preventing clients from choosing suitable exit
26274 o Major bugfixes (security):
26275 - Fix a group of remotely triggerable assertion failures related to
26276 incorrect link protocol negotiation. Found, diagnosed, and fixed
26277 by "some guy from France". Fix for CVE-2012-2250; bugfix on
26279 - Fix a denial of service attack by which any directory authority
26280 could crash all the others, or by which a single v2 directory
26281 authority could crash everybody downloading v2 directory
26282 information. Fixes bug 7191; bugfix on 0.2.0.10-alpha.
26285 - When parsing exit policy summaries from microdescriptors, we had
26286 previously been ignoring the last character in each one, so that
26287 "accept 80,443,8080" would be treated by clients as indicating
26288 a node that allows access to ports 80, 443, and 808. That would
26289 lead to clients attempting connections that could never work,
26290 and ignoring exit nodes that would support their connections. Now
26291 clients parse these exit policy summaries correctly. Fixes bug 7192;
26292 bugfix on 0.2.3.1-alpha.
26295 - Clients now consider the ClientRejectInternalAddresses config option
26296 when using a microdescriptor consensus stanza to decide whether
26297 an exit relay would allow exiting to an internal address. Fixes
26298 bug 7190; bugfix on 0.2.3.1-alpha.
26301 Changes in version 0.2.4.4-alpha - 2012-10-20
26302 Tor 0.2.4.4-alpha adds a new v3 directory authority, fixes a privacy
26303 vulnerability introduced by a change in OpenSSL, fixes a remotely
26304 triggerable assert, and adds new channel_t and circuitmux_t abstractions
26305 that will make it easier to test new connection transport and cell
26306 scheduling algorithms.
26308 o New directory authorities (also in 0.2.3.23-rc):
26309 - Add Faravahar (run by Sina Rabbani) as the ninth v3 directory
26310 authority. Closes ticket 5749.
26312 o Major bugfixes (security/privacy, also in 0.2.3.23-rc):
26313 - Disable TLS session tickets. OpenSSL's implementation was giving
26314 our TLS session keys the lifetime of our TLS context objects, when
26315 perfect forward secrecy would want us to discard anything that
26316 could decrypt a link connection as soon as the link connection
26317 was closed. Fixes bug 7139; bugfix on all versions of Tor linked
26318 against OpenSSL 1.0.0 or later. Found by Florent Daignière.
26319 - Discard extraneous renegotiation attempts once the V3 link
26320 protocol has been initiated. Failure to do so left us open to
26321 a remotely triggerable assertion failure. Fixes CVE-2012-2249;
26322 bugfix on 0.2.3.6-alpha. Reported by "some guy from France".
26324 o Internal abstraction features:
26325 - Introduce new channel_t abstraction between circuits and
26326 or_connection_t to allow for implementing alternate OR-to-OR
26327 transports. A channel_t is an abstract object which can either be a
26328 cell-bearing channel, which is responsible for authenticating and
26329 handshaking with the remote OR and transmitting cells to and from
26330 it, or a listening channel, which spawns new cell-bearing channels
26331 at the request of remote ORs. Implements part of ticket 6465.
26332 - Also new is the channel_tls_t subclass of channel_t, adapting it
26333 to the existing or_connection_t code. The V2/V3 protocol handshaking
26334 code which formerly resided in command.c has been moved below the
26335 channel_t abstraction layer and may be found in channeltls.c now.
26336 Implements the rest of ticket 6465.
26337 - Introduce new circuitmux_t storing the queue of circuits for
26338 a channel; this encapsulates and abstracts the queue logic and
26339 circuit selection policy, and allows the latter to be overridden
26340 easily by switching out a policy object. The existing EWMA behavior
26341 is now implemented as a circuitmux_policy_t. Resolves ticket 6816.
26343 o Required libraries:
26344 - Tor now requires OpenSSL 0.9.8 or later. OpenSSL 1.0.0 or later is
26345 strongly recommended.
26348 - Warn users who run hidden services on a Tor client with
26349 UseEntryGuards disabled that their hidden services will be
26350 vulnerable to http://freehaven.net/anonbib/#hs-attack06 (the
26351 attack which motivated Tor to support entry guards in the first
26352 place). Resolves ticket 6889.
26353 - Tor now builds correctly on Bitrig, an OpenBSD fork. Patch from
26354 dhill. Resolves ticket 6982.
26355 - Option OutboundBindAddress can be specified multiple times and
26356 accepts IPv6 addresses. Resolves ticket 6876.
26358 o Minor bugfixes (also in 0.2.3.23-rc):
26359 - Don't serve or accept v2 hidden service descriptors over a
26360 relay's DirPort. It's never correct to do so, and disabling it
26361 might make it more annoying to exploit any bugs that turn up in the
26362 descriptor-parsing code. Fixes bug 7149.
26363 - Fix two cases in src/or/transports.c where we were calling
26364 fmt_addr() twice in a parameter list. Bug found by David
26365 Fifield. Fixes bug 7014; bugfix on 0.2.3.9-alpha.
26366 - Fix memory leaks whenever we logged any message about the "path
26367 bias" detection. Fixes bug 7022; bugfix on 0.2.3.21-rc.
26368 - When relays refuse a "create" cell because their queue of pending
26369 create cells is too big (typically because their cpu can't keep up
26370 with the arrival rate), send back reason "resource limit" rather
26371 than reason "internal", so network measurement scripts can get a
26372 more accurate picture. Fixes bug 7037; bugfix on 0.1.1.11-alpha.
26375 - Command-line option "--version" implies "--quiet". Fixes bug 6997.
26376 - Free some more still-in-use memory at exit, to make hunting for
26377 memory leaks easier. Resolves bug 7029.
26378 - When a Tor client gets a "truncated" relay cell, the first byte of
26379 its payload specifies why the circuit was truncated. We were
26380 ignoring this 'reason' byte when tearing down the circuit, resulting
26381 in the controller not being told why the circuit closed. Now we
26382 pass the reason from the truncated cell to the controller. Bugfix
26383 on 0.1.2.3-alpha; fixes bug 7039.
26384 - Downgrade "Failed to hand off onionskin" messages to "debug"
26385 severity, since they're typically redundant with the "Your computer
26386 is too slow" messages. Fixes bug 7038; bugfix on 0.2.2.16-alpha.
26387 - Make clients running with IPv6 bridges connect over IPv6 again,
26388 even without setting new config options ClientUseIPv6 and
26389 ClientPreferIPv6ORPort. Fixes bug 6757; bugfix on 0.2.4.1-alpha.
26390 - Use square brackets around IPv6 addresses in numerous places
26391 that needed them, including log messages, HTTPS CONNECT proxy
26392 requests, TransportProxy statefile entries, and pluggable transport
26393 extra-info lines. Fixes bug 7011; patch by David Fifield.
26395 o Code refactoring and cleanup:
26396 - Source files taken from other packages now reside in src/ext;
26397 previously they were scattered around the rest of Tor.
26398 - Avoid use of reserved identifiers in our C code. The C standard
26399 doesn't like us declaring anything that starts with an
26400 underscore, so let's knock it off before we get in trouble. Fix
26401 for bug 1031; bugfix on the first Tor commit.
26404 Changes in version 0.2.3.23-rc - 2012-10-20
26405 Tor 0.2.3.23-rc adds a new v3 directory authority, fixes a privacy
26406 vulnerability introduced by a change in OpenSSL, and fixes a variety
26407 of smaller bugs in preparation for the release.
26409 o New directory authorities:
26410 - Add Faravahar (run by Sina Rabbani) as the ninth v3 directory
26411 authority. Closes ticket 5749.
26413 o Major bugfixes (security/privacy):
26414 - Disable TLS session tickets. OpenSSL's implementation was giving
26415 our TLS session keys the lifetime of our TLS context objects, when
26416 perfect forward secrecy would want us to discard anything that
26417 could decrypt a link connection as soon as the link connection
26418 was closed. Fixes bug 7139; bugfix on all versions of Tor linked
26419 against OpenSSL 1.0.0 or later. Found by Florent Daignière.
26420 - Discard extraneous renegotiation attempts once the V3 link
26421 protocol has been initiated. Failure to do so left us open to
26422 a remotely triggerable assertion failure. Fixes CVE-2012-2249;
26423 bugfix on 0.2.3.6-alpha. Reported by "some guy from France".
26426 - Fix a possible crash bug when checking for deactivated circuits
26427 in connection_or_flush_from_first_active_circuit(). Fixes bug 6341;
26428 bugfix on 0.2.2.7-alpha. Bug report and fix received pseudonymously.
26430 o Minor bugfixes (on 0.2.3.x):
26431 - Fix two cases in src/or/transports.c where we were calling
26432 fmt_addr() twice in a parameter list. Bug found by David
26433 Fifield. Fixes bug 7014; bugfix on 0.2.3.9-alpha.
26434 - Convert an assert in the pathbias code to a log message. The assert
26435 appears to only be triggerable by Tor2Web mode. Fixes bug 6866;
26436 bugfix on 0.2.3.17-beta.
26437 - Fix memory leaks whenever we logged any message about the "path
26438 bias" detection. Fixes bug 7022; bugfix on 0.2.3.21-rc.
26440 o Minor bugfixes (on 0.2.2.x and earlier):
26441 - Don't serve or accept v2 hidden service descriptors over a relay's
26442 DirPort. It's never correct to do so, and disabling it might
26443 make it more annoying to exploit any bugs that turn up in the
26444 descriptor-parsing code. Fixes bug 7149.
26445 - When relays refuse a "create" cell because their queue of pending
26446 create cells is too big (typically because their cpu can't keep up
26447 with the arrival rate), send back reason "resource limit" rather
26448 than reason "internal", so network measurement scripts can get a
26449 more accurate picture. Bugfix on 0.1.1.11-alpha; fixes bug 7037.
26450 - Correct file sizes when reading binary files on Cygwin, to avoid
26451 a bug where Tor would fail to read its state file. Fixes bug 6844;
26452 bugfix on 0.1.2.7-alpha.
26453 - Avoid undefined behavior when parsing the list of supported
26454 rendezvous/introduction protocols in a hidden service descriptor.
26455 Previously, Tor would have confused (as-yet-unused) protocol version
26456 numbers greater than 32 with lower ones on many platforms. Fixes
26457 bug 6827; bugfix on 0.2.0.10-alpha. Found by George Kadianakis.
26459 o Documentation fixes:
26460 - Clarify that hidden services are TCP only. Fixes bug 6024.
26463 Changes in version 0.2.4.3-alpha - 2012-09-22
26464 Tor 0.2.4.3-alpha fixes another opportunity for a remotely triggerable
26465 assertion, resumes letting relays test reachability of their DirPort,
26466 and cleans up a bunch of smaller bugs.
26469 - Fix an assertion failure in tor_timegm() that could be triggered
26470 by a badly formatted directory object. Bug found by fuzzing with
26471 Radamsa. Fixes bug 6811; bugfix on 0.2.0.20-rc.
26474 - Fix a possible crash bug when checking for deactivated circuits
26475 in connection_or_flush_from_first_active_circuit(). Fixes bug 6341;
26476 bugfix on 0.2.2.7-alpha. Bug report and fix received pseudonymously.
26477 - Allow routers to detect that their own DirPorts are running. When
26478 we removed support for versions_supports_begindir, we also
26479 accidentally removed the mechanism we used to self-test our
26480 DirPort. Diagnosed with help from kargig. Fixes bugs 6814 and 6815;
26481 bugfix on 0.2.4.2-alpha.
26483 o Security features:
26484 - Switch to a completely time-invariant approach for picking nodes
26485 weighted by bandwidth. Our old approach would run through the
26486 part of the loop after it had made its choice slightly slower
26487 than it ran through the part of the loop before it had made its
26488 choice. Addresses ticket 6538.
26489 - Disable the use of Guard nodes when in Tor2WebMode. Guard usage
26490 by tor2web clients allows hidden services to identify tor2web
26491 clients through their repeated selection of the same rendezvous
26492 and introduction point circuit endpoints (their guards). Resolves
26496 - Enable Tor to read configuration, state, and key information from
26497 a FIFO. Previously Tor would only read from files with a positive
26498 stat.st_size. Code from meejah; fixes bug 6044.
26501 - Correct file sizes when reading binary files on Cygwin, to avoid
26502 a bug where Tor would fail to read its state file. Fixes bug 6844;
26503 bugfix on 0.1.2.7-alpha.
26504 - Correctly handle votes with more than 31 flags. Fixes bug 6853;
26505 bugfix on 0.2.0.3-alpha.
26506 - When complaining about a client port on a public address, log
26507 which address we're complaining about. Fixes bug 4020; bugfix on
26508 0.2.3.3-alpha. Patch by Tom Fitzhenry.
26509 - Convert an assert in the pathbias code to a log message. The assert
26510 appears to only be triggerable by Tor2Web mode. Fixes bug 6866;
26511 bugfix on 0.2.3.17-beta.
26512 - Our new buildsystem was overzealous about rebuilding manpages: it
26513 would rebuild them all whenever any one of them changed. Now our
26514 dependency checking should be correct. Fixes bug 6843; bugfix on
26516 - Don't do reachability testing over IPv6 unless AuthDirPublishIPv6
26517 is set. Fixes bug 6880. Bugfix on 0.2.4.1-alpha.
26518 - Correct log printout about which address family is preferred
26519 when connecting to a bridge with both an IPv4 and IPv6 OR port.
26520 Fixes bug 6884; bugfix on 0.2.4.1-alpha.
26522 o Minor bugfixes (code cleanliness):
26523 - Fix round_to_power_of_2() so it doesn't invoke undefined behavior
26524 with large values. This situation was untriggered, but nevertheless
26525 incorrect. Fixes bug 6831; bugfix on 0.2.0.1-alpha.
26526 - Reject consensus votes with more than 64 known-flags. We aren't even
26527 close to that limit yet, and our code doesn't handle it correctly.
26528 Fixes bug 6833; bugfix on 0.2.0.1-alpha.
26529 - Avoid undefined behavior when parsing the list of supported
26530 rendezvous/introduction protocols in a hidden service descriptor.
26531 Previously, Tor would have confused (as-yet-unused) protocol version
26532 numbers greater than 32 with lower ones on many platforms. Fixes
26533 bug 6827; bugfix on 0.2.0.10-alpha. Found by George Kadianakis.
26534 - Fix handling of rendezvous client authorization types over 8.
26535 Fixes bug 6861; bugfix on 0.2.1.5-alpha.
26536 - Fix building with older versions of GCC (2.95, for one) that don't
26537 like preprocessor directives inside macro arguments. Found by
26538 grarpamp. Fixes bug 6842; bugfix on 0.2.4.2-alpha.
26539 - Switch weighted node selection rule from using a list of doubles
26540 to using a list of int64_t. This change should make the process
26541 slightly easier to debug and maintain. Needed to finish ticket 6538.
26543 o Code simplification and refactoring:
26544 - Move the generic "config" code into a new file, and have "config.c"
26545 hold only torrc- and state-related code. Resolves ticket 6823.
26546 - Move the core of our "choose a weighted element at random" logic
26547 into its own function, and give it unit tests. Now the logic is
26548 testable, and a little less fragile too.
26549 - Removed the testing_since field of node_t, which hasn't been used
26550 for anything since 0.2.0.9-alpha.
26552 o Documentation fixes:
26553 - Clarify that hidden services are TCP only. Fixes bug 6024.
26554 - Resolve a typo in torrc.sample.in. Fixes bug 6819; bugfix on
26558 Changes in version 0.2.3.22-rc - 2012-09-11
26559 Tor 0.2.3.22-rc fixes another opportunity for a remotely triggerable
26563 - Fix an assertion failure in tor_timegm() that could be triggered
26564 by a badly formatted directory object. Bug found by fuzzing with
26565 Radamsa. Fixes bug 6811; bugfix on 0.2.0.20-rc.
26568 - Avoid segfault when starting up having run with an extremely old
26569 version of Tor and parsing its state file. Fixes bug 6801; bugfix
26573 Changes in version 0.2.2.39 - 2012-09-11
26574 Tor 0.2.2.39 fixes two more opportunities for remotely triggerable
26578 - Fix an assertion failure in tor_timegm() that could be triggered
26579 by a badly formatted directory object. Bug found by fuzzing with
26580 Radamsa. Fixes bug 6811; bugfix on 0.2.0.20-rc.
26581 - Do not crash when comparing an address with port value 0 to an
26582 address policy. This bug could have been used to cause a remote
26583 assertion failure by or against directory authorities, or to
26584 allow some applications to crash clients. Fixes bug 6690; bugfix
26588 Changes in version 0.2.4.2-alpha - 2012-09-10
26589 Tor 0.2.4.2-alpha enables port forwarding for pluggable transports,
26590 raises the default rate limiting even more, and makes the bootstrapping
26591 log messages less noisy.
26594 - Automatically forward the TCP ports of pluggable transport
26595 proxies using tor-fw-helper if PortForwarding is enabled. Implements
26599 - Raise the default BandwidthRate/BandwidthBurst values from 5MB/10MB
26600 to 1GB/1GB. The previous defaults were intended to be "basically
26601 infinite", but it turns out they're now limiting our 100mbit+
26602 relays and bridges. Fixes bug 6605; bugfix on 0.2.0.10-alpha (the
26603 last time we raised it).
26606 - Detect when we're running with a version of OpenSSL other than the
26607 one we compiled with. This has occasionally given people hard-to-
26609 - Log fewer lines at level "notice" about our OpenSSL and Libevent
26610 versions and capabilities when everything is going right. Resolves
26611 part of ticket 6736.
26612 - Directory authorities no long accept descriptors for any version of
26613 Tor before 0.2.2.35, or for any 0.2.3 release before 0.2.3.10-alpha.
26614 These versions are insecure, unsupported, or both. Implements
26618 - Rename the (internal-use-only) UsingTestingNetworkDefaults option
26619 to start with a triple-underscore so the controller won't touch it.
26620 Patch by Meejah. Fixes bug 3155. Bugfix on 0.2.2.23-alpha.
26621 - Avoid segfault when starting up having run with an extremely old
26622 version of Tor and parsing its state file. Fixes bug 6801; bugfix
26624 - Rename the (testing-use-only) _UseFilteringSSLBufferevents option
26625 so it doesn't start with _. Fixes bug 3155. Bugfix on 0.2.3.1-alpha.
26626 - Don't follow the NULL pointer if microdescriptor generation fails.
26627 (This does not appear to be triggerable, but it's best to be safe.)
26628 Found by "f. tp.". Fixes bug 6797; bugfix on 0.2.4.1-alpha.
26629 - Fix mis-declared dependencies on src/common/crypto.c and
26630 src/or/tor_main.c that could break out-of-tree builds under some
26631 circumstances. Fixes bug 6778; bugfix on 0.2.4.1-alpha.
26632 - Avoid a warning when building common_sha1.i out of tree. Fixes bug
26633 6778; bugfix on 0.2.4.1-alpha.
26634 - Fix a harmless (in this case) build warning for implicitly
26635 converting a strlen() to an int. Bugfix on 0.2.4.1-alpha.
26637 o Removed features:
26638 - Now that all versions before 0.2.2.x are disallowed, we no longer
26639 need to work around their missing features. Thus we can remove a
26640 bunch of compatibility code.
26642 o Code refactoring:
26643 - Tweak tor-fw-helper to accept an arbitrary amount of arbitrary
26644 TCP ports to forward. In the past it only accepted two ports:
26645 the ORPort and the DirPort.
26648 Changes in version 0.2.4.1-alpha - 2012-09-05
26649 Tor 0.2.4.1-alpha lets bridges publish their pluggable transports to
26650 bridgedb; lets relays use IPv6 addresses and directory authorities
26651 advertise them; and switches to a cleaner build interface.
26653 This is the first alpha release in a new series, so expect there to
26654 be bugs. Users who would rather test out a more stable branch should
26655 stay with 0.2.3.x for now.
26657 o Major features (bridges):
26658 - Bridges now report the pluggable transports they support to the
26659 bridge authority, so it can pass the supported transports on to
26660 bridgedb and/or eventually do reachability testing. Implements
26663 o Major features (IPv6):
26664 - Bridge authorities now accept IPv6 bridge addresses and include
26665 them in network status documents. Implements ticket 5534.
26666 - Clients who set "ClientUseIPv6 1" may connect to entry nodes over
26667 IPv6. Set "ClientPreferIPv6ORPort 1" to make this even more likely
26668 to happen. Implements ticket 5535.
26669 - All kind of relays, not just bridges, can now advertise an IPv6
26670 OR port. Implements ticket 6362.
26671 - Directory authorities vote on IPv6 OR ports using the new consensus
26672 method 14. Implements ticket 6363.
26674 o Major features (build):
26675 - Switch to a nonrecursive Makefile structure. Now instead of each
26676 Makefile.am invoking other Makefile.am's, there is a master
26677 Makefile.am that includes the others. This change makes our build
26678 process slightly more maintainable, and improves parallelism for
26679 building with make -j. Original patch by Stewart Smith; various
26680 fixes by Jim Meyering.
26681 - Where available, we now use automake's "silent" make rules by
26682 default, so that warnings are easier to spot. You can get the old
26683 behavior with "make V=1". Patch by Stewart Smith for ticket 6522.
26685 o Minor features (code security and spec conformance):
26686 - Clear keys and key-derived material left on the stack in
26687 rendservice.c and rendclient.c. Check return value of
26688 crypto_pk_write_private_key_to_string() in rend_service_load_keys().
26689 These fixes should make us more forward-secure against cold-boot
26690 attacks and the like. Fixes bug 2385.
26691 - Reject EXTEND cells sent to nonexistent streams. According to the
26692 spec, an EXTEND cell sent to _any_ nonzero stream ID is invalid, but
26693 we were only checking for stream IDs that were currently in use.
26694 Found while hunting for more instances of bug 6271. Bugfix on
26695 0.0.2pre8, which introduced incremental circuit construction.
26697 o Minor features (streamlining);
26698 - No longer include the "opt" prefix when generating routerinfos
26699 or v2 directories: it has been needless since Tor 0.1.2. Closes
26701 - Remove some now-needless code that tried to aggressively flush
26702 OR connections as data was added to them. Since 0.2.0.1-alpha, our
26703 cell queue logic has saved us from the failure mode that this code
26704 was supposed to prevent. Removing this code will limit the number
26705 of baroque control flow paths through Tor's network logic. Reported
26706 pseudonymously on IRC. Fixes bug 6468; bugfix on 0.2.0.1-alpha.
26708 o Minor features (controller):
26709 - Add a "GETINFO signal/names" control port command. Implements
26711 - Provide default values for all options via "GETINFO config/defaults".
26712 Implements ticket 4971.
26714 o Minor features (IPv6):
26715 - New config option "AuthDirHasIPv6Connectivity 1" that directory
26716 authorities should set if they have IPv6 connectivity and want to
26717 do reachability tests for IPv6 relays. Implements feature 5974.
26718 - A relay with an IPv6 OR port now sends that address in NETINFO
26719 cells (in addition to its other address). Implements ticket 6364.
26721 o Minor features (log messages):
26722 - Omit the first heartbeat log message, because it never has anything
26723 useful to say, and it clutters up the bootstrapping messages.
26724 Resolves ticket 6758.
26725 - Don't log about reloading the microdescriptor cache at startup. Our
26726 bootstrap warnings are supposed to tell the user when there's a
26727 problem, and our bootstrap notices say when there isn't. Resolves
26728 ticket 6759; bugfix on 0.2.2.6-alpha.
26729 - Don't log "I learned some more directory information" when we're
26730 reading cached directory information. Reserve it for when new
26731 directory information arrives in response to a fetch. Resolves
26733 - Prevent rounding error in path bias counts when scaling
26734 them down, and use the correct scale factor default. Also demote
26735 some path bias related log messages down a level and make others
26736 less scary sounding. Fixes bug 6647. Bugfix against 0.2.3.17-beta.
26737 - We no longer warn so much when generating manpages from their
26740 o Code simplifications and refactoring:
26741 - Enhance our internal sscanf replacement so that we can eliminate
26742 the last remaining uses of the system sscanf. (Though those uses
26743 of sscanf were safe, sscanf itself is generally error prone, so
26744 we want to eliminate when we can.) Fixes ticket 4195 and Coverity
26746 - Move ipv6_preferred from routerinfo_t to node_t. Addresses bug 4620.
26747 - Move last_reachable and testing_since from routerinfo_t to node_t.
26748 Implements ticket 5529.
26749 - Add replaycache_t structure, functions and unit tests, then refactor
26750 rend_service_introduce() to be more clear to read, improve, debug,
26751 and test. Resolves bug 6177.
26752 - Finally remove support for malloc_good_size and malloc_usable_size.
26753 We had hoped that these functions would let us eke a little more
26754 memory out of our malloc implementation. Unfortunately, the only
26755 implementations that provided these functions are also ones that
26756 are already efficient about not overallocation: they never got us
26757 more than 7 or so bytes per allocation. Removing them saves us a
26758 little code complexity and a nontrivial amount of build complexity.
26760 o New requirements:
26761 - Tor maintainers now require Automake version 1.9 or later to build
26762 Tor from the Git repository. (Automake is not required when building
26763 from a source distribution.)
26766 Changes in version 0.2.3.21-rc - 2012-09-05
26767 Tor 0.2.3.21-rc is the fourth release candidate for the Tor 0.2.3.x
26768 series. It fixes a trio of potential security bugs, fixes a bug where
26769 we were leaving some of the fast relays out of the microdescriptor
26770 consensus, resumes interpreting "ORPort 0" and "DirPort 0" correctly,
26771 and cleans up other smaller issues.
26773 o Major bugfixes (security):
26774 - Tear down the circuit if we get an unexpected SENDME cell. Clients
26775 could use this trick to make their circuits receive cells faster
26776 than our flow control would have allowed, or to gum up the network,
26777 or possibly to do targeted memory denial-of-service attacks on
26778 entry nodes. Fixes bug 6252. Bugfix on the 54th commit on Tor --
26779 from July 2002, before the release of Tor 0.0.0. We had committed
26780 this patch previously, but we had to revert it because of bug 6271.
26781 Now that 6271 is fixed, this patch appears to work.
26782 - Reject any attempt to extend to an internal address. Without
26783 this fix, a router could be used to probe addresses on an internal
26784 network to see whether they were accepting connections. Fixes bug
26785 6710; bugfix on 0.0.8pre1.
26786 - Do not crash when comparing an address with port value 0 to an
26787 address policy. This bug could have been used to cause a remote
26788 assertion failure by or against directory authorities, or to
26789 allow some applications to crash clients. Fixes bug 6690; bugfix
26793 - Remove the upper bound on microdescriptor length. We were hitting
26794 the limit for routers with complex exit policies or family
26795 declarations, causing clients to not use them. Fixes the first
26796 piece of bug 6404; fix on 0.2.2.6-alpha.
26797 - Detect "ORPort 0" as meaning, uniformly, that we're not running
26798 as a relay. Previously, some of our code would treat the presence
26799 of any ORPort line as meaning that we should act like a relay,
26800 even though our new listener code would correctly not open any
26801 ORPorts for ORPort 0. Similar bugs in other Port options are also
26802 fixed. Fixes the first half of bug 6507; bugfix on 0.2.3.3-alpha.
26805 - Avoid a pair of double-free and use-after-mark bugs that can
26806 occur with certain timings in canceled and re-received DNS
26807 requests. Fixes bug 6472; bugfix on 0.0.7rc1.
26808 - Fix build and 64-bit compile warnings from --enable-openbsd-malloc.
26809 Fixes bug 6379. Bugfix on 0.2.0.20-rc.
26810 - Allow one-hop directory fetching circuits the full "circuit build
26811 timeout" period, rather than just half of it, before failing them
26812 and marking the relay down. This fix should help reduce cases where
26813 clients declare relays (or worse, bridges) unreachable because
26814 the TLS handshake takes a few seconds to complete. Fixes bug 6743;
26815 bugfix on 0.2.2.2-alpha, where we changed the timeout from a static
26817 - Authorities no longer include any router in their microdescriptor
26818 consensuses for which they couldn't generate or agree on a
26819 microdescriptor. Fixes the second piece of bug 6404; fix on
26821 - Detect and reject attempts to specify both "FooPort" and
26822 "FooPort 0" in the same configuration domain. (It's still okay
26823 to have a FooPort in your configuration file, and use "FooPort 0"
26824 on the command line to disable it.) Fixes the second half of bug
26825 6507; bugfix on 0.2.3.3-alpha.
26826 - Make wildcarded addresses (that is, ones beginning with "*.") work
26827 when provided via the controller's MapAddress command. Previously,
26828 they were accepted, but we never actually noticed that they were
26829 wildcards. Fixes bug 6244; bugfix on 0.2.3.9-alpha.
26830 - Avoid crashing on a malformed state file where EntryGuardPathBias
26831 precedes EntryGuard. Fix for bug 6774; bugfix on 0.2.3.17-beta.
26832 - Add a (probably redundant) memory clear between iterations of
26833 the router status voting loop, to prevent future coding errors
26834 where data might leak between iterations of the loop. Resolves
26837 o Minor bugfixes (log messages):
26838 - Downgrade "set buildtimeout to low value" messages to "info"
26839 severity; they were never an actual problem, there was never
26840 anything reasonable to do about them, and they tended to spam logs
26841 from time to time. Fixes bug 6251; bugfix on 0.2.2.2-alpha.
26842 - Downgrade path-bias warning messages to "info". We'll try to get
26843 them working better in 0.2.4. Add internal circuit construction
26844 state to protect against the noisy warn message "Unexpectedly high
26845 circuit_successes". Also add some additional rate-limited notice
26846 messages to help determine the root cause of the warn. Fixes bug
26847 6475. Bugfix against 0.2.3.17-beta.
26848 - Move log message when unable to find a microdesc in a routerstatus
26849 entry to parse time. Previously we'd spam this warning every time
26850 we tried to figure out which microdescriptors to download. Fixes
26851 the third piece of bug 6404; fix on 0.2.3.18-rc.
26854 - Consider new, removed or changed IPv6 OR ports a non-cosmetic
26855 change when the authority is deciding whether to accept a newly
26856 uploaded descriptor. Implements ticket 6423.
26857 - Add missing documentation for consensus and microdesc files.
26858 Resolves ticket 6732.
26861 Changes in version 0.2.2.38 - 2012-08-12
26862 Tor 0.2.2.38 fixes a remotely triggerable crash bug, and fixes a timing
26863 attack that could in theory leak path information.
26866 - Avoid an uninitialized memory read when reading a vote or consensus
26867 document that has an unrecognized flavor name. This read could
26868 lead to a remote crash bug. Fixes bug 6530; bugfix on 0.2.2.6-alpha.
26869 - Try to leak less information about what relays a client is
26870 choosing to a side-channel attacker. Previously, a Tor client would
26871 stop iterating through the list of available relays as soon as it
26872 had chosen one, thus finishing a little earlier when it picked
26873 a router earlier in the list. If an attacker can recover this
26874 timing information (nontrivial but not proven to be impossible),
26875 they could learn some coarse-grained information about which relays
26876 a client was picking (middle nodes in particular are likelier to
26877 be affected than exits). The timing attack might be mitigated by
26878 other factors (see bug 6537 for some discussion), but it's best
26879 not to take chances. Fixes bug 6537; bugfix on 0.0.8rc1.
26882 Changes in version 0.2.3.20-rc - 2012-08-05
26883 Tor 0.2.3.20-rc is the third release candidate for the Tor 0.2.3.x
26884 series. It fixes a pair of code security bugs and a potential anonymity
26885 issue, updates our RPM spec files, and cleans up other smaller issues.
26888 - Avoid read-from-freed-memory and double-free bugs that could occur
26889 when a DNS request fails while launching it. Fixes bug 6480;
26890 bugfix on 0.2.0.1-alpha.
26891 - Avoid an uninitialized memory read when reading a vote or consensus
26892 document that has an unrecognized flavor name. This read could
26893 lead to a remote crash bug. Fixes bug 6530; bugfix on 0.2.2.6-alpha.
26894 - Try to leak less information about what relays a client is
26895 choosing to a side-channel attacker. Previously, a Tor client would
26896 stop iterating through the list of available relays as soon as it
26897 had chosen one, thus finishing a little earlier when it picked
26898 a router earlier in the list. If an attacker can recover this
26899 timing information (nontrivial but not proven to be impossible),
26900 they could learn some coarse-grained information about which relays
26901 a client was picking (middle nodes in particular are likelier to
26902 be affected than exits). The timing attack might be mitigated by
26903 other factors (see bug 6537 for some discussion), but it's best
26904 not to take chances. Fixes bug 6537; bugfix on 0.0.8rc1.
26907 - Try to make the warning when giving an obsolete SOCKSListenAddress
26908 a little more useful.
26909 - Terminate active server managed proxies if Tor stops being a
26910 relay. Addresses parts of bug 6274; bugfix on 0.2.3.6-alpha.
26911 - Provide a better error message about possible OSX Asciidoc failure
26912 reasons. Fixes bug 6436.
26913 - Warn when Tor is configured to use accounting in a way that can
26914 link a hidden service to some other hidden service or public
26915 address. Resolves ticket 6490.
26918 - Check return value of fputs() when writing authority certificate
26919 file. Fixes Coverity issue 709056; bugfix on 0.2.0.1-alpha.
26920 - Ignore ServerTransportPlugin lines when Tor is not configured as
26921 a relay. Fixes bug 6274; bugfix on 0.2.3.6-alpha.
26922 - When disabling guards for having too high a proportion of failed
26923 circuits, make sure to look at each guard. Fixes bug 6397; bugfix
26927 - Update our default RPM spec files to work with mock and rpmbuild
26928 on RHEL/Fedora. They have an updated set of dependencies and
26929 conflicts, a fix for an ancient typo when creating the "_tor"
26930 user, and better instructions. Thanks to Ondrej Mikle for the
26931 patch series. Fixes bug 6043.
26934 - Make it possible to set the TestingTorNetwork configuration
26935 option using AlternateDirAuthority and AlternateBridgeAuthority
26936 as an alternative to setting DirServer. Addresses ticket 6377.
26939 - Clarify the documentation for the Alternate*Authority options.
26941 - Fix some typos in the manpages. Patch from A. Costa. Fixes bug 6500.
26943 o Code simplification and refactoring:
26944 - Do not use SMARTLIST_FOREACH for any loop whose body exceeds
26945 10 lines. Also, don't nest them. Doing so in the past has
26946 led to hard-to-debug code. The new style is to use the
26947 SMARTLIST_FOREACH_{BEGIN,END} pair. Addresses issue 6400.
26950 Changes in version 0.2.3.19-rc - 2012-07-06
26951 Tor 0.2.3.19-rc is the second release candidate for the Tor 0.2.3.x
26952 series. It fixes the compile on Windows, reverts to a GeoIP database
26953 that isn't as broken, and fixes a flow control bug that has been around
26954 since the beginning of Tor.
26957 - Fix a bug handling SENDME cells on nonexistent streams that could
26958 result in bizarre window values. Report and patch contributed
26959 pseudonymously. Fixes part of bug 6271. This bug was introduced
26960 before the first Tor release, in svn commit r152.
26961 - Revert to the May 1 2012 Maxmind GeoLite Country database. In the
26962 June 2012 database, Maxmind marked many Tor relays as country "A1",
26963 which will cause risky behavior for clients that set EntryNodes
26964 or ExitNodes. Addresses bug 6334; bugfix on 0.2.3.17-beta.
26965 - Instead of ENOBUFS on Windows, say WSAENOBUFS. Fixes compilation
26966 on Windows. Fixes bug 6296; bugfix on 0.2.3.18-rc.
26969 - Fix wrong TCP port range in parse_port_range(). Fixes bug 6218;
26970 bugfix on 0.2.1.10-alpha.
26973 Changes in version 0.2.3.18-rc - 2012-06-28
26974 Tor 0.2.3.18-rc is the first release candidate for the Tor 0.2.3.x
26975 series. It fixes a few smaller bugs, but generally appears stable.
26976 Please test it and let us know whether it is!
26979 - Allow wildcarded mapaddress targets to be specified on the
26980 controlport. Partially fixes bug 6244; bugfix on 0.2.3.9-alpha.
26981 - Make our linker option detection code more robust against linkers
26982 such as on FreeBSD 8, where a bad combination of options completes
26983 successfully but makes an unrunnable binary. Fixes bug 6173;
26984 bugfix on 0.2.3.17-beta.
26986 o Minor bugfixes (on 0.2.2.x and earlier):
26987 - Avoid a false positive in the util/threads unit test by increasing
26988 the maximum timeout time. Fixes bug 6227; bugfix on 0.2.0.4-alpha.
26989 - Replace "Sending publish request" log messages with "Launching
26990 upload", so that they no longer confusingly imply that we're
26991 sending something to a directory we might not even be connected
26992 to yet. Fixes bug 3311; bugfix on 0.2.0.10-alpha.
26993 - Make sure to set *socket_error in all error cases in
26994 connection_connect(), so it can't produce a warning about
26995 errno being zero from errno_to_orconn_end_reason(). Bugfix on
26996 0.2.1.1-alpha; resolves ticket 6028.
26997 - Downgrade "Got a certificate, but we already have it" log messages
26998 from warning to info, except when we're a dirauth. Fixes bug 5238;
26999 bugfix on 0.2.1.7-alpha.
27000 - When checking for requested signatures on the latest consensus
27001 before serving it to a client, make sure to check the right
27002 consensus flavor. Bugfix on 0.2.2.6-alpha.
27003 - Downgrade "eventdns rejected address" message to LOG_PROTOCOL_WARN.
27004 Fixes bug 5932; bugfix on 0.2.2.7-alpha.
27006 o Minor bugfixes (on 0.2.3.x):
27007 - Make format_helper_exit_status() avoid unnecessary space padding
27008 and stop confusing log_from_pipe(). Fixes ticket 5557; bugfix
27010 - Downgrade a message about cleaning the microdescriptor cache to
27011 "info" from "notice". Fixes bug 6238; bugfix on 0.2.3.1-alpha.
27012 - Log a BUG message at severity INFO if we have a networkstatus with
27013 a missing entry for some microdescriptor. Continues on a patch
27015 - Improve the log message when a managed proxy fails to launch. Fixes
27016 bug 5099; bugfix on 0.2.3.6-alpha.
27017 - Don't do DNS lookups when parsing corrupted managed proxy protocol
27018 messages. Fixes bug 6226; bugfix on 0.2.3.6-alpha.
27019 - When formatting wildcarded address mappings for the controller,
27020 be sure to include "*." as appropriate. Partially fixes bug 6244;
27021 bugfix on 0.2.3.9-alpha.
27022 - Avoid a warning caused by using strcspn() from glibc with clang 3.0.
27023 Bugfix on 0.2.3.13-alpha.
27024 - Stop logging messages about running with circuit timeout learning
27025 enabled at severity LD_BUG. Fixes bug 6169; bugfix on 0.2.3.17-beta.
27026 - Disable a spurious warning about reading on a marked and flushing
27027 connection. We shouldn't be doing that, but apparently we
27028 sometimes do. Fixes bug 6203; bugfix on 0.2.3.17-beta.
27029 - Fix a bug that stopped AllowDotExit from working on addresses
27030 that had an entry in the DNS cache. Fixes bug 6211; bugfix on
27033 o Code simplification, refactoring, unit tests:
27034 - Move tor_gettimeofday_cached() into compat_libevent.c, and use
27035 Libevent's notion of cached time when possible.
27036 - Remove duplicate code for invoking getrlimit() from control.c.
27037 - Add a unit test for the environment_variable_names_equal function.
27040 - Document the --defaults-torrc option, and the new (in 0.2.3)
27041 semantics for overriding, extending, and clearing lists of
27042 options. Closes bug 4748.
27045 Changes in version 0.2.3.17-beta - 2012-06-15
27046 Tor 0.2.3.17-beta enables compiler and linker hardening by default,
27047 gets our TLS handshake back on track for being able to blend in with
27048 Firefox, fixes a big bug in 0.2.3.16-alpha that broke Tor's interaction
27049 with Vidalia, and otherwise continues to get us closer to a release
27053 - Enable gcc and ld hardening by default. Resolves ticket 5210.
27054 - Update TLS cipher list to match Firefox 8 and later. Resolves
27056 - Implement the client side of proposal 198: remove support for
27057 clients falsely claiming to support standard ciphersuites that
27058 they can actually provide. As of modern OpenSSL versions, it's not
27059 necessary to fake any standard ciphersuite, and doing so prevents
27060 us from using better ciphersuites in the future, since servers
27061 can't know whether an advertised ciphersuite is really supported or
27062 not. Some hosts -- notably, ones with very old versions of OpenSSL
27063 or where OpenSSL has been built with ECC disabled -- will stand
27064 out because of this change; TBB users should not be affected.
27067 - Change the default value for DynamicDHGroups (introduced in
27068 0.2.3.9-alpha) to 0. This feature can make Tor relays less
27069 identifiable by their use of the mod_ssl DH group, but at
27070 the cost of some usability (#4721) and bridge tracing (#6087)
27071 regressions. Resolves ticket 5598.
27072 - Send a CRLF at the end of each STATUS_* control protocol event. This
27073 bug tickled a bug in Vidalia which would make it freeze. Fixes
27074 bug 6094; bugfix on 0.2.3.16-alpha.
27077 - Disable writing on marked-for-close connections when they are
27078 blocked on bandwidth, to prevent busy-looping in Libevent. Fixes
27079 bug 5263; bugfix on 0.0.2pre13, where we first added a special
27080 case for flushing marked connections.
27081 - Detect SSL handshake even when the initial attempt to write the
27082 server hello fails. Fixes bug 4592; bugfix on 0.2.0.13-alpha.
27083 - Change the AllowDotExit rules so they should actually work.
27084 We now enforce AllowDotExit only immediately after receiving an
27085 address via SOCKS or DNSPort: other sources are free to provide
27086 .exit addresses after the resolution occurs. Fixes bug 3940;
27087 bugfix on 0.2.2.1-alpha.
27088 - Fix a (harmless) integer overflow in cell statistics reported by
27089 some fast relays. Fixes bug 5849; bugfix on 0.2.2.1-alpha.
27090 - Make sure circuitbuild.c checks LearnCircuitBuildTimeout in all the
27091 right places and never depends on the consensus parameters or
27092 computes adaptive timeouts when it is disabled. Fixes bug 5049;
27093 bugfix on 0.2.2.14-alpha.
27094 - When building Tor on Windows with -DUNICODE (not default), ensure
27095 that error messages, filenames, and DNS server names are always
27096 NUL-terminated when we convert them to a single-byte encoding.
27097 Fixes bug 5909; bugfix on 0.2.2.16-alpha.
27098 - Make Tor build correctly again with -DUNICODE -D_UNICODE defined.
27099 Fixes bug 6097; bugfix on 0.2.2.16-alpha.
27100 - Fix an edge case where TestingTorNetwork is set but the authorities
27101 and relays all have an uptime of zero, where the private Tor network
27102 could briefly lack support for hidden services. Fixes bug 3886;
27103 bugfix on 0.2.2.18-alpha.
27104 - Correct the manpage's descriptions for the default values of
27105 DirReqStatistics and ExtraInfoStatistics. Fixes bug 2865; bugfix
27107 - Fix the documentation for the --hush and --quiet command line
27108 options, which changed their behavior back in 0.2.3.3-alpha.
27109 - Fix compilation warning with clang 3.1. Fixes bug 6141; bugfix on
27113 - Rate-limit the "Weighted bandwidth is 0.000000" message, and add
27114 more information to it, so that we can track it down in case it
27115 returns again. Mitigates bug 5235.
27116 - Check CircuitBuildTimeout and LearnCircuitBuildTimeout in
27117 options_validate(); warn if LearnCircuitBuildTimeout is disabled and
27118 CircuitBuildTimeout is set unreasonably low. Resolves ticket 5452.
27119 - Warn the user when HTTPProxy, but no other proxy type, is
27120 configured. This can cause surprising behavior: it doesn't send
27121 all of Tor's traffic over the HTTPProxy -- it sends unencrypted
27122 directory traffic only. Resolves ticket 4663.
27123 - Issue a notice if a guard completes less than 40% of your circuits.
27124 Threshold is configurable by torrc option PathBiasNoticeRate and
27125 consensus parameter pb_noticepct. There is additional, off-by-
27126 default code to disable guards which fail too many circuits.
27127 Addresses ticket 5458.
27128 - Update to the June 6 2012 Maxmind GeoLite Country database.
27130 o Code simplifications and refactoring:
27131 - Remove validate_pluggable_transports_config(): its warning
27132 message is now handled by connection_or_connect().
27135 Changes in version 0.2.2.37 - 2012-06-06
27136 Tor 0.2.2.37 introduces a workaround for a critical renegotiation
27137 bug in OpenSSL 1.0.1 (where 20% of the Tor network can't talk to itself
27141 - Work around a bug in OpenSSL that broke renegotiation with TLS
27142 1.1 and TLS 1.2. Without this workaround, all attempts to speak
27143 the v2 Tor connection protocol when both sides were using OpenSSL
27144 1.0.1 would fail. Resolves ticket 6033.
27145 - When waiting for a client to renegotiate, don't allow it to add
27146 any bytes to the input buffer. This fixes a potential DoS issue.
27147 Fixes bugs 5934 and 6007; bugfix on 0.2.0.20-rc.
27148 - Fix an edge case where if we fetch or publish a hidden service
27149 descriptor, we might build a 4-hop circuit and then use that circuit
27150 for exiting afterwards -- even if the new last hop doesn't obey our
27151 ExitNodes config option. Fixes bug 5283; bugfix on 0.2.0.10-alpha.
27154 - Fix a build warning with Clang 3.1 related to our use of vasprintf.
27155 Fixes bug 5969. Bugfix on 0.2.2.11-alpha.
27158 - Tell GCC and Clang to check for any errors in format strings passed
27159 to the tor_v*(print|scan)f functions.
27162 Changes in version 0.2.3.16-alpha - 2012-06-05
27163 Tor 0.2.3.16-alpha introduces a workaround for a critical renegotiation
27164 bug in OpenSSL 1.0.1 (where 20% of the Tor network can't talk to itself
27165 currently). It also fixes a variety of smaller bugs and other cleanups
27166 that get us closer to a release candidate.
27168 o Major bugfixes (general):
27169 - Work around a bug in OpenSSL that broke renegotiation with TLS
27170 1.1 and TLS 1.2. Without this workaround, all attempts to speak
27171 the v2 Tor connection protocol when both sides were using OpenSSL
27172 1.0.1 would fail. Resolves ticket 6033.
27173 - When waiting for a client to renegotiate, don't allow it to add
27174 any bytes to the input buffer. This fixes a potential DoS issue.
27175 Fixes bugs 5934 and 6007; bugfix on 0.2.0.20-rc.
27176 - Pass correct OR address to managed proxies (like obfsproxy),
27177 even when ORListenAddress is used. Fixes bug 4865; bugfix on
27179 - The advertised platform of a router now includes only its operating
27180 system's name (e.g., "Linux", "Darwin", "Windows 7"), and not its
27181 service pack level (for Windows) or its CPU architecture (for Unix).
27182 We also no longer include the "git-XYZ" tag in the version. Resolves
27185 o Major bugfixes (clients):
27186 - If we are unable to find any exit that supports our predicted ports,
27187 stop calling them predicted, so that we don't loop and build
27188 hopeless circuits indefinitely. Fixes bug 3296; bugfix on 0.0.9pre6,
27189 which introduced predicted ports.
27190 - Fix an edge case where if we fetch or publish a hidden service
27191 descriptor, we might build a 4-hop circuit and then use that circuit
27192 for exiting afterwards -- even if the new last hop doesn't obey our
27193 ExitNodes config option. Fixes bug 5283; bugfix on 0.2.0.10-alpha.
27194 - Check at each new consensus whether our entry guards were picked
27195 long enough ago that we should rotate them. Previously, we only
27196 did this check at startup, which could lead to us holding a guard
27197 indefinitely. Fixes bug 5380; bugfix on 0.2.1.14-rc.
27198 - When fetching a bridge descriptor from a bridge authority,
27199 always do so anonymously, whether we have been able to open
27200 circuits or not. Partial fix for bug 1938; bugfix on 0.2.0.7-alpha.
27201 This behavior makes it *safer* to use UpdateBridgesFromAuthority,
27202 but we'll need to wait for bug 6010 before it's actually usable.
27204 o Major bugfixes (directory authorities):
27205 - When computing weight parameters, behave more robustly in the
27206 presence of a bad bwweightscale value. Previously, the authorities
27207 would crash if they agreed on a sufficiently broken weight_scale
27208 value: now, they use a reasonable default and carry on. Partial
27209 fix for 5786; bugfix on 0.2.2.17-alpha.
27210 - Check more thoroughly to prevent a rogue authority from
27211 double-voting on any consensus directory parameter. Previously,
27212 authorities would crash in this case if the total number of
27213 votes for any parameter exceeded the number of active voters,
27214 but would let it pass otherwise. Partial fix for bug 5786; bugfix
27218 - Rate-limit log messages when asked to connect anonymously to
27219 a private address. When these hit, they tended to hit fast and
27220 often. Also, don't bother trying to connect to addresses that we
27221 are sure will resolve to 127.0.0.1: getting 127.0.0.1 in a directory
27222 reply makes us think we have been lied to, even when the address the
27223 client tried to connect to was "localhost." Resolves ticket 2822.
27224 - Allow packagers to insert an extra string in server descriptor
27225 platform lines by setting the preprocessor variable TOR_BUILD_TAG.
27226 Resolves the rest of ticket 2988.
27227 - Raise the threshold of server descriptors needed (75%) and exit
27228 server descriptors needed (50%) before we will declare ourselves
27229 bootstrapped. This will make clients start building circuits a
27230 little later, but makes the initially constructed circuits less
27231 skewed and less in conflict with further directory fetches. Fixes
27233 - Close any connection that sends unrecognized junk before the
27234 handshake. Solves an issue noted in bug 4369.
27235 - Improve log messages about managed transports. Resolves ticket 5070.
27236 - Tag a bridge's descriptor as "never to be sent unencrypted".
27237 This shouldn't matter, since bridges don't open non-anonymous
27238 connections to the bridge authority and don't allow unencrypted
27239 directory connections from clients, but we might as well make
27240 sure. Closes bug 5139.
27241 - Expose our view of whether we have gone dormant to the controller,
27242 via a new "GETINFO dormant" value. Torbutton and other controllers
27243 can use this to avoid doing periodic requests through Tor while
27244 it's dormant (bug 4718). Fixes bug 5954.
27245 - Tell GCC and Clang to check for any errors in format strings passed
27246 to the tor_v*(print|scan)f functions.
27247 - Update to the May 1 2012 Maxmind GeoLite Country database.
27249 o Minor bugfixes (already included in 0.2.2.36):
27250 - Reject out-of-range times like 23:59:61 in parse_rfc1123_time().
27251 Fixes bug 5346; bugfix on 0.0.8pre3.
27252 - Correct parsing of certain date types in parse_http_time().
27253 Without this patch, If-Modified-Since would behave
27254 incorrectly. Fixes bug 5346; bugfix on 0.2.0.2-alpha. Patch from
27255 Esteban Manchado Velázques.
27256 - Make our number-parsing functions always treat too-large values
27257 as an error, even when those values exceed the width of the
27258 underlying type. Previously, if the caller provided these
27259 functions with minima or maxima set to the extreme values of the
27260 underlying integer type, these functions would return those
27261 values on overflow rather than treating overflow as an error.
27262 Fixes part of bug 5786; bugfix on 0.0.9.
27263 - If we hit the error case where routerlist_insert() replaces an
27264 existing (old) server descriptor, make sure to remove that
27265 server descriptor from the old_routers list. Fix related to bug
27266 1776. Bugfix on 0.2.2.18-alpha.
27267 - Clarify the behavior of MaxCircuitDirtiness with hidden service
27268 circuits. Fixes issue 5259.
27270 o Minor bugfixes (coding cleanup, on 0.2.2.x and earlier):
27271 - Prevent a null-pointer dereference when receiving a data cell
27272 for a nonexistent stream when the circuit in question has an
27273 empty deliver window. We don't believe this is triggerable,
27274 since we don't currently allow deliver windows to become empty,
27275 but the logic is tricky enough that it's better to make the code
27276 robust. Fixes bug 5541; bugfix on 0.0.2pre14.
27277 - Fix a memory leak when trying to launch a DNS request when the
27278 network is disabled or the nameservers are unconfigurable. Fixes
27279 bug 5916; bugfix on Tor 0.1.2.1-alpha (for the unconfigurable
27280 nameserver case) and on 0.2.3.9-alpha (for the DisableNetwork case).
27281 - Don't hold a Windows file handle open for every file mapping;
27282 the file mapping handle is sufficient. Fixes bug 5951; bugfix on
27284 - Avoid O(n^2) performance characteristics when parsing a large
27285 extrainfo cache. Fixes bug 5828; bugfix on 0.2.0.1-alpha.
27286 - Format more doubles with %f, not %lf. Patch from grarpamp to make
27287 Tor build correctly on older BSDs again. Fixes bug 3894; bugfix on
27289 - Make our replacement implementation of strtok_r() compatible with
27290 the standard behavior of strtok_r(). Patch by nils. Fixes bug 5091;
27291 bugfix on 0.2.2.1-alpha.
27292 - Fix a NULL-pointer dereference on a badly formed
27293 SETCIRCUITPURPOSE command. Found by mikeyc. Fixes bug 5796;
27294 bugfix on 0.2.2.9-alpha.
27295 - Fix a build warning with Clang 3.1 related to our use of vasprintf.
27296 Fixes bug 5969. Bugfix on 0.2.2.11-alpha.
27297 - Defensively refactor rend_mid_rendezvous() so that protocol
27298 violations and length checks happen in the beginning. Fixes
27300 - Set _WIN32_WINNT to 0x0501 consistently throughout the code, so
27301 that IPv6 stuff will compile on MSVC, and compilation issues
27302 will be easier to track down. Fixes bug 5861.
27304 o Minor bugfixes (correctness, on 0.2.2.x and earlier):
27305 - Exit nodes now correctly report EADDRINUSE and EADDRNOTAVAIL as
27306 resource exhaustion, so that clients can adjust their load to
27307 try other exits. Fixes bug 4710; bugfix on 0.1.0.1-rc, which
27308 started using END_STREAM_REASON_RESOURCELIMIT.
27309 - Don't check for whether the address we're using for outbound
27310 connections has changed until after the outbound connection has
27311 completed. On Windows, getsockname() doesn't succeed until the
27312 connection is finished. Fixes bug 5374; bugfix on 0.1.1.14-alpha.
27313 - If the configuration tries to set MyFamily on a bridge, refuse to
27314 do so, and warn about the security implications. Fixes bug 4657;
27315 bugfix on 0.2.0.3-alpha.
27316 - If the client fails to set a reasonable set of ciphersuites
27317 during its v2 handshake renegotiation, allow the renegotiation to
27318 continue nevertheless (i.e. send all the required certificates).
27319 Fixes bug 4591; bugfix on 0.2.0.20-rc.
27320 - When we receive a SIGHUP and the controller __ReloadTorrcOnSIGHUP
27321 option is set to 0 (which Vidalia version 0.2.16 now does when
27322 a SAVECONF attempt fails), perform other actions that SIGHUP
27323 usually causes (like reopening the logs). Fixes bug 5095; bugfix
27325 - If we fail to write a microdescriptor to the disk cache, do not
27326 continue replacing the old microdescriptor file. Fixes bug 2954;
27327 bugfix on 0.2.2.6-alpha.
27328 - Exit nodes don't need to fetch certificates for authorities that
27329 they don't recognize; only directory authorities, bridges,
27330 and caches need to do that. Fixes part of bug 2297; bugfix on
27332 - Correctly handle checking the permissions on the parent
27333 directory of a control socket in the root directory. Bug found
27334 by Esteban Manchado Velázquez. Fixes bug 5089; bugfix on Tor
27336 - When told to add a bridge with the same digest as a preexisting
27337 bridge but a different addr:port, change the addr:port as
27338 requested. Previously we would not notice the change. Fixes half
27339 of bug 5603; fix on 0.2.2.26-beta.
27340 - End AUTHCHALLENGE error messages (in the control protocol) with
27341 a CRLF. Fixes bug 5760; bugfix on 0.2.2.36 and 0.2.3.13-alpha.
27343 o Minor bugfixes (on 0.2.3.x):
27344 - Turn an assertion (that the number of handshakes received as a
27345 server is not < 1) into a warning. Fixes bug 4873; bugfix on
27347 - Format IPv4 addresses correctly in ADDRMAP events. (Previously,
27348 we had reversed them when the answer was cached.) Fixes bug
27349 5723; bugfix on 0.2.3.1-alpha.
27350 - Work correctly on Linux systems with accept4 support advertised in
27351 their headers, but without accept4 support in the kernel. Fix
27352 by murb. Fixes bug 5762; bugfix on 0.2.3.1-alpha.
27353 - When told to add a bridge with the same addr:port as a preexisting
27354 bridge but a different transport, change the transport as
27355 requested. Previously we would not notice the change. Fixes half
27356 of bug 5603; fix on 0.2.3.2-alpha.
27357 - Avoid a "double-reply" warning when replying to a SOCKS request
27358 with a parse error. Patch from Fabian Keil. Fixes bug 4108;
27359 bugfix on 0.2.3.4-alpha.
27360 - Fix a bug where a bridge authority crashes if it has seen no
27361 directory requests when it's time to write statistics to disk.
27362 Fixes bug 5891; bugfix on 0.2.3.6-alpha. Also fixes bug 5508 in
27364 - Don't try to open non-control listeners when DisableNetwork is set.
27365 Previously, we'd open all listeners, then immediately close them.
27366 Fixes bug 5604; bugfix on 0.2.3.9-alpha.
27367 - Don't abort the managed proxy protocol if the managed proxy
27368 sends us an unrecognized line; ignore it instead. Fixes bug
27369 5910; bugfix on 0.2.3.9-alpha.
27370 - Fix a compile warning in crypto.c when compiling with clang 3.1.
27371 Fixes bug 5969, bugfix on 0.2.3.9-alpha.
27372 - Fix a compilation issue on GNU Hurd, which doesn't have PATH_MAX.
27373 Fixes bug 5355; bugfix on 0.2.3.11-alpha.
27374 - Remove bogus definition of "_WIN32" from src/win32/orconfig.h, to
27375 unbreak the MSVC build. Fixes bug 5858; bugfix on 0.2.3.12-alpha.
27376 - Resolve numerous small warnings and build issues with MSVC. Resolves
27379 o Documentation fixes:
27380 - Improve the manual's documentation for the NT Service command-line
27381 options. Addresses ticket 3964.
27382 - Clarify SessionGroup documentation slightly; resolves ticket 5437.
27383 - Document the changes to the ORPort and DirPort options, and the
27384 fact that {OR/Dir}ListenAddress is now unnecessary (and
27385 therefore deprecated). Resolves ticket 5597.
27388 - Remove the torrc.bridge file: we don't use it for anything, and
27389 it had become badly desynchronized from torrc.sample. Resolves
27393 Changes in version 0.2.2.36 - 2012-05-24
27394 Tor 0.2.2.36 updates the addresses for two of the eight directory
27395 authorities, fixes some potential anonymity and security issues,
27396 and fixes several crash bugs.
27398 Tor 0.2.1.x has reached its end-of-life. Those Tor versions have many
27399 known flaws, and nobody should be using them. You should upgrade. If
27400 you're using a Linux or BSD and its packages are obsolete, stop using
27401 those packages and upgrade anyway.
27403 o Directory authority changes:
27404 - Change IP address for maatuska (v3 directory authority).
27405 - Change IP address for ides (v3 directory authority), and rename
27409 - When building or running with any version of OpenSSL earlier
27410 than 0.9.8s or 1.0.0f, disable SSLv3 support. These OpenSSL
27411 versions have a bug (CVE-2011-4576) in which their block cipher
27412 padding includes uninitialized data, potentially leaking sensitive
27413 information to any peer with whom they make a SSLv3 connection. Tor
27414 does not use SSL v3 by default, but a hostile client or server
27415 could force an SSLv3 connection in order to gain information that
27416 they shouldn't have been able to get. The best solution here is to
27417 upgrade to OpenSSL 0.9.8s or 1.0.0f (or later). But when building
27418 or running with a non-upgraded OpenSSL, we disable SSLv3 entirely
27419 to make sure that the bug can't happen.
27420 - Never use a bridge or a controller-supplied node as an exit, even
27421 if its exit policy allows it. Found by wanoskarnet. Fixes bug
27422 5342. Bugfix on 0.1.1.15-rc (for controller-purpose descriptors)
27423 and 0.2.0.3-alpha (for bridge-purpose descriptors).
27424 - Only build circuits if we have a sufficient threshold of the total
27425 descriptors that are marked in the consensus with the "Exit"
27426 flag. This mitigates an attack proposed by wanoskarnet, in which
27427 all of a client's bridges collude to restrict the exit nodes that
27428 the client knows about. Fixes bug 5343.
27429 - Provide controllers with a safer way to implement the cookie
27430 authentication mechanism. With the old method, if another locally
27431 running program could convince a controller that it was the Tor
27432 process, then that program could trick the controller into telling
27433 it the contents of an arbitrary 32-byte file. The new "SAFECOOKIE"
27434 authentication method uses a challenge-response approach to prevent
27435 this attack. Fixes bug 5185; implements proposal 193.
27438 - Avoid logging uninitialized data when unable to decode a hidden
27439 service descriptor cookie. Fixes bug 5647; bugfix on 0.2.1.5-alpha.
27440 - Avoid a client-side assertion failure when receiving an INTRODUCE2
27441 cell on a general purpose circuit. Fixes bug 5644; bugfix on
27443 - Fix builds when the path to sed, openssl, or sha1sum contains
27444 spaces, which is pretty common on Windows. Fixes bug 5065; bugfix
27446 - Correct our replacements for the timeradd() and timersub() functions
27447 on platforms that lack them (for example, Windows). The timersub()
27448 function is used when expiring circuits, while timeradd() is
27449 currently unused. Bug report and patch by Vektor. Fixes bug 4778;
27450 bugfix on 0.2.2.24-alpha.
27451 - Fix the SOCKET_OK test that we use to tell when socket
27452 creation fails so that it works on Win64. Fixes part of bug 4533;
27453 bugfix on 0.2.2.29-beta. Bug found by wanoskarnet.
27456 - Reject out-of-range times like 23:59:61 in parse_rfc1123_time().
27457 Fixes bug 5346; bugfix on 0.0.8pre3.
27458 - Make our number-parsing functions always treat too-large values
27459 as an error, even when those values exceed the width of the
27460 underlying type. Previously, if the caller provided these
27461 functions with minima or maxima set to the extreme values of the
27462 underlying integer type, these functions would return those
27463 values on overflow rather than treating overflow as an error.
27464 Fixes part of bug 5786; bugfix on 0.0.9.
27465 - Older Linux kernels erroneously respond to strange nmap behavior
27466 by having accept() return successfully with a zero-length
27467 socket. When this happens, just close the connection. Previously,
27468 we would try harder to learn the remote address: but there was
27469 no such remote address to learn, and our method for trying to
27470 learn it was incorrect. Fixes bugs 1240, 4745, and 4747. Bugfix
27471 on 0.1.0.3-rc. Reported and diagnosed by "r1eo".
27472 - Correct parsing of certain date types in parse_http_time().
27473 Without this patch, If-Modified-Since would behave
27474 incorrectly. Fixes bug 5346; bugfix on 0.2.0.2-alpha. Patch from
27475 Esteban Manchado Velázques.
27476 - Change the BridgePassword feature (part of the "bridge community"
27477 design, which is not yet implemented) to use a time-independent
27478 comparison. The old behavior might have allowed an adversary
27479 to use timing to guess the BridgePassword value. Fixes bug 5543;
27480 bugfix on 0.2.0.14-alpha.
27481 - Detect and reject certain misformed escape sequences in
27482 configuration values. Previously, these values would cause us
27483 to crash if received in a torrc file or over an authenticated
27484 control port. Bug found by Esteban Manchado Velázquez, and
27485 independently by Robert Connolly from Matta Consulting who further
27486 noted that it allows a post-authentication heap overflow. Patch
27487 by Alexander Schrijver. Fixes bugs 5090 and 5402 (CVE 2012-1668);
27488 bugfix on 0.2.0.16-alpha.
27489 - Fix a compile warning when using the --enable-openbsd-malloc
27490 configure option. Fixes bug 5340; bugfix on 0.2.0.20-rc.
27491 - During configure, detect when we're building with clang version
27492 3.0 or lower and disable the -Wnormalized=id and -Woverride-init
27493 CFLAGS. clang doesn't support them yet.
27494 - When sending an HTTP/1.1 proxy request, include a Host header.
27495 Fixes bug 5593; bugfix on 0.2.2.1-alpha.
27496 - Fix a NULL-pointer dereference on a badly formed SETCIRCUITPURPOSE
27497 command. Found by mikeyc. Fixes bug 5796; bugfix on 0.2.2.9-alpha.
27498 - If we hit the error case where routerlist_insert() replaces an
27499 existing (old) server descriptor, make sure to remove that
27500 server descriptor from the old_routers list. Fix related to bug
27501 1776. Bugfix on 0.2.2.18-alpha.
27503 o Minor bugfixes (documentation and log messages):
27504 - Fix a typo in a log message in rend_service_rendezvous_has_opened().
27505 Fixes bug 4856; bugfix on Tor 0.0.6.
27506 - Update "ClientOnly" man page entry to explain that there isn't
27507 really any point to messing with it. Resolves ticket 5005.
27508 - Document the GiveGuardFlagTo_CVE_2011_2768_VulnerableRelays
27509 directory authority option (introduced in Tor 0.2.2.34).
27510 - Downgrade the "We're missing a certificate" message from notice
27511 to info: people kept mistaking it for a real problem, whereas it
27512 is seldom the problem even when we are failing to bootstrap. Fixes
27513 bug 5067; bugfix on 0.2.0.10-alpha.
27514 - Correctly spell "connect" in a log message on failure to create a
27515 controlsocket. Fixes bug 4803; bugfix on 0.2.2.26-beta.
27516 - Clarify the behavior of MaxCircuitDirtiness with hidden service
27517 circuits. Fixes issue 5259.
27520 - Directory authorities now reject versions of Tor older than
27521 0.2.1.30, and Tor versions between 0.2.2.1-alpha and 0.2.2.20-alpha
27522 inclusive. These versions accounted for only a small fraction of
27523 the Tor network, and have numerous known security issues. Resolves
27525 - Update to the May 1 2012 Maxmind GeoLite Country database.
27528 - When sending or relaying a RELAY_EARLY cell, we used to convert
27529 it to a RELAY cell if the connection was using the v1 link
27530 protocol. This was a workaround for older versions of Tor, which
27531 didn't handle RELAY_EARLY cells properly. Now that all supported
27532 versions can handle RELAY_EARLY cells, and now that we're enforcing
27533 the "no RELAY_EXTEND commands except in RELAY_EARLY cells" rule,
27534 remove this workaround. Addresses bug 4786.
27537 Changes in version 0.2.3.15-alpha - 2012-04-30
27538 Tor 0.2.3.15-alpha fixes a variety of smaller bugs, including making
27539 the development branch build on Windows again.
27541 o Minor bugfixes (on 0.2.2.x and earlier):
27542 - Make sure that there are no unhandled pending TLS errors before
27543 reading from a TLS stream. We had checks in 0.1.0.3-rc, but
27544 lost them in 0.1.0.5-rc when we refactored read_to_buf_tls().
27545 Bugfix on 0.1.0.5-rc; fixes bug 4528.
27546 - Fix an assert that directory authorities could trigger on sighup
27547 during some configuration state transitions. We now don't treat
27548 it as a fatal error when the new descriptor we just generated in
27549 init_keys() isn't accepted. Fixes bug 4438; bugfix on 0.2.1.9-alpha.
27550 - After we pick a directory mirror, we would refuse to use it if
27551 it's in our ExcludeExitNodes list, resulting in mysterious failures
27552 to bootstrap for people who just wanted to avoid exiting from
27553 certain locations. Fixes bug 5623; bugfix on 0.2.2.25-alpha.
27554 - When building with --enable-static-tor on OpenBSD, do not
27555 erroneously attempt to link -lrt. Fixes bug 5103.
27557 o Minor bugfixes (on 0.2.3.x):
27558 - When Tor is built with kernel headers from a recent (last few
27559 years) Linux kernel, do not fail to run on older (pre-2.6.28
27560 Linux kernels). Fixes bug 5112; bugfix on 0.2.3.1-alpha.
27561 - Fix cross-compilation issues with mingw. Bugfixes on 0.2.3.6-alpha
27562 and 0.2.3.12-alpha.
27563 - Fix compilation with miniupnpc version 1.6; patch from
27564 Anthony G. Basile. Fixes bug 5434; bugfix on 0.2.3.12-alpha.
27565 - Fix compilation with MSVC, which had defined MS_WINDOWS. Bugfix
27566 on 0.2.3.13-alpha; found and fixed by Gisle Vanem.
27567 - Fix compilation on platforms without unistd.h, or where environ
27568 is defined in stdlib.h. Fixes bug 5704; bugfix on 0.2.3.13-alpha.
27571 - Directory authorities are now a little more lenient at accepting
27572 older router descriptors, or newer router descriptors that don't
27573 make big changes. This should help ameliorate past and future
27574 issues where routers think they have uploaded valid descriptors,
27575 but the authorities don't think so. Fix for ticket 2479.
27576 - Make the code that clients use to detect an address change be
27577 IPv6-aware, so that it won't fill clients' logs with error
27578 messages when trying to get the IPv4 address of an IPv6
27579 connection. Implements ticket 5537.
27581 o Removed features:
27582 - Remove the GiveGuardFlagTo_CVE_2011_2768_VulnerableRelays option;
27583 authorities needed to use it for a while to keep the network working
27584 as people upgraded to 0.2.1.31, 0.2.2.34, or 0.2.3.6-alpha, but
27585 that was six months ago. As of now, it should no longer be needed
27589 Changes in version 0.2.3.14-alpha - 2012-04-23
27590 Tor 0.2.3.14-alpha fixes yet more bugs to get us closer to a release
27591 candidate. It also dramatically speeds up AES: fast relays should
27592 consider switching to the newer OpenSSL library.
27594 o Directory authority changes:
27595 - Change IP address for ides (v3 directory authority), and rename
27599 - Avoid logging uninitialized data when unable to decode a hidden
27600 service descriptor cookie. Fixes bug 5647; bugfix on 0.2.1.5-alpha.
27601 - Avoid a client-side assertion failure when receiving an INTRODUCE2
27602 cell on a general purpose circuit. Fixes bug 5644; bugfix on
27604 - If authorities are unable to get a v2 consensus document from other
27605 directory authorities, they no longer fall back to fetching
27606 them from regular directory caches. Fixes bug 5635; bugfix on
27607 0.2.2.26-beta, where routers stopped downloading v2 consensus
27608 documents entirely.
27609 - When we start a Tor client with a normal consensus already cached,
27610 be willing to download a microdescriptor consensus. Fixes bug 4011;
27611 fix on 0.2.3.1-alpha.
27613 o Major features (performance):
27614 - When built to use OpenSSL 1.0.1, and built for an x86 or x86_64
27615 instruction set, take advantage of OpenSSL's AESNI, bitsliced, or
27616 vectorized AES implementations as appropriate. These can be much,
27617 much faster than other AES implementations.
27619 o Minor bugfixes (0.2.2.x and earlier):
27620 - Don't launch more than 10 service-side introduction-point circuits
27621 for a hidden service in five minutes. Previously, we would consider
27622 launching more introduction-point circuits if at least one second
27623 had passed without any introduction-point circuits failing. Fixes
27624 bug 4607; bugfix on 0.0.7pre1.
27625 - Change the BridgePassword feature (part of the "bridge community"
27626 design, which is not yet implemented) to use a time-independent
27627 comparison. The old behavior might have allowed an adversary
27628 to use timing to guess the BridgePassword value. Fixes bug 5543;
27629 bugfix on 0.2.0.14-alpha.
27630 - Enforce correct return behavior of tor_vsscanf() when the '%%'
27631 pattern is used. Fixes bug 5558. Bugfix on 0.2.1.13.
27632 - When sending an HTTP/1.1 proxy request, include a Host header.
27633 Fixes bug 5593; bugfix on 0.2.2.1-alpha.
27634 - Don't log that we have "decided to publish new relay descriptor"
27635 unless we are actually publishing a descriptor. Fixes bug 3942;
27636 bugfix on 0.2.2.28-beta.
27638 o Minor bugfixes (0.2.3.x):
27639 - Fix a bug where a bridge authority crashes (on a failed assert)
27640 if it has seen no directory requests when it's time to write
27641 statistics to disk. Fixes bug 5508. Bugfix on 0.2.3.6-alpha.
27642 - Fix bug stomping on ORPort option NoListen and ignoring option
27643 NoAdvertise. Fixes bug 5151; bugfix on 0.2.3.9-alpha.
27644 - In the testsuite, provide a large enough buffer in the tor_sscanf
27645 unit test. Otherwise we'd overrun that buffer and crash during
27646 the unit tests. Found by weasel. Fixes bug 5449; bugfix on
27648 - Make sure we create the keys directory if it doesn't exist and we're
27649 about to store the dynamic Diffie-Hellman parameters. Fixes bug
27650 5572; bugfix on 0.2.3.13-alpha.
27651 - Fix a small memory leak when trying to decode incorrect base16
27652 authenticator during SAFECOOKIE authentication. Found by
27653 Coverity Scan. Fixes CID 507. Bugfix on 0.2.3.13-alpha.
27656 - Add more information to a log statement that might help track down
27657 bug 4091. If you're seeing "Bug: tor_addr_is_internal() called with a
27658 non-IP address" messages (or any Bug messages, for that matter!),
27659 please let us know about it.
27660 - Relays now understand an IPv6 address when they get one from a
27661 directory server. Resolves ticket 4875.
27662 - Resolve IPv6 addresses in bridge and entry statistics to country
27663 code "??" which means we at least count them. Resolves ticket 5053;
27664 improves on 0.2.3.9-alpha.
27665 - Update to the April 3 2012 Maxmind GeoLite Country database.
27666 - Begin a doc/state-contents.txt file to explain the contents of
27667 the Tor state file. Fixes bug 2987.
27669 o Default torrc changes:
27670 - Stop listing "socksport 9050" in torrc.sample. We open a socks
27671 port on 9050 by default anyway, so this should not change anything
27673 - Stop mentioning the deprecated *ListenAddress options in
27674 torrc.sample. Fixes bug 5438.
27675 - Document unit of bandwidth related options in sample torrc.
27678 o Removed features:
27679 - The "torify" script no longer supports the "tsocks" socksifier
27680 tool, since tsocks doesn't support DNS and UDP right for Tor.
27681 Everyone should be using torsocks instead. Fixes bugs 3530 and
27682 5180. Based on a patch by "ugh".
27684 o Code refactoring:
27685 - Change the symmetric cipher interface so that creating and
27686 initializing a stream cipher are no longer separate functions.
27687 - Remove all internal support for unpadded RSA. We never used it, and
27688 it would be a bad idea to start.
27691 Changes in version 0.2.3.13-alpha - 2012-03-26
27692 Tor 0.2.3.13-alpha fixes a variety of stability and correctness bugs
27693 in managed pluggable transports, as well as providing other cleanups
27694 that get us closer to a release candidate.
27696 o Directory authority changes:
27697 - Change IP address for maatuska (v3 directory authority).
27700 - Provide controllers with a safer way to implement the cookie
27701 authentication mechanism. With the old method, if another locally
27702 running program could convince a controller that it was the Tor
27703 process, then that program could trick the controller into telling
27704 it the contents of an arbitrary 32-byte file. The new "SAFECOOKIE"
27705 authentication method uses a challenge-response approach to prevent
27706 this attack. Fixes bug 5185, implements proposal 193.
27707 - Never use a bridge or a controller-supplied node as an exit, even
27708 if its exit policy allows it. Found by wanoskarnet. Fixes bug
27709 5342. Bugfix on 0.1.1.15-rc (for controller-purpose descriptors)
27710 and 0.2.0.3-alpha (for bridge-purpose descriptors).
27711 - Only build circuits if we have a sufficient threshold of the total
27712 descriptors that are marked in the consensus with the "Exit"
27713 flag. This mitigates an attack proposed by wanoskarnet, in which
27714 all of a client's bridges collude to restrict the exit nodes that
27715 the client knows about. Fixes bug 5343.
27717 o Major bugfixes (on Tor 0.2.3.x):
27718 - Avoid an assert when managed proxies like obfsproxy are configured,
27719 and we receive HUP signals or setconf attempts too rapidly. This
27720 situation happens most commonly when Vidalia tries to attach to
27721 Tor or tries to configure the Tor it's attached to. Fixes bug 5084;
27722 bugfix on 0.2.3.6-alpha.
27723 - Fix a relay-side pluggable transports bug where managed proxies were
27724 unreachable from the Internet, because Tor asked them to bind on
27725 localhost. Fixes bug 4725; bugfix on 0.2.3.9-alpha.
27726 - Stop discarding command-line arguments when TestingTorNetwork
27727 is set. Discovered by Kevin Bauer. Fixes bug 5373; bugfix on
27728 0.2.3.9-alpha, where task 4552 added support for two layers of
27730 - Resume allowing the unit tests to run in gdb. This was accidentally
27731 made impossible when the DisableDebuggerAttachment option was
27732 introduced. Fixes bug 5448; bugfix on 0.2.3.9-alpha.
27733 - Resume building with nat-pmp support. Fixes bug 4955; bugfix on
27734 0.2.3.11-alpha. Reported by Anthony G. Basile.
27736 o Minor bugfixes (on 0.2.2.x and earlier):
27737 - Ensure we don't cannibalize circuits that are longer than three hops
27738 already, so we don't end up making circuits with 5 or more
27739 hops. Patch contributed by wanoskarnet. Fixes bug 5231; bugfix on
27740 0.1.0.1-rc which introduced cannibalization.
27741 - Detect and reject certain misformed escape sequences in
27742 configuration values. Previously, these values would cause us
27743 to crash if received in a torrc file or over an authenticated
27744 control port. Bug found by Esteban Manchado Velázquez, and
27745 independently by Robert Connolly from Matta Consulting who further
27746 noted that it allows a post-authentication heap overflow. Patch
27747 by Alexander Schrijver. Fixes bugs 5090 and 5402 (CVE 2012-1668);
27748 bugfix on 0.2.0.16-alpha.
27749 - Fix a compile warning when using the --enable-openbsd-malloc
27750 configure option. Fixes bug 5340; bugfix on 0.2.0.20-rc.
27751 - Directory caches no longer refuse to clean out descriptors because
27752 of missing v2 networkstatus documents, unless they're configured
27753 to retrieve v2 networkstatus documents. Fixes bug 4838; bugfix on
27754 0.2.2.26-beta. Patch by Daniel Bryg.
27755 - Update to the latest version of the tinytest unit testing framework.
27756 This includes a couple of bugfixes that can be relevant for
27757 running forked unit tests on Windows, and removes all reserved
27760 o Minor bugfixes (on 0.2.3.x):
27761 - On a failed pipe() call, don't leak file descriptors. Fixes bug
27762 4296; bugfix on 0.2.3.1-alpha.
27763 - Spec conformance: on a v3 handshake, do not send a NETINFO cell
27764 until after we have received a CERTS cell. Fixes bug 4361; bugfix
27765 on 0.2.3.6-alpha. Patch by "frosty".
27766 - When binding to an IPv6 address, set the IPV6_V6ONLY socket
27767 option, so that the IP stack doesn't decide to use it for IPv4
27768 too. Fixes bug 4760; bugfix on 0.2.3.9-alpha.
27769 - Ensure that variables set in Tor's environment cannot override
27770 environment variables that Tor passes to a managed
27771 pluggable-transport proxy. Previously, Tor would pass every
27772 variable in its environment to managed proxies along with the new
27773 ones, in such a way that on many operating systems, the inherited
27774 environment variables would override those which Tor tried to
27775 explicitly set. Bugfix on 0.2.3.12-alpha for most Unixoid systems;
27776 bugfix on 0.2.3.9-alpha for Windows.
27779 - A wide variety of new unit tests by Esteban Manchado Velázquez.
27780 - Shorten links in the tor-exit-notice file. Patch by Christian Kujau.
27781 - Update to the March 6 2012 Maxmind GeoLite Country database.
27784 Changes in version 0.2.3.12-alpha - 2012-02-13
27785 Tor 0.2.3.12-alpha lets fast exit relays scale better, allows clients
27786 to use bridges that run Tor 0.2.2.x, and resolves several big bugs
27787 when Tor is configured to use a pluggable transport like obfsproxy.
27790 - Fix builds when the path to sed, openssl, or sha1sum contains
27791 spaces, which is pretty common on Windows. Fixes bug 5065; bugfix
27793 - Set the SO_REUSEADDR socket option before we call bind() on outgoing
27794 connections. This change should allow busy exit relays to stop
27795 running out of available sockets as quickly. Fixes bug 4950;
27796 bugfix on 0.2.2.26-beta.
27797 - Allow 0.2.3.x clients to use 0.2.2.x bridges. Previously the client
27798 would ask the bridge for microdescriptors, which are only supported
27799 in 0.2.3.x, and then fail to bootstrap when it didn't get the
27800 answers it wanted. Fixes bug 4013; bugfix on 0.2.3.2-alpha.
27801 - Properly set up obfsproxy's environment when in managed mode. The
27802 Tor Browser Bundle needs LD_LIBRARY_PATH to be passed to obfsproxy,
27803 and when you run your Tor as a daemon, there's no HOME. Fixes bugs
27804 5076 and 5082; bugfix on 0.2.3.6-alpha.
27807 - Use the dead_strip option when building Tor on OS X. This reduces
27808 binary size by almost 19% when linking openssl and libevent
27809 statically, which we do for Tor Browser Bundle.
27810 - Fix broken URLs in the sample torrc file, and tell readers about
27811 the OutboundBindAddress, ExitPolicyRejectPrivate, and
27812 PublishServerDescriptor options. Addresses bug 4652.
27813 - Update to the February 7 2012 Maxmind GeoLite Country database.
27816 - Downgrade the "We're missing a certificate" message from notice
27817 to info: people kept mistaking it for a real problem, whereas it
27818 is seldom the problem even when we are failing to bootstrap. Fixes
27819 bug 5067; bugfix on 0.2.0.10-alpha.
27820 - Don't put "TOR_PT_EXTENDED_SERVER_PORT=127.0.0.1:4200" in a
27821 managed pluggable transport server proxy's environment.
27822 Previously, we would put it there, even though Tor doesn't
27823 implement an 'extended server port' yet, and even though Tor
27824 almost certainly isn't listening at that address. For now, we set
27825 it to an empty string to avoid crashing older obfsproxies. Bugfix
27827 - Log the heartbeat message every HeartbeatPeriod seconds, not every
27828 HeartbeatPeriod + 1 seconds. Fixes bug 4942; bugfix on
27829 0.2.3.1-alpha. Bug reported by Scott Bennett.
27830 - Calculate absolute paths correctly on Windows. Fixes bug 4973;
27831 bugfix on 0.2.3.11-alpha.
27832 - Update "ClientOnly" man page entry to explain that there isn't
27833 really any point to messing with it. Resolves ticket 5005.
27834 - Use the correct CVE number for CVE-2011-4576 in our comments and
27835 log messages. Found by "fermenthor". Resolves bug 5066; bugfix on
27838 o Code simplifications and refactoring:
27839 - Use the _WIN32 macro throughout our code to detect Windows.
27840 (Previously we had used the obsolete 'WIN32' and the idiosyncratic
27844 Changes in version 0.2.3.11-alpha - 2012-01-22
27845 Tor 0.2.3.11-alpha marks feature-freeze for the 0.2.3 tree. It deploys
27846 the last step of the plan to limit maximum circuit length, includes
27847 a wide variety of hidden service performance and correctness fixes,
27848 works around an OpenSSL security flaw if your distro is too stubborn
27849 to upgrade, and fixes a bunch of smaller issues.
27852 - Now that Tor 0.2.0.x is completely deprecated, enable the final
27853 part of "Proposal 110: Avoiding infinite length circuits" by
27854 refusing all circuit-extend requests that do not use a relay_early
27855 cell. This change helps Tor resist a class of denial-of-service
27856 attacks by limiting the maximum circuit length.
27857 - Adjust the number of introduction points that a hidden service
27858 will try to maintain based on how long its introduction points
27859 remain in use and how many introductions they handle. Fixes
27861 - Try to use system facilities for enumerating local interface
27862 addresses, before falling back to our old approach (which was
27863 binding a UDP socket, and calling getsockname() on it). That
27864 approach was scaring OS X users whose draconian firewall
27865 software warned about binding to UDP sockets, regardless of
27866 whether packets were sent. Now we try to use getifaddrs(),
27867 SIOCGIFCONF, or GetAdaptersAddresses(), depending on what the
27868 system supports. Resolves ticket 1827.
27870 o Major security workaround:
27871 - When building or running with any version of OpenSSL earlier
27872 than 0.9.8s or 1.0.0f, disable SSLv3 support. These OpenSSL
27873 versions have a bug (CVE-2011-4576) in which their block cipher
27874 padding includes uninitialized data, potentially leaking sensitive
27875 information to any peer with whom they make a SSLv3 connection. Tor
27876 does not use SSL v3 by default, but a hostile client or server
27877 could force an SSLv3 connection in order to gain information that
27878 they shouldn't have been able to get. The best solution here is to
27879 upgrade to OpenSSL 0.9.8s or 1.0.0f (or later). But when building
27880 or running with a non-upgraded OpenSSL, we disable SSLv3 entirely
27881 to make sure that the bug can't happen.
27884 - Fix the SOCKET_OK test that we use to tell when socket
27885 creation fails so that it works on Win64. Fixes part of bug 4533;
27886 bugfix on 0.2.2.29-beta. Bug found by wanoskarnet.
27887 - Correct our replacements for the timeradd() and timersub() functions
27888 on platforms that lack them (for example, Windows). The timersub()
27889 function is used when expiring circuits, while timeradd() is
27890 currently unused. Bug report and patch by Vektor. Fixes bug 4778;
27891 bugfix on 0.2.2.24-alpha and 0.2.3.1-alpha.
27892 - Do not use OpenSSL 1.0.0's counter mode: it has a critical bug
27893 that was fixed in OpenSSL 1.0.0a. We test for the counter mode
27894 bug at runtime, not compile time, because some distributions hack
27895 their OpenSSL to mis-report its version. Fixes bug 4779; bugfix
27896 on 0.2.3.9-alpha. Found by Pascal.
27898 o Minor features (controller):
27899 - Use absolute path names when reporting the torrc filename in the
27900 control protocol, so a controller can more easily find the torrc
27901 file. Resolves bug 1101.
27902 - Extend the control protocol to report flags that control a circuit's
27903 path selection in CIRC events and in replies to 'GETINFO
27904 circuit-status'. Implements part of ticket 2411.
27905 - Extend the control protocol to report the hidden service address
27906 and current state of a hidden-service-related circuit in CIRC
27907 events and in replies to 'GETINFO circuit-status'. Implements part
27909 - When reporting the path to the cookie file to the controller,
27910 give an absolute path. Resolves ticket 4881.
27911 - Allow controllers to request an event notification whenever a
27912 circuit is cannibalized or its purpose is changed. Implements
27913 part of ticket 3457.
27914 - Include the creation time of a circuit in CIRC and CIRC2
27915 control-port events and the list produced by the 'GETINFO
27916 circuit-status' control-port command.
27918 o Minor features (directory authorities):
27919 - Directory authorities now reject versions of Tor older than
27920 0.2.1.30, and Tor versions between 0.2.2.1-alpha and 0.2.2.20-alpha
27921 inclusive. These versions accounted for only a small fraction of
27922 the Tor network, and have numerous known security issues. Resolves
27924 - Authority operators can now vote for all relays in a given
27925 set of countries to be BadDir/BadExit/Invalid/Rejected.
27926 - Provide two consensus parameters (FastFlagMinThreshold and
27927 FastFlagMaxThreshold) to control the range of allowable bandwidths
27928 for the Fast directory flag. These allow authorities to run
27929 experiments on appropriate requirements for being a "Fast" node.
27930 The AuthDirFastGuarantee config value still applies. Implements
27932 - Document the GiveGuardFlagTo_CVE_2011_2768_VulnerableRelays
27933 directory authority option (introduced in Tor 0.2.2.34).
27935 o Minor features (other):
27936 - Don't disable the DirPort when we cannot exceed our AccountingMax
27937 limit during this interval because the effective bandwidthrate is
27938 low enough. This is useful in a situation where AccountMax is only
27939 used as an additional safeguard or to provide statistics.
27940 - Prepend an informative header to generated dynamic_dh_params files.
27941 - If EntryNodes are given, but UseEntryGuards is set to 0, warn that
27942 EntryNodes will have no effect. Resolves issue 2571.
27943 - Log more useful messages when we fail to disable debugger
27945 - Log which authority we're missing votes from when we go to fetch
27946 them from the other auths.
27947 - Log (at debug level) whenever a circuit's purpose is changed.
27948 - Add missing documentation for the MaxClientCircuitsPending,
27949 UseMicrodescriptors, UserspaceIOCPBuffers, and
27950 _UseFilteringSSLBufferevents options, all introduced during
27951 the 0.2.3.x series.
27952 - Update to the January 3 2012 Maxmind GeoLite Country database.
27954 o Minor bugfixes (hidden services):
27955 - Don't close hidden service client circuits which have almost
27956 finished connecting to their destination when they reach
27957 the normal circuit-build timeout. Previously, we would close
27958 introduction circuits which are waiting for an acknowledgement
27959 from the introduction point, and rendezvous circuits which have
27960 been specified in an INTRODUCE1 cell sent to a hidden service,
27961 after the normal CBT. Now, we mark them as 'timed out', and launch
27962 another rendezvous attempt in parallel. This behavior change can
27963 be disabled using the new CloseHSClientCircuitsImmediatelyOnTimeout
27964 option. Fixes part of bug 1297; bugfix on 0.2.2.2-alpha.
27965 - Don't close hidden-service-side rendezvous circuits when they
27966 reach the normal circuit-build timeout. This behavior change can
27967 be disabled using the new
27968 CloseHSServiceRendCircuitsImmediatelyOnTimeout option. Fixes the
27969 remaining part of bug 1297; bugfix on 0.2.2.2-alpha.
27970 - Make sure we never mark the wrong rendezvous circuit as having
27971 had its introduction cell acknowledged by the introduction-point
27972 relay. Previously, when we received an INTRODUCE_ACK cell on a
27973 client-side hidden-service introduction circuit, we might have
27974 marked a rendezvous circuit other than the one we specified in
27975 the INTRODUCE1 cell as INTRO_ACKED, which would have produced
27976 a warning message and interfered with the hidden service
27977 connection-establishment process. Fixes bug 4759; bugfix on
27978 0.2.3.3-alpha, when we added the stream-isolation feature which
27979 might cause Tor to open multiple rendezvous circuits for the same
27981 - Don't trigger an assertion failure when we mark a new client-side
27982 hidden-service introduction circuit for close during the process
27983 of creating it. Fixes bug 4796; bugfix on 0.2.3.6-alpha. Reported
27986 o Minor bugfixes (log messages):
27987 - Correctly spell "connect" in a log message on failure to create a
27988 controlsocket. Fixes bug 4803; bugfix on 0.2.2.26-beta and
27990 - Fix a typo in a log message in rend_service_rendezvous_has_opened().
27991 Fixes bug 4856; bugfix on Tor 0.0.6.
27992 - Fix the log message describing how we work around discovering
27993 that our version is the ill-fated OpenSSL 0.9.8l. Fixes bug
27994 4837; bugfix on 0.2.2.9-alpha.
27995 - When logging about a disallowed .exit name, do not also call it
27996 an "invalid onion address". Fixes bug 3325; bugfix on 0.2.2.9-alpha.
27998 o Minor bugfixes (build fixes):
27999 - During configure, detect when we're building with clang version
28000 3.0 or lower and disable the -Wnormalized=id and -Woverride-init
28001 CFLAGS. clang doesn't support them yet.
28002 - During configure, search for library containing cos function as
28003 libm lives in libcore on some platforms (BeOS/Haiku). Linking
28004 against libm was hard-coded before. Fixes the first part of bug
28005 4727; bugfix on 0.2.2.2-alpha. Patch and analysis by Martin Hebnes
28007 - Detect attempts to build Tor on (as yet hypothetical) versions
28008 of Windows where sizeof(intptr_t) != sizeof(SOCKET). Partial
28009 fix for bug 4533. Bugfix on 0.2.2.28-beta.
28010 - Preprocessor directives should not be put inside the arguments
28011 of a macro. This would break compilation with GCC releases prior
28012 to version 3.3. We would never recommend such an old GCC version,
28013 but it is apparently required for binary compatibility on some
28014 platforms (namely, certain builds of Haiku). Fixes the other part
28015 of bug 4727; bugfix on 0.2.3.3-alpha. Patch and analysis by Martin
28018 o Minor bugfixes (other):
28019 - Older Linux kernels erroneously respond to strange nmap behavior
28020 by having accept() return successfully with a zero-length
28021 socket. When this happens, just close the connection. Previously,
28022 we would try harder to learn the remote address: but there was
28023 no such remote address to learn, and our method for trying to
28024 learn it was incorrect. Fixes bugs 1240, 4745, and 4747. Bugfix
28025 on 0.1.0.3-rc. Reported and diagnosed by "r1eo".
28026 - Fix null-pointer access that could occur if TLS allocation failed.
28027 Fixes bug 4531; bugfix on 0.2.0.20-rc. Found by "troll_un". This was
28028 erroneously listed as fixed in 0.2.3.9-alpha, but the fix had
28029 accidentally been reverted.
28030 - Fix our implementation of crypto_random_hostname() so it can't
28031 overflow on ridiculously large inputs. (No Tor version has ever
28032 provided this kind of bad inputs, but let's be correct in depth.)
28033 Fixes bug 4413; bugfix on 0.2.2.9-alpha. Fix by Stephen Palmateer.
28034 - Find more places in the code that should have been testing for
28035 invalid sockets using the SOCKET_OK macro. Required for a fix
28036 for bug 4533. Bugfix on 0.2.2.28-beta.
28037 - Fix an assertion failure when, while running with bufferevents, a
28038 connection finishes connecting after it is marked for close, but
28039 before it is closed. Fixes bug 4697; bugfix on 0.2.3.1-alpha.
28040 - test_util_spawn_background_ok() hardcoded the expected value
28041 for ENOENT to 2. This isn't portable as error numbers are
28042 platform specific, and particularly the hurd has ENOENT at
28043 0x40000002. Construct expected string at runtime, using the correct
28044 value for ENOENT. Fixes bug 4733; bugfix on 0.2.3.1-alpha.
28045 - Reject attempts to disable DisableDebuggerAttachment while Tor is
28046 running. Fixes bug 4650; bugfix on 0.2.3.9-alpha.
28047 - Use an appropriate-width type for sockets in tor-fw-helper on
28048 win64. Fixes bug 1983 at last. Bugfix on 0.2.3.9-alpha.
28051 - When sending or relaying a RELAY_EARLY cell, we used to convert
28052 it to a RELAY cell if the connection was using the v1 link
28053 protocol. This was a workaround for older versions of Tor, which
28054 didn't handle RELAY_EARLY cells properly. Now that all supported
28055 versions can handle RELAY_EARLY cells, and now that we're enforcing
28056 the "no RELAY_EXTEND commands except in RELAY_EARLY cells" rule,
28057 remove this workaround. Addresses bug 4786.
28059 o Code simplifications and refactoring:
28060 - Use OpenSSL's built-in SSL_state_string_long() instead of our
28061 own homebrewed ssl_state_to_string() replacement. Patch from
28062 Emile Snyder. Fixes bug 4653.
28063 - Use macros to indicate OpenSSL versions, so we don't need to worry
28064 about accidental hexadecimal bit shifts.
28065 - Remove some workaround code for OpenSSL 0.9.6 (which is no longer
28067 - Convert more instances of tor_snprintf+tor_strdup into tor_asprintf.
28068 - Use the smartlist_add_asprintf() alias more consistently.
28069 - Use a TOR_INVALID_SOCKET macro when initializing a socket to an
28070 invalid value, rather than just -1.
28071 - Rename a handful of old identifiers, mostly related to crypto
28072 structures and crypto functions. By convention, our "create an
28073 object" functions are called "type_new()", our "free an object"
28074 functions are called "type_free()", and our types indicate that
28075 they are types only with a final "_t". But a handful of older
28076 types and functions broke these rules, with function names like
28077 "type_create" or "subsystem_op_type", or with type names like
28081 Changes in version 0.2.3.10-alpha - 2011-12-16
28082 Tor 0.2.3.10-alpha fixes a critical heap-overflow security issue in
28083 Tor's buffers code. Absolutely everybody should upgrade.
28085 The bug relied on an incorrect calculation when making data continuous
28086 in one of our IO buffers, if the first chunk of the buffer was
28087 misaligned by just the wrong amount. The miscalculation would allow an
28088 attacker to overflow a piece of heap-allocated memory. To mount this
28089 attack, the attacker would need to either open a SOCKS connection to
28090 Tor's SocksPort (usually restricted to localhost), or target a Tor
28091 instance configured to make its connections through a SOCKS proxy
28092 (which Tor does not do by default).
28094 Good security practice requires that all heap-overflow bugs should be
28095 presumed to be exploitable until proven otherwise, so we are treating
28096 this as a potential code execution attack. Please upgrade immediately!
28097 This bug does not affect bufferevents-based builds of Tor. Special
28098 thanks to "Vektor" for reporting this issue to us!
28100 This release also contains a few minor bugfixes for issues discovered
28104 - Fix a heap overflow bug that could occur when trying to pull
28105 data into the first chunk of a buffer, when that chunk had
28106 already had some data drained from it. Fixes CVE-2011-2778;
28107 bugfix on 0.2.0.16-alpha. Reported by "Vektor".
28110 - If we can't attach streams to a rendezvous circuit when we
28111 finish connecting to a hidden service, clear the rendezvous
28112 circuit's stream-isolation state and try to attach streams
28113 again. Previously, we cleared rendezvous circuits' isolation
28114 state either too early (if they were freshly built) or not at all
28115 (if they had been built earlier and were cannibalized). Bugfix on
28116 0.2.3.3-alpha; fixes bug 4655.
28117 - Fix compilation of the libnatpmp helper on non-Windows. Bugfix on
28118 0.2.3.9-alpha; fixes bug 4691. Reported by Anthony G. Basile.
28119 - Fix an assertion failure when a relay with accounting enabled
28120 starts up while dormant. Fixes bug 4702; bugfix on 0.2.3.9-alpha.
28123 - Update to the December 6 2011 Maxmind GeoLite Country database.
28126 Changes in version 0.2.2.35 - 2011-12-16
28127 Tor 0.2.2.35 fixes a critical heap-overflow security issue in Tor's
28128 buffers code. Absolutely everybody should upgrade.
28130 The bug relied on an incorrect calculation when making data continuous
28131 in one of our IO buffers, if the first chunk of the buffer was
28132 misaligned by just the wrong amount. The miscalculation would allow an
28133 attacker to overflow a piece of heap-allocated memory. To mount this
28134 attack, the attacker would need to either open a SOCKS connection to
28135 Tor's SocksPort (usually restricted to localhost), or target a Tor
28136 instance configured to make its connections through a SOCKS proxy
28137 (which Tor does not do by default).
28139 Good security practice requires that all heap-overflow bugs should be
28140 presumed to be exploitable until proven otherwise, so we are treating
28141 this as a potential code execution attack. Please upgrade immediately!
28142 This bug does not affect bufferevents-based builds of Tor. Special
28143 thanks to "Vektor" for reporting this issue to us!
28145 Tor 0.2.2.35 also fixes several bugs in previous versions, including
28146 crash bugs for unusual configurations, and a long-term bug that
28147 would prevent Tor from starting on Windows machines with draconian
28150 With this release, we remind everyone that 0.2.0.x has reached its
28151 formal end-of-life. Those Tor versions have many known flaws, and
28152 nobody should be using them. You should upgrade -- ideally to the
28153 0.2.2.x series. If you're using a Linux or BSD and its packages are
28154 obsolete, stop using those packages and upgrade anyway.
28156 The Tor 0.2.1.x series is also approaching its end-of-life: it will no
28157 longer receive support after some time in early 2012.
28160 - Fix a heap overflow bug that could occur when trying to pull
28161 data into the first chunk of a buffer, when that chunk had
28162 already had some data drained from it. Fixes CVE-2011-2778;
28163 bugfix on 0.2.0.16-alpha. Reported by "Vektor".
28164 - Initialize Libevent with the EVENT_BASE_FLAG_NOLOCK flag enabled, so
28165 that it doesn't attempt to allocate a socketpair. This could cause
28166 some problems on Windows systems with overzealous firewalls. Fix for
28167 bug 4457; workaround for Libevent versions 2.0.1-alpha through
28169 - If we mark an OR connection for close based on a cell we process,
28170 don't process any further cells on it. We already avoid further
28171 reads on marked-for-close connections, but now we also discard the
28172 cells we'd already read. Fixes bug 4299; bugfix on 0.2.0.10-alpha,
28173 which was the first version where we might mark a connection for
28174 close based on processing a cell on it.
28175 - Correctly sanity-check that we don't underflow on a memory
28176 allocation (and then assert) for hidden service introduction
28177 point decryption. Bug discovered by Dan Rosenberg. Fixes bug 4410;
28178 bugfix on 0.2.1.5-alpha.
28179 - Fix a memory leak when we check whether a hidden service
28180 descriptor has any usable introduction points left. Fixes bug
28181 4424. Bugfix on 0.2.2.25-alpha.
28182 - Don't crash when we're running as a relay and don't have a GeoIP
28183 file. Bugfix on 0.2.2.34; fixes bug 4340. This backports a fix
28184 we've had in the 0.2.3.x branch already.
28185 - When running as a client, do not print a misleading (and plain
28186 wrong) log message that we're collecting "directory request"
28187 statistics: clients don't collect statistics. Also don't create a
28188 useless (because empty) stats file in the stats/ directory. Fixes
28189 bug 4353; bugfix on 0.2.2.34.
28192 - Detect failure to initialize Libevent. This fix provides better
28193 detection for future instances of bug 4457.
28194 - Avoid frequent calls to the fairly expensive cull_wedged_cpuworkers
28195 function. This was eating up hideously large amounts of time on some
28196 busy servers. Fixes bug 4518; bugfix on 0.0.9.8.
28197 - Resolve an integer overflow bug in smartlist_ensure_capacity().
28198 Fixes bug 4230; bugfix on Tor 0.1.0.1-rc. Based on a patch by
28200 - Don't warn about unused log_mutex in log.c when building with
28201 --disable-threads using a recent GCC. Fixes bug 4437; bugfix on
28202 0.1.0.6-rc which introduced --disable-threads.
28203 - When configuring, starting, or stopping an NT service, stop
28204 immediately after the service configuration attempt has succeeded
28205 or failed. Fixes bug 3963; bugfix on 0.2.0.7-alpha.
28206 - When sending a NETINFO cell, include the original address
28207 received for the other side, not its canonical address. Found
28208 by "troll_un"; fixes bug 4349; bugfix on 0.2.0.10-alpha.
28209 - Fix a typo in a hibernation-related log message. Fixes bug 4331;
28210 bugfix on 0.2.2.23-alpha; found by "tmpname0901".
28211 - Fix a memory leak in launch_direct_bridge_descriptor_fetch() that
28212 occurred when a client tried to fetch a descriptor for a bridge
28213 in ExcludeNodes. Fixes bug 4383; bugfix on 0.2.2.25-alpha.
28214 - Backport fixes for a pair of compilation warnings on Windows.
28215 Fixes bug 4521; bugfix on 0.2.2.28-beta and on 0.2.2.29-beta.
28216 - If we had ever tried to call tor_addr_to_str on an address of
28217 unknown type, we would have done a strdup on an uninitialized
28218 buffer. Now we won't. Fixes bug 4529; bugfix on 0.2.1.3-alpha.
28219 Reported by "troll_un".
28220 - Correctly detect and handle transient lookup failures from
28221 tor_addr_lookup. Fixes bug 4530; bugfix on 0.2.1.5-alpha.
28222 Reported by "troll_un".
28223 - Fix null-pointer access that could occur if TLS allocation failed.
28224 Fixes bug 4531; bugfix on 0.2.0.20-rc. Found by "troll_un".
28225 - Use tor_socket_t type for listener argument to accept(). Fixes bug
28226 4535; bugfix on 0.2.2.28-beta. Found by "troll_un".
28229 - Add two new config options for directory authorities:
28230 AuthDirFastGuarantee sets a bandwidth threshold for guaranteeing the
28231 Fast flag, and AuthDirGuardBWGuarantee sets a bandwidth threshold
28232 that is always sufficient to satisfy the bandwidth requirement for
28233 the Guard flag. Now it will be easier for researchers to simulate
28234 Tor networks with different values. Resolves ticket 4484.
28235 - When Tor ignores a hidden service specified in its configuration,
28236 include the hidden service's directory in the warning message.
28237 Previously, we would only tell the user that some hidden service
28238 was ignored. Bugfix on 0.0.6; fixes bug 4426.
28239 - Update to the December 6 2011 Maxmind GeoLite Country database.
28241 o Packaging changes:
28242 - Make it easier to automate expert package builds on Windows,
28243 by removing an absolute path from makensis.exe command.
28246 Changes in version 0.2.1.32 - 2011-12-16
28247 Tor 0.2.1.32 backports important security and privacy fixes for
28248 oldstable. This release is intended only for package maintainers and
28249 others who cannot use the 0.2.2 stable series. All others should be
28250 using Tor 0.2.2.x or newer.
28252 The Tor 0.2.1.x series will reach formal end-of-life some time in
28253 early 2012; we will stop releasing patches for it then.
28255 o Major bugfixes (also included in 0.2.2.x):
28256 - Correctly sanity-check that we don't underflow on a memory
28257 allocation (and then assert) for hidden service introduction
28258 point decryption. Bug discovered by Dan Rosenberg. Fixes bug 4410;
28259 bugfix on 0.2.1.5-alpha.
28260 - Fix a heap overflow bug that could occur when trying to pull
28261 data into the first chunk of a buffer, when that chunk had
28262 already had some data drained from it. Fixes CVE-2011-2778;
28263 bugfix on 0.2.0.16-alpha. Reported by "Vektor".
28266 - Update to the December 6 2011 Maxmind GeoLite Country database.
28269 Changes in version 0.2.3.9-alpha - 2011-12-08
28270 Tor 0.2.3.9-alpha introduces initial IPv6 support for bridges, adds
28271 a "DisableNetwork" security feature that bundles can use to avoid
28272 touching the network until bridges are configured, moves forward on
28273 the pluggable transport design, fixes a flaw in the hidden service
28274 design that unnecessarily prevented clients with wrong clocks from
28275 reaching hidden services, and fixes a wide variety of other issues.
28278 - Clients can now connect to private bridges over IPv6. Bridges
28279 still need at least one IPv4 address in order to connect to
28280 other relays. Note that we don't yet handle the case where the
28281 user has two bridge lines for the same bridge (one IPv4, one
28282 IPv6). Implements parts of proposal 186.
28283 - New "DisableNetwork" config option to prevent Tor from launching any
28284 connections or accepting any connections except on a control port.
28285 Bundles and controllers can set this option before letting Tor talk
28286 to the rest of the network, for example to prevent any connections
28287 to a non-bridge address. Packages like Orbot can also use this
28288 option to instruct Tor to save power when the network is off.
28289 - Clients and bridges can now be configured to use a separate
28290 "transport" proxy. This approach makes the censorship arms race
28291 easier by allowing bridges to use protocol obfuscation plugins. It
28292 implements the "managed proxy" part of proposal 180 (ticket 3472).
28293 - When using OpenSSL 1.0.0 or later, use OpenSSL's counter mode
28294 implementation. It makes AES_CTR about 7% faster than our old one
28295 (which was about 10% faster than the one OpenSSL used to provide).
28296 Resolves ticket 4526.
28297 - Add a "tor2web mode" for clients that want to connect to hidden
28298 services non-anonymously (and possibly more quickly). As a safety
28299 measure to try to keep users from turning this on without knowing
28300 what they are doing, tor2web mode must be explicitly enabled at
28301 compile time, and a copy of Tor compiled to run in tor2web mode
28302 cannot be used as a normal Tor client. Implements feature 2553.
28303 - Add experimental support for running on Windows with IOCP and no
28304 kernel-space socket buffers. This feature is controlled by a new
28305 "UserspaceIOCPBuffers" config option (off by default), which has
28306 no effect unless Tor has been built with support for bufferevents,
28307 is running on Windows, and has enabled IOCP. This may, in the long
28308 run, help solve or mitigate bug 98.
28309 - Use a more secure consensus parameter voting algorithm. Now at
28310 least three directory authorities or a majority of them must
28311 vote on a given parameter before it will be included in the
28312 consensus. Implements proposal 178.
28315 - Hidden services now ignore the timestamps on INTRODUCE2 cells.
28316 They used to check that the timestamp was within 30 minutes
28317 of their system clock, so they could cap the size of their
28318 replay-detection cache, but that approach unnecessarily refused
28319 service to clients with wrong clocks. Bugfix on 0.2.1.6-alpha, when
28320 the v3 intro-point protocol (the first one which sent a timestamp
28321 field in the INTRODUCE2 cell) was introduced; fixes bug 3460.
28322 - Only use the EVP interface when AES acceleration is enabled,
28323 to avoid a 5-7% performance regression. Resolves issue 4525;
28324 bugfix on 0.2.3.8-alpha.
28326 o Privacy/anonymity features (bridge detection):
28327 - Make bridge SSL certificates a bit more stealthy by using random
28328 serial numbers, in the same fashion as OpenSSL when generating
28329 self-signed certificates. Implements ticket 4584.
28330 - Introduce a new config option "DynamicDHGroups", enabled by
28331 default, which provides each bridge with a unique prime DH modulus
28332 to be used during SSL handshakes. This option attempts to help
28333 against censors who might use the Apache DH modulus as a static
28334 identifier for bridges. Addresses ticket 4548.
28336 o Minor features (new/different config options):
28337 - New configuration option "DisableDebuggerAttachment" (on by default)
28338 to prevent basic debugging attachment attempts by other processes.
28339 Supports Mac OS X and Gnu/Linux. Resolves ticket 3313.
28340 - Allow MapAddress directives to specify matches against super-domains,
28341 as in "MapAddress *.torproject.org *.torproject.org.torserver.exit".
28342 Implements issue 933.
28343 - Slightly change behavior of "list" options (that is, config
28344 options that can appear more than once) when they appear both in
28345 torrc and on the command line. Previously, the command-line options
28346 would be appended to the ones from torrc. Now, the command-line
28347 options override the torrc options entirely. This new behavior
28348 allows the user to override list options (like exit policies and
28349 ports to listen on) from the command line, rather than simply
28350 appending to the list.
28351 - You can get the old (appending) command-line behavior for "list"
28352 options by prefixing the option name with a "+".
28353 - You can remove all the values for a "list" option from the command
28354 line without adding any new ones by prefixing the option name
28356 - Add experimental support for a "defaults" torrc file to be parsed
28357 before the regular torrc. Torrc options override the defaults file's
28358 options in the same way that the command line overrides the torrc.
28359 The SAVECONF controller command saves only those options which
28360 differ between the current configuration and the defaults file. HUP
28361 reloads both files. (Note: This is an experimental feature; its
28362 behavior will probably be refined in future 0.2.3.x-alpha versions
28363 to better meet packagers' needs.) Implements task 4552.
28366 - Try to make the introductory warning message that Tor prints on
28367 startup more useful for actually finding help and information.
28368 Resolves ticket 2474.
28369 - Running "make version" now displays the version of Tor that
28370 we're about to build. Idea from katmagic; resolves issue 4400.
28371 - Expire old or over-used hidden service introduction points.
28372 Required by fix for bug 3460.
28373 - Move the replay-detection cache for the RSA-encrypted parts of
28374 INTRODUCE2 cells to the introduction point data structures.
28375 Previously, we would use one replay-detection cache per hidden
28376 service. Required by fix for bug 3460.
28377 - Reduce the lifetime of elements of hidden services' Diffie-Hellman
28378 public key replay-detection cache from 60 minutes to 5 minutes. This
28379 replay-detection cache is now used only to detect multiple
28380 INTRODUCE2 cells specifying the same rendezvous point, so we can
28381 avoid launching multiple simultaneous attempts to connect to it.
28383 o Minor bugfixes (on Tor 0.2.2.x and earlier):
28384 - Resolve an integer overflow bug in smartlist_ensure_capacity().
28385 Fixes bug 4230; bugfix on Tor 0.1.0.1-rc. Based on a patch by
28387 - Fix a minor formatting issue in one of tor-gencert's error messages.
28389 - Prevent a false positive from the check-spaces script, by disabling
28390 the "whitespace between function name and (" check for functions
28392 - Fix a log message suggesting that people contact a non-existent
28393 email address. Fixes bug 3448.
28394 - Fix null-pointer access that could occur if TLS allocation failed.
28395 Fixes bug 4531; bugfix on 0.2.0.20-rc. Found by "troll_un".
28396 - Report a real bootstrap problem to the controller on router
28397 identity mismatch. Previously we just said "foo", which probably
28398 made a lot of sense at the time. Fixes bug 4169; bugfix on
28400 - If we had ever tried to call tor_addr_to_str() on an address of
28401 unknown type, we would have done a strdup() on an uninitialized
28402 buffer. Now we won't. Fixes bug 4529; bugfix on 0.2.1.3-alpha.
28403 Reported by "troll_un".
28404 - Correctly detect and handle transient lookup failures from
28405 tor_addr_lookup(). Fixes bug 4530; bugfix on 0.2.1.5-alpha.
28406 Reported by "troll_un".
28407 - Use tor_socket_t type for listener argument to accept(). Fixes bug
28408 4535; bugfix on 0.2.2.28-beta. Found by "troll_un".
28409 - Initialize conn->addr to a valid state in spawn_cpuworker(). Fixes
28410 bug 4532; found by "troll_un".
28412 o Minor bugfixes (on Tor 0.2.3.x):
28413 - Fix a compile warning in tor_inet_pton(). Bugfix on 0.2.3.8-alpha;
28415 - Don't send two ESTABLISH_RENDEZVOUS cells when opening a new
28416 circuit for use as a hidden service client's rendezvous point.
28417 Fixes bugs 4641 and 4171; bugfix on 0.2.3.3-alpha. Diagnosed
28418 with help from wanoskarnet.
28419 - Restore behavior of overriding SocksPort, ORPort, and similar
28420 options from the command line. Bugfix on 0.2.3.3-alpha.
28423 - Properly handle the case where the build-tree is not the same
28424 as the source tree when generating src/common/common_sha1.i,
28425 src/or/micro-revision.i, and src/or/or_sha1.i. Fixes bug 3953;
28426 bugfix on 0.2.0.1-alpha.
28428 o Code simplifications, cleanups, and refactorings:
28429 - Remove the pure attribute from all functions that used it
28430 previously. In many cases we assigned it incorrectly, because the
28431 functions might assert or call impure functions, and we don't have
28432 evidence that keeping the pure attribute is worthwhile. Implements
28433 changes suggested in ticket 4421.
28434 - Remove some dead code spotted by coverity. Fixes cid 432.
28435 Bugfix on 0.2.3.1-alpha, closes bug 4637.
28438 Changes in version 0.2.3.8-alpha - 2011-11-22
28439 Tor 0.2.3.8-alpha fixes some crash and assert bugs, including a
28440 socketpair-related bug that has been bothering Windows users. It adds
28441 support to serve microdescriptors to controllers, so Vidalia's network
28442 map can resume listing relays (once Vidalia implements its side),
28443 and adds better support for hardware AES acceleration. Finally, it
28444 starts the process of adjusting the bandwidth cutoff for getting the
28445 "Fast" flag from 20KB to (currently) 32KB -- preliminary results show
28446 that tiny relays harm performance more than they help network capacity.
28449 - Initialize Libevent with the EVENT_BASE_FLAG_NOLOCK flag enabled, so
28450 that it doesn't attempt to allocate a socketpair. This could cause
28451 some problems on Windows systems with overzealous firewalls. Fix for
28452 bug 4457; workaround for Libevent versions 2.0.1-alpha through
28454 - Correctly sanity-check that we don't underflow on a memory
28455 allocation (and then assert) for hidden service introduction
28456 point decryption. Bug discovered by Dan Rosenberg. Fixes bug 4410;
28457 bugfix on 0.2.1.5-alpha.
28458 - Remove the artificially low cutoff of 20KB to guarantee the Fast
28459 flag. In the past few years the average relay speed has picked
28460 up, and while the "top 7/8 of the network get the Fast flag" and
28461 "all relays with 20KB or more of capacity get the Fast flag" rules
28462 used to have the same result, now the top 7/8 of the network has
28463 a capacity more like 32KB. Bugfix on 0.2.1.14-rc. Fixes bug 4489.
28464 - Fix a rare assertion failure when checking whether a v0 hidden
28465 service descriptor has any usable introduction points left, and
28466 we don't have enough information to build a circuit to the first
28467 intro point named in the descriptor. The HS client code in
28468 0.2.3.x no longer uses v0 HS descriptors, but this assertion can
28469 trigger on (and crash) v0 HS authorities. Fixes bug 4411.
28470 Bugfix on 0.2.3.1-alpha; diagnosed by frosty_un.
28471 - Make bridge authorities not crash when they are asked for their own
28472 descriptor. Bugfix on 0.2.3.7-alpha, reported by Lucky Green.
28473 - When running as a client, do not print a misleading (and plain
28474 wrong) log message that we're collecting "directory request"
28475 statistics: clients don't collect statistics. Also don't create a
28476 useless (because empty) stats file in the stats/ directory. Fixes
28477 bug 4353; bugfix on 0.2.2.34 and 0.2.3.7-alpha.
28480 - Allow Tor controllers like Vidalia to obtain the microdescriptor
28481 for a relay by identity digest or nickname. Previously,
28482 microdescriptors were only available by their own digests, so a
28483 controller would have to ask for and parse the whole microdescriptor
28484 consensus in order to look up a single relay's microdesc. Fixes
28485 bug 3832; bugfix on 0.2.3.1-alpha.
28486 - Use OpenSSL's EVP interface for AES encryption, so that all AES
28487 operations can use hardware acceleration (if present). Resolves
28490 o Minor bugfixes (on 0.2.2.x and earlier):
28491 - Detect failure to initialize Libevent. This fix provides better
28492 detection for future instances of bug 4457.
28493 - Avoid frequent calls to the fairly expensive cull_wedged_cpuworkers
28494 function. This was eating up hideously large amounts of time on some
28495 busy servers. Fixes bug 4518; bugfix on 0.0.9.8.
28496 - Don't warn about unused log_mutex in log.c when building with
28497 --disable-threads using a recent GCC. Fixes bug 4437; bugfix on
28498 0.1.0.6-rc which introduced --disable-threads.
28499 - Allow manual 'authenticate' commands to the controller interface
28500 from netcat (nc) as well as telnet. We were rejecting them because
28501 they didn't come with the expected whitespace at the end of the
28502 command. Bugfix on 0.1.1.1-alpha; fixes bug 2893.
28503 - Fix some (not actually triggerable) buffer size checks in usage of
28504 tor_inet_ntop. Fixes bug 4434; bugfix on Tor 0.2.0.1-alpha. Patch
28506 - Fix parsing of some corner-cases with tor_inet_pton(). Fixes
28507 bug 4515; bugfix on 0.2.0.1-alpha; fix by Anders Sundman.
28508 - When configuring, starting, or stopping an NT service, stop
28509 immediately after the service configuration attempt has succeeded
28510 or failed. Fixes bug 3963; bugfix on 0.2.0.7-alpha.
28511 - When sending a NETINFO cell, include the original address
28512 received for the other side, not its canonical address. Found
28513 by "troll_un"; fixes bug 4349; bugfix on 0.2.0.10-alpha.
28514 - Rename the bench_{aes,dmap} functions to test_*, so that tinytest
28515 can pick them up when the tests aren't disabled. Bugfix on
28516 0.2.2.4-alpha which introduced tinytest.
28517 - Fix a memory leak when we check whether a hidden service
28518 descriptor has any usable introduction points left. Fixes bug
28519 4424. Bugfix on 0.2.2.25-alpha.
28520 - Fix a memory leak in launch_direct_bridge_descriptor_fetch() that
28521 occurred when a client tried to fetch a descriptor for a bridge
28522 in ExcludeNodes. Fixes bug 4383; bugfix on 0.2.2.25-alpha.
28524 o Minor bugfixes (on 0.2.3.x):
28525 - Make util unit tests build correctly with MSVC. Bugfix on
28526 0.2.3.3-alpha. Patch by Gisle Vanem.
28527 - Successfully detect AUTH_CHALLENGE cells with no recognized
28528 authentication type listed. Fixes bug 4367; bugfix on 0.2.3.6-alpha.
28529 Found by frosty_un.
28530 - If a relay receives an AUTH_CHALLENGE cell it can't answer,
28531 it should still send a NETINFO cell to allow the connection to
28532 become open. Fixes bug 4368; fix on 0.2.3.6-alpha; bug found by
28534 - Log less loudly when we get an invalid authentication certificate
28535 from a source other than a directory authority: it's not unusual
28536 to see invalid certs because of clock skew. Fixes bug 4370; bugfix
28538 - Tolerate servers with more clock skew in their authentication
28539 certificates than previously. Fixes bug 4371; bugfix on
28541 - Fix a couple of compile warnings on Windows. Fixes bug 4469; bugfix
28542 on 0.2.3.4-alpha and 0.2.3.6-alpha.
28545 - Add two new config options for directory authorities:
28546 AuthDirFastGuarantee sets a bandwidth threshold for guaranteeing the
28547 Fast flag, and AuthDirGuardBWGuarantee sets a bandwidth threshold
28548 that is always sufficient to satisfy the bandwidth requirement for
28549 the Guard flag. Now it will be easier for researchers to simulate
28550 Tor networks with different values. Resolves ticket 4484.
28551 - When Tor ignores a hidden service specified in its configuration,
28552 include the hidden service's directory in the warning message.
28553 Previously, we would only tell the user that some hidden service
28554 was ignored. Bugfix on 0.0.6; fixes bug 4426.
28555 - When we fail to initialize Libevent, retry with IOCP disabled so we
28556 don't need to turn on multi-threading support in Libevent, which in
28557 turn requires a working socketpair(). This is a workaround for bug
28558 4457, which affects Libevent versions from 2.0.1-alpha through
28560 - Detect when we try to build on a platform that doesn't define
28561 AF_UNSPEC to 0. We don't work there, so refuse to compile.
28562 - Update to the November 1 2011 Maxmind GeoLite Country database.
28564 o Packaging changes:
28565 - Make it easier to automate expert package builds on Windows,
28566 by removing an absolute path from makensis.exe command.
28568 o Code simplifications and refactoring:
28569 - Remove some redundant #include directives throughout the code.
28570 Patch from Andrea Gelmini.
28571 - Unconditionally use OpenSSL's AES implementation instead of our
28572 old built-in one. OpenSSL's AES has been better for a while, and
28573 relatively few servers should still be on any version of OpenSSL
28574 that doesn't have good optimized assembly AES.
28575 - Use the name "CERTS" consistently to refer to the new cell type;
28576 we were calling it CERT in some places and CERTS in others.
28579 - Numerous new unit tests for functions in util.c and address.c by
28581 - The long-disabled benchmark tests are now split into their own
28582 ./src/test/bench binary.
28583 - The benchmark tests can now use more accurate timers than
28584 gettimeofday() when such timers are available.
28587 Changes in version 0.2.3.7-alpha - 2011-10-30
28588 Tor 0.2.3.7-alpha fixes a crash bug in 0.2.3.6-alpha introduced by
28589 the new v3 handshake. It also resolves yet another bridge address
28593 - If we mark an OR connection for close based on a cell we process,
28594 don't process any further cells on it. We already avoid further
28595 reads on marked-for-close connections, but now we also discard the
28596 cells we'd already read. Fixes bug 4299; bugfix on 0.2.0.10-alpha,
28597 which was the first version where we might mark a connection for
28598 close based on processing a cell on it.
28599 - Fix a double-free bug that would occur when we received an invalid
28600 certificate in a CERT cell in the new v3 handshake. Fixes bug 4343;
28601 bugfix on 0.2.3.6-alpha.
28602 - Bridges no longer include their address in NETINFO cells on outgoing
28603 OR connections, to allow them to blend in better with clients.
28604 Removes another avenue for enumerating bridges. Reported by
28605 "troll_un". Fixes bug 4348; bugfix on 0.2.0.10-alpha, when NETINFO
28606 cells were introduced.
28609 - Fixed a typo in a hibernation-related log message. Fixes bug 4331;
28610 bugfix on 0.2.2.23-alpha; found by "tmpname0901".
28613 Changes in version 0.2.3.6-alpha - 2011-10-26
28614 Tor 0.2.3.6-alpha includes the fix from 0.2.2.34 for a critical
28615 anonymity vulnerability where an attacker can deanonymize Tor
28616 users. Everybody should upgrade.
28618 This release also features support for a new v3 connection handshake
28619 protocol, and fixes to make hidden service connections more robust.
28622 - Implement a new handshake protocol (v3) for authenticating Tors to
28623 each other over TLS. It should be more resistant to fingerprinting
28624 than previous protocols, and should require less TLS hacking for
28625 future Tor implementations. Implements proposal 176.
28626 - Allow variable-length padding cells to disguise the length of
28627 Tor's TLS records. Implements part of proposal 184.
28629 o Privacy/anonymity fixes (clients):
28630 - Clients and bridges no longer send TLS certificate chains on
28631 outgoing OR connections. Previously, each client or bridge would
28632 use the same cert chain for all outgoing OR connections until
28633 its IP address changes, which allowed any relay that the client
28634 or bridge contacted to determine which entry guards it is using.
28635 Fixes CVE-2011-2768. Bugfix on 0.0.9pre5; found by "frosty_un".
28636 - If a relay receives a CREATE_FAST cell on a TLS connection, it
28637 no longer considers that connection as suitable for satisfying a
28638 circuit EXTEND request. Now relays can protect clients from the
28639 CVE-2011-2768 issue even if the clients haven't upgraded yet.
28640 - Directory authorities no longer assign the Guard flag to relays
28641 that haven't upgraded to the above "refuse EXTEND requests
28642 to client connections" fix. Now directory authorities can
28643 protect clients from the CVE-2011-2768 issue even if neither
28644 the clients nor the relays have upgraded yet. There's a new
28645 "GiveGuardFlagTo_CVE_2011_2768_VulnerableRelays" config option
28646 to let us transition smoothly, else tomorrow there would be no
28649 o Major bugfixes (hidden services):
28650 - Improve hidden service robustness: when an attempt to connect to
28651 a hidden service ends, be willing to refetch its hidden service
28652 descriptors from each of the HSDir relays responsible for them
28653 immediately. Previously, we would not consider refetching the
28654 service's descriptors from each HSDir for 15 minutes after the last
28655 fetch, which was inconvenient if the hidden service was not running
28656 during the first attempt. Bugfix on 0.2.0.18-alpha; fixes bug 3335.
28657 - When one of a hidden service's introduction points appears to be
28658 unreachable, stop trying it. Previously, we would keep trying
28659 to build circuits to the introduction point until we lost the
28660 descriptor, usually because the user gave up and restarted Tor.
28661 Partly fixes bug 3825.
28662 - Don't launch a useless circuit after failing to use one of a
28663 hidden service's introduction points. Previously, we would
28664 launch a new introduction circuit, but not set the hidden service
28665 which that circuit was intended to connect to, so it would never
28666 actually be used. A different piece of code would then create a
28667 new introduction circuit correctly. Bug reported by katmagic and
28668 found by Sebastian Hahn. Bugfix on 0.2.1.13-alpha; fixes bug 4212.
28670 o Major bugfixes (other):
28671 - Bridges now refuse CREATE or CREATE_FAST cells on OR connections
28672 that they initiated. Relays could distinguish incoming bridge
28673 connections from client connections, creating another avenue for
28674 enumerating bridges. Fixes CVE-2011-2769. Bugfix on 0.2.0.3-alpha.
28675 Found by "frosty_un".
28676 - Don't update the AccountingSoftLimitHitAt state file entry whenever
28677 tor gets started. This prevents a wrong average bandwidth
28678 estimate, which would cause relays to always start a new accounting
28679 interval at the earliest possible moment. Fixes bug 2003; bugfix
28680 on 0.2.2.7-alpha. Reported by BryonEldridge, who also helped
28681 immensely in tracking this bug down.
28682 - Fix a crash bug when changing node restrictions while a DNS lookup
28683 is in-progress. Fixes bug 4259; bugfix on 0.2.2.25-alpha. Bugfix
28686 o Minor bugfixes (on 0.2.2.x and earlier):
28687 - When a hidden service turns an extra service-side introduction
28688 circuit into a general-purpose circuit, free the rend_data and
28689 intro_key fields first, so we won't leak memory if the circuit
28690 is cannibalized for use as another service-side introduction
28691 circuit. Bugfix on 0.2.1.7-alpha; fixes bug 4251.
28692 - Rephrase the log message emitted if the TestSocks check is
28693 successful. Patch from Fabian Keil; fixes bug 4094.
28694 - Bridges now skip DNS self-tests, to act a little more stealthily.
28695 Fixes bug 4201; bugfix on 0.2.0.3-alpha, which first introduced
28696 bridges. Patch by "warms0x".
28697 - Remove a confusing dollar sign from the example fingerprint in the
28698 man page, and also make the example fingerprint a valid one. Fixes
28699 bug 4309; bugfix on 0.2.1.3-alpha.
28700 - Fix internal bug-checking logic that was supposed to catch
28701 failures in digest generation so that it will fail more robustly
28702 if we ask for a nonexistent algorithm. Found by Coverity Scan.
28703 Bugfix on 0.2.2.1-alpha; fixes Coverity CID 479.
28704 - Report any failure in init_keys() calls launched because our
28705 IP address has changed. Spotted by Coverity Scan. Bugfix on
28706 0.1.1.4-alpha; fixes CID 484.
28708 o Minor bugfixes (on 0.2.3.x):
28709 - Fix a bug in configure.in that kept it from building a configure
28710 script with autoconf versions earlier than 2.61. Fixes bug 2430;
28711 bugfix on 0.2.3.1-alpha.
28712 - Don't warn users that they are exposing a client port to the
28713 Internet if they have specified an RFC1918 address. Previously,
28714 we would warn if the user had specified any non-loopback
28715 address. Bugfix on 0.2.3.3-alpha. Fixes bug 4018; reported by Tas.
28716 - Fix memory leaks in the failing cases of the new SocksPort and
28717 ControlPort code. Found by Coverity Scan. Bugfix on 0.2.3.3-alpha;
28718 fixes coverity CIDs 485, 486, and 487.
28721 - When a hidden service's introduction point times out, consider
28722 trying it again during the next attempt to connect to the
28723 HS. Previously, we would not try it again unless a newly fetched
28724 descriptor contained it. Required by fixes for bugs 1297 and 3825.
28725 - The next version of Windows will be called Windows 8, and it has
28726 a major version of 6, minor version of 2. Correctly identify that
28727 version instead of calling it "Very recent version". Resolves
28728 ticket 4153; reported by funkstar.
28729 - The Bridge Authority now writes statistics on how many bridge
28730 descriptors it gave out in total, and how many unique descriptors
28731 it gave out. It also lists how often the most and least commonly
28732 fetched descriptors were given out, as well as the median and
28733 25th/75th percentile. Implements tickets 4200 and 4294.
28734 - Update to the October 4 2011 Maxmind GeoLite Country database.
28736 o Code simplifications and refactoring:
28737 - Remove some old code to remember statistics about which descriptors
28738 we've served as a directory mirror. The feature wasn't used and
28739 is outdated now that microdescriptors are around.
28740 - Rename Tor functions that turn strings into addresses, so that
28741 "parse" indicates that no hostname resolution occurs, and
28742 "lookup" indicates that hostname resolution may occur. This
28743 should help prevent mistakes in the future. Fixes bug 3512.
28746 Changes in version 0.2.2.34 - 2011-10-26
28747 Tor 0.2.2.34 fixes a critical anonymity vulnerability where an attacker
28748 can deanonymize Tor users. Everybody should upgrade.
28750 The attack relies on four components: 1) Clients reuse their TLS cert
28751 when talking to different relays, so relays can recognize a user by
28752 the identity key in her cert. 2) An attacker who knows the client's
28753 identity key can probe each guard relay to see if that identity key
28754 is connected to that guard relay right now. 3) A variety of active
28755 attacks in the literature (starting from "Low-Cost Traffic Analysis
28756 of Tor" by Murdoch and Danezis in 2005) allow a malicious website to
28757 discover the guard relays that a Tor user visiting the website is using.
28758 4) Clients typically pick three guards at random, so the set of guards
28759 for a given user could well be a unique fingerprint for her. This
28760 release fixes components #1 and #2, which is enough to block the attack;
28761 the other two remain as open research problems. Special thanks to
28762 "frosty_un" for reporting the issue to us!
28764 Clients should upgrade so they are no longer recognizable by the TLS
28765 certs they present. Relays should upgrade so they no longer allow a
28766 remote attacker to probe them to test whether unpatched clients are
28767 currently connected to them.
28769 This release also fixes several vulnerabilities that allow an attacker
28770 to enumerate bridge relays. Some bridge enumeration attacks still
28771 remain; see for example proposal 188.
28773 o Privacy/anonymity fixes (clients):
28774 - Clients and bridges no longer send TLS certificate chains on
28775 outgoing OR connections. Previously, each client or bridge would
28776 use the same cert chain for all outgoing OR connections until
28777 its IP address changes, which allowed any relay that the client
28778 or bridge contacted to determine which entry guards it is using.
28779 Fixes CVE-2011-2768. Bugfix on 0.0.9pre5; found by "frosty_un".
28780 - If a relay receives a CREATE_FAST cell on a TLS connection, it
28781 no longer considers that connection as suitable for satisfying a
28782 circuit EXTEND request. Now relays can protect clients from the
28783 CVE-2011-2768 issue even if the clients haven't upgraded yet.
28784 - Directory authorities no longer assign the Guard flag to relays
28785 that haven't upgraded to the above "refuse EXTEND requests
28786 to client connections" fix. Now directory authorities can
28787 protect clients from the CVE-2011-2768 issue even if neither
28788 the clients nor the relays have upgraded yet. There's a new
28789 "GiveGuardFlagTo_CVE_2011_2768_VulnerableRelays" config option
28790 to let us transition smoothly, else tomorrow there would be no
28793 o Privacy/anonymity fixes (bridge enumeration):
28794 - Bridge relays now do their directory fetches inside Tor TLS
28795 connections, like all the other clients do, rather than connecting
28796 directly to the DirPort like public relays do. Removes another
28797 avenue for enumerating bridges. Fixes bug 4115; bugfix on 0.2.0.35.
28798 - Bridges relays now build circuits for themselves in a more similar
28799 way to how clients build them. Removes another avenue for
28800 enumerating bridges. Fixes bug 4124; bugfix on 0.2.0.3-alpha,
28801 when bridges were introduced.
28802 - Bridges now refuse CREATE or CREATE_FAST cells on OR connections
28803 that they initiated. Relays could distinguish incoming bridge
28804 connections from client connections, creating another avenue for
28805 enumerating bridges. Fixes CVE-2011-2769. Bugfix on 0.2.0.3-alpha.
28806 Found by "frosty_un".
28809 - Fix a crash bug when changing node restrictions while a DNS lookup
28810 is in-progress. Fixes bug 4259; bugfix on 0.2.2.25-alpha. Bugfix
28812 - Don't launch a useless circuit after failing to use one of a
28813 hidden service's introduction points. Previously, we would
28814 launch a new introduction circuit, but not set the hidden service
28815 which that circuit was intended to connect to, so it would never
28816 actually be used. A different piece of code would then create a
28817 new introduction circuit correctly. Bug reported by katmagic and
28818 found by Sebastian Hahn. Bugfix on 0.2.1.13-alpha; fixes bug 4212.
28821 - Change an integer overflow check in the OpenBSD_Malloc code so
28822 that GCC is less likely to eliminate it as impossible. Patch
28823 from Mansour Moufid. Fixes bug 4059.
28824 - When a hidden service turns an extra service-side introduction
28825 circuit into a general-purpose circuit, free the rend_data and
28826 intro_key fields first, so we won't leak memory if the circuit
28827 is cannibalized for use as another service-side introduction
28828 circuit. Bugfix on 0.2.1.7-alpha; fixes bug 4251.
28829 - Bridges now skip DNS self-tests, to act a little more stealthily.
28830 Fixes bug 4201; bugfix on 0.2.0.3-alpha, which first introduced
28831 bridges. Patch by "warms0x".
28832 - Fix internal bug-checking logic that was supposed to catch
28833 failures in digest generation so that it will fail more robustly
28834 if we ask for a nonexistent algorithm. Found by Coverity Scan.
28835 Bugfix on 0.2.2.1-alpha; fixes Coverity CID 479.
28836 - Report any failure in init_keys() calls launched because our
28837 IP address has changed. Spotted by Coverity Scan. Bugfix on
28838 0.1.1.4-alpha; fixes CID 484.
28840 o Minor bugfixes (log messages and documentation):
28841 - Remove a confusing dollar sign from the example fingerprint in the
28842 man page, and also make the example fingerprint a valid one. Fixes
28843 bug 4309; bugfix on 0.2.1.3-alpha.
28844 - The next version of Windows will be called Windows 8, and it has
28845 a major version of 6, minor version of 2. Correctly identify that
28846 version instead of calling it "Very recent version". Resolves
28847 ticket 4153; reported by funkstar.
28848 - Downgrade log messages about circuit timeout calibration from
28849 "notice" to "info": they don't require or suggest any human
28850 intervention. Patch from Tom Lowenthal. Fixes bug 4063;
28851 bugfix on 0.2.2.14-alpha.
28854 - Turn on directory request statistics by default and include them in
28855 extra-info descriptors. Don't break if we have no GeoIP database.
28856 Backported from 0.2.3.1-alpha; implements ticket 3951.
28857 - Update to the October 4 2011 Maxmind GeoLite Country database.
28860 Changes in version 0.2.1.31 - 2011-10-26
28861 Tor 0.2.1.31 backports important security and privacy fixes for
28862 oldstable. This release is intended only for package maintainers and
28863 others who cannot use the 0.2.2 stable series. All others should be
28864 using Tor 0.2.2.x or newer.
28866 o Security fixes (also included in 0.2.2.x):
28867 - Replace all potentially sensitive memory comparison operations
28868 with versions whose runtime does not depend on the data being
28869 compared. This will help resist a class of attacks where an
28870 adversary can use variations in timing information to learn
28871 sensitive data. Fix for one case of bug 3122. (Safe memcmp
28872 implementation by Robert Ransom based partially on code by DJB.)
28873 - Fix an assert in parsing router descriptors containing IPv6
28874 addresses. This one took down the directory authorities when
28875 somebody tried some experimental code. Bugfix on 0.2.1.3-alpha.
28877 o Privacy/anonymity fixes (also included in 0.2.2.x):
28878 - Clients and bridges no longer send TLS certificate chains on
28879 outgoing OR connections. Previously, each client or bridge would
28880 use the same cert chain for all outgoing OR connections until
28881 its IP address changes, which allowed any relay that the client
28882 or bridge contacted to determine which entry guards it is using.
28883 Fixes CVE-2011-2768. Bugfix on 0.0.9pre5; found by "frosty_un".
28884 - If a relay receives a CREATE_FAST cell on a TLS connection, it
28885 no longer considers that connection as suitable for satisfying a
28886 circuit EXTEND request. Now relays can protect clients from the
28887 CVE-2011-2768 issue even if the clients haven't upgraded yet.
28888 - Bridges now refuse CREATE or CREATE_FAST cells on OR connections
28889 that they initiated. Relays could distinguish incoming bridge
28890 connections from client connections, creating another avenue for
28891 enumerating bridges. Fixes CVE-2011-2769. Bugfix on 0.2.0.3-alpha.
28892 Found by "frosty_un".
28893 - When receiving a hidden service descriptor, check that it is for
28894 the hidden service we wanted. Previously, Tor would store any
28895 hidden service descriptors that a directory gave it, whether it
28896 wanted them or not. This wouldn't have let an attacker impersonate
28897 a hidden service, but it did let directories pre-seed a client
28898 with descriptors that it didn't want. Bugfix on 0.0.6.
28899 - Avoid linkability based on cached hidden service descriptors: forget
28900 all hidden service descriptors cached as a client when processing a
28901 SIGNAL NEWNYM command. Fixes bug 3000; bugfix on 0.0.6.
28902 - Make the bridge directory authority refuse to answer directory
28903 requests for "all" descriptors. It used to include bridge
28904 descriptors in its answer, which was a major information leak.
28905 Found by "piebeer". Bugfix on 0.2.0.3-alpha.
28906 - Don't attach new streams to old rendezvous circuits after SIGNAL
28907 NEWNYM. Previously, we would keep using an existing rendezvous
28908 circuit if it remained open (i.e. if it were kept open by a
28909 long-lived stream, or if a new stream were attached to it before
28910 Tor could notice that it was old and no longer in use). Bugfix on
28911 0.1.1.15-rc; fixes bug 3375.
28913 o Minor bugfixes (also included in 0.2.2.x):
28914 - When we restart our relay, we might get a successful connection
28915 from the outside before we've started our reachability tests,
28916 triggering a warning: "ORPort found reachable, but I have no
28917 routerinfo yet. Failing to inform controller of success." This
28918 bug was harmless unless Tor is running under a controller
28919 like Vidalia, in which case the controller would never get a
28920 REACHABILITY_SUCCEEDED status event. Bugfix on 0.1.2.6-alpha;
28922 - Build correctly on OSX with zlib 1.2.4 and higher with all warnings
28923 enabled. Fixes bug 1526.
28924 - Remove undocumented option "-F" from tor-resolve: it hasn't done
28925 anything since 0.2.1.16-rc.
28926 - Avoid signed/unsigned comparisons by making SIZE_T_CEILING unsigned.
28927 None of the cases where we did this before were wrong, but by making
28928 this change we avoid warnings. Fixes bug 2475; bugfix on 0.2.1.28.
28929 - Fix a rare crash bug that could occur when a client was configured
28930 with a large number of bridges. Fixes bug 2629; bugfix on
28931 0.2.1.2-alpha. Bugfix by trac user "shitlei".
28932 - Correct the warning displayed when a rendezvous descriptor exceeds
28933 the maximum size. Fixes bug 2750; bugfix on 0.2.1.5-alpha. Found by
28935 - Fix an uncommon assertion failure when running with DNSPort under
28936 heavy load. Fixes bug 2933; bugfix on 0.2.0.1-alpha.
28937 - When warning about missing zlib development packages during compile,
28938 give the correct package names. Bugfix on 0.2.0.1-alpha.
28939 - Require that introduction point keys and onion keys have public
28940 exponent 65537. Bugfix on 0.2.0.10-alpha.
28941 - Do not crash when our configuration file becomes unreadable, for
28942 example due to a permissions change, between when we start up
28943 and when a controller calls SAVECONF. Fixes bug 3135; bugfix
28945 - Fix warnings from GCC 4.6's "-Wunused-but-set-variable" option.
28947 - Always NUL-terminate the sun_path field of a sockaddr_un before
28948 passing it to the kernel. (Not a security issue: kernels are
28949 smart enough to reject bad sockaddr_uns.) Found by Coverity;
28950 CID #428. Bugfix on Tor 0.2.0.3-alpha.
28951 - Don't stack-allocate the list of supplementary GIDs when we're
28952 about to log them. Stack-allocating NGROUPS_MAX gid_t elements
28953 could take up to 256K, which is way too much stack. Found by
28954 Coverity; CID #450. Bugfix on 0.2.1.7-alpha.
28956 o Minor bugfixes (only in 0.2.1.x):
28957 - Resume using micro-version numbers in 0.2.1.x: our Debian packages
28958 rely on them. Bugfix on 0.2.1.30.
28959 - Use git revisions instead of svn revisions when generating our
28960 micro-version numbers. Bugfix on 0.2.1.15-rc; fixes bug 2402.
28962 o Minor features (also included in 0.2.2.x):
28963 - Adjust the expiration time on our SSL session certificates to
28964 better match SSL certs seen in the wild. Resolves ticket 4014.
28965 - Allow nameservers with IPv6 address. Resolves bug 2574.
28966 - Update to the October 4 2011 Maxmind GeoLite Country database.
28969 Changes in version 0.2.3.5-alpha - 2011-09-28
28970 Tor 0.2.3.5-alpha fixes two bugs that make it possible to enumerate
28971 bridge relays; fixes an assertion error that many users started hitting
28972 today; and adds the ability to refill token buckets more often than
28973 once per second, allowing significant performance improvements.
28976 - Bridge relays now do their directory fetches inside Tor TLS
28977 connections, like all the other clients do, rather than connecting
28978 directly to the DirPort like public relays do. Removes another
28979 avenue for enumerating bridges. Fixes bug 4115; bugfix on 0.2.0.35.
28980 - Bridges relays now build circuits for themselves in a more similar
28981 way to how clients build them. Removes another avenue for
28982 enumerating bridges. Fixes bug 4124; bugfix on 0.2.0.3-alpha,
28983 when bridges were introduced.
28986 - Fix an "Assertion md->held_by_node == 1 failed" error that could
28987 occur when the same microdescriptor was referenced by two node_t
28988 objects at once. Fix for bug 4118; bugfix on Tor 0.2.3.1-alpha.
28990 o Major features (networking):
28991 - Add a new TokenBucketRefillInterval option to refill token buckets
28992 more frequently than once per second. This should improve network
28993 performance, alleviate queueing problems, and make traffic less
28994 bursty. Implements proposal 183; closes ticket 3630. Design by
28995 Florian Tschorsch and Björn Scheuermann; implementation by
28999 - Change an integer overflow check in the OpenBSD_Malloc code so
29000 that GCC is less likely to eliminate it as impossible. Patch
29001 from Mansour Moufid. Fixes bug 4059.
29003 o Minor bugfixes (usability):
29004 - Downgrade log messages about circuit timeout calibration from
29005 "notice" to "info": they don't require or suggest any human
29006 intervention. Patch from Tom Lowenthal. Fixes bug 4063;
29007 bugfix on 0.2.2.14-alpha.
29009 o Minor features (diagnostics):
29010 - When the system call to create a listener socket fails, log the
29011 error message explaining why. This may help diagnose bug 4027.
29014 Changes in version 0.2.3.4-alpha - 2011-09-13
29015 Tor 0.2.3.4-alpha includes the fixes from 0.2.2.33, including a slight
29016 tweak to Tor's TLS handshake that makes relays and bridges that run
29017 this new version reachable from Iran again. It also fixes a few new
29018 bugs in 0.2.3.x, and teaches relays to recognize when they're not
29019 listed in the network consensus and republish.
29021 o Major bugfixes (also part of 0.2.2.33):
29022 - Avoid an assertion failure when reloading a configuration with
29023 TrackExitHosts changes. Found and fixed by 'laruldan'. Fixes bug
29024 3923; bugfix on 0.2.2.25-alpha.
29026 o Minor features (security, also part of 0.2.2.33):
29027 - Check for replays of the public-key encrypted portion of an
29028 INTRODUCE1 cell, in addition to the current check for replays of
29029 the g^x value. This prevents a possible class of active attacks
29030 by an attacker who controls both an introduction point and a
29031 rendezvous point, and who uses the malleability of AES-CTR to
29032 alter the encrypted g^x portion of the INTRODUCE1 cell. We think
29033 that these attacks are infeasible (requiring the attacker to send
29034 on the order of zettabytes of altered cells in a short interval),
29035 but we'd rather block them off in case there are any classes of
29036 this attack that we missed. Reported by Willem Pinckaers.
29038 o Minor features (also part of 0.2.2.33):
29039 - Adjust the expiration time on our SSL session certificates to
29040 better match SSL certs seen in the wild. Resolves ticket 4014.
29041 - Change the default required uptime for a relay to be accepted as
29042 a HSDir (hidden service directory) from 24 hours to 25 hours.
29043 Improves on 0.2.0.10-alpha; resolves ticket 2649.
29044 - Add a VoteOnHidServDirectoriesV2 config option to allow directory
29045 authorities to abstain from voting on assignment of the HSDir
29046 consensus flag. Related to bug 2649.
29047 - Update to the September 6 2011 Maxmind GeoLite Country database.
29049 o Minor bugfixes (also part of 0.2.2.33):
29050 - Demote the 'replay detected' log message emitted when a hidden
29051 service receives the same Diffie-Hellman public key in two different
29052 INTRODUCE2 cells to info level. A normal Tor client can cause that
29053 log message during its normal operation. Bugfix on 0.2.1.6-alpha;
29054 fixes part of bug 2442.
29055 - Demote the 'INTRODUCE2 cell is too {old,new}' log message to info
29056 level. There is nothing that a hidden service's operator can do
29057 to fix its clients' clocks. Bugfix on 0.2.1.6-alpha; fixes part
29059 - Clarify a log message specifying the characters permitted in
29060 HiddenServiceAuthorizeClient client names. Previously, the log
29061 message said that "[A-Za-z0-9+-_]" were permitted; that could have
29062 given the impression that every ASCII character between "+" and "_"
29063 was permitted. Now we say "[A-Za-z0-9+_-]". Bugfix on 0.2.1.5-alpha.
29065 o Build fixes (also part of 0.2.2.33):
29066 - Clean up some code issues that prevented Tor from building on older
29067 BSDs. Fixes bug 3894; reported by "grarpamp".
29068 - Search for a platform-specific version of "ar" when cross-compiling.
29069 Should fix builds on iOS. Resolves bug 3909, found by Marco Bonetti.
29072 - Fix a bug where the SocksPort option (for example) would get
29073 ignored and replaced by the default if a SocksListenAddress
29074 option was set. Bugfix on 0.2.3.3-alpha; fixes bug 3936. Fix by
29078 - Relays now try regenerating and uploading their descriptor more
29079 frequently if they are not listed in the consensus, or if the
29080 version of their descriptor listed in the consensus is too
29081 old. This fix should prevent situations where a server declines
29082 to re-publish itself because it has done so too recently, even
29083 though the authorities decided not to list its recent-enough
29084 descriptor. Fix for bug 3327.
29087 - Relays now include a reason for regenerating their descriptors
29088 in an HTTP header when uploading to the authorities. This will
29089 make it easier to debug descriptor-upload issues in the future.
29090 - When starting as root and then changing our UID via the User
29091 control option, and we have a ControlSocket configured, make sure
29092 that the ControlSocket is owned by the same account that Tor will
29093 run under. Implements ticket 3421; fix by Jérémy Bobbio.
29096 - Abort if tor_vasprintf fails in connection_printf_to_buf (a
29097 utility function used in the control-port code). This shouldn't
29098 ever happen unless Tor is completely out of memory, but if it did
29099 happen and Tor somehow recovered from it, Tor could have sent a log
29100 message to a control port in the middle of a reply to a controller
29101 command. Fixes part of bug 3428; bugfix on 0.1.2.3-alpha.
29102 - Make 'FetchUselessDescriptors' cause all descriptor types and
29103 all consensus types (including microdescriptors) to get fetched.
29104 Fixes bug 3851; bugfix on 0.2.3.1-alpha.
29106 o Code refactoring:
29107 - Make a new "entry connection" struct as an internal subtype of "edge
29108 connection", to simplify the code and make exit connections smaller.
29111 Changes in version 0.2.2.33 - 2011-09-13
29112 Tor 0.2.2.33 fixes several bugs, and includes a slight tweak to Tor's
29113 TLS handshake that makes relays and bridges that run this new version
29114 reachable from Iran again.
29117 - Avoid an assertion failure when reloading a configuration with
29118 TrackExitHosts changes. Found and fixed by 'laruldan'. Fixes bug
29119 3923; bugfix on 0.2.2.25-alpha.
29121 o Minor features (security):
29122 - Check for replays of the public-key encrypted portion of an
29123 INTRODUCE1 cell, in addition to the current check for replays of
29124 the g^x value. This prevents a possible class of active attacks
29125 by an attacker who controls both an introduction point and a
29126 rendezvous point, and who uses the malleability of AES-CTR to
29127 alter the encrypted g^x portion of the INTRODUCE1 cell. We think
29128 that these attacks are infeasible (requiring the attacker to send
29129 on the order of zettabytes of altered cells in a short interval),
29130 but we'd rather block them off in case there are any classes of
29131 this attack that we missed. Reported by Willem Pinckaers.
29134 - Adjust the expiration time on our SSL session certificates to
29135 better match SSL certs seen in the wild. Resolves ticket 4014.
29136 - Change the default required uptime for a relay to be accepted as
29137 a HSDir (hidden service directory) from 24 hours to 25 hours.
29138 Improves on 0.2.0.10-alpha; resolves ticket 2649.
29139 - Add a VoteOnHidServDirectoriesV2 config option to allow directory
29140 authorities to abstain from voting on assignment of the HSDir
29141 consensus flag. Related to bug 2649.
29142 - Update to the September 6 2011 Maxmind GeoLite Country database.
29144 o Minor bugfixes (documentation and log messages):
29145 - Correct the man page to explain that HashedControlPassword and
29146 CookieAuthentication can both be set, in which case either method
29147 is sufficient to authenticate to Tor. Bugfix on 0.2.0.7-alpha,
29148 when we decided to allow these config options to both be set. Issue
29149 raised by bug 3898.
29150 - Demote the 'replay detected' log message emitted when a hidden
29151 service receives the same Diffie-Hellman public key in two different
29152 INTRODUCE2 cells to info level. A normal Tor client can cause that
29153 log message during its normal operation. Bugfix on 0.2.1.6-alpha;
29154 fixes part of bug 2442.
29155 - Demote the 'INTRODUCE2 cell is too {old,new}' log message to info
29156 level. There is nothing that a hidden service's operator can do
29157 to fix its clients' clocks. Bugfix on 0.2.1.6-alpha; fixes part
29159 - Clarify a log message specifying the characters permitted in
29160 HiddenServiceAuthorizeClient client names. Previously, the log
29161 message said that "[A-Za-z0-9+-_]" were permitted; that could have
29162 given the impression that every ASCII character between "+" and "_"
29163 was permitted. Now we say "[A-Za-z0-9+_-]". Bugfix on 0.2.1.5-alpha.
29166 - Provide a substitute implementation of lround() for MSVC, which
29167 apparently lacks it. Patch from Gisle Vanem.
29168 - Clean up some code issues that prevented Tor from building on older
29169 BSDs. Fixes bug 3894; reported by "grarpamp".
29170 - Search for a platform-specific version of "ar" when cross-compiling.
29171 Should fix builds on iOS. Resolves bug 3909, found by Marco Bonetti.
29174 Changes in version 0.2.3.3-alpha - 2011-09-01
29175 Tor 0.2.3.3-alpha adds a new "stream isolation" feature to improve Tor's
29176 security, and provides client-side support for the microdescriptor
29177 and optimistic data features introduced earlier in the 0.2.3.x
29178 series. It also includes numerous critical bugfixes in the (optional)
29179 bufferevent-based networking backend.
29181 o Major features (stream isolation):
29182 - You can now configure Tor so that streams from different
29183 applications are isolated on different circuits, to prevent an
29184 attacker who sees your streams as they leave an exit node from
29185 linking your sessions to one another. To do this, choose some way
29186 to distinguish the applications: have them connect to different
29187 SocksPorts, or have one of them use SOCKS4 while the other uses
29188 SOCKS5, or have them pass different authentication strings to the
29189 SOCKS proxy. Then, use the new SocksPort syntax to configure the
29190 degree of isolation you need. This implements Proposal 171.
29191 - There's a new syntax for specifying multiple client ports (such as
29192 SOCKSPort, TransPort, DNSPort, NATDPort): you can now just declare
29193 multiple *Port entries with full addr:port syntax on each.
29194 The old *ListenAddress format is still supported, but you can't
29195 mix it with the new *Port syntax.
29197 o Major features (other):
29198 - Enable microdescriptor fetching by default for clients. This allows
29199 clients to download a much smaller amount of directory information.
29200 To disable it (and go back to the old-style consensus and
29201 descriptors), set "UseMicrodescriptors 0" in your torrc file.
29202 - Tor's firewall-helper feature, introduced in 0.2.3.1-alpha (see the
29203 "PortForwarding" config option), now supports Windows.
29204 - When using an exit relay running 0.2.3.x, clients can now
29205 "optimistically" send data before the exit relay reports that
29206 the stream has opened. This saves a round trip when starting
29207 connections where the client speaks first (such as web browsing).
29208 This behavior is controlled by a consensus parameter (currently
29209 disabled). To turn it on or off manually, use the "OptimisticData"
29210 torrc option. Implements proposal 181; code by Ian Goldberg.
29212 o Major bugfixes (bufferevents, fixes on 0.2.3.1-alpha):
29213 - When using IOCP on Windows, we need to enable Libevent windows
29215 - The IOCP backend now works even when the user has not specified
29216 the (internal, debugging-only) _UseFilteringSSLBufferevents option.
29217 Fixes part of bug 3752.
29218 - Correctly record the bytes we've read and written when using
29219 bufferevents, so that we can include them in our bandwidth history
29220 and advertised bandwidth. Fixes bug 3803.
29221 - Apply rate-limiting only at the bottom of a chain of filtering
29222 bufferevents. This prevents us from filling up internal read
29223 buffers and violating rate-limits when filtering bufferevents
29224 are enabled. Fixes part of bug 3804.
29225 - Add high-watermarks to the output buffers for filtered
29226 bufferevents. This prevents us from filling up internal write
29227 buffers and wasting CPU cycles when filtering bufferevents are
29228 enabled. Fixes part of bug 3804.
29229 - Correctly notice when data has been written from a bufferevent
29230 without flushing it completely. Fixes bug 3805.
29231 - Fix a bug where server-side tunneled bufferevent-based directory
29232 streams would get closed prematurely. Fixes bug 3814.
29233 - Fix a use-after-free error with per-connection rate-limiting
29234 buckets. Fixes bug 3888.
29236 o Major bugfixes (also part of 0.2.2.31-rc):
29237 - If we're configured to write our ControlPorts to disk, only write
29238 them after switching UID and creating the data directory. This way,
29239 we don't fail when starting up with a nonexistent DataDirectory
29240 and a ControlPortWriteToFile setting based on that directory. Fixes
29241 bug 3747; bugfix on Tor 0.2.2.26-beta.
29244 - Added a new CONF_CHANGED event so that controllers can be notified
29245 of any configuration changes made by other controllers, or by the
29246 user. Implements ticket 1692.
29247 - Use evbuffer_copyout() in inspect_evbuffer(). This fixes a memory
29248 leak when using bufferevents, and lets Libevent worry about how to
29249 best copy data out of a buffer.
29250 - Replace files in stats/ rather than appending to them. Now that we
29251 include statistics in extra-info descriptors, it makes no sense to
29252 keep old statistics forever. Implements ticket 2930.
29254 o Minor features (build compatibility):
29255 - Limited, experimental support for building with nmake and MSVC.
29256 - Provide a substitute implementation of lround() for MSVC, which
29257 apparently lacks it. Patch from Gisle Vanem.
29259 o Minor features (also part of 0.2.2.31-rc):
29260 - Update to the August 2 2011 Maxmind GeoLite Country database.
29262 o Minor bugfixes (on 0.2.3.x-alpha):
29263 - Fix a spurious warning when parsing SOCKS requests with
29264 bufferevents enabled. Fixes bug 3615; bugfix on 0.2.3.2-alpha.
29265 - Get rid of a harmless warning that could happen on relays running
29266 with bufferevents. The warning was caused by someone doing an http
29267 request to a relay's orport. Also don't warn for a few related
29268 non-errors. Fixes bug 3700; bugfix on 0.2.3.1-alpha.
29270 o Minor bugfixes (on 2.2.x and earlier):
29271 - Correct the man page to explain that HashedControlPassword and
29272 CookieAuthentication can both be set, in which case either method
29273 is sufficient to authenticate to Tor. Bugfix on 0.2.0.7-alpha,
29274 when we decided to allow these config options to both be set. Issue
29275 raised by bug 3898.
29276 - The "--quiet" and "--hush" options now apply not only to Tor's
29277 behavior before logs are configured, but also to Tor's behavior in
29278 the absence of configured logs. Fixes bug 3550; bugfix on
29281 o Minor bugfixes (also part of 0.2.2.31-rc):
29282 - Write several files in text mode, on OSes that distinguish text
29283 mode from binary mode (namely, Windows). These files are:
29284 'buffer-stats', 'dirreq-stats', and 'entry-stats' on relays
29285 that collect those statistics; 'client_keys' and 'hostname' for
29286 hidden services that use authentication; and (in the tor-gencert
29287 utility) newly generated identity and signing keys. Previously,
29288 we wouldn't specify text mode or binary mode, leading to an
29289 assertion failure. Fixes bug 3607. Bugfix on 0.2.1.1-alpha (when
29290 the DirRecordUsageByCountry option which would have triggered
29291 the assertion failure was added), although this assertion failure
29292 would have occurred in tor-gencert on Windows in 0.2.0.1-alpha.
29293 - Selectively disable deprecation warnings on OS X because Lion
29294 started deprecating the shipped copy of openssl. Fixes bug 3643.
29295 - Remove an extra pair of quotation marks around the error
29296 message in control-port STATUS_GENERAL BUG events. Bugfix on
29297 0.1.2.6-alpha; fixes bug 3732.
29298 - When unable to format an address as a string, report its value
29299 as "???" rather than reusing the last formatted address. Bugfix
29302 o Code simplifications and refactoring:
29303 - Rewrite the listener-selection logic so that parsing which ports
29304 we want to listen on is now separate from binding to the ports
29308 - Building Tor with bufferevent support now requires Libevent
29309 2.0.13-stable or later. Previous versions of Libevent had bugs in
29310 SSL-related bufferevents and related issues that would make Tor
29311 work badly with bufferevents. Requiring 2.0.13-stable also allows
29312 Tor with bufferevents to take advantage of Libevent APIs
29313 introduced after 2.0.8-rc.
29316 Changes in version 0.2.2.32 - 2011-08-27
29317 The Tor 0.2.2 release series is dedicated to the memory of Andreas
29318 Pfitzmann (1958-2010), a pioneer in anonymity and privacy research,
29319 a founder of the PETS community, a leader in our field, a mentor,
29320 and a friend. He left us with these words: "I had the possibility
29321 to contribute to this world that is not as it should be. I hope I
29322 could help in some areas to make the world a better place, and that
29323 I could also encourage other people to be engaged in improving the
29324 world. Please, stay engaged. This world needs you, your love, your
29325 initiative -- now I cannot be part of that anymore."
29327 Tor 0.2.2.32, the first stable release in the 0.2.2 branch, is finally
29328 ready. More than two years in the making, this release features improved
29329 client performance and hidden service reliability, better compatibility
29330 for Android, correct behavior for bridges that listen on more than
29331 one address, more extensible and flexible directory object handling,
29332 better reporting of network statistics, improved code security, and
29333 many many other features and bugfixes.
29336 Changes in version 0.2.2.31-rc - 2011-08-17
29337 Tor 0.2.2.31-rc is the second and hopefully final release candidate
29338 for the Tor 0.2.2.x series.
29341 - Remove an extra pair of quotation marks around the error
29342 message in control-port STATUS_GENERAL BUG events. Bugfix on
29343 0.1.2.6-alpha; fixes bug 3732.
29344 - If we're configured to write our ControlPorts to disk, only write
29345 them after switching UID and creating the data directory. This way,
29346 we don't fail when starting up with a nonexistent DataDirectory
29347 and a ControlPortWriteToFile setting based on that directory. Fixes
29348 bug 3747; bugfix on Tor 0.2.2.26-beta.
29351 - Update to the August 2 2011 Maxmind GeoLite Country database.
29354 - Allow GETINFO fingerprint to return a fingerprint even when
29355 we have not yet built a router descriptor. Fixes bug 3577;
29356 bugfix on 0.2.0.1-alpha.
29357 - Write several files in text mode, on OSes that distinguish text
29358 mode from binary mode (namely, Windows). These files are:
29359 'buffer-stats', 'dirreq-stats', and 'entry-stats' on relays
29360 that collect those statistics; 'client_keys' and 'hostname' for
29361 hidden services that use authentication; and (in the tor-gencert
29362 utility) newly generated identity and signing keys. Previously,
29363 we wouldn't specify text mode or binary mode, leading to an
29364 assertion failure. Fixes bug 3607. Bugfix on 0.2.1.1-alpha (when
29365 the DirRecordUsageByCountry option which would have triggered
29366 the assertion failure was added), although this assertion failure
29367 would have occurred in tor-gencert on Windows in 0.2.0.1-alpha.
29368 - Selectively disable deprecation warnings on OS X because Lion
29369 started deprecating the shipped copy of openssl. Fixes bug 3643.
29370 - When unable to format an address as a string, report its value
29371 as "???" rather than reusing the last formatted address. Bugfix
29375 Changes in version 0.2.3.2-alpha - 2011-07-18
29376 Tor 0.2.3.2-alpha introduces two new experimental features:
29377 microdescriptors and pluggable transports. It also continues cleaning
29378 up a variety of recently introduced features.
29381 - Clients can now use microdescriptors instead of regular descriptors
29382 to build circuits. Microdescriptors are authority-generated
29383 summaries of regular descriptors' contents, designed to change
29384 very rarely (see proposal 158 for details). This feature is
29385 designed to save bandwidth, especially for clients on slow internet
29386 connections. It's off by default for now, since nearly no caches
29387 support it, but it will be on-by-default for clients in a future
29388 version. You can use the UseMicrodescriptors option to turn it on.
29389 - Tor clients using bridges can now be configured to use a separate
29390 'transport' proxy for each bridge. This approach helps to resist
29391 censorship by allowing bridges to use protocol obfuscation
29392 plugins. It implements part of proposal 180. Implements ticket 2841.
29393 - While we're trying to bootstrap, record how many TLS connections
29394 fail in each state, and report which states saw the most failures
29395 in response to any bootstrap failures. This feature may speed up
29396 diagnosis of censorship events. Implements ticket 3116.
29398 o Major bugfixes (on 0.2.3.1-alpha):
29399 - When configuring a large set of nodes in EntryNodes (as with
29400 'EntryNodes {cc}' or 'EntryNodes 1.1.1.1/16'), choose only a
29401 random subset to be guards, and choose them in random
29402 order. Fixes bug 2798.
29403 - Tor could crash when remembering a consensus in a non-used consensus
29404 flavor without having a current consensus set. Fixes bug 3361.
29405 - Comparing an unknown address to a microdescriptor's shortened exit
29406 policy would always give a "rejected" result. Fixes bug 3599.
29407 - Using microdescriptors as a client no longer prevents Tor from
29408 uploading and downloading hidden service descriptors. Fixes
29412 - Allow nameservers with IPv6 address. Resolves bug 2574.
29413 - Accept attempts to include a password authenticator in the
29414 handshake, as supported by SOCKS5. This handles SOCKS clients that
29415 don't know how to omit a password when authenticating. Resolves
29417 - When configuring a large set of nodes in EntryNodes, and there are
29418 enough of them listed as Guard so that we don't need to consider
29419 the non-guard entries, prefer the ones listed with the Guard flag.
29420 - Check for and recover from inconsistency in the microdescriptor
29421 cache. This will make it harder for us to accidentally free a
29422 microdescriptor without removing it from the appropriate data
29423 structures. Fixes issue 3135; issue noted by "wanoskarnet".
29424 - Log SSL state transitions at log level DEBUG, log domain
29425 HANDSHAKE. This can be useful for debugging censorship events.
29426 Implements ticket 3264.
29427 - Add port 6523 (Gobby) to LongLivedPorts. Patch by intrigeri;
29428 implements ticket 3439.
29430 o Minor bugfixes (on 0.2.3.1-alpha):
29431 - Do not free all general-purpose regular descriptors just
29432 because microdescriptor use is enabled. Fixes bug 3113.
29433 - Correctly link libevent_openssl when --enable-static-libevent
29434 is passed to configure. Fixes bug 3118.
29435 - Bridges should not complain during their heartbeat log messages that
29436 they are unlisted in the consensus: that's more or less the point
29437 of being a bridge. Fixes bug 3183.
29438 - Report a SIGNAL event to controllers when acting on a delayed
29439 SIGNAL NEWNYM command. Previously, we would report a SIGNAL
29440 event to the controller if we acted on a SIGNAL NEWNYM command
29441 immediately, and otherwise not report a SIGNAL event for the
29442 command at all. Fixes bug 3349.
29443 - Fix a crash when handling the SIGNAL controller command or
29444 reporting ERR-level status events with bufferevents enabled. Found
29445 by Robert Ransom. Fixes bug 3367.
29446 - Always ship the tor-fw-helper manpage in our release tarballs.
29447 Fixes bug 3389. Reported by Stephen Walker.
29448 - Fix a class of double-mark-for-close bugs when bufferevents
29449 are enabled. Fixes bug 3403.
29450 - Update tor-fw-helper to support libnatpmp-20110618. Fixes bug 3434.
29451 - Add SIGNAL to the list returned by the 'GETINFO events/names'
29452 control-port command. Fixes part of bug 3465.
29453 - Prevent using negative indices during unit test runs when read_all()
29454 fails. Spotted by coverity.
29455 - Fix a rare memory leak when checking the nodelist without it being
29456 present. Found by coverity.
29457 - Only try to download a microdescriptor-flavored consensus from
29458 a directory cache that provides them.
29460 o Minor bugfixes (on 0.2.2.x and earlier):
29461 - Assert that hidden-service-related operations are not performed
29462 using single-hop circuits. Previously, Tor would assert that
29463 client-side streams are not attached to single-hop circuits,
29464 but not that other sensitive operations on the client and service
29465 side are not performed using single-hop circuits. Fixes bug 3332;
29467 - Don't publish a new relay descriptor when we reload our onion key,
29468 unless the onion key has actually changed. Fixes bug 3263 and
29469 resolves another cause of bug 1810. Bugfix on 0.1.1.11-alpha.
29470 - Allow GETINFO fingerprint to return a fingerprint even when
29471 we have not yet built a router descriptor. Fixes bug 3577;
29472 bugfix on 0.2.0.1-alpha.
29473 - Make 'tor --digests' list hashes of all Tor source files. Bugfix
29474 on 0.2.2.4-alpha; fixes bug 3427.
29476 o Code simplification and refactoring:
29477 - Use tor_sscanf() in place of scanf() in more places through the
29478 code. This makes us a little more locale-independent, and
29479 should help shut up code-analysis tools that can't tell
29480 a safe sscanf string from a dangerous one.
29481 - Use tt_assert(), not tor_assert(), for checking for test failures.
29482 This makes the unit tests more able to go on in the event that
29484 - Split connection_about_to_close() into separate functions for each
29488 - On Windows, we now define the _WIN32_WINNT macros only if they
29489 are not already defined. This lets the person building Tor decide,
29490 if they want, to require a later version of Windows.
29493 Changes in version 0.2.2.30-rc - 2011-07-07
29494 Tor 0.2.2.30-rc is the first release candidate for the Tor 0.2.2.x
29495 series. It fixes a few smaller bugs, but generally appears stable.
29496 Please test it and let us know whether it is!
29499 - Send a SUCCEEDED stream event to the controller when a reverse
29500 resolve succeeded. Fixes bug 3536; bugfix on 0.0.8pre1. Issue
29501 discovered by katmagic.
29502 - Always NUL-terminate the sun_path field of a sockaddr_un before
29503 passing it to the kernel. (Not a security issue: kernels are
29504 smart enough to reject bad sockaddr_uns.) Found by Coverity;
29505 CID #428. Bugfix on Tor 0.2.0.3-alpha.
29506 - Don't stack-allocate the list of supplementary GIDs when we're
29507 about to log them. Stack-allocating NGROUPS_MAX gid_t elements
29508 could take up to 256K, which is way too much stack. Found by
29509 Coverity; CID #450. Bugfix on 0.2.1.7-alpha.
29510 - Add BUILDTIMEOUT_SET to the list returned by the 'GETINFO
29511 events/names' control-port command. Bugfix on 0.2.2.9-alpha;
29512 fixes part of bug 3465.
29513 - Fix a memory leak when receiving a descriptor for a hidden
29514 service we didn't ask for. Found by Coverity; CID #30. Bugfix
29518 - Update to the July 1 2011 Maxmind GeoLite Country database.
29521 Changes in version 0.2.2.29-beta - 2011-06-20
29522 Tor 0.2.2.29-beta reverts an accidental behavior change for users who
29523 have bridge lines in their torrc but don't want to use them; gets
29524 us closer to having the control socket feature working on Debian;
29525 and fixes a variety of smaller bugs.
29528 - Revert the UseBridges option to its behavior before 0.2.2.28-beta.
29529 When we changed the default behavior to "use bridges if any
29530 are listed in the torrc", we surprised users who had bridges
29531 in their torrc files but who didn't actually want to use them.
29532 Partial resolution for bug 3354.
29535 - Don't attach new streams to old rendezvous circuits after SIGNAL
29536 NEWNYM. Previously, we would keep using an existing rendezvous
29537 circuit if it remained open (i.e. if it were kept open by a
29538 long-lived stream, or if a new stream were attached to it before
29539 Tor could notice that it was old and no longer in use). Bugfix on
29540 0.1.1.15-rc; fixes bug 3375.
29543 - Fix a bug when using ControlSocketsGroupWritable with User. The
29544 directory's group would be checked against the current group, not
29545 the configured group. Patch by Jérémy Bobbio. Fixes bug 3393;
29546 bugfix on 0.2.2.26-beta.
29547 - Make connection_printf_to_buf()'s behavior sane. Its callers
29548 expect it to emit a CRLF iff the format string ends with CRLF;
29549 it actually emitted a CRLF iff (a) the format string ended with
29550 CRLF or (b) the resulting string was over 1023 characters long or
29551 (c) the format string did not end with CRLF *and* the resulting
29552 string was 1021 characters long or longer. Bugfix on 0.1.1.9-alpha;
29553 fixes part of bug 3407.
29554 - Make send_control_event_impl()'s behavior sane. Its callers
29555 expect it to always emit a CRLF at the end of the string; it
29556 might have emitted extra control characters as well. Bugfix on
29557 0.1.1.9-alpha; fixes another part of bug 3407.
29558 - Make crypto_rand_int() check the value of its input correctly.
29559 Previously, it accepted values up to UINT_MAX, but could return a
29560 negative number if given a value above INT_MAX+1. Found by George
29561 Kadianakis. Fixes bug 3306; bugfix on 0.2.2pre14.
29562 - Avoid a segfault when reading a malformed circuit build state
29563 with more than INT_MAX entries. Found by wanoskarnet. Bugfix on
29565 - When asked about a DNS record type we don't support via a
29566 client DNSPort, reply with NOTIMPL rather than an empty
29567 reply. Patch by intrigeri. Fixes bug 3369; bugfix on 2.0.1-alpha.
29568 - Fix a rare memory leak during stats writing. Found by coverity.
29571 - Update to the June 1 2011 Maxmind GeoLite Country database.
29573 o Code simplifications and refactoring:
29574 - Remove some dead code as indicated by coverity.
29575 - Remove a few dead assignments during router parsing. Found by
29577 - Add some forgotten return value checks during unit tests. Found
29579 - Don't use 1-bit wide signed bit fields. Found by coverity.
29582 Changes in version 0.2.2.28-beta - 2011-06-04
29583 Tor 0.2.2.28-beta makes great progress towards a new stable release: we
29584 fixed a big bug in whether relays stay in the consensus consistently,
29585 we moved closer to handling bridges and hidden services correctly,
29586 and we started the process of better handling the dreaded "my Vidalia
29587 died, and now my Tor demands a password when I try to reconnect to it"
29591 - Don't decide to make a new descriptor when receiving a HUP signal.
29592 This bug has caused a lot of 0.2.2.x relays to disappear from the
29593 consensus periodically. Fixes the most common case of triggering
29594 bug 1810; bugfix on 0.2.2.7-alpha.
29595 - Actually allow nameservers with IPv6 addresses. Fixes bug 2574.
29596 - Don't try to build descriptors if "ORPort auto" is set and we
29597 don't know our actual ORPort yet. Fix for bug 3216; bugfix on
29599 - Resolve a crash that occurred when setting BridgeRelay to 1 with
29600 accounting enabled. Fixes bug 3228; bugfix on 0.2.2.18-alpha.
29601 - Apply circuit timeouts to opened hidden-service-related circuits
29602 based on the correct start time. Previously, we would apply the
29603 circuit build timeout based on time since the circuit's creation;
29604 it was supposed to be applied based on time since the circuit
29605 entered its current state. Bugfix on 0.0.6; fixes part of bug 1297.
29606 - Use the same circuit timeout for client-side introduction
29607 circuits as for other four-hop circuits, rather than the timeout
29608 for single-hop directory-fetch circuits; the shorter timeout may
29609 have been appropriate with the static circuit build timeout in
29610 0.2.1.x and earlier, but caused many hidden service access attempts
29611 to fail with the adaptive CBT introduced in 0.2.2.2-alpha. Bugfix
29612 on 0.2.2.2-alpha; fixes another part of bug 1297.
29613 - In ticket 2511 we fixed a case where you could use an unconfigured
29614 bridge if you had configured it as a bridge the last time you ran
29615 Tor. Now fix another edge case: if you had configured it as a bridge
29616 but then switched to a different bridge via the controller, you
29617 would still be willing to use the old one. Bugfix on 0.2.0.1-alpha;
29621 - Add an __OwningControllerProcess configuration option and a
29622 TAKEOWNERSHIP control-port command. Now a Tor controller can ensure
29623 that when it exits, Tor will shut down. Implements feature 3049.
29624 - If "UseBridges 1" is set and no bridges are configured, Tor will
29625 now refuse to build any circuits until some bridges are set.
29626 If "UseBridges auto" is set, Tor will use bridges if they are
29627 configured and we are not running as a server, but otherwise will
29628 make circuits as usual. The new default is "auto". Patch by anonym,
29629 so the Tails LiveCD can stop automatically revealing you as a Tor
29633 - Fix warnings from GCC 4.6's "-Wunused-but-set-variable" option.
29634 - Remove a trailing asterisk from "exit-policy/default" in the
29635 output of the control port command "GETINFO info/names". Bugfix
29637 - Use a wide type to hold sockets when built for 64-bit Windows builds.
29639 - Warn when the user configures two HiddenServiceDir lines that point
29640 to the same directory. Bugfix on 0.0.6 (the version introducing
29641 HiddenServiceDir); fixes bug 3289.
29642 - Remove dead code from rend_cache_lookup_v2_desc_as_dir. Fixes
29643 part of bug 2748; bugfix on 0.2.0.10-alpha.
29644 - Log malformed requests for rendezvous descriptors as protocol
29645 warnings, not warnings. Also, use a more informative log message
29646 in case someone sees it at log level warning without prior
29647 info-level messages. Fixes the other part of bug 2748; bugfix
29649 - Clear the table recording the time of the last request for each
29650 hidden service descriptor from each HS directory on SIGNAL NEWNYM.
29651 Previously, we would clear our HS descriptor cache on SIGNAL
29652 NEWNYM, but if we had previously retrieved a descriptor (or tried
29653 to) from every directory responsible for it, we would refuse to
29654 fetch it again for up to 15 minutes. Bugfix on 0.2.2.25-alpha;
29656 - Fix a log message that said "bits" while displaying a value in
29657 bytes. Found by wanoskarnet. Fixes bug 3318; bugfix on
29659 - When checking for 1024-bit keys, check for 1024 bits, not 128
29660 bytes. This allows Tor to correctly discard keys of length 1017
29661 through 1023. Bugfix on 0.0.9pre5.
29664 - Relays now log the reason for publishing a new relay descriptor,
29665 so we have a better chance of hunting down instances of bug 1810.
29666 Resolves ticket 3252.
29667 - Revise most log messages that refer to nodes by nickname to
29668 instead use the "$key=nickname at address" format. This should be
29669 more useful, especially since nicknames are less and less likely
29670 to be unique. Resolves ticket 3045.
29671 - Log (at info level) when purging pieces of hidden-service-client
29672 state because of SIGNAL NEWNYM.
29675 - Remove undocumented option "-F" from tor-resolve: it hasn't done
29676 anything since 0.2.1.16-rc.
29679 Changes in version 0.2.2.27-beta - 2011-05-18
29680 Tor 0.2.2.27-beta fixes a bridge-related stability bug in the previous
29681 release, and also adds a few more general bugfixes.
29684 - Fix a crash bug when changing bridges in a running Tor process.
29685 Fixes bug 3213; bugfix on 0.2.2.26-beta.
29686 - When the controller configures a new bridge, don't wait 10 to 60
29687 seconds before trying to fetch its descriptor. Bugfix on
29688 0.2.0.3-alpha; fixes bug 3198 (suggested by 2355).
29691 - Require that onion keys have exponent 65537 in microdescriptors too.
29692 Fixes more of bug 3207; bugfix on 0.2.2.26-beta.
29693 - Tor used to limit HttpProxyAuthenticator values to 48 characters.
29694 Changed the limit to 512 characters by removing base64 newlines.
29695 Fixes bug 2752. Fix by Michael Yakubovich.
29696 - When a client starts or stops using bridges, never use a circuit
29697 that was built before the configuration change. This behavior could
29698 put at risk a user who uses bridges to ensure that her traffic
29699 only goes to the chosen addresses. Bugfix on 0.2.0.3-alpha; fixes
29703 Changes in version 0.2.2.26-beta - 2011-05-17
29704 Tor 0.2.2.26-beta fixes a variety of potential privacy problems. It
29705 also introduces a new "socksport auto" approach that should make it
29706 easier to run multiple Tors on the same system, and does a lot of
29707 cleanup to get us closer to a release candidate.
29709 o Security/privacy fixes:
29710 - Replace all potentially sensitive memory comparison operations
29711 with versions whose runtime does not depend on the data being
29712 compared. This will help resist a class of attacks where an
29713 adversary can use variations in timing information to learn
29714 sensitive data. Fix for one case of bug 3122. (Safe memcmp
29715 implementation by Robert Ransom based partially on code by DJB.)
29716 - When receiving a hidden service descriptor, check that it is for
29717 the hidden service we wanted. Previously, Tor would store any
29718 hidden service descriptors that a directory gave it, whether it
29719 wanted them or not. This wouldn't have let an attacker impersonate
29720 a hidden service, but it did let directories pre-seed a client
29721 with descriptors that it didn't want. Bugfix on 0.0.6.
29722 - On SIGHUP, do not clear out all TrackHostExits mappings, client
29723 DNS cache entries, and virtual address mappings: that's what
29724 NEWNYM is for. Fixes bug 1345; bugfix on 0.1.0.1-rc.
29727 - The options SocksPort, ControlPort, and so on now all accept a
29728 value "auto" that opens a socket on an OS-selected port. A
29729 new ControlPortWriteToFile option tells Tor to write its
29730 actual control port or ports to a chosen file. If the option
29731 ControlPortFileGroupReadable is set, the file is created as
29732 group-readable. Now users can run two Tor clients on the same
29733 system without needing to manually mess with parameters. Resolves
29734 part of ticket 3076.
29735 - Set SO_REUSEADDR on all sockets, not just listeners. This should
29736 help busy exit nodes avoid running out of useable ports just
29737 because all the ports have been used in the near past. Resolves
29741 - New "GETINFO net/listeners/(type)" controller command to return
29742 a list of addresses and ports that are bound for listeners for a
29743 given connection type. This is useful when the user has configured
29744 "SocksPort auto" and the controller needs to know which port got
29745 chosen. Resolves another part of ticket 3076.
29746 - Add a new ControlSocketsGroupWritable configuration option: when
29747 it is turned on, ControlSockets are group-writeable by the default
29748 group of the current user. Patch by Jérémy Bobbio; implements
29750 - Tor now refuses to create a ControlSocket in a directory that is
29751 world-readable (or group-readable if ControlSocketsGroupWritable
29752 is 0). This is necessary because some operating systems do not
29753 enforce permissions on an AF_UNIX sockets. Permissions on the
29754 directory holding the socket, however, seems to work everywhere.
29755 - Rate-limit a warning about failures to download v2 networkstatus
29756 documents. Resolves part of bug 1352.
29757 - Backport code from 0.2.3.x that allows directory authorities to
29758 clean their microdescriptor caches. Needed to resolve bug 2230.
29759 - When an HTTPS proxy reports "403 Forbidden", we now explain
29760 what it means rather than calling it an unexpected status code.
29761 Closes bug 2503. Patch from Michael Yakubovich.
29762 - Update to the May 1 2011 Maxmind GeoLite Country database.
29765 - Authorities now clean their microdesc cache periodically and when
29766 reading from disk initially, not only when adding new descriptors.
29767 This prevents a bug where we could lose microdescriptors. Bugfix
29768 on 0.2.2.6-alpha. Fixes bug 2230.
29769 - Do not crash when our configuration file becomes unreadable, for
29770 example due to a permissions change, between when we start up
29771 and when a controller calls SAVECONF. Fixes bug 3135; bugfix
29773 - Avoid a bug that would keep us from replacing a microdescriptor
29774 cache on Windows. (We would try to replace the file while still
29775 holding it open. That's fine on Unix, but Windows doesn't let us
29776 do that.) Bugfix on 0.2.2.6-alpha; bug found by wanoskarnet.
29777 - Add missing explanations for the authority-related torrc options
29778 RephistTrackTime, BridgePassword, and V3AuthUseLegacyKey in the
29779 man page. Resolves issue 2379.
29780 - As an authority, do not upload our own vote or signature set to
29781 ourself. It would tell us nothing new, and as of 0.2.2.24-alpha,
29782 it would get flagged as a duplicate. Resolves bug 3026.
29783 - Accept hidden service descriptors if we think we might be a hidden
29784 service directory, regardless of what our consensus says. This
29785 helps robustness, since clients and hidden services can sometimes
29786 have a more up-to-date view of the network consensus than we do,
29787 and if they think that the directory authorities list us a HSDir,
29788 we might actually be one. Related to bug 2732; bugfix on
29790 - When a controller changes TrackHostExits, remove mappings for
29791 hosts that should no longer have their exits tracked. Bugfix on
29793 - When a controller changes VirtualAddrNetwork, remove any mappings
29794 for hosts that were automapped to the old network. Bugfix on
29796 - When a controller changes one of the AutomapHosts* options, remove
29797 any mappings for hosts that should no longer be automapped. Bugfix
29799 - Do not reset the bridge descriptor download status every time we
29800 re-parse our configuration or get a configuration change. Fixes
29801 bug 3019; bugfix on 0.2.0.3-alpha.
29803 o Minor bugfixes (code cleanup):
29804 - When loading the microdesc journal, remember its current size.
29805 In 0.2.2, this helps prevent the microdesc journal from growing
29806 without limit on authorities (who are the only ones to use it in
29807 0.2.2). Fixes a part of bug 2230; bugfix on 0.2.2.6-alpha.
29808 Fix posted by "cypherpunks."
29809 - The microdesc journal is supposed to get rebuilt only if it is
29810 at least _half_ the length of the store, not _twice_ the length
29811 of the store. Bugfix on 0.2.2.6-alpha; fixes part of bug 2230.
29812 - Fix a potential null-pointer dereference while computing a
29813 consensus. Bugfix on 0.2.0.3-alpha, found with the help of
29815 - Avoid a possible null-pointer dereference when rebuilding the mdesc
29816 cache without actually having any descriptors to cache. Bugfix on
29817 0.2.2.6-alpha. Issue discovered using clang's static analyzer.
29818 - If we fail to compute the identity digest of a v3 legacy keypair,
29819 warn, and don't use a buffer-full of junk instead. Bugfix on
29820 0.2.1.1-alpha; fixes bug 3106.
29821 - Resolve an untriggerable issue in smartlist_string_num_isin(),
29822 where if the function had ever in the future been used to check
29823 for the presence of a too-large number, it would have given an
29824 incorrect result. (Fortunately, we only used it for 16-bit
29825 values.) Fixes bug 3175; bugfix on 0.1.0.1-rc.
29826 - Require that introduction point keys and onion handshake keys
29827 have a public exponent of 65537. Starts to fix bug 3207; bugfix
29830 o Removed features:
29831 - Caches no longer download and serve v2 networkstatus documents
29832 unless FetchV2Networkstatus flag is set: these documents haven't
29833 haven't been used by clients or relays since 0.2.0.x. Resolves
29837 Changes in version 0.2.3.1-alpha - 2011-05-05
29838 Tor 0.2.3.1-alpha adds some new experimental features, including support
29839 for an improved network IO backend, IOCP networking on Windows,
29840 microdescriptor caching, "fast-start" support for streams, and automatic
29841 home router configuration. There are also numerous internal improvements
29842 to try to make the code easier for developers to work with.
29844 This is the first alpha release in a new series, so expect there to be
29845 bugs. Users who would rather test out a more stable branch should
29846 stay with 0.2.2.x for now.
29849 - Tor can now optionally build with the "bufferevents" buffered IO
29850 backend provided by Libevent 2. To use this feature, make sure you
29851 have the latest possible version of Libevent, and pass the
29852 --enable-bufferevents flag to configure when building Tor from
29853 source. This feature will make our networking code more flexible,
29854 let us stack layers on each other, and let us use more efficient
29855 zero-copy transports where available.
29856 - As an experimental feature, Tor can use IOCP for networking on Windows.
29857 Once this code is tuned and optimized, it promises much better
29858 performance than the select-based backend we've used in the past. To
29859 try this feature, you must build Tor with Libevent 2, configure Tor
29860 with the "bufferevents" buffered IO backend, and add "DisableIOCP 0" to
29861 your torrc. There are known bugs here: only try this if you can help
29862 debug it as it breaks.
29863 - The EntryNodes option can now include country codes like {de} or IP
29864 addresses or network masks. Previously we had disallowed these options
29865 because we didn't have an efficient way to keep the list up to
29866 date. Fixes bug 1982, but see bug 2798 for an unresolved issue here.
29867 - Exit nodes now accept and queue data on not-yet-connected streams.
29868 Previously, the client wasn't allowed to send data until the stream was
29869 connected, which slowed down all connections. This change will enable
29870 clients to perform a "fast-start" on streams and send data without
29871 having to wait for a confirmation that the stream has opened. (Patch
29872 from Ian Goldberg; implements the server side of Proposal 174.)
29873 - Tor now has initial support for automatic port mapping on the many
29874 home routers that support NAT-PMP or UPnP. (Not yet supported on
29875 Windows). To build the support code, you'll need to have libnatpnp
29876 library and/or the libminiupnpc library, and you'll need to enable the
29877 feature specifically by passing "--enable-upnp" and/or
29878 "--enable-natpnp" to configure. To turn it on, use the new
29879 PortForwarding option.
29880 - Caches now download, cache, and serve multiple "flavors" of the
29881 consensus, including a flavor that describes microdescriptors.
29882 - Caches now download, cache, and serve microdescriptors -- small
29883 summaries of router descriptors that are authenticated by all of the
29884 directory authorities. Once enough caches are running this code,
29885 clients will be able to save significant amounts of directory bandwidth
29886 by downloading microdescriptors instead of router descriptors.
29889 - Make logging resolution configurable with a new LogTimeGranularity
29890 option, and change the default from 1 millisecond to 1 second.
29891 Implements enhancement 1668.
29892 - We log which torrc file we're using on startup. Implements ticket
29894 - Ordinarily, Tor does not count traffic from private addresses (like
29895 127.0.0.1 or 10.0.0.1) when calculating rate limits or accounting.
29896 There is now a new option, CountPrivateBandwidth, to disable this
29897 behavior. Patch from Daniel Cagara.
29898 - New --enable-static-tor configure option for building Tor as
29899 statically as possible. Idea, general hackery and thoughts from
29900 Alexei Czeskis, John Gilmore, Jacob Appelbaum. Implements ticket
29902 - If you set the NumCPUs option to 0, Tor will now try to detect how
29903 many CPUs you have. This is the new default behavior.
29904 - Turn on directory request statistics by default and include them in
29905 extra-info descriptors. Don't break if we have no GeoIP database.
29906 - Relays that set "ConnDirectionStatistics 1" write statistics on the
29907 bidirectional use of connections to disk every 24 hours.
29908 - Add a GeoIP file digest to the extra-info descriptor. Implements
29910 - The NodeFamily option -- which let you declare that you want to
29911 consider nodes to be part of a family whether they list themselves
29912 that way or not -- now allows IP address ranges and country codes.
29913 - Add a new 'Heartbeat' log message type to periodically log a message
29914 describing Tor's status at level Notice. This feature is meant for
29915 operators who log at notice, and want to make sure that their Tor
29916 server is still working. Implementation by George Kadianakis.
29918 o Minor bugfixes (on 0.2.2.25-alpha):
29919 - When loading the microdesc journal, remember its current size.
29920 In 0.2.2, this helps prevent the microdesc journal from growing
29921 without limit on authorities (who are the only ones to use it in
29922 0.2.2). Fixes a part of bug 2230; bugfix on 0.2.2.6-alpha.
29923 Fix posted by "cypherpunks."
29924 - The microdesc journal is supposed to get rebuilt only if it is
29925 at least _half_ the length of the store, not _twice_ the length
29926 of the store. Bugfix on 0.2.2.6-alpha; fixes part of bug 2230.
29927 - If as an authority we fail to compute the identity digest of a v3
29928 legacy keypair, warn, and don't use a buffer-full of junk instead.
29929 Bugfix on 0.2.1.1-alpha; fixes bug 3106.
29930 - Authorities now clean their microdesc cache periodically and when
29931 reading from disk initially, not only when adding new descriptors.
29932 This prevents a bug where we could lose microdescriptors. Bugfix
29935 o Minor features (controller):
29936 - Add a new SIGNAL event to the controller interface so that
29937 controllers can be notified when Tor handles a signal. Resolves
29938 issue 1955. Patch by John Brooks.
29939 - Add a new GETINFO option to get total bytes read and written. Patch
29940 from pipe, revised by atagar. Resolves ticket 2345.
29941 - Implement some GETINFO controller fields to provide information about
29942 the Tor process's pid, euid, username, and resource limits.
29945 - Our build system requires automake 1.6 or later to create the
29946 Makefile.in files. Previously, you could have used 1.4.
29947 This only affects developers and people building Tor from git;
29948 people who build Tor from the source distribution without changing
29949 the Makefile.am files should be fine.
29950 - Our autogen.sh script uses autoreconf to launch autoconf, automake, and
29951 so on. This is more robust against some of the failure modes
29952 associated with running the autotools pieces on their own.
29954 o Minor packaging issues:
29955 - On OpenSUSE, create the /var/run/tor directory on startup if it is not
29956 already created. Patch from Andreas Stieger. Fixes bug 2573.
29958 o Code simplifications and refactoring:
29959 - A major revision to our internal node-selecting and listing logic.
29960 Tor already had at least two major ways to look at the question of
29961 "which Tor servers do we know about": a list of router descriptors,
29962 and a list of entries in the current consensus. With
29963 microdescriptors, we're adding a third. Having so many systems
29964 without an abstraction layer over them was hurting the codebase.
29965 Now, we have a new "node_t" abstraction that presents a consistent
29966 interface to a client's view of a Tor node, and holds (nearly) all
29967 of the mutable state formerly in routerinfo_t and routerstatus_t.
29968 - The helper programs tor-gencert, tor-resolve, and tor-checkkey
29969 no longer link against Libevent: they never used it, but
29970 our library structure used to force them to link it.
29972 o Removed features:
29973 - Remove some old code to work around even older versions of Tor that
29974 used forked processes to handle DNS requests. Such versions of Tor
29975 are no longer in use as servers.
29977 o Documentation fixes:
29978 - Correct a broken faq link in the INSTALL file. Fixes bug 2307.
29979 - Add missing documentation for the authority-related torrc options
29980 RephistTrackTime, BridgePassword, and V3AuthUseLegacyKey. Resolves
29984 Changes in version 0.2.2.25-alpha - 2011-04-29
29985 Tor 0.2.2.25-alpha fixes many bugs: hidden service clients are more
29986 robust, routers no longer overreport their bandwidth, Win7 should crash
29987 a little less, and NEWNYM (as used by Vidalia's "new identity" button)
29988 now prevents hidden service-related activity from being linkable. It
29989 provides more information to Vidalia so you can see if your bridge is
29990 working. Also, 0.2.2.25-alpha revamps the Entry/Exit/ExcludeNodes and
29991 StrictNodes configuration options to make them more reliable, more
29992 understandable, and more regularly applied. If you use those options,
29993 please see the revised documentation for them in the manual page.
29996 - Relays were publishing grossly inflated bandwidth values because
29997 they were writing their state files wrong--now they write the
29998 correct value. Also, resume reading bandwidth history from the
29999 state file correctly. Fixes bug 2704; bugfix on 0.2.2.23-alpha.
30000 - Improve hidden service robustness: When we find that we have
30001 extended a hidden service's introduction circuit to a relay not
30002 listed as an introduction point in the HS descriptor we currently
30003 have, retry with an introduction point from the current
30004 descriptor. Previously we would just give up. Fixes bugs 1024 and
30005 1930; bugfix on 0.2.0.10-alpha.
30006 - Clients now stop trying to use an exit node associated with a given
30007 destination by TrackHostExits if they fail to reach that exit node.
30008 Fixes bug 2999. Bugfix on 0.2.0.20-rc.
30009 - Fix crash bug on platforms where gmtime and localtime can return
30010 NULL. Windows 7 users were running into this one. Fixes part of bug
30011 2077. Bugfix on all versions of Tor. Found by boboper.
30013 o Security and stability fixes:
30014 - Don't double-free a parsable, but invalid, microdescriptor, even if
30015 it is followed in the blob we're parsing by an unparsable
30016 microdescriptor. Fixes an issue reported in a comment on bug 2954.
30017 Bugfix on 0.2.2.6-alpha; fix by "cypherpunks".
30018 - If the Nickname configuration option isn't given, Tor would pick a
30019 nickname based on the local hostname as the nickname for a relay.
30020 Because nicknames are not very important in today's Tor and the
30021 "Unnamed" nickname has been implemented, this is now problematic
30022 behavior: It leaks information about the hostname without being
30023 useful at all. Fixes bug 2979; bugfix on 0.1.2.2-alpha, which
30024 introduced the Unnamed nickname. Reported by tagnaq.
30025 - Fix an uncommon assertion failure when running with DNSPort under
30026 heavy load. Fixes bug 2933; bugfix on 0.2.0.1-alpha.
30027 - Avoid linkability based on cached hidden service descriptors: forget
30028 all hidden service descriptors cached as a client when processing a
30029 SIGNAL NEWNYM command. Fixes bug 3000; bugfix on 0.0.6.
30032 - Export GeoIP information on bridge usage to controllers even if we
30033 have not yet been running for 24 hours. Now Vidalia bridge operators
30034 can get more accurate and immediate feedback about their
30035 contributions to the network.
30037 o Major features and bugfixes (node selection):
30038 - Revise and reconcile the meaning of the ExitNodes, EntryNodes,
30039 ExcludeEntryNodes, ExcludeExitNodes, ExcludeNodes, and StrictNodes
30040 options. Previously, we had been ambiguous in describing what
30041 counted as an "exit" node, and what operations exactly "StrictNodes
30042 0" would permit. This created confusion when people saw nodes built
30043 through unexpected circuits, and made it hard to tell real bugs from
30044 surprises. Now the intended behavior is:
30045 . "Exit", in the context of ExitNodes and ExcludeExitNodes, means
30046 a node that delivers user traffic outside the Tor network.
30047 . "Entry", in the context of EntryNodes, means a node used as the
30048 first hop of a multihop circuit. It doesn't include direct
30049 connections to directory servers.
30050 . "ExcludeNodes" applies to all nodes.
30051 . "StrictNodes" changes the behavior of ExcludeNodes only. When
30052 StrictNodes is set, Tor should avoid all nodes listed in
30053 ExcludeNodes, even when it will make user requests fail. When
30054 StrictNodes is *not* set, then Tor should follow ExcludeNodes
30055 whenever it can, except when it must use an excluded node to
30056 perform self-tests, connect to a hidden service, provide a
30057 hidden service, fulfill a .exit request, upload directory
30058 information, or fetch directory information.
30059 Collectively, the changes to implement the behavior fix bug 1090.
30060 - ExcludeNodes now takes precedence over EntryNodes and ExitNodes: if
30061 a node is listed in both, it's treated as excluded.
30062 - ExcludeNodes now applies to directory nodes -- as a preference if
30063 StrictNodes is 0, or an absolute requirement if StrictNodes is 1.
30064 Don't exclude all the directory authorities and set StrictNodes to 1
30065 unless you really want your Tor to break.
30066 - ExcludeNodes and ExcludeExitNodes now override exit enclaving.
30067 - ExcludeExitNodes now overrides .exit requests.
30068 - We don't use bridges listed in ExcludeNodes.
30069 - When StrictNodes is 1:
30070 . We now apply ExcludeNodes to hidden service introduction points
30071 and to rendezvous points selected by hidden service users. This
30072 can make your hidden service less reliable: use it with caution!
30073 . If we have used ExcludeNodes on ourself, do not try relay
30074 reachability self-tests.
30075 . If we have excluded all the directory authorities, we will not
30076 even try to upload our descriptor if we're a relay.
30077 . Do not honor .exit requests to an excluded node.
30078 - Remove a misfeature that caused us to ignore the Fast/Stable flags
30079 when ExitNodes is set. Bugfix on 0.2.2.7-alpha.
30080 - When the set of permitted nodes changes, we now remove any mappings
30081 introduced via TrackExitHosts to now-excluded nodes. Bugfix on
30083 - We never cannibalize a circuit that had excluded nodes on it, even
30084 if StrictNodes is 0. Bugfix on 0.1.0.1-rc.
30085 - Revert a change where we would be laxer about attaching streams to
30086 circuits than when building the circuits. This was meant to prevent
30087 a set of bugs where streams were never attachable, but our improved
30088 code here should make this unnecessary. Bugfix on 0.2.2.7-alpha.
30089 - Keep track of how many times we launch a new circuit to handle a
30090 given stream. Too many launches could indicate an inconsistency
30091 between our "launch a circuit to handle this stream" logic and our
30092 "attach this stream to one of the available circuits" logic.
30093 - Improve log messages related to excluded nodes.
30096 - Fix a spurious warning when moving from a short month to a long
30097 month on relays with month-based BandwidthAccounting. Bugfix on
30098 0.2.2.17-alpha; fixes bug 3020.
30099 - When a client finds that an origin circuit has run out of 16-bit
30100 stream IDs, we now mark it as unusable for new streams. Previously,
30101 we would try to close the entire circuit. Bugfix on 0.0.6.
30102 - Add a forgotten cast that caused a compile warning on OS X 10.6.
30103 Bugfix on 0.2.2.24-alpha.
30104 - Be more careful about reporting the correct error from a failed
30105 connect() system call. Under some circumstances, it was possible to
30106 look at an incorrect value for errno when sending the end reason.
30107 Bugfix on 0.1.0.1-rc.
30108 - Correctly handle an "impossible" overflow cases in connection byte
30109 counting, where we write or read more than 4GB on an edge connection
30110 in a single second. Bugfix on 0.1.2.8-beta.
30111 - Correct the warning displayed when a rendezvous descriptor exceeds
30112 the maximum size. Fixes bug 2750; bugfix on 0.2.1.5-alpha. Found by
30114 - Clients and hidden services now use HSDir-flagged relays for hidden
30115 service descriptor downloads and uploads even if the relays have no
30116 DirPort set and the client has disabled TunnelDirConns. This will
30117 eventually allow us to give the HSDir flag to relays with no
30118 DirPort. Fixes bug 2722; bugfix on 0.2.1.6-alpha.
30119 - Downgrade "no current certificates known for authority" message from
30120 Notice to Info. Fixes bug 2899; bugfix on 0.2.0.10-alpha.
30121 - Make the SIGNAL DUMP control-port command work on FreeBSD. Fixes bug
30122 2917. Bugfix on 0.1.1.1-alpha.
30123 - Only limit the lengths of single HS descriptors, even when multiple
30124 HS descriptors are published to an HSDir relay in a single POST
30125 operation. Fixes bug 2948; bugfix on 0.2.1.5-alpha. Found by hsdir.
30126 - Write the current time into the LastWritten line in our state file,
30127 rather than the time from the previous write attempt. Also, stop
30128 trying to use a time of -1 in our log statements. Fixes bug 3039;
30129 bugfix on 0.2.2.14-alpha.
30130 - Be more consistent in our treatment of file system paths. "~" should
30131 get expanded to the user's home directory in the Log config option.
30132 Fixes bug 2971; bugfix on 0.2.0.1-alpha, which introduced the
30133 feature for the -f and --DataDirectory options.
30136 - Make sure every relay writes a state file at least every 12 hours.
30137 Previously, a relay could go for weeks without writing its state
30138 file, and on a crash could lose its bandwidth history, capacity
30139 estimates, client country statistics, and so on. Addresses bug 3012.
30140 - Send END_STREAM_REASON_NOROUTE in response to EHOSTUNREACH errors.
30141 Clients before 0.2.1.27 didn't handle NOROUTE correctly, but such
30142 clients are already deprecated because of security bugs.
30143 - Don't allow v0 hidden service authorities to act as clients.
30144 Required by fix for bug 3000.
30145 - Ignore SIGNAL NEWNYM commands on relay-only Tor instances. Required
30146 by fix for bug 3000.
30147 - Ensure that no empty [dirreq-](read|write)-history lines are added
30148 to an extrainfo document. Implements ticket 2497.
30150 o Code simplification and refactoring:
30151 - Remove workaround code to handle directory responses from servers
30152 that had bug 539 (they would send HTTP status 503 responses _and_
30153 send a body too). Since only server versions before
30154 0.2.0.16-alpha/0.1.2.19 were affected, there is no longer reason to
30155 keep the workaround in place.
30156 - Remove the old 'fuzzy time' logic. It was supposed to be used for
30157 handling calculations where we have a known amount of clock skew and
30158 an allowed amount of unknown skew. But we only used it in three
30159 places, and we never adjusted the known/unknown skew values. This is
30160 still something we might want to do someday, but if we do, we'll
30161 want to do it differently.
30162 - Avoid signed/unsigned comparisons by making SIZE_T_CEILING unsigned.
30163 None of the cases where we did this before were wrong, but by making
30164 this change we avoid warnings. Fixes bug 2475; bugfix on 0.2.1.28.
30165 - Use GetTempDir to find the proper temporary directory location on
30166 Windows when generating temporary files for the unit tests. Patch by
30170 Changes in version 0.2.2.24-alpha - 2011-04-08
30171 Tor 0.2.2.24-alpha fixes a variety of bugs, including a big bug that
30172 prevented Tor clients from effectively using "multihomed" bridges,
30173 that is, bridges that listen on multiple ports or IP addresses so users
30174 can continue to use some of their addresses even if others get blocked.
30177 - Fix a bug where bridge users who configure the non-canonical
30178 address of a bridge automatically switch to its canonical
30179 address. If a bridge listens at more than one address, it should be
30180 able to advertise those addresses independently and any non-blocked
30181 addresses should continue to work. Bugfix on Tor 0.2.0.x. Fixes
30183 - If you configured Tor to use bridge A, and then quit and
30184 configured Tor to use bridge B instead, it would happily continue
30185 to use bridge A if it's still reachable. While this behavior is
30186 a feature if your goal is connectivity, in some scenarios it's a
30187 dangerous bug. Bugfix on Tor 0.2.0.1-alpha; fixes bug 2511.
30188 - Directory authorities now use data collected from their own
30189 uptime observations when choosing whether to assign the HSDir flag
30190 to relays, instead of trusting the uptime value the relay reports in
30191 its descriptor. This change helps prevent an attack where a small
30192 set of nodes with frequently-changing identity keys can blackhole
30193 a hidden service. (Only authorities need upgrade; others will be
30194 fine once they do.) Bugfix on 0.2.0.10-alpha; fixes bug 2709.
30197 - When we restart our relay, we might get a successful connection
30198 from the outside before we've started our reachability tests,
30199 triggering a warning: "ORPort found reachable, but I have no
30200 routerinfo yet. Failing to inform controller of success." This
30201 bug was harmless unless Tor is running under a controller
30202 like Vidalia, in which case the controller would never get a
30203 REACHABILITY_SUCCEEDED status event. Bugfix on 0.1.2.6-alpha;
30205 - Make directory authorities more accurate at recording when
30206 relays that have failed several reachability tests became
30207 unreachable, so we can provide more accuracy at assigning Stable,
30208 Guard, HSDir, etc flags. Bugfix on 0.2.0.6-alpha. Resolves bug 2716.
30209 - Fix an issue that prevented static linking of libevent on
30210 some platforms (notably Linux). Fixes bug 2698; bugfix on
30211 versions 0.2.1.23/0.2.2.8-alpha (the versions introducing
30212 the --with-static-libevent configure option).
30213 - We now ask the other side of a stream (the client or the exit)
30214 for more data on that stream when the amount of queued data on
30215 that stream dips low enough. Previously, we wouldn't ask the
30216 other side for more data until either it sent us more data (which
30217 it wasn't supposed to do if it had exhausted its window!) or we
30218 had completely flushed all our queued data. This flow control fix
30219 should improve throughput. Fixes bug 2756; bugfix on the earliest
30220 released versions of Tor (svn commit r152).
30221 - Avoid a double-mark-for-free warning when failing to attach a
30222 transparent proxy connection. (We thought we had fixed this in
30223 0.2.2.23-alpha, but it turns out our fix was checking the wrong
30224 connection.) Fixes bug 2757; bugfix on 0.1.2.1-alpha (the original
30225 bug) and 0.2.2.23-alpha (the incorrect fix).
30226 - When warning about missing zlib development packages during compile,
30227 give the correct package names. Bugfix on 0.2.0.1-alpha.
30230 - Directory authorities now log the source of a rejected POSTed v3
30231 networkstatus vote.
30232 - Make compilation with clang possible when using
30233 --enable-gcc-warnings by removing two warning options that clang
30234 hasn't implemented yet and by fixing a few warnings. Implements
30236 - When expiring circuits, use microsecond timers rather than
30237 one-second timers. This can avoid an unpleasant situation where a
30238 circuit is launched near the end of one second and expired right
30239 near the beginning of the next, and prevent fluctuations in circuit
30241 - Use computed circuit-build timeouts to decide when to launch
30242 parallel introduction circuits for hidden services. (Previously,
30243 we would retry after 15 seconds.)
30244 - Update to the April 1 2011 Maxmind GeoLite Country database.
30247 - Create the /var/run/tor directory on startup on OpenSUSE if it is
30248 not already created. Patch from Andreas Stieger. Fixes bug 2573.
30250 o Documentation changes:
30251 - Modernize the doxygen configuration file slightly. Fixes bug 2707.
30252 - Resolve all doxygen warnings except those for missing documentation.
30254 - Add doxygen documentation for more functions, fields, and types.
30257 Changes in version 0.2.2.23-alpha - 2011-03-08
30258 Tor 0.2.2.23-alpha lets relays record their bandwidth history so when
30259 they restart they don't lose their bandwidth capacity estimate. This
30260 release also fixes a diverse set of user-facing bugs, ranging from
30261 relays overrunning their rate limiting to clients falsely warning about
30262 clock skew to bridge descriptor leaks by our bridge directory authority.
30265 - Stop sending a CLOCK_SKEW controller status event whenever
30266 we fetch directory information from a relay that has a wrong clock.
30267 Instead, only inform the controller when it's a trusted authority
30268 that claims our clock is wrong. Bugfix on 0.1.2.6-alpha; fixes
30269 the rest of bug 1074.
30270 - Fix an assert in parsing router descriptors containing IPv6
30271 addresses. This one took down the directory authorities when
30272 somebody tried some experimental code. Bugfix on 0.2.1.3-alpha.
30273 - Make the bridge directory authority refuse to answer directory
30274 requests for "all" descriptors. It used to include bridge
30275 descriptors in its answer, which was a major information leak.
30276 Found by "piebeer". Bugfix on 0.2.0.3-alpha.
30277 - If relays set RelayBandwidthBurst but not RelayBandwidthRate,
30278 Tor would ignore their RelayBandwidthBurst setting,
30279 potentially using more bandwidth than expected. Bugfix on
30280 0.2.0.1-alpha. Reported by Paul Wouters. Fixes bug 2470.
30281 - Ignore and warn if the user mistakenly sets "PublishServerDescriptor
30282 hidserv" in her torrc. The 'hidserv' argument never controlled
30283 publication of hidden service descriptors. Bugfix on 0.2.0.1-alpha.
30286 - Relays now save observed peak bandwidth throughput rates to their
30287 state file (along with total usage, which was already saved)
30288 so that they can determine their correct estimated bandwidth on
30289 restart. Resolves bug 1863, where Tor relays would reset their
30290 estimated bandwidth to 0 after restarting.
30291 - Directory authorities now take changes in router IP address and
30292 ORPort into account when determining router stability. Previously,
30293 if a router changed its IP or ORPort, the authorities would not
30294 treat it as having any downtime for the purposes of stability
30295 calculation, whereas clients would experience downtime since the
30296 change could take a while to propagate to them. Resolves issue 1035.
30297 - Enable Address Space Layout Randomization (ASLR) and Data Execution
30298 Prevention (DEP) by default on Windows to make it harder for
30299 attackers to exploit vulnerabilities. Patch from John Brooks.
30301 o Minor bugfixes (on 0.2.1.x and earlier):
30302 - Fix a rare crash bug that could occur when a client was configured
30303 with a large number of bridges. Fixes bug 2629; bugfix on
30304 0.2.1.2-alpha. Bugfix by trac user "shitlei".
30305 - Avoid a double mark-for-free warning when failing to attach a
30306 transparent proxy connection. Bugfix on 0.1.2.1-alpha. Fixes
30308 - Correctly detect failure to allocate an OpenSSL BIO. Fixes bug 2378;
30309 found by "cypherpunks". This bug was introduced before the first
30310 Tor release, in svn commit r110.
30311 - Country codes aren't supported in EntryNodes until 0.2.3.x, so
30312 don't mention them in the manpage. Fixes bug 2450; issue
30313 spotted by keb and G-Lo.
30314 - Fix a bug in bandwidth history state parsing that could have been
30315 triggered if a future version of Tor ever changed the timing
30316 granularity at which bandwidth history is measured. Bugfix on
30317 Tor 0.1.1.11-alpha.
30318 - When a relay decides that its DNS is too broken for it to serve
30319 as an exit server, it advertised itself as a non-exit, but
30320 continued to act as an exit. This could create accidental
30321 partitioning opportunities for users. Instead, if a relay is
30322 going to advertise reject *:* as its exit policy, it should
30323 really act with exit policy "reject *:*". Fixes bug 2366.
30324 Bugfix on Tor 0.1.2.5-alpha. Bugfix by user "postman" on trac.
30325 - In the special case where you configure a public exit relay as your
30326 bridge, Tor would be willing to use that exit relay as the last
30327 hop in your circuit as well. Now we fail that circuit instead.
30328 Bugfix on 0.2.0.12-alpha. Fixes bug 2403. Reported by "piebeer".
30329 - Fix a bug with our locking implementation on Windows that couldn't
30330 correctly detect when a file was already locked. Fixes bug 2504,
30331 bugfix on 0.2.1.6-alpha.
30332 - Fix IPv6-related connect() failures on some platforms (BSD, OS X).
30333 Bugfix on 0.2.0.3-alpha; fixes first part of bug 2660. Patch by
30335 - Set target port in get_interface_address6() correctly. Bugfix
30336 on 0.1.1.4-alpha and 0.2.0.3-alpha; fixes second part of bug 2660.
30337 - Directory authorities are now more robust to hops back in time
30338 when calculating router stability. Previously, if a run of uptime
30339 or downtime appeared to be negative, the calculation could give
30340 incorrect results. Bugfix on 0.2.0.6-alpha; noticed when fixing
30342 - Fix an assert that got triggered when using the TestingTorNetwork
30343 configuration option and then issuing a GETINFO config-text control
30344 command. Fixes bug 2250; bugfix on 0.2.1.2-alpha.
30346 o Minor bugfixes (on 0.2.2.x):
30347 - Clients should not weight BadExit nodes as Exits in their node
30348 selection. Similarly, directory authorities should not count BadExit
30349 bandwidth as Exit bandwidth when computing bandwidth-weights.
30350 Bugfix on 0.2.2.10-alpha; fixes bug 2203.
30351 - Correctly clear our dir_read/dir_write history when there is an
30352 error parsing any bw history value from the state file. Bugfix on
30353 Tor 0.2.2.15-alpha.
30354 - Resolve a bug in verifying signatures of directory objects
30355 with digests longer than SHA1. Bugfix on 0.2.2.20-alpha.
30356 Fixes bug 2409. Found by "piebeer".
30357 - Bridge authorities no longer crash on SIGHUP when they try to
30358 publish their relay descriptor to themselves. Fixes bug 2572. Bugfix
30362 - Log less aggressively about circuit timeout changes, and improve
30363 some other circuit timeout messages. Resolves bug 2004.
30364 - Log a little more clearly about the times at which we're no longer
30365 accepting new connections. Resolves bug 2181.
30366 - Reject attempts at the client side to open connections to private
30367 IP addresses (like 127.0.0.1, 10.0.0.1, and so on) with
30368 a randomly chosen exit node. Attempts to do so are always
30369 ill-defined, generally prevented by exit policies, and usually
30370 in error. This will also help to detect loops in transparent
30371 proxy configurations. You can disable this feature by setting
30372 "ClientRejectInternalAddresses 0" in your torrc.
30373 - Always treat failure to allocate an RSA key as an unrecoverable
30375 - Update to the March 1 2011 Maxmind GeoLite Country database.
30377 o Minor features (log subsystem):
30378 - Add documentation for configuring logging at different severities in
30379 different log domains. We've had this feature since 0.2.1.1-alpha,
30380 but for some reason it never made it into the manpage. Fixes
30382 - Make it simpler to specify "All log domains except for A and B".
30383 Previously you needed to say "[*,~A,~B]". Now you can just say
30385 - Add a "LogMessageDomains 1" option to include the domains of log
30386 messages along with the messages. Without this, there's no way
30387 to use log domains without reading the source or doing a lot
30390 o Packaging changes:
30391 - Stop shipping the Tor specs files and development proposal documents
30392 in the tarball. They are now in a separate git repository at
30393 git://git.torproject.org/torspec.git
30396 Changes in version 0.2.1.30 - 2011-02-23
30397 Tor 0.2.1.30 fixes a variety of less critical bugs. The main other
30398 change is a slight tweak to Tor's TLS handshake that makes relays
30399 and bridges that run this new version reachable from Iran again.
30400 We don't expect this tweak will win the arms race long-term, but it
30401 buys us time until we roll out a better solution.
30404 - Stop sending a CLOCK_SKEW controller status event whenever
30405 we fetch directory information from a relay that has a wrong clock.
30406 Instead, only inform the controller when it's a trusted authority
30407 that claims our clock is wrong. Bugfix on 0.1.2.6-alpha; fixes
30408 the rest of bug 1074.
30409 - Fix a bounds-checking error that could allow an attacker to
30410 remotely crash a directory authority. Bugfix on 0.2.1.5-alpha.
30411 Found by "piebeer".
30412 - If relays set RelayBandwidthBurst but not RelayBandwidthRate,
30413 Tor would ignore their RelayBandwidthBurst setting,
30414 potentially using more bandwidth than expected. Bugfix on
30415 0.2.0.1-alpha. Reported by Paul Wouters. Fixes bug 2470.
30416 - Ignore and warn if the user mistakenly sets "PublishServerDescriptor
30417 hidserv" in her torrc. The 'hidserv' argument never controlled
30418 publication of hidden service descriptors. Bugfix on 0.2.0.1-alpha.
30421 - Adjust our TLS Diffie-Hellman parameters to match those used by
30423 - Update to the February 1 2011 Maxmind GeoLite Country database.
30426 - Check for and reject overly long directory certificates and
30427 directory tokens before they have a chance to hit any assertions.
30428 Bugfix on 0.2.1.28. Found by "doorss".
30429 - Bring the logic that gathers routerinfos and assesses the
30430 acceptability of circuits into line. This prevents a Tor OP from
30431 getting locked in a cycle of choosing its local OR as an exit for a
30432 path (due to a .exit request) and then rejecting the circuit because
30433 its OR is not listed yet. It also prevents Tor clients from using an
30434 OR running in the same instance as an exit (due to a .exit request)
30435 if the OR does not meet the same requirements expected of an OR
30436 running elsewhere. Fixes bug 1859; bugfix on 0.1.0.1-rc.
30438 o Packaging changes:
30439 - Stop shipping the Tor specs files and development proposal documents
30440 in the tarball. They are now in a separate git repository at
30441 git://git.torproject.org/torspec.git
30442 - Do not include Git version tags as though they are SVN tags when
30443 generating a tarball from inside a repository that has switched
30444 between branches. Bugfix on 0.2.1.15-rc; fixes bug 2402.
30447 Changes in version 0.2.2.22-alpha - 2011-01-25
30448 Tor 0.2.2.22-alpha fixes a few more less-critical security issues. The
30449 main other change is a slight tweak to Tor's TLS handshake that makes
30450 relays and bridges that run this new version reachable from Iran again.
30451 We don't expect this tweak will win the arms race long-term, but it
30452 will buy us a bit more time until we roll out a better solution.
30455 - Fix a bounds-checking error that could allow an attacker to
30456 remotely crash a directory authority. Bugfix on 0.2.1.5-alpha.
30457 Found by "piebeer".
30458 - Don't assert when changing from bridge to relay or vice versa
30459 via the controller. The assert happened because we didn't properly
30460 initialize our keys in this case. Bugfix on 0.2.2.18-alpha; fixes
30461 bug 2433. Reported by bastik.
30464 - Adjust our TLS Diffie-Hellman parameters to match those used by
30466 - Provide a log message stating which geoip file we're parsing
30467 instead of just stating that we're parsing the geoip file.
30468 Implements ticket 2432.
30471 - Check for and reject overly long directory certificates and
30472 directory tokens before they have a chance to hit any assertions.
30473 Bugfix on 0.2.1.28 / 0.2.2.20-alpha. Found by "doorss".
30476 Changes in version 0.2.2.21-alpha - 2011-01-15
30477 Tor 0.2.2.21-alpha includes all the patches from Tor 0.2.1.29, which
30478 continues our recent code security audit work. The main fix resolves
30479 a remote heap overflow vulnerability that can allow remote code
30480 execution (CVE-2011-0427). Other fixes address a variety of assert
30481 and crash bugs, most of which we think are hard to exploit remotely.
30483 o Major bugfixes (security), also included in 0.2.1.29:
30484 - Fix a heap overflow bug where an adversary could cause heap
30485 corruption. This bug probably allows remote code execution
30486 attacks. Reported by "debuger". Fixes CVE-2011-0427. Bugfix on
30488 - Prevent a denial-of-service attack by disallowing any
30489 zlib-compressed data whose compression factor is implausibly
30490 high. Fixes part of bug 2324; reported by "doorss".
30491 - Zero out a few more keys in memory before freeing them. Fixes
30492 bug 2384 and part of bug 2385. These key instances found by
30493 "cypherpunks", based on Andrew Case's report about being able
30494 to find sensitive data in Tor's memory space if you have enough
30495 permissions. Bugfix on 0.0.2pre9.
30497 o Major bugfixes (crashes), also included in 0.2.1.29:
30498 - Prevent calls to Libevent from inside Libevent log handlers.
30499 This had potential to cause a nasty set of crashes, especially
30500 if running Libevent with debug logging enabled, and running
30501 Tor with a controller watching for low-severity log messages.
30502 Bugfix on 0.1.0.2-rc. Fixes bug 2190.
30503 - Add a check for SIZE_T_MAX to tor_realloc() to try to avoid
30504 underflow errors there too. Fixes the other part of bug 2324.
30505 - Fix a bug where we would assert if we ever had a
30506 cached-descriptors.new file (or another file read directly into
30507 memory) of exactly SIZE_T_CEILING bytes. Fixes bug 2326; bugfix
30508 on 0.2.1.25. Found by doorss.
30509 - Fix some potential asserts and parsing issues with grossly
30510 malformed router caches. Fixes bug 2352; bugfix on Tor 0.2.1.27.
30513 o Minor bugfixes (other), also included in 0.2.1.29:
30514 - Fix a bug with handling misformed replies to reverse DNS lookup
30515 requests in DNSPort. Bugfix on Tor 0.2.0.1-alpha. Related to a
30516 bug reported by doorss.
30517 - Fix compilation on mingw when a pthreads compatibility library
30518 has been installed. (We don't want to use it, so we shouldn't
30519 be including pthread.h.) Fixes bug 2313; bugfix on 0.1.0.1-rc.
30520 - Fix a bug where we would declare that we had run out of virtual
30521 addresses when the address space was only half-exhausted. Bugfix
30523 - Correctly handle the case where AutomapHostsOnResolve is set but
30524 no virtual addresses are available. Fixes bug 2328; bugfix on
30525 0.1.2.1-alpha. Bug found by doorss.
30526 - Correctly handle wrapping around when we run out of virtual
30527 address space. Found by cypherpunks; bugfix on 0.2.0.5-alpha.
30529 o Minor features, also included in 0.2.1.29:
30530 - Update to the January 1 2011 Maxmind GeoLite Country database.
30531 - Introduce output size checks on all of our decryption functions.
30533 o Build changes, also included in 0.2.1.29:
30534 - Tor does not build packages correctly with Automake 1.6 and earlier;
30535 added a check to Makefile.am to make sure that we're building with
30536 Automake 1.7 or later.
30537 - The 0.2.1.28 tarball was missing src/common/OpenBSD_malloc_Linux.c
30538 because we built it with a too-old version of automake. Thus that
30539 release broke ./configure --enable-openbsd-malloc, which is popular
30540 among really fast exit relays on Linux.
30542 o Major bugfixes, new in 0.2.2.21-alpha:
30543 - Prevent crash/heap corruption when the cbtnummodes consensus
30544 parameter is set to 0 or large values. Fixes bug 2317; bugfix
30547 o Major features, new in 0.2.2.21-alpha:
30548 - Introduce minimum/maximum values that clients will believe
30549 from the consensus. Now we'll have a better chance to avoid crashes
30550 or worse when a consensus param has a weird value.
30552 o Minor features, new in 0.2.2.21-alpha:
30553 - Make sure to disable DirPort if running as a bridge. DirPorts aren't
30554 used on bridges, and it makes bridge scanning somewhat easier.
30555 - If writing the state file to disk fails, wait up to an hour before
30556 retrying again, rather than trying again each second. Fixes bug
30557 2346; bugfix on Tor 0.1.1.3-alpha.
30558 - Make Libevent log messages get delivered to controllers later,
30559 and not from inside the Libevent log handler. This prevents unsafe
30560 reentrant Libevent calls while still letting the log messages
30562 - Detect platforms that brokenly use a signed size_t, and refuse to
30563 build there. Found and analyzed by doorss and rransom.
30564 - Fix a bunch of compile warnings revealed by mingw with gcc 4.5.
30567 o Minor bugfixes, new in 0.2.2.21-alpha:
30568 - Handle SOCKS messages longer than 128 bytes long correctly, rather
30569 than waiting forever for them to finish. Fixes bug 2330; bugfix
30570 on 0.2.0.16-alpha. Found by doorss.
30571 - Add assertions to check for overflow in arguments to
30572 base32_encode() and base32_decode(); fix a signed-unsigned
30573 comparison there too. These bugs are not actually reachable in Tor,
30574 but it's good to prevent future errors too. Found by doorss.
30575 - Correctly detect failures to create DNS requests when using Libevent
30576 versions before v2. (Before Libevent 2, we used our own evdns
30577 implementation. Its return values for Libevent's evdns_resolve_*()
30578 functions are not consistent with those from Libevent.) Fixes bug
30579 2363; bugfix on 0.2.2.6-alpha. Found by "lodger".
30581 o Documentation, new in 0.2.2.21-alpha:
30582 - Document the default socks host and port (127.0.0.1:9050) for
30586 Changes in version 0.2.1.29 - 2011-01-15
30587 Tor 0.2.1.29 continues our recent code security audit work. The main
30588 fix resolves a remote heap overflow vulnerability that can allow remote
30589 code execution. Other fixes address a variety of assert and crash bugs,
30590 most of which we think are hard to exploit remotely.
30592 o Major bugfixes (security):
30593 - Fix a heap overflow bug where an adversary could cause heap
30594 corruption. This bug probably allows remote code execution
30595 attacks. Reported by "debuger". Fixes CVE-2011-0427. Bugfix on
30597 - Prevent a denial-of-service attack by disallowing any
30598 zlib-compressed data whose compression factor is implausibly
30599 high. Fixes part of bug 2324; reported by "doorss".
30600 - Zero out a few more keys in memory before freeing them. Fixes
30601 bug 2384 and part of bug 2385. These key instances found by
30602 "cypherpunks", based on Andrew Case's report about being able
30603 to find sensitive data in Tor's memory space if you have enough
30604 permissions. Bugfix on 0.0.2pre9.
30606 o Major bugfixes (crashes):
30607 - Prevent calls to Libevent from inside Libevent log handlers.
30608 This had potential to cause a nasty set of crashes, especially
30609 if running Libevent with debug logging enabled, and running
30610 Tor with a controller watching for low-severity log messages.
30611 Bugfix on 0.1.0.2-rc. Fixes bug 2190.
30612 - Add a check for SIZE_T_MAX to tor_realloc() to try to avoid
30613 underflow errors there too. Fixes the other part of bug 2324.
30614 - Fix a bug where we would assert if we ever had a
30615 cached-descriptors.new file (or another file read directly into
30616 memory) of exactly SIZE_T_CEILING bytes. Fixes bug 2326; bugfix
30617 on 0.2.1.25. Found by doorss.
30618 - Fix some potential asserts and parsing issues with grossly
30619 malformed router caches. Fixes bug 2352; bugfix on Tor 0.2.1.27.
30622 o Minor bugfixes (other):
30623 - Fix a bug with handling misformed replies to reverse DNS lookup
30624 requests in DNSPort. Bugfix on Tor 0.2.0.1-alpha. Related to a
30625 bug reported by doorss.
30626 - Fix compilation on mingw when a pthreads compatibility library
30627 has been installed. (We don't want to use it, so we shouldn't
30628 be including pthread.h.) Fixes bug 2313; bugfix on 0.1.0.1-rc.
30629 - Fix a bug where we would declare that we had run out of virtual
30630 addresses when the address space was only half-exhausted. Bugfix
30632 - Correctly handle the case where AutomapHostsOnResolve is set but
30633 no virtual addresses are available. Fixes bug 2328; bugfix on
30634 0.1.2.1-alpha. Bug found by doorss.
30635 - Correctly handle wrapping around to when we run out of virtual
30636 address space. Found by cypherpunks, bugfix on 0.2.0.5-alpha.
30637 - The 0.2.1.28 tarball was missing src/common/OpenBSD_malloc_Linux.c
30638 because we built it with a too-old version of automake. Thus that
30639 release broke ./configure --enable-openbsd-malloc, which is popular
30640 among really fast exit relays on Linux.
30643 - Update to the January 1 2011 Maxmind GeoLite Country database.
30644 - Introduce output size checks on all of our decryption functions.
30647 - Tor does not build packages correctly with Automake 1.6 and earlier;
30648 added a check to Makefile.am to make sure that we're building with
30649 Automake 1.7 or later.
30652 Changes in version 0.2.2.20-alpha - 2010-12-17
30653 Tor 0.2.2.20-alpha does some code cleanup to reduce the risk of remotely
30654 exploitable bugs. We also fix a variety of other significant bugs,
30655 change the IP address for one of our directory authorities, and update
30656 the minimum version that Tor relays must run to join the network.
30659 - Fix a remotely exploitable bug that could be used to crash instances
30660 of Tor remotely by overflowing on the heap. Remote-code execution
30661 hasn't been confirmed, but can't be ruled out. Everyone should
30662 upgrade. Bugfix on the 0.1.1 series and later.
30663 - Fix a bug that could break accounting on 64-bit systems with large
30664 time_t values, making them hibernate for impossibly long intervals.
30665 Fixes bug 2146. Bugfix on 0.0.9pre6; fix by boboper.
30666 - Fix a logic error in directory_fetches_from_authorities() that
30667 would cause all _non_-exits refusing single-hop-like circuits
30668 to fetch from authorities, when we wanted to have _exits_ fetch
30669 from authorities. Fixes more of 2097. Bugfix on 0.2.2.16-alpha;
30671 - Fix a stream fairness bug that would cause newer streams on a given
30672 circuit to get preference when reading bytes from the origin or
30673 destination. Fixes bug 2210. Fix by Mashael AlSabah. This bug was
30674 introduced before the first Tor release, in svn revision r152.
30676 o Directory authority changes:
30677 - Change IP address and ports for gabelmoo (v3 directory authority).
30680 - Avoid crashes when AccountingMax is set on clients. Fixes bug 2235.
30681 Bugfix on 0.2.2.18-alpha. Diagnosed by boboper.
30682 - Fix an off-by-one error in calculating some controller command
30683 argument lengths. Fortunately, this mistake is harmless since
30684 the controller code does redundant NUL termination too. Found by
30685 boboper. Bugfix on 0.1.1.1-alpha.
30686 - Do not dereference NULL if a bridge fails to build its
30687 extra-info descriptor. Found by an anonymous commenter on
30688 Trac. Bugfix on 0.2.2.19-alpha.
30691 - Update to the December 1 2010 Maxmind GeoLite Country database.
30692 - Directory authorities now reject relays running any versions of
30693 Tor between 0.2.1.3-alpha and 0.2.1.18 inclusive; they have
30694 known bugs that keep RELAY_EARLY cells from working on rendezvous
30695 circuits. Followup to fix for bug 2081.
30696 - Directory authorities now reject relays running any version of Tor
30697 older than 0.2.0.26-rc. That version is the earliest that fetches
30698 current directory information correctly. Fixes bug 2156.
30699 - Report only the top 10 ports in exit-port stats in order not to
30700 exceed the maximum extra-info descriptor length of 50 KB. Implements
30704 Changes in version 0.2.1.28 - 2010-12-17
30705 Tor 0.2.1.28 does some code cleanup to reduce the risk of remotely
30706 exploitable bugs. We also took this opportunity to change the IP address
30707 for one of our directory authorities, and to update the geoip database
30711 - Fix a remotely exploitable bug that could be used to crash instances
30712 of Tor remotely by overflowing on the heap. Remote-code execution
30713 hasn't been confirmed, but can't be ruled out. Everyone should
30714 upgrade. Bugfix on the 0.1.1 series and later.
30716 o Directory authority changes:
30717 - Change IP address and ports for gabelmoo (v3 directory authority).
30720 - Update to the December 1 2010 Maxmind GeoLite Country database.
30723 Changes in version 0.2.1.27 - 2010-11-23
30724 Yet another OpenSSL security patch broke its compatibility with Tor:
30725 Tor 0.2.1.27 makes relays work with openssl 0.9.8p and 1.0.0.b. We
30726 also took this opportunity to fix several crash bugs, integrate a new
30727 directory authority, and update the bundled GeoIP database.
30730 - Resolve an incompatibility with OpenSSL 0.9.8p and OpenSSL 1.0.0b:
30731 No longer set the tlsext_host_name extension on server SSL objects;
30732 but continue to set it on client SSL objects. Our goal in setting
30733 it was to imitate a browser, not a vhosting server. Fixes bug 2204;
30734 bugfix on 0.2.1.1-alpha.
30735 - Do not log messages to the controller while shrinking buffer
30736 freelists. Doing so would sometimes make the controller connection
30737 try to allocate a buffer chunk, which would mess up the internals
30738 of the freelist and cause an assertion failure. Fixes bug 1125;
30739 fixed by Robert Ransom. Bugfix on 0.2.0.16-alpha.
30740 - Learn our external IP address when we're a relay or bridge, even if
30741 we set PublishServerDescriptor to 0. Bugfix on 0.2.0.3-alpha,
30742 where we introduced bridge relays that don't need to publish to
30743 be useful. Fixes bug 2050.
30744 - Do even more to reject (and not just ignore) annotations on
30745 router descriptors received anywhere but from the cache. Previously
30746 we would ignore such annotations at first, but cache them to disk
30747 anyway. Bugfix on 0.2.0.8-alpha. Found by piebeer.
30748 - When you're using bridges and your network goes away and your
30749 bridges get marked as down, recover when you attempt a new socks
30750 connection (if the network is back), rather than waiting up to an
30751 hour to try fetching new descriptors for your bridges. Bugfix on
30752 0.2.0.3-alpha; fixes bug 1981.
30755 - Move to the November 2010 Maxmind GeoLite country db (rather
30756 than the June 2009 ip-to-country GeoIP db) for our statistics that
30757 count how many users relays are seeing from each country. Now we'll
30758 have more accurate data, especially for many African countries.
30760 o New directory authorities:
30761 - Set up maatuska (run by Linus Nordberg) as the eighth v3 directory
30765 - Fix an assertion failure that could occur in directory caches or
30766 bridge users when using a very short voting interval on a testing
30767 network. Diagnosed by Robert Hogan. Fixes bug 1141; bugfix on
30769 - Enforce multiplicity rules when parsing annotations. Bugfix on
30770 0.2.0.8-alpha. Found by piebeer.
30771 - Allow handshaking OR connections to take a full KeepalivePeriod
30772 seconds to handshake. Previously, we would close them after
30773 IDLE_OR_CONN_TIMEOUT (180) seconds, the same timeout as if they
30774 were open. Bugfix on 0.2.1.26; fixes bug 1840. Thanks to mingw-san
30776 - When building with --enable-gcc-warnings on OpenBSD, disable
30777 warnings in system headers. This makes --enable-gcc-warnings
30778 pass on OpenBSD 4.8.
30781 - Exit nodes didn't recognize EHOSTUNREACH as a plausible error code,
30782 and so sent back END_STREAM_REASON_MISC. Clients now recognize a new
30783 stream ending reason for this case: END_STREAM_REASON_NOROUTE.
30784 Servers can start sending this code when enough clients recognize
30785 it. Bugfix on 0.1.0.1-rc; fixes part of bug 1793.
30786 - Build correctly on mingw with more recent versions of OpenSSL 0.9.8.
30787 Patch from mingw-san.
30790 - Remove the old debian/ directory from the main Tor distribution.
30791 The official Tor-for-debian git repository lives at the URL
30792 https://git.torproject.org/debian/tor.git
30793 - Stop shipping the old doc/website/ directory in the tarball. We
30794 changed the website format in late 2010, and what we shipped in
30795 0.2.1.26 really wasn't that useful anyway.
30798 Changes in version 0.2.2.19-alpha - 2010-11-22
30799 Yet another OpenSSL security patch broke its compatibility with Tor:
30800 Tor 0.2.2.19-alpha makes relays work with OpenSSL 0.9.8p and 1.0.0.b.
30803 - Resolve an incompatibility with OpenSSL 0.9.8p and OpenSSL 1.0.0b:
30804 No longer set the tlsext_host_name extension on server SSL objects;
30805 but continue to set it on client SSL objects. Our goal in setting
30806 it was to imitate a browser, not a vhosting server. Fixes bug 2204;
30807 bugfix on 0.2.1.1-alpha.
30810 - Try harder not to exceed the maximum length of 50 KB when writing
30811 statistics to extra-info descriptors. This bug was triggered by very
30812 fast relays reporting exit-port, entry, and dirreq statistics.
30813 Reported by Olaf Selke. Bugfix on 0.2.2.1-alpha. Fixes bug 2183.
30814 - Publish a router descriptor even if generating an extra-info
30815 descriptor fails. Previously we would not publish a router
30816 descriptor without an extra-info descriptor; this can cause fast
30817 exit relays collecting exit-port statistics to drop from the
30818 consensus. Bugfix on 0.1.2.9-rc; fixes bug 2195.
30821 Changes in version 0.2.2.18-alpha - 2010-11-16
30822 Tor 0.2.2.18-alpha fixes several crash bugs that have been nagging
30823 us lately, makes unpublished bridge relays able to detect their IP
30824 address, and fixes a wide variety of other bugs to get us much closer
30825 to a stable release.
30828 - Do even more to reject (and not just ignore) annotations on
30829 router descriptors received anywhere but from the cache. Previously
30830 we would ignore such annotations at first, but cache them to disk
30831 anyway. Bugfix on 0.2.0.8-alpha. Found by piebeer.
30832 - Do not log messages to the controller while shrinking buffer
30833 freelists. Doing so would sometimes make the controller connection
30834 try to allocate a buffer chunk, which would mess up the internals
30835 of the freelist and cause an assertion failure. Fixes bug 1125;
30836 fixed by Robert Ransom. Bugfix on 0.2.0.16-alpha.
30837 - Learn our external IP address when we're a relay or bridge, even if
30838 we set PublishServerDescriptor to 0. Bugfix on 0.2.0.3-alpha,
30839 where we introduced bridge relays that don't need to publish to
30840 be useful. Fixes bug 2050.
30841 - Maintain separate TLS contexts and certificates for incoming and
30842 outgoing connections in bridge relays. Previously we would use the
30843 same TLS contexts and certs for incoming and outgoing connections.
30844 Bugfix on 0.2.0.3-alpha; addresses bug 988.
30845 - Maintain separate identity keys for incoming and outgoing TLS
30846 contexts in bridge relays. Previously we would use the same
30847 identity keys for incoming and outgoing TLS contexts. Bugfix on
30848 0.2.0.3-alpha; addresses the other half of bug 988.
30849 - Avoid an assertion failure when we as an authority receive a
30850 duplicate upload of a router descriptor that we already have,
30851 but which we previously considered an obsolete descriptor.
30852 Fixes another case of bug 1776. Bugfix on 0.2.2.16-alpha.
30853 - Avoid a crash bug triggered by looking at a dangling pointer while
30854 setting the network status consensus. Found by Robert Ransom.
30855 Bugfix on 0.2.2.17-alpha. Fixes bug 2097.
30856 - Fix a logic error where servers that _didn't_ act as exits would
30857 try to keep their server lists more aggressively up to date than
30858 exits, when it was supposed to be the other way around. Bugfix
30861 o Minor bugfixes (on Tor 0.2.1.x and earlier):
30862 - When we're trying to guess whether we know our IP address as
30863 a relay, we would log various ways that we failed to guess
30864 our address, but never log that we ended up guessing it
30865 successfully. Now add a log line to help confused and anxious
30866 relay operators. Bugfix on 0.1.2.1-alpha; fixes bug 1534.
30867 - Bring the logic that gathers routerinfos and assesses the
30868 acceptability of circuits into line. This prevents a Tor OP from
30869 getting locked in a cycle of choosing its local OR as an exit for a
30870 path (due to a .exit request) and then rejecting the circuit because
30871 its OR is not listed yet. It also prevents Tor clients from using an
30872 OR running in the same instance as an exit (due to a .exit request)
30873 if the OR does not meet the same requirements expected of an OR
30874 running elsewhere. Fixes bug 1859; bugfix on 0.1.0.1-rc.
30875 - Correctly describe errors that occur when generating a TLS object.
30876 Previously we would attribute them to a failure while generating a
30877 TLS context. Patch by Robert Ransom. Bugfix on 0.1.0.4-rc; fixes
30879 - Enforce multiplicity rules when parsing annotations. Bugfix on
30880 0.2.0.8-alpha. Found by piebeer.
30881 - Fix warnings that newer versions of autoconf produced during
30882 ./autogen.sh. These warnings appear to be harmless in our case,
30883 but they were extremely verbose. Fixes bug 2020.
30885 o Minor bugfixes (on Tor 0.2.2.x):
30886 - Enable protection of small arrays whenever we build with gcc
30887 hardening features, not only when also building with warnings
30888 enabled. Fixes bug 2031; bugfix on 0.2.2.14-alpha. Reported by keb.
30891 - Make hidden services work better in private Tor networks by not
30892 requiring any uptime to join the hidden service descriptor
30893 DHT. Implements ticket 2088.
30894 - Rate-limit the "your application is giving Tor only an IP address"
30895 warning. Addresses bug 2000; bugfix on 0.0.8pre2.
30896 - When AllowSingleHopExits is set, print a warning to explain to the
30897 relay operator why most clients are avoiding her relay.
30898 - Update to the November 1 2010 Maxmind GeoLite Country database.
30900 o Code simplifications and refactoring:
30901 - When we fixed bug 1038 we had to put in a restriction not to send
30902 RELAY_EARLY cells on rend circuits. This was necessary as long
30903 as relays using Tor 0.2.1.3-alpha through 0.2.1.18-alpha were
30904 active. Now remove this obsolete check. Resolves bug 2081.
30905 - Some options used different conventions for uppercasing of acronyms
30906 when comparing manpage and source. Fix those in favor of the
30907 manpage, as it makes sense to capitalize acronyms.
30908 - Remove the torrc.complete file. It hasn't been kept up to date
30909 and users will have better luck checking out the manpage.
30910 - Remove the obsolete "NoPublish" option; it has been flagged
30911 as obsolete and has produced a warning since 0.1.1.18-rc.
30912 - Remove everything related to building the expert bundle for OS X.
30913 It has confused many users, doesn't work right on OS X 10.6,
30914 and is hard to get rid of once installed. Resolves bug 1274.
30917 Changes in version 0.2.2.17-alpha - 2010-09-30
30918 Tor 0.2.2.17-alpha introduces a feature to make it harder for clients
30919 to use one-hop circuits (which can put the exit relays at higher risk,
30920 plus unbalance the network); fixes a big bug in bandwidth accounting
30921 for relays that want to limit their monthly bandwidth use; fixes a
30922 big pile of bugs in how clients tolerate temporary network failure;
30923 and makes our adaptive circuit build timeout feature (which improves
30924 client performance if your network is fast while not breaking things
30925 if your network is slow) better handle bad networks.
30928 - Exit relays now try harder to block exit attempts from unknown
30929 relays, to make it harder for people to use them as one-hop proxies
30930 a la tortunnel. Controlled by the refuseunknownexits consensus
30931 parameter (currently enabled), or you can override it on your
30932 relay with the RefuseUnknownExits torrc option. Resolves bug 1751.
30934 o Major bugfixes (0.2.1.x and earlier):
30935 - Fix a bug in bandwidth accounting that could make us use twice
30936 the intended bandwidth when our interval start changes due to
30937 daylight saving time. Now we tolerate skew in stored vs computed
30938 interval starts: if the start of the period changes by no more than
30939 50% of the period's duration, we remember bytes that we transferred
30940 in the old period. Fixes bug 1511; bugfix on 0.0.9pre5.
30941 - Always search the Windows system directory for system DLLs, and
30942 nowhere else. Bugfix on 0.1.1.23; fixes bug 1954.
30943 - When you're using bridges and your network goes away and your
30944 bridges get marked as down, recover when you attempt a new socks
30945 connection (if the network is back), rather than waiting up to an
30946 hour to try fetching new descriptors for your bridges. Bugfix on
30947 0.2.0.3-alpha; fixes bug 1981.
30949 o Major bugfixes (on 0.2.2.x):
30950 - Fix compilation on Windows. Bugfix on 0.2.2.16-alpha; related to
30952 - Fix a segfault that could happen when operating a bridge relay with
30953 no GeoIP database set. Fixes bug 1964; bugfix on 0.2.2.15-alpha.
30954 - The consensus bandwidth-weights (used by clients to choose fast
30955 relays) entered an unexpected edge case in September where
30956 Exits were much scarcer than Guards, resulting in bad weight
30957 recommendations. Now we compute them using new constraints that
30958 should succeed in all cases. Also alter directory authorities to
30959 not include the bandwidth-weights line if they fail to produce
30960 valid values. Fixes bug 1952; bugfix on 0.2.2.10-alpha.
30961 - When weighting bridges during path selection, we used to trust
30962 the bandwidths they provided in their descriptor, only capping them
30963 at 10MB/s. This turned out to be problematic for two reasons:
30964 Bridges could claim to handle a lot more traffic then they
30965 actually would, thus making more clients pick them and have a
30966 pretty effective DoS attack. The other issue is that new bridges
30967 that might not have a good estimate for their bw capacity yet
30968 would not get used at all unless no other bridges are available
30969 to a client. Fixes bug 1912; bugfix on 0.2.2.7-alpha.
30971 o Major bugfixes (on the circuit build timeout feature, 0.2.2.x):
30972 - Ignore cannibalized circuits when recording circuit build times.
30973 This should provide for a minor performance improvement for hidden
30974 service users using 0.2.2.14-alpha, and should remove two spurious
30975 notice log messages. Bugfix on 0.2.2.14-alpha; fixes bug 1740.
30976 - Simplify the logic that causes us to decide if the network is
30977 unavailable for purposes of recording circuit build times. If we
30978 receive no cells whatsoever for the entire duration of a circuit's
30979 full measured lifetime, the network is probably down. Also ignore
30980 one-hop directory fetching circuit timeouts when calculating our
30981 circuit build times. These changes should hopefully reduce the
30982 cases where we see ridiculous circuit build timeouts for people
30983 with spotty wireless connections. Fixes part of bug 1772; bugfix
30985 - Prevent the circuit build timeout from becoming larger than
30986 the maximum build time we have ever seen. Also, prevent the time
30987 period for measurement circuits from becoming larger than twice that
30988 value. Fixes the other part of bug 1772; bugfix on 0.2.2.2-alpha.
30991 - When we run out of directory information such that we can't build
30992 circuits, but then get enough that we can build circuits, log when
30993 we actually construct a circuit, so the user has a better chance of
30994 knowing what's going on. Fixes bug 1362.
30995 - Be more generous with how much bandwidth we'd use up (with
30996 accounting enabled) before entering "soft hibernation". Previously,
30997 we'd refuse new connections and circuits once we'd used up 95% of
30998 our allotment. Now, we use up 95% of our allotment, AND make sure
30999 that we have no more than 500MB (or 3 hours of expected traffic,
31000 whichever is lower) remaining before we enter soft hibernation.
31001 - If we've configured EntryNodes and our network goes away and/or all
31002 our entrynodes get marked down, optimistically retry them all when
31003 a new socks application request appears. Fixes bug 1882.
31004 - Add some more defensive programming for architectures that can't
31005 handle unaligned integer accesses. We don't know of any actual bugs
31006 right now, but that's the best time to fix them. Fixes bug 1943.
31007 - Support line continuations in the torrc config file. If a line
31008 ends with a single backslash character, the newline is ignored, and
31009 the configuration value is treated as continuing on the next line.
31012 o Minor bugfixes (on 0.2.1.x and earlier):
31013 - For bandwidth accounting, calculate our expected bandwidth rate
31014 based on the time during which we were active and not in
31015 soft-hibernation during the last interval. Previously, we were
31016 also considering the time spent in soft-hibernation. If this
31017 was a long time, we would wind up underestimating our bandwidth
31018 by a lot, and skewing our wakeup time towards the start of the
31019 accounting interval. Fixes bug 1789. Bugfix on 0.0.9pre5.
31021 o Minor bugfixes (on 0.2.2.x):
31022 - Resume generating CIRC FAILED REASON=TIMEOUT control port messages,
31023 which were disabled by the circuit build timeout changes in
31024 0.2.2.14-alpha. Bugfix on 0.2.2.14-alpha; fixes bug 1739.
31025 - Make sure we don't warn about missing bandwidth weights when
31026 choosing bridges or other relays not in the consensus. Bugfix on
31027 0.2.2.10-alpha; fixes bug 1805.
31028 - In our logs, do not double-report signatures from unrecognized
31029 authorities both as "from unknown authority" and "not
31030 present". Fixes bug 1956, bugfix on 0.2.2.16-alpha.
31033 Changes in version 0.2.2.16-alpha - 2010-09-17
31034 Tor 0.2.2.16-alpha fixes a variety of old stream fairness bugs (most
31035 evident at exit relays), and also continues to resolve all the little
31036 bugs that have been filling up trac lately.
31038 o Major bugfixes (stream-level fairness):
31039 - When receiving a circuit-level SENDME for a blocked circuit, try
31040 to package cells fairly from all the streams that had previously
31041 been blocked on that circuit. Previously, we had started with the
31042 oldest stream, and allowed each stream to potentially exhaust
31043 the circuit's package window. This gave older streams on any
31044 given circuit priority over newer ones. Fixes bug 1937. Detected
31045 originally by Camilo Viecco. This bug was introduced before the
31046 first Tor release, in svn commit r152: it is the new winner of
31047 the longest-lived bug prize.
31048 - When the exit relay got a circuit-level sendme cell, it started
31049 reading on the exit streams, even if had 500 cells queued in the
31050 circuit queue already, so the circuit queue just grew and grew in
31051 some cases. We fix this by not re-enabling reading on receipt of a
31052 sendme cell when the cell queue is blocked. Fixes bug 1653. Bugfix
31053 on 0.2.0.1-alpha. Detected by Mashael AlSabah. Original patch by
31055 - Newly created streams were allowed to read cells onto circuits,
31056 even if the circuit's cell queue was blocked and waiting to drain.
31057 This created potential unfairness, as older streams would be
31058 blocked, but newer streams would gladly fill the queue completely.
31059 We add code to detect this situation and prevent any stream from
31060 getting more than one free cell. Bugfix on 0.2.0.1-alpha. Partially
31064 - Update to the September 1 2010 Maxmind GeoLite Country database.
31065 - Warn when CookieAuthFileGroupReadable is set but CookieAuthFile is
31066 not. This would lead to a cookie that is still not group readable.
31067 Closes bug 1843. Suggested by katmagic.
31068 - When logging a rate-limited warning, we now mention how many messages
31069 got suppressed since the last warning.
31070 - Add new "perconnbwrate" and "perconnbwburst" consensus params to
31071 do individual connection-level rate limiting of clients. The torrc
31072 config options with the same names trump the consensus params, if
31073 both are present. Replaces the old "bwconnrate" and "bwconnburst"
31074 consensus params which were broken from 0.2.2.7-alpha through
31075 0.2.2.14-alpha. Closes bug 1947.
31076 - When a router changes IP address or port, authorities now launch
31077 a new reachability test for it. Implements ticket 1899.
31078 - Make the formerly ugly "2 unknown, 7 missing key, 0 good, 0 bad,
31079 2 no signature, 4 required" messages about consensus signatures
31080 easier to read, and make sure they get logged at the same severity
31081 as the messages explaining which keys are which. Fixes bug 1290.
31082 - Don't warn when we have a consensus that we can't verify because
31083 of missing certificates, unless those certificates are ones
31084 that we have been trying and failing to download. Fixes bug 1145.
31085 - If you configure your bridge with a known identity fingerprint,
31086 and the bridge authority is unreachable (as it is in at least
31087 one country now), fall back to directly requesting the descriptor
31088 from the bridge. Finishes the feature started in 0.2.0.10-alpha;
31090 - When building with --enable-gcc-warnings on OpenBSD, disable
31091 warnings in system headers. This makes --enable-gcc-warnings
31092 pass on OpenBSD 4.8.
31094 o Minor bugfixes (on 0.2.1.x and earlier):
31095 - Authorities will now attempt to download consensuses if their
31096 own efforts to make a live consensus have failed. This change
31097 means authorities that restart will fetch a valid consensus, and
31098 it means authorities that didn't agree with the current consensus
31099 will still fetch and serve it if it has enough signatures. Bugfix
31100 on 0.2.0.9-alpha; fixes bug 1300.
31101 - Ensure DNS requests launched by "RESOLVE" commands from the
31102 controller respect the __LeaveStreamsUnattached setconf options. The
31103 same goes for requests launched via DNSPort or transparent
31104 proxying. Bugfix on 0.2.0.1-alpha; fixes bug 1525.
31105 - Allow handshaking OR connections to take a full KeepalivePeriod
31106 seconds to handshake. Previously, we would close them after
31107 IDLE_OR_CONN_TIMEOUT (180) seconds, the same timeout as if they
31108 were open. Bugfix on 0.2.1.26; fixes bug 1840. Thanks to mingw-san
31110 - Rate-limit "Failed to hand off onionskin" warnings.
31111 - Never relay a cell for a circuit we have already destroyed.
31112 Between marking a circuit as closeable and finally closing it,
31113 it may have been possible for a few queued cells to get relayed,
31114 even though they would have been immediately dropped by the next
31115 OR in the circuit. Fixes bug 1184; bugfix on 0.2.0.1-alpha.
31116 - Never queue a cell for a circuit that's already been marked
31118 - Never vote for a server as "Running" if we have a descriptor for
31119 it claiming to be hibernating, and that descriptor was published
31120 more recently than our last contact with the server. Bugfix on
31121 0.2.0.3-alpha; fixes bug 911.
31122 - Squash a compile warning on OpenBSD. Reported by Tas; fixes
31125 o Minor bugfixes (on 0.2.2.x):
31126 - Fix a regression introduced in 0.2.2.7-alpha that marked relays
31127 down if a directory fetch fails and you've configured either
31128 bridges or EntryNodes. The intent was to mark the relay as down
31129 _unless_ you're using bridges or EntryNodes, since if you are
31130 then you could quickly run out of entry points.
31131 - Fix the Windows directory-listing code. A bug introduced in
31132 0.2.2.14-alpha could make Windows directory servers forget to load
31133 some of their cached v2 networkstatus files.
31134 - Really allow clients to use relays as bridges. Fixes bug 1776;
31135 bugfix on 0.2.2.15-alpha.
31136 - Demote a warn to info that happens when the CellStatistics option
31137 was just enabled. Bugfix on 0.2.2.15-alpha; fixes bug 1921.
31138 Reported by Moritz Bartl.
31139 - On Windows, build correctly either with or without Unicode support.
31140 This is necessary so that Tor can support fringe platforms like
31141 Windows 98 (which has no Unicode), or Windows CE (which has no
31142 non-Unicode). Bugfix on 0.2.2.14-alpha; fixes bug 1797.
31145 - Add a unit test for cross-platform directory-listing code.
31148 Changes in version 0.2.2.15-alpha - 2010-08-18
31149 Tor 0.2.2.15-alpha fixes a big bug in hidden service availability,
31150 fixes a variety of other bugs that were preventing performance
31151 experiments from moving forward, fixes several bothersome memory leaks,
31152 and generally closes a lot of smaller bugs that have been filling up
31156 - Stop assigning the HSDir flag to relays that disable their
31157 DirPort (and thus will refuse to answer directory requests). This
31158 fix should dramatically improve the reachability of hidden services:
31159 hidden services and hidden service clients pick six HSDir relays
31160 to store and retrieve the hidden service descriptor, and currently
31161 about half of the HSDir relays will refuse to work. Bugfix on
31162 0.2.0.10-alpha; fixes part of bug 1693.
31163 - The PerConnBWRate and Burst config options, along with the
31164 bwconnrate and bwconnburst consensus params, initialized each conn's
31165 token bucket values only when the connection is established. Now we
31166 update them if the config options change, and update them every time
31167 we get a new consensus. Otherwise we can encounter an ugly edge
31168 case where we initialize an OR conn to client-level bandwidth,
31169 but then later the relay joins the consensus and we leave it
31170 throttled. Bugfix on 0.2.2.7-alpha; fixes bug 1830.
31171 - Fix a regression that caused Tor to rebind its ports if it receives
31172 SIGHUP while hibernating. Bugfix in 0.1.1.6-alpha; closes bug 919.
31175 - Lower the maximum weighted-fractional-uptime cutoff to 98%. This
31176 should give us approximately 40-50% more Guard-flagged nodes,
31177 improving the anonymity the Tor network can provide and also
31178 decreasing the dropoff in throughput that relays experience when
31179 they first get the Guard flag.
31180 - Allow enabling or disabling the *Statistics config options while
31184 - Update to the August 1 2010 Maxmind GeoLite Country database.
31185 - Have the controller interface give a more useful message than
31186 "Internal Error" in response to failed GETINFO requests.
31187 - Warn when the same option is provided more than once in a torrc
31188 file, on the command line, or in a single SETCONF statement, and
31189 the option is one that only accepts a single line. Closes bug 1384.
31190 - Build correctly on mingw with more recent versions of OpenSSL 0.9.8.
31191 Patch from mingw-san.
31192 - Add support for the country code "{??}" in torrc options like
31193 ExcludeNodes, to indicate all routers of unknown country. Closes
31195 - Relays report the number of bytes spent on answering directory
31196 requests in extra-info descriptors similar to {read,write}-history.
31197 Implements enhancement 1790.
31199 o Minor bugfixes (on 0.2.1.x and earlier):
31200 - Complain if PublishServerDescriptor is given multiple arguments that
31201 include 0 or 1. This configuration will be rejected in the future.
31202 Bugfix on 0.2.0.1-alpha; closes bug 1107.
31203 - Disallow BridgeRelay 1 and ORPort 0 at once in the configuration.
31204 Bugfix on 0.2.0.13-alpha; closes bug 928.
31205 - Change "Application request when we're believed to be offline."
31206 notice to "Application request when we haven't used client
31207 functionality lately.", to clarify that it's not an error. Bugfix
31208 on 0.0.9.3; fixes bug 1222.
31209 - Fix a bug in the controller interface where "GETINFO ns/asdaskljkl"
31210 would return "551 Internal error" rather than "552 Unrecognized key
31211 ns/asdaskljkl". Bugfix on 0.1.2.3-alpha.
31212 - Users can't configure a regular relay to be their bridge. It didn't
31213 work because when Tor fetched the bridge descriptor, it found
31214 that it already had it, and didn't realize that the purpose of the
31215 descriptor had changed. Now we replace routers with a purpose other
31216 than bridge with bridge descriptors when fetching them. Bugfix on
31217 0.1.1.9-alpha. Bug 1776 not yet fixed because now we immediately
31218 refetch the descriptor with router purpose 'general', disabling
31220 - Fix a rare bug in rend_fn unit tests: we would fail a test when
31221 a randomly generated port is 0. Diagnosed by Matt Edman. Bugfix
31222 on 0.2.0.10-alpha; fixes bug 1808.
31223 - Exit nodes didn't recognize EHOSTUNREACH as a plausible error code,
31224 and so sent back END_STREAM_REASON_MISC. Clients now recognize a new
31225 stream ending reason for this case: END_STREAM_REASON_NOROUTE.
31226 Servers can start sending this code when enough clients recognize
31227 it. Also update the spec to reflect this new reason. Bugfix on
31228 0.1.0.1-rc; fixes part of bug 1793.
31229 - Delay geoip stats collection by bridges for 6 hours, not 2 hours,
31230 when we switch from being a public relay to a bridge. Otherwise
31231 there will still be clients that see the relay in their consensus,
31232 and the stats will end up wrong. Bugfix on 0.2.1.15-rc; fixes bug
31234 - Instead of giving an assertion failure on an internal mismatch
31235 on estimated freelist size, just log a BUG warning and try later.
31236 Mitigates but does not fix bug 1125.
31237 - Fix an assertion failure that could occur in caches or bridge users
31238 when using a very short voting interval on a testing network.
31239 Diagnosed by Robert Hogan. Fixes bug 1141; bugfix on 0.2.0.8-alpha.
31241 o Minor bugfixes (on 0.2.2.x):
31242 - Alter directory authorities to always consider Exit-flagged nodes
31243 as potential Guard nodes in their votes. The actual decision to
31244 use Exits as Guards is done in the consensus bandwidth weights.
31245 Fixes bug 1294; bugfix on 0.2.2.10-alpha.
31246 - When the controller is reporting the purpose of circuits that
31247 didn't finish building before the circuit build timeout, it was
31248 printing UNKNOWN_13. Now print EXPIRED. Bugfix on 0.2.2.14-alpha.
31249 - Our libevent version parsing code couldn't handle versions like
31250 1.4.14b-stable and incorrectly warned the user about using an
31251 old and broken version of libevent. Treat 1.4.14b-stable like
31252 1.4.14-stable when parsing the version. Fixes bug 1731; bugfix
31254 - Don't use substitution references like $(VAR:MOD) when
31255 $(asciidoc_files) is empty -- make(1) on NetBSD transforms
31256 '$(:x)' to 'x' rather than the empty string. This bites us in
31257 doc/ when configured with --disable-asciidoc. Bugfix on
31258 0.2.2.9-alpha; fixes bug 1773.
31259 - Remove a spurious hidden service server-side log notice about
31260 "Ancient non-dirty circuits". Bugfix on 0.2.2.14-alpha; fixes
31262 - Fix compilation with --with-dmalloc set. Bugfix on 0.2.2.6-alpha;
31264 - Correctly report written bytes on linked connections. Found while
31265 implementing 1790. Bugfix on 0.2.2.4-alpha.
31266 - Fix three memory leaks: one in circuit_build_times_parse_state(),
31267 one in dirvote_add_signatures_to_pending_consensus(), and one every
31268 time we parse a v3 network consensus. Bugfixes on 0.2.2.14-alpha,
31269 0.2.2.6-alpha, and 0.2.2.10-alpha respectively; fixes bug 1831.
31271 o Code simplifications and refactoring:
31272 - Take a first step towards making or.h smaller by splitting out
31273 function definitions for all source files in src/or/. Leave
31274 structures and defines in or.h for now.
31275 - Remove a bunch of unused function declarations as well as a block of
31276 #if 0'd code from the unit tests. Closes bug 1824.
31277 - New unit tests for exit-port history statistics; refactored exit
31278 statistics code to be more easily tested.
31279 - Remove the old debian/ directory from the main Tor distribution.
31280 The official Tor-for-debian git repository lives at the URL
31281 https://git.torproject.org/debian/tor.git
31284 Changes in version 0.2.2.14-alpha - 2010-07-12
31285 Tor 0.2.2.14-alpha greatly improves client-side handling of
31286 circuit build timeouts, which are used to estimate speed and improve
31287 performance. We also move to a much better GeoIP database, port Tor to
31288 Windows CE, introduce new compile flags that improve code security,
31289 add an eighth v3 directory authority, and address a lot of more
31293 - Tor directory authorities no longer crash when started with a
31294 cached-microdesc-consensus file in their data directory. Bugfix
31295 on 0.2.2.6-alpha; fixes bug 1532.
31296 - Treat an unset $HOME like an empty $HOME rather than triggering an
31297 assert. Bugfix on 0.0.8pre1; fixes bug 1522.
31298 - Ignore negative and large circuit build timeout values that can
31299 happen during a suspend or hibernate. These values caused various
31300 asserts to fire. Bugfix on 0.2.2.2-alpha; fixes bug 1245.
31301 - Alter calculation of Pareto distribution parameter 'Xm' for
31302 Circuit Build Timeout learning to use the weighted average of the
31303 top N=3 modes (because we have three entry guards). Considering
31304 multiple modes should improve the timeout calculation in some cases,
31305 and prevent extremely high timeout values. Bugfix on 0.2.2.2-alpha;
31307 - Alter calculation of Pareto distribution parameter 'Alpha' to use a
31308 right censored distribution model. This approach improves over the
31309 synthetic timeout generation approach that was producing insanely
31310 high timeout values. Now we calculate build timeouts using truncated
31311 times. Bugfix on 0.2.2.2-alpha; fixes bugs 1245 and 1335.
31312 - Do not close circuits that are under construction when they reach
31313 the circuit build timeout. Instead, leave them building (but do not
31314 use them) for up until the time corresponding to the 95th percentile
31315 on the Pareto CDF or 60 seconds, whichever is greater. This is done
31316 to provide better data for the new Pareto model. This percentile
31317 can be controlled by the consensus.
31320 - Move to the June 2010 Maxmind GeoLite country db (rather than the
31321 June 2009 ip-to-country GeoIP db) for our statistics that count
31322 how many users relays are seeing from each country. Now we have
31323 more accurate data for many African countries.
31324 - Port Tor to build and run correctly on Windows CE systems, using
31325 the wcecompat library. Contributed by Valerio Lupi.
31326 - New "--enable-gcc-hardening" ./configure flag (off by default)
31327 to turn on gcc compile time hardening options. It ensures
31328 that signed ints have defined behavior (-fwrapv), enables
31329 -D_FORTIFY_SOURCE=2 (requiring -O2), adds stack smashing protection
31330 with canaries (-fstack-protector-all), turns on ASLR protection if
31331 supported by the kernel (-fPIE, -pie), and adds additional security
31332 related warnings. Verified to work on Mac OS X and Debian Lenny.
31333 - New "--enable-linker-hardening" ./configure flag (off by default)
31334 to turn on ELF specific hardening features (relro, now). This does
31335 not work with Mac OS X or any other non-ELF binary format.
31337 o New directory authorities:
31338 - Set up maatuska (run by Linus Nordberg) as the eighth v3 directory
31342 - New config option "WarnUnsafeSocks 0" disables the warning that
31343 occurs whenever Tor receives a socks handshake using a version of
31344 the socks protocol that can only provide an IP address (rather
31345 than a hostname). Setups that do DNS locally over Tor are fine,
31346 and we shouldn't spam the logs in that case.
31347 - Convert the HACKING file to asciidoc, and add a few new sections
31348 to it, explaining how we use Git, how we make changelogs, and
31349 what should go in a patch.
31350 - Add a TIMEOUT_RATE keyword to the BUILDTIMEOUT_SET control port
31351 event, to give information on the current rate of circuit timeouts
31352 over our stored history.
31353 - Add ability to disable circuit build time learning via consensus
31354 parameter and via a LearnCircuitBuildTimeout config option. Also
31355 automatically disable circuit build time calculation if we are
31356 either a AuthoritativeDirectory, or if we fail to write our state
31357 file. Fixes bug 1296.
31358 - More gracefully handle corrupt state files, removing asserts
31359 in favor of saving a backup and resetting state.
31360 - Rename the "log.h" header to "torlog.h" so as to conflict with fewer
31364 - Build correctly on OSX with zlib 1.2.4 and higher with all warnings
31366 - When a2x fails, mention that the user could disable manpages instead
31367 of trying to fix their asciidoc installation.
31368 - Where available, use Libevent 2.0's periodic timers so that our
31369 once-per-second cleanup code gets called even more closely to
31370 once per second than it would otherwise. Fixes bug 943.
31371 - If you run a bridge that listens on multiple IP addresses, and
31372 some user configures a bridge address that uses a different IP
31373 address than your bridge writes in its router descriptor, and the
31374 user doesn't specify an identity key, their Tor would discard the
31375 descriptor because "it isn't one of our configured bridges", and
31376 fail to bootstrap. Now believe the descriptor and bootstrap anyway.
31377 Bugfix on 0.2.0.3-alpha.
31378 - If OpenSSL fails to make a duplicate of a private or public key, log
31379 an error message and try to exit cleanly. May help with debugging
31380 if bug 1209 ever remanifests.
31381 - Save a couple bytes in memory allocation every time we escape
31382 certain characters in a string. Patch from Florian Zumbiehl.
31383 - Make it explicit that we don't cannibalize one-hop circuits. This
31384 happens in the wild, but doesn't turn out to be a problem because
31385 we fortunately don't use those circuits. Many thanks to outofwords
31386 for the initial analysis and to swissknife who confirmed that
31387 two-hop circuits are actually created.
31388 - Make directory mirrors report non-zero dirreq-v[23]-shares again.
31389 Fixes bug 1564; bugfix on 0.2.2.9-alpha.
31390 - Eliminate a case where a circuit build time warning was displayed
31391 after network connectivity resumed. Bugfix on 0.2.2.2-alpha.
31394 Changes in version 0.2.1.26 - 2010-05-02
31395 Tor 0.2.1.26 addresses the recent connection and memory overload
31396 problems we've been seeing on relays, especially relays with their
31397 DirPort open. If your relay has been crashing, or you turned it off
31398 because it used too many resources, give this release a try.
31400 This release also fixes yet another instance of broken OpenSSL libraries
31401 that was causing some relays to drop out of the consensus.
31404 - Teach relays to defend themselves from connection overload. Relays
31405 now close idle circuits early if it looks like they were intended
31406 for directory fetches. Relays are also more aggressive about closing
31407 TLS connections that have no circuits on them. Such circuits are
31408 unlikely to be re-used, and tens of thousands of them were piling
31409 up at the fast relays, causing the relays to run out of sockets
31410 and memory. Bugfix on 0.2.0.22-rc (where clients started tunneling
31411 their directory fetches over TLS).
31412 - Fix SSL renegotiation behavior on OpenSSL versions like on Centos
31413 that claim to be earlier than 0.9.8m, but which have in reality
31414 backported huge swaths of 0.9.8m or 0.9.8n renegotiation
31415 behavior. Possible fix for some cases of bug 1346.
31416 - Directory mirrors were fetching relay descriptors only from v2
31417 directory authorities, rather than v3 authorities like they should.
31418 Only 2 v2 authorities remain (compared to 7 v3 authorities), leading
31419 to a serious bottleneck. Bugfix on 0.2.0.9-alpha. Fixes bug 1324.
31422 - Finally get rid of the deprecated and now harmful notion of "clique
31423 mode", where directory authorities maintain TLS connections to
31427 - In the util/threads test, no longer free the test_mutex before all
31428 worker threads have finished. Bugfix on 0.2.1.6-alpha.
31429 - The master thread could starve the worker threads quite badly on
31430 certain systems, causing them to run only partially in the allowed
31431 window. This resulted in test failures. Now the master thread sleeps
31432 occasionally for a few microseconds while the two worker-threads
31433 compete for the mutex. Bugfix on 0.2.0.1-alpha.
31436 Changes in version 0.2.2.13-alpha - 2010-04-24
31437 Tor 0.2.2.13-alpha addresses the recent connection and memory overload
31438 problems we've been seeing on relays, especially relays with their
31439 DirPort open. If your relay has been crashing, or you turned it off
31440 because it used too many resources, give this release a try.
31443 - Teach relays to defend themselves from connection overload. Relays
31444 now close idle circuits early if it looks like they were intended
31445 for directory fetches. Relays are also more aggressive about closing
31446 TLS connections that have no circuits on them. Such circuits are
31447 unlikely to be re-used, and tens of thousands of them were piling
31448 up at the fast relays, causing the relays to run out of sockets
31449 and memory. Bugfix on 0.2.0.22-rc (where clients started tunneling
31450 their directory fetches over TLS).
31453 - Finally get rid of the deprecated and now harmful notion of "clique
31454 mode", where directory authorities maintain TLS connections to
31456 - Directory authorities now do an immediate reachability check as soon
31457 as they hear about a new relay. This change should slightly reduce
31458 the time between setting up a relay and getting listed as running
31459 in the consensus. It should also improve the time between setting
31460 up a bridge and seeing use by bridge users.
31461 - Directory authorities no longer launch a TLS connection to every
31462 relay as they startup. Now that we have 2k+ descriptors cached,
31463 the resulting network hiccup is becoming a burden. Besides,
31464 authorities already avoid voting about Running for the first half
31465 hour of their uptime.
31468 Changes in version 0.2.2.12-alpha - 2010-04-20
31469 Tor 0.2.2.12-alpha fixes a critical bug in how directory authorities
31470 handle and vote on descriptors. It was causing relays to drop out of
31474 - Many relays have been falling out of the consensus lately because
31475 not enough authorities know about their descriptor for them to get
31476 a majority of votes. When we deprecated the v2 directory protocol,
31477 we got rid of the only way that v3 authorities can hear from each
31478 other about other descriptors. Now authorities examine every v3
31479 vote for new descriptors, and fetch them from that authority. Bugfix
31481 - Fix two typos in tor_vasprintf() that broke the compile on Windows,
31482 and a warning in or.h related to bandwidth_weight_rule_t that
31483 prevented clean compile on OS X. Fixes bug 1363; bugfix on
31485 - Fix a segfault on relays when DirReqStatistics is enabled
31486 and 24 hours pass. Bug found by keb. Fixes bug 1365; bugfix on
31490 - Demote a confusing TLS warning that relay operators might get when
31491 someone tries to talk to their OrPort. It is neither the operator's
31492 fault nor can they do anything about it. Fixes bug 1364; bugfix
31496 Changes in version 0.2.2.11-alpha - 2010-04-15
31497 Tor 0.2.2.11-alpha fixes yet another instance of broken OpenSSL
31498 libraries that was causing some relays to drop out of the consensus.
31501 - Directory mirrors were fetching relay descriptors only from v2
31502 directory authorities, rather than v3 authorities like they should.
31503 Only 2 v2 authorities remain (compared to 7 v3 authorities), leading
31504 to a serious bottleneck. Bugfix on 0.2.0.9-alpha. Fixes bug 1324.
31505 - Fix a parsing error that made every possible value of
31506 CircPriorityHalflifeMsec get treated as "1 msec". Bugfix
31507 on 0.2.2.7-alpha. Rename CircPriorityHalflifeMsec to
31508 CircuitPriorityHalflifeMsec, so authorities can tell newer relays
31509 about the option without breaking older ones.
31510 - Fix SSL renegotiation behavior on OpenSSL versions like on Centos
31511 that claim to be earlier than 0.9.8m, but which have in reality
31512 backported huge swaths of 0.9.8m or 0.9.8n renegotiation
31513 behavior. Possible fix for some cases of bug 1346.
31516 - Experiment with a more aggressive approach to preventing clients
31517 from making one-hop exit streams. Exit relays who want to try it
31518 out can set "RefuseUnknownExits 1" in their torrc, and then look
31519 for "Attempt by %s to open a stream" log messages. Let us know
31521 - Add support for statically linking zlib by specifying
31522 --enable-static-zlib, to go with our support for statically linking
31523 openssl and libevent. Resolves bug 1358.
31526 - Fix a segfault that happens whenever a Tor client that is using
31527 libevent2's bufferevents gets a hup signal. Bugfix on 0.2.2.5-alpha;
31529 - When we cleaned up the contrib/tor-exit-notice.html file, we left
31530 out the first line. Fixes bug 1295.
31531 - When building the manpage from a tarball, we required asciidoc, but
31532 the asciidoc -> roff/html conversion was already done for the
31533 tarball. Make 'make' complain only when we need asciidoc (either
31534 because we're compiling directly from git, or because we altered
31535 the asciidoc manpage in the tarball). Bugfix on 0.2.2.9-alpha.
31536 - When none of the directory authorities vote on any params, Tor
31537 segfaulted when trying to make the consensus from the votes. We
31538 didn't trigger the bug in practice, because authorities do include
31539 params in their votes. Bugfix on 0.2.2.10-alpha; fixes bug 1322.
31542 - In the util/threads test, no longer free the test_mutex before all
31543 worker threads have finished. Bugfix on 0.2.1.6-alpha.
31544 - The master thread could starve the worker threads quite badly on
31545 certain systems, causing them to run only partially in the allowed
31546 window. This resulted in test failures. Now the master thread sleeps
31547 occasionally for a few microseconds while the two worker-threads
31548 compete for the mutex. Bugfix on 0.2.0.1-alpha.
31551 Changes in version 0.2.2.10-alpha - 2010-03-07
31552 Tor 0.2.2.10-alpha fixes a regression introduced in 0.2.2.9-alpha that
31553 could prevent relays from guessing their IP address correctly. It also
31554 starts the groundwork for another client-side performance boost, since
31555 currently we're not making efficient use of relays that have both the
31556 Guard flag and the Exit flag.
31559 - Fix a regression from our patch for bug 1244 that caused relays
31560 to guess their IP address incorrectly if they didn't set Address
31561 in their torrc and/or their address fails to resolve. Bugfix on
31562 0.2.2.9-alpha; fixes bug 1269.
31564 o Major features (performance):
31565 - Directory authorities now compute consensus weightings that instruct
31566 clients how to weight relays flagged as Guard, Exit, Guard+Exit,
31567 and no flag. Clients that use these weightings will distribute
31568 network load more evenly across these different relay types. The
31569 weightings are in the consensus so we can change them globally in
31570 the future. Extra thanks to "outofwords" for finding some nasty
31571 security bugs in the first implementation of this feature.
31573 o Minor features (performance):
31574 - Always perform router selections using weighted relay bandwidth,
31575 even if we don't need a high capacity circuit at the time. Non-fast
31576 circuits now only differ from fast ones in that they can use relays
31577 not marked with the Fast flag. This "feature" could turn out to
31578 be a horrible bug; we should investigate more before it goes into
31582 - Allow disabling building of the manpages. Skipping the manpage
31583 speeds up the build considerably.
31585 o Minor bugfixes (on 0.2.2.x):
31586 - Fix a memleak in the EXTENDCIRCUIT logic. Spotted by coverity.
31587 Bugfix on 0.2.2.9-alpha.
31588 - Disallow values larger than INT32_MAX for PerConnBWRate|Burst
31589 config option. Bugfix on 0.2.2.7-alpha.
31590 - Ship the asciidoc-helper file in the tarball, so that people can
31591 build from source if they want to, and touching the .1.txt files
31592 doesn't break the build. Bugfix on 0.2.2.9-alpha.
31594 o Minor bugfixes (on 0.2.1.x or earlier):
31595 - Fix a dereference-then-NULL-check sequence when publishing
31596 descriptors. Bugfix on 0.2.1.5-alpha. Discovered by ekir; fixes
31598 - Fix another dereference-then-NULL-check sequence. Bugfix on
31599 0.2.1.14-rc. Discovered by ekir; fixes bug 1256.
31600 - Make sure we treat potentially not NUL-terminated strings correctly.
31601 Bugfix on 0.1.1.13-alpha. Discovered by rieo; fixes bug 1257.
31603 o Code simplifications and refactoring:
31604 - Fix some urls in the exit notice file and make it XHTML1.1 strict
31605 compliant. Based on a patch from Christian Kujau.
31606 - Don't use sed in asciidoc-helper anymore.
31607 - Make the build process fail if asciidoc cannot be found and
31608 building with asciidoc isn't disabled.
31611 Changes in version 0.2.2.9-alpha - 2010-02-22
31612 Tor 0.2.2.9-alpha makes Tor work again on the latest OS X, updates the
31613 location of a directory authority, and cleans up a bunch of small bugs.
31615 o Directory authority changes:
31616 - Change IP address for dannenberg (v3 directory authority), and
31617 remove moria2 (obsolete v1, v2 directory authority and v0 hidden
31618 service directory authority) from the list.
31621 - Make Tor work again on the latest OS X: when deciding whether to
31622 use strange flags to turn TLS renegotiation on, detect the OpenSSL
31623 version at run-time, not compile time. We need to do this because
31624 Apple doesn't update its dev-tools headers when it updates its
31625 libraries in a security patch.
31626 - Fix a potential buffer overflow in lookup_last_hid_serv_request()
31627 that could happen on 32-bit platforms with 64-bit time_t. Also fix
31628 a memory leak when requesting a hidden service descriptor we've
31629 requested before. Fixes bug 1242, bugfix on 0.2.0.18-alpha. Found
31631 - Authorities could be tricked into giving out the Exit flag to relays
31632 that didn't allow exiting to any ports. This bug could screw
31633 with load balancing and stats. Bugfix on 0.1.1.6-alpha; fixes bug
31634 1238. Bug discovered by Martin Kowalczyk.
31635 - When freeing a session key, zero it out completely. We only zeroed
31636 the first ptrsize bytes. Bugfix on 0.0.2pre8. Discovered and
31637 patched by ekir. Fixes bug 1254.
31640 - Fix static compilation by listing the openssl libraries in the right
31641 order. Bugfix on Tor 0.2.2.8-alpha; fixes bug 1237.
31642 - Resume handling .exit hostnames in a special way: originally we
31643 stripped the .exit part and used the requested exit relay. In
31644 0.2.2.1-alpha we stopped treating them in any special way, meaning
31645 if you use a .exit address then Tor will pass it on to the exit
31646 relay. Now we reject the .exit stream outright, since that behavior
31647 might be more expected by the user. Found and diagnosed by Scott
31648 Bennett and Downie on or-talk.
31649 - Don't spam the controller with events when we have no file
31650 descriptors available. Bugfix on 0.2.1.5-alpha. (Rate-limiting
31651 for log messages was already solved from bug 748.)
31652 - Avoid a bogus overlapped memcpy in tor_addr_copy(). Reported by
31654 - Make the DNSPort option work with libevent 2.x. Don't alter the
31655 behavior for libevent 1.x. Fixes bug 1143. Found by SwissTorExit.
31656 - Emit a GUARD DROPPED controller event for a case we missed.
31657 - Make more fields in the controller protocol case-insensitive, since
31658 control-spec.txt said they were.
31659 - Refactor resolve_my_address() to not use gethostbyname() anymore.
31660 Fixes bug 1244; bugfix on 0.0.2pre25. Reported by Mike Mestnik.
31661 - Fix a spec conformance issue: the network-status-version token
31662 must be the first token in a v3 consensus or vote. Discovered by
31663 parakeep. Bugfix on 0.2.0.3-alpha.
31665 o Code simplifications and refactoring:
31666 - Generate our manpage and HTML documentation using Asciidoc. This
31667 change should make it easier to maintain the documentation, and
31668 produce nicer HTML.
31669 - Remove the --enable-iphone option. According to reports from Marco
31670 Bonetti, Tor builds fine without any special tweaking on recent
31671 iPhone SDK versions.
31672 - Removed some unnecessary files from the source distribution. The
31673 AUTHORS file has now been merged into the people page on the
31674 website. The roadmaps and design doc can now be found in the
31675 projects directory in svn.
31676 - Enabled various circuit build timeout constants to be controlled
31677 by consensus parameters. Also set better defaults for these
31678 parameters based on experimentation on broadband and simulated
31679 high latency links.
31682 - The 'EXTENDCIRCUIT' control port command can now be used with
31683 a circ id of 0 and no path. This feature will cause Tor to build
31684 a new 'fast' general purpose circuit using its own path selection
31686 - Added a BUILDTIMEOUT_SET controller event to describe changes
31687 to the circuit build timeout.
31688 - Future-proof the controller protocol a bit by ignoring keyword
31689 arguments we do not recognize.
31690 - Expand homedirs passed to tor-checkkey. This should silence a
31691 coverity complaint about passing a user-supplied string into
31692 open() without checking it.
31695 Changes in version 0.2.1.25 - 2010-03-16
31696 Tor 0.2.1.25 fixes a regression introduced in 0.2.1.23 that could
31697 prevent relays from guessing their IP address correctly. It also fixes
31698 several minor potential security bugs.
31701 - Fix a regression from our patch for bug 1244 that caused relays
31702 to guess their IP address incorrectly if they didn't set Address
31703 in their torrc and/or their address fails to resolve. Bugfix on
31704 0.2.1.23; fixes bug 1269.
31705 - When freeing a session key, zero it out completely. We only zeroed
31706 the first ptrsize bytes. Bugfix on 0.0.2pre8. Discovered and
31707 patched by ekir. Fixes bug 1254.
31710 - Fix a dereference-then-NULL-check sequence when publishing
31711 descriptors. Bugfix on 0.2.1.5-alpha. Discovered by ekir; fixes
31713 - Fix another dereference-then-NULL-check sequence. Bugfix on
31714 0.2.1.14-rc. Discovered by ekir; fixes bug 1256.
31715 - Make sure we treat potentially not NUL-terminated strings correctly.
31716 Bugfix on 0.1.1.13-alpha. Discovered by rieo; fixes bug 1257.
31720 Changes in version 0.2.1.24 - 2010-02-21
31721 Tor 0.2.1.24 makes Tor work again on the latest OS X -- this time
31725 - Work correctly out-of-the-box with even more vendor-patched versions
31726 of OpenSSL. In particular, make it so Debian and OS X don't need
31727 customized patches to run/build.
31730 Changes in version 0.2.1.23 - 2010-02-13
31731 Tor 0.2.1.23 fixes a huge client-side performance bug, makes Tor work
31732 again on the latest OS X, and updates the location of a directory
31735 o Major bugfixes (performance):
31736 - We were selecting our guards uniformly at random, and then weighting
31737 which of our guards we'd use uniformly at random. This imbalance
31738 meant that Tor clients were severely limited on throughput (and
31739 probably latency too) by the first hop in their circuit. Now we
31740 select guards weighted by currently advertised bandwidth. We also
31741 automatically discard guards picked using the old algorithm. Fixes
31742 bug 1217; bugfix on 0.2.1.3-alpha. Found by Mike Perry.
31745 - Make Tor work again on the latest OS X: when deciding whether to
31746 use strange flags to turn TLS renegotiation on, detect the OpenSSL
31747 version at run-time, not compile time. We need to do this because
31748 Apple doesn't update its dev-tools headers when it updates its
31749 libraries in a security patch.
31750 - Fix a potential buffer overflow in lookup_last_hid_serv_request()
31751 that could happen on 32-bit platforms with 64-bit time_t. Also fix
31752 a memory leak when requesting a hidden service descriptor we've
31753 requested before. Fixes bug 1242, bugfix on 0.2.0.18-alpha. Found
31756 o Directory authority changes:
31757 - Change IP address for dannenberg (v3 directory authority), and
31758 remove moria2 (obsolete v1, v2 directory authority and v0 hidden
31759 service directory authority) from the list.
31762 - Refactor resolve_my_address() to not use gethostbyname() anymore.
31763 Fixes bug 1244; bugfix on 0.0.2pre25. Reported by Mike Mestnik.
31766 - Avoid a mad rush at the beginning of each month when each client
31767 rotates half of its guards. Instead we spread the rotation out
31768 throughout the month, but we still avoid leaving a precise timestamp
31769 in the state file about when we first picked the guard. Improves
31770 over the behavior introduced in 0.1.2.17.
31773 Changes in version 0.2.2.8-alpha - 2010-01-26
31774 Tor 0.2.2.8-alpha fixes a crash bug in 0.2.2.7-alpha that has been
31775 causing bridge relays to disappear. If you're running a bridge,
31779 - Fix a memory corruption bug on bridges that occurred during the
31780 inclusion of stats data in extra-info descriptors. Also fix the
31781 interface for geoip_get_bridge_stats* to prevent similar bugs in
31782 the future. Diagnosis by Tas, patch by Karsten and Sebastian.
31783 Fixes bug 1208; bugfix on 0.2.2.7-alpha.
31786 - Ignore OutboundBindAddress when connecting to localhost.
31787 Connections to localhost need to come _from_ localhost, or else
31788 local servers (like DNS and outgoing HTTP/SOCKS proxies) will often
31792 Changes in version 0.2.2.7-alpha - 2010-01-19
31793 Tor 0.2.2.7-alpha fixes a huge client-side performance bug, as well
31794 as laying the groundwork for further relay-side performance fixes. It
31795 also starts cleaning up client behavior with respect to the EntryNodes,
31796 ExitNodes, and StrictNodes config options.
31798 This release also rotates two directory authority keys, due to a
31799 security breach of some of the Torproject servers.
31801 o Directory authority changes:
31802 - Rotate keys (both v3 identity and relay identity) for moria1
31805 o Major features (performance):
31806 - We were selecting our guards uniformly at random, and then weighting
31807 which of our guards we'd use uniformly at random. This imbalance
31808 meant that Tor clients were severely limited on throughput (and
31809 probably latency too) by the first hop in their circuit. Now we
31810 select guards weighted by currently advertised bandwidth. We also
31811 automatically discard guards picked using the old algorithm. Fixes
31812 bug 1217; bugfix on 0.2.1.3-alpha. Found by Mike Perry.
31813 - When choosing which cells to relay first, relays can now favor
31814 circuits that have been quiet recently, to provide lower latency
31815 for low-volume circuits. By default, relays enable or disable this
31816 feature based on a setting in the consensus. You can override
31817 this default by using the new "CircuitPriorityHalflife" config
31818 option. Design and code by Ian Goldberg, Can Tang, and Chris
31820 - Add separate per-conn write limiting to go with the per-conn read
31821 limiting. We added a global write limit in Tor 0.1.2.5-alpha,
31822 but never per-conn write limits.
31823 - New consensus params "bwconnrate" and "bwconnburst" to let us
31824 rate-limit client connections as they enter the network. It's
31825 controlled in the consensus so we can turn it on and off for
31826 experiments. It's starting out off. Based on proposal 163.
31828 o Major features (relay selection options):
31829 - Switch to a StrictNodes config option, rather than the previous
31830 "StrictEntryNodes" / "StrictExitNodes" separation that was missing a
31831 "StrictExcludeNodes" option.
31832 - If EntryNodes, ExitNodes, ExcludeNodes, or ExcludeExitNodes
31833 change during a config reload, mark and discard all our origin
31834 circuits. This fix should address edge cases where we change the
31835 config options and but then choose a circuit that we created before
31837 - If EntryNodes or ExitNodes are set, be more willing to use an
31838 unsuitable (e.g. slow or unstable) circuit. The user asked for it,
31840 - Make EntryNodes config option much more aggressive even when
31841 StrictNodes is not set. Before it would prepend your requested
31842 entrynodes to your list of guard nodes, but feel free to use others
31843 after that. Now it chooses only from your EntryNodes if any of
31844 those are available, and only falls back to others if a) they're
31845 all down and b) StrictNodes is not set.
31846 - Now we refresh your entry guards from EntryNodes at each consensus
31847 fetch -- rather than just at startup and then they slowly rot as
31848 the network changes.
31851 - Stop bridge directory authorities from answering dbg-stability.txt
31852 directory queries, which would let people fetch a list of all
31853 bridge identities they track. Bugfix on 0.2.1.6-alpha.
31856 - Log a notice when we get a new control connection. Now it's easier
31857 for security-conscious users to recognize when a local application
31858 is knocking on their controller door. Suggested by bug 1196.
31859 - New config option "CircuitStreamTimeout" to override our internal
31860 timeout schedule for how many seconds until we detach a stream from
31861 a circuit and try a new circuit. If your network is particularly
31862 slow, you might want to set this to a number like 60.
31863 - New controller command "getinfo config-text". It returns the
31864 contents that Tor would write if you send it a SAVECONF command,
31865 so the controller can write the file to disk itself.
31866 - New options for SafeLogging to allow scrubbing only log messages
31867 generated while acting as a relay.
31868 - Ship the bridges spec file in the tarball too.
31869 - Avoid a mad rush at the beginning of each month when each client
31870 rotates half of its guards. Instead we spread the rotation out
31871 throughout the month, but we still avoid leaving a precise timestamp
31872 in the state file about when we first picked the guard. Improves
31873 over the behavior introduced in 0.1.2.17.
31875 o Minor bugfixes (compiling):
31876 - Fix compilation on OS X 10.3, which has a stub mlockall() but
31877 hides it. Bugfix on 0.2.2.6-alpha.
31878 - Fix compilation on Solaris by removing support for the
31879 DisableAllSwap config option. Solaris doesn't have an rlimit for
31880 mlockall, so we cannot use it safely. Fixes bug 1198; bugfix on
31883 o Minor bugfixes (crashes):
31884 - Do not segfault when writing buffer stats when we haven't observed
31885 a single circuit to report about. Found by Fabian Lanze. Bugfix on
31887 - If we're in the pathological case where there's no exit bandwidth
31888 but there is non-exit bandwidth, or no guard bandwidth but there
31889 is non-guard bandwidth, don't crash during path selection. Bugfix
31891 - Fix an impossible-to-actually-trigger buffer overflow in relay
31892 descriptor generation. Bugfix on 0.1.0.15.
31894 o Minor bugfixes (privacy):
31895 - Fix an instance where a Tor directory mirror might accidentally
31896 log the IP address of a misbehaving Tor client. Bugfix on
31898 - Don't list Windows capabilities in relay descriptors. We never made
31899 use of them, and maybe it's a bad idea to publish them. Bugfix
31902 o Minor bugfixes (other):
31903 - Resolve an edge case in path weighting that could make us misweight
31904 our relay selection. Fixes bug 1203; bugfix on 0.0.8rc1.
31905 - Fix statistics on client numbers by country as seen by bridges that
31906 were broken in 0.2.2.1-alpha. Also switch to reporting full 24-hour
31907 intervals instead of variable 12-to-48-hour intervals.
31908 - After we free an internal connection structure, overwrite it
31909 with a different memory value than we use for overwriting a freed
31910 internal circuit structure. Should help with debugging. Suggested
31912 - Update our OpenSSL 0.9.8l fix so that it works with OpenSSL 0.9.8m
31915 o Removed features:
31916 - Remove the HSAuthorityRecordStats option that version 0 hidden
31917 service authorities could have used to track statistics of overall
31918 hidden service usage.
31921 Changes in version 0.2.1.22 - 2010-01-19
31922 Tor 0.2.1.22 fixes a critical privacy problem in bridge directory
31923 authorities -- it would tell you its whole history of bridge descriptors
31924 if you make the right directory request. This stable update also
31925 rotates two of the seven v3 directory authority keys and locations.
31927 o Directory authority changes:
31928 - Rotate keys (both v3 identity and relay identity) for moria1
31932 - Stop bridge directory authorities from answering dbg-stability.txt
31933 directory queries, which would let people fetch a list of all
31934 bridge identities they track. Bugfix on 0.2.1.6-alpha.
31937 Changes in version 0.2.1.21 - 2009-12-21
31938 Tor 0.2.1.21 fixes an incompatibility with the most recent OpenSSL
31939 library. If you use Tor on Linux / Unix and you're getting SSL
31940 renegotiation errors, upgrading should help. We also recommend an
31941 upgrade if you're an exit relay.
31944 - Work around a security feature in OpenSSL 0.9.8l that prevents our
31945 handshake from working unless we explicitly tell OpenSSL that we
31946 are using SSL renegotiation safely. We are, of course, but OpenSSL
31947 0.9.8l won't work unless we say we are.
31948 - Avoid crashing if the client is trying to upload many bytes and the
31949 circuit gets torn down at the same time, or if the flip side
31950 happens on the exit relay. Bugfix on 0.2.0.1-alpha; fixes bug 1150.
31953 - Do not refuse to learn about authority certs and v2 networkstatus
31954 documents that are older than the latest consensus. This bug might
31955 have degraded client bootstrapping. Bugfix on 0.2.0.10-alpha.
31956 Spotted and fixed by xmux.
31957 - Fix a couple of very-hard-to-trigger memory leaks, and one hard-to-
31958 trigger platform-specific option misparsing case found by Coverity
31960 - Fix a compilation warning on Fedora 12 by removing an impossible-to-
31961 trigger assert. Fixes bug 1173.
31964 Changes in version 0.2.2.6-alpha - 2009-11-19
31965 Tor 0.2.2.6-alpha lays the groundwork for many upcoming features:
31966 support for the new lower-footprint "microdescriptor" directory design,
31967 future-proofing our consensus format against new hash functions or
31968 other changes, and an Android port. It also makes Tor compatible with
31969 the upcoming OpenSSL 0.9.8l release, and fixes a variety of bugs.
31972 - Directory authorities can now create, vote on, and serve multiple
31973 parallel formats of directory data as part of their voting process.
31974 Partially implements Proposal 162: "Publish the consensus in
31976 - Directory authorities can now agree on and publish small summaries
31977 of router information that clients can use in place of regular
31978 server descriptors. This transition will eventually allow clients
31979 to use far less bandwidth for downloading information about the
31980 network. Begins the implementation of Proposal 158: "Clients
31981 download consensus + microdescriptors".
31982 - The directory voting system is now extensible to use multiple hash
31983 algorithms for signatures and resource selection. Newer formats
31984 are signed with SHA256, with a possibility for moving to a better
31985 hash algorithm in the future.
31986 - New DisableAllSwap option. If set to 1, Tor will attempt to lock all
31987 current and future memory pages via mlockall(). On supported
31988 platforms (modern Linux and probably BSD but not Windows or OS X),
31989 this should effectively disable any and all attempts to page out
31990 memory. This option requires that you start your Tor as root --
31991 if you use DisableAllSwap, please consider using the User option
31992 to properly reduce the privileges of your Tor.
31993 - Numerous changes, bugfixes, and workarounds from Nathan Freitas
31994 to help Tor build correctly for Android phones.
31997 - Work around a security feature in OpenSSL 0.9.8l that prevents our
31998 handshake from working unless we explicitly tell OpenSSL that we
31999 are using SSL renegotiation safely. We are, but OpenSSL 0.9.8l
32000 won't work unless we say we are.
32003 - Fix a crash bug when trying to initialize the evdns module in
32004 Libevent 2. Bugfix on 0.2.1.16-rc.
32005 - Stop logging at severity 'warn' when some other Tor client tries
32006 to establish a circuit with us using weak DH keys. It's a protocol
32007 violation, but that doesn't mean ordinary users need to hear about
32008 it. Fixes the bug part of bug 1114. Bugfix on 0.1.0.13.
32009 - Do not refuse to learn about authority certs and v2 networkstatus
32010 documents that are older than the latest consensus. This bug might
32011 have degraded client bootstrapping. Bugfix on 0.2.0.10-alpha.
32012 Spotted and fixed by xmux.
32013 - Fix numerous small code-flaws found by Coverity Scan Rung 3.
32014 - If all authorities restart at once right before a consensus vote,
32015 nobody will vote about "Running", and clients will get a consensus
32016 with no usable relays. Instead, authorities refuse to build a
32017 consensus if this happens. Bugfix on 0.2.0.10-alpha; fixes bug 1066.
32018 - If your relay can't keep up with the number of incoming create
32019 cells, it would log one warning per failure into your logs. Limit
32020 warnings to 1 per minute. Bugfix on 0.0.2pre10; fixes bug 1042.
32021 - Bridges now use "reject *:*" as their default exit policy. Bugfix
32022 on 0.2.0.3-alpha; fixes bug 1113.
32023 - Fix a memory leak on directory authorities during voting that was
32024 introduced in 0.2.2.1-alpha. Found via valgrind.
32027 Changes in version 0.2.1.20 - 2009-10-15
32028 Tor 0.2.1.20 fixes a crash bug when you're accessing many hidden
32029 services at once, prepares for more performance improvements, and
32030 fixes a bunch of smaller bugs.
32032 The Windows and OS X bundles also include a more recent Vidalia,
32033 and switch from Privoxy to Polipo.
32035 The OS X installers are now drag and drop. It's best to un-install
32036 Tor/Vidalia and then install this new bundle, rather than upgrade. If
32037 you want to upgrade, you'll need to update the paths for Tor and Polipo
32038 in the Vidalia Settings window.
32041 - Send circuit or stream sendme cells when our window has decreased
32042 by 100 cells, not when it has decreased by 101 cells. Bug uncovered
32043 by Karsten when testing the "reduce circuit window" performance
32044 patch. Bugfix on the 54th commit on Tor -- from July 2002,
32045 before the release of Tor 0.0.0. This is the new winner of the
32047 - Fix a remotely triggerable memory leak when a consensus document
32048 contains more than one signature from the same voter. Bugfix on
32050 - Avoid segfault in rare cases when finishing an introduction circuit
32051 as a client and finding out that we don't have an introduction key
32052 for it. Fixes bug 1073. Reported by Aaron Swartz.
32055 - Tor now reads the "circwindow" parameter out of the consensus,
32056 and uses that value for its circuit package window rather than the
32057 default of 1000 cells. Begins the implementation of proposal 168.
32059 o New directory authorities:
32060 - Set up urras (run by Jacob Appelbaum) as the seventh v3 directory
32062 - Move moria1 and tonga to alternate IP addresses.
32065 - Fix a signed/unsigned compile warning in 0.2.1.19.
32066 - Fix possible segmentation fault on directory authorities. Bugfix on
32068 - Fix an extremely rare infinite recursion bug that could occur if
32069 we tried to log a message after shutting down the log subsystem.
32070 Found by Matt Edman. Bugfix on 0.2.0.16-alpha.
32071 - Fix an obscure bug where hidden services on 64-bit big-endian
32072 systems might mis-read the timestamp in v3 introduce cells, and
32073 refuse to connect back to the client. Discovered by "rotor".
32074 Bugfix on 0.2.1.6-alpha.
32075 - We were triggering a CLOCK_SKEW controller status event whenever
32076 we connect via the v2 connection protocol to any relay that has
32077 a wrong clock. Instead, we should only inform the controller when
32078 it's a trusted authority that claims our clock is wrong. Bugfix
32079 on 0.2.0.20-rc; starts to fix bug 1074. Reported by SwissTorExit.
32080 - We were telling the controller about CHECKING_REACHABILITY and
32081 REACHABILITY_FAILED status events whenever we launch a testing
32082 circuit or notice that one has failed. Instead, only tell the
32083 controller when we want to inform the user of overall success or
32084 overall failure. Bugfix on 0.1.2.6-alpha. Fixes bug 1075. Reported
32086 - Don't warn when we're using a circuit that ends with a node
32087 excluded in ExcludeExitNodes, but the circuit is not used to access
32088 the outside world. This should help fix bug 1090. Bugfix on
32090 - Work around a small memory leak in some versions of OpenSSL that
32091 stopped the memory used by the hostname TLS extension from being
32095 - Add a "getinfo status/accepted-server-descriptor" controller
32096 command, which is the recommended way for controllers to learn
32097 whether our server descriptor has been successfully received by at
32098 least on directory authority. Un-recommend good-server-descriptor
32099 getinfo and status events until we have a better design for them.
32102 Changes in version 0.2.2.5-alpha - 2009-10-11
32103 Tor 0.2.2.5-alpha fixes a few compile problems in 0.2.2.4-alpha.
32106 - Make the tarball compile again. Oops. Bugfix on 0.2.2.4-alpha.
32108 o Directory authorities:
32109 - Temporarily (just for this release) move dizum to an alternate
32113 Changes in version 0.2.2.4-alpha - 2009-10-10
32114 Tor 0.2.2.4-alpha fixes more crash bugs in 0.2.2.2-alpha. It also
32115 introduces a new unit test framework, shifts directry authority
32116 addresses around to reduce the impact from recent blocking events,
32117 and fixes a few smaller bugs.
32120 - Fix several more asserts in the circuit_build_times code, for
32121 example one that causes Tor to fail to start once we have
32122 accumulated 5000 build times in the state file. Bugfixes on
32123 0.2.2.2-alpha; fixes bug 1108.
32125 o New directory authorities:
32126 - Move moria1 and Tonga to alternate IP addresses.
32129 - Log SSL state transitions at debug level during handshake, and
32130 include SSL states in error messages. This may help debug future
32131 SSL handshake issues.
32132 - Add a new "Handshake" log domain for activities that happen
32133 during the TLS handshake.
32134 - Revert to the "June 3 2009" ip-to-country file. The September one
32135 seems to have removed most US IP addresses.
32136 - Directory authorities now reject Tor relays with versions less than
32137 0.1.2.14. This step cuts out four relays from the current network,
32138 none of which are very big.
32141 - Fix a couple of smaller issues with gathering statistics. Bugfixes
32143 - Fix two memory leaks in the error case of
32144 circuit_build_times_parse_state(). Bugfix on 0.2.2.2-alpha.
32145 - Don't count one-hop circuits when we're estimating how long it
32146 takes circuits to build on average. Otherwise we'll set our circuit
32147 build timeout lower than we should. Bugfix on 0.2.2.2-alpha.
32148 - Directory authorities no longer change their opinion of, or vote on,
32149 whether a router is Running, unless they have themselves been
32150 online long enough to have some idea. Bugfix on 0.2.0.6-alpha.
32153 o Code simplifications and refactoring:
32154 - Revise our unit tests to use the "tinytest" framework, so we
32155 can run tests in their own processes, have smarter setup/teardown
32156 code, and so on. The unit test code has moved to its own
32157 subdirectory, and has been split into multiple modules.
32160 Changes in version 0.2.2.3-alpha - 2009-09-23
32161 Tor 0.2.2.3-alpha fixes a few crash bugs in 0.2.2.2-alpha.
32164 - Fix an overzealous assert in our new circuit build timeout code.
32165 Bugfix on 0.2.2.2-alpha; fixes bug 1103.
32168 - If the networkstatus consensus tells us that we should use a
32169 negative circuit package window, ignore it. Otherwise we'll
32170 believe it and then trigger an assert. Bugfix on 0.2.2.2-alpha.
32173 Changes in version 0.2.2.2-alpha - 2009-09-21
32174 Tor 0.2.2.2-alpha introduces our latest performance improvement for
32175 clients: Tor tracks the average time it takes to build a circuit, and
32176 avoids using circuits that take too long to build. For fast connections,
32177 this feature can cut your expected latency in half. For slow or flaky
32178 connections, it could ruin your Tor experience. Let us know if it does!
32181 - Tor now tracks how long it takes to build client-side circuits
32182 over time, and adapts its timeout to local network performance.
32183 Since a circuit that takes a long time to build will also provide
32184 bad performance, we get significant latency improvements by
32185 discarding the slowest 20% of circuits. Specifically, Tor creates
32186 circuits more aggressively than usual until it has enough data
32187 points for a good timeout estimate. Implements proposal 151.
32188 We are especially looking for reports (good and bad) from users with
32189 both EDGE and broadband connections that can move from broadband
32190 to EDGE and find out if the build-time data in the .tor/state gets
32191 reset without loss of Tor usability. You should also see a notice
32192 log message telling you that Tor has reset its timeout.
32193 - Directory authorities can now vote on arbitrary integer values as
32194 part of the consensus process. This is designed to help set
32195 network-wide parameters. Implements proposal 167.
32196 - Tor now reads the "circwindow" parameter out of the consensus,
32197 and uses that value for its circuit package window rather than the
32198 default of 1000 cells. Begins the implementation of proposal 168.
32201 - Fix a remotely triggerable memory leak when a consensus document
32202 contains more than one signature from the same voter. Bugfix on
32206 - Fix an extremely rare infinite recursion bug that could occur if
32207 we tried to log a message after shutting down the log subsystem.
32208 Found by Matt Edman. Bugfix on 0.2.0.16-alpha.
32209 - Fix parsing for memory or time units given without a space between
32210 the number and the unit. Bugfix on 0.2.2.1-alpha; fixes bug 1076.
32211 - A networkstatus vote must contain exactly one signature. Spec
32212 conformance issue. Bugfix on 0.2.0.3-alpha.
32213 - Fix an obscure bug where hidden services on 64-bit big-endian
32214 systems might mis-read the timestamp in v3 introduce cells, and
32215 refuse to connect back to the client. Discovered by "rotor".
32216 Bugfix on 0.2.1.6-alpha.
32217 - We were triggering a CLOCK_SKEW controller status event whenever
32218 we connect via the v2 connection protocol to any relay that has
32219 a wrong clock. Instead, we should only inform the controller when
32220 it's a trusted authority that claims our clock is wrong. Bugfix
32221 on 0.2.0.20-rc; starts to fix bug 1074. Reported by SwissTorExit.
32222 - We were telling the controller about CHECKING_REACHABILITY and
32223 REACHABILITY_FAILED status events whenever we launch a testing
32224 circuit or notice that one has failed. Instead, only tell the
32225 controller when we want to inform the user of overall success or
32226 overall failure. Bugfix on 0.1.2.6-alpha. Fixes bug 1075. Reported
32228 - Don't warn when we're using a circuit that ends with a node
32229 excluded in ExcludeExitNodes, but the circuit is not used to access
32230 the outside world. This should help fix bug 1090, but more problems
32231 remain. Bugfix on 0.2.1.6-alpha.
32232 - Work around a small memory leak in some versions of OpenSSL that
32233 stopped the memory used by the hostname TLS extension from being
32235 - Make our 'torify' script more portable; if we have only one of
32236 'torsocks' or 'tsocks' installed, don't complain to the user;
32237 and explain our warning about tsocks better.
32240 - Add a "getinfo status/accepted-server-descriptor" controller
32241 command, which is the recommended way for controllers to learn
32242 whether our server descriptor has been successfully received by at
32243 least on directory authority. Un-recommend good-server-descriptor
32244 getinfo and status events until we have a better design for them.
32245 - Update to the "September 4 2009" ip-to-country file.
32248 Changes in version 0.2.2.1-alpha - 2009-08-26
32249 Tor 0.2.2.1-alpha disables ".exit" address notation by default, allows
32250 Tor clients to bootstrap on networks where only port 80 is reachable,
32251 makes it more straightforward to support hardware crypto accelerators,
32252 and starts the groundwork for gathering stats safely at relays.
32255 - Start the process of disabling ".exit" address notation, since it
32256 can be used for a variety of esoteric application-level attacks
32257 on users. To reenable it, set "AllowDotExit 1" in your torrc. Fix
32260 o New directory authorities:
32261 - Set up urras (run by Jacob Appelbaum) as the seventh v3 directory
32265 - New AccelName and AccelDir options add support for dynamic OpenSSL
32266 hardware crypto acceleration engines.
32267 - Tor now supports tunneling all of its outgoing connections over
32268 a SOCKS proxy, using the SOCKS4Proxy and/or SOCKS5Proxy
32269 configuration options. Code by Christopher Davis.
32272 - Send circuit or stream sendme cells when our window has decreased
32273 by 100 cells, not when it has decreased by 101 cells. Bug uncovered
32274 by Karsten when testing the "reduce circuit window" performance
32275 patch. Bugfix on the 54th commit on Tor -- from July 2002,
32276 before the release of Tor 0.0.0. This is the new winner of the
32279 o New options for gathering stats safely:
32280 - Directory mirrors that set "DirReqStatistics 1" write statistics
32281 about directory requests to disk every 24 hours. As compared to the
32282 --enable-geoip-stats flag in 0.2.1.x, there are a few improvements:
32283 1) stats are written to disk exactly every 24 hours; 2) estimated
32284 shares of v2 and v3 requests are determined as mean values, not at
32285 the end of a measurement period; 3) unresolved requests are listed
32286 with country code '??'; 4) directories also measure download times.
32287 - Exit nodes that set "ExitPortStatistics 1" write statistics on the
32288 number of exit streams and transferred bytes per port to disk every
32290 - Relays that set "CellStatistics 1" write statistics on how long
32291 cells spend in their circuit queues to disk every 24 hours.
32292 - Entry nodes that set "EntryStatistics 1" write statistics on the
32293 rough number and origins of connecting clients to disk every 24
32295 - Relays that write any of the above statistics to disk and set
32296 "ExtraInfoStatistics 1" include the past 24 hours of statistics in
32297 their extra-info documents.
32300 - New --digests command-line switch to output the digests of the
32301 source files Tor was built with.
32302 - The "torify" script now uses torsocks where available.
32303 - The memarea code now uses a sentinel value at the end of each area
32304 to make sure nothing writes beyond the end of an area. This might
32305 help debug some conceivable causes of bug 930.
32306 - Time and memory units in the configuration file can now be set to
32307 fractional units. For example, "2.5 GB" is now a valid value for
32309 - Certain Tor clients (such as those behind check.torproject.org) may
32310 want to fetch the consensus in an extra early manner. To enable this
32311 a user may now set FetchDirInfoExtraEarly to 1. This also depends on
32312 setting FetchDirInfoEarly to 1. Previous behavior will stay the same
32313 as only certain clients who must have this information sooner should
32315 - Instead of adding the svn revision to the Tor version string, report
32316 the git commit (when we're building from a git checkout).
32319 - If any of the v3 certs we download are unparseable, we should
32320 actually notice the failure so we don't retry indefinitely. Bugfix
32321 on 0.2.0.x; reported by "rotator".
32322 - If the cached cert file is unparseable, warn but don't exit.
32323 - Fix possible segmentation fault on directory authorities. Bugfix on
32325 - When Tor fails to parse a descriptor of any kind, dump it to disk.
32326 Might help diagnosing bug 1051.
32328 o Deprecated and removed features:
32329 - The controller no longer accepts the old obsolete "addr-mappings/"
32330 or "unregistered-servers-" GETINFO values.
32331 - Hidden services no longer publish version 0 descriptors, and clients
32332 do not request or use version 0 descriptors. However, the old hidden
32333 service authorities still accept and serve version 0 descriptors
32334 when contacted by older hidden services/clients.
32335 - The EXTENDED_EVENTS and VERBOSE_NAMES controller features are now
32336 always on; using them is necessary for correct forward-compatible
32338 - Remove support for .noconnect style addresses. Nobody was using
32339 them, and they provided another avenue for detecting Tor users
32340 via application-level web tricks.
32342 o Packaging changes:
32343 - Upgrade Vidalia from 0.1.15 to 0.2.3 in the Windows and OS X
32344 installer bundles. See
32345 https://trac.vidalia-project.net/browser/vidalia/tags/vidalia-0.2.3/CHANGELOG
32346 for details of what's new in Vidalia 0.2.3.
32347 - Windows Vidalia Bundle: update Privoxy from 3.0.6 to 3.0.14-beta.
32348 - OS X Vidalia Bundle: move to Polipo 1.0.4 with Tor specific
32349 configuration file, rather than the old Privoxy.
32350 - OS X Vidalia Bundle: Vidalia, Tor, and Polipo are compiled as
32351 x86-only for better compatibility with OS X 10.6, aka Snow Leopard.
32352 - OS X Tor Expert Bundle: Tor is compiled as x86-only for
32353 better compatibility with OS X 10.6, aka Snow Leopard.
32354 - OS X Vidalia Bundle: The multi-package installer is now replaced
32355 by a simple drag and drop to the /Applications folder. This change
32356 occurred with the upgrade to Vidalia 0.2.3.
32359 Changes in version 0.2.1.19 - 2009-07-28
32360 Tor 0.2.1.19 fixes a major bug with accessing and providing hidden
32361 services on Tor 0.2.1.3-alpha through 0.2.1.18.
32364 - Make accessing hidden services on 0.2.1.x work right again.
32365 Bugfix on 0.2.1.3-alpha; workaround for bug 1038. Diagnosis and
32366 part of patch provided by "optimist".
32369 - When a relay/bridge is writing out its identity key fingerprint to
32370 the "fingerprint" file and to its logs, write it without spaces. Now
32371 it will look like the fingerprints in our bridges documentation,
32372 and confuse fewer users.
32375 - Relays no longer publish a new server descriptor if they change
32376 their MaxAdvertisedBandwidth config option but it doesn't end up
32377 changing their advertised bandwidth numbers. Bugfix on 0.2.0.28-rc;
32378 fixes bug 1026. Patch from Sebastian.
32379 - Avoid leaking memory every time we get a create cell but we have
32380 so many already queued that we refuse it. Bugfix on 0.2.0.19-alpha;
32381 fixes bug 1034. Reported by BarkerJr.
32384 Changes in version 0.2.1.18 - 2009-07-24
32385 Tor 0.2.1.18 lays the foundations for performance improvements,
32386 adds status events to help users diagnose bootstrap problems, adds
32387 optional authentication/authorization for hidden services, fixes a
32388 variety of potential anonymity problems, and includes a huge pile of
32389 other features and bug fixes.
32392 - Add LIBS=-lrt to Makefile.am so the Tor RPMs use a static libevent.
32395 Changes in version 0.2.1.17-rc - 2009-07-07
32396 Tor 0.2.1.17-rc marks the fourth -- and hopefully last -- release
32397 candidate for the 0.2.1.x series. It lays the groundwork for further
32398 client performance improvements, and also fixes a big bug with directory
32399 authorities that were causing them to assign Guard and Stable flags
32402 The Windows bundles also finally include the geoip database that we
32403 thought we'd been shipping since 0.2.0.x (oops), and the OS X bundles
32404 should actually install Torbutton rather than giving you a cryptic
32405 failure message (oops).
32408 - Clients now use the bandwidth values in the consensus, rather than
32409 the bandwidth values in each relay descriptor. This approach opens
32410 the door to more accurate bandwidth estimates once the directory
32411 authorities start doing active measurements. Implements more of
32415 - When Tor clients restart after 1-5 days, they discard all their
32416 cached descriptors as too old, but they still use the cached
32417 consensus document. This approach is good for robustness, but
32418 bad for performance: since they don't know any bandwidths, they
32419 end up choosing at random rather than weighting their choice by
32420 speed. Fixed by the above feature of putting bandwidths in the
32421 consensus. Bugfix on 0.2.0.x.
32422 - Directory authorities were neglecting to mark relays down in their
32423 internal histories if the relays fall off the routerlist without
32424 ever being found unreachable. So there were relays in the histories
32425 that haven't been seen for eight months, and are listed as being
32426 up for eight months. This wreaked havoc on the "median wfu"
32427 and "median mtbf" calculations, in turn making Guard and Stable
32428 flags very wrong, hurting network performance. Fixes bugs 696 and
32429 969. Bugfix on 0.2.0.6-alpha.
32432 - Serve the DirPortFrontPage page even when we have been approaching
32433 our quotas recently. Fixes bug 1013; bugfix on 0.2.1.8-alpha.
32434 - The control port would close the connection before flushing long
32435 replies, such as the network consensus, if a QUIT command was issued
32436 before the reply had completed. Now, the control port flushes all
32437 pending replies before closing the connection. Also fixed a spurious
32438 warning when a QUIT command is issued after a malformed or rejected
32439 AUTHENTICATE command, but before the connection was closed. Patch
32440 by Marcus Griep. Bugfix on 0.2.0.x; fixes bugs 1015 and 1016.
32441 - When we can't find an intro key for a v2 hidden service descriptor,
32442 fall back to the v0 hidden service descriptor and log a bug message.
32443 Workaround for bug 1024.
32444 - Fix a log message that did not respect the SafeLogging option.
32448 - If we're a relay and we change our IP address, be more verbose
32449 about the reason that made us change. Should help track down
32450 further bugs for relays on dynamic IP addresses.
32453 Changes in version 0.2.0.35 - 2009-06-24
32455 - Avoid crashing in the presence of certain malformed descriptors.
32456 Found by lark, and by automated fuzzing.
32457 - Fix an edge case where a malicious exit relay could convince a
32458 controller that the client's DNS question resolves to an internal IP
32459 address. Bug found and fixed by "optimist"; bugfix on 0.1.2.8-beta.
32462 - Finally fix the bug where dynamic-IP relays disappear when their
32463 IP address changes: directory mirrors were mistakenly telling
32464 them their old address if they asked via begin_dir, so they
32465 never got an accurate answer about their new address, so they
32466 just vanished after a day. For belt-and-suspenders, relays that
32467 don't set Address in their config now avoid using begin_dir for
32468 all direct connections. Should fix bugs 827, 883, and 900.
32469 - Fix a timing-dependent, allocator-dependent, DNS-related crash bug
32470 that would occur on some exit nodes when DNS failures and timeouts
32471 occurred in certain patterns. Fix for bug 957.
32474 - When starting with a cache over a few days old, do not leak
32475 memory for the obsolete router descriptors in it. Bugfix on
32476 0.2.0.33; fixes bug 672.
32477 - Hidden service clients didn't use a cached service descriptor that
32478 was older than 15 minutes, but wouldn't fetch a new one either,
32479 because there was already one in the cache. Now, fetch a v2
32480 descriptor unless the same descriptor was added to the cache within
32481 the last 15 minutes. Fixes bug 997; reported by Marcus Griep.
32484 Changes in version 0.2.1.16-rc - 2009-06-20
32485 Tor 0.2.1.16-rc speeds up performance for fast exit relays, and fixes
32486 a bunch of minor bugs.
32489 - Fix an edge case where a malicious exit relay could convince a
32490 controller that the client's DNS question resolves to an internal IP
32491 address. Bug found and fixed by "optimist"; bugfix on 0.1.2.8-beta.
32493 o Major performance improvements (on 0.2.0.x):
32494 - Disable and refactor some debugging checks that forced a linear scan
32495 over the whole server-side DNS cache. These accounted for over 50%
32496 of CPU time on a relatively busy exit node's gprof profile. Found
32498 - Disable some debugging checks that appeared in exit node profile
32502 - Update to the "June 3 2009" ip-to-country file.
32503 - Do not have tor-resolve automatically refuse all .onion addresses;
32504 if AutomapHostsOnResolve is set in your torrc, this will work fine.
32506 o Minor bugfixes (on 0.2.0.x):
32507 - Log correct error messages for DNS-related network errors on
32509 - Fix a race condition that could cause crashes or memory corruption
32510 when running as a server with a controller listening for log
32512 - Avoid crashing when we have a policy specified in a DirPolicy or
32513 SocksPolicy or ReachableAddresses option with ports set on it,
32514 and we re-load the policy. May fix bug 996.
32515 - Hidden service clients didn't use a cached service descriptor that
32516 was older than 15 minutes, but wouldn't fetch a new one either,
32517 because there was already one in the cache. Now, fetch a v2
32518 descriptor unless the same descriptor was added to the cache within
32519 the last 15 minutes. Fixes bug 997; reported by Marcus Griep.
32521 o Minor bugfixes (on 0.2.1.x):
32522 - Don't warn users about low port and hibernation mix when they
32523 provide a *ListenAddress directive to fix that. Bugfix on
32525 - When switching back and forth between bridge mode, do not start
32526 gathering GeoIP data until two hours have passed.
32527 - Do not complain that the user has requested an excluded node as
32528 an exit when the node is not really an exit. This could happen
32529 because the circuit was for testing, or an introduction point.
32533 Changes in version 0.2.1.15-rc - 2009-05-25
32534 Tor 0.2.1.15-rc marks the second release candidate for the 0.2.1.x
32535 series. It fixes a major bug on fast exit relays, as well as a variety
32536 of more minor bugs.
32538 o Major bugfixes (on 0.2.0.x):
32539 - Fix a timing-dependent, allocator-dependent, DNS-related crash bug
32540 that would occur on some exit nodes when DNS failures and timeouts
32541 occurred in certain patterns. Fix for bug 957.
32543 o Minor bugfixes (on 0.2.0.x):
32544 - Actually return -1 in the error case for read_bandwidth_usage().
32545 Harmless bug, since we currently don't care about the return value
32546 anywhere. Bugfix on 0.2.0.9-alpha.
32547 - Provide a more useful log message if bug 977 (related to buffer
32548 freelists) ever reappears, and do not crash right away.
32549 - Fix an assertion failure on 64-bit platforms when we allocated
32550 memory right up to the end of a memarea, then realigned the memory
32551 one step beyond the end. Fixes a possible cause of bug 930.
32552 - Protect the count of open sockets with a mutex, so we can't
32553 corrupt it when two threads are closing or opening sockets at once.
32554 Fix for bug 939. Bugfix on 0.2.0.1-alpha.
32555 - Don't allow a bridge to publish its router descriptor to a
32556 non-bridge directory authority. Fixes part of bug 932.
32557 - When we change to or from being a bridge, reset our counts of
32558 client usage by country. Fixes bug 932.
32559 - Fix a bug that made stream bandwidth get misreported to the
32561 - Stop using malloc_usable_size() to use more area than we had
32562 actually allocated: it was safe, but made valgrind really unhappy.
32563 - Fix a memory leak when v3 directory authorities load their keys
32564 and cert from disk. Bugfix on 0.2.0.1-alpha.
32566 o Minor bugfixes (on 0.2.1.x):
32567 - Fix use of freed memory when deciding to mark a non-addable
32568 descriptor as never-downloadable. Bugfix on 0.2.1.9-alpha.
32571 Changes in version 0.2.1.14-rc - 2009-04-12
32572 Tor 0.2.1.14-rc marks the first release candidate for the 0.2.1.x
32573 series. It begins fixing some major performance problems, and also
32574 finally addresses the bug that was causing relays on dynamic IP
32575 addresses to fall out of the directory.
32578 - Clients replace entry guards that were chosen more than a few months
32579 ago. This change should significantly improve client performance,
32580 especially once more people upgrade, since relays that have been
32581 a guard for a long time are currently overloaded.
32583 o Major bugfixes (on 0.2.0):
32584 - Finally fix the bug where dynamic-IP relays disappear when their
32585 IP address changes: directory mirrors were mistakenly telling
32586 them their old address if they asked via begin_dir, so they
32587 never got an accurate answer about their new address, so they
32588 just vanished after a day. For belt-and-suspenders, relays that
32589 don't set Address in their config now avoid using begin_dir for
32590 all direct connections. Should fix bugs 827, 883, and 900.
32591 - Relays were falling out of the networkstatus consensus for
32592 part of a day if they changed their local config but the
32593 authorities discarded their new descriptor as "not sufficiently
32594 different". Now directory authorities accept a descriptor as changed
32595 if bandwidthrate or bandwidthburst changed. Partial fix for bug 962;
32596 patch by Sebastian.
32597 - Avoid crashing in the presence of certain malformed descriptors.
32598 Found by lark, and by automated fuzzing.
32601 - When generating circuit events with verbose nicknames for
32602 controllers, try harder to look up nicknames for routers on a
32603 circuit. (Previously, we would look in the router descriptors we had
32604 for nicknames, but not in the consensus.) Partial fix for bug 941.
32605 - If the bridge config line doesn't specify a port, assume 443.
32606 This makes bridge lines a bit smaller and easier for users to
32608 - Raise the minimum bandwidth to be a relay from 20000 bytes to 20480
32609 bytes (aka 20KB/s), to match our documentation. Also update
32610 directory authorities so they always assign the Fast flag to relays
32611 with 20KB/s of capacity. Now people running relays won't suddenly
32612 find themselves not seeing any use, if the network gets faster
32614 - Update to the "April 3 2009" ip-to-country file.
32617 - Avoid trying to print raw memory to the logs when we decide to
32618 give up on downloading a given relay descriptor. Bugfix on
32620 - In tor-resolve, when the Tor client to use is specified by
32621 <hostname>:<port>, actually use the specified port rather than
32622 defaulting to 9050. Bugfix on 0.2.1.6-alpha.
32623 - Make directory usage recording work again. Bugfix on 0.2.1.6-alpha.
32624 - When starting with a cache over a few days old, do not leak
32625 memory for the obsolete router descriptors in it. Bugfix on
32627 - Avoid double-free on list of successfully uploaded hidden
32628 service discriptors. Fix for bug 948. Bugfix on 0.2.1.6-alpha.
32629 - Change memarea_strndup() implementation to work even when
32630 duplicating a string at the end of a page. This bug was
32631 harmless for now, but could have meant crashes later. Fix by
32632 lark. Bugfix on 0.2.1.1-alpha.
32633 - Limit uploaded directory documents to be 16M rather than 500K.
32634 The directory authorities were refusing v3 consensus votes from
32635 other authorities, since the votes are now 504K. Fixes bug 959;
32636 bugfix on 0.0.2pre17 (where we raised it from 50K to 500K ;).
32637 - Directory authorities should never send a 503 "busy" response to
32638 requests for votes or keys. Bugfix on 0.2.0.8-alpha; exposed by
32642 Changes in version 0.2.1.13-alpha - 2009-03-09
32643 Tor 0.2.1.13-alpha includes another big pile of minor bugfixes and
32644 cleanups. We're finally getting close to a release candidate.
32647 - Correctly update the list of which countries we exclude as
32648 exits, when the GeoIP file is loaded or reloaded. Diagnosed by
32649 lark. Bugfix on 0.2.1.6-alpha.
32651 o Minor bugfixes (on 0.2.0.x and earlier):
32652 - Automatically detect MacOSX versions earlier than 10.4.0, and
32653 disable kqueue from inside Tor when running with these versions.
32654 We previously did this from the startup script, but that was no
32655 help to people who didn't use the startup script. Resolves bug 863.
32656 - When we had picked an exit node for a connection, but marked it as
32657 "optional", and it turned out we had no onion key for the exit,
32658 stop wanting that exit and try again. This situation may not
32659 be possible now, but will probably become feasible with proposal
32660 158. Spotted by rovv. Fixes another case of bug 752.
32661 - Clients no longer cache certificates for authorities they do not
32662 recognize. Bugfix on 0.2.0.9-alpha.
32663 - When we can't transmit a DNS request due to a network error, retry
32664 it after a while, and eventually transmit a failing response to
32665 the RESOLVED cell. Bugfix on 0.1.2.5-alpha.
32666 - If the controller claimed responsibility for a stream, but that
32667 stream never finished making its connection, it would live
32668 forever in circuit_wait state. Now we close it after SocksTimeout
32669 seconds. Bugfix on 0.1.2.7-alpha; reported by Mike Perry.
32670 - Drop begin cells to a hidden service if they come from the middle
32671 of a circuit. Patch from lark.
32672 - When we erroneously receive two EXTEND cells for the same circuit
32673 ID on the same connection, drop the second. Patch from lark.
32674 - Fix a crash that occurs on exit nodes when a nameserver request
32675 timed out. Bugfix on 0.1.2.1-alpha; our CLEAR debugging code had
32676 been suppressing the bug since 0.1.2.10-alpha. Partial fix for
32678 - Do not assume that a stack-allocated character array will be
32679 64-bit aligned on platforms that demand that uint64_t access is
32680 aligned. Possible fix for bug 604.
32681 - Parse dates and IPv4 addresses in a locale- and libc-independent
32682 manner, to avoid platform-dependent behavior on malformed input.
32683 - Build correctly when configured to build outside the main source
32684 path. Patch from Michael Gold.
32685 - We were already rejecting relay begin cells with destination port
32686 of 0. Now also reject extend cells with destination port or address
32687 of 0. Suggested by lark.
32689 o Minor bugfixes (on 0.2.1.x):
32690 - Don't re-extend introduction circuits if we ran out of RELAY_EARLY
32691 cells. Bugfix on 0.2.1.3-alpha. Fixes more of bug 878.
32692 - If we're an exit node, scrub the IP address to which we are exiting
32693 in the logs. Bugfix on 0.2.1.8-alpha.
32696 - On Linux, use the prctl call to re-enable core dumps when the user
32698 - New controller event NEWCONSENSUS that lists the networkstatus
32699 lines for every recommended relay. Now controllers like Torflow
32700 can keep up-to-date on which relays they should be using.
32701 - Update to the "February 26 2009" ip-to-country file.
32704 Changes in version 0.2.0.34 - 2009-02-08
32705 Tor 0.2.0.34 features several more security-related fixes. You should
32706 upgrade, especially if you run an exit relay (remote crash) or a
32707 directory authority (remote infinite loop), or you're on an older
32708 (pre-XP) or not-recently-patched Windows (remote exploit).
32710 This release marks end-of-life for Tor 0.1.2.x. Those Tor versions
32711 have many known flaws, and nobody should be using them. You should
32712 upgrade. If you're using a Linux or BSD and its packages are obsolete,
32713 stop using those packages and upgrade anyway.
32716 - Fix an infinite-loop bug on handling corrupt votes under certain
32717 circumstances. Bugfix on 0.2.0.8-alpha.
32718 - Fix a temporary DoS vulnerability that could be performed by
32719 a directory mirror. Bugfix on 0.2.0.9-alpha; reported by lark.
32720 - Avoid a potential crash on exit nodes when processing malformed
32721 input. Remote DoS opportunity. Bugfix on 0.2.0.33.
32722 - Do not accept incomplete ipv4 addresses (like 192.168.0) as valid.
32723 Spec conformance issue. Bugfix on Tor 0.0.2pre27.
32726 - Fix compilation on systems where time_t is a 64-bit integer.
32727 Patch from Matthias Drochner.
32728 - Don't consider expiring already-closed client connections. Fixes
32729 bug 893. Bugfix on 0.0.2pre20.
32732 Changes in version 0.2.1.12-alpha - 2009-02-08
32733 Tor 0.2.1.12-alpha features several more security-related fixes. You
32734 should upgrade, especially if you run an exit relay (remote crash) or
32735 a directory authority (remote infinite loop), or you're on an older
32736 (pre-XP) or not-recently-patched Windows (remote exploit). It also
32737 includes a big pile of minor bugfixes and cleanups.
32740 - Fix an infinite-loop bug on handling corrupt votes under certain
32741 circumstances. Bugfix on 0.2.0.8-alpha.
32742 - Fix a temporary DoS vulnerability that could be performed by
32743 a directory mirror. Bugfix on 0.2.0.9-alpha; reported by lark.
32744 - Avoid a potential crash on exit nodes when processing malformed
32745 input. Remote DoS opportunity. Bugfix on 0.2.1.7-alpha.
32748 - Let controllers actually ask for the "clients_seen" event for
32749 getting usage summaries on bridge relays. Bugfix on 0.2.1.10-alpha;
32750 reported by Matt Edman.
32751 - Fix a compile warning on OSX Panther. Fixes bug 913; bugfix against
32753 - Fix a bug in address parsing that was preventing bridges or hidden
32754 service targets from being at IPv6 addresses.
32755 - Solve a bug that kept hardware crypto acceleration from getting
32756 enabled when accounting was turned on. Fixes bug 907. Bugfix on
32758 - Remove a bash-ism from configure.in to build properly on non-Linux
32759 platforms. Bugfix on 0.2.1.1-alpha.
32760 - Fix code so authorities _actually_ send back X-Descriptor-Not-New
32761 headers. Bugfix on 0.2.0.10-alpha.
32762 - Don't consider expiring already-closed client connections. Fixes
32763 bug 893. Bugfix on 0.0.2pre20.
32764 - Fix another interesting corner-case of bug 891 spotted by rovv:
32765 Previously, if two hosts had different amounts of clock drift, and
32766 one of them created a new connection with just the wrong timing,
32767 the other might decide to deprecate the new connection erroneously.
32768 Bugfix on 0.1.1.13-alpha.
32769 - Resolve a very rare crash bug that could occur when the user forced
32770 a nameserver reconfiguration during the middle of a nameserver
32771 probe. Fixes bug 526. Bugfix on 0.1.2.1-alpha.
32772 - Support changing value of ServerDNSRandomizeCase during SIGHUP.
32773 Bugfix on 0.2.1.7-alpha.
32774 - If we're using bridges and our network goes away, be more willing
32775 to forgive our bridges and try again when we get an application
32776 request. Bugfix on 0.2.0.x.
32779 - Support platforms where time_t is 64 bits long. (Congratulations,
32780 NetBSD!) Patch from Matthias Drochner.
32781 - Add a 'getinfo status/clients-seen' controller command, in case
32782 controllers want to hear clients_seen events but connect late.
32785 - Disable GCC's strict alias optimization by default, to avoid the
32786 likelihood of its introducing subtle bugs whenever our code violates
32787 the letter of C99's alias rules.
32790 Changes in version 0.2.0.33 - 2009-01-21
32791 Tor 0.2.0.33 fixes a variety of bugs that were making relays less
32792 useful to users. It also finally fixes a bug where a relay or client
32793 that's been off for many days would take a long time to bootstrap.
32795 This update also fixes an important security-related bug reported by
32796 Ilja van Sprundel. You should upgrade. (We'll send out more details
32797 about the bug once people have had some time to upgrade.)
32800 - Fix a heap-corruption bug that may be remotely triggerable on
32801 some platforms. Reported by Ilja van Sprundel.
32804 - When a stream at an exit relay is in state "resolving" or
32805 "connecting" and it receives an "end" relay cell, the exit relay
32806 would silently ignore the end cell and not close the stream. If
32807 the client never closes the circuit, then the exit relay never
32808 closes the TCP connection. Bug introduced in Tor 0.1.2.1-alpha;
32809 reported by "wood".
32810 - When sending CREATED cells back for a given circuit, use a 64-bit
32811 connection ID to find the right connection, rather than an addr:port
32812 combination. Now that we can have multiple OR connections between
32813 the same ORs, it is no longer possible to use addr:port to uniquely
32814 identify a connection.
32815 - Bridge relays that had DirPort set to 0 would stop fetching
32816 descriptors shortly after startup, and then briefly resume
32817 after a new bandwidth test and/or after publishing a new bridge
32818 descriptor. Bridge users that try to bootstrap from them would
32819 get a recent networkstatus but would get descriptors from up to
32820 18 hours earlier, meaning most of the descriptors were obsolete
32821 already. Reported by Tas; bugfix on 0.2.0.13-alpha.
32822 - Prevent bridge relays from serving their 'extrainfo' document
32823 to anybody who asks, now that extrainfo docs include potentially
32824 sensitive aggregated client geoip summaries. Bugfix on
32826 - If the cached networkstatus consensus is more than five days old,
32827 discard it rather than trying to use it. In theory it could be
32828 useful because it lists alternate directory mirrors, but in practice
32829 it just means we spend many minutes trying directory mirrors that
32830 are long gone from the network. Also discard router descriptors as
32831 we load them if they are more than five days old, since the onion
32832 key is probably wrong by now. Bugfix on 0.2.0.x. Fixes bug 887.
32835 - Do not mark smartlist_bsearch_idx() function as ATTR_PURE. This bug
32836 could make gcc generate non-functional binary search code. Bugfix
32838 - Build correctly on platforms without socklen_t.
32839 - Compile without warnings on solaris.
32840 - Avoid potential crash on internal error during signature collection.
32841 Fixes bug 864. Patch from rovv.
32842 - Correct handling of possible malformed authority signing key
32843 certificates with internal signature types. Fixes bug 880.
32844 Bugfix on 0.2.0.3-alpha.
32845 - Fix a hard-to-trigger resource leak when logging credential status.
32847 - When we can't initialize DNS because the network is down, do not
32848 automatically stop Tor from starting. Instead, we retry failed
32849 dns_init() every 10 minutes, and change the exit policy to reject
32850 *:* until one succeeds. Fixes bug 691.
32851 - Use 64 bits instead of 32 bits for connection identifiers used with
32852 the controller protocol, to greatly reduce risk of identifier reuse.
32853 - When we're choosing an exit node for a circuit, and we have
32854 no pending streams, choose a good general exit rather than one that
32855 supports "all the pending streams". Bugfix on 0.1.1.x. Fix by rovv.
32856 - Fix another case of assuming, when a specific exit is requested,
32857 that we know more than the user about what hosts it allows.
32858 Fixes one case of bug 752. Patch from rovv.
32859 - Clip the MaxCircuitDirtiness config option to a minimum of 10
32860 seconds. Warn the user if lower values are given in the
32861 configuration. Bugfix on 0.1.0.1-rc. Patch by Sebastian.
32862 - Clip the CircuitBuildTimeout to a minimum of 30 seconds. Warn the
32863 user if lower values are given in the configuration. Bugfix on
32864 0.1.1.17-rc. Patch by Sebastian.
32865 - Fix a memory leak when we decline to add a v2 rendezvous descriptor to
32866 the cache because we already had a v0 descriptor with the same ID.
32867 Bugfix on 0.2.0.18-alpha.
32868 - Fix a race condition when freeing keys shared between main thread
32869 and CPU workers that could result in a memory leak. Bugfix on
32870 0.1.0.1-rc. Fixes bug 889.
32871 - Send a valid END cell back when a client tries to connect to a
32872 nonexistent hidden service port. Bugfix on 0.1.2.15. Fixes bug
32873 840. Patch from rovv.
32874 - Check which hops rendezvous stream cells are associated with to
32875 prevent possible guess-the-streamid injection attacks from
32876 intermediate hops. Fixes another case of bug 446. Based on patch
32878 - If a broken client asks a non-exit router to connect somewhere,
32879 do not even do the DNS lookup before rejecting the connection.
32880 Fixes another case of bug 619. Patch from rovv.
32881 - When a relay gets a create cell it can't decrypt (e.g. because it's
32882 using the wrong onion key), we were dropping it and letting the
32883 client time out. Now actually answer with a destroy cell. Fixes
32884 bug 904. Bugfix on 0.0.2pre8.
32886 o Minor bugfixes (hidden services):
32887 - Do not throw away existing introduction points on SIGHUP. Bugfix on
32888 0.0.6pre1. Patch by Karsten. Fixes bug 874.
32891 - Report the case where all signatures in a detached set are rejected
32892 differently than the case where there is an error handling the
32894 - When we realize that another process has modified our cached
32895 descriptors, print out a more useful error message rather than
32896 triggering an assertion. Fixes bug 885. Patch from Karsten.
32897 - Implement the 0x20 hack to better resist DNS poisoning: set the
32898 case on outgoing DNS requests randomly, and reject responses that do
32899 not match the case correctly. This logic can be disabled with the
32900 ServerDNSRandomizeCase setting, if you are using one of the 0.3%
32901 of servers that do not reliably preserve case in replies. See
32902 "Increased DNS Forgery Resistance through 0x20-Bit Encoding"
32904 - Check DNS replies for more matching fields to better resist DNS
32906 - Never use OpenSSL compression: it wastes RAM and CPU trying to
32907 compress cells, which are basically all encrypted, compressed, or
32911 Changes in version 0.2.1.11-alpha - 2009-01-20
32912 Tor 0.2.1.11-alpha finishes fixing the "if your Tor is off for a
32913 week it will take a long time to bootstrap again" bug. It also fixes
32914 an important security-related bug reported by Ilja van Sprundel. You
32915 should upgrade. (We'll send out more details about the bug once people
32916 have had some time to upgrade.)
32919 - Fix a heap-corruption bug that may be remotely triggerable on
32920 some platforms. Reported by Ilja van Sprundel.
32923 - Discard router descriptors as we load them if they are more than
32924 five days old. Otherwise if Tor is off for a long time and then
32925 starts with cached descriptors, it will try to use the onion
32926 keys in those obsolete descriptors when building circuits. Bugfix
32927 on 0.2.0.x. Fixes bug 887.
32930 - Try to make sure that the version of Libevent we're running with
32931 is binary-compatible with the one we built with. May address bug
32933 - Make setting ServerDNSRandomizeCase to 0 actually work. Bugfix
32934 for bug 905. Bugfix on 0.2.1.7-alpha.
32935 - Add a new --enable-local-appdata configuration switch to change
32936 the default location of the datadir on win32 from APPDATA to
32937 LOCAL_APPDATA. In the future, we should migrate to LOCAL_APPDATA
32938 entirely. Patch from coderman.
32941 - Make outbound DNS packets respect the OutboundBindAddress setting.
32942 Fixes the bug part of bug 798. Bugfix on 0.1.2.2-alpha.
32943 - When our circuit fails at the first hop (e.g. we get a destroy
32944 cell back), avoid using that OR connection anymore, and also
32945 tell all the one-hop directory requests waiting for it that they
32946 should fail. Bugfix on 0.2.1.3-alpha.
32947 - In the torify(1) manpage, mention that tsocks will leak your
32951 Changes in version 0.2.1.10-alpha - 2009-01-06
32952 Tor 0.2.1.10-alpha fixes two major bugs in bridge relays (one that
32953 would make the bridge relay not so useful if it had DirPort set to 0,
32954 and one that could let an attacker learn a little bit of information
32955 about the bridge's users), and a bug that would cause your Tor relay
32956 to ignore a circuit create request it can't decrypt (rather than reply
32957 with an error). It also fixes a wide variety of other bugs.
32960 - If the cached networkstatus consensus is more than five days old,
32961 discard it rather than trying to use it. In theory it could
32962 be useful because it lists alternate directory mirrors, but in
32963 practice it just means we spend many minutes trying directory
32964 mirrors that are long gone from the network. Helps bug 887 a bit;
32966 - Bridge relays that had DirPort set to 0 would stop fetching
32967 descriptors shortly after startup, and then briefly resume
32968 after a new bandwidth test and/or after publishing a new bridge
32969 descriptor. Bridge users that try to bootstrap from them would
32970 get a recent networkstatus but would get descriptors from up to
32971 18 hours earlier, meaning most of the descriptors were obsolete
32972 already. Reported by Tas; bugfix on 0.2.0.13-alpha.
32973 - Prevent bridge relays from serving their 'extrainfo' document
32974 to anybody who asks, now that extrainfo docs include potentially
32975 sensitive aggregated client geoip summaries. Bugfix on
32979 - New controller event "clients_seen" to report a geoip-based summary
32980 of which countries we've seen clients from recently. Now controllers
32981 like Vidalia can show bridge operators that they're actually making
32983 - Build correctly against versions of OpenSSL 0.9.8 or later built
32984 without support for deprecated functions.
32985 - Update to the "December 19 2008" ip-to-country file.
32987 o Minor bugfixes (on 0.2.0.x):
32988 - Authorities now vote for the Stable flag for any router whose
32989 weighted MTBF is at least 5 days, regardless of the mean MTBF.
32990 - Do not remove routers as too old if we do not have any consensus
32991 document. Bugfix on 0.2.0.7-alpha.
32992 - Do not accept incomplete ipv4 addresses (like 192.168.0) as valid.
32993 Spec conformance issue. Bugfix on Tor 0.0.2pre27.
32994 - When an exit relay resolves a stream address to a local IP address,
32995 do not just keep retrying that same exit relay over and
32996 over. Instead, just close the stream. Addresses bug 872. Bugfix
32997 on 0.2.0.32. Patch from rovv.
32998 - If a hidden service sends us an END cell, do not consider
32999 retrying the connection; just close it. Patch from rovv.
33000 - When we made bridge authorities stop serving bridge descriptors over
33001 unencrypted links, we also broke DirPort reachability testing for
33002 bridges. So bridges with a non-zero DirPort were printing spurious
33003 warns to their logs. Bugfix on 0.2.0.16-alpha. Fixes bug 709.
33004 - When a relay gets a create cell it can't decrypt (e.g. because it's
33005 using the wrong onion key), we were dropping it and letting the
33006 client time out. Now actually answer with a destroy cell. Fixes
33007 bug 904. Bugfix on 0.0.2pre8.
33008 - Squeeze 2-5% out of client performance (according to oprofile) by
33009 improving the implementation of some policy-manipulation functions.
33011 o Minor bugfixes (on 0.2.1.x):
33012 - Make get_interface_address() function work properly again; stop
33013 guessing the wrong parts of our address as our address.
33014 - Do not cannibalize a circuit if we're out of RELAY_EARLY cells to
33015 send on that circuit. Otherwise we might violate the proposal-110
33016 limit. Bugfix on 0.2.1.3-alpha. Partial fix for bug 878. Diagnosis
33018 - When we're sending non-EXTEND cells to the first hop in a circuit,
33019 for example to use an encrypted directory connection, we don't need
33020 to use RELAY_EARLY cells: the first hop knows what kind of cell
33021 it is, and nobody else can even see the cell type. Conserving
33022 RELAY_EARLY cells makes it easier to cannibalize circuits like
33024 - Stop logging nameserver addresses in reverse order.
33025 - If we are retrying a directory download slowly over and over, do
33026 not automatically give up after the 254th failure. Bugfix on
33028 - Resume reporting accurate "stream end" reasons to the local control
33029 port. They were lost in the changes for Proposal 148. Bugfix on
33032 o Deprecated and removed features:
33033 - The old "tor --version --version" command, which would print out
33034 the subversion "Id" of most of the source files, is now removed. It
33035 turned out to be less useful than we'd expected, and harder to
33038 o Code simplifications and refactoring:
33039 - Change our header file guard macros to be less likely to conflict
33040 with system headers. Adam Langley noticed that we were conflicting
33041 with log.h on Android.
33042 - Tool-assisted documentation cleanup. Nearly every function or
33043 static variable in Tor should have its own documentation now.
33046 Changes in version 0.2.1.9-alpha - 2008-12-25
33047 Tor 0.2.1.9-alpha fixes many more bugs, some of them security-related.
33049 o New directory authorities:
33050 - gabelmoo (the authority run by Karsten Loesing) now has a new
33054 - Never use a connection with a mismatched address to extend a
33055 circuit, unless that connection is canonical. A canonical
33056 connection is one whose address is authenticated by the router's
33057 identity key, either in a NETINFO cell or in a router descriptor.
33058 - Avoid a possible memory corruption bug when receiving hidden service
33059 descriptors. Bugfix on 0.2.1.6-alpha.
33062 - Fix a logic error that would automatically reject all but the first
33063 configured DNS server. Bugfix on 0.2.1.5-alpha. Possible fix for
33064 part of bug 813/868. Bug spotted by coderman.
33065 - When a stream at an exit relay is in state "resolving" or
33066 "connecting" and it receives an "end" relay cell, the exit relay
33067 would silently ignore the end cell and not close the stream. If
33068 the client never closes the circuit, then the exit relay never
33069 closes the TCP connection. Bug introduced in 0.1.2.1-alpha;
33070 reported by "wood".
33071 - When we can't initialize DNS because the network is down, do not
33072 automatically stop Tor from starting. Instead, retry failed
33073 dns_init() every 10 minutes, and change the exit policy to reject
33074 *:* until one succeeds. Fixes bug 691.
33077 - Give a better error message when an overzealous init script says
33078 "sudo -u username tor --user username". Makes Bug 882 easier for
33080 - When a directory authority gives us a new guess for our IP address,
33081 log which authority we used. Hopefully this will help us debug
33082 the recent complaints about bad IP address guesses.
33083 - Detect svn revision properly when we're using git-svn.
33084 - Try not to open more than one descriptor-downloading connection
33085 to an authority at once. This should reduce load on directory
33086 authorities. Fixes bug 366.
33087 - Add cross-certification to newly generated certificates, so that
33088 a signing key is enough information to look up a certificate.
33089 Partial implementation of proposal 157.
33090 - Start serving certificates by <identity digest, signing key digest>
33091 pairs. Partial implementation of proposal 157.
33092 - Clients now never report any stream end reason except 'MISC'.
33093 Implements proposal 148.
33094 - On platforms with a maximum syslog string length, truncate syslog
33095 messages to that length ourselves, rather than relying on the
33096 system to do it for us.
33097 - Optimize out calls to time(NULL) that occur for every IO operation,
33098 or for every cell. On systems where time() is a slow syscall,
33099 this fix will be slightly helpful.
33100 - Exit servers can now answer resolve requests for ip6.arpa addresses.
33101 - When we download a descriptor that we then immediately (as
33102 a directory authority) reject, do not retry downloading it right
33103 away. Should save some bandwidth on authorities. Fix for bug
33104 888. Patch by Sebastian Hahn.
33105 - When a download gets us zero good descriptors, do not notify
33106 Tor that new directory information has arrived.
33107 - Avoid some nasty corner cases in the logic for marking connections
33108 as too old or obsolete or noncanonical for circuits. Partial
33111 o Minor features (controller):
33112 - New CONSENSUS_ARRIVED event to note when a new consensus has
33113 been fetched and validated.
33114 - When we realize that another process has modified our cached
33115 descriptors file, print out a more useful error message rather
33116 than triggering an assertion. Fixes bug 885. Patch from Karsten.
33117 - Add an internal-use-only __ReloadTorrcOnSIGHUP option for
33118 controllers to prevent SIGHUP from reloading the
33119 configuration. Fixes bug 856.
33122 - Resume using the correct "REASON=" stream when telling the
33123 controller why we closed a stream. Bugfix in 0.2.1.1-alpha.
33124 - When a canonical connection appears later in our internal list
33125 than a noncanonical one for a given OR ID, always use the
33126 canonical one. Bugfix on 0.2.0.12-alpha. Fixes bug 805.
33128 - Clip the MaxCircuitDirtiness config option to a minimum of 10
33129 seconds. Warn the user if lower values are given in the
33130 configuration. Bugfix on 0.1.0.1-rc. Patch by Sebastian.
33131 - Clip the CircuitBuildTimeout to a minimum of 30 seconds. Warn the
33132 user if lower values are given in the configuration. Bugfix on
33133 0.1.1.17-rc. Patch by Sebastian.
33134 - Fix a race condition when freeing keys shared between main thread
33135 and CPU workers that could result in a memory leak. Bugfix on
33136 0.1.0.1-rc. Fixes bug 889.
33138 o Minor bugfixes (hidden services):
33139 - Do not throw away existing introduction points on SIGHUP (bugfix on
33140 0.0.6pre1); also, do not stall hidden services because we're
33141 throwing away introduction points; bugfix on 0.2.1.7-alpha. Spotted
33142 by John Brooks. Patch by Karsten. Fixes bug 874.
33143 - Fix a memory leak when we decline to add a v2 rendezvous
33144 descriptor to the cache because we already had a v0 descriptor
33145 with the same ID. Bugfix on 0.2.0.18-alpha.
33147 o Deprecated and removed features:
33148 - RedirectExits has been removed. It was deprecated since
33150 - Finally remove deprecated "EXTENDED_FORMAT" controller feature. It
33151 has been called EXTENDED_EVENTS since 0.1.2.4-alpha.
33152 - Cell pools are now always enabled; --disable-cell-pools is ignored.
33154 o Code simplifications and refactoring:
33155 - Rename the confusing or_is_obsolete field to the more appropriate
33156 is_bad_for_new_circs, and move it to or_connection_t where it
33158 - Move edge-only flags from connection_t to edge_connection_t: not
33159 only is this better coding, but on machines of plausible alignment,
33160 it should save 4-8 bytes per connection_t. "Every little bit helps."
33161 - Rename ServerDNSAllowBrokenResolvConf to ServerDNSAllowBrokenConfig
33162 for consistency; keep old option working for backward compatibility.
33163 - Simplify the code for finding connections to use for a circuit.
33166 Changes in version 0.2.1.8-alpha - 2008-12-08
33167 Tor 0.2.1.8-alpha fixes some crash bugs in earlier alpha releases,
33168 builds better on unusual platforms like Solaris and old OS X, and
33169 fixes a variety of other issues.
33172 - New DirPortFrontPage option that takes an html file and publishes
33173 it as "/" on the DirPort. Now relay operators can provide a
33174 disclaimer without needing to set up a separate webserver. There's
33175 a sample disclaimer in contrib/tor-exit-notice.html.
33178 - When the client is choosing entry guards, now it selects at most
33179 one guard from a given relay family. Otherwise we could end up with
33180 all of our entry points into the network run by the same operator.
33181 Suggested by Camilo Viecco. Fix on 0.1.1.11-alpha.
33184 - Fix a DOS opportunity during the voting signature collection process
33185 at directory authorities. Spotted by rovv. Bugfix on 0.2.0.x.
33186 - Fix a possible segfault when establishing an exit connection. Bugfix
33190 - Get file locking working on win32. Bugfix on 0.2.1.6-alpha. Fixes
33192 - Made Tor a little less aggressive about deleting expired
33193 certificates. Partial fix for bug 854.
33194 - Stop doing unaligned memory access that generated bus errors on
33195 sparc64. Bugfix on 0.2.0.10-alpha. Fix for bug 862.
33196 - Fix a crash bug when changing EntryNodes from the controller. Bugfix
33197 on 0.2.1.6-alpha. Fix for bug 867. Patched by Sebastian.
33198 - Make USR2 log-level switch take effect immediately. Bugfix on
33200 - If one win32 nameserver fails to get added, continue adding the
33201 rest, and don't automatically fail.
33202 - Use fcntl() for locking when flock() is not available. Should fix
33203 compilation on Solaris. Should fix Bug 873. Bugfix on 0.2.1.6-alpha.
33204 - Do not mark smartlist_bsearch_idx() function as ATTR_PURE. This bug
33205 could make gcc generate non-functional binary search code. Bugfix
33207 - Build correctly on platforms without socklen_t.
33208 - Avoid potential crash on internal error during signature collection.
33209 Fixes bug 864. Patch from rovv.
33210 - Do not use C's stdio library for writing to log files. This will
33211 improve logging performance by a minute amount, and will stop
33212 leaking fds when our disk is full. Fixes bug 861.
33213 - Stop erroneous use of O_APPEND in cases where we did not in fact
33214 want to re-seek to the end of a file before every last write().
33215 - Correct handling of possible malformed authority signing key
33216 certificates with internal signature types. Fixes bug 880. Bugfix
33218 - Fix a hard-to-trigger resource leak when logging credential status.
33222 - Directory mirrors no longer fetch the v1 directory or
33223 running-routers files. They are obsolete, and nobody asks for them
33224 anymore. This is the first step to making v1 authorities obsolete.
33226 o Minor features (controller):
33227 - Return circuit purposes in response to GETINFO circuit-status. Fixes
33231 Changes in version 0.2.0.32 - 2008-11-20
33232 Tor 0.2.0.32 fixes a major security problem in Debian and Ubuntu
33233 packages (and maybe other packages) noticed by Theo de Raadt, fixes
33234 a smaller security flaw that might allow an attacker to access local
33235 services, further improves hidden service performance, and fixes a
33236 variety of other issues.
33239 - The "User" and "Group" config options did not clear the
33240 supplementary group entries for the Tor process. The "User" option
33241 is now more robust, and we now set the groups to the specified
33242 user's primary group. The "Group" option is now ignored. For more
33243 detailed logging on credential switching, set CREDENTIAL_LOG_LEVEL
33244 in common/compat.c to LOG_NOTICE or higher. Patch by Jacob Appelbaum
33245 and Steven Murdoch. Bugfix on 0.0.2pre14. Fixes bug 848 and 857.
33246 - The "ClientDNSRejectInternalAddresses" config option wasn't being
33247 consistently obeyed: if an exit relay refuses a stream because its
33248 exit policy doesn't allow it, we would remember what IP address
33249 the relay said the destination address resolves to, even if it's
33250 an internal IP address. Bugfix on 0.2.0.7-alpha; patch by rovv.
33253 - Fix a DOS opportunity during the voting signature collection process
33254 at directory authorities. Spotted by rovv. Bugfix on 0.2.0.x.
33256 o Major bugfixes (hidden services):
33257 - When fetching v0 and v2 rendezvous service descriptors in parallel,
33258 we were failing the whole hidden service request when the v0
33259 descriptor fetch fails, even if the v2 fetch is still pending and
33260 might succeed. Similarly, if the last v2 fetch fails, we were
33261 failing the whole hidden service request even if a v0 fetch is
33262 still pending. Fixes bug 814. Bugfix on 0.2.0.10-alpha.
33263 - When extending a circuit to a hidden service directory to upload a
33264 rendezvous descriptor using a BEGIN_DIR cell, almost 1/6 of all
33265 requests failed, because the router descriptor has not been
33266 downloaded yet. In these cases, do not attempt to upload the
33267 rendezvous descriptor, but wait until the router descriptor is
33268 downloaded and retry. Likewise, do not attempt to fetch a rendezvous
33269 descriptor from a hidden service directory for which the router
33270 descriptor has not yet been downloaded. Fixes bug 767. Bugfix
33274 - Fix several infrequent memory leaks spotted by Coverity.
33275 - When testing for libevent functions, set the LDFLAGS variable
33276 correctly. Found by Riastradh.
33277 - Avoid a bug where the FastFirstHopPK 0 option would keep Tor from
33278 bootstrapping with tunneled directory connections. Bugfix on
33279 0.1.2.5-alpha. Fixes bug 797. Found by Erwin Lam.
33280 - When asked to connect to A.B.exit:80, if we don't know the IP for A
33281 and we know that server B rejects most-but-not all connections to
33282 port 80, we would previously reject the connection. Now, we assume
33283 the user knows what they were asking for. Fixes bug 752. Bugfix
33284 on 0.0.9rc5. Diagnosed by BarkerJr.
33285 - If we overrun our per-second write limits a little, count this as
33286 having used up our write allocation for the second, and choke
33287 outgoing directory writes. Previously, we had only counted this when
33288 we had met our limits precisely. Fixes bug 824. Patch from by rovv.
33289 Bugfix on 0.2.0.x (??).
33290 - Remove the old v2 directory authority 'lefkada' from the default
33291 list. It has been gone for many months.
33292 - Stop doing unaligned memory access that generated bus errors on
33293 sparc64. Bugfix on 0.2.0.10-alpha. Fixes bug 862.
33294 - Make USR2 log-level switch take effect immediately. Bugfix on
33297 o Minor bugfixes (controller):
33298 - Make DNS resolved events into "CLOSED", not "FAILED". Bugfix on
33299 0.1.2.5-alpha. Fix by Robert Hogan. Resolves bug 807.
33302 Changes in version 0.2.1.7-alpha - 2008-11-08
33303 Tor 0.2.1.7-alpha fixes a major security problem in Debian and Ubuntu
33304 packages (and maybe other packages) noticed by Theo de Raadt, fixes
33305 a smaller security flaw that might allow an attacker to access local
33306 services, adds better defense against DNS poisoning attacks on exit
33307 relays, further improves hidden service performance, and fixes a
33308 variety of other issues.
33311 - The "ClientDNSRejectInternalAddresses" config option wasn't being
33312 consistently obeyed: if an exit relay refuses a stream because its
33313 exit policy doesn't allow it, we would remember what IP address
33314 the relay said the destination address resolves to, even if it's
33315 an internal IP address. Bugfix on 0.2.0.7-alpha; patch by rovv.
33316 - The "User" and "Group" config options did not clear the
33317 supplementary group entries for the Tor process. The "User" option
33318 is now more robust, and we now set the groups to the specified
33319 user's primary group. The "Group" option is now ignored. For more
33320 detailed logging on credential switching, set CREDENTIAL_LOG_LEVEL
33321 in common/compat.c to LOG_NOTICE or higher. Patch by Jacob Appelbaum
33322 and Steven Murdoch. Bugfix on 0.0.2pre14. Fixes bug 848.
33323 - Do not use or believe expired v3 authority certificates. Patch
33324 from Karsten. Bugfix in 0.2.0.x. Fixes bug 851.
33327 - Now NodeFamily and MyFamily config options allow spaces in
33328 identity fingerprints, so it's easier to paste them in.
33329 Suggested by Lucky Green.
33330 - Implement the 0x20 hack to better resist DNS poisoning: set the
33331 case on outgoing DNS requests randomly, and reject responses that do
33332 not match the case correctly. This logic can be disabled with the
33333 ServerDNSRandomizeCase setting, if you are using one of the 0.3%
33334 of servers that do not reliably preserve case in replies. See
33335 "Increased DNS Forgery Resistance through 0x20-Bit Encoding"
33337 - Preserve case in replies to DNSPort requests in order to support
33338 the 0x20 hack for resisting DNS poisoning attacks.
33340 o Hidden service performance improvements:
33341 - When the client launches an introduction circuit, retry with a
33342 new circuit after 30 seconds rather than 60 seconds.
33343 - Launch a second client-side introduction circuit in parallel
33344 after a delay of 15 seconds (based on work by Christian Wilms).
33345 - Hidden services start out building five intro circuits rather
33346 than three, and when the first three finish they publish a service
33347 descriptor using those. Now we publish our service descriptor much
33348 faster after restart.
33351 - Minor fix in the warning messages when you're having problems
33352 bootstrapping; also, be more forgiving of bootstrap problems when
33353 we're still making incremental progress on a given bootstrap phase.
33354 - When we're choosing an exit node for a circuit, and we have
33355 no pending streams, choose a good general exit rather than one that
33356 supports "all the pending streams". Bugfix on 0.1.1.x. Fix by rovv.
33357 - Send a valid END cell back when a client tries to connect to a
33358 nonexistent hidden service port. Bugfix on 0.1.2.15. Fixes bug
33359 840. Patch from rovv.
33360 - If a broken client asks a non-exit router to connect somewhere,
33361 do not even do the DNS lookup before rejecting the connection.
33362 Fixes another case of bug 619. Patch from rovv.
33363 - Fix another case of assuming, when a specific exit is requested,
33364 that we know more than the user about what hosts it allows.
33365 Fixes another case of bug 752. Patch from rovv.
33366 - Check which hops rendezvous stream cells are associated with to
33367 prevent possible guess-the-streamid injection attacks from
33368 intermediate hops. Fixes another case of bug 446. Based on patch
33370 - Avoid using a negative right-shift when comparing 32-bit
33371 addresses. Possible fix for bug 845 and bug 811.
33372 - Make the assert_circuit_ok() function work correctly on circuits that
33373 have already been marked for close.
33374 - Fix read-off-the-end-of-string error in unit tests when decoding
33375 introduction points.
33376 - Fix uninitialized size field for memory area allocation: may improve
33377 memory performance during directory parsing.
33378 - Treat duplicate certificate fetches as failures, so that we do
33379 not try to re-fetch an expired certificate over and over and over.
33380 - Do not say we're fetching a certificate when we'll in fact skip it
33381 because of a pending download.
33384 Changes in version 0.2.1.6-alpha - 2008-09-30
33385 Tor 0.2.1.6-alpha further improves performance and robustness of
33386 hidden services, starts work on supporting per-country relay selection,
33387 and fixes a variety of smaller issues.
33390 - Implement proposal 121: make it possible to build hidden services
33391 that only certain clients are allowed to connect to. This is
33392 enforced at several points, so that unauthorized clients are unable
33393 to send INTRODUCE cells to the service, or even (depending on the
33394 type of authentication) to learn introduction points. This feature
33395 raises the bar for certain kinds of active attacks against hidden
33396 services. Code by Karsten Loesing.
33397 - Relays now store and serve v2 hidden service descriptors by default,
33398 i.e., the new default value for HidServDirectoryV2 is 1. This is
33399 the last step in proposal 114, which aims to make hidden service
33400 lookups more reliable.
33401 - Start work to allow node restrictions to include country codes. The
33402 syntax to exclude nodes in a country with country code XX is
33403 "ExcludeNodes {XX}". Patch from Robert Hogan. It still needs some
33404 refinement to decide what config options should take priority if
33405 you ask to both use a particular node and exclude it.
33406 - Allow ExitNodes list to include IP ranges and country codes, just
33407 like the Exclude*Nodes lists. Patch from Robert Hogan.
33410 - Fix a bug when parsing ports in tor_addr_port_parse() that caused
33411 Tor to fail to start if you had it configured to use a bridge
33412 relay. Fixes bug 809. Bugfix on 0.2.1.5-alpha.
33413 - When extending a circuit to a hidden service directory to upload a
33414 rendezvous descriptor using a BEGIN_DIR cell, almost 1/6 of all
33415 requests failed, because the router descriptor had not been
33416 downloaded yet. In these cases, we now wait until the router
33417 descriptor is downloaded, and then retry. Likewise, clients
33418 now skip over a hidden service directory if they don't yet have
33419 its router descriptor, rather than futilely requesting it and
33420 putting mysterious complaints in the logs. Fixes bug 767. Bugfix
33422 - When fetching v0 and v2 rendezvous service descriptors in parallel,
33423 we were failing the whole hidden service request when the v0
33424 descriptor fetch fails, even if the v2 fetch is still pending and
33425 might succeed. Similarly, if the last v2 fetch fails, we were
33426 failing the whole hidden service request even if a v0 fetch is
33427 still pending. Fixes bug 814. Bugfix on 0.2.0.10-alpha.
33428 - DNS replies need to have names matching their requests, but
33429 these names should be in the questions section, not necessarily
33430 in the answers section. Fixes bug 823. Bugfix on 0.2.1.5-alpha.
33433 - Update to the "September 1 2008" ip-to-country file.
33434 - Allow ports 465 and 587 in the default exit policy again. We had
33435 rejected them in 0.1.0.15, because back in 2005 they were commonly
33436 misconfigured and ended up as spam targets. We hear they are better
33437 locked down these days.
33438 - Use a lockfile to make sure that two Tor processes are not
33439 simultaneously running with the same datadir.
33440 - Serve the latest v3 networkstatus consensus via the control
33441 port. Use "getinfo dir/status-vote/current/consensus" to fetch it.
33442 - Better logging about stability/reliability calculations on directory
33444 - Drop the requirement to have an open dir port for storing and
33445 serving v2 hidden service descriptors.
33446 - Directory authorities now serve a /tor/dbg-stability.txt URL to
33447 help debug WFU and MTBF calculations.
33448 - Implement most of Proposal 152: allow specialized servers to permit
33449 single-hop circuits, and clients to use those servers to build
33450 single-hop circuits when using a specialized controller. Patch
33451 from Josh Albrecht. Resolves feature request 768.
33452 - Add a -p option to tor-resolve for specifying the SOCKS port: some
33453 people find host:port too confusing.
33454 - Make TrackHostExit mappings expire a while after their last use, not
33455 after their creation. Patch from Robert Hogan.
33456 - Provide circuit purposes along with circuit events to the controller.
33459 - Fix compile on OpenBSD 4.4-current. Bugfix on 0.2.1.5-alpha.
33461 - Fixed some memory leaks -- some quite frequent, some almost
33462 impossible to trigger -- based on results from Coverity.
33463 - When testing for libevent functions, set the LDFLAGS variable
33464 correctly. Found by Riastradh.
33465 - Fix an assertion bug in parsing policy-related options; possible fix
33467 - Catch and report a few more bootstrapping failure cases when Tor
33468 fails to establish a TCP connection. Cleanup on 0.2.1.x.
33469 - Avoid a bug where the FastFirstHopPK 0 option would keep Tor from
33470 bootstrapping with tunneled directory connections. Bugfix on
33471 0.1.2.5-alpha. Fixes bug 797. Found by Erwin Lam.
33472 - When asked to connect to A.B.exit:80, if we don't know the IP for A
33473 and we know that server B rejects most-but-not all connections to
33474 port 80, we would previously reject the connection. Now, we assume
33475 the user knows what they were asking for. Fixes bug 752. Bugfix
33476 on 0.0.9rc5. Diagnosed by BarkerJr.
33477 - If we are not using BEGIN_DIR cells, don't attempt to contact hidden
33478 service directories if they have no advertised dir port. Bugfix
33480 - If we overrun our per-second write limits a little, count this as
33481 having used up our write allocation for the second, and choke
33482 outgoing directory writes. Previously, we had only counted this when
33483 we had met our limits precisely. Fixes bug 824. Patch by rovv.
33484 Bugfix on 0.2.0.x (??).
33485 - Avoid a "0 divided by 0" calculation when calculating router uptime
33486 at directory authorities. Bugfix on 0.2.0.8-alpha.
33487 - Make DNS resolved controller events into "CLOSED", not
33488 "FAILED". Bugfix on 0.1.2.5-alpha. Fix by Robert Hogan. Resolves
33490 - Fix a bug where an unreachable relay would establish enough
33491 reachability testing circuits to do a bandwidth test -- if
33492 we already have a connection to the middle hop of the testing
33493 circuit, then it could establish the last hop by using the existing
33494 connection. Bugfix on 0.1.2.2-alpha, exposed when we made testing
33495 circuits no longer use entry guards in 0.2.1.3-alpha.
33496 - If we have correct permissions on $datadir, we complain to stdout
33497 and fail to start. But dangerous permissions on
33498 $datadir/cached-status/ would cause us to open a log and complain
33499 there. Now complain to stdout and fail to start in both cases. Fixes
33500 bug 820, reported by seeess.
33501 - Remove the old v2 directory authority 'lefkada' from the default
33502 list. It has been gone for many months.
33504 o Code simplifications and refactoring:
33505 - Revise the connection_new functions so that a more typesafe variant
33506 exists. This will work better with Coverity, and let us find any
33507 actual mistakes we're making here.
33508 - Refactor unit testing logic so that dmalloc can be used sensibly
33509 with unit tests to check for memory leaks.
33510 - Move all hidden-service related fields from connection and circuit
33511 structure to substructures: this way they won't eat so much memory.
33514 Changes in version 0.2.0.31 - 2008-09-03
33515 Tor 0.2.0.31 addresses two potential anonymity issues, starts to fix
33516 a big bug we're seeing where in rare cases traffic from one Tor stream
33517 gets mixed into another stream, and fixes a variety of smaller issues.
33520 - Make sure that two circuits can never exist on the same connection
33521 with the same circuit ID, even if one is marked for close. This
33522 is conceivably a bugfix for bug 779. Bugfix on 0.1.0.4-rc.
33523 - Relays now reject risky extend cells: if the extend cell includes
33524 a digest of all zeroes, or asks to extend back to the relay that
33525 sent the extend cell, tear down the circuit. Ideas suggested
33527 - If not enough of our entry guards are available so we add a new
33528 one, we might use the new one even if it overlapped with the
33529 current circuit's exit relay (or its family). Anonymity bugfix
33530 pointed out by rovv.
33533 - Recover 3-7 bytes that were wasted per memory chunk. Fixes bug
33534 794; bug spotted by rovv. Bugfix on 0.2.0.1-alpha.
33535 - Correctly detect the presence of the linux/netfilter_ipv4.h header
33536 when building against recent kernels. Bugfix on 0.1.2.1-alpha.
33537 - Pick size of default geoip filename string correctly on windows.
33538 Fixes bug 806. Bugfix on 0.2.0.30.
33539 - Make the autoconf script accept the obsolete --with-ssl-dir
33540 option as an alias for the actually-working --with-openssl-dir
33541 option. Fix the help documentation to recommend --with-openssl-dir.
33542 Based on a patch by "Dave". Bugfix on 0.2.0.1-alpha.
33543 - When using the TransPort option on OpenBSD, and using the User
33544 option to change UID and drop privileges, make sure to open
33545 /dev/pf before dropping privileges. Fixes bug 782. Patch from
33546 Christopher Davis. Bugfix on 0.1.2.1-alpha.
33547 - Try to attach connections immediately upon receiving a RENDEZVOUS2
33548 or RENDEZVOUS_ESTABLISHED cell. This can save a second or two
33549 on the client side when connecting to a hidden service. Bugfix
33550 on 0.0.6pre1. Found and fixed by Christian Wilms; resolves bug 743.
33551 - When closing an application-side connection because its circuit is
33552 getting torn down, generate the stream event correctly. Bugfix on
33553 0.1.2.x. Anonymous patch.
33556 Changes in version 0.2.1.5-alpha - 2008-08-31
33557 Tor 0.2.1.5-alpha moves us closer to handling IPv6 destinations, puts
33558 in a lot of the infrastructure for adding authorization to hidden
33559 services, lays the groundwork for having clients read their load
33560 balancing information out of the networkstatus consensus rather than
33561 the individual router descriptors, addresses two potential anonymity
33562 issues, and fixes a variety of smaller issues.
33565 - Convert many internal address representations to optionally hold
33567 - Generate and accept IPv6 addresses in many protocol elements.
33568 - Make resolver code handle nameservers located at ipv6 addresses.
33569 - Begin implementation of proposal 121 ("Client authorization for
33570 hidden services"): configure hidden services with client
33571 authorization, publish descriptors for them, and configure
33572 authorization data for hidden services at clients. The next
33573 step is to actually access hidden services that perform client
33575 - More progress toward proposal 141: Network status consensus
33576 documents and votes now contain bandwidth information for each
33577 router and a summary of that router's exit policy. Eventually this
33578 will be used by clients so that they do not have to download every
33579 known descriptor before building circuits.
33581 o Major bugfixes (on 0.2.0.x and before):
33582 - When sending CREATED cells back for a given circuit, use a 64-bit
33583 connection ID to find the right connection, rather than an addr:port
33584 combination. Now that we can have multiple OR connections between
33585 the same ORs, it is no longer possible to use addr:port to uniquely
33586 identify a connection.
33587 - Relays now reject risky extend cells: if the extend cell includes
33588 a digest of all zeroes, or asks to extend back to the relay that
33589 sent the extend cell, tear down the circuit. Ideas suggested
33591 - If not enough of our entry guards are available so we add a new
33592 one, we might use the new one even if it overlapped with the
33593 current circuit's exit relay (or its family). Anonymity bugfix
33594 pointed out by rovv.
33597 - Recover 3-7 bytes that were wasted per memory chunk. Fixes bug
33598 794; bug spotted by rovv. Bugfix on 0.2.0.1-alpha.
33599 - When using the TransPort option on OpenBSD, and using the User
33600 option to change UID and drop privileges, make sure to open /dev/pf
33601 before dropping privileges. Fixes bug 782. Patch from Christopher
33602 Davis. Bugfix on 0.1.2.1-alpha.
33603 - Correctly detect the presence of the linux/netfilter_ipv4.h header
33604 when building against recent kernels. Bugfix on 0.1.2.1-alpha.
33605 - Add a missing safe_str() call for a debug log message.
33606 - Use 64 bits instead of 32 bits for connection identifiers used with
33607 the controller protocol, to greatly reduce risk of identifier reuse.
33608 - Make the autoconf script accept the obsolete --with-ssl-dir
33609 option as an alias for the actually-working --with-openssl-dir
33610 option. Fix the help documentation to recommend --with-openssl-dir.
33611 Based on a patch by "Dave". Bugfix on 0.2.0.1-alpha.
33614 - Rate-limit too-many-sockets messages: when they happen, they happen
33615 a lot. Resolves bug 748.
33616 - Resist DNS poisoning a little better by making sure that names in
33617 answer sections match.
33618 - Print the SOCKS5 error message string as well as the error code
33619 when a tor-resolve request fails. Patch from Jacob.
33622 Changes in version 0.2.1.4-alpha - 2008-08-04
33623 Tor 0.2.1.4-alpha fixes a pair of crash bugs in 0.2.1.3-alpha.
33626 - The address part of exit policies was not correctly written
33627 to router descriptors. This generated router descriptors that failed
33628 their self-checks. Noticed by phobos, fixed by Karsten. Bugfix
33630 - Tor triggered a false assert when extending a circuit to a relay
33631 but we already have a connection open to that relay. Noticed by
33632 phobos, fixed by Karsten. Bugfix on 0.2.1.3-alpha.
33635 - Fix a hidden service logging bug: in some edge cases, the router
33636 descriptor of a previously picked introduction point becomes
33637 obsolete and we need to give up on it rather than continually
33638 complaining that it has become obsolete. Observed by xiando. Bugfix
33641 o Removed features:
33642 - Take out the TestVia config option, since it was a workaround for
33643 a bug that was fixed in Tor 0.1.1.21.
33646 Changes in version 0.2.1.3-alpha - 2008-08-03
33647 Tor 0.2.1.3-alpha implements most of the pieces to prevent
33648 infinite-length circuit attacks (see proposal 110); fixes a bug that
33649 might cause exit relays to corrupt streams they send back; allows
33650 address patterns (e.g. 255.128.0.0/16) to appear in ExcludeNodes and
33651 ExcludeExitNodes config options; and fixes a big pile of bugs.
33653 o Bootstrapping bugfixes (on 0.2.1.x-alpha):
33654 - Send a bootstrap problem "warn" event on the first problem if the
33655 reason is NO_ROUTE (that is, our network is down).
33658 - Implement most of proposal 110: The first K cells to be sent
33659 along a circuit are marked as special "early" cells; only K "early"
33660 cells will be allowed. Once this code is universal, we can block
33661 certain kinds of DOS attack by requiring that EXTEND commands must
33662 be sent using an "early" cell.
33665 - Try to attach connections immediately upon receiving a RENDEZVOUS2
33666 or RENDEZVOUS_ESTABLISHED cell. This can save a second or two
33667 on the client side when connecting to a hidden service. Bugfix
33668 on 0.0.6pre1. Found and fixed by Christian Wilms; resolves bug 743.
33669 - Ensure that two circuits can never exist on the same connection
33670 with the same circuit ID, even if one is marked for close. This
33671 is conceivably a bugfix for bug 779; fixes a bug on 0.1.0.4-rc.
33674 - When relays do their initial bandwidth measurement, don't limit
33675 to just our entry guards for the test circuits. Otherwise we tend
33676 to have multiple test circuits going through a single entry guard,
33677 which makes our bandwidth test less accurate. Fixes part of bug 654;
33678 patch contributed by Josh Albrecht.
33679 - Add an ExcludeExitNodes option so users can list a set of nodes
33680 that should be be excluded from the exit node position, but
33681 allowed elsewhere. Implements proposal 151.
33682 - Allow address patterns (e.g., 255.128.0.0/16) to appear in
33683 ExcludeNodes and ExcludeExitNodes lists.
33684 - Change the implementation of ExcludeNodes and ExcludeExitNodes to
33685 be more efficient. Formerly it was quadratic in the number of
33686 servers; now it should be linear. Fixes bug 509.
33687 - Save 16-22 bytes per open circuit by moving the n_addr, n_port,
33688 and n_conn_id_digest fields into a separate structure that's
33689 only needed when the circuit has not yet attached to an n_conn.
33692 - Change the contrib/tor.logrotate script so it makes the new
33693 logs as "_tor:_tor" rather than the default, which is generally
33694 "root:wheel". Fixes bug 676, reported by Serge Koksharov.
33695 - Stop using __attribute__((nonnull)) with GCC: it can give us useful
33696 warnings (occasionally), but it can also cause the compiler to
33697 eliminate error-checking code. Suggested by Peter Gutmann.
33698 - When a hidden service is giving up on an introduction point candidate
33699 that was not included in the last published rendezvous descriptor,
33700 don't reschedule publication of the next descriptor. Fixes bug 763.
33702 - Mark RendNodes, RendExcludeNodes, HiddenServiceNodes, and
33703 HiddenServiceExcludeNodes as obsolete: they never worked properly,
33704 and nobody claims to be using them. Fixes bug 754. Bugfix on
33705 0.1.0.1-rc. Patch from Christian Wilms.
33706 - Fix a small alignment and memory-wasting bug on buffer chunks.
33709 o Minor bugfixes (controller):
33710 - When closing an application-side connection because its circuit
33711 is getting torn down, generate the stream event correctly.
33712 Bugfix on 0.1.2.x. Anonymous patch.
33714 o Removed features:
33715 - Remove all backward-compatibility code to support relays running
33716 versions of Tor so old that they no longer work at all on the
33720 Changes in version 0.2.0.30 - 2008-07-15
33722 - Stop using __attribute__((nonnull)) with GCC: it can give us useful
33723 warnings (occasionally), but it can also cause the compiler to
33724 eliminate error-checking code. Suggested by Peter Gutmann.
33727 Changes in version 0.2.0.29-rc - 2008-07-08
33728 Tor 0.2.0.29-rc fixes two big bugs with using bridges, fixes more
33729 hidden-service performance bugs, and fixes a bunch of smaller bugs.
33732 - If you have more than one bridge but don't know their keys,
33733 you would only launch a request for the descriptor of the first one
33734 on your list. (Tor considered launching requests for the others, but
33735 found that it already had a connection on the way for $0000...0000
33736 so it didn't open another.) Bugfix on 0.2.0.x.
33737 - If you have more than one bridge but don't know their keys, and the
33738 connection to one of the bridges failed, you would cancel all
33739 pending bridge connections. (After all, they all have the same
33740 digest.) Bugfix on 0.2.0.x.
33741 - When a hidden service was trying to establish an introduction point,
33742 and Tor had built circuits preemptively for such purposes, we
33743 were ignoring all the preemptive circuits and launching a new one
33744 instead. Bugfix on 0.2.0.14-alpha.
33745 - When a hidden service was trying to establish an introduction point,
33746 and Tor *did* manage to reuse one of the preemptively built
33747 circuits, it didn't correctly remember which one it used,
33748 so it asked for another one soon after, until there were no
33749 more preemptive circuits, at which point it launched one from
33750 scratch. Bugfix on 0.0.9.x.
33751 - Make directory servers include the X-Your-Address-Is: http header in
33752 their responses even for begin_dir conns. Now clients who only
33753 ever use begin_dir connections still have a way to learn their IP
33754 address. Fixes bug 737; bugfix on 0.2.0.22-rc. Reported by goldy.
33757 - Fix a macro/CPP interaction that was confusing some compilers:
33758 some GCCs don't like #if/#endif pairs inside macro arguments.
33760 - Fix macro collision between OpenSSL 0.9.8h and Windows headers.
33761 Fixes bug 704; fix from Steven Murdoch.
33762 - When opening /dev/null in finish_daemonize(), do not pass the
33763 O_CREAT flag. Fortify was complaining, and correctly so. Fixes
33764 bug 742; fix from Michael Scherer. Bugfix on 0.0.2pre19.
33765 - Correctly detect transparent proxy support on Linux hosts that
33766 require in.h to be included before netfilter_ipv4.h. Patch
33768 - Disallow session resumption attempts during the renegotiation
33769 stage of the v2 handshake protocol. Clients should never be trying
33770 session resumption at this point, but apparently some did, in
33771 ways that caused the handshake to fail. Bugfix on 0.2.0.20-rc. Bug
33772 found by Geoff Goodell.
33775 Changes in version 0.2.1.2-alpha - 2008-06-20
33776 Tor 0.2.1.2-alpha includes a new "TestingTorNetwork" config option to
33777 make it easier to set up your own private Tor network; fixes several
33778 big bugs with using more than one bridge relay; fixes a big bug with
33779 offering hidden services quickly after Tor starts; and uses a better
33780 API for reporting potential bootstrapping problems to the controller.
33783 - New TestingTorNetwork config option to allow adjustment of
33784 previously constant values that, while reasonable, could slow
33785 bootstrapping. Implements proposal 135. Patch from Karsten.
33788 - If you have more than one bridge but don't know their digests,
33789 you would only learn a request for the descriptor of the first one
33790 on your list. (Tor considered launching requests for the others, but
33791 found that it already had a connection on the way for $0000...0000
33792 so it didn't open another.) Bugfix on 0.2.0.x.
33793 - If you have more than one bridge but don't know their digests,
33794 and the connection to one of the bridges failed, you would cancel
33795 all pending bridge connections. (After all, they all have the
33796 same digest.) Bugfix on 0.2.0.x.
33797 - When establishing a hidden service, introduction points that
33798 originate from cannibalized circuits are completely ignored and not
33799 included in rendezvous service descriptors. This might be another
33800 reason for delay in making a hidden service available. Bugfix
33801 from long ago (0.0.9.x?)
33804 - Allow OpenSSL to use dynamic locks if it wants.
33805 - When building a consensus, do not include routers that are down.
33806 This will cut down 30% to 40% on consensus size. Implements
33808 - In directory authorities' approved-routers files, allow
33809 fingerprints with or without space.
33810 - Add a "GETINFO /status/bootstrap-phase" controller option, so the
33811 controller can query our current bootstrap state in case it attaches
33812 partway through and wants to catch up.
33813 - Send an initial "Starting" bootstrap status event, so we have a
33814 state to start out in.
33817 - Asking for a conditional consensus at .../consensus/<fingerprints>
33818 would crash a dirserver if it did not already have a
33819 consensus. Bugfix on 0.2.1.1-alpha.
33820 - Clean up some macro/CPP interactions: some GCC versions don't like
33821 #if/#endif pairs inside macro arguments. Fixes bug 707. Bugfix on
33824 o Bootstrapping bugfixes (on 0.2.1.1-alpha):
33825 - Directory authorities shouldn't complain about bootstrapping
33826 problems just because they do a lot of reachability testing and
33827 some of the connection attempts fail.
33828 - Start sending "count" and "recommendation" key/value pairs in
33829 bootstrap problem status events, so the controller can hear about
33830 problems even before Tor decides they're worth reporting for sure.
33831 - If you're using bridges, generate "bootstrap problem" warnings
33832 as soon as you run out of working bridges, rather than waiting
33833 for ten failures -- which will never happen if you have less than
33835 - If we close our OR connection because there's been a circuit
33836 pending on it for too long, we were telling our bootstrap status
33837 events "REASON=NONE". Now tell them "REASON=TIMEOUT".
33840 Changes in version 0.2.1.1-alpha - 2008-06-13
33841 Tor 0.2.1.1-alpha fixes a lot of memory fragmentation problems that
33842 were making the Tor process bloat especially on Linux; makes our TLS
33843 handshake blend in better; sends "bootstrap phase" status events to
33844 the controller, so it can keep the user informed of progress (and
33845 problems) fetching directory information and establishing circuits;
33846 and adds a variety of smaller features.
33849 - More work on making our TLS handshake blend in: modify the list
33850 of ciphers advertised by OpenSSL in client mode to even more
33851 closely resemble a common web browser. We cheat a little so that
33852 we can advertise ciphers that the locally installed OpenSSL doesn't
33854 - Start sending "bootstrap phase" status events to the controller,
33855 so it can keep the user informed of progress fetching directory
33856 information and establishing circuits. Also inform the controller
33857 if we think we're stuck at a particular bootstrap phase. Implements
33859 - Resume using OpenSSL's RAND_poll() for better (and more portable)
33860 cross-platform entropy collection again. We used to use it, then
33861 stopped using it because of a bug that could crash systems that
33862 called RAND_poll when they had a lot of fds open. It looks like the
33863 bug got fixed in late 2006. Our new behavior is to call RAND_poll()
33864 at startup, and to call RAND_poll() when we reseed later only if
33865 we have a non-buggy OpenSSL version.
33868 - When we choose to abandon a new entry guard because we think our
33869 older ones might be better, close any circuits pending on that
33870 new entry guard connection. This fix should make us recover much
33871 faster when our network is down and then comes back. Bugfix on
33872 0.1.2.8-beta; found by lodger.
33874 o Memory fixes and improvements:
33875 - Add a malloc_good_size implementation to OpenBSD_malloc_linux.c,
33876 to avoid unused RAM in buffer chunks and memory pools.
33877 - Speed up parsing and cut down on memory fragmentation by using
33878 stack-style allocations for parsing directory objects. Previously,
33879 this accounted for over 40% of allocations from within Tor's code
33880 on a typical directory cache.
33881 - Use a Bloom filter rather than a digest-based set to track which
33882 descriptors we need to keep around when we're cleaning out old
33883 router descriptors. This speeds up the computation significantly,
33884 and may reduce fragmentation.
33885 - Reduce the default smartlist size from 32 to 16; it turns out that
33886 most smartlists hold around 8-12 elements tops.
33887 - Make dumpstats() log the fullness and size of openssl-internal
33889 - If the user has applied the experimental SSL_MODE_RELEASE_BUFFERS
33890 patch to their OpenSSL, turn it on to save memory on servers. This
33891 patch will (with any luck) get included in a mainline distribution
33893 - Never use OpenSSL compression: it wastes RAM and CPU trying to
33894 compress cells, which are basically all encrypted, compressed,
33898 - Stop reloading the router list from disk for no reason when we
33899 run out of reachable directory mirrors. Once upon a time reloading
33900 it would set the 'is_running' flag back to 1 for them. It hasn't
33901 done that for a long time.
33902 - In very rare situations new hidden service descriptors were
33903 published earlier than 30 seconds after the last change to the
33904 service. (We currently think that a hidden service descriptor
33905 that's been stable for 30 seconds is worth publishing.)
33908 - Allow separate log levels to be configured for different logging
33909 domains. For example, this allows one to log all notices, warnings,
33910 or errors, plus all memory management messages of level debug or
33911 higher, with: Log [MM] debug-err [*] notice-err file /var/log/tor.
33912 - Add a couple of extra warnings to --enable-gcc-warnings for GCC 4.3,
33913 and stop using a warning that had become unfixably verbose under
33915 - New --hush command-line option similar to --quiet. While --quiet
33916 disables all logging to the console on startup, --hush limits the
33917 output to messages of warning and error severity.
33918 - Servers support a new URL scheme for consensus downloads that
33919 allows the client to specify which authorities are trusted.
33920 The server then only sends the consensus if the client will trust
33921 it. Otherwise a 404 error is sent back. Clients use this
33922 new scheme when the server supports it (meaning it's running
33923 0.2.1.1-alpha or later). Implements proposal 134.
33924 - New configure/torrc options (--enable-geoip-stats,
33925 DirRecordUsageByCountry) to record how many IPs we've served
33926 directory info to in each country code, how many status documents
33927 total we've sent to each country code, and what share of the total
33928 directory requests we should expect to see.
33929 - Use the TLS1 hostname extension to more closely resemble browser
33931 - Lots of new unit tests.
33932 - Add a macro to implement the common pattern of iterating through
33933 two parallel lists in lockstep.
33936 Changes in version 0.2.0.28-rc - 2008-06-13
33937 Tor 0.2.0.28-rc fixes an anonymity-related bug, fixes a hidden-service
33938 performance bug, and fixes a bunch of smaller bugs.
33941 - Fix a bug where, when we were choosing the 'end stream reason' to
33942 put in our relay end cell that we send to the exit relay, Tor
33943 clients on Windows were sometimes sending the wrong 'reason'. The
33944 anonymity problem is that exit relays may be able to guess whether
33945 the client is running Windows, thus helping partition the anonymity
33946 set. Down the road we should stop sending reasons to exit relays,
33947 or otherwise prevent future versions of this bug.
33950 - While setting up a hidden service, some valid introduction circuits
33951 were overlooked and abandoned. This might be the reason for
33952 the long delay in making a hidden service available. Bugfix on
33956 - Update to the "June 9 2008" ip-to-country file.
33957 - Run 'make test' as part of 'make dist', so we stop releasing so
33958 many development snapshots that fail their unit tests.
33961 - When we're checking if we have enough dir info for each relay
33962 to begin establishing circuits, make sure that we actually have
33963 the descriptor listed in the consensus, not just any descriptor.
33965 - Bridge relays no longer print "xx=0" in their extrainfo document
33966 for every single country code in the geoip db. Bugfix on
33968 - Only warn when we fail to load the geoip file if we were planning to
33969 include geoip stats in our extrainfo document. Bugfix on 0.2.0.27-rc.
33970 - If we change our MaxAdvertisedBandwidth and then reload torrc,
33971 Tor won't realize it should publish a new relay descriptor. Fixes
33972 bug 688, reported by mfr. Bugfix on 0.1.2.x.
33973 - When we haven't had any application requests lately, don't bother
33974 logging that we have expired a bunch of descriptors. Bugfix
33976 - Make relay cells written on a connection count as non-padding when
33977 tracking how long a connection has been in use. Bugfix on
33978 0.2.0.1-alpha. Spotted by lodger.
33979 - Fix unit tests in 0.2.0.27-rc.
33980 - Fix compile on Windows.
33983 Changes in version 0.2.0.27-rc - 2008-06-03
33984 Tor 0.2.0.27-rc adds a few features we left out of the earlier
33985 release candidates. In particular, we now include an IP-to-country
33986 GeoIP database, so controllers can easily look up what country a
33987 given relay is in, and so bridge relays can give us some sanitized
33988 summaries about which countries are making use of bridges. (See proposal
33989 126-geoip-fetching.txt for details.)
33992 - Include an IP-to-country GeoIP file in the tarball, so bridge
33993 relays can report sanitized summaries of the usage they're seeing.
33996 - Add a "PURPOSE=" argument to "STREAM NEW" events, as suggested by
33997 Robert Hogan. Fixes the first part of bug 681.
33998 - Make bridge authorities never serve extrainfo docs.
33999 - Add support to detect Libevent versions in the 1.4.x series
34001 - Fix build on gcc 4.3 with --enable-gcc-warnings set.
34002 - Include a new contrib/tor-exit-notice.html file that exit relay
34003 operators can put on their website to help reduce abuse queries.
34006 - When tunneling an encrypted directory connection, and its first
34007 circuit fails, do not leave it unattached and ask the controller
34008 to deal. Fixes the second part of bug 681.
34009 - Make bridge authorities correctly expire old extrainfo documents
34013 Changes in version 0.2.0.26-rc - 2008-05-13
34014 Tor 0.2.0.26-rc fixes a major security vulnerability caused by a bug
34015 in Debian's OpenSSL packages. All users running any 0.2.0.x version
34016 should upgrade, whether they're running Debian or not.
34018 o Major security fixes:
34019 - Use new V3 directory authority keys on the tor26, gabelmoo, and
34020 moria1 V3 directory authorities. The old keys were generated with
34021 a vulnerable version of Debian's OpenSSL package, and must be
34022 considered compromised. Other authorities' keys were not generated
34023 with an affected version of OpenSSL.
34026 - List authority signatures as "unrecognized" based on DirServer
34027 lines, not on cert cache. Bugfix on 0.2.0.x.
34030 - Add a new V3AuthUseLegacyKey option to make it easier for
34031 authorities to change their identity keys if they have to.
34034 Changes in version 0.2.0.25-rc - 2008-04-23
34035 Tor 0.2.0.25-rc makes Tor work again on OS X and certain BSDs.
34038 - Remember to initialize threading before initializing logging.
34039 Otherwise, many BSD-family implementations will crash hard on
34040 startup. Fixes bug 671. Bugfix on 0.2.0.24-rc.
34043 - Authorities correctly free policies on bad servers on
34044 exit. Fixes bug 672. Bugfix on 0.2.0.x.
34047 Changes in version 0.2.0.24-rc - 2008-04-22
34048 Tor 0.2.0.24-rc adds dizum (run by Alex de Joode) as the new sixth
34049 v3 directory authority, makes relays with dynamic IP addresses and no
34050 DirPort notice more quickly when their IP address changes, fixes a few
34051 rare crashes and memory leaks, and fixes a few other miscellaneous bugs.
34053 o New directory authorities:
34054 - Take lefkada out of the list of v3 directory authorities, since
34055 it has been down for months.
34056 - Set up dizum (run by Alex de Joode) as the new sixth v3 directory
34060 - Detect address changes more quickly on non-directory mirror
34061 relays. Bugfix on 0.2.0.18-alpha; fixes bug 652.
34063 o Minor features (security):
34064 - Reject requests for reverse-dns lookup of names that are in
34065 a private address space. Patch from lodger.
34066 - Non-exit relays no longer allow DNS requests. Fixes bug 619. Patch
34069 o Minor bugfixes (crashes):
34070 - Avoid a rare assert that can trigger when Tor doesn't have much
34071 directory information yet and it tries to fetch a v2 hidden
34072 service descriptor. Fixes bug 651, reported by nwf.
34073 - Initialize log mutex before initializing dmalloc. Otherwise,
34074 running with dmalloc would crash. Bugfix on 0.2.0.x-alpha.
34075 - Use recursive pthread mutexes in order to avoid deadlock when
34076 logging debug-level messages to a controller. Bug spotted by nwf,
34077 bugfix on 0.2.0.16-alpha.
34079 o Minor bugfixes (resource management):
34080 - Keep address policies from leaking memory: start their refcount
34081 at 1, not 2. Bugfix on 0.2.0.16-alpha.
34082 - Free authority certificates on exit, so they don't look like memory
34083 leaks. Bugfix on 0.2.0.19-alpha.
34084 - Free static hashtables for policy maps and for TLS connections on
34085 shutdown, so they don't look like memory leaks. Bugfix on 0.2.0.x.
34086 - Avoid allocating extra space when computing consensuses on 64-bit
34087 platforms. Bug spotted by aakova.
34089 o Minor bugfixes (misc):
34090 - Do not read the configuration file when we've only been told to
34091 generate a password hash. Fixes bug 643. Bugfix on 0.0.9pre5. Fix
34092 based on patch from Sebastian Hahn.
34093 - Exit relays that are used as a client can now reach themselves
34094 using the .exit notation, rather than just launching an infinite
34095 pile of circuits. Fixes bug 641. Reported by Sebastian Hahn.
34096 - When attempting to open a logfile fails, tell us why.
34097 - Fix a dumb bug that was preventing us from knowing that we should
34098 preemptively build circuits to handle expected directory requests.
34099 Fixes bug 660. Bugfix on 0.1.2.x.
34100 - Warn less verbosely about clock skew from netinfo cells from
34101 untrusted sources. Fixes bug 663.
34102 - Make controller stream events for DNS requests more consistent,
34103 by adding "new stream" events for DNS requests, and removing
34104 spurious "stream closed" events" for cached reverse resolves.
34105 Patch from mwenge. Fixes bug 646.
34106 - Correctly notify one-hop connections when a circuit build has
34107 failed. Possible fix for bug 669. Found by lodger.
34110 Changes in version 0.2.0.23-rc - 2008-03-24
34111 Tor 0.2.0.23-rc is the fourth release candidate for the 0.2.0 series. It
34112 makes bootstrapping faster if the first directory mirror you contact
34113 is down. The bundles also include the new Vidalia 0.1.2 release.
34116 - When a tunneled directory request is made to a directory server
34117 that's down, notice after 30 seconds rather than 120 seconds. Also,
34118 fail any begindir streams that are pending on it, so they can
34119 retry elsewhere. This was causing multi-minute delays on bootstrap.
34122 Changes in version 0.2.0.22-rc - 2008-03-18
34123 Tor 0.2.0.22-rc is the third release candidate for the 0.2.0 series. It
34124 enables encrypted directory connections by default for non-relays, fixes
34125 some broken TLS behavior we added in 0.2.0.20-rc, and resolves many
34126 other bugs. The bundles also include Vidalia 0.1.1 and Torbutton 1.1.17.
34129 - Enable encrypted directory connections by default for non-relays,
34130 so censor tools that block Tor directory connections based on their
34131 plaintext patterns will no longer work. This means Tor works in
34132 certain censored countries by default again.
34135 - Make sure servers always request certificates from clients during
34136 TLS renegotiation. Reported by lodger; bugfix on 0.2.0.20-rc.
34137 - Do not enter a CPU-eating loop when a connection is closed in
34138 the middle of client-side TLS renegotiation. Fixes bug 622. Bug
34139 diagnosed by lodger; bugfix on 0.2.0.20-rc.
34140 - Fix assertion failure that could occur when a blocked circuit
34141 became unblocked, and it had pending client DNS requests. Bugfix
34142 on 0.2.0.1-alpha. Fixes bug 632.
34144 o Minor bugfixes (on 0.1.2.x):
34145 - Generate "STATUS_SERVER" events rather than misspelled
34146 "STATUS_SEVER" events. Caught by mwenge.
34147 - When counting the number of bytes written on a TLS connection,
34148 look at the BIO actually used for writing to the network, not
34149 at the BIO used (sometimes) to buffer data for the network.
34150 Looking at different BIOs could result in write counts on the
34151 order of ULONG_MAX. Fixes bug 614.
34152 - On Windows, correctly detect errors when listing the contents of
34153 a directory. Fix from lodger.
34155 o Minor bugfixes (on 0.2.0.x):
34156 - Downgrade "sslv3 alert handshake failure" message to INFO.
34157 - If we set RelayBandwidthRate and RelayBandwidthBurst very high but
34158 left BandwidthRate and BandwidthBurst at the default, we would be
34159 silently limited by those defaults. Now raise them to match the
34160 RelayBandwidth* values.
34161 - Fix the SVK version detection logic to work correctly on a branch.
34162 - Make --enable-openbsd-malloc work correctly on Linux with alpha
34163 CPUs. Fixes bug 625.
34164 - Logging functions now check that the passed severity is sane.
34165 - Use proper log levels in the testsuite call of
34166 get_interface_address6().
34167 - When using a nonstandard malloc, do not use the platform values for
34168 HAVE_MALLOC_GOOD_SIZE or HAVE_MALLOC_USABLE_SIZE.
34169 - Make the openbsd malloc code use 8k pages on alpha CPUs and
34171 - Detect mismatched page sizes when using --enable-openbsd-malloc.
34172 - Avoid double-marked-for-close warning when certain kinds of invalid
34173 .in-addr.arpa addresses are passed to the DNSPort. Part of a fix
34174 for bug 617. Bugfix on 0.2.0.1-alpha.
34175 - Make sure that the "NULL-means-reject *:*" convention is followed by
34176 all the policy manipulation functions, avoiding some possible crash
34177 bugs. Bug found by lodger. Bugfix on 0.2.0.16-alpha.
34178 - Fix the implementation of ClientDNSRejectInternalAddresses so that it
34179 actually works, and doesn't warn about every single reverse lookup.
34180 Fixes the other part of bug 617. Bugfix on 0.2.0.1-alpha.
34183 - Only log guard node status when guard node status has changed.
34184 - Downgrade the 3 most common "INFO" messages to "DEBUG". This will
34185 make "INFO" 75% less verbose.
34188 Changes in version 0.2.0.21-rc - 2008-03-02
34189 Tor 0.2.0.21-rc is the second release candidate for the 0.2.0 series. It
34190 makes Tor work well with Vidalia again, fixes a rare assert bug,
34191 and fixes a pair of more minor bugs. The bundles also include Vidalia
34192 0.1.0 and Torbutton 1.1.16.
34195 - The control port should declare that it requires password auth
34196 when HashedControlSessionPassword is set too. Patch from Matt Edman;
34197 bugfix on 0.2.0.20-rc. Fixes bug 615.
34198 - Downgrade assert in connection_buckets_decrement() to a log message.
34199 This may help us solve bug 614, and in any case will make its
34200 symptoms less severe. Bugfix on 0.2.0.20-rc. Reported by fredzupy.
34201 - We were sometimes miscounting the number of bytes read from the
34202 network, causing our rate limiting to not be followed exactly.
34203 Bugfix on 0.2.0.16-alpha. Reported by lodger.
34206 - Fix compilation with OpenSSL 0.9.8 and 0.9.8a. All other supported
34207 OpenSSL versions should have been working fine. Diagnosis and patch
34208 from lodger, Karsten Loesing, and Sebastian Hahn. Fixes bug 616.
34209 Bugfix on 0.2.0.20-rc.
34212 Changes in version 0.2.0.20-rc - 2008-02-24
34213 Tor 0.2.0.20-rc is the first release candidate for the 0.2.0 series. It
34214 makes more progress towards normalizing Tor's TLS handshake, makes
34215 hidden services work better again, helps relays bootstrap if they don't
34216 know their IP address, adds optional support for linking in openbsd's
34217 allocator or tcmalloc, allows really fast relays to scale past 15000
34218 sockets, and fixes a bunch of minor bugs reported by Veracode.
34221 - Enable the revised TLS handshake based on the one designed by
34222 Steven Murdoch in proposal 124, as revised in proposal 130. It
34223 includes version negotiation for OR connections as described in
34224 proposal 105. The new handshake is meant to be harder for censors
34225 to fingerprint, and it adds the ability to detect certain kinds of
34226 man-in-the-middle traffic analysis attacks. The version negotiation
34227 feature will allow us to improve Tor's link protocol more safely
34229 - Choose which bridge to use proportional to its advertised bandwidth,
34230 rather than uniformly at random. This should speed up Tor for
34231 bridge users. Also do this for people who set StrictEntryNodes.
34232 - When a TrackHostExits-chosen exit fails too many times in a row,
34233 stop using it. Bugfix on 0.1.2.x; fixes bug 437.
34236 - Resolved problems with (re-)fetching hidden service descriptors.
34237 Patch from Karsten Loesing; fixes problems with 0.2.0.18-alpha
34238 and 0.2.0.19-alpha.
34239 - If we only ever used Tor for hidden service lookups or posts, we
34240 would stop building circuits and start refusing connections after
34241 24 hours, since we falsely believed that Tor was dormant. Reported
34242 by nwf; bugfix on 0.1.2.x.
34243 - Servers that don't know their own IP address should go to the
34244 authorities for their first directory fetch, even if their DirPort
34245 is off or if they don't know they're reachable yet. This will help
34246 them bootstrap better. Bugfix on 0.2.0.18-alpha; fixes bug 609.
34247 - When counting the number of open sockets, count not only the number
34248 of sockets we have received from the socket() call, but also
34249 the number we've gotten from accept() and socketpair(). This bug
34250 made us fail to count all sockets that we were using for incoming
34251 connections. Bugfix on 0.2.0.x.
34252 - Fix code used to find strings within buffers, when those strings
34253 are not in the first chunk of the buffer. Bugfix on 0.2.0.x.
34254 - Fix potential segfault when parsing HTTP headers. Bugfix on 0.2.0.x.
34255 - Add a new __HashedControlSessionPassword option for controllers
34256 to use for one-off session password hashes that shouldn't get
34257 saved to disk by SAVECONF --- Vidalia users were accumulating a
34258 pile of HashedControlPassword lines in their torrc files, one for
34259 each time they had restarted Tor and then clicked Save. Make Tor
34260 automatically convert "HashedControlPassword" to this new option but
34261 only when it's given on the command line. Partial fix for bug 586.
34263 o Minor features (performance):
34264 - Tune parameters for cell pool allocation to minimize amount of
34266 - Add OpenBSD malloc code from phk as an optional malloc
34267 replacement on Linux: some glibc libraries do very poorly
34268 with Tor's memory allocation patterns. Pass
34269 --enable-openbsd-malloc to get the replacement malloc code.
34270 - Add a --with-tcmalloc option to the configure script to link
34271 against tcmalloc (if present). Does not yet search for
34272 non-system include paths.
34273 - Stop imposing an arbitrary maximum on the number of file descriptors
34274 used for busy servers. Bug reported by Olaf Selke; patch from
34277 o Minor features (other):
34278 - When SafeLogging is disabled, log addresses along with all TLS
34280 - When building with --enable-gcc-warnings, check for whether Apple's
34281 warning "-Wshorten-64-to-32" is available.
34282 - Add a --passphrase-fd argument to the tor-gencert command for
34285 o Minor bugfixes (memory leaks and code problems):
34286 - We were leaking a file descriptor if Tor started with a zero-length
34287 cached-descriptors file. Patch by freddy77; bugfix on 0.1.2.
34288 - Detect size overflow in zlib code. Reported by Justin Ferguson and
34290 - We were comparing the raw BridgePassword entry with a base64'ed
34291 version of it, when handling a "/tor/networkstatus-bridges"
34292 directory request. Now compare correctly. Noticed by Veracode.
34293 - Recover from bad tracked-since value in MTBF-history file.
34294 Should fix bug 537.
34295 - Alter the code that tries to recover from unhandled write
34296 errors, to not try to flush onto a socket that's given us
34297 unhandled errors. Bugfix on 0.1.2.x.
34298 - Make Unix controlsockets work correctly on OpenBSD. Patch from
34299 tup. Bugfix on 0.2.0.3-alpha.
34301 o Minor bugfixes (other):
34302 - If we have an extra-info document for our server, always make
34303 it available on the control port, even if we haven't gotten
34304 a copy of it from an authority yet. Patch from mwenge.
34305 - Log the correct memory chunk sizes for empty RAM chunks in mempool.c.
34306 - Directory mirrors no longer include a guess at the client's IP
34307 address if the connection appears to be coming from the same /24
34308 network; it was producing too many wrong guesses.
34309 - Make the new hidden service code respect the SafeLogging setting.
34310 Bugfix on 0.2.0.x. Patch from Karsten.
34311 - When starting as an authority, do not overwrite all certificates
34312 cached from other authorities. Bugfix on 0.2.0.x. Fixes bug 606.
34313 - If we're trying to flush the last bytes on a connection (for
34314 example, when answering a directory request), reset the
34315 time-to-give-up timeout every time we manage to write something
34316 on the socket. Bugfix on 0.1.2.x.
34317 - Change the behavior of "getinfo status/good-server-descriptor"
34318 so it doesn't return failure when any authority disappears.
34319 - Even though the man page said that "TrackHostExits ." should
34320 work, nobody had ever implemented it. Bugfix on 0.1.0.x.
34321 - Report TLS "zero return" case as a "clean close" and "IO error"
34322 as a "close". Stop calling closes "unexpected closes": existing
34323 Tors don't use SSL_close(), so having a connection close without
34324 the TLS shutdown handshake is hardly unexpected.
34325 - Send NAMESERVER_STATUS messages for a single failed nameserver
34328 o Code simplifications and refactoring:
34329 - Remove the tor_strpartition function: its logic was confused,
34330 and it was only used for one thing that could be implemented far
34334 Changes in version 0.2.0.19-alpha - 2008-02-09
34335 Tor 0.2.0.19-alpha makes more progress towards normalizing Tor's TLS
34336 handshake, makes path selection for relays more secure and IP address
34337 guessing more robust, and generally fixes a lot of bugs in preparation
34338 for calling the 0.2.0 branch stable.
34341 - Do not include recognizeable strings in the commonname part of
34342 Tor's x509 certificates.
34345 - If we're a relay, avoid picking ourselves as an introduction point,
34346 a rendezvous point, or as the final hop for internal circuits. Bug
34347 reported by taranis and lodger. Bugfix on 0.1.2.x.
34348 - Patch from "Andrew S. Lists" to catch when we contact a directory
34349 mirror at IP address X and he says we look like we're coming from
34350 IP address X. Bugfix on 0.1.2.x.
34352 o Minor features (security):
34353 - Be more paranoid about overwriting sensitive memory on free(),
34354 as a defensive programming tactic to ensure forward secrecy.
34356 o Minor features (directory authority):
34357 - Actually validate the options passed to AuthDirReject,
34358 AuthDirInvalid, AuthDirBadDir, and AuthDirBadExit.
34359 - Reject router descriptors with out-of-range bandwidthcapacity or
34360 bandwidthburst values.
34362 o Minor features (controller):
34363 - Reject controller commands over 1MB in length. This keeps rogue
34364 processes from running us out of memory.
34366 o Minor features (misc):
34367 - Give more descriptive well-formedness errors for out-of-range
34368 hidden service descriptor/protocol versions.
34369 - Make memory debugging information describe more about history
34370 of cell allocation, so we can help reduce our memory use.
34372 o Deprecated features (controller):
34373 - The status/version/num-versioning and status/version/num-concurring
34374 GETINFO options are no longer useful in the v3 directory protocol:
34375 treat them as deprecated, and warn when they're used.
34378 - When our consensus networkstatus has been expired for a while, stop
34379 being willing to build circuits using it. Fixes bug 401. Bugfix
34381 - Directory caches now fetch certificates from all authorities
34382 listed in a networkstatus consensus, even when they do not
34383 recognize them. Fixes bug 571. Bugfix on 0.2.0.x.
34384 - When connecting to a bridge without specifying its key, insert
34385 the connection into the identity-to-connection map as soon as
34386 a key is learned. Fixes bug 574. Bugfix on 0.2.0.x.
34387 - Detect versions of OS X where malloc_good_size() is present in the
34388 library but never actually declared. Resolves bug 587. Bugfix
34390 - Stop incorrectly truncating zlib responses to directory authority
34391 signature download requests. Fixes bug 593. Bugfix on 0.2.0.x.
34392 - Stop recommending that every server operator send mail to tor-ops.
34393 Resolves bug 597. Bugfix on 0.1.2.x.
34394 - Don't trigger an assert if we start a directory authority with a
34395 private IP address (like 127.0.0.1).
34396 - Avoid possible failures when generating a directory with routers
34397 with over-long versions strings, or too many flags set. Bugfix
34399 - If an attempt to launch a DNS resolve request over the control
34400 port fails because we have overrun the limit on the number of
34401 connections, tell the controller that the request has failed.
34402 - Avoid using too little bandwidth when our clock skips a few
34403 seconds. Bugfix on 0.1.2.x.
34404 - Fix shell error when warning about missing packages in configure
34405 script, on Fedora or Red Hat machines. Bugfix on 0.2.0.x.
34406 - Do not become confused when receiving a spurious VERSIONS-like
34407 cell from a confused v1 client. Bugfix on 0.2.0.x.
34408 - Re-fetch v2 (as well as v0) rendezvous descriptors when all
34409 introduction points for a hidden service have failed. Patch from
34410 Karsten Loesing. Bugfix on 0.2.0.x.
34412 o Code simplifications and refactoring:
34413 - Remove some needless generality from cpuworker code, for improved
34415 - Stop overloading the circuit_t.onionskin field for both "onionskin
34416 from a CREATE cell that we are waiting for a cpuworker to be
34417 assigned" and "onionskin from an EXTEND cell that we are going to
34418 send to an OR as soon as we are connected". Might help with bug 600.
34419 - Add an in-place version of aes_crypt() so that we can avoid doing a
34420 needless memcpy() call on each cell payload.
34423 Changes in version 0.2.0.18-alpha - 2008-01-25
34424 Tor 0.2.0.18-alpha adds a sixth v3 directory authority run by CCC,
34425 fixes a big memory leak in 0.2.0.17-alpha, and adds new config options
34426 that can warn or reject connections to ports generally associated with
34427 vulnerable-plaintext protocols.
34429 o New directory authorities:
34430 - Set up dannenberg (run by CCC) as the sixth v3 directory
34434 - Fix a major memory leak when attempting to use the v2 TLS
34435 handshake code. Bugfix on 0.2.0.x; fixes bug 589.
34436 - We accidentally enabled the under-development v2 TLS handshake
34437 code, which was causing log entries like "TLS error while
34438 renegotiating handshake". Disable it again. Resolves bug 590.
34439 - We were computing the wrong Content-Length: header for directory
34440 responses that need to be compressed on the fly, causing clients
34441 asking for those items to always fail. Bugfix on 0.2.0.x; partially
34445 - Avoid going directly to the directory authorities even if you're a
34446 relay, if you haven't found yourself reachable yet or if you've
34447 decided not to advertise your dirport yet. Addresses bug 556.
34448 - If we've gone 12 hours since our last bandwidth check, and we
34449 estimate we have less than 50KB bandwidth capacity but we could
34450 handle more, do another bandwidth test.
34451 - New config options WarnPlaintextPorts and RejectPlaintextPorts so
34452 Tor can warn and/or refuse connections to ports commonly used with
34453 vulnerable-plaintext protocols. Currently we warn on ports 23,
34454 109, 110, and 143, but we don't reject any.
34457 - When we setconf ClientOnly to 1, close any current OR and Dir
34458 listeners. Reported by mwenge.
34459 - When we get a consensus that's been signed by more people than
34460 we expect, don't log about it; it's not a big deal. Reported
34464 - Don't answer "/tor/networkstatus-bridges" directory requests if
34465 the request isn't encrypted.
34466 - Make "ClientOnly 1" config option disable directory ports too.
34467 - Patches from Karsten Loesing to make v2 hidden services more
34468 robust: work even when there aren't enough HSDir relays available;
34469 retry when a v2 rend desc fetch fails; but don't retry if we
34470 already have a usable v0 rend desc.
34473 Changes in version 0.2.0.17-alpha - 2008-01-17
34474 Tor 0.2.0.17-alpha makes the tarball build cleanly again (whoops).
34477 - Make the tor-gencert man page get included correctly in the tarball.
34480 Changes in version 0.2.0.16-alpha - 2008-01-17
34481 Tor 0.2.0.16-alpha adds a fifth v3 directory authority run by Karsten
34482 Loesing, and generally cleans up a lot of features and minor bugs.
34484 o New directory authorities:
34485 - Set up gabelmoo (run by Karsten Loesing) as the fifth v3 directory
34488 o Major performance improvements:
34489 - Switch our old ring buffer implementation for one more like that
34490 used by free Unix kernels. The wasted space in a buffer with 1mb
34491 of data will now be more like 8k than 1mb. The new implementation
34492 also avoids realloc();realloc(); patterns that can contribute to
34493 memory fragmentation.
34496 - Configuration files now accept C-style strings as values. This
34497 helps encode characters not allowed in the current configuration
34498 file format, such as newline or #. Addresses bug 557.
34499 - Although we fixed bug 539 (where servers would send HTTP status 503
34500 responses _and_ send a body too), there are still servers out
34501 there that haven't upgraded. Therefore, make clients parse such
34502 bodies when they receive them.
34503 - When we're not serving v2 directory information, there is no reason
34504 to actually keep any around. Remove the obsolete files and directory
34505 on startup if they are very old and we aren't going to serve them.
34507 o Minor performance improvements:
34508 - Reference-count and share copies of address policy entries; only 5%
34509 of them were actually distinct.
34510 - Never walk through the list of logs if we know that no log is
34511 interested in a given message.
34514 - When an authority has not signed a consensus, do not try to
34515 download a nonexistent "certificate with key 00000000". Bugfix
34516 on 0.2.0.x. Fixes bug 569.
34517 - Fix a rare assert error when we're closing one of our threads:
34518 use a mutex to protect the list of logs, so we never write to the
34519 list as it's being freed. Bugfix on 0.1.2.x. Fixes the very rare
34520 bug 575, which is kind of the revenge of bug 222.
34521 - Patch from Karsten Loesing to complain less at both the client
34522 and the relay when a relay used to have the HSDir flag but doesn't
34523 anymore, and we try to upload a hidden service descriptor.
34524 - Stop leaking one cert per TLS context. Fixes bug 582. Bugfix on
34526 - Do not try to download missing certificates until we have tried
34527 to check our fallback consensus. Fixes bug 583.
34528 - Make bridges round reported GeoIP stats info up to the nearest
34529 estimate, not down. Now we can distinguish between "0 people from
34530 this country" and "1 person from this country".
34531 - Avoid a spurious free on base64 failure. Bugfix on 0.1.2.
34532 - Avoid possible segfault if key generation fails in
34533 crypto_pk_hybrid_encrypt. Bugfix on 0.2.0.
34534 - Avoid segfault in the case where a badly behaved v2 versioning
34535 directory sends a signed networkstatus with missing client-versions.
34537 - Avoid segfaults on certain complex invocations of
34538 router_get_by_hexdigest(). Bugfix on 0.1.2.
34539 - Correct bad index on array access in parse_http_time(). Bugfix
34541 - Fix possible bug in vote generation when server versions are present
34542 but client versions are not.
34543 - Fix rare bug on REDIRECTSTREAM control command when called with no
34544 port set: it could erroneously report an error when none had
34546 - Avoid bogus crash-prone, leak-prone tor_realloc when we're
34547 compressing large objects and find ourselves with more than 4k
34548 left over. Bugfix on 0.2.0.
34549 - Fix a small memory leak when setting up a hidden service.
34550 - Fix a few memory leaks that could in theory happen under bizarre
34552 - Fix an assert if we post a general-purpose descriptor via the
34553 control port but that descriptor isn't mentioned in our current
34554 network consensus. Bug reported by Jon McLachlan; bugfix on
34557 o Minor features (controller):
34558 - Get NS events working again. Patch from tup.
34559 - The GETCONF command now escapes and quotes configuration values
34560 that don't otherwise fit into the torrc file.
34561 - The SETCONF command now handles quoted values correctly.
34563 o Minor features (directory authorities):
34564 - New configuration options to override default maximum number of
34565 servers allowed on a single IP address. This is important for
34566 running a test network on a single host.
34567 - Actually implement the -s option to tor-gencert.
34568 - Add a manual page for tor-gencert.
34570 o Minor features (bridges):
34571 - Bridge authorities no longer serve bridge descriptors over
34572 unencrypted connections.
34574 o Minor features (other):
34575 - Add hidden services and DNSPorts to the list of things that make
34576 Tor accept that it has running ports. Change starting Tor with no
34577 ports from a fatal error to a warning; we might change it back if
34578 this turns out to confuse anybody. Fixes bug 579.
34581 Changes in version 0.1.2.19 - 2008-01-17
34582 Tor 0.1.2.19 fixes a huge memory leak on exit relays, makes the default
34583 exit policy a little bit more conservative so it's safer to run an
34584 exit relay on a home system, and fixes a variety of smaller issues.
34587 - Exit policies now reject connections that are addressed to a
34588 relay's public (external) IP address too, unless
34589 ExitPolicyRejectPrivate is turned off. We do this because too
34590 many relays are running nearby to services that trust them based
34591 on network address.
34594 - When the clock jumps forward a lot, do not allow the bandwidth
34595 buckets to become negative. Fixes bug 544.
34596 - Fix a memory leak on exit relays; we were leaking a cached_resolve_t
34597 on every successful resolve. Reported by Mike Perry.
34598 - Purge old entries from the "rephist" database and the hidden
34599 service descriptor database even when DirPort is zero.
34600 - Stop thinking that 0.1.2.x directory servers can handle "begin_dir"
34601 requests. Should ease bugs 406 and 419 where 0.1.2.x relays are
34602 crashing or mis-answering these requests.
34603 - When we decide to send a 503 response to a request for servers, do
34604 not then also send the server descriptors: this defeats the whole
34605 purpose. Fixes bug 539.
34608 - Changing the ExitPolicyRejectPrivate setting should cause us to
34609 rebuild our server descriptor.
34610 - Fix handling of hex nicknames when answering controller requests for
34611 networkstatus by name, or when deciding whether to warn about
34612 unknown routers in a config option. (Patch from mwenge.)
34613 - Fix a couple of hard-to-trigger autoconf problems that could result
34614 in really weird results on platforms whose sys/types.h files define
34615 nonstandard integer types.
34616 - Don't try to create the datadir when running --verify-config or
34617 --hash-password. Resolves bug 540.
34618 - If we were having problems getting a particular descriptor from the
34619 directory caches, and then we learned about a new descriptor for
34620 that router, we weren't resetting our failure count. Reported
34622 - Although we fixed bug 539 (where servers would send HTTP status 503
34623 responses _and_ send a body too), there are still servers out there
34624 that haven't upgraded. Therefore, make clients parse such bodies
34625 when they receive them.
34626 - Run correctly on systems where rlim_t is larger than unsigned long.
34627 This includes some 64-bit systems.
34628 - Run correctly on platforms (like some versions of OS X 10.5) where
34629 the real limit for number of open files is OPEN_FILES, not rlim_max
34630 from getrlimit(RLIMIT_NOFILES).
34631 - Avoid a spurious free on base64 failure.
34632 - Avoid segfaults on certain complex invocations of
34633 router_get_by_hexdigest().
34634 - Fix rare bug on REDIRECTSTREAM control command when called with no
34635 port set: it could erroneously report an error when none had
34639 Changes in version 0.2.0.15-alpha - 2007-12-25
34640 Tor 0.2.0.14-alpha and 0.2.0.15-alpha fix a bunch of bugs with the
34641 features added in 0.2.0.13-alpha.
34644 - Fix several remotely triggerable asserts based on DirPort requests
34645 for a v2 or v3 networkstatus object before we were prepared. This
34646 was particularly bad for 0.2.0.13 and later bridge relays, who
34647 would never have a v2 networkstatus and would thus always crash
34648 when used. Bugfixes on 0.2.0.x.
34649 - Estimate the v3 networkstatus size more accurately, rather than
34650 estimating it at zero bytes and giving it artificially high priority
34651 compared to other directory requests. Bugfix on 0.2.0.x.
34654 - Fix configure.in logic for cross-compilation.
34655 - When we load a bridge descriptor from the cache, and it was
34656 previously unreachable, mark it as retriable so we won't just
34657 ignore it. Also, try fetching a new copy immediately. Bugfixes
34659 - The bridge GeoIP stats were counting other relays, for example
34660 self-reachability and authority-reachability tests.
34663 - Support compilation to target iPhone; patch from cjacker huang.
34664 To build for iPhone, pass the --enable-iphone option to configure.
34667 Changes in version 0.2.0.14-alpha - 2007-12-23
34669 - Fix a crash on startup if you install Tor 0.2.0.13-alpha fresh
34670 without a datadirectory from a previous Tor install. Reported
34672 - Fix a crash when we fetch a descriptor that turns out to be
34673 unexpected (it used to be in our networkstatus when we started
34674 fetching it, but it isn't in our current networkstatus), and we
34675 aren't using bridges. Bugfix on 0.2.0.x.
34676 - Fix a crash when accessing hidden services: it would work the first
34677 time you use a given introduction point for your service, but
34678 on subsequent requests we'd be using garbage memory. Fixed by
34679 Karsten Loesing. Bugfix on 0.2.0.13-alpha.
34680 - Fix a crash when we load a bridge descriptor from disk but we don't
34681 currently have a Bridge line for it in our torrc. Bugfix on
34685 - If bridge authorities set BridgePassword, they will serve a
34686 snapshot of known bridge routerstatuses from their DirPort to
34687 anybody who knows that password. Unset by default.
34690 - Make the unit tests build again.
34691 - Make "GETINFO/desc-annotations/id/<OR digest>" actually work.
34692 - Make PublishServerDescriptor default to 1, so the default doesn't
34693 have to change as we invent new directory protocol versions.
34694 - Fix test for rlim_t on OSX 10.3: sys/resource.h doesn't want to
34695 be included unless sys/time.h is already included. Fixes
34696 bug 553. Bugfix on 0.2.0.x.
34697 - If we receive a general-purpose descriptor and then receive an
34698 identical bridge-purpose descriptor soon after, don't discard
34699 the next one as a duplicate.
34702 - If BridgeRelay is set to 1, then the default for
34703 PublishServerDescriptor is now "bridge" rather than "v2,v3".
34704 - If the user sets RelayBandwidthRate but doesn't set
34705 RelayBandwidthBurst, then make them equal rather than erroring out.
34708 Changes in version 0.2.0.13-alpha - 2007-12-21
34709 Tor 0.2.0.13-alpha adds a fourth v3 directory authority run by Geoff
34710 Goodell, fixes many more bugs, and adds a lot of infrastructure for
34713 o New directory authorities:
34714 - Set up lefkada (run by Geoff Goodell) as the fourth v3 directory
34718 - Only update guard status (usable / not usable) once we have
34719 enough directory information. This was causing us to always pick
34720 two new guards on startup (bugfix on 0.2.0.9-alpha), and it was
34721 causing us to discard all our guards on startup if we hadn't been
34722 running for a few weeks (bugfix on 0.1.2.x). Fixes bug 448.
34723 - Purge old entries from the "rephist" database and the hidden
34724 service descriptor databases even when DirPort is zero. Bugfix
34726 - We were ignoring our RelayBandwidthRate for the first 30 seconds
34727 after opening a circuit -- even a relayed circuit. Bugfix on
34729 - Stop thinking that 0.1.2.x directory servers can handle "begin_dir"
34730 requests. Should ease bugs 406 and 419 where 0.1.2.x relays are
34731 crashing or mis-answering these types of requests.
34732 - Relays were publishing their server descriptor to v1 and v2
34733 directory authorities, but they didn't try publishing to v3-only
34734 authorities. Fix this; and also stop publishing to v1 authorities.
34736 - When we were reading router descriptors from cache, we were ignoring
34737 the annotations -- so for example we were reading in bridge-purpose
34738 descriptors as general-purpose descriptors. Bugfix on 0.2.0.8-alpha.
34739 - When we decided to send a 503 response to a request for servers, we
34740 were then also sending the server descriptors: this defeats the
34741 whole purpose. Fixes bug 539; bugfix on 0.1.2.x.
34744 - Bridge relays now behave like clients with respect to time
34745 intervals for downloading new consensus documents -- otherwise they
34746 stand out. Bridge users now wait until the end of the interval,
34747 so their bridge relay will be sure to have a new consensus document.
34748 - Three new config options (AlternateDirAuthority,
34749 AlternateBridgeAuthority, and AlternateHSAuthority) that let the
34750 user selectively replace the default directory authorities by type,
34751 rather than the all-or-nothing replacement that DirServer offers.
34752 - Tor can now be configured to read a GeoIP file from disk in one
34753 of two formats. This can be used by controllers to map IP addresses
34754 to countries. Eventually, it may support exit-by-country.
34755 - When possible, bridge relays remember which countries users
34756 are coming from, and report aggregate information in their
34757 extra-info documents, so that the bridge authorities can learn
34758 where Tor is blocked.
34759 - Bridge directory authorities now do reachability testing on the
34760 bridges they know. They provide router status summaries to the
34761 controller via "getinfo ns/purpose/bridge", and also dump summaries
34762 to a file periodically.
34763 - Stop fetching directory info so aggressively if your DirPort is
34764 on but your ORPort is off; stop fetching v2 dir info entirely.
34765 You can override these choices with the new FetchDirInfoEarly
34769 - The fix in 0.2.0.12-alpha cleared the "hsdir" flag in v3 network
34770 consensus documents when there are too many relays at a single
34771 IP address. Now clear it in v2 network status documents too, and
34772 also clear it in routerinfo_t when the relay is no longer listed
34773 in the relevant networkstatus document.
34774 - Don't crash if we get an unexpected value for the
34775 PublishServerDescriptor config option. Reported by Matt Edman;
34776 bugfix on 0.2.0.9-alpha.
34777 - Our new v2 hidden service descriptor format allows descriptors
34778 that have no introduction points. But Tor crashed when we tried
34779 to build a descriptor with no intro points (and it would have
34780 crashed if we had tried to parse one). Bugfix on 0.2.0.x; patch
34781 by Karsten Loesing.
34782 - Fix building with dmalloc 5.5.2 with glibc.
34783 - Reject uploaded descriptors and extrainfo documents if they're
34784 huge. Otherwise we'll cache them all over the network and it'll
34785 clog everything up. Reported by Aljosha Judmayer.
34786 - Check for presence of s6_addr16 and s6_addr32 fields in in6_addr
34787 via autoconf. Should fix compile on solaris. Bugfix on 0.2.0.x.
34788 - When the DANGEROUS_VERSION controller status event told us we're
34789 running an obsolete version, it used the string "OLD" to describe
34790 it. Yet the "getinfo" interface used the string "OBSOLETE". Now use
34791 "OBSOLETE" in both cases. Bugfix on 0.1.2.x.
34792 - If we can't expand our list of entry guards (e.g. because we're
34793 using bridges or we have StrictEntryNodes set), don't mark relays
34794 down when they fail a directory request. Otherwise we're too quick
34795 to mark all our entry points down. Bugfix on 0.1.2.x.
34796 - Fix handling of hex nicknames when answering controller requests for
34797 networkstatus by name, or when deciding whether to warn about unknown
34798 routers in a config option. Bugfix on 0.1.2.x. (Patch from mwenge.)
34799 - Fix a couple of hard-to-trigger autoconf problems that could result
34800 in really weird results on platforms whose sys/types.h files define
34801 nonstandard integer types. Bugfix on 0.1.2.x.
34802 - Fix compilation with --disable-threads set. Bugfix on 0.2.0.x.
34803 - Don't crash on name lookup when we have no current consensus. Fixes
34804 bug 538; bugfix on 0.2.0.x.
34805 - Only Tors that want to mirror the v2 directory info should
34806 create the "cached-status" directory in their datadir. (All Tors
34807 used to create it.) Bugfix on 0.2.0.9-alpha.
34808 - Directory authorities should only automatically download Extra Info
34809 documents if they're v1, v2, or v3 authorities. Bugfix on 0.1.2.x.
34812 - On the USR1 signal, when dmalloc is in use, log the top 10 memory
34813 consumers. (We already do this on HUP.)
34814 - Authorities and caches fetch the v2 networkstatus documents
34815 less often, now that v3 is encouraged.
34816 - Add a new config option BridgeRelay that specifies you want to
34817 be a bridge relay. Right now the only difference is that it makes
34818 you answer begin_dir requests, and it makes you cache dir info,
34819 even if your DirPort isn't on.
34820 - Add "GETINFO/desc-annotations/id/<OR digest>" so controllers can
34821 ask about source, timestamp of arrival, purpose, etc. We need
34822 something like this to help Vidalia not do GeoIP lookups on bridge
34824 - Allow multiple HashedControlPassword config lines, to support
34825 multiple controller passwords.
34826 - Authorities now decide whether they're authoritative for a given
34827 router based on the router's purpose.
34828 - New config options AuthDirBadDir and AuthDirListBadDirs for
34829 authorities to mark certain relays as "bad directories" in the
34830 networkstatus documents. Also supports the "!baddir" directive in
34831 the approved-routers file.
34834 Changes in version 0.2.0.12-alpha - 2007-11-16
34835 This twelfth development snapshot fixes some more build problems as
34836 well as a few minor bugs.
34839 - Make it build on OpenBSD again. Patch from tup.
34840 - Substitute BINDIR and LOCALSTATEDIR in scripts. Fixes
34841 package-building for Red Hat, OS X, etc.
34843 o Minor bugfixes (on 0.1.2.x):
34844 - Changing the ExitPolicyRejectPrivate setting should cause us to
34845 rebuild our server descriptor.
34847 o Minor bugfixes (on 0.2.0.x):
34848 - When we're lacking a consensus, don't try to perform rendezvous
34849 operations. Reported by Karsten Loesing.
34850 - Fix a small memory leak whenever we decide against using a
34851 newly picked entry guard. Reported by Mike Perry.
34852 - When authorities detected more than two relays running on the same
34853 IP address, they were clearing all the status flags but forgetting
34854 to clear the "hsdir" flag. So clients were being told that a
34855 given relay was the right choice for a v2 hsdir lookup, yet they
34856 never had its descriptor because it was marked as 'not running'
34858 - If we're trying to fetch a bridge descriptor and there's no way
34859 the bridge authority could help us (for example, we don't know
34860 a digest, or there is no bridge authority), don't be so eager to
34861 fall back to asking the bridge authority.
34862 - If we're using bridges or have strictentrynodes set, and our
34863 chosen exit is in the same family as all our bridges/entry guards,
34864 then be flexible about families.
34867 - When we negotiate a v2 link-layer connection (not yet implemented),
34868 accept RELAY_EARLY cells and turn them into RELAY cells if we've
34869 negotiated a v1 connection for their next step. Initial code for
34873 Changes in version 0.2.0.11-alpha - 2007-11-12
34874 This eleventh development snapshot fixes some build problems with
34875 the previous snapshot. It also includes a more secure-by-default exit
34876 policy for relays, fixes an enormous memory leak for exit relays, and
34877 fixes another bug where servers were falling out of the directory list.
34880 - Exit policies now reject connections that are addressed to a
34881 relay's public (external) IP address too, unless
34882 ExitPolicyRejectPrivate is turned off. We do this because too
34883 many relays are running nearby to services that trust them based
34884 on network address. Bugfix on 0.1.2.x.
34887 - Fix a memory leak on exit relays; we were leaking a cached_resolve_t
34888 on every successful resolve. Reported by Mike Perry; bugfix
34890 - On authorities, never downgrade to old router descriptors simply
34891 because they're listed in the consensus. This created a catch-22
34892 where we wouldn't list a new descriptor because there was an
34893 old one in the consensus, and we couldn't get the new one in the
34894 consensus because we wouldn't list it. Possible fix for bug 548.
34895 Also, this might cause bug 543 to appear on authorities; if so,
34896 we'll need a band-aid for that. Bugfix on 0.2.0.9-alpha.
34898 o Packaging fixes on 0.2.0.10-alpha:
34899 - We were including instructions about what to do with the
34900 src/config/fallback-consensus file, but we weren't actually
34901 including it in the tarball. Disable all of that for now.
34904 - Allow people to say PreferTunnelledDirConns rather than
34905 PreferTunneledDirConns, for those alternate-spellers out there.
34908 - Don't reevaluate all the information from our consensus document
34909 just because we've downloaded a v2 networkstatus that we intend
34910 to cache. Fixes bug 545; bugfix on 0.2.0.x.
34913 Changes in version 0.2.0.10-alpha - 2007-11-10
34914 This tenth development snapshot adds a third v3 directory authority
34915 run by Mike Perry, adds most of Karsten Loesing's new hidden service
34916 descriptor format, fixes a bad crash bug and new bridge bugs introduced
34917 in 0.2.0.9-alpha, fixes many bugs with the v3 directory implementation,
34918 fixes some minor memory leaks in previous 0.2.0.x snapshots, and
34919 addresses many more minor issues.
34921 o New directory authorities:
34922 - Set up ides (run by Mike Perry) as the third v3 directory authority.
34925 - Allow tunnelled directory connections to ask for an encrypted
34926 "begin_dir" connection or an anonymized "uses a full Tor circuit"
34927 connection independently. Now we can make anonymized begin_dir
34928 connections for (e.g.) more secure hidden service posting and
34930 - More progress on proposal 114: code from Karsten Loesing to
34931 implement new hidden service descriptor format.
34932 - Raise the default BandwidthRate/BandwidthBurst to 5MB/10MB, to
34933 accommodate the growing number of servers that use the default
34934 and are reaching it.
34935 - Directory authorities use a new formula for selecting which nodes
34936 to advertise as Guards: they must be in the top 7/8 in terms of
34937 how long we have known about them, and above the median of those
34938 nodes in terms of weighted fractional uptime.
34939 - Make "not enough dir info yet" warnings describe *why* Tor feels
34940 it doesn't have enough directory info yet.
34943 - Stop servers from crashing if they set a Family option (or
34944 maybe in other situations too). Bugfix on 0.2.0.9-alpha; reported
34946 - Make bridge users work again -- the move to v3 directories in
34947 0.2.0.9-alpha had introduced a number of bugs that made bridges
34948 no longer work for clients.
34949 - When the clock jumps forward a lot, do not allow the bandwidth
34950 buckets to become negative. Bugfix on 0.1.2.x; fixes bug 544.
34952 o Major bugfixes (v3 dir, bugfixes on 0.2.0.9-alpha):
34953 - When the consensus lists a router descriptor that we previously were
34954 mirroring, but that we considered non-canonical, reload the
34955 descriptor as canonical. This fixes bug 543 where Tor servers
34956 would start complaining after a few days that they don't have
34957 enough directory information to build a circuit.
34958 - Consider replacing the current consensus when certificates arrive
34959 that make the pending consensus valid. Previously, we were only
34960 considering replacement when the new certs _didn't_ help.
34961 - Fix an assert error on startup if we didn't already have the
34962 consensus and certs cached in our datadirectory: we were caching
34963 the consensus in consensus_waiting_for_certs but then free'ing it
34965 - Avoid sending a request for "keys/fp" (for which we'll get a 400 Bad
34966 Request) if we need more v3 certs but we've already got pending
34967 requests for all of them.
34968 - Correctly back off from failing certificate downloads. Fixes
34970 - Authorities don't vote on the Running flag if they have been running
34971 for less than 30 minutes themselves. Fixes bug 547, where a newly
34972 started authority would vote that everyone was down.
34974 o New requirements:
34975 - Drop support for OpenSSL version 0.9.6. Just about nobody was using
34976 it, it had no AES, and it hasn't seen any security patches since
34980 - Clients now hold circuitless TLS connections open for 1.5 times
34981 MaxCircuitDirtiness (15 minutes), since it is likely that they'll
34982 rebuild a new circuit over them within that timeframe. Previously,
34983 they held them open only for KeepalivePeriod (5 minutes).
34984 - Use "If-Modified-Since" to avoid retrieving consensus
34985 networkstatuses that we already have.
34986 - When we have no consensus, check FallbackNetworkstatusFile (defaults
34987 to $PREFIX/share/tor/fallback-consensus) for a consensus. This way
34988 we start knowing some directory caches.
34989 - When we receive a consensus from the future, warn about skew.
34990 - Improve skew reporting: try to give the user a better log message
34991 about how skewed they are, and how much this matters.
34992 - When we have a certificate for an authority, believe that
34993 certificate's claims about the authority's IP address.
34994 - New --quiet command-line option to suppress the default console log.
34995 Good in combination with --hash-password.
34996 - Authorities send back an X-Descriptor-Not-New header in response to
34997 an accepted-but-discarded descriptor upload. Partially implements
34999 - Make the log message for "tls error. breaking." more useful.
35000 - Better log messages about certificate downloads, to attempt to
35001 track down the second incarnation of bug 546.
35003 o Minor features (bridges):
35004 - If bridge users set UpdateBridgesFromAuthority, but the digest
35005 they ask for is a 404 from the bridge authority, they now fall
35006 back to trying the bridge directly.
35007 - Bridges now use begin_dir to publish their server descriptor to
35008 the bridge authority, even when they haven't set TunnelDirConns.
35010 o Minor features (controller):
35011 - When reporting clock skew, and we know that the clock is _at least
35012 as skewed_ as some value, but we don't know the actual value,
35013 report the value as a "minimum skew."
35016 - Update linux-tor-prio.sh script to allow QoS based on the uid of
35017 the Tor process. Patch from Marco Bonetti with tweaks from Mike
35021 - Refuse to start if both ORPort and UseBridges are set. Bugfix
35022 on 0.2.0.x, suggested by Matt Edman.
35023 - Don't stop fetching descriptors when FetchUselessDescriptors is
35024 set, even if we stop asking for circuits. Bugfix on 0.1.2.x;
35025 reported by tup and ioerror.
35026 - Better log message on vote from unknown authority.
35027 - Don't log "Launching 0 request for 0 router" message.
35029 o Minor bugfixes (memory leaks):
35030 - Stop leaking memory every time we parse a v3 certificate. Bugfix
35032 - Stop leaking memory every time we load a v3 certificate. Bugfix
35033 on 0.2.0.1-alpha. Fixes bug 536.
35034 - Stop leaking a cached networkstatus on exit. Bugfix on
35036 - Stop leaking voter information every time we free a consensus.
35037 Bugfix on 0.2.0.3-alpha.
35038 - Stop leaking signed data every time we check a voter signature.
35039 Bugfix on 0.2.0.3-alpha.
35040 - Stop leaking a signature every time we fail to parse a consensus or
35041 a vote. Bugfix on 0.2.0.3-alpha.
35042 - Stop leaking v2_download_status_map on shutdown. Bugfix on
35044 - Stop leaking conn->nickname every time we make a connection to a
35045 Tor relay without knowing its expected identity digest (e.g. when
35046 using bridges). Bugfix on 0.2.0.3-alpha.
35048 - Minor bugfixes (portability):
35049 - Run correctly on platforms where rlim_t is larger than unsigned
35050 long, and/or where the real limit for number of open files is
35051 OPEN_FILES, not rlim_max from getrlimit(RLIMIT_NOFILES). In
35052 particular, these may be needed for OS X 10.5.
35055 Changes in version 0.1.2.18 - 2007-10-28
35056 Tor 0.1.2.18 fixes many problems including crash bugs, problems with
35057 hidden service introduction that were causing huge delays, and a big
35058 bug that was causing some servers to disappear from the network status
35059 lists for a few hours each day.
35061 o Major bugfixes (crashes):
35062 - If a connection is shut down abruptly because of something that
35063 happened inside connection_flushed_some(), do not call
35064 connection_finished_flushing(). Should fix bug 451:
35065 "connection_stop_writing: Assertion conn->write_event failed"
35066 Bugfix on 0.1.2.7-alpha.
35067 - Fix possible segfaults in functions called from
35068 rend_process_relay_cell().
35070 o Major bugfixes (hidden services):
35071 - Hidden services were choosing introduction points uniquely by
35072 hexdigest, but when constructing the hidden service descriptor
35073 they merely wrote the (potentially ambiguous) nickname.
35074 - Clients now use the v2 intro format for hidden service
35075 connections: they specify their chosen rendezvous point by identity
35076 digest rather than by (potentially ambiguous) nickname. These
35077 changes could speed up hidden service connections dramatically.
35079 o Major bugfixes (other):
35080 - Stop publishing a new server descriptor just because we get a
35081 HUP signal. This led (in a roundabout way) to some servers getting
35082 dropped from the networkstatus lists for a few hours each day.
35083 - When looking for a circuit to cannibalize, consider family as well
35084 as identity. Fixes bug 438. Bugfix on 0.1.0.x (which introduced
35085 circuit cannibalization).
35086 - When a router wasn't listed in a new networkstatus, we were leaving
35087 the flags for that router alone -- meaning it remained Named,
35088 Running, etc -- even though absence from the networkstatus means
35089 that it shouldn't be considered to exist at all anymore. Now we
35090 clear all the flags for routers that fall out of the networkstatus
35091 consensus. Fixes bug 529.
35094 - Don't try to access (or alter) the state file when running
35095 --list-fingerprint or --verify-config or --hash-password. Resolves
35097 - When generating information telling us how to extend to a given
35098 router, do not try to include the nickname if it is
35099 absent. Resolves bug 467.
35100 - Fix a user-triggerable segfault in expand_filename(). (There isn't
35101 a way to trigger this remotely.)
35102 - When sending a status event to the controller telling it that an
35103 OR address is reachable, set the port correctly. (Previously we
35104 were reporting the dir port.)
35105 - Fix a minor memory leak whenever a controller sends the PROTOCOLINFO
35106 command. Bugfix on 0.1.2.17.
35107 - When loading bandwidth history, do not believe any information in
35108 the future. Fixes bug 434.
35109 - When loading entry guard information, do not believe any information
35111 - When we have our clock set far in the future and generate an
35112 onion key, then re-set our clock to be correct, we should not stop
35113 the onion key from getting rotated.
35114 - On some platforms, accept() can return a broken address. Detect
35115 this more quietly, and deal accordingly. Fixes bug 483.
35116 - It's not actually an error to find a non-pending entry in the DNS
35117 cache when canceling a pending resolve. Don't log unless stuff
35118 is fishy. Resolves bug 463.
35119 - Don't reset trusted dir server list when we set a configuration
35120 option. Patch from Robert Hogan.
35121 - Don't try to create the datadir when running --verify-config or
35122 --hash-password. Resolves bug 540.
35125 Changes in version 0.2.0.9-alpha - 2007-10-24
35126 This ninth development snapshot switches clients to the new v3 directory
35127 system; allows servers to be listed in the network status even when they
35128 have the same nickname as a registered server; and fixes many other
35129 bugs including a big one that was causing some servers to disappear
35130 from the network status lists for a few hours each day.
35132 o Major features (directory system):
35133 - Clients now download v3 consensus networkstatus documents instead
35134 of v2 networkstatus documents. Clients and caches now base their
35135 opinions about routers on these consensus documents. Clients only
35136 download router descriptors listed in the consensus.
35137 - Authorities now list servers who have the same nickname as
35138 a different named server, but list them with a new flag,
35139 "Unnamed". Now we can list servers that happen to pick the same
35140 nickname as a server that registered two years ago and then
35141 disappeared. Partially implements proposal 122.
35142 - If the consensus lists a router as "Unnamed", the name is assigned
35143 to a different router: do not identify the router by that name.
35144 Partially implements proposal 122.
35145 - Authorities can now come to a consensus on which method to use to
35146 compute the consensus. This gives us forward compatibility.
35149 - Stop publishing a new server descriptor just because we HUP or
35150 when we find our DirPort to be reachable but won't actually publish
35151 it. New descriptors without any real changes are dropped by the
35152 authorities, and can screw up our "publish every 18 hours" schedule.
35154 - When a router wasn't listed in a new networkstatus, we were leaving
35155 the flags for that router alone -- meaning it remained Named,
35156 Running, etc -- even though absence from the networkstatus means
35157 that it shouldn't be considered to exist at all anymore. Now we
35158 clear all the flags for routers that fall out of the networkstatus
35159 consensus. Fixes bug 529; bugfix on 0.1.2.x.
35160 - Fix awful behavior in DownloadExtraInfo option where we'd fetch
35161 extrainfo documents and then discard them immediately for not
35162 matching the latest router. Bugfix on 0.2.0.1-alpha.
35164 o Minor features (v3 directory protocol):
35165 - Allow tor-gencert to generate a new certificate without replacing
35167 - Allow certificates to include an address.
35168 - When we change our directory-cache settings, reschedule all voting
35169 and download operations.
35170 - Reattempt certificate downloads immediately on failure, as long as
35171 we haven't failed a threshold number of times yet.
35172 - Delay retrying consensus downloads while we're downloading
35173 certificates to verify the one we just got. Also, count getting a
35174 consensus that we already have (or one that isn't valid) as a failure,
35175 and count failing to get the certificates after 20 minutes as a
35177 - Build circuits and download descriptors even if our consensus is a
35178 little expired. (This feature will go away once authorities are
35181 o Minor features (router descriptor cache):
35182 - If we find a cached-routers file that's been sitting around for more
35183 than 28 days unmodified, then most likely it's a leftover from
35184 when we upgraded to 0.2.0.8-alpha. Remove it. It has no good
35186 - When we (as a cache) download a descriptor because it was listed
35187 in a consensus, remember when the consensus was supposed to expire,
35188 and don't expire the descriptor until then.
35190 o Minor features (performance):
35191 - Call routerlist_remove_old_routers() much less often. This should
35192 speed startup, especially on directory caches.
35193 - Don't try to launch new descriptor downloads quite so often when we
35194 already have enough directory information to build circuits.
35195 - Base64 decoding was actually showing up on our profile when parsing
35196 the initial descriptor file; switch to an in-process all-at-once
35197 implementation that's about 3.5x times faster than calling out to
35200 o Minor features (compilation):
35201 - Detect non-ASCII platforms (if any still exist) and refuse to
35202 build there: some of our code assumes that 'A' is 65 and so on.
35204 o Minor bugfixes (v3 directory authorities, bugfixes on 0.2.0.x):
35205 - Make the "next period" votes into "current period" votes immediately
35206 after publishing the consensus; avoid a heisenbug that made them
35207 stick around indefinitely.
35208 - When we discard a vote as a duplicate, do not report this as
35210 - Treat missing v3 keys or certificates as an error when running as a
35211 v3 directory authority.
35212 - When we're configured to be a v3 authority, but we're only listed
35213 as a non-v3 authority in our DirServer line for ourself, correct
35215 - If an authority doesn't have a qualified hostname, just put
35216 its address in the vote. This fixes the problem where we referred to
35217 "moria on moria:9031."
35218 - Distinguish between detached signatures for the wrong period, and
35219 detached signatures for a divergent vote.
35220 - Fix a small memory leak when computing a consensus.
35221 - When there's no consensus, we were forming a vote every 30
35222 minutes, but writing the "valid-after" line in our vote based
35223 on our configured V3AuthVotingInterval: so unless the intervals
35224 matched up, we immediately rejected our own vote because it didn't
35225 start at the voting interval that caused us to construct a vote.
35227 o Minor bugfixes (v3 directory protocol, bugfixes on 0.2.0.x):
35228 - Delete unverified-consensus when the real consensus is set.
35229 - Consider retrying a consensus networkstatus fetch immediately
35230 after one fails: don't wait 60 seconds to notice.
35231 - When fetching a consensus as a cache, wait until a newer consensus
35232 should exist before trying to replace the current one.
35233 - Use a more forgiving schedule for retrying failed consensus
35234 downloads than for other types.
35236 o Minor bugfixes (other directory issues):
35237 - Correct the implementation of "download votes by digest." Bugfix on
35239 - Authorities no longer send back "400 you're unreachable please fix
35240 it" errors to Tor servers that aren't online all the time. We're
35241 supposed to tolerate these servers now. Bugfix on 0.1.2.x.
35243 o Minor bugfixes (controller):
35244 - Don't reset trusted dir server list when we set a configuration
35245 option. Patch from Robert Hogan; bugfix on 0.1.2.x.
35246 - Respond to INT and TERM SIGNAL commands before we execute the
35247 signal, in case the signal shuts us down. We had a patch in
35248 0.1.2.1-alpha that tried to do this by queueing the response on
35249 the connection's buffer before shutting down, but that really
35250 isn't the same thing at all. Bug located by Matt Edman.
35252 o Minor bugfixes (misc):
35253 - Correctly check for bad options to the "PublishServerDescriptor"
35254 config option. Bugfix on 0.2.0.1-alpha; reported by Matt Edman.
35255 - Stop leaking memory on failing case of base32_decode, and make
35256 it accept upper-case letters. Bugfixes on 0.2.0.7-alpha.
35257 - Don't try to download extrainfo documents when we're trying to
35258 fetch enough directory info to build a circuit: having enough
35259 info should get priority. Bugfix on 0.2.0.x.
35260 - Don't complain that "your server has not managed to confirm that its
35261 ports are reachable" if we haven't been able to build any circuits
35262 yet. Bug found by spending four hours without a v3 consensus. Bugfix
35264 - Detect the reason for failing to mmap a descriptor file we just
35265 wrote, and give a more useful log message. Fixes bug 533. Bugfix
35268 o Code simplifications and refactoring:
35269 - Remove support for the old bw_accounting file: we've been storing
35270 bandwidth accounting information in the state file since
35271 0.1.2.5-alpha. This may result in bandwidth accounting errors
35272 if you try to upgrade from 0.1.1.x or earlier, or if you try to
35273 downgrade to 0.1.1.x or earlier.
35274 - New convenience code to locate a file within the DataDirectory.
35275 - Move non-authority functionality out of dirvote.c.
35276 - Refactor the arguments for router_pick_{directory_|trusteddir}server
35277 so that they all take the same named flags.
35280 - Include the "tor-ctrl.sh" bash script by Stefan Behte to provide
35281 Unix users an easy way to script their Tor process (e.g. by
35282 adjusting bandwidth based on the time of the day).
35285 Changes in version 0.2.0.8-alpha - 2007-10-12
35286 This eighth development snapshot fixes a crash bug that's been bothering
35287 us since February 2007, lets bridge authorities store a list of bridge
35288 descriptors they've seen, gets v3 directory voting closer to working,
35289 starts caching v3 directory consensus documents on directory mirrors,
35290 and fixes a variety of smaller issues including some minor memory leaks.
35292 o Major features (router descriptor cache):
35293 - Store routers in a file called cached-descriptors instead of in
35294 cached-routers. Initialize cached-descriptors from cached-routers
35295 if the old format is around. The new format allows us to store
35296 annotations along with descriptors.
35297 - Use annotations to record the time we received each descriptor, its
35298 source, and its purpose.
35299 - Disable the SETROUTERPURPOSE controller command: it is now
35301 - Controllers should now specify cache=no or cache=yes when using
35302 the +POSTDESCRIPTOR command.
35303 - Bridge authorities now write bridge descriptors to disk, meaning
35304 we can export them to other programs and begin distributing them
35307 o Major features (directory authorities):
35308 - When a v3 authority is missing votes or signatures, it now tries
35310 - Directory authorities track weighted fractional uptime as well as
35311 weighted mean-time-between failures. WFU is suitable for deciding
35312 whether a node is "usually up", while MTBF is suitable for deciding
35313 whether a node is "likely to stay up." We need both, because
35314 "usually up" is a good requirement for guards, while "likely to
35315 stay up" is a good requirement for long-lived connections.
35317 o Major features (v3 directory system):
35318 - Caches now download v3 network status documents as needed,
35319 and download the descriptors listed in them.
35320 - All hosts now attempt to download and keep fresh v3 authority
35321 certificates, and re-attempt after failures.
35322 - More internal-consistency checks for vote parsing.
35324 o Major bugfixes (crashes):
35325 - If a connection is shut down abruptly because of something that
35326 happened inside connection_flushed_some(), do not call
35327 connection_finished_flushing(). Should fix bug 451. Bugfix on
35330 o Major bugfixes (performance):
35331 - Fix really bad O(n^2) performance when parsing a long list of
35332 routers: Instead of searching the entire list for an "extra-info "
35333 string which usually wasn't there, once for every routerinfo
35334 we read, just scan lines forward until we find one we like.
35336 - When we add data to a write buffer in response to the data on that
35337 write buffer getting low because of a flush, do not consider the
35338 newly added data as a candidate for immediate flushing, but rather
35339 make it wait until the next round of writing. Otherwise, we flush
35340 and refill recursively, and a single greedy TLS connection can
35341 eat all of our bandwidth. Bugfix on 0.1.2.7-alpha.
35343 o Minor features (v3 authority system):
35344 - Add more ways for tools to download the votes that lead to the
35346 - Send a 503 when low on bandwidth and a vote, consensus, or
35347 certificate is requested.
35348 - If-modified-since is now implemented properly for all kinds of
35349 certificate requests.
35351 o Minor bugfixes (network statuses):
35352 - Tweak the implementation of proposal 109 slightly: allow at most
35353 two Tor servers on the same IP address, except if it's the location
35354 of a directory authority, in which case allow five. Bugfix on
35357 o Minor bugfixes (controller):
35358 - When sending a status event to the controller telling it that an
35359 OR address is reachable, set the port correctly. (Previously we
35360 were reporting the dir port.) Bugfix on 0.1.2.x.
35362 o Minor bugfixes (v3 directory system):
35363 - Fix logic to look up a cert by its signing key digest. Bugfix on
35365 - Only change the reply to a vote to "OK" if it's not already
35366 set. This gets rid of annoying "400 OK" log messages, which may
35367 have been masking some deeper issue. Bugfix on 0.2.0.7-alpha.
35368 - When we get a valid consensus, recompute the voting schedule.
35369 - Base the valid-after time of a vote on the consensus voting
35370 schedule, not on our preferred schedule.
35371 - Make the return values and messages from signature uploads and
35372 downloads more sensible.
35373 - Fix a memory leak when serving votes and consensus documents, and
35374 another when serving certificates.
35376 o Minor bugfixes (performance):
35377 - Use a slightly simpler string hashing algorithm (copying Python's
35378 instead of Java's) and optimize our digest hashing algorithm to take
35379 advantage of 64-bit platforms and to remove some possibly-costly
35381 - Fix a minor memory leak whenever we parse guards from our state
35382 file. Bugfix on 0.2.0.7-alpha.
35383 - Fix a minor memory leak whenever we write out a file. Bugfix on
35385 - Fix a minor memory leak whenever a controller sends the PROTOCOLINFO
35386 command. Bugfix on 0.2.0.5-alpha.
35388 o Minor bugfixes (portability):
35389 - On some platforms, accept() can return a broken address. Detect
35390 this more quietly, and deal accordingly. Fixes bug 483.
35391 - Stop calling tor_strlower() on uninitialized memory in some cases.
35392 Bugfix in 0.2.0.7-alpha.
35394 o Minor bugfixes (usability):
35395 - Treat some 403 responses from directory servers as INFO rather than
35396 WARN-severity events.
35397 - It's not actually an error to find a non-pending entry in the DNS
35398 cache when canceling a pending resolve. Don't log unless stuff is
35399 fishy. Resolves bug 463.
35401 o Minor bugfixes (anonymity):
35402 - Never report that we've used more bandwidth than we're willing to
35403 relay: it leaks how much non-relay traffic we're using. Resolves
35405 - When looking for a circuit to cannibalize, consider family as well
35406 as identity. Fixes bug 438. Bugfix on 0.1.0.x (which introduced
35407 circuit cannibalization).
35409 o Code simplifications and refactoring:
35410 - Make a bunch of functions static. Remove some dead code.
35411 - Pull out about a third of the really big routerlist.c; put it in a
35412 new module, networkstatus.c.
35413 - Merge the extra fields in local_routerstatus_t back into
35414 routerstatus_t: we used to need one routerstatus_t for each
35415 authority's opinion, plus a local_routerstatus_t for the locally
35416 computed consensus opinion. To save space, we put the locally
35417 modified fields into local_routerstatus_t, and only the common
35418 stuff into routerstatus_t. But once v3 directories are in use,
35419 clients and caches will no longer need to hold authority opinions;
35420 thus, the rationale for keeping the types separate is now gone.
35421 - Make the code used to reschedule and reattempt downloads more
35423 - Turn all 'Are we a directory server/mirror?' logic into a call to
35425 - Remove the code to generate the oldest (v1) directory format.
35426 The code has been disabled since 0.2.0.5-alpha.
35429 Changes in version 0.2.0.7-alpha - 2007-09-21
35430 This seventh development snapshot makes bridges work again, makes bridge
35431 authorities work for the first time, fixes two huge performance flaws
35432 in hidden services, and fixes a variety of minor issues.
35434 o New directory authorities:
35435 - Set up moria1 and tor26 as the first v3 directory authorities. See
35436 doc/spec/dir-spec.txt for details on the new directory design.
35438 o Major bugfixes (crashes):
35439 - Fix possible segfaults in functions called from
35440 rend_process_relay_cell(). Bugfix on 0.1.2.x.
35442 o Major bugfixes (bridges):
35443 - Fix a bug that made servers send a "404 Not found" in response to
35444 attempts to fetch their server descriptor. This caused Tor servers
35445 to take many minutes to establish reachability for their DirPort,
35446 and it totally crippled bridges. Bugfix on 0.2.0.5-alpha.
35447 - Make "UpdateBridgesFromAuthority" torrc option work: when bridge
35448 users configure that and specify a bridge with an identity
35449 fingerprint, now they will lookup the bridge descriptor at the
35450 default bridge authority via a one-hop tunnel, but once circuits
35451 are established they will switch to a three-hop tunnel for later
35452 connections to the bridge authority. Bugfix in 0.2.0.3-alpha.
35454 o Major bugfixes (hidden services):
35455 - Hidden services were choosing introduction points uniquely by
35456 hexdigest, but when constructing the hidden service descriptor
35457 they merely wrote the (potentially ambiguous) nickname.
35458 - Clients now use the v2 intro format for hidden service
35459 connections: they specify their chosen rendezvous point by identity
35460 digest rather than by (potentially ambiguous) nickname. Both
35461 are bugfixes on 0.1.2.x, and they could speed up hidden service
35462 connections dramatically. Thanks to Karsten Loesing.
35464 o Minor features (security):
35465 - As a client, do not believe any server that tells us that an
35466 address maps to an internal address space.
35467 - Make it possible to enable HashedControlPassword and
35468 CookieAuthentication at the same time.
35470 o Minor features (guard nodes):
35471 - Tag every guard node in our state file with the version that
35472 we believe added it, or with our own version if we add it. This way,
35473 if a user temporarily runs an old version of Tor and then switches
35474 back to a new one, she doesn't automatically lose her guards.
35476 o Minor features (speed):
35477 - When implementing AES counter mode, update only the portions of the
35478 counter buffer that need to change, and don't keep separate
35479 network-order and host-order counters when they are the same (i.e.,
35480 on big-endian hosts.)
35482 o Minor features (controller):
35483 - Accept LF instead of CRLF on controller, since some software has a
35484 hard time generating real Internet newlines.
35485 - Add GETINFO values for the server status events
35486 "REACHABILITY_SUCCEEDED" and "GOOD_SERVER_DESCRIPTOR". Patch from
35489 o Removed features:
35490 - Routers no longer include bandwidth-history lines in their
35491 descriptors; this information is already available in extra-info
35492 documents, and including it in router descriptors took up 60%
35493 (!) of compressed router descriptor downloads. Completes
35494 implementation of proposal 104.
35495 - Remove the contrib scripts ExerciseServer.py, PathDemo.py,
35496 and TorControl.py, as they use the old v0 controller protocol,
35497 and are obsoleted by TorFlow anyway.
35498 - Drop support for v1 rendezvous descriptors, since we never used
35499 them anyway, and the code has probably rotted by now. Based on
35500 patch from Karsten Loesing.
35501 - On OSX, stop warning the user that kqueue support in libevent is
35502 "experimental", since it seems to have worked fine for ages.
35505 - When generating information telling us how to extend to a given
35506 router, do not try to include the nickname if it is absent. Fixes
35507 bug 467. Bugfix on 0.2.0.3-alpha.
35508 - Fix a user-triggerable (but not remotely-triggerable) segfault
35509 in expand_filename(). Bugfix on 0.1.2.x.
35510 - Fix a memory leak when freeing incomplete requests from DNSPort.
35511 Found by Niels Provos with valgrind. Bugfix on 0.2.0.1-alpha.
35512 - Don't try to access (or alter) the state file when running
35513 --list-fingerprint or --verify-config or --hash-password. (Resolves
35514 bug 499.) Bugfix on 0.1.2.x.
35515 - Servers used to decline to publish their DirPort if their
35516 BandwidthRate, RelayBandwidthRate, or MaxAdvertisedBandwidth
35517 were below a threshold. Now they only look at BandwidthRate and
35518 RelayBandwidthRate. Bugfix on 0.1.2.x.
35519 - Remove an optimization in the AES counter-mode code that assumed
35520 that the counter never exceeded 2^68. When the counter can be set
35521 arbitrarily as an IV (as it is by Karsten's new hidden services
35522 code), this assumption no longer holds. Bugfix on 0.1.2.x.
35523 - Resume listing "AUTHORITY" flag for authorities in network status.
35524 Bugfix on 0.2.0.3-alpha; reported by Alex de Joode.
35526 o Code simplifications and refactoring:
35527 - Revamp file-writing logic so we don't need to have the entire
35528 contents of a file in memory at once before we write to disk. Tor,
35530 - Turn "descriptor store" into a full-fledged type.
35531 - Move all NT services code into a separate source file.
35532 - Unify all code that computes medians, percentile elements, etc.
35533 - Get rid of a needless malloc when parsing address policies.
35536 Changes in version 0.1.2.17 - 2007-08-30
35537 Tor 0.1.2.17 features a new Vidalia version in the Windows and OS
35538 X bundles. Vidalia 0.0.14 makes authentication required for the
35539 ControlPort in the default configuration, which addresses important
35540 security risks. Everybody who uses Vidalia (or another controller)
35543 In addition, this Tor update fixes major load balancing problems with
35544 path selection, which should speed things up a lot once many people
35547 o Major bugfixes (security):
35548 - We removed support for the old (v0) control protocol. It has been
35549 deprecated since Tor 0.1.1.1-alpha, and keeping it secure has
35550 become more of a headache than it's worth.
35552 o Major bugfixes (load balancing):
35553 - When choosing nodes for non-guard positions, weight guards
35554 proportionally less, since they already have enough load. Patch
35556 - Raise the "max believable bandwidth" from 1.5MB/s to 10MB/s. This
35557 will allow fast Tor servers to get more attention.
35558 - When we're upgrading from an old Tor version, forget our current
35559 guards and pick new ones according to the new weightings. These
35560 three load balancing patches could raise effective network capacity
35561 by a factor of four. Thanks to Mike Perry for measurements.
35563 o Major bugfixes (stream expiration):
35564 - Expire not-yet-successful application streams in all cases if
35565 they've been around longer than SocksTimeout. Right now there are
35566 some cases where the stream will live forever, demanding a new
35567 circuit every 15 seconds. Fixes bug 454; reported by lodger.
35569 o Minor features (controller):
35570 - Add a PROTOCOLINFO controller command. Like AUTHENTICATE, it
35571 is valid before any authentication has been received. It tells
35572 a controller what kind of authentication is expected, and what
35573 protocol is spoken. Implements proposal 119.
35575 o Minor bugfixes (performance):
35576 - Save on most routerlist_assert_ok() calls in routerlist.c, thus
35577 greatly speeding up loading cached-routers from disk on startup.
35578 - Disable sentinel-based debugging for buffer code: we squashed all
35579 the bugs that this was supposed to detect a long time ago, and now
35580 its only effect is to change our buffer sizes from nice powers of
35581 two (which platform mallocs tend to like) to values slightly over
35582 powers of two (which make some platform mallocs sad).
35584 o Minor bugfixes (misc):
35585 - If exit bandwidth ever exceeds one third of total bandwidth, then
35586 use the correct formula to weight exit nodes when choosing paths.
35587 Based on patch from Mike Perry.
35588 - Choose perfectly fairly among routers when choosing by bandwidth and
35589 weighting by fraction of bandwidth provided by exits. Previously, we
35590 would choose with only approximate fairness, and correct ourselves
35591 if we ran off the end of the list.
35592 - If we require CookieAuthentication but we fail to write the
35593 cookie file, we would warn but not exit, and end up in a state
35594 where no controller could authenticate. Now we exit.
35595 - If we require CookieAuthentication, stop generating a new cookie
35596 every time we change any piece of our config.
35597 - Refuse to start with certain directory authority keys, and
35598 encourage people using them to stop.
35599 - Terminate multi-line control events properly. Original patch
35601 - Fix a minor memory leak when we fail to find enough suitable
35602 servers to choose a circuit.
35603 - Stop leaking part of the descriptor when we run into a particularly
35604 unparseable piece of it.
35607 Changes in version 0.2.0.6-alpha - 2007-08-26
35608 This sixth development snapshot features a new Vidalia version in the
35609 Windows and OS X bundles. Vidalia 0.0.14 makes authentication required for
35610 the ControlPort in the default configuration, which addresses important
35613 In addition, this snapshot fixes major load balancing problems
35614 with path selection, which should speed things up a lot once many
35615 people have upgraded. The directory authorities also use a new
35616 mean-time-between-failure approach to tracking which servers are stable,
35617 rather than just looking at the most recent uptime.
35619 o New directory authorities:
35620 - Set up Tonga as the default bridge directory authority.
35623 - Directory authorities now track servers by weighted
35624 mean-times-between-failures. When we have 4 or more days of data,
35625 use measured MTBF rather than declared uptime to decide whether
35626 to call a router Stable. Implements proposal 108.
35628 o Major bugfixes (load balancing):
35629 - When choosing nodes for non-guard positions, weight guards
35630 proportionally less, since they already have enough load. Patch
35632 - Raise the "max believable bandwidth" from 1.5MB/s to 10MB/s. This
35633 will allow fast Tor servers to get more attention.
35634 - When we're upgrading from an old Tor version, forget our current
35635 guards and pick new ones according to the new weightings. These
35636 three load balancing patches could raise effective network capacity
35637 by a factor of four. Thanks to Mike Perry for measurements.
35639 o Major bugfixes (descriptor parsing):
35640 - Handle unexpected whitespace better in malformed descriptors. Bug
35641 found using Benedikt Boss's new Tor fuzzer! Bugfix on 0.2.0.x.
35644 - There is now an ugly, temporary "desc/all-recent-extrainfo-hack"
35645 GETINFO for Torstat to use until it can switch to using extrainfos.
35646 - Optionally (if built with -DEXPORTMALLINFO) export the output
35647 of mallinfo via http, as tor/mallinfo.txt. Only accessible
35651 - Do not intermix bridge routers with controller-added
35652 routers. (Bugfix on 0.2.0.x)
35653 - Do not fail with an assert when accept() returns an unexpected
35654 address family. Addresses but does not wholly fix bug 483. (Bugfix
35656 - Let directory authorities startup even when they can't generate
35657 a descriptor immediately, e.g. because they don't know their
35659 - Stop putting the authentication cookie in a file called "0"
35660 in your working directory if you don't specify anything for the
35661 new CookieAuthFile option. Reported by Matt Edman.
35662 - Make it possible to read the PROTOCOLINFO response in a way that
35663 conforms to our control-spec. Reported by Matt Edman.
35664 - Fix a minor memory leak when we fail to find enough suitable
35665 servers to choose a circuit. Bugfix on 0.1.2.x.
35666 - Stop leaking part of the descriptor when we run into a particularly
35667 unparseable piece of it. Bugfix on 0.1.2.x.
35668 - Unmap the extrainfo cache file on exit.
35671 Changes in version 0.2.0.5-alpha - 2007-08-19
35672 This fifth development snapshot fixes compilation on Windows again;
35673 fixes an obnoxious client-side bug that slowed things down and put
35674 extra load on the network; gets us closer to using the v3 directory
35675 voting scheme; makes it easier for Tor controllers to use cookie-based
35676 authentication; and fixes a variety of other bugs.
35678 o Removed features:
35679 - Version 1 directories are no longer generated in full. Instead,
35680 authorities generate and serve "stub" v1 directories that list
35681 no servers. This will stop Tor versions 0.1.0.x and earlier from
35682 working, but (for security reasons) nobody should be running those
35685 o Major bugfixes (compilation, 0.2.0.x):
35686 - Try to fix Win32 compilation again: improve checking for IPv6 types.
35687 - Try to fix MSVC compilation: build correctly on platforms that do
35688 not define s6_addr16 or s6_addr32.
35689 - Fix compile on platforms without getaddrinfo: bug found by Li-Hui
35692 o Major bugfixes (stream expiration):
35693 - Expire not-yet-successful application streams in all cases if
35694 they've been around longer than SocksTimeout. Right now there are
35695 some cases where the stream will live forever, demanding a new
35696 circuit every 15 seconds. Bugfix on 0.1.2.7-alpha; fixes bug 454;
35697 reported by lodger.
35699 o Minor features (directory servers):
35700 - When somebody requests a list of statuses or servers, and we have
35701 none of those, return a 404 rather than an empty 200.
35703 o Minor features (directory voting):
35704 - Store v3 consensus status consensuses on disk, and reload them
35707 o Minor features (security):
35708 - Warn about unsafe ControlPort configurations.
35709 - Refuse to start with certain directory authority keys, and
35710 encourage people using them to stop.
35712 o Minor features (controller):
35713 - Add a PROTOCOLINFO controller command. Like AUTHENTICATE, it
35714 is valid before any authentication has been received. It tells
35715 a controller what kind of authentication is expected, and what
35716 protocol is spoken. Implements proposal 119.
35717 - New config option CookieAuthFile to choose a new location for the
35718 cookie authentication file, and config option
35719 CookieAuthFileGroupReadable to make it group-readable.
35721 o Minor features (unit testing):
35722 - Add command-line arguments to unit-test executable so that we can
35723 invoke any chosen test from the command line rather than having
35724 to run the whole test suite at once; and so that we can turn on
35725 logging for the unit tests.
35727 o Minor bugfixes (on 0.1.2.x):
35728 - If we require CookieAuthentication but we fail to write the
35729 cookie file, we would warn but not exit, and end up in a state
35730 where no controller could authenticate. Now we exit.
35731 - If we require CookieAuthentication, stop generating a new cookie
35732 every time we change any piece of our config.
35733 - When loading bandwidth history, do not believe any information in
35734 the future. Fixes bug 434.
35735 - When loading entry guard information, do not believe any information
35737 - When we have our clock set far in the future and generate an
35738 onion key, then re-set our clock to be correct, we should not stop
35739 the onion key from getting rotated.
35740 - Clean up torrc sample config file.
35741 - Do not automatically run configure from autogen.sh. This
35742 non-standard behavior tended to annoy people who have built other
35745 o Minor bugfixes (on 0.2.0.x):
35746 - Fix a bug with AutomapHostsOnResolve that would always cause
35747 the second request to fail. Bug reported by Kate. Bugfix on
35749 - Fix a bug in ADDRMAP controller replies that would sometimes
35750 try to print a NULL. Patch from tup.
35751 - Read v3 directory authority keys from the right location.
35752 - Numerous bugfixes to directory voting code.
35755 Changes in version 0.1.2.16 - 2007-08-01
35756 Tor 0.1.2.16 fixes a critical security vulnerability that allows a
35757 remote attacker in certain situations to rewrite the user's torrc
35758 configuration file. This can completely compromise anonymity of users
35759 in most configurations, including those running the Vidalia bundles,
35760 TorK, etc. Or worse.
35762 o Major security fixes:
35763 - Close immediately after missing authentication on control port;
35764 do not allow multiple authentication attempts.
35767 Changes in version 0.2.0.4-alpha - 2007-08-01
35768 This fourth development snapshot fixes a critical security vulnerability
35769 for most users, specifically those running Vidalia, TorK, etc. Everybody
35770 should upgrade to either 0.1.2.16 or 0.2.0.4-alpha.
35772 o Major security fixes:
35773 - Close immediately after missing authentication on control port;
35774 do not allow multiple authentication attempts.
35776 o Major bugfixes (compilation):
35777 - Fix win32 compilation: apparently IN_ADDR and IN6_ADDR are already
35780 o Minor features (performance):
35781 - Be even more aggressive about releasing RAM from small
35782 empty buffers. Thanks to our free-list code, this shouldn't be too
35783 performance-intensive.
35784 - Disable sentinel-based debugging for buffer code: we squashed all
35785 the bugs that this was supposed to detect a long time ago, and
35786 now its only effect is to change our buffer sizes from nice
35787 powers of two (which platform mallocs tend to like) to values
35788 slightly over powers of two (which make some platform mallocs sad).
35789 - Log malloc statistics from mallinfo() on platforms where it
35793 Changes in version 0.2.0.3-alpha - 2007-07-29
35794 This third development snapshot introduces new experimental
35795 blocking-resistance features and a preliminary version of the v3
35796 directory voting design, and includes many other smaller features
35800 - The first pieces of our "bridge" design for blocking-resistance
35801 are implemented. People can run bridge directory authorities;
35802 people can run bridges; and people can configure their Tor clients
35803 with a set of bridges to use as the first hop into the Tor network.
35804 See http://archives.seul.org/or/talk/Jul-2007/msg00249.html for
35806 - Create listener connections before we setuid to the configured
35807 User and Group. Now non-Windows users can choose port values
35808 under 1024, start Tor as root, and have Tor bind those ports
35809 before it changes to another UID. (Windows users could already
35811 - Added a new ConstrainedSockets config option to set SO_SNDBUF and
35812 SO_RCVBUF on TCP sockets. Hopefully useful for Tor servers running
35813 on "vserver" accounts. (Patch from coderman.)
35814 - Be even more aggressive about separating local traffic from relayed
35815 traffic when RelayBandwidthRate is set. (Refines proposal 111.)
35817 o Major features (experimental):
35818 - First cut of code for "v3 dir voting": directory authorities will
35819 vote on a common network status document rather than each publishing
35820 their own opinion. This code needs more testing and more corner-case
35821 handling before it's ready for use.
35824 - Directory authorities now call routers Fast if their bandwidth is
35825 at least 100KB/s, and consider their bandwidth adequate to be a
35826 Guard if it is at least 250KB/s, no matter the medians. This fix
35827 complements proposal 107. [Bugfix on 0.1.2.x]
35828 - Directory authorities now never mark more than 3 servers per IP as
35829 Valid and Running. (Implements proposal 109, by Kevin Bauer and
35831 - Minor change to organizationName and commonName generation
35832 procedures in TLS certificates during Tor handshakes, to invalidate
35833 some earlier censorware approaches. This is not a long-term
35834 solution, but applying it will give us a bit of time to look into
35835 the epidemiology of countermeasures as they spread.
35837 o Major bugfixes (directory):
35838 - Rewrite directory tokenization code to never run off the end of
35839 a string. Fixes bug 455. Patch from croup. [Bugfix on 0.1.2.x]
35841 o Minor features (controller):
35842 - Add a SOURCE_ADDR field to STREAM NEW events so that controllers can
35843 match requests to applications. (Patch from Robert Hogan.)
35844 - Report address and port correctly on connections to DNSPort. (Patch
35845 from Robert Hogan.)
35846 - Add a RESOLVE command to launch hostname lookups. (Original patch
35847 from Robert Hogan.)
35848 - Add GETINFO status/enough-dir-info to let controllers tell whether
35849 Tor has downloaded sufficient directory information. (Patch
35851 - You can now use the ControlSocket option to tell Tor to listen for
35852 controller connections on Unix domain sockets on systems that
35853 support them. (Patch from Peter Palfrader.)
35854 - STREAM NEW events are generated for DNSPort requests and for
35855 tunneled directory connections. (Patch from Robert Hogan.)
35856 - New "GETINFO address-mappings/*" command to get address mappings
35857 with expiry information. "addr-mappings/*" is now deprecated.
35860 o Minor features (misc):
35861 - Merge in some (as-yet-unused) IPv6 address manipulation code. (Patch
35863 - The tor-gencert tool for v3 directory authorities now creates all
35864 files as readable to the file creator only, and write-protects
35865 the authority identity key.
35866 - When dumping memory usage, list bytes used in buffer memory
35868 - When running with dmalloc, dump more stats on hup and on exit.
35869 - Directory authorities now fail quickly and (relatively) harmlessly
35870 if they generate a network status document that is somehow
35873 o Traffic load balancing improvements:
35874 - If exit bandwidth ever exceeds one third of total bandwidth, then
35875 use the correct formula to weight exit nodes when choosing paths.
35876 (Based on patch from Mike Perry.)
35877 - Choose perfectly fairly among routers when choosing by bandwidth and
35878 weighting by fraction of bandwidth provided by exits. Previously, we
35879 would choose with only approximate fairness, and correct ourselves
35880 if we ran off the end of the list. [Bugfix on 0.1.2.x]
35882 o Performance improvements:
35883 - Be more aggressive with freeing buffer RAM or putting it on the
35885 - Use Critical Sections rather than Mutexes for synchronizing threads
35886 on win32; Mutexes are heavier-weight, and designed for synchronizing
35889 o Deprecated and removed features:
35890 - RedirectExits is now deprecated.
35891 - Stop allowing address masks that do not correspond to bit prefixes.
35892 We have warned about these for a really long time; now it's time
35893 to reject them. (Patch from croup.)
35895 o Minor bugfixes (directory):
35896 - Fix another crash bug related to extra-info caching. (Bug found by
35897 Peter Palfrader.) [Bugfix on 0.2.0.2-alpha]
35898 - Directories no longer return a "304 not modified" when they don't
35899 have the networkstatus the client asked for. Also fix a memory
35900 leak when returning 304 not modified. [Bugfixes on 0.2.0.2-alpha]
35901 - We had accidentally labelled 0.1.2.x directory servers as not
35902 suitable for begin_dir requests, and had labelled no directory
35903 servers as suitable for uploading extra-info documents. [Bugfix
35906 o Minor bugfixes (dns):
35907 - Fix a crash when DNSPort is set more than once. (Patch from Robert
35908 Hogan.) [Bugfix on 0.2.0.2-alpha]
35909 - Add DNSPort connections to the global connection list, so that we
35910 can time them out correctly. (Bug found by Robert Hogan.) [Bugfix
35912 - Fix a dangling reference that could lead to a crash when DNSPort is
35913 changed or closed (Patch from Robert Hogan.) [Bugfix on
35916 o Minor bugfixes (controller):
35917 - Provide DNS expiry times in GMT, not in local time. For backward
35918 compatibility, ADDRMAP events only provide GMT expiry in an extended
35919 field. "GETINFO address-mappings" always does the right thing.
35920 - Use CRLF line endings properly in NS events.
35921 - Terminate multi-line control events properly. (Original patch
35922 from tup.) [Bugfix on 0.1.2.x-alpha]
35923 - Do not include spaces in SOURCE_ADDR fields in STREAM
35924 events. Resolves bug 472. [Bugfix on 0.2.0.x-alpha]
35927 Changes in version 0.1.2.15 - 2007-07-17
35928 Tor 0.1.2.15 fixes several crash bugs, fixes some anonymity-related
35929 problems, fixes compilation on BSD, and fixes a variety of other
35930 bugs. Everybody should upgrade.
35932 o Major bugfixes (compilation):
35933 - Fix compile on FreeBSD/NetBSD/OpenBSD. Oops.
35935 o Major bugfixes (crashes):
35936 - Try even harder not to dereference the first character after
35937 an mmap(). Reported by lodger.
35938 - Fix a crash bug in directory authorities when we re-number the
35939 routerlist while inserting a new router.
35940 - When the cached-routers file is an even multiple of the page size,
35941 don't run off the end and crash. (Fixes bug 455; based on idea
35943 - Fix eventdns.c behavior on Solaris: It is critical to include
35944 orconfig.h _before_ sys/types.h, so that we can get the expected
35945 definition of _FILE_OFFSET_BITS.
35947 o Major bugfixes (security):
35948 - Fix a possible buffer overrun when using BSD natd support. Bug
35950 - When sending destroy cells from a circuit's origin, don't include
35951 the reason for tearing down the circuit. The spec says we didn't,
35952 and now we actually don't. Reported by lodger.
35953 - Keep streamids from different exits on a circuit separate. This
35954 bug may have allowed other routers on a given circuit to inject
35955 cells into streams. Reported by lodger; fixes bug 446.
35956 - If there's a never-before-connected-to guard node in our list,
35957 never choose any guards past it. This way we don't expand our
35958 guard list unless we need to.
35960 o Minor bugfixes (guard nodes):
35961 - Weight guard selection by bandwidth, so that low-bandwidth nodes
35962 don't get overused as guards.
35964 o Minor bugfixes (directory):
35965 - Correctly count the number of authorities that recommend each
35966 version. Previously, we were under-counting by 1.
35967 - Fix a potential crash bug when we load many server descriptors at
35968 once and some of them make others of them obsolete. Fixes bug 458.
35970 o Minor bugfixes (hidden services):
35971 - Stop tearing down the whole circuit when the user asks for a
35972 connection to a port that the hidden service didn't configure.
35975 o Minor bugfixes (misc):
35976 - On Windows, we were preventing other processes from reading
35977 cached-routers while Tor was running. Reported by janbar.
35978 - Fix a possible (but very unlikely) bug in picking routers by
35979 bandwidth. Add a log message to confirm that it is in fact
35980 unlikely. Patch from lodger.
35981 - Backport a couple of memory leak fixes.
35982 - Backport miscellaneous cosmetic bugfixes.
35985 Changes in version 0.2.0.2-alpha - 2007-06-02
35986 o Major bugfixes on 0.2.0.1-alpha:
35987 - Fix an assertion failure related to servers without extra-info digests.
35988 Resolves bugs 441 and 442.
35990 o Minor features (directory):
35991 - Support "If-Modified-Since" when answering HTTP requests for
35992 directories, running-routers documents, and network-status documents.
35993 (There's no need to support it for router descriptors, since those
35994 are downloaded by descriptor digest.)
35996 o Minor build issues:
35997 - Clear up some MIPSPro compiler warnings.
35998 - When building from a tarball on a machine that happens to have SVK
35999 installed, report the micro-revision as whatever version existed
36000 in the tarball, not as "x".
36003 Changes in version 0.2.0.1-alpha - 2007-06-01
36004 This early development snapshot provides new features for people running
36005 Tor as both a client and a server (check out the new RelayBandwidth
36006 config options); lets Tor run as a DNS proxy; and generally moves us
36007 forward on a lot of fronts.
36009 o Major features, server usability:
36010 - New config options RelayBandwidthRate and RelayBandwidthBurst:
36011 a separate set of token buckets for relayed traffic. Right now
36012 relayed traffic is defined as answers to directory requests, and
36013 OR connections that don't have any local circuits on them.
36015 o Major features, client usability:
36016 - A client-side DNS proxy feature to replace the need for
36017 dns-proxy-tor: Just set "DNSPort 9999", and Tor will now listen
36018 for DNS requests on port 9999, use the Tor network to resolve them
36019 anonymously, and send the reply back like a regular DNS server.
36020 The code still only implements a subset of DNS.
36021 - Make PreferTunneledDirConns and TunnelDirConns work even when
36022 we have no cached directory info. This means Tor clients can now
36023 do all of their connections protected by TLS.
36025 o Major features, performance and efficiency:
36026 - Directory authorities accept and serve "extra info" documents for
36027 routers. These documents contain fields from router descriptors
36028 that aren't usually needed, and that use a lot of excess
36029 bandwidth. Once these fields are removed from router descriptors,
36030 the bandwidth savings should be about 60%. [Partially implements
36032 - Servers upload extra-info documents to any authority that accepts
36033 them. Authorities (and caches that have been configured to download
36034 extra-info documents) download them as needed. [Partially implements
36036 - Change the way that Tor buffers data that it is waiting to write.
36037 Instead of queueing data cells in an enormous ring buffer for each
36038 client->OR or OR->OR connection, we now queue cells on a separate
36039 queue for each circuit. This lets us use less slack memory, and
36040 will eventually let us be smarter about prioritizing different kinds
36042 - Use memory pools to allocate cells with better speed and memory
36043 efficiency, especially on platforms where malloc() is inefficient.
36044 - Stop reading on edge connections when their corresponding circuit
36045 buffers are full; start again as the circuits empty out.
36047 o Major features, other:
36048 - Add an HSAuthorityRecordStats option that hidden service authorities
36049 can use to track statistics of overall hidden service usage without
36050 logging information that would be very useful to an attacker.
36051 - Start work implementing multi-level keys for directory authorities:
36052 Add a standalone tool to generate key certificates. (Proposal 103.)
36055 - Directory authorities now call routers Stable if they have an
36056 uptime of at least 30 days, even if that's not the median uptime
36057 in the network. Implements proposal 107, suggested by Kevin Bauer
36060 o Minor fixes (resource management):
36061 - Count the number of open sockets separately from the number
36062 of active connection_t objects. This will let us avoid underusing
36063 our allocated connection limit.
36064 - We no longer use socket pairs to link an edge connection to an
36065 anonymous directory connection or a DirPort test connection.
36066 Instead, we track the link internally and transfer the data
36067 in-process. This saves two sockets per "linked" connection (at the
36068 client and at the server), and avoids the nasty Windows socketpair()
36070 - Keep unused 4k and 16k buffers on free lists, rather than wasting 8k
36071 for every single inactive connection_t. Free items from the
36072 4k/16k-buffer free lists when they haven't been used for a while.
36074 o Minor features (build):
36075 - Make autoconf search for libevent, openssl, and zlib consistently.
36076 - Update deprecated macros in configure.in.
36077 - When warning about missing headers, tell the user to let us
36078 know if the compile succeeds anyway, so we can downgrade the
36080 - Include the current subversion revision as part of the version
36081 string: either fetch it directly if we're in an SVN checkout, do
36082 some magic to guess it if we're in an SVK checkout, or use
36083 the last-detected version if we're building from a .tar.gz.
36084 Use this version consistently in log messages.
36086 o Minor features (logging):
36087 - Always prepend "Bug: " to any log message about a bug.
36088 - Put a platform string (e.g. "Linux i686") in the startup log
36089 message, so when people paste just their logs, we know if it's
36090 OpenBSD or Windows or what.
36091 - When logging memory usage, break down memory used in buffers by
36094 o Minor features (directory system):
36095 - New config option V2AuthoritativeDirectory that all directory
36096 authorities should set. This will let future authorities choose
36097 not to serve V2 directory information.
36098 - Directory authorities allow multiple router descriptors and/or extra
36099 info documents to be uploaded in a single go. This will make
36100 implementing proposal 104 simpler.
36102 o Minor features (controller):
36103 - Add a new config option __DisablePredictedCircuits designed for
36104 use by the controller, when we don't want Tor to build any circuits
36106 - Let the controller specify HOP=%d as an argument to ATTACHSTREAM,
36107 so we can exit from the middle of the circuit.
36108 - Implement "getinfo status/circuit-established".
36109 - Implement "getinfo status/version/..." so a controller can tell
36110 whether the current version is recommended, and whether any versions
36111 are good, and how many authorities agree. (Patch from shibz.)
36113 o Minor features (hidden services):
36114 - Allow multiple HiddenServicePort directives with the same virtual
36115 port; when they occur, the user is sent round-robin to one
36116 of the target ports chosen at random. Partially fixes bug 393 by
36117 adding limited ad-hoc round-robining.
36119 o Minor features (other):
36121 - Add a new AutomapHostsOnResolve option: when it is enabled, any
36122 resolve request for hosts matching a given pattern causes Tor to
36123 generate an internal virtual address mapping for that host. This
36124 allows DNSPort to work sensibly with hidden service users. By
36125 default, .exit and .onion addresses are remapped; the list of
36126 patterns can be reconfigured with AutomapHostsSuffixes.
36127 - Add an "-F" option to tor-resolve to force a resolve for a .onion
36128 address. Thanks to the AutomapHostsOnResolve option, this is no
36129 longer a completely silly thing to do.
36130 - If Tor is invoked from something that isn't a shell (e.g. Vidalia),
36131 now we expand "-f ~/.tor/torrc" correctly. Suggested by Matt Edman.
36132 - Treat "2gb" when given in torrc for a bandwidth as meaning 2gb,
36133 minus 1 byte: the actual maximum declared bandwidth.
36135 o Removed features:
36136 - Removed support for the old binary "version 0" controller protocol.
36137 This has been deprecated since 0.1.1, and warnings have been issued
36138 since 0.1.2. When we encounter a v0 control message, we now send
36139 back an error and close the connection.
36140 - Remove the old "dns worker" server DNS code: it hasn't been default
36141 since 0.1.2.2-alpha, and all the servers seem to be using the new
36144 o Minor bugfixes (portability):
36145 - Even though Windows is equally happy with / and \ as path separators,
36146 try to use \ consistently on Windows and / consistently on Unix: it
36147 makes the log messages nicer.
36148 - Correctly report platform name on Windows 95 OSR2 and Windows 98 SE.
36149 - Read resolv.conf files correctly on platforms where read() returns
36150 partial results on small file reads.
36152 o Minor bugfixes (directory):
36153 - Correctly enforce that elements of directory objects do not appear
36154 more often than they are allowed to appear.
36155 - When we are reporting the DirServer line we just parsed, we were
36156 logging the second stanza of the key fingerprint, not the first.
36158 o Minor bugfixes (logging):
36159 - When we hit an EOF on a log (probably because we're shutting down),
36160 don't try to remove the log from the list: just mark it as
36161 unusable. (Bulletproofs against bug 222.)
36163 o Minor bugfixes (other):
36164 - In the exitlist script, only consider the most recently published
36165 server descriptor for each server. Also, when the user requests
36166 a list of servers that _reject_ connections to a given address,
36167 explicitly exclude the IPs that also have servers that accept
36168 connections to that address. (Resolves bug 405.)
36169 - Stop allowing hibernating servers to be "stable" or "fast".
36170 - On Windows, we were preventing other processes from reading
36171 cached-routers while Tor was running. (Reported by janbar)
36172 - Make the NodeFamilies config option work. (Reported by
36173 lodger -- it has never actually worked, even though we added it
36175 - Check return values from pthread_mutex functions.
36176 - Don't save non-general-purpose router descriptors to the disk cache,
36177 because we have no way of remembering what their purpose was when
36179 - Add even more asserts to hunt down bug 417.
36180 - Build without verbose warnings even on (not-yet-released) gcc 4.2.
36181 - Fix a possible (but very unlikely) bug in picking routers by bandwidth.
36182 Add a log message to confirm that it is in fact unlikely.
36184 o Minor bugfixes (controller):
36185 - Make 'getinfo fingerprint' return a 551 error if we're not a
36186 server, so we match what the control spec claims we do. Reported
36188 - Fix a typo in an error message when extendcircuit fails that
36189 caused us to not follow the \r\n-based delimiter protocol. Reported
36192 o Code simplifications and refactoring:
36193 - Stop passing around circuit_t and crypt_path_t pointers that are
36194 implicit in other procedure arguments.
36195 - Drop the old code to choke directory connections when the
36196 corresponding OR connections got full: thanks to the cell queue
36197 feature, OR conns don't get full any more.
36198 - Make dns_resolve() handle attaching connections to circuits
36199 properly, so the caller doesn't have to.
36200 - Rename wants_to_read and wants_to_write to read/write_blocked_on_bw.
36201 - Keep the connection array as a dynamic smartlist_t, rather than as
36202 a fixed-sized array. This is important, as the number of connections
36203 is becoming increasingly decoupled from the number of sockets.
36206 Changes in version 0.1.2.14 - 2007-05-25
36207 Tor 0.1.2.14 changes the addresses of two directory authorities (this
36208 change especially affects those who serve or use hidden services),
36209 and fixes several other crash- and security-related bugs.
36211 o Directory authority changes:
36212 - Two directory authorities (moria1 and moria2) just moved to new
36213 IP addresses. This change will particularly affect those who serve
36214 or use hidden services.
36216 o Major bugfixes (crashes):
36217 - If a directory server runs out of space in the connection table
36218 as it's processing a begin_dir request, it will free the exit stream
36219 but leave it attached to the circuit, leading to unpredictable
36220 behavior. (Reported by seeess, fixes bug 425.)
36221 - Fix a bug in dirserv_remove_invalid() that would cause authorities
36222 to corrupt memory under some really unlikely scenarios.
36223 - Tighten router parsing rules. (Bugs reported by Benedikt Boss.)
36224 - Avoid segfaults when reading from mmaped descriptor file. (Reported
36227 o Major bugfixes (security):
36228 - When choosing an entry guard for a circuit, avoid using guards
36229 that are in the same family as the chosen exit -- not just guards
36230 that are exactly the chosen exit. (Reported by lodger.)
36232 o Major bugfixes (resource management):
36233 - If a directory authority is down, skip it when deciding where to get
36234 networkstatus objects or descriptors. Otherwise we keep asking
36235 every 10 seconds forever. Fixes bug 384.
36236 - Count it as a failure if we fetch a valid network-status but we
36237 don't want to keep it. Otherwise we'll keep fetching it and keep
36238 not wanting to keep it. Fixes part of bug 422.
36239 - If all of our dirservers have given us bad or no networkstatuses
36240 lately, then stop hammering them once per minute even when we
36241 think they're failed. Fixes another part of bug 422.
36244 - Actually set the purpose correctly for descriptors inserted with
36245 purpose=controller.
36246 - When we have k non-v2 authorities in our DirServer config,
36247 we ignored the last k authorities in the list when updating our
36249 - Correctly back-off from requesting router descriptors that we are
36250 having a hard time downloading.
36251 - Read resolv.conf files correctly on platforms where read() returns
36252 partial results on small file reads.
36253 - Don't rebuild the entire router store every time we get 32K of
36254 routers: rebuild it when the journal gets very large, or when
36255 the gaps in the store get very large.
36258 - When routers publish SVN revisions in their router descriptors,
36259 authorities now include those versions correctly in networkstatus
36261 - Warn when using a version of libevent before 1.3b to run a server on
36262 OSX or BSD: these versions interact badly with userspace threads.
36265 Changes in version 0.1.2.13 - 2007-04-24
36266 This release features some major anonymity fixes, such as safer path
36267 selection; better client performance; faster bootstrapping, better
36268 address detection, and better DNS support for servers; write limiting as
36269 well as read limiting to make servers easier to run; and a huge pile of
36270 other features and bug fixes. The bundles also ship with Vidalia 0.0.11.
36272 Tor 0.1.2.13 is released in memory of Rob Levin (1955-2006), aka lilo
36273 of the Freenode IRC network, remembering his patience and vision for
36274 free speech on the Internet.
36277 - Fix a memory leak when we ask for "all" networkstatuses and we
36278 get one we don't recognize.
36279 - Add more asserts to hunt down bug 417.
36280 - Disable kqueue on OS X 10.3 and earlier, to fix bug 371.
36283 Changes in version 0.1.2.12-rc - 2007-03-16
36285 - Fix an infinite loop introduced in 0.1.2.7-alpha when we serve
36286 directory information requested inside Tor connections (i.e. via
36287 begin_dir cells). It only triggered when the same connection was
36288 serving other data at the same time. Reported by seeess.
36291 - When creating a circuit via the controller, send a 'launched'
36292 event when we're done, so we follow the spec better.
36295 Changes in version 0.1.2.11-rc - 2007-03-15
36296 o Minor bugfixes (controller), reported by daejees:
36297 - Correct the control spec to match how the code actually responds
36298 to 'getinfo addr-mappings/*'.
36299 - The control spec described a GUARDS event, but the code
36300 implemented a GUARD event. Standardize on GUARD, but let people
36301 ask for GUARDS too.
36304 Changes in version 0.1.2.10-rc - 2007-03-07
36305 o Major bugfixes (Windows):
36306 - Do not load the NT services library functions (which may not exist)
36307 just to detect if we're a service trying to shut down. Now we run
36308 on Win98 and friends again.
36310 o Minor bugfixes (other):
36311 - Clarify a couple of log messages.
36312 - Fix a misleading socks5 error number.
36315 Changes in version 0.1.2.9-rc - 2007-03-02
36316 o Major bugfixes (Windows):
36317 - On MinGW, use "%I64u" to printf/scanf 64-bit integers, instead
36318 of the usual GCC "%llu". This prevents a bug when saving 64-bit
36319 int configuration values: the high-order 32 bits would get
36320 truncated. In particular, we were being bitten by the default
36321 MaxAdvertisedBandwidth of 128 TB turning into 0. (Fixes bug 400
36322 and maybe also bug 397.)
36324 o Minor bugfixes (performance):
36325 - Use OpenSSL's AES implementation on platforms where it's faster.
36326 This could save us as much as 10% CPU usage.
36328 o Minor bugfixes (server):
36329 - Do not rotate onion key immediately after setting it for the first
36332 o Minor bugfixes (directory authorities):
36333 - Stop calling servers that have been hibernating for a long time
36334 "stable". Also, stop letting hibernating or obsolete servers affect
36335 uptime and bandwidth cutoffs.
36336 - Stop listing hibernating servers in the v1 directory.
36338 o Minor bugfixes (hidden services):
36339 - Upload hidden service descriptors slightly less often, to reduce
36340 load on authorities.
36342 o Minor bugfixes (other):
36343 - Fix an assert that could trigger if a controller quickly set then
36344 cleared EntryNodes. Bug found by Udo van den Heuvel.
36345 - On architectures where sizeof(int)>4, still clamp declarable bandwidth
36347 - Fix a potential race condition in the rpm installer. Found by
36349 - Try to fix eventdns warnings once and for all: do not treat a dns rcode
36350 of 2 as indicating that the server is completely bad; it sometimes
36351 means that the server is just bad for the request in question. (may fix
36352 the last of bug 326.)
36353 - Disable encrypted directory connections when we don't have a server
36354 descriptor for the destination. We'll get this working again in
36358 Changes in version 0.1.2.8-beta - 2007-02-26
36359 o Major bugfixes (crashes):
36360 - Stop crashing when the controller asks us to resetconf more than
36361 one config option at once. (Vidalia 0.0.11 does this.)
36362 - Fix a crash that happened on Win98 when we're given command-line
36363 arguments: don't try to load NT service functions from advapi32.dll
36364 except when we need them. (Bug introduced in 0.1.2.7-alpha;
36366 - Fix a longstanding obscure crash bug that could occur when
36367 we run out of DNS worker processes. (Resolves bug 390.)
36369 o Major bugfixes (hidden services):
36370 - Correctly detect whether hidden service descriptor downloads are
36371 in-progress. (Suggested by Karsten Loesing; fixes bug 399.)
36373 o Major bugfixes (accounting):
36374 - When we start during an accounting interval before it's time to wake
36375 up, remember to wake up at the correct time. (May fix bug 342.)
36377 o Minor bugfixes (controller):
36378 - Give the controller END_STREAM_REASON_DESTROY events _before_ we
36379 clear the corresponding on_circuit variable, and remember later
36380 that we don't need to send a redundant CLOSED event. Resolves part
36382 - Report events where a resolve succeeded or where we got a socks
36383 protocol error correctly, rather than calling both of them
36385 - Change reported stream target addresses to IP consistently when
36386 we finally get the IP from an exit node.
36387 - Send log messages to the controller even if they happen to be very
36390 o Minor bugfixes (other):
36391 - Display correct results when reporting which versions are
36392 recommended, and how recommended they are. (Resolves bug 383.)
36393 - Improve our estimates for directory bandwidth to be less random:
36394 guess that an unrecognized directory will have the average bandwidth
36395 from all known directories, not that it will have the average
36396 bandwidth from those directories earlier than it on the list.
36397 - If we start a server with ClientOnly 1, then set ClientOnly to 0
36398 and hup, stop triggering an assert based on an empty onion_key.
36399 - On platforms with no working mmap() equivalent, don't warn the
36400 user when cached-routers doesn't exist.
36401 - Warn the user when mmap() [or its equivalent] fails for some reason
36402 other than file-not-found.
36403 - Don't warn the user when cached-routers.new doesn't exist: that's
36404 perfectly fine when starting up for the first time.
36405 - When EntryNodes are configured, rebuild the guard list to contain,
36406 in order: the EntryNodes that were guards before; the rest of the
36407 EntryNodes; the nodes that were guards before.
36408 - Mask out all signals in sub-threads; only the libevent signal
36409 handler should be processing them. This should prevent some crashes
36410 on some machines using pthreads. (Patch from coderman.)
36411 - Fix switched arguments on memset in the implementation of
36412 tor_munmap() for systems with no mmap() call.
36413 - When Tor receives a router descriptor that it asked for, but
36414 no longer wants (because it has received fresh networkstatuses
36415 in the meantime), do not warn the user. Cache the descriptor if
36416 we're a cache; drop it if we aren't.
36417 - Make earlier entry guards _really_ get retried when the network
36419 - On a malformed DNS reply, always give an error to the corresponding
36421 - Build with recent libevents on platforms that do not define the
36422 nonstandard types "u_int8_t" and friends.
36424 o Minor features (controller):
36425 - Warn the user when an application uses the obsolete binary v0
36426 control protocol. We're planning to remove support for it during
36427 the next development series, so it's good to give people some
36429 - Add STREAM_BW events to report per-entry-stream bandwidth
36430 use. (Patch from Robert Hogan.)
36431 - Rate-limit SIGNEWNYM signals in response to controllers that
36432 impolitely generate them for every single stream. (Patch from
36433 mwenge; closes bug 394.)
36434 - Make REMAP stream events have a SOURCE (cache or exit), and
36435 make them generated in every case where we get a successful
36436 connected or resolved cell.
36438 o Minor bugfixes (performance):
36439 - Call router_have_min_dir_info half as often. (This is showing up in
36440 some profiles, but not others.)
36441 - When using GCC, make log_debug never get called at all, and its
36442 arguments never get evaluated, when no debug logs are configured.
36443 (This is showing up in some profiles, but not others.)
36446 - Remove some never-implemented options. Mark PathlenCoinWeight as
36448 - Implement proposal 106: Stop requiring clients to have well-formed
36449 certificates; stop checking nicknames in certificates. (Clients
36450 have certificates so that they can look like Tor servers, but in
36451 the future we might want to allow them to look like regular TLS
36452 clients instead. Nicknames in certificates serve no purpose other
36453 than making our protocol easier to recognize on the wire.)
36454 - Revise messages on handshake failure again to be even more clear about
36455 which are incoming connections and which are outgoing.
36456 - Discard any v1 directory info that's over 1 month old (for
36457 directories) or over 1 week old (for running-routers lists).
36458 - Do not warn when individual nodes in the configuration's EntryNodes,
36459 ExitNodes, etc are down: warn only when all possible nodes
36460 are down. (Fixes bug 348.)
36461 - Always remove expired routers and networkstatus docs before checking
36462 whether we have enough information to build circuits. (Fixes
36464 - Put a lower-bound on MaxAdvertisedBandwidth.
36467 Changes in version 0.1.2.7-alpha - 2007-02-06
36468 o Major bugfixes (rate limiting):
36469 - Servers decline directory requests much more aggressively when
36470 they're low on bandwidth. Otherwise they end up queueing more and
36471 more directory responses, which can't be good for latency.
36472 - But never refuse directory requests from local addresses.
36473 - Fix a memory leak when sending a 503 response for a networkstatus
36475 - Be willing to read or write on local connections (e.g. controller
36476 connections) even when the global rate limiting buckets are empty.
36477 - If our system clock jumps back in time, don't publish a negative
36478 uptime in the descriptor. Also, don't let the global rate limiting
36479 buckets go absurdly negative.
36480 - Flush local controller connection buffers periodically as we're
36481 writing to them, so we avoid queueing 4+ megabytes of data before
36484 o Major bugfixes (NT services):
36485 - Install as NT_AUTHORITY\LocalService rather than as SYSTEM; add a
36486 command-line flag so that admins can override the default by saying
36487 "tor --service install --user "SomeUser"". This will not affect
36488 existing installed services. Also, warn the user that the service
36489 will look for its configuration file in the service user's
36490 %appdata% directory. (We can't do the 'hardwire the user's appdata
36491 directory' trick any more, since we may not have read access to that
36494 o Major bugfixes (other):
36495 - Previously, we would cache up to 16 old networkstatus documents
36496 indefinitely, if they came from nontrusted authorities. Now we
36497 discard them if they are more than 10 days old.
36498 - Fix a crash bug in the presence of DNS hijacking (reported by Andrew
36500 - Detect and reject malformed DNS responses containing circular
36502 - If exits are rare enough that we're not marking exits as guards,
36503 ignore exit bandwidth when we're deciding the required bandwidth
36505 - When we're handling a directory connection tunneled over Tor,
36506 don't fill up internal memory buffers with all the data we want
36507 to tunnel; instead, only add it if the OR connection that will
36508 eventually receive it has some room for it. (This can lead to
36509 slowdowns in tunneled dir connections; a better solution will have
36510 to wait for 0.2.0.)
36512 o Minor bugfixes (dns):
36513 - Add some defensive programming to eventdns.c in an attempt to catch
36514 possible memory-stomping bugs.
36515 - Detect and reject DNS replies containing IPv4 or IPv6 records with
36516 an incorrect number of bytes. (Previously, we would ignore the
36518 - Fix as-yet-unused reverse IPv6 lookup code so it sends nybbles
36519 in the correct order, and doesn't crash.
36520 - Free memory held in recently-completed DNS lookup attempts on exit.
36521 This was not a memory leak, but may have been hiding memory leaks.
36522 - Handle TTL values correctly on reverse DNS lookups.
36523 - Treat failure to parse resolv.conf as an error.
36525 o Minor bugfixes (other):
36526 - Fix crash with "tor --list-fingerprint" (reported by seeess).
36527 - When computing clock skew from directory HTTP headers, consider what
36528 time it was when we finished asking for the directory, not what
36530 - Expire socks connections if they spend too long waiting for the
36531 handshake to finish. Previously we would let them sit around for
36532 days, if the connecting application didn't close them either.
36533 - And if the socks handshake hasn't started, don't send a
36534 "DNS resolve socks failed" handshake reply; just close it.
36535 - Stop using C functions that OpenBSD's linker doesn't like.
36536 - Don't launch requests for descriptors unless we have networkstatuses
36537 from at least half of the authorities. This delays the first
36538 download slightly under pathological circumstances, but can prevent
36539 us from downloading a bunch of descriptors we don't need.
36540 - Do not log IPs with TLS failures for incoming TLS
36541 connections. (Fixes bug 382.)
36542 - If the user asks to use invalid exit nodes, be willing to use
36544 - Stop using the reserved ac_cv namespace in our configure script.
36545 - Call stat() slightly less often; use fstat() when possible.
36546 - Refactor the way we handle pending circuits when an OR connection
36547 completes or fails, in an attempt to fix a rare crash bug.
36548 - Only rewrite a conn's address based on X-Forwarded-For: headers
36549 if it's a parseable public IP address; and stop adding extra quotes
36550 to the resulting address.
36553 - Weight directory requests by advertised bandwidth. Now we can
36554 let servers enable write limiting but still allow most clients to
36555 succeed at their directory requests. (We still ignore weights when
36556 choosing a directory authority; I hope this is a feature.)
36559 - Create a new file ReleaseNotes which was the old ChangeLog. The
36560 new ChangeLog file now includes the summaries for all development
36562 - Check for addresses with invalid characters at the exit as well
36563 as at the client, and warn less verbosely when they fail. You can
36564 override this by setting ServerDNSAllowNonRFC953Addresses to 1.
36565 - Adapt a patch from goodell to let the contrib/exitlist script
36566 take arguments rather than require direct editing.
36567 - Inform the server operator when we decide not to advertise a
36568 DirPort due to AccountingMax enabled or a low BandwidthRate. It
36569 was confusing Zax, so now we're hopefully more helpful.
36570 - Bring us one step closer to being able to establish an encrypted
36571 directory tunnel without knowing a descriptor first. Still not
36572 ready yet. As part of the change, now assume we can use a
36573 create_fast cell if we don't know anything about a router.
36574 - Allow exit nodes to use nameservers running on ports other than 53.
36575 - Servers now cache reverse DNS replies.
36576 - Add an --ignore-missing-torrc command-line option so that we can
36577 get the "use sensible defaults if the configuration file doesn't
36578 exist" behavior even when specifying a torrc location on the command
36581 o Minor features (controller):
36582 - Track reasons for OR connection failure; make these reasons
36583 available via the controller interface. (Patch from Mike Perry.)
36584 - Add a SOCKS_BAD_HOSTNAME client status event so controllers
36585 can learn when clients are sending malformed hostnames to Tor.
36586 - Clean up documentation for controller status events.
36587 - Add a REMAP status to stream events to note that a stream's
36588 address has changed because of a cached address or a MapAddress
36592 Changes in version 0.1.2.6-alpha - 2007-01-09
36594 - Fix an assert error introduced in 0.1.2.5-alpha: if a single TLS
36595 connection handles more than 4 gigs in either direction, we crash.
36596 - Fix an assert error introduced in 0.1.2.5-alpha: if we're an
36597 advertised exit node, somebody might try to exit from us when
36598 we're bootstrapping and before we've built our descriptor yet.
36599 Refuse the connection rather than crashing.
36602 - Warn if we (as a server) find that we've resolved an address that we
36603 weren't planning to resolve.
36604 - Warn that using select() on any libevent version before 1.1 will be
36605 unnecessarily slow (even for select()).
36606 - Flush ERR-level controller status events just like we currently
36607 flush ERR-level log events, so that a Tor shutdown doesn't prevent
36608 the controller from learning about current events.
36610 o Minor features (more controller status events):
36611 - Implement EXTERNAL_ADDRESS server status event so controllers can
36612 learn when our address changes.
36613 - Implement BAD_SERVER_DESCRIPTOR server status event so controllers
36614 can learn when directories reject our descriptor.
36615 - Implement SOCKS_UNKNOWN_PROTOCOL client status event so controllers
36616 can learn when a client application is speaking a non-socks protocol
36618 - Implement DANGEROUS_SOCKS client status event so controllers
36619 can learn when a client application is leaking DNS addresses.
36620 - Implement BUG general status event so controllers can learn when
36621 Tor is unhappy about its internal invariants.
36622 - Implement CLOCK_SKEW general status event so controllers can learn
36623 when Tor thinks the system clock is set incorrectly.
36624 - Implement GOOD_SERVER_DESCRIPTOR and ACCEPTED_SERVER_DESCRIPTOR
36625 server status events so controllers can learn when their descriptors
36626 are accepted by a directory.
36627 - Implement CHECKING_REACHABILITY and REACHABILITY_{SUCCEEDED|FAILED}
36628 server status events so controllers can learn about Tor's progress in
36629 deciding whether it's reachable from the outside.
36630 - Implement BAD_LIBEVENT general status event so controllers can learn
36631 when we have a version/method combination in libevent that needs to
36633 - Implement NAMESERVER_STATUS, NAMESERVER_ALL_DOWN, DNS_HIJACKED,
36634 and DNS_USELESS server status events so controllers can learn
36635 about changes to DNS server status.
36637 o Minor features (directory):
36638 - Authorities no longer recommend exits as guards if this would shift
36639 too much load to the exit nodes.
36642 Changes in version 0.1.2.5-alpha - 2007-01-06
36644 - Enable write limiting as well as read limiting. Now we sacrifice
36645 capacity if we're pushing out lots of directory traffic, rather
36646 than overrunning the user's intended bandwidth limits.
36647 - Include TLS overhead when counting bandwidth usage; previously, we
36648 would count only the bytes sent over TLS, but not the bytes used
36650 - Support running the Tor service with a torrc not in the same
36651 directory as tor.exe and default to using the torrc located in
36652 the %appdata%\Tor\ of the user who installed the service. Patch
36654 - Servers now check for the case when common DNS requests are going to
36655 wildcarded addresses (i.e. all getting the same answer), and change
36656 their exit policy to reject *:* if it's happening.
36657 - Implement BEGIN_DIR cells, so we can connect to the directory
36658 server via TLS to do encrypted directory requests rather than
36659 plaintext. Enable via the TunnelDirConns and PreferTunneledDirConns
36660 config options if you like.
36662 o Minor features (config and docs):
36663 - Start using the state file to store bandwidth accounting data:
36664 the bw_accounting file is now obsolete. We'll keep generating it
36665 for a while for people who are still using 0.1.2.4-alpha.
36666 - Try to batch changes to the state file so that we do as few
36667 disk writes as possible while still storing important things in
36669 - The state file and the bw_accounting file get saved less often when
36670 the AvoidDiskWrites config option is set.
36671 - Make PIDFile work on Windows (untested).
36672 - Add internal descriptions for a bunch of configuration options:
36673 accessible via controller interface and in comments in saved
36675 - Reject *:563 (NNTPS) in the default exit policy. We already reject
36676 NNTP by default, so this seems like a sensible addition.
36677 - Clients now reject hostnames with invalid characters. This should
36678 avoid some inadvertent info leaks. Add an option
36679 AllowNonRFC953Hostnames to disable this behavior, in case somebody
36680 is running a private network with hosts called @, !, and #.
36681 - Add a maintainer script to tell us which options are missing
36682 documentation: "make check-docs".
36683 - Add a new address-spec.txt document to describe our special-case
36684 addresses: .exit, .onion, and .noconnnect.
36686 o Minor features (DNS):
36687 - Ongoing work on eventdns infrastructure: now it has dns server
36688 and ipv6 support. One day Tor will make use of it.
36689 - Add client-side caching for reverse DNS lookups.
36690 - Add support to tor-resolve tool for reverse lookups and SOCKS5.
36691 - When we change nameservers or IP addresses, reset and re-launch
36692 our tests for DNS hijacking.
36694 o Minor features (directory):
36695 - Authorities now specify server versions in networkstatus. This adds
36696 about 2% to the size of compressed networkstatus docs, and allows
36697 clients to tell which servers support BEGIN_DIR and which don't.
36698 The implementation is forward-compatible with a proposed future
36699 protocol version scheme not tied to Tor versions.
36700 - DirServer configuration lines now have an orport= option so
36701 clients can open encrypted tunnels to the authorities without
36702 having downloaded their descriptors yet. Enabled for moria1,
36703 moria2, tor26, and lefkada now in the default configuration.
36704 - Directory servers are more willing to send a 503 "busy" if they
36705 are near their write limit, especially for v1 directory requests.
36706 Now they can use their limited bandwidth for actual Tor traffic.
36707 - Clients track responses with status 503 from dirservers. After a
36708 dirserver has given us a 503, we try not to use it until an hour has
36709 gone by, or until we have no dirservers that haven't given us a 503.
36710 - When we get a 503 from a directory, and we're not a server, we don't
36711 count the failure against the total number of failures allowed
36712 for the thing we're trying to download.
36713 - Report X-Your-Address-Is correctly from tunneled directory
36714 connections; don't report X-Your-Address-Is when it's an internal
36715 address; and never believe reported remote addresses when they're
36717 - Protect against an unlikely DoS attack on directory servers.
36718 - Add a BadDirectory flag to network status docs so that authorities
36719 can (eventually) tell clients about caches they believe to be
36722 o Minor features (controller):
36723 - Have GETINFO dir/status/* work on hosts with DirPort disabled.
36724 - Reimplement GETINFO so that info/names stays in sync with the
36726 - Implement "GETINFO fingerprint".
36727 - Implement "SETEVENTS GUARD" so controllers can get updates on
36728 entry guard status as it changes.
36730 o Minor features (clean up obsolete pieces):
36731 - Remove some options that have been deprecated since at least
36732 0.1.0.x: AccountingMaxKB, LogFile, DebugLogFile, LogLevel, and
36733 SysLog. Use AccountingMax instead of AccountingMaxKB, and use Log
36734 to set log options.
36735 - We no longer look for identity and onion keys in "identity.key" and
36736 "onion.key" -- these were replaced by secret_id_key and
36737 secret_onion_key in 0.0.8pre1.
36738 - We no longer require unrecognized directory entries to be
36741 o Major bugfixes (security):
36742 - Stop sending the HttpProxyAuthenticator string to directory
36743 servers when directory connections are tunnelled through Tor.
36744 - Clients no longer store bandwidth history in the state file.
36745 - Do not log introduction points for hidden services if SafeLogging
36747 - When generating bandwidth history, round down to the nearest
36748 1k. When storing accounting data, round up to the nearest 1k.
36749 - When we're running as a server, remember when we last rotated onion
36750 keys, so that we will rotate keys once they're a week old even if
36751 we never stay up for a week ourselves.
36753 o Major bugfixes (other):
36754 - Fix a longstanding bug in eventdns that prevented the count of
36755 timed-out resolves from ever being reset. This bug caused us to
36756 give up on a nameserver the third time it timed out, and try it
36757 10 seconds later... and to give up on it every time it timed out
36759 - Take out the '5 second' timeout from the connection retry
36760 schedule. Now the first connect attempt will wait a full 10
36761 seconds before switching to a new circuit. Perhaps this will help
36762 a lot. Based on observations from Mike Perry.
36763 - Fix a bug on the Windows implementation of tor_mmap_file() that
36764 would prevent the cached-routers file from ever loading. Reported
36768 - Fix an assert failure when a directory authority sets
36769 AuthDirRejectUnlisted and then receives a descriptor from an
36770 unlisted router. Reported by seeess.
36771 - Avoid a double-free when parsing malformed DirServer lines.
36772 - Fix a bug when a BSD-style PF socket is first used. Patch from
36774 - Fix a bug in 0.1.2.2-alpha that prevented clients from asking
36775 to resolve an address at a given exit node even when they ask for
36777 - Servers no longer ever list themselves in their "family" line,
36778 even if configured to do so. This makes it easier to configure
36779 family lists conveniently.
36780 - When running as a server, don't fall back to 127.0.0.1 when no
36781 nameservers are configured in /etc/resolv.conf; instead, make the
36782 user fix resolv.conf or specify nameservers explicitly. (Resolves
36784 - Stop accepting certain malformed ports in configured exit policies.
36785 - Don't re-write the fingerprint file every restart, unless it has
36787 - Stop warning when a single nameserver fails: only warn when _all_ of
36788 our nameservers have failed. Also, when we only have one nameserver,
36789 raise the threshold for deciding that the nameserver is dead.
36790 - Directory authorities now only decide that routers are reachable
36791 if their identity keys are as expected.
36792 - When the user uses bad syntax in the Log config line, stop
36793 suggesting other bad syntax as a replacement.
36794 - Correctly detect ipv6 DNS capability on OpenBSD.
36796 o Minor bugfixes (controller):
36797 - Report the circuit number correctly in STREAM CLOSED events. Bug
36798 reported by Mike Perry.
36799 - Do not report bizarre values for results of accounting GETINFOs
36800 when the last second's write or read exceeds the allotted bandwidth.
36801 - Report "unrecognized key" rather than an empty string when the
36802 controller tries to fetch a networkstatus that doesn't exist.
36805 Changes in version 0.1.1.26 - 2006-12-14
36806 o Security bugfixes:
36807 - Stop sending the HttpProxyAuthenticator string to directory
36808 servers when directory connections are tunnelled through Tor.
36809 - Clients no longer store bandwidth history in the state file.
36810 - Do not log introduction points for hidden services if SafeLogging
36814 - Fix an assert failure when a directory authority sets
36815 AuthDirRejectUnlisted and then receives a descriptor from an
36816 unlisted router (reported by seeess).
36819 Changes in version 0.1.2.4-alpha - 2006-12-03
36821 - Add support for using natd; this allows FreeBSDs earlier than
36822 5.1.2 to have ipfw send connections through Tor without using
36823 SOCKS. (Patch from Zajcev Evgeny with tweaks from tup.)
36826 - Make all connections to addresses of the form ".noconnect"
36827 immediately get closed. This lets application/controller combos
36828 successfully test whether they're talking to the same Tor by
36829 watching for STREAM events.
36830 - Make cross.sh cross-compilation script work even when autogen.sh
36831 hasn't been run. (Patch from Michael Mohr.)
36832 - Statistics dumped by -USR2 now include a breakdown of public key
36833 operations, for profiling.
36836 - Fix a major leak when directory authorities parse their
36837 approved-routers list, a minor memory leak when we fail to pick
36838 an exit node, and a few rare leaks on errors.
36839 - Handle TransPort connections even when the server sends data before
36840 the client sends data. Previously, the connection would just hang
36841 until the client sent data. (Patch from tup based on patch from
36843 - Avoid assert failure when our cached-routers file is empty on
36847 - Don't log spurious warnings when we see a circuit close reason we
36848 don't recognize; it's probably just from a newer version of Tor.
36849 - Have directory authorities allow larger amounts of drift in uptime
36850 without replacing the server descriptor: previously, a server that
36851 restarted every 30 minutes could have 48 "interesting" descriptors
36853 - Start linking to the Tor specification and Tor reference manual
36854 correctly in the Windows installer.
36855 - Add Vidalia to the OS X uninstaller script, so when we uninstall
36856 Tor/Privoxy we also uninstall Vidalia.
36857 - Resume building on Irix64, and fix a lot of warnings from its
36858 MIPSpro C compiler.
36859 - Don't corrupt last_guessed_ip in router_new_address_suggestion()
36860 when we're running as a client.
36863 Changes in version 0.1.1.25 - 2006-11-04
36865 - When a client asks us to resolve (rather than connect to)
36866 an address, and we have a cached answer, give them the cached
36867 answer. Previously, we would give them no answer at all.
36868 - We were building exactly the wrong circuits when we predict
36869 hidden service requirements, meaning Tor would have to build all
36870 its circuits on demand.
36871 - If none of our live entry guards have a high uptime, but we
36872 require a guard with a high uptime, try adding a new guard before
36873 we give up on the requirement. This patch should make long-lived
36874 connections more stable on average.
36875 - When testing reachability of our DirPort, don't launch new
36876 tests when there's already one in progress -- unreachable
36877 servers were stacking up dozens of testing streams.
36879 o Security bugfixes:
36880 - When the user sends a NEWNYM signal, clear the client-side DNS
36881 cache too. Otherwise we continue to act on previous information.
36884 - Avoid a memory corruption bug when creating a hash table for
36886 - Avoid possibility of controller-triggered crash when misusing
36887 certain commands from a v0 controller on platforms that do not
36888 handle printf("%s",NULL) gracefully.
36889 - Avoid infinite loop on unexpected controller input.
36890 - Don't log spurious warnings when we see a circuit close reason we
36891 don't recognize; it's probably just from a newer version of Tor.
36892 - Add Vidalia to the OS X uninstaller script, so when we uninstall
36893 Tor/Privoxy we also uninstall Vidalia.
36896 Changes in version 0.1.2.3-alpha - 2006-10-29
36898 - Prepare for servers to publish descriptors less often: never
36899 discard a descriptor simply for being too old until either it is
36900 recommended by no authorities, or until we get a better one for
36901 the same router. Make caches consider retaining old recommended
36902 routers for even longer.
36903 - If most authorities set a BadExit flag for a server, clients
36904 don't think of it as a general-purpose exit. Clients only consider
36905 authorities that advertise themselves as listing bad exits.
36906 - Directory servers now provide 'Pragma: no-cache' and 'Expires'
36907 headers for content, so that we can work better in the presence of
36908 caching HTTP proxies.
36909 - Allow authorities to list nodes as bad exits by fingerprint or by
36912 o Minor features, controller:
36913 - Add a REASON field to CIRC events; for backward compatibility, this
36914 field is sent only to controllers that have enabled the extended
36915 event format. Also, add additional reason codes to explain why
36916 a given circuit has been destroyed or truncated. (Patches from
36918 - Add a REMOTE_REASON field to extended CIRC events to tell the
36919 controller about why a remote OR told us to close a circuit.
36920 - Stream events also now have REASON and REMOTE_REASON fields,
36921 working much like those for circuit events.
36922 - There's now a GETINFO ns/... field so that controllers can ask Tor
36923 about the current status of a router.
36924 - A new event type "NS" to inform a controller when our opinion of
36925 a router's status has changed.
36926 - Add a GETINFO events/names and GETINFO features/names so controllers
36927 can tell which events and features are supported.
36928 - A new CLEARDNSCACHE signal to allow controllers to clear the
36929 client-side DNS cache without expiring circuits.
36931 o Security bugfixes:
36932 - When the user sends a NEWNYM signal, clear the client-side DNS
36933 cache too. Otherwise we continue to act on previous information.
36936 - Avoid sending junk to controllers or segfaulting when a controller
36937 uses EVENT_NEW_DESC with verbose nicknames.
36938 - Stop triggering asserts if the controller tries to extend hidden
36939 service circuits (reported by mwenge).
36940 - Avoid infinite loop on unexpected controller input.
36941 - When the controller does a "GETINFO network-status", tell it
36942 about even those routers whose descriptors are very old, and use
36943 long nicknames where appropriate.
36944 - Change NT service functions to be loaded on demand. This lets us
36945 build with MinGW without breaking Tor for Windows 98 users.
36946 - Do DirPort reachability tests less often, since a single test
36947 chews through many circuits before giving up.
36948 - In the hidden service example in torrc.sample, stop recommending
36949 esoteric and discouraged hidden service options.
36950 - When stopping an NT service, wait up to 10 sec for it to actually
36951 stop. Patch from Matt Edman; resolves bug 295.
36952 - Fix handling of verbose nicknames with ORCONN controller events:
36953 make them show up exactly when requested, rather than exactly when
36955 - When reporting verbose nicknames in entry_guards_getinfo(), avoid
36956 printing a duplicate "$" in the keys we send (reported by mwenge).
36957 - Correctly set maximum connection limit on Cygwin. (This time
36959 - Try to detect Windows correctly when cross-compiling.
36960 - Detect the size of the routers file correctly even if it is
36961 corrupted (on systems without mmap) or not page-aligned (on systems
36962 with mmap). This bug was harmless.
36963 - Sometimes we didn't bother sending a RELAY_END cell when an attempt
36964 to open a stream fails; now we do in more cases. This should
36965 make clients able to find a good exit faster in some cases, since
36966 unhandleable requests will now get an error rather than timing out.
36967 - Resolve two memory leaks when rebuilding the on-disk router cache
36968 (reported by fookoowa).
36969 - Clean up minor code warnings suggested by the MIPSpro C compiler,
36970 and reported by some Centos users.
36971 - Controller signals now work on non-Unix platforms that don't define
36972 SIGUSR1 and SIGUSR2 the way we expect.
36973 - Patch from Michael Mohr to contrib/cross.sh, so it checks more
36974 values before failing, and always enables eventdns.
36975 - Libevent-1.2 exports, but does not define in its headers, strlcpy.
36976 Try to fix this in configure.in by checking for most functions
36977 before we check for libevent.
36980 Changes in version 0.1.2.2-alpha - 2006-10-07
36982 - Make our async eventdns library on-by-default for Tor servers,
36983 and plan to deprecate the separate dnsworker threads.
36984 - Add server-side support for "reverse" DNS lookups (using PTR
36985 records so clients can determine the canonical hostname for a given
36986 IPv4 address). Only supported by servers using eventdns; servers
36987 now announce in their descriptors whether they support eventdns.
36988 - Specify and implement client-side SOCKS5 interface for reverse DNS
36989 lookups (see doc/socks-extensions.txt).
36990 - Add a BEGIN_DIR relay cell type for an easier in-protocol way to
36991 connect to directory servers through Tor. Previously, clients needed
36992 to find Tor exits to make private connections to directory servers.
36993 - Avoid choosing Exit nodes for entry or middle hops when the
36994 total bandwidth available from non-Exit nodes is much higher than
36995 the total bandwidth available from Exit nodes.
36996 - Workaround for name servers (like Earthlink's) that hijack failing
36997 DNS requests and replace the no-such-server answer with a "helpful"
36998 redirect to an advertising-driven search portal. Also work around
36999 DNS hijackers who "helpfully" decline to hijack known-invalid
37000 RFC2606 addresses. Config option "ServerDNSDetectHijacking 0"
37001 lets you turn it off.
37002 - Send out a burst of long-range padding cells once we've established
37003 that we're reachable. Spread them over 4 circuits, so hopefully
37004 a few will be fast. This exercises our bandwidth and bootstraps
37005 us into the directory more quickly.
37007 o New/improved config options:
37008 - Add new config option "ResolvConf" to let the server operator
37009 choose an alternate resolve.conf file when using eventdns.
37010 - Add an "EnforceDistinctSubnets" option to control our "exclude
37011 servers on the same /16" behavior. It's still on by default; this
37012 is mostly for people who want to operate private test networks with
37013 all the machines on the same subnet.
37014 - If one of our entry guards is on the ExcludeNodes list, or the
37015 directory authorities don't think it's a good guard, treat it as
37016 if it were unlisted: stop using it as a guard, and throw it off
37017 the guards list if it stays that way for a long time.
37018 - Allow directory authorities to be marked separately as authorities
37019 for the v1 directory protocol, the v2 directory protocol, and
37020 as hidden service directories, to make it easier to retire old
37021 authorities. V1 authorities should set "HSAuthoritativeDir 1"
37022 to continue being hidden service authorities too.
37023 - Remove 8888 as a LongLivedPort, and add 6697 (IRCS).
37025 o Minor features, controller:
37026 - Fix CIRC controller events so that controllers can learn the
37027 identity digests of non-Named servers used in circuit paths.
37028 - Let controllers ask for more useful identifiers for servers. Instead
37029 of learning identity digests for un-Named servers and nicknames
37030 for Named servers, the new identifiers include digest, nickname,
37031 and indication of Named status. Off by default; see control-spec.txt
37032 for more information.
37033 - Add a "getinfo address" controller command so it can display Tor's
37034 best guess to the user.
37035 - New controller event to alert the controller when our server
37036 descriptor has changed.
37037 - Give more meaningful errors on controller authentication failure.
37039 o Minor features, other:
37040 - When asked to resolve a hostname, don't use non-exit servers unless
37041 requested to do so. This allows servers with broken DNS to be
37042 useful to the network.
37043 - Divide eventdns log messages into warn and info messages.
37044 - Reserve the nickname "Unnamed" for routers that can't pick
37045 a hostname: any router can call itself Unnamed; directory
37046 authorities will never allocate Unnamed to any particular router;
37047 clients won't believe that any router is the canonical Unnamed.
37048 - Only include function names in log messages for info/debug messages.
37049 For notice/warn/err, the content of the message should be clear on
37050 its own, and printing the function name only confuses users.
37051 - Avoid some false positives during reachability testing: don't try
37052 to test via a server that's on the same /24 as us.
37053 - If we fail to build a circuit to an intended enclave, and it's
37054 not mandatory that we use that enclave, stop wanting it.
37055 - When eventdns is enabled, allow multithreaded builds on NetBSD and
37056 OpenBSD. (We had previously disabled threads on these platforms
37057 because they didn't have working thread-safe resolver functions.)
37059 o Major bugfixes, anonymity/security:
37060 - If a client asked for a server by name, and there's a named server
37061 in our network-status but we don't have its descriptor yet, we
37062 could return an unnamed server instead.
37063 - Fix NetBSD bug that could allow someone to force uninitialized RAM
37064 to be sent to a server's DNS resolver. This only affects NetBSD
37065 and other platforms that do not bounds-check tolower().
37066 - Reject (most) attempts to use Tor circuits with length one. (If
37067 many people start using Tor as a one-hop proxy, exit nodes become
37068 a more attractive target for compromise.)
37069 - Just because your DirPort is open doesn't mean people should be
37070 able to remotely teach you about hidden service descriptors. Now
37071 only accept rendezvous posts if you've got HSAuthoritativeDir set.
37073 o Major bugfixes, other:
37074 - Don't crash on race condition in dns.c: tor_assert(!resolve->expire)
37075 - When a client asks the server to resolve (not connect to)
37076 an address, and it has a cached answer, give them the cached answer.
37077 Previously, the server would give them no answer at all.
37078 - Allow really slow clients to not hang up five minutes into their
37079 directory downloads (suggested by Adam J. Richter).
37080 - We were building exactly the wrong circuits when we anticipated
37081 hidden service requirements, meaning Tor would have to build all
37082 its circuits on demand.
37083 - Avoid crashing when we mmap a router cache file of size 0.
37084 - When testing reachability of our DirPort, don't launch new
37085 tests when there's already one in progress -- unreachable
37086 servers were stacking up dozens of testing streams.
37088 o Minor bugfixes, correctness:
37089 - If we're a directory mirror and we ask for "all" network status
37090 documents, we would discard status documents from authorities
37091 we don't recognize.
37092 - Avoid a memory corruption bug when creating a hash table for
37094 - Avoid controller-triggered crash when misusing certain commands
37095 from a v0 controller on platforms that do not handle
37096 printf("%s",NULL) gracefully.
37097 - Don't crash when a controller sends a third argument to an
37098 "extendcircuit" request.
37099 - Controller protocol fixes: fix encoding in "getinfo addr-mappings"
37100 response; fix error code when "getinfo dir/status/" fails.
37101 - Avoid crash when telling controller stream-status and a stream
37103 - Patch from Adam Langley to fix assert() in eventdns.c.
37104 - Fix a debug log message in eventdns to say "X resolved to Y"
37105 instead of "X resolved to X".
37106 - Make eventdns give strings for DNS errors, not just error numbers.
37107 - Track unreachable entry guards correctly: don't conflate
37108 'unreachable by us right now' with 'listed as down by the directory
37109 authorities'. With the old code, if a guard was unreachable by
37110 us but listed as running, it would clog our guard list forever.
37111 - Behave correctly in case we ever have a network with more than
37112 2GB/s total advertised capacity.
37113 - Make TrackExitHosts case-insensitive, and fix the behavior of
37114 ".suffix" TrackExitHosts items to avoid matching in the middle of
37116 - Finally fix the openssl warnings from newer gccs that believe that
37117 ignoring a return value is okay, but casting a return value and
37118 then ignoring it is a sign of madness.
37119 - Prevent the contrib/exitlist script from printing the same
37120 result more than once.
37121 - Patch from Steve Hildrey: Generate network status correctly on
37122 non-versioning dirservers.
37123 - Don't listen to the X-Your-Address-Is hint if you did the lookup
37124 via Tor; otherwise you'll think you're the exit node's IP address.
37126 o Minor bugfixes, performance:
37127 - Two small performance improvements on parsing descriptors.
37128 - Major performance improvement on inserting descriptors: change
37129 algorithm from O(n^2) to O(n).
37130 - Make the common memory allocation path faster on machines where
37131 malloc(0) returns a pointer.
37132 - Start remembering X-Your-Address-Is directory hints even if you're
37133 a client, so you can become a server more smoothly.
37134 - Avoid duplicate entries on MyFamily line in server descriptor.
37136 o Packaging, features:
37137 - Remove architecture from OS X builds. The official builds are
37138 now universal binaries.
37139 - The Debian package now uses --verify-config when (re)starting,
37140 to distinguish configuration errors from other errors.
37141 - Update RPMs to require libevent 1.1b.
37143 o Packaging, bugfixes:
37144 - Patches so Tor builds with MinGW on Windows.
37145 - Patches so Tor might run on Cygwin again.
37146 - Resume building on non-gcc compilers and ancient gcc. Resume
37147 building with the -O0 compile flag. Resume building cleanly on
37149 - Run correctly on OS X platforms with case-sensitive filesystems.
37150 - Correct includes for net/if.h and net/pfvar.h on OpenBSD (from Tup).
37151 - Add autoconf checks so Tor can build on Solaris x86 again.
37154 - Documented (and renamed) ServerDNSSearchDomains and
37155 ServerDNSResolvConfFile options.
37156 - Be clearer that the *ListenAddress directives can be repeated
37160 Changes in version 0.1.1.24 - 2006-09-29
37162 - Allow really slow clients to not hang up five minutes into their
37163 directory downloads (suggested by Adam J. Richter).
37164 - Fix major performance regression from 0.1.0.x: instead of checking
37165 whether we have enough directory information every time we want to
37166 do something, only check when the directory information has changed.
37167 This should improve client CPU usage by 25-50%.
37168 - Don't crash if, after a server has been running for a while,
37169 it can't resolve its hostname.
37172 - Allow Tor to start when RunAsDaemon is set but no logs are set.
37173 - Don't crash when the controller receives a third argument to an
37174 "extendcircuit" request.
37175 - Controller protocol fixes: fix encoding in "getinfo addr-mappings"
37176 response; fix error code when "getinfo dir/status/" fails.
37177 - Fix configure.in to not produce broken configure files with
37178 more recent versions of autoconf. Thanks to Clint for his auto*
37180 - Fix security bug on NetBSD that could allow someone to force
37181 uninitialized RAM to be sent to a server's DNS resolver. This
37182 only affects NetBSD and other platforms that do not bounds-check
37184 - Warn user when using libevent 1.1a or earlier with win32 or kqueue
37185 methods: these are known to be buggy.
37186 - If we're a directory mirror and we ask for "all" network status
37187 documents, we would discard status documents from authorities
37188 we don't recognize.
37191 Changes in version 0.1.2.1-alpha - 2006-08-27
37193 - Add "eventdns" async dns library from Adam Langley, tweaked to
37194 build on OSX and Windows. Only enabled if you pass the
37195 --enable-eventdns argument to configure.
37196 - Allow servers with no hostname or IP address to learn their
37197 IP address by asking the directory authorities. This code only
37198 kicks in when you would normally have exited with a "no address"
37199 error. Nothing's authenticated, so use with care.
37200 - Rather than waiting a fixed amount of time between retrying
37201 application connections, we wait only 5 seconds for the first,
37202 10 seconds for the second, and 15 seconds for each retry after
37203 that. Hopefully this will improve the expected user experience.
37204 - Patch from Tup to add support for transparent AP connections:
37205 this basically bundles the functionality of trans-proxy-tor
37206 into the Tor mainline. Now hosts with compliant pf/netfilter
37207 implementations can redirect TCP connections straight to Tor
37208 without diverting through SOCKS. Needs docs.
37209 - Busy directory servers save lots of memory by spooling server
37210 descriptors, v1 directories, and v2 networkstatus docs to buffers
37211 as needed rather than en masse. Also mmap the cached-routers
37212 files, so we don't need to keep the whole thing in memory too.
37213 - Automatically avoid picking more than one node from the same
37214 /16 network when constructing a circuit.
37215 - Revise and clean up the torrc.sample that we ship with; add
37216 a section for BandwidthRate and BandwidthBurst.
37219 - Split circuit_t into origin_circuit_t and or_circuit_t, and
37220 split connection_t into edge, or, dir, control, and base structs.
37221 These will save quite a bit of memory on busy servers, and they'll
37222 also help us track down bugs in the code and bugs in the spec.
37223 - Experimentally re-enable kqueue on OSX when using libevent 1.1b
37224 or later. Log when we are doing this, so we can diagnose it when
37225 it fails. (Also, recommend libevent 1.1b for kqueue and
37226 win32 methods; deprecate libevent 1.0b harder; make libevent
37227 recommendation system saner.)
37228 - Start being able to build universal binaries on OS X (thanks
37230 - Export the default exit policy via the control port, so controllers
37231 don't need to guess what it is / will be later.
37232 - Add a man page entry for ProtocolWarnings.
37233 - Add TestVia config option to the man page.
37234 - Remove even more protocol-related warnings from Tor server logs,
37235 such as bad TLS handshakes and malformed begin cells.
37236 - Stop fetching descriptors if you're not a dir mirror and you
37237 haven't tried to establish any circuits lately. [This currently
37238 causes some dangerous behavior, because when you start up again
37239 you'll use your ancient server descriptors.]
37240 - New DirPort behavior: if you have your dirport set, you download
37241 descriptors aggressively like a directory mirror, whether or not
37242 your ORPort is set.
37243 - Get rid of the router_retry_connections notion. Now routers
37244 no longer try to rebuild long-term connections to directory
37245 authorities, and directory authorities no longer try to rebuild
37246 long-term connections to all servers. We still don't hang up
37247 connections in these two cases though -- we need to look at it
37248 more carefully to avoid flapping, and we likely need to wait til
37249 0.1.1.x is obsolete.
37250 - Drop compatibility with obsolete Tors that permit create cells
37251 to have the wrong circ_id_type.
37252 - Re-enable per-connection rate limiting. Get rid of the "OP
37253 bandwidth" concept. Lay groundwork for "bandwidth classes" --
37254 separate global buckets that apply depending on what sort of conn
37256 - Start publishing one minute or so after we find our ORPort
37257 to be reachable. This will help reduce the number of descriptors
37258 we have for ourselves floating around, since it's quite likely
37259 other things (e.g. DirPort) will change during that minute too.
37260 - Fork the v1 directory protocol into its own spec document,
37261 and mark dir-spec.txt as the currently correct (v2) spec.
37264 - When we find our DirPort to be reachable, publish a new descriptor
37265 so we'll tell the world (reported by pnx).
37266 - Publish a new descriptor after we hup/reload. This is important
37267 if our config has changed such that we'll want to start advertising
37268 our DirPort now, etc.
37269 - Allow Tor to start when RunAsDaemon is set but no logs are set.
37270 - When we have a state file we cannot parse, tell the user and
37271 move it aside. Now we avoid situations where the user starts
37272 Tor in 1904, Tor writes a state file with that timestamp in it,
37273 the user fixes her clock, and Tor refuses to start.
37274 - Fix configure.in to not produce broken configure files with
37275 more recent versions of autoconf. Thanks to Clint for his auto*
37277 - "tor --verify-config" now exits with -1(255) or 0 depending on
37278 whether the config options are bad or good.
37279 - Resolve bug 321 when using dnsworkers: append a period to every
37280 address we resolve at the exit node, so that we do not accidentally
37281 pick up local addresses, and so that failing searches are retried
37282 in the resolver search domains. (This is already solved for
37283 eventdns.) (This breaks Blossom servers for now.)
37284 - If we are using an exit enclave and we can't connect, e.g. because
37285 its webserver is misconfigured to not listen on localhost, then
37286 back off and try connecting from somewhere else before we fail.
37289 - Start compiling on MinGW on Windows (patches from Mike Chiussi).
37290 - Start compiling on MSVC6 on Windows (patches from Frediano Ziglio).
37291 - Fix bug 314: Tor clients issued "unsafe socks" warnings even
37292 when the IP address is mapped through MapAddress to a hostname.
37293 - Start passing "ipv4" hints to getaddrinfo(), so servers don't do
37294 useless IPv6 DNS resolves.
37295 - Patch suggested by Karsten Loesing: respond to SIGNAL command
37296 before we execute the signal, in case the signal shuts us down.
37297 - Clean up AllowInvalidNodes man page entry.
37298 - Claim a commonname of Tor, rather than TOR, in TLS handshakes.
37299 - Add more asserts to track down an assert error on a windows Tor
37300 server with connection_add being called with socket == -1.
37301 - Handle reporting OR_CONN_EVENT_NEW events to the controller.
37302 - Fix misleading log messages: an entry guard that is "unlisted",
37303 as well as not known to be "down" (because we've never heard
37304 of it), is not therefore "up".
37305 - Remove code to special-case "-cvs" ending, since it has not
37306 actually mattered since 0.0.9.
37307 - Make our socks5 handling more robust to broken socks clients:
37308 throw out everything waiting on the buffer in between socks
37309 handshake phases, since they can't possibly (so the theory
37310 goes) have predicted what we plan to respond to them.
37313 Changes in version 0.1.1.23 - 2006-07-30
37315 - Fast Tor servers, especially exit nodes, were triggering asserts
37316 due to a bug in handling the list of pending DNS resolves. Some
37317 bugs still remain here; we're hunting them.
37318 - Entry guards could crash clients by sending unexpected input.
37319 - More fixes on reachability testing: if you find yourself reachable,
37320 then don't ever make any client requests (so you stop predicting
37321 circuits), then hup or have your clock jump, then later your IP
37322 changes, you won't think circuits are working, so you won't try to
37323 test reachability, so you won't publish.
37326 - Avoid a crash if the controller does a resetconf firewallports
37327 and then a setconf fascistfirewall=1.
37328 - Avoid an integer underflow when the dir authority decides whether
37329 a router is stable: we might wrongly label it stable, and compute
37330 a slightly wrong median stability, when a descriptor is published
37332 - Fix a place where we might trigger an assert if we can't build our
37333 own server descriptor yet.
37336 Changes in version 0.1.1.22 - 2006-07-05
37338 - Fix a big bug that was causing servers to not find themselves
37339 reachable if they changed IP addresses. Since only 0.1.1.22+
37340 servers can do reachability testing correctly, now we automatically
37341 make sure to test via one of these.
37342 - Fix to allow clients and mirrors to learn directory info from
37343 descriptor downloads that get cut off partway through.
37344 - Directory authorities had a bug in deciding if a newly published
37345 descriptor was novel enough to make everybody want a copy -- a few
37346 servers seem to be publishing new descriptors many times a minute.
37348 - Fix a rare bug that was causing some servers to complain about
37349 "closing wedged cpuworkers" and skip some circuit create requests.
37350 - Make the Exit flag in directory status documents actually work.
37353 Changes in version 0.1.1.21 - 2006-06-10
37354 o Crash and assert fixes from 0.1.1.20:
37355 - Fix a rare crash on Tor servers that have enabled hibernation.
37356 - Fix a seg fault on startup for Tor networks that use only one
37357 directory authority.
37358 - Fix an assert from a race condition that occurs on Tor servers
37359 while exiting, where various threads are trying to log that they're
37360 exiting, and delete the logs, at the same time.
37361 - Make our unit tests pass again on certain obscure platforms.
37364 - Add support for building SUSE RPM packages.
37365 - Speed up initial bootstrapping for clients: if we are making our
37366 first ever connection to any entry guard, then don't mark it down
37368 - When only one Tor server in the network is labelled as a guard,
37369 and we've already picked him, we would cycle endlessly picking him
37370 again, being unhappy about it, etc. Now we specifically exclude
37371 current guards when picking a new guard.
37372 - Servers send create cells more reliably after the TLS connection
37373 is established: we were sometimes forgetting to send half of them
37374 when we had more than one pending.
37375 - If we get a create cell that asks us to extend somewhere, but the
37376 Tor server there doesn't match the expected digest, we now send
37377 a destroy cell back, rather than silently doing nothing.
37378 - Make options->RedirectExit work again.
37379 - Make cookie authentication for the controller work again.
37380 - Stop being picky about unusual characters in the arguments to
37381 mapaddress. It's none of our business.
37382 - Add a new config option "TestVia" that lets you specify preferred
37383 middle hops to use for test circuits. Perhaps this will let me
37384 debug the reachability problems better.
37386 o Log / documentation fixes:
37387 - If we're a server and some peer has a broken TLS certificate, don't
37388 log about it unless ProtocolWarnings is set, i.e., we want to hear
37389 about protocol violations by others.
37390 - Fix spelling of VirtualAddrNetwork in man page.
37391 - Add a better explanation at the top of the autogenerated torrc file
37392 about what happened to our old torrc.
37395 Changes in version 0.1.1.20 - 2006-05-23
37397 - Downgrade a log severity where servers complain that they're
37399 - Avoid a compile warning on FreeBSD.
37400 - Remove string size limit on NEWDESC messages; solve bug 291.
37401 - Correct the RunAsDaemon entry in the man page; ignore RunAsDaemon
37402 more thoroughly when we're running on windows.
37405 Changes in version 0.1.1.19-rc - 2006-05-03
37407 - Regenerate our local descriptor if it's dirty and we try to use
37408 it locally (e.g. if it changes during reachability detection).
37409 - If we setconf our ORPort to 0, we continued to listen on the
37410 old ORPort and receive connections.
37411 - Avoid a second warning about machine/limits.h on Debian
37413 - Be willing to add our own routerinfo into the routerlist.
37414 Now authorities will include themselves in their directories
37415 and network-statuses.
37416 - Stop trying to upload rendezvous descriptors to every
37417 directory authority: only try the v1 authorities.
37418 - Servers no longer complain when they think they're not
37419 registered with the directory authorities. There were too many
37421 - Backport dist-rpm changes so rpms can be built without errors.
37424 - Implement an option, VirtualAddrMask, to set which addresses
37425 get handed out in response to mapaddress requests. This works
37426 around a bug in tsocks where 127.0.0.0/8 is never socksified.
37429 Changes in version 0.1.1.18-rc - 2006-04-10
37431 - Work harder to download live network-statuses from all the
37432 directory authorities we know about. Improve the threshold
37433 decision logic so we're more robust to edge cases.
37434 - When fetching rendezvous descriptors, we were willing to ask
37435 v2 authorities too, which would always return 404.
37438 - Stop listing down or invalid nodes in the v1 directory. This will
37439 reduce its bulk by about 1/3, and reduce load on directory
37441 - When deciding whether a router is Fast or Guard-worthy, consider
37442 his advertised BandwidthRate and not just the BandwidthCapacity.
37443 - No longer ship INSTALL and README files -- they are useless now.
37444 - Force rpmbuild to behave and honor target_cpu.
37445 - Avoid warnings about machine/limits.h on Debian GNU/kFreeBSD.
37446 - Start to include translated versions of the tor-doc-*.html
37447 files, along with the screenshots. Still needs more work.
37448 - Start sending back 512 and 451 errors if mapaddress fails,
37449 rather than not sending anything back at all.
37450 - When we fail to bind or listen on an incoming or outgoing
37451 socket, we should close it before failing. otherwise we just
37452 leak it. (thanks to weasel for finding.)
37453 - Allow "getinfo dir/status/foo" to work, as long as your DirPort
37454 is enabled. (This is a hack, and will be fixed in 0.1.2.x.)
37455 - Make NoPublish (even though deprecated) work again.
37456 - Fix a minor security flaw where a versioning auth dirserver
37457 could list a recommended version many times in a row to make
37458 clients more convinced that it's recommended.
37459 - Fix crash bug if there are two unregistered servers running
37460 with the same nickname, one of them is down, and you ask for
37461 them by nickname in your EntryNodes or ExitNodes. Also, try
37462 to pick the one that's running rather than an arbitrary one.
37463 - Fix an infinite loop we could hit if we go offline for too long.
37464 - Complain when we hit WSAENOBUFS on recv() or write() too.
37465 Perhaps this will help us hunt the bug.
37466 - If you're not a versioning dirserver, don't put the string
37467 "client-versions \nserver-versions \n" in your network-status.
37468 - Lower the minimum required number of file descriptors to 1000,
37469 so we can have some overhead for Valgrind on Linux, where the
37470 default ulimit -n is 1024.
37473 - Add tor.dizum.com as the fifth authoritative directory server.
37474 - Add a new config option FetchUselessDescriptors, off by default,
37475 for when you plan to run "exitlist" on your client and you want
37476 to know about even the non-running descriptors.
37479 Changes in version 0.1.1.17-rc - 2006-03-28
37481 - Clients and servers since 0.1.1.10-alpha have been expiring
37482 connections whenever they are idle for 5 minutes and they *do*
37483 have circuits on them. Oops. With this new version, clients will
37484 discard their previous entry guard choices and avoid choosing
37485 entry guards running these flawed versions.
37486 - Fix memory leak when uncompressing concatenated zlib streams. This
37487 was causing substantial leaks over time on Tor servers.
37488 - The v1 directory was including servers as much as 48 hours old,
37489 because that's how the new routerlist->routers works. Now only
37490 include them if they're 20 hours old or less.
37493 - Resume building on irix64, netbsd 2.0, etc.
37494 - On non-gcc compilers (e.g. solaris), use "-g -O" instead of
37496 - Stop writing the "router.desc" file, ever. Nothing uses it anymore,
37497 and it is confusing some users.
37498 - Mirrors stop caching the v1 directory so often.
37499 - Make the max number of old descriptors that a cache will hold
37500 rise with the number of directory authorities, so we can scale.
37501 - Change our win32 uname() hack to be more forgiving about what
37502 win32 versions it thinks it's found.
37505 - Add lefkada.eecs.harvard.edu as a fourth authoritative directory
37507 - When the controller's *setconf commands fail, collect an error
37508 message in a string and hand it back to the controller.
37509 - Make the v2 dir's "Fast" flag based on relative capacity, just
37510 like "Stable" is based on median uptime. Name everything in the
37511 top 7/8 Fast, and only the top 1/2 gets to be a Guard.
37512 - Log server fingerprint on startup, so new server operators don't
37513 have to go hunting around their filesystem for it.
37514 - Return a robots.txt on our dirport to discourage google indexing.
37515 - Let the controller ask for GETINFO dir/status/foo so it can ask
37516 directly rather than connecting to the dir port. Only works when
37517 dirport is set for now.
37519 o New config options rather than constants in the code:
37520 - SocksTimeout: How long do we let a socks connection wait
37521 unattached before we fail it?
37522 - CircuitBuildTimeout: Cull non-open circuits that were born
37523 at least this many seconds ago.
37524 - CircuitIdleTimeout: Cull open clean circuits that were born
37525 at least this many seconds ago.
37528 Changes in version 0.1.1.16-rc - 2006-03-18
37529 o Bugfixes on 0.1.1.15-rc:
37530 - Fix assert when the controller asks to attachstream a connect-wait
37531 or resolve-wait stream.
37532 - Now do address rewriting when the controller asks us to attach
37533 to a particular circuit too. This will let Blossom specify
37534 "moria2.exit" without having to learn what moria2's IP address is.
37535 - Make the "tor --verify-config" command-line work again, so people
37536 can automatically check if their torrc will parse.
37537 - Authoritative dirservers no longer require an open connection from
37538 a server to consider him "reachable". We need this change because
37539 when we add new auth dirservers, old servers won't know not to
37541 - Let Tor build on Sun CC again.
37542 - Fix an off-by-one buffer size in dirserv.c that magically never
37543 hit our three authorities but broke sjmurdoch's own tor network.
37544 - If we as a directory mirror don't know of any v1 directory
37545 authorities, then don't try to cache any v1 directories.
37546 - Stop warning about unknown servers in our family when they are
37547 given as hex digests.
37548 - Stop complaining as quickly to the server operator that he
37549 hasn't registered his nickname/key binding.
37550 - Various cleanups so we can add new V2 Auth Dirservers.
37551 - Change "AllowUnverifiedNodes" to "AllowInvalidNodes", to
37552 reflect the updated flags in our v2 dir protocol.
37553 - Resume allowing non-printable characters for exit streams (both
37554 for connecting and for resolving). Now we tolerate applications
37555 that don't follow the RFCs. But continue to block malformed names
37558 o Bugfixes on 0.1.0.x:
37559 - Fix assert bug in close_logs(): when we close and delete logs,
37560 remove them all from the global "logfiles" list.
37561 - Fix minor integer overflow in calculating when we expect to use up
37562 our bandwidth allocation before hibernating.
37563 - Fix a couple of bugs in OpenSSL detection. Also, deal better when
37564 there are multiple SSLs installed with different versions.
37565 - When we try to be a server and Address is not explicitly set and
37566 our hostname resolves to a private IP address, try to use an
37567 interface address if it has a public address. Now Windows machines
37568 that think of themselves as localhost can work by default.
37571 - Let the controller ask for GETINFO dir/server/foo so it can ask
37572 directly rather than connecting to the dir port.
37573 - Let the controller tell us about certain router descriptors
37574 that it doesn't want Tor to use in circuits. Implement
37575 SETROUTERPURPOSE and modify +POSTDESCRIPTOR to do this.
37576 - New config option SafeSocks to reject all application connections
37577 using unsafe socks protocols. Defaults to off.
37580 Changes in version 0.1.1.15-rc - 2006-03-11
37581 o Bugfixes and cleanups:
37582 - When we're printing strings from the network, don't try to print
37583 non-printable characters. This protects us against shell escape
37584 sequence exploits, and also against attacks to fool humans into
37585 misreading their logs.
37586 - Fix a bug where Tor would fail to establish any connections if you
37587 left it off for 24 hours and then started it: we were happy with
37588 the obsolete network statuses, but they all referred to router
37589 descriptors that were too old to fetch, so we ended up with no
37590 valid router descriptors.
37591 - Fix a seg fault in the controller's "getinfo orconn-status"
37592 command while listing status on incoming handshaking connections.
37593 Introduce a status name "NEW" for these connections.
37594 - If we get a linelist or linelist_s config option from the torrc
37595 (e.g. ExitPolicy) and it has no value, warn and skip rather than
37596 silently resetting it to its default.
37597 - Don't abandon entry guards until they've been down or gone for
37599 - Cleaner and quieter log messages.
37602 - New controller signal NEWNYM that makes new application requests
37603 use clean circuits.
37604 - Add a new circuit purpose 'controller' to let the controller ask
37605 for a circuit that Tor won't try to use. Extend the EXTENDCIRCUIT
37606 controller command to let you specify the purpose if you're
37607 starting a new circuit. Add a new SETCIRCUITPURPOSE controller
37608 command to let you change a circuit's purpose after it's been
37610 - Accept "private:*" in routerdesc exit policies; not generated yet
37611 because older Tors do not understand it.
37612 - Add BSD-style contributed startup script "rc.subr" from Peter
37616 Changes in version 0.1.1.14-alpha - 2006-02-20
37617 o Bugfixes on 0.1.1.x:
37618 - Don't die if we ask for a stdout or stderr log (even implicitly)
37619 and we're set to RunAsDaemon -- just warn.
37620 - We still had a few bugs in the OR connection rotation code that
37621 caused directory servers to slowly aggregate connections to other
37622 fast Tor servers. This time for sure!
37623 - Make log entries on Win32 include the name of the function again.
37624 - We were treating a pair of exit policies if they were equal even
37625 if one said accept and the other said reject -- causing us to
37626 not always publish a new descriptor since we thought nothing
37628 - Retry pending server downloads as well as pending networkstatus
37629 downloads when we unexpectedly get a socks request.
37630 - We were ignoring the IS_FAST flag in the directory status,
37631 meaning we were willing to pick trivial-bandwidth nodes for "fast"
37633 - If the controller's SAVECONF command fails (e.g. due to file
37634 permissions), let the controller know that it failed.
37637 - If we're trying to be a Tor server and running Windows 95/98/ME
37638 as a server, explain that we'll likely crash.
37639 - When we're a server, a client asks for an old-style directory,
37640 and our write bucket is empty, don't give it to him. This way
37641 small servers can continue to serve the directory *sometimes*,
37642 without getting overloaded.
37643 - Compress exit policies even more -- look for duplicate lines
37645 - Clients now honor the "guard" flag in the router status when
37646 picking entry guards, rather than looking at is_fast or is_stable.
37647 - Retain unrecognized lines in $DATADIR/state file, so that we can
37648 be forward-compatible.
37649 - Generate 18.0.0.0/8 address policy format in descs when we can;
37650 warn when the mask is not reducible to a bit-prefix.
37651 - Let the user set ControlListenAddress in the torrc. This can be
37652 dangerous, but there are some cases (like a secured LAN) where it
37654 - Split ReachableAddresses into ReachableDirAddresses and
37655 ReachableORAddresses, so we can restrict Dir conns to port 80
37656 and OR conns to port 443.
37657 - Now we can target arch and OS in rpm builds (contributed by
37658 Phobos). Also make the resulting dist-rpm filename match the
37660 - New config options to help controllers: FetchServerDescriptors
37661 and FetchHidServDescriptors for whether to fetch server
37662 info and hidserv info or let the controller do it, and
37663 PublishServerDescriptor and PublishHidServDescriptors.
37664 - Also let the controller set the __AllDirActionsPrivate config
37665 option if you want all directory fetches/publishes to happen via
37666 Tor (it assumes your controller bootstraps your circuits).
37669 Changes in version 0.1.0.17 - 2006-02-17
37670 o Crash bugfixes on 0.1.0.x:
37671 - When servers with a non-zero DirPort came out of hibernation,
37672 sometimes they would trigger an assert.
37674 o Other important bugfixes:
37675 - On platforms that don't have getrlimit (like Windows), we were
37676 artificially constraining ourselves to a max of 1024
37677 connections. Now just assume that we can handle as many as 15000
37678 connections. Hopefully this won't cause other problems.
37680 o Backported features:
37681 - When we're a server, a client asks for an old-style directory,
37682 and our write bucket is empty, don't give it to him. This way
37683 small servers can continue to serve the directory *sometimes*,
37684 without getting overloaded.
37685 - Whenever you get a 503 in response to a directory fetch, try
37686 once more. This will become important once servers start sending
37687 503's whenever they feel busy.
37688 - Fetch a new directory every 120 minutes, not every 40 minutes.
37689 Now that we have hundreds of thousands of users running the old
37690 directory algorithm, it's starting to hurt a lot.
37691 - Bump up the period for forcing a hidden service descriptor upload
37692 from 20 minutes to 1 hour.
37695 Changes in version 0.1.1.13-alpha - 2006-02-09
37696 o Crashes in 0.1.1.x:
37697 - When you tried to setconf ORPort via the controller, Tor would
37698 crash. So people using TorCP to become a server were sad.
37699 - Solve (I hope) the stack-smashing bug that we were seeing on fast
37700 servers. The problem appears to be something do with OpenSSL's
37701 random number generation, or how we call it, or something. Let me
37702 know if the crashes continue.
37703 - Turn crypto hardware acceleration off by default, until we find
37704 somebody smart who can test it for us. (It appears to produce
37705 seg faults in at least some cases.)
37706 - Fix a rare assert error when we've tried all intro points for
37707 a hidden service and we try fetching the service descriptor again:
37708 "Assertion conn->state != AP_CONN_STATE_RENDDESC_WAIT failed"
37711 - Fix a major load balance bug: we were round-robining in 16 KB
37712 chunks, and servers with bandwidthrate of 20 KB, while downloading
37713 a 600 KB directory, would starve their other connections. Now we
37714 try to be a bit more fair.
37715 - Dir authorities and mirrors were never expiring the newest
37716 descriptor for each server, causing memory and directory bloat.
37717 - Fix memory-bloating and connection-bloating bug on servers: We
37718 were never closing any connection that had ever had a circuit on
37719 it, because we were checking conn->n_circuits == 0, yet we had a
37720 bug that let it go negative.
37721 - Make Tor work using squid as your http proxy again -- squid
37722 returns an error if you ask for a URL that's too long, and it uses
37723 a really generic error message. Plus, many people are behind a
37724 transparent squid so they don't even realize it.
37725 - On platforms that don't have getrlimit (like Windows), we were
37726 artificially constraining ourselves to a max of 1024
37727 connections. Now just assume that we can handle as many as 15000
37728 connections. Hopefully this won't cause other problems.
37729 - Add a new config option ExitPolicyRejectPrivate which defaults to
37730 1. This means all exit policies will begin with rejecting private
37731 addresses, unless the server operator explicitly turns it off.
37734 - Clients no longer download descriptors for non-running
37736 - Before we add new directory authorities, we should make it
37737 clear that only v1 authorities should receive/publish hidden
37738 service descriptors.
37741 - As soon as we've fetched some more directory info, immediately
37742 try to download more server descriptors. This way we don't have
37743 a 10 second pause during initial bootstrapping.
37744 - Remove even more loud log messages that the server operator can't
37746 - When we're running an obsolete or un-recommended version, make
37747 the log message more clear about what the problem is and what
37748 versions *are* still recommended.
37749 - Provide a more useful warn message when our onion queue gets full:
37750 the CPU is too slow or the exit policy is too liberal.
37751 - Don't warn when we receive a 503 from a dirserver/cache -- this
37752 will pave the way for them being able to refuse if they're busy.
37753 - When we fail to bind a listener, try to provide a more useful
37754 log message: e.g., "Is Tor already running?"
37755 - Adjust tor-spec to parameterize cell and key lengths. Now Ian
37756 Goldberg can prove things about our handshake protocol more
37758 - MaxConn has been obsolete for a while now. Document the ConnLimit
37759 config option, which is a *minimum* number of file descriptors
37760 that must be available else Tor refuses to start.
37761 - Apply Matt Ghali's --with-syslog-facility patch to ./configure
37762 if you log to syslog and want something other than LOG_DAEMON.
37763 - Make dirservers generate a separate "guard" flag to mean,
37764 "would make a good entry guard". Make clients parse it and vote
37765 on it. Not used by clients yet.
37766 - Implement --with-libevent-dir option to ./configure. Also, improve
37767 search techniques to find libevent, and use those for openssl too.
37768 - Bump the default bandwidthrate to 3 MB, and burst to 6 MB
37769 - Only start testing reachability once we've established a
37770 circuit. This will make startup on dirservers less noisy.
37771 - Don't try to upload hidden service descriptors until we have
37772 established a circuit.
37773 - Fix the controller's "attachstream 0" command to treat conn like
37774 it just connected, doing address remapping, handling .exit and
37775 .onion idioms, and so on. Now we're more uniform in making sure
37776 that the controller hears about new and closing connections.
37779 Changes in version 0.1.1.12-alpha - 2006-01-11
37780 o Bugfixes on 0.1.1.x:
37781 - The fix to close duplicate server connections was closing all
37782 Tor client connections if they didn't establish a circuit
37783 quickly enough. Oops.
37784 - Fix minor memory issue (double-free) that happened on exit.
37786 o Bugfixes on 0.1.0.x:
37787 - Tor didn't warn when it failed to open a log file.
37790 Changes in version 0.1.1.11-alpha - 2006-01-10
37791 o Crashes in 0.1.1.x:
37792 - Include all the assert/crash fixes from 0.1.0.16.
37793 - If you start Tor and then quit very quickly, there were some
37794 races that tried to free things that weren't allocated yet.
37795 - Fix a rare memory stomp if you're running hidden services.
37796 - Fix segfault when specifying DirServer in config without nickname.
37797 - Fix a seg fault when you finish connecting to a server but at
37798 that moment you dump his server descriptor.
37799 - Extendcircuit and Attachstream controller commands would
37800 assert/crash if you don't give them enough arguments.
37801 - Fix an assert error when we're out of space in the connection_list
37802 and we try to post a hidden service descriptor (reported by weasel).
37803 - If you specify a relative torrc path and you set RunAsDaemon in
37804 your torrc, then it chdir()'s to the new directory. If you HUP,
37805 it tries to load the new torrc location, fails, and exits.
37806 The fix: no longer allow a relative path to torrc using -f.
37809 - Implement "entry guards": automatically choose a handful of entry
37810 nodes and stick with them for all circuits. Only pick new guards
37811 when the ones you have are unsuitable, and if the old guards
37812 become suitable again, switch back. This will increase security
37813 dramatically against certain end-point attacks. The EntryNodes
37814 config option now provides some hints about which entry guards you
37815 want to use most; and StrictEntryNodes means to only use those.
37816 - New directory logic: download by descriptor digest, not by
37817 fingerprint. Caches try to download all listed digests from
37818 authorities; clients try to download "best" digests from caches.
37819 This avoids partitioning and isolating attacks better.
37820 - Make the "stable" router flag in network-status be the median of
37821 the uptimes of running valid servers, and make clients pay
37822 attention to the network-status flags. Thus the cutoff adapts
37823 to the stability of the network as a whole, making IRC, IM, etc
37824 connections more reliable.
37827 - Tor servers with dynamic IP addresses were needing to wait 18
37828 hours before they could start doing reachability testing using
37829 the new IP address and ports. This is because they were using
37830 the internal descriptor to learn what to test, yet they were only
37831 rebuilding the descriptor once they decided they were reachable.
37832 - Tor 0.1.1.9 and 0.1.1.10 had a serious bug that caused clients
37833 to download certain server descriptors, throw them away, and then
37834 fetch them again after 30 minutes. Now mirrors throw away these
37835 server descriptors so clients can't get them.
37836 - We were leaving duplicate connections to other ORs open for a week,
37837 rather than closing them once we detect a duplicate. This only
37838 really affected authdirservers, but it affected them a lot.
37839 - Spread the authdirservers' reachability testing over the entire
37840 testing interval, so we don't try to do 500 TLS's at once every
37844 - If the network is down, and we try to connect to a conn because
37845 we have a circuit in mind, and we timeout (30 seconds) because the
37846 network never answers, we were expiring the circuit, but we weren't
37847 obsoleting the connection or telling the entry_guards functions.
37848 - Some Tor servers process billions of cells per day. These statistics
37849 need to be uint64_t's.
37850 - Check for integer overflows in more places, when adding elements
37851 to smartlists. This could possibly prevent a buffer overflow
37852 on malicious huge inputs. I don't see any, but I haven't looked
37854 - ReachableAddresses kept growing new "reject *:*" lines on every
37856 - When you "setconf log" via the controller, it should remove all
37857 logs. We were automatically adding back in a "log notice stdout".
37858 - Newly bootstrapped Tor networks couldn't establish hidden service
37859 circuits until they had nodes with high uptime. Be more tolerant.
37860 - We were marking servers down when they could not answer every piece
37861 of the directory request we sent them. This was far too harsh.
37862 - Fix the torify (tsocks) config file to not use Tor for localhost
37864 - Directory authorities now go to the proper authority when asking for
37865 a networkstatus, even when they want a compressed one.
37866 - Fix a harmless bug that was causing Tor servers to log
37867 "Got an end because of misc error, but we're not an AP. Closing."
37868 - Authorities were treating their own descriptor changes as cosmetic,
37869 meaning the descriptor available in the network-status and the
37870 descriptor that clients downloaded were different.
37871 - The OS X installer was adding a symlink for tor_resolve but
37872 the binary was called tor-resolve (reported by Thomas Hardly).
37873 - Workaround a problem with some http proxies where they refuse GET
37874 requests that specify "Content-Length: 0" (reported by Adrian).
37875 - Fix wrong log message when you add a "HiddenServiceNodes" config
37876 line without any HiddenServiceDir line (reported by Chris Thomas).
37879 - Write the TorVersion into the state file so we have a prayer of
37880 keeping forward and backward compatibility.
37881 - Revive the FascistFirewall config option rather than eliminating it:
37882 now it's a synonym for ReachableAddresses *:80,*:443.
37883 - Clients choose directory servers from the network status lists,
37884 not from their internal list of router descriptors. Now they can
37885 go to caches directly rather than needing to go to authorities
37887 - Directory authorities ignore router descriptors that have only
37888 cosmetic differences: do this for 0.1.0.x servers now too.
37889 - Add a new flag to network-status indicating whether the server
37890 can answer v2 directory requests too.
37891 - Authdirs now stop whining so loudly about bad descriptors that
37892 they fetch from other dirservers. So when there's a log complaint,
37893 it's for sure from a freshly uploaded descriptor.
37894 - Reduce memory requirements in our structs by changing the order
37896 - There used to be two ways to specify your listening ports in a
37897 server descriptor: on the "router" line and with a separate "ports"
37898 line. Remove support for the "ports" line.
37899 - New config option "AuthDirRejectUnlisted" for auth dirservers as
37900 a panic button: if we get flooded with unusable servers we can
37901 revert to only listing servers in the approved-routers file.
37902 - Auth dir servers can now mark a fingerprint as "!reject" or
37903 "!invalid" in the approved-routers file (as its nickname), to
37904 refuse descriptors outright or include them but marked as invalid.
37905 - Servers store bandwidth history across restarts/crashes.
37906 - Add reasons to DESTROY and RELAY_TRUNCATED cells, so clients can
37907 get a better idea of why their circuits failed. Not used yet.
37908 - Directory mirrors now cache up to 16 unrecognized network-status
37909 docs. Now we can add new authdirservers and they'll be cached too.
37910 - When picking a random directory, prefer non-authorities if any
37912 - New controller option "getinfo desc/all-recent" to fetch the
37913 latest server descriptor for every router that Tor knows about.
37916 Changes in version 0.1.0.16 - 2006-01-02
37917 o Crash bugfixes on 0.1.0.x:
37918 - On Windows, build with a libevent patch from "I-M Weasel" to avoid
37919 corrupting the heap, losing FDs, or crashing when we need to resize
37920 the fd_sets. (This affects the Win32 binaries, not Tor's sources.)
37921 - It turns out sparc64 platforms crash on unaligned memory access
37922 too -- so detect and avoid this.
37923 - Handle truncated compressed data correctly (by detecting it and
37925 - Fix possible-but-unlikely free(NULL) in control.c.
37926 - When we were closing connections, there was a rare case that
37927 stomped on memory, triggering seg faults and asserts.
37928 - Avoid potential infinite recursion when building a descriptor. (We
37929 don't know that it ever happened, but better to fix it anyway.)
37930 - We were neglecting to unlink marked circuits from soon-to-close OR
37931 connections, which caused some rare scribbling on freed memory.
37932 - Fix a memory stomping race bug when closing the joining point of two
37933 rendezvous circuits.
37934 - Fix an assert in time parsing found by Steven Murdoch.
37936 o Other bugfixes on 0.1.0.x:
37937 - When we're doing reachability testing, provide more useful log
37938 messages so the operator knows what to expect.
37939 - Do not check whether DirPort is reachable when we are suppressing
37940 advertising it because of hibernation.
37941 - When building with -static or on Solaris, we sometimes needed -ldl.
37942 - When we're deciding whether a stream has enough circuits around
37943 that can handle it, count the freshly dirty ones and not the ones
37944 that are so dirty they won't be able to handle it.
37945 - When we're expiring old circuits, we had a logic error that caused
37946 us to close new rendezvous circuits rather than old ones.
37947 - Give a more helpful log message when you try to change ORPort via
37948 the controller: you should upgrade Tor if you want that to work.
37949 - We were failing to parse Tor versions that start with "Tor ".
37950 - Tolerate faulty streams better: when a stream fails for reason
37951 exitpolicy, stop assuming that the router is lying about his exit
37952 policy. When a stream fails for reason misc, allow it to retry just
37953 as if it was resolvefailed. When a stream has failed three times,
37954 reset its failure count so we can try again and get all three tries.
37957 Changes in version 0.1.1.10-alpha - 2005-12-11
37958 o Correctness bugfixes on 0.1.0.x:
37959 - On Windows, build with a libevent patch from "I-M Weasel" to avoid
37960 corrupting the heap, losing FDs, or crashing when we need to resize
37961 the fd_sets. (This affects the Win32 binaries, not Tor's sources.)
37962 - Stop doing the complex voodoo overkill checking for insecure
37963 Diffie-Hellman keys. Just check if it's in [2,p-2] and be happy.
37964 - When we were closing connections, there was a rare case that
37965 stomped on memory, triggering seg faults and asserts.
37966 - We were neglecting to unlink marked circuits from soon-to-close OR
37967 connections, which caused some rare scribbling on freed memory.
37968 - When we're deciding whether a stream has enough circuits around
37969 that can handle it, count the freshly dirty ones and not the ones
37970 that are so dirty they won't be able to handle it.
37971 - Recover better from TCP connections to Tor servers that are
37972 broken but don't tell you (it happens!); and rotate TLS
37973 connections once a week.
37974 - When we're expiring old circuits, we had a logic error that caused
37975 us to close new rendezvous circuits rather than old ones.
37976 - Fix a scary-looking but apparently harmless bug where circuits
37977 would sometimes start out in state CIRCUIT_STATE_OR_WAIT at
37978 servers, and never switch to state CIRCUIT_STATE_OPEN.
37979 - When building with -static or on Solaris, we sometimes needed to
37981 - Give a useful message when people run Tor as the wrong user,
37982 rather than telling them to start chowning random directories.
37983 - We were failing to inform the controller about new .onion streams.
37985 o Security bugfixes on 0.1.0.x:
37986 - Refuse server descriptors if the fingerprint line doesn't match
37987 the included identity key. Tor doesn't care, but other apps (and
37988 humans) might actually be trusting the fingerprint line.
37989 - We used to kill the circuit when we receive a relay command we
37990 don't recognize. Now we just drop it.
37991 - Start obeying our firewall options more rigorously:
37992 . If we can't get to a dirserver directly, try going via Tor.
37993 . Don't ever try to connect (as a client) to a place our
37994 firewall options forbid.
37995 . If we specify a proxy and also firewall options, obey the
37996 firewall options even when we're using the proxy: some proxies
37997 can only proxy to certain destinations.
37998 - Fix a bug found by Lasse Overlier: when we were making internal
37999 circuits (intended to be cannibalized later for rendezvous and
38000 introduction circuits), we were picking them so that they had
38001 useful exit nodes. There was no need for this, and it actually
38002 aids some statistical attacks.
38003 - Start treating internal circuits and exit circuits separately.
38004 It's important to keep them separate because internal circuits
38005 have their last hops picked like middle hops, rather than like
38006 exit hops. So exiting on them will break the user's expectations.
38008 o Bugfixes on 0.1.1.x:
38009 - Take out the mis-feature where we tried to detect IP address
38010 flapping for people with DynDNS, and chose not to upload a new
38011 server descriptor sometimes.
38012 - Try to be compatible with OpenSSL 0.9.6 again.
38013 - Log fix: when the controller is logging about .onion addresses,
38014 sometimes it didn't include the ".onion" part of the address.
38015 - Don't try to modify options->DirServers internally -- if the
38016 user didn't specify any, just add the default ones directly to
38017 the trusted dirserver list. This fixes a bug where people running
38018 controllers would use SETCONF on some totally unrelated config
38019 option, and Tor would start yelling at them about changing their
38021 - Let the controller's redirectstream command specify a port, in
38022 case the controller wants to change that too.
38023 - When we requested a pile of server descriptors, we sometimes
38024 accidentally launched a duplicate request for the first one.
38025 - Bugfix for trackhostexits: write down the fingerprint of the
38026 chosen exit, not its nickname, because the chosen exit might not
38028 - When parsing foo.exit, if foo is unknown, and we are leaving
38029 circuits unattached, set the chosen_exit field and leave the
38030 address empty. This matters because controllers got confused
38032 - Directory authorities no longer try to download server
38033 descriptors that they know they will reject.
38035 o Features and updates:
38036 - Replace balanced trees with hash tables: this should make stuff
38037 significantly faster.
38038 - Resume using the AES counter-mode implementation that we ship,
38039 rather than OpenSSL's. Ours is significantly faster.
38040 - Many other CPU and memory improvements.
38041 - Add a new config option FastFirstHopPK (on by default) so clients
38042 do a trivial crypto handshake for their first hop, since TLS has
38043 already taken care of confidentiality and authentication.
38044 - Add a new config option TestSocks so people can see if their
38045 applications are using socks4, socks4a, socks5-with-ip, or
38046 socks5-with-hostname. This way they don't have to keep mucking
38047 with tcpdump and wondering if something got cached somewhere.
38048 - Warn when listening on a public address for socks. I suspect a
38049 lot of people are setting themselves up as open socks proxies,
38050 and they have no idea that jerks on the Internet are using them,
38051 since they simply proxy the traffic into the Tor network.
38052 - Add "private:*" as an alias in configuration for policies. Now
38053 you can simplify your exit policy rather than needing to list
38054 every single internal or nonroutable network space.
38055 - Add a new controller event type that allows controllers to get
38056 all server descriptors that were uploaded to a router in its role
38057 as authoritative dirserver.
38058 - Start shipping socks-extensions.txt, tor-doc-unix.html,
38059 tor-doc-server.html, and stylesheet.css in the tarball.
38060 - Stop shipping tor-doc.html in the tarball.
38063 Changes in version 0.1.1.9-alpha - 2005-11-15
38064 o Usability improvements:
38065 - Start calling it FooListenAddress rather than FooBindAddress,
38066 since few of our users know what it means to bind an address
38068 - Reduce clutter in server logs. We're going to try to make
38069 them actually usable now. New config option ProtocolWarnings that
38070 lets you hear about how _other Tors_ are breaking the protocol. Off
38072 - Divide log messages into logging domains. Once we put some sort
38073 of interface on this, it will let people looking at more verbose
38074 log levels specify the topics they want to hear more about.
38075 - Make directory servers return better http 404 error messages
38076 instead of a generic "Servers unavailable".
38077 - Check for even more Windows version flags when writing the platform
38078 string in server descriptors, and note any we don't recognize.
38079 - Clean up more of the OpenSSL memory when exiting, so we can detect
38080 memory leaks better.
38081 - Make directory authorities be non-versioning, non-naming by
38082 default. Now we can add new directory servers without requiring
38083 their operators to pay close attention.
38084 - When logging via syslog, include the pid whenever we provide
38085 a log entry. Suggested by Todd Fries.
38087 o Performance improvements:
38088 - Directory servers now silently throw away new descriptors that
38089 haven't changed much if the timestamps are similar. We do this to
38090 tolerate older Tor servers that upload a new descriptor every 15
38091 minutes. (It seemed like a good idea at the time.)
38092 - Inline bottleneck smartlist functions; use fast versions by default.
38093 - Add a "Map from digest to void*" abstraction digestmap_t so we
38094 can do less hex encoding/decoding. Use it in router_get_by_digest()
38095 to resolve a performance bottleneck.
38096 - Allow tor_gzip_uncompress to extract as much as possible from
38097 truncated compressed data. Try to extract as many
38098 descriptors as possible from truncated http responses (when
38099 DIR_PURPOSE_FETCH_ROUTERDESC).
38100 - Make circ->onionskin a pointer, not a static array. moria2 was using
38101 125000 circuit_t's after it had been up for a few weeks, which
38102 translates to 20+ megs of wasted space.
38103 - The private half of our EDH handshake keys are now chosen out
38104 of 320 bits, not 1024 bits. (Suggested by Ian Goldberg.)
38106 o Security improvements:
38107 - Start making directory caches retain old routerinfos, so soon
38108 clients can start asking by digest of descriptor rather than by
38109 fingerprint of server.
38110 - Add half our entropy from RAND_poll in OpenSSL. This knows how
38111 to use egd (if present), openbsd weirdness (if present), vms/os2
38112 weirdness (if we ever port there), and more in the future.
38114 o Bugfixes on 0.1.0.x:
38115 - Do round-robin writes of at most 16 kB per write. This might be
38116 more fair on loaded Tor servers, and it might resolve our Windows
38117 crash bug. It might also slow things down.
38118 - Our TLS handshakes were generating a single public/private
38119 keypair for the TLS context, rather than making a new one for
38120 each new connections. Oops. (But we were still rotating them
38121 periodically, so it's not so bad.)
38122 - When we were cannibalizing a circuit with a particular exit
38123 node in mind, we weren't checking to see if that exit node was
38124 already present earlier in the circuit. Oops.
38125 - When a Tor server's IP changes (e.g. from a dyndns address),
38126 upload a new descriptor so clients will learn too.
38127 - Really busy servers were keeping enough circuits open on stable
38128 connections that they were wrapping around the circuit_id
38129 space. (It's only two bytes.) This exposed a bug where we would
38130 feel free to reuse a circuit_id even if it still exists but has
38131 been marked for close. Try to fix this bug. Some bug remains.
38132 - If we would close a stream early (e.g. it asks for a .exit that
38133 we know would refuse it) but the LeaveStreamsUnattached config
38134 option is set by the controller, then don't close it.
38136 o Bugfixes on 0.1.1.8-alpha:
38137 - Fix a big pile of memory leaks, some of them serious.
38138 - Do not try to download a routerdesc if we would immediately reject
38140 - Resume inserting a newline between all router descriptors when
38141 generating (old style) signed directories, since our spec says
38143 - When providing content-type application/octet-stream for
38144 server descriptors using .z, we were leaving out the
38145 content-encoding header. Oops. (Everything tolerated this just
38146 fine, but that doesn't mean we need to be part of the problem.)
38147 - Fix a potential seg fault in getconf and getinfo using version 1
38148 of the controller protocol.
38149 - Avoid crash: do not check whether DirPort is reachable when we
38150 are suppressing it because of hibernation.
38151 - Make --hash-password not crash on exit.
38154 Changes in version 0.1.1.8-alpha - 2005-10-07
38155 o New features (major):
38156 - Clients don't download or use the directory anymore. Now they
38157 download and use network-statuses from the trusted dirservers,
38158 and fetch individual server descriptors as needed from mirrors.
38159 See dir-spec.txt for all the gory details.
38160 - Be more conservative about whether to advertise our DirPort.
38161 The main change is to not advertise if we're running at capacity
38162 and either a) we could hibernate or b) our capacity is low and
38163 we're using a default DirPort.
38164 - Use OpenSSL's AES when OpenSSL has version 0.9.7 or later.
38166 o New features (minor):
38167 - Try to be smart about when to retry network-status and
38168 server-descriptor fetches. Still needs some tuning.
38169 - Stop parsing, storing, or using running-routers output (but
38170 mirrors still cache and serve it).
38171 - Consider a threshold of versioning dirservers (dirservers who have
38172 an opinion about which Tor versions are still recommended) before
38173 deciding whether to warn the user that he's obsolete.
38174 - Dirservers can now reject/invalidate by key and IP, with the
38175 config options "AuthDirInvalid" and "AuthDirReject". This is
38176 useful since currently we automatically list servers as running
38177 and usable even if we know they're jerks.
38178 - Provide dire warnings to any users who set DirServer; move it out
38179 of torrc.sample and into torrc.complete.
38180 - Add MyFamily to torrc.sample in the server section.
38181 - Add nicknames to the DirServer line, so we can refer to them
38182 without requiring all our users to memorize their IP addresses.
38183 - When we get an EOF or a timeout on a directory connection, note
38184 how many bytes of serverdesc we are dropping. This will help
38185 us determine whether it is smart to parse incomplete serverdesc
38187 - Add a new function to "change pseudonyms" -- that is, to stop
38188 using any currently-dirty circuits for new streams, so we don't
38189 link new actions to old actions. Currently it's only called on
38190 HUP (or SIGNAL RELOAD).
38191 - On sighup, if UseHelperNodes changed to 1, use new circuits.
38192 - Start using RAND_bytes rather than RAND_pseudo_bytes from
38193 OpenSSL. Also, reseed our entropy every hour, not just at
38194 startup. And entropy in 512-bit chunks, not 160-bit chunks.
38196 o Fixes on 0.1.1.7-alpha:
38197 - Nobody ever implemented EVENT_ADDRMAP for control protocol
38198 version 0, so don't let version 0 controllers ask for it.
38199 - If you requested something with too many newlines via the
38200 v1 controller protocol, you could crash tor.
38201 - Fix a number of memory leaks, including some pretty serious ones.
38202 - Re-enable DirPort testing again, so Tor servers will be willing
38203 to advertise their DirPort if it's reachable.
38204 - On TLS handshake, only check the other router's nickname against
38205 its expected nickname if is_named is set.
38207 o Fixes forward-ported from 0.1.0.15:
38208 - Don't crash when we don't have any spare file descriptors and we
38209 try to spawn a dns or cpu worker.
38210 - Make the numbers in read-history and write-history into uint64s,
38211 so they don't overflow and publish negatives in the descriptor.
38213 o Fixes on 0.1.0.x:
38214 - For the OS X package's modified privoxy config file, comment
38215 out the "logfile" line so we don't log everything passed
38217 - We were whining about using socks4 or socks5-with-local-lookup
38218 even when it's an IP in the "virtual" range we designed exactly
38220 - We were leaking some memory every time the client changes IPs.
38221 - Never call free() on tor_malloc()d memory. This will help us
38222 use dmalloc to detect memory leaks.
38223 - Check for named servers when looking them up by nickname;
38224 warn when we'recalling a non-named server by its nickname;
38225 don't warn twice about the same name.
38226 - Try to list MyFamily elements by key, not by nickname, and warn
38227 if we've not heard of the server.
38228 - Make windows platform detection (uname equivalent) smarter.
38229 - It turns out sparc64 doesn't like unaligned access either.
38232 Changes in version 0.1.0.15 - 2005-09-23
38233 o Bugfixes on 0.1.0.x:
38234 - Reject ports 465 and 587 (spam targets) in default exit policy.
38235 - Don't crash when we don't have any spare file descriptors and we
38236 try to spawn a dns or cpu worker.
38237 - Get rid of IgnoreVersion undocumented config option, and make us
38238 only warn, never exit, when we're running an obsolete version.
38239 - Don't try to print a null string when your server finds itself to
38240 be unreachable and the Address config option is empty.
38241 - Make the numbers in read-history and write-history into uint64s,
38242 so they don't overflow and publish negatives in the descriptor.
38243 - Fix a minor memory leak in smartlist_string_remove().
38244 - We were only allowing ourselves to upload a server descriptor at
38245 most every 20 minutes, even if it changed earlier than that.
38246 - Clean up log entries that pointed to old URLs.
38249 Changes in version 0.1.1.7-alpha - 2005-09-14
38250 o Fixes on 0.1.1.6-alpha:
38251 - Exit servers were crashing when people asked them to make a
38252 connection to an address not in their exit policy.
38253 - Looking up a non-existent stream for a v1 control connection would
38255 - Fix a seg fault if we ask a dirserver for a descriptor by
38256 fingerprint but he doesn't know about him.
38257 - SETCONF was appending items to linelists, not clearing them.
38258 - SETCONF SocksBindAddress killed Tor if it fails to bind. Now back
38259 out and refuse the setconf if it would fail.
38260 - Downgrade the dirserver log messages when whining about
38264 - Add Peter Palfrader's check-tor script to tor/contrib/
38265 It lets you easily check whether a given server (referenced by
38266 nickname) is reachable by you.
38267 - Numerous changes to move towards client-side v2 directories. Not
38270 o Fixes on 0.1.0.x:
38271 - If the user gave tor an odd number of command-line arguments,
38272 we were silently ignoring the last one. Now we complain and fail.
38273 [This wins the oldest-bug prize -- this bug has been present since
38274 November 2002, as released in Tor 0.0.0.]
38275 - Do not use unaligned memory access on alpha, mips, or mipsel.
38276 It *works*, but is very slow, so we treat them as if it doesn't.
38277 - Retry directory requests if we fail to get an answer we like
38278 from a given dirserver (we were retrying before, but only if
38279 we fail to connect).
38280 - When writing the RecommendedVersions line, sort them first.
38281 - When the client asked for a rendezvous port that the hidden
38282 service didn't want to provide, we were sending an IP address
38283 back along with the end cell. Fortunately, it was zero. But stop
38285 - Correct "your server is reachable" log entries to indicate that
38286 it was self-testing that told us so.
38289 Changes in version 0.1.1.6-alpha - 2005-09-09
38290 o Fixes on 0.1.1.5-alpha:
38291 - We broke fascistfirewall in 0.1.1.5-alpha. Oops.
38292 - Fix segfault in unit tests in 0.1.1.5-alpha. Oops.
38293 - Fix bug with tor_memmem finding a match at the end of the string.
38294 - Make unit tests run without segfaulting.
38295 - Resolve some solaris x86 compile warnings.
38296 - Handle duplicate lines in approved-routers files without warning.
38297 - Fix bug where as soon as a server refused any requests due to his
38298 exit policy (e.g. when we ask for localhost and he tells us that's
38299 127.0.0.1 and he won't do it), we decided he wasn't obeying his
38300 exit policy using him for any exits.
38301 - Only do openssl hardware accelerator stuff if openssl version is
38304 o New controller features/fixes:
38305 - Add a "RESETCONF" command so you can set config options like
38306 AllowUnverifiedNodes and LongLivedPorts to "". Also, if you give
38307 a config option in the torrc with no value, then it clears it
38308 entirely (rather than setting it to its default).
38309 - Add a "GETINFO config-file" to tell us where torrc is.
38310 - Avoid sending blank lines when GETINFO replies should be empty.
38311 - Add a QUIT command for the controller (for using it manually).
38312 - Fix a bug in SAVECONF that was adding default dirservers and
38313 other redundant entries to the torrc file.
38315 o Start on the new directory design:
38316 - Generate, publish, cache, serve new network-status format.
38317 - Publish individual descriptors (by fingerprint, by "all", and by
38319 - Publish client and server recommended versions separately.
38320 - Allow tor_gzip_uncompress() to handle multiple concatenated
38321 compressed strings. Serve compressed groups of router
38322 descriptors. The compression logic here could be more
38324 - Distinguish v1 authorities (all currently trusted directories)
38325 from v2 authorities (all trusted directories).
38326 - Change DirServers config line to note which dirs are v1 authorities.
38327 - Add configuration option "V1AuthoritativeDirectory 1" which
38328 moria1, moria2, and tor26 should set.
38329 - Remove option when getting directory cache to see whether they
38330 support running-routers; they all do now. Replace it with one
38331 to see whether caches support v2 stuff.
38334 - Dirservers now do their own external reachability testing of each
38335 Tor server, and only list them as running if they've been found to
38336 be reachable. We also send back warnings to the server's logs if
38337 it uploads a descriptor that we already believe is unreachable.
38338 - Implement exit enclaves: if we know an IP address for the
38339 destination, and there's a running Tor server at that address
38340 which allows exit to the destination, then extend the circuit to
38341 that exit first. This provides end-to-end encryption and end-to-end
38342 authentication. Also, if the user wants a .exit address or enclave,
38343 use 4 hops rather than 3, and cannibalize a general circ for it
38345 - Permit transitioning from ORPort=0 to ORPort!=0, and back, from the
38346 controller. Also, rotate dns and cpu workers if the controller
38347 changes options that will affect them; and initialize the dns
38348 worker cache tree whether or not we start out as a server.
38349 - Only upload a new server descriptor when options change, 18
38350 hours have passed, uptime is reset, or bandwidth changes a lot.
38351 - Check [X-]Forwarded-For headers in HTTP requests when generating
38352 log messages. This lets people run dirservers (and caches) behind
38353 Apache but still know which IP addresses are causing warnings.
38355 o Config option changes:
38356 - Replace (Fascist)Firewall* config options with a new
38357 ReachableAddresses option that understands address policies.
38358 For example, "ReachableAddresses *:80,*:443"
38359 - Get rid of IgnoreVersion undocumented config option, and make us
38360 only warn, never exit, when we're running an obsolete version.
38361 - Make MonthlyAccountingStart config option truly obsolete now.
38363 o Fixes on 0.1.0.x:
38364 - Reject ports 465 and 587 in the default exit policy, since
38365 people have started using them for spam too.
38366 - It turns out we couldn't bootstrap a network since we added
38367 reachability detection in 0.1.0.1-rc. Good thing the Tor network
38368 has never gone down. Add an AssumeReachable config option to let
38369 servers and dirservers bootstrap. When we're trying to build a
38370 high-uptime or high-bandwidth circuit but there aren't enough
38371 suitable servers, try being less picky rather than simply failing.
38372 - Our logic to decide if the OR we connected to was the right guy
38373 was brittle and maybe open to a mitm for unverified routers.
38374 - We weren't cannibalizing circuits correctly for
38375 CIRCUIT_PURPOSE_C_ESTABLISH_REND and
38376 CIRCUIT_PURPOSE_S_ESTABLISH_INTRO, so we were being forced to
38377 build those from scratch. This should make hidden services faster.
38378 - Predict required circuits better, with an eye toward making hidden
38379 services faster on the service end.
38380 - Retry streams if the exit node sends back a 'misc' failure. This
38381 should result in fewer random failures. Also, after failing
38382 from resolve failed or misc, reset the num failures, so we give
38383 it a fair shake next time we try.
38384 - Clean up the rendezvous warn log msgs, and downgrade some to info.
38385 - Reduce severity on logs about dns worker spawning and culling.
38386 - When we're shutting down and we do something like try to post a
38387 server descriptor or rendezvous descriptor, don't complain that
38388 we seem to be unreachable. Of course we are, we're shutting down.
38389 - Add TTLs to RESOLVED, CONNECTED, and END_REASON_EXITPOLICY cells.
38390 We don't use them yet, but maybe one day our DNS resolver will be
38391 able to discover them.
38392 - Make ContactInfo mandatory for authoritative directory servers.
38393 - Require server descriptors to list IPv4 addresses -- hostnames
38394 are no longer allowed. This also fixes some potential security
38395 problems with people providing hostnames as their address and then
38396 preferentially resolving them to partition users.
38397 - Change log line for unreachability to explicitly suggest /etc/hosts
38398 as the culprit. Also make it clearer what IP address and ports we're
38399 testing for reachability.
38400 - Put quotes around user-supplied strings when logging so users are
38401 more likely to realize if they add bad characters (like quotes)
38403 - Let auth dir servers start without specifying an Address config
38405 - Make unit tests (and other invocations that aren't the real Tor)
38406 run without launching listeners, creating subdirectories, and so on.
38409 Changes in version 0.1.1.5-alpha - 2005-08-08
38410 o Bugfixes included in 0.1.0.14.
38412 o Bugfixes on 0.1.0.x:
38413 - If you write "HiddenServicePort 6667 127.0.0.1 6668" in your
38414 torrc rather than "HiddenServicePort 6667 127.0.0.1:6668",
38415 it would silently using ignore the 6668.
38418 Changes in version 0.1.0.14 - 2005-08-08
38419 o Bugfixes on 0.1.0.x:
38420 - Fix the other half of the bug with crypto handshakes
38422 - Fix an assert trigger if you send a 'signal term' via the
38423 controller when it's listening for 'event info' messages.
38426 Changes in version 0.1.1.4-alpha - 2005-08-04
38427 o Bugfixes included in 0.1.0.13.
38430 - Improve tor_gettimeofday() granularity on windows.
38431 - Make clients regenerate their keys when their IP address changes.
38432 - Implement some more GETINFO goodness: expose helper nodes, config
38433 options, getinfo keys.
38436 Changes in version 0.1.0.13 - 2005-08-04
38437 o Bugfixes on 0.1.0.x:
38438 - Fix a critical bug in the security of our crypto handshakes.
38439 - Fix a size_t underflow in smartlist_join_strings2() that made
38440 it do bad things when you hand it an empty smartlist.
38441 - Fix Windows installer to ship Tor license (thanks to Aphex for
38442 pointing out this oversight) and put a link to the doc directory
38444 - Explicitly set no-unaligned-access for sparc: it turns out the
38445 new gcc's let you compile broken code, but that doesn't make it
38449 Changes in version 0.1.1.3-alpha - 2005-07-23
38450 o Bugfixes on 0.1.1.2-alpha:
38451 - Fix a bug in handling the controller's "post descriptor"
38453 - Fix several bugs in handling the controller's "extend circuit"
38455 - Fix a bug in handling the controller's "stream status" event.
38456 - Fix an assert failure if we have a controller listening for
38457 circuit events and we go offline.
38458 - Re-allow hidden service descriptors to publish 0 intro points.
38459 - Fix a crash when generating your hidden service descriptor if
38460 you don't have enough intro points already.
38462 o New features on 0.1.1.2-alpha:
38463 - New controller function "getinfo accounting", to ask how
38464 many bytes we've used in this time period.
38465 - Experimental support for helper nodes: a lot of the risk from
38466 a small static adversary comes because users pick new random
38467 nodes every time they rebuild a circuit. Now users will try to
38468 stick to the same small set of entry nodes if they can. Not
38469 enabled by default yet.
38471 o Bugfixes on 0.1.0.12:
38472 - If you're an auth dir server, always publish your dirport,
38473 even if you haven't yet found yourself to be reachable.
38474 - Fix a size_t underflow in smartlist_join_strings2() that made
38475 it do bad things when you hand it an empty smartlist.
38478 Changes in version 0.1.0.12 - 2005-07-18
38479 o New directory servers:
38480 - tor26 has changed IP address.
38482 o Bugfixes on 0.1.0.x:
38483 - Fix a possible double-free in tor_gzip_uncompress().
38484 - When --disable-threads is set, do not search for or link against
38485 pthreads libraries.
38486 - Don't trigger an assert if an authoritative directory server
38487 claims its dirport is 0.
38488 - Fix bug with removing Tor as an NT service: some people were
38489 getting "The service did not return an error." Thanks to Matt
38493 Changes in version 0.1.1.2-alpha - 2005-07-15
38494 o New directory servers:
38495 - tor26 has changed IP address.
38497 o Bugfixes on 0.1.0.x, crashes/leaks:
38498 - Port the servers-not-obeying-their-exit-policies fix from
38500 - Fix an fd leak in start_daemon().
38501 - On Windows, you can't always reopen a port right after you've
38502 closed it. So change retry_listeners() to only close and re-open
38503 ports that have changed.
38504 - Fix a possible double-free in tor_gzip_uncompress().
38506 o Bugfixes on 0.1.0.x, usability:
38507 - When tor_socketpair() fails in Windows, give a reasonable
38508 Windows-style errno back.
38509 - Let people type "tor --install" as well as "tor -install" when
38511 want to make it an NT service.
38512 - NT service patch from Matt Edman to improve error messages.
38513 - When the controller asks for a config option with an abbreviated
38514 name, give the full name in our response.
38515 - Correct the man page entry on TrackHostExitsExpire.
38516 - Looks like we were never delivering deflated (i.e. compressed)
38517 running-routers lists, even when asked. Oops.
38518 - When --disable-threads is set, do not search for or link against
38519 pthreads libraries.
38521 o Bugfixes on 0.1.1.x:
38522 - Fix a seg fault with autodetecting which controller version is
38526 - New hidden service descriptor format: put a version in it, and
38527 let people specify introduction/rendezvous points that aren't
38528 in "the directory" (which is subjective anyway).
38529 - Allow the DEBUG controller event to work again. Mark certain log
38530 entries as "don't tell this to controllers", so we avoid cycles.
38533 Changes in version 0.1.0.11 - 2005-06-30
38534 o Bugfixes on 0.1.0.x:
38535 - Fix major security bug: servers were disregarding their
38536 exit policies if clients behaved unexpectedly.
38537 - Make OS X init script check for missing argument, so we don't
38538 confuse users who invoke it incorrectly.
38539 - Fix a seg fault in "tor --hash-password foo".
38540 - The MAPADDRESS control command was broken.
38543 Changes in version 0.1.1.1-alpha - 2005-06-29
38545 - Make OS X init script check for missing argument, so we don't
38546 confuse users who invoke it incorrectly.
38547 - Fix a seg fault in "tor --hash-password foo".
38548 - Fix a possible way to DoS dirservers.
38549 - When we complain that your exit policy implicitly allows local or
38550 private address spaces, name them explicitly so operators can
38552 - Make the log message less scary when all the dirservers are
38553 temporarily unreachable.
38554 - We were printing the number of idle dns workers incorrectly when
38558 - Revised controller protocol (version 1) that uses ascii rather
38559 than binary. Add supporting libraries in python and java so you
38560 can use the controller from your applications without caring how
38561 our protocol works.
38562 - Spiffy new support for crypto hardware accelerators. Can somebody
38566 Changes in version 0.0.9.10 - 2005-06-16
38567 o Bugfixes on 0.0.9.x (backported from 0.1.0.10):
38568 - Refuse relay cells that claim to have a length larger than the
38569 maximum allowed. This prevents a potential attack that could read
38570 arbitrary memory (e.g. keys) from an exit server's process
38574 Changes in version 0.1.0.10 - 2005-06-14
38575 o Allow a few EINVALs from libevent before dying. Warn on kqueue with
38576 libevent before 1.1a.
38579 Changes in version 0.1.0.9-rc - 2005-06-09
38581 - Reset buf->highwater every time buf_shrink() is called, not just on
38582 a successful shrink. This was causing significant memory bloat.
38583 - Fix buffer overflow when checking hashed passwords.
38584 - Security fix: if seeding the RNG on Win32 fails, quit.
38585 - Allow seeding the RNG on Win32 even when you're not running as
38587 - Disable threading on Solaris too. Something is wonky with it,
38588 cpuworkers, and reentrant libs.
38589 - Reenable the part of the code that tries to flush as soon as an
38590 OR outbuf has a full TLS record available. Perhaps this will make
38591 OR outbufs not grow as huge except in rare cases, thus saving lots
38592 of CPU time plus memory.
38593 - Reject malformed .onion addresses rather then passing them on as
38594 normal web requests.
38595 - Adapt patch from Adam Langley: fix possible memory leak in
38596 tor_lookup_hostname().
38597 - Initialize libevent later in the startup process, so the logs are
38598 already established by the time we start logging libevent warns.
38599 - Use correct errno on win32 if libevent fails.
38600 - Check and warn about known-bad/slow libevent versions.
38601 - Pay more attention to the ClientOnly config option.
38602 - Have torctl.in/tor.sh.in check for location of su binary (needed
38604 - Correct/add man page entries for LongLivedPorts, ExitPolicy,
38605 KeepalivePeriod, ClientOnly, NoPublish, HttpProxy, HttpsProxy,
38606 HttpProxyAuthenticator
38607 - Stop warning about sigpipes in the logs. We're going to
38608 pretend that getting these occasionally is normal and fine.
38609 - Resolve OS X installer bugs: stop claiming to be 0.0.9.2 in
38611 installer screens; and don't put stuff into StartupItems unless
38612 the user asks you to.
38613 - Require servers that use the default dirservers to have public IP
38614 addresses. We have too many servers that are configured with private
38615 IPs and their admins never notice the log entries complaining that
38616 their descriptors are being rejected.
38617 - Add OSX uninstall instructions. An actual uninstall script will
38621 Changes in version 0.1.0.8-rc - 2005-05-23
38623 - It turns out that kqueue on OS X 10.3.9 was causing kernel
38624 panics. Disable kqueue on all OS X Tors.
38625 - Fix RPM: remove duplicate line accidentally added to the rpm
38627 - Disable threads on openbsd too, since its gethostaddr is not
38629 - Tolerate libevent 0.8 since it still works, even though it's
38631 - Enable building on Red Hat 9.0 again.
38632 - Allow the middle hop of the testing circuit to be running any
38633 version, now that most of them have the bugfix to let them connect
38634 to unknown servers. This will allow reachability testing to work
38635 even when 0.0.9.7-0.0.9.9 become obsolete.
38636 - Handle relay cells with rh.length too large. This prevents
38637 a potential attack that could read arbitrary memory (maybe even
38638 keys) from the exit server's process.
38639 - We screwed up the dirport reachability testing when we don't yet
38640 have a cached version of the directory. Hopefully now fixed.
38641 - Clean up router_load_single_router() (used by the controller),
38642 so it doesn't seg fault on error.
38643 - Fix a minor memory leak when somebody establishes an introduction
38644 point at your Tor server.
38645 - If a socks connection ends because read fails, don't warn that
38646 you're not sending a socks reply back.
38649 - Add HttpProxyAuthenticator config option too, that works like
38650 the HttpsProxyAuthenticator config option.
38651 - Encode hashed controller passwords in hex instead of base64,
38652 to make it easier to write controllers.
38655 Changes in version 0.1.0.7-rc - 2005-05-17
38657 - Fix a bug in the OS X package installer that prevented it from
38658 installing on Tiger.
38659 - Fix a script bug in the OS X package installer that made it
38660 complain during installation.
38661 - Find libevent even if it's hiding in /usr/local/ and your
38662 CFLAGS and LDFLAGS don't tell you to look there.
38663 - Be able to link with libevent as a shared library (the default
38664 after 1.0d), even if it's hiding in /usr/local/lib and even
38665 if you haven't added /usr/local/lib to your /etc/ld.so.conf,
38666 assuming you're running gcc. Otherwise fail and give a useful
38668 - Fix a bug in the RPM packager: set home directory for _tor to
38669 something more reasonable when first installing.
38670 - Free a minor amount of memory that is still reachable on exit.
38673 Changes in version 0.1.0.6-rc - 2005-05-14
38675 - Implement --disable-threads configure option. Disable threads on
38676 netbsd by default, because it appears to have no reentrant resolver
38678 - Apple's OS X 10.4.0 ships with a broken kqueue. The new libevent
38679 release (1.1) detects and disables kqueue if it's broken.
38680 - Append default exit policy before checking for implicit internal
38681 addresses. Now we don't log a bunch of complaints on startup
38682 when using the default exit policy.
38683 - Some people were putting "Address " in their torrc, and they had
38684 a buggy resolver that resolved " " to 0.0.0.0. Oops.
38685 - If DataDir is ~/.tor, and that expands to /.tor, then default to
38686 LOCALSTATEDIR/tor instead.
38687 - Fix fragmented-message bug in TorControl.py.
38688 - Resolve a minor bug which would prevent unreachable dirports
38689 from getting suppressed in the published descriptor.
38690 - When the controller gave us a new descriptor, we weren't resolving
38691 it immediately, so Tor would think its address was 0.0.0.0 until
38692 we fetched a new directory.
38693 - Fix an uppercase/lowercase case error in suppressing a bogus
38694 libevent warning on some Linuxes.
38697 - Begin scrubbing sensitive strings from logs by default. Turn off
38698 the config option SafeLogging if you need to do debugging.
38699 - Switch to a new buffer management algorithm, which tries to avoid
38700 reallocing and copying quite as much. In first tests it looks like
38701 it uses *more* memory on average, but less cpu.
38702 - First cut at support for "create-fast" cells. Clients can use
38703 these when extending to their first hop, since the TLS already
38704 provides forward secrecy and authentication. Not enabled on
38706 - When dirservers refuse a router descriptor, we now log its
38707 contactinfo, platform, and the poster's IP address.
38708 - Call tor_free_all instead of connections_free_all after forking, to
38709 save memory on systems that need to fork.
38710 - Whine at you if you're a server and you don't set your contactinfo.
38711 - Implement --verify-config command-line option to check if your torrc
38712 is valid without actually launching Tor.
38713 - Rewrite address "serifos.exit" to "localhost.serifos.exit"
38714 rather than just rejecting it.
38717 Changes in version 0.1.0.5-rc - 2005-04-27
38719 - Stop trying to print a null pointer if an OR conn fails because
38720 we didn't like its cert.
38722 - Switch our internal buffers implementation to use a ring buffer,
38723 to hopefully improve performance for fast servers a lot.
38724 - Add HttpsProxyAuthenticator support (basic auth only), based
38725 on patch from Adam Langley.
38726 - Bump the default BandwidthRate from 1 MB to 2 MB, to accommodate
38727 the fast servers that have been joining lately.
38728 - Give hidden service accesses extra time on the first attempt,
38729 since 60 seconds is often only barely enough. This might improve
38731 - Improve performance for dirservers: stop re-parsing the whole
38732 directory every time you regenerate it.
38733 - Add more debugging info to help us find the weird dns freebsd
38734 pthreads bug; cleaner debug messages to help track future issues.
38737 Changes in version 0.0.9.9 - 2005-04-23
38738 o Bugfixes on 0.0.9.x:
38739 - If unofficial Tor clients connect and send weird TLS certs, our
38740 Tor server triggers an assert. This release contains a minimal
38741 backport from the broader fix that we put into 0.1.0.4-rc.
38744 Changes in version 0.1.0.4-rc - 2005-04-23
38746 - If unofficial Tor clients connect and send weird TLS certs, our
38747 Tor server triggers an assert. Stop asserting, and start handling
38748 TLS errors better in other situations too.
38749 - When the controller asks us to tell it about all the debug-level
38750 logs, it turns out we were generating debug-level logs while
38751 telling it about them, which turns into a bad loop. Now keep
38752 track of whether you're sending a debug log to the controller,
38753 and don't log when you are.
38754 - Fix the "postdescriptor" feature of the controller interface: on
38755 non-complete success, only say "done" once.
38757 - Clients are now willing to load balance over up to 2mB, not 1mB,
38758 of advertised bandwidth capacity.
38759 - Add a NoPublish config option, so you can be a server (e.g. for
38760 testing running Tor servers in other Tor networks) without
38761 publishing your descriptor to the primary dirservers.
38764 Changes in version 0.1.0.3-rc - 2005-04-08
38765 o Improvements on 0.1.0.2-rc:
38766 - Client now retries when streams end early for 'hibernating' or
38767 'resource limit' reasons, rather than failing them.
38768 - More automated handling for dirserver operators:
38769 - Automatically approve nodes running 0.1.0.2-rc or later,
38770 now that the the reachability detection stuff is working.
38771 - Now we allow two unverified servers with the same nickname
38772 but different keys. But if a nickname is verified, only that
38773 nickname+key are allowed.
38774 - If you're an authdirserver connecting to an address:port,
38775 and it's not the OR you were expecting, forget about that
38776 descriptor. If he *was* the one you were expecting, then forget
38777 about all other descriptors for that address:port.
38778 - Allow servers to publish descriptors from 12 hours in the future.
38779 Corollary: only whine about clock skew from the dirserver if
38780 he's a trusted dirserver (since now even verified servers could
38781 have quite wrong clocks).
38782 - Adjust maximum skew and age for rendezvous descriptors: let skew
38783 be 48 hours rather than 90 minutes.
38784 - Efficiency improvements:
38785 - Keep a big splay tree of (circid,orconn)->circuit mappings to make
38786 it much faster to look up a circuit for each relay cell.
38787 - Remove most calls to assert_all_pending_dns_resolves_ok(),
38788 since they're eating our cpu on exit nodes.
38789 - Stop wasting time doing a case insensitive comparison for every
38790 dns name every time we do any lookup. Canonicalize the names to
38791 lowercase and be done with it.
38792 - Start sending 'truncated' cells back rather than destroy cells,
38793 if the circuit closes in front of you. This means we won't have
38794 to abandon partially built circuits.
38795 - Only warn once per nickname from add_nickname_list_to_smartlist
38796 per failure, so an entrynode or exitnode choice that's down won't
38798 - Put a note in the torrc about abuse potential with the default
38800 - Revise control spec and implementation to allow all log messages to
38801 be sent to controller with their severities intact (suggested by
38802 Matt Edman). Update TorControl to handle new log event types.
38803 - Provide better explanation messages when controller's POSTDESCRIPTOR
38805 - Stop putting nodename in the Platform string in server descriptors.
38806 It doesn't actually help, and it is confusing/upsetting some people.
38808 o Bugfixes on 0.1.0.2-rc:
38809 - We were printing the host mask wrong in exit policies in server
38810 descriptors. This isn't a critical bug though, since we were still
38811 obeying the exit policy internally.
38812 - Fix Tor when compiled with libevent but without pthreads: move
38813 connection_unregister() from _connection_free() to
38815 - Fix an assert trigger (already fixed in 0.0.9.x): when we have
38816 the rare mysterious case of accepting a conn on 0.0.0.0:0, then
38817 when we look through the connection array, we'll find any of the
38818 cpu/dnsworkers. This is no good.
38820 o Bugfixes on 0.0.9.8:
38821 - Fix possible bug on threading platforms (e.g. win32) which was
38822 leaking a file descriptor whenever a cpuworker or dnsworker died.
38823 - When using preferred entry or exit nodes, ignore whether the
38824 circuit wants uptime or capacity. They asked for the nodes, they
38826 - chdir() to your datadirectory at the *end* of the daemonize process,
38827 not the beginning. This was a problem because the first time you
38828 run tor, if your datadir isn't there, and you have runasdaemon set
38829 to 1, it will try to chdir to it before it tries to create it. Oops.
38830 - Handle changed router status correctly when dirserver reloads
38831 fingerprint file. We used to be dropping all unverified descriptors
38832 right then. The bug was hidden because we would immediately
38833 fetch a directory from another dirserver, which would include the
38834 descriptors we just dropped.
38835 - When we're connecting to an OR and he's got a different nickname/key
38836 than we were expecting, only complain loudly if we're an OP or a
38837 dirserver. Complaining loudly to the OR admins just confuses them.
38838 - Tie MAX_DIR_SIZE to MAX_BUF_SIZE, so now directory sizes won't get
38839 artificially capped at 500kB.
38842 Changes in version 0.0.9.8 - 2005-04-07
38843 o Bugfixes on 0.0.9.x:
38844 - We have a bug that I haven't found yet. Sometimes, very rarely,
38845 cpuworkers get stuck in the 'busy' state, even though the cpuworker
38846 thinks of itself as idle. This meant that no new circuits ever got
38847 established. Here's a workaround to kill any cpuworker that's been
38848 busy for more than 100 seconds.
38851 Changes in version 0.1.0.2-rc - 2005-04-01
38852 o Bugfixes on 0.1.0.1-rc:
38853 - Fixes on reachability detection:
38854 - Don't check for reachability while hibernating.
38855 - If ORPort is reachable but DirPort isn't, still publish the
38856 descriptor, but zero out DirPort until it's found reachable.
38857 - When building testing circs for ORPort testing, use only
38858 high-bandwidth nodes, so fewer circuits fail.
38859 - Complain about unreachable ORPort separately from unreachable
38860 DirPort, so the user knows what's going on.
38861 - Make sure we only conclude ORPort reachability if we didn't
38862 initiate the conn. Otherwise we could falsely conclude that
38863 we're reachable just because we connected to the guy earlier
38864 and he used that same pipe to extend to us.
38865 - Authdirservers shouldn't do ORPort reachability detection,
38866 since they're in clique mode, so it will be rare to find a
38867 server not already connected to them.
38868 - When building testing circuits, always pick middle hops running
38869 Tor 0.0.9.7, so we avoid the "can't extend to unknown routers"
38870 bug. (This is a kludge; it will go away when 0.0.9.x becomes
38872 - When we decide we're reachable, actually publish our descriptor
38874 - Fix bug in redirectstream in the controller.
38875 - Fix the state descriptor strings so logs don't claim edge streams
38876 are in a different state than they actually are.
38877 - Use recent libevent features when possible (this only really affects
38878 win32 and osx right now, because the new libevent with these
38879 features hasn't been released yet). Add code to suppress spurious
38881 - Prevent possible segfault in connection_close_unattached_ap().
38882 - Fix newlines on torrc in win32.
38883 - Improve error msgs when tor-resolve fails.
38885 o Improvements on 0.0.9.x:
38886 - New experimental script tor/contrib/ExerciseServer.py (needs more
38887 work) that uses the controller interface to build circuits and
38888 fetch pages over them. This will help us bootstrap servers that
38889 have lots of capacity but haven't noticed it yet.
38890 - New experimental script tor/contrib/PathDemo.py (needs more work)
38891 that uses the controller interface to let you choose whole paths
38893 "<hostname>.<path,separated by dots>.<length of path>.path"
38894 - When we've connected to an OR and handshaked but didn't like
38895 the result, we were closing the conn without sending destroy
38896 cells back for pending circuits. Now send those destroys.
38899 Changes in version 0.0.9.7 - 2005-04-01
38900 o Bugfixes on 0.0.9.x:
38901 - Fix another race crash bug (thanks to Glenn Fink for reporting).
38902 - Compare identity to identity, not to nickname, when extending to
38903 a router not already in the directory. This was preventing us from
38904 extending to unknown routers. Oops.
38905 - Make sure to create OS X Tor user in <500 range, so we aren't
38906 creating actual system users.
38907 - Note where connection-that-hasn't-sent-end was marked, and fix
38908 a few really loud instances of this harmless bug (it's fixed more
38912 Changes in version 0.1.0.1-rc - 2005-03-28
38914 - Add reachability testing. Your Tor server will automatically try
38915 to see if its ORPort and DirPort are reachable from the outside,
38916 and it won't upload its descriptor until it decides they are.
38917 - Handle unavailable hidden services better. Handle slow or busy
38918 hidden services better.
38919 - Add support for CONNECTing through https proxies, with "HttpsProxy"
38921 - New exit policy: accept most low-numbered ports, rather than
38922 rejecting most low-numbered ports.
38923 - More Tor controller support (still experimental). See
38924 http://tor.eff.org/doc/control-spec.txt for all the new features,
38925 including signals to emulate unix signals from any platform;
38926 redirectstream; extendcircuit; mapaddress; getinfo; postdescriptor;
38927 closestream; closecircuit; etc.
38928 - Make nt services work and start on startup on win32 (based on
38929 patch by Matt Edman).
38930 - Add a new AddressMap config directive to rewrite incoming socks
38931 addresses. This lets you, for example, declare an implicit
38932 required exit node for certain sites.
38933 - Add a new TrackHostExits config directive to trigger addressmaps
38934 for certain incoming socks addresses -- for sites that break when
38935 your exit keeps changing (based on patch by Mike Perry).
38936 - Redo the client-side dns cache so it's just an addressmap too.
38937 - Notice when our IP changes, and reset stats/uptime/reachability.
38938 - When an application is using socks5, give him the whole variety of
38939 potential socks5 responses (connect refused, host unreachable, etc),
38940 rather than just "success" or "failure".
38941 - A more sane version numbering system. See
38942 http://tor.eff.org/cvs/tor/doc/version-spec.txt for details.
38943 - New contributed script "exitlist": a simple python script to
38944 parse directories and find Tor nodes that exit to listed
38946 - New contributed script "privoxy-tor-toggle" to toggle whether
38947 Privoxy uses Tor. Seems to be configured for Debian by default.
38948 - Report HTTP reasons to client when getting a response from directory
38949 servers -- so you can actually know what went wrong.
38950 - New config option MaxAdvertisedBandwidth which lets you advertise
38951 a low bandwidthrate (to not attract as many circuits) while still
38952 allowing a higher bandwidthrate in reality.
38954 o Robustness/stability fixes:
38955 - Make Tor use Niels Provos's libevent instead of its current
38956 poll-but-sometimes-select mess. This will let us use faster async
38957 cores (like epoll, kpoll, and /dev/poll), and hopefully work better
38959 - pthread support now too. This was forced because when we forked,
38960 we ended up wasting a lot of duplicate ram over time. Also switch
38961 to foo_r versions of some library calls to allow reentry and
38963 - Better handling for heterogeneous / unreliable nodes:
38964 - Annotate circuits w/ whether they aim to contain high uptime nodes
38965 and/or high capacity nodes. When building circuits, choose
38967 - This means that every single node in an intro rend circuit,
38968 not just the last one, will have a minimum uptime.
38969 - New config option LongLivedPorts to indicate application streams
38970 that will want high uptime circuits.
38971 - Servers reset uptime when a dir fetch entirely fails. This
38972 hopefully reflects stability of the server's network connectivity.
38973 - If somebody starts his tor server in Jan 2004 and then fixes his
38974 clock, don't make his published uptime be a year.
38975 - Reset published uptime when you wake up from hibernation.
38976 - Introduce a notion of 'internal' circs, which are chosen without
38977 regard to the exit policy of the last hop. Intro and rendezvous
38978 circs must be internal circs, to avoid leaking information. Resolve
38979 and connect streams can use internal circs if they want.
38980 - New circuit pooling algorithm: make sure to have enough circs around
38981 to satisfy any predicted ports, and also make sure to have 2 internal
38982 circs around if we've required internal circs lately (and with high
38983 uptime if we've seen that lately too).
38984 - Split NewCircuitPeriod option into NewCircuitPeriod (30 secs),
38985 which describes how often we retry making new circuits if current
38986 ones are dirty, and MaxCircuitDirtiness (10 mins), which describes
38987 how long we're willing to make use of an already-dirty circuit.
38988 - Cannibalize GENERAL circs to be C_REND, C_INTRO, S_INTRO, and S_REND
38989 circ as necessary, if there are any completed ones lying around
38990 when we try to launch one.
38991 - Make hidden services try to establish a rendezvous for 30 seconds,
38992 rather than for n (where n=3) attempts to build a circuit.
38993 - Change SHUTDOWN_WAIT_LENGTH from a fixed 30 secs to a config option
38994 "ShutdownWaitLength".
38995 - Try to be more zealous about calling connection_edge_end when
38996 things go bad with edge conns in connection.c.
38997 - Revise tor-spec to add more/better stream end reasons.
38998 - Revise all calls to connection_edge_end to avoid sending "misc",
38999 and to take errno into account where possible.
39002 - Fix a race condition that can trigger an assert, when we have a
39003 pending create cell and an OR connection fails right then.
39004 - Fix several double-mark-for-close bugs, e.g. where we were finding
39005 a conn for a cell even if that conn is already marked for close.
39006 - Make sequence of log messages when starting on win32 with no config
39007 file more reasonable.
39008 - When choosing an exit node for a new non-internal circ, don't take
39009 into account whether it'll be useful for any pending x.onion
39010 addresses -- it won't.
39011 - Turn addr_policy_compare from a tristate to a quadstate; this should
39012 help address our "Ah, you allow 1.2.3.4:80. You are a good choice
39013 for google.com" problem.
39014 - Make "platform" string in descriptor more accurate for Win32 servers,
39015 so it's not just "unknown platform".
39016 - Fix an edge case in parsing config options (thanks weasel).
39017 If they say "--" on the commandline, it's not an option.
39018 - Reject odd-looking addresses at the client (e.g. addresses that
39019 contain a colon), rather than having the server drop them because
39021 - tor-resolve requests were ignoring .exit if there was a working circuit
39022 they could use instead.
39023 - REUSEADDR on normal platforms means you can rebind to the port
39024 right after somebody else has let it go. But REUSEADDR on win32
39025 means to let you bind to the port _even when somebody else
39026 already has it bound_! So, don't do that on Win32.
39027 - Change version parsing logic: a version is "obsolete" if it is not
39028 recommended and (1) there is a newer recommended version in the
39029 same series, or (2) there are no recommended versions in the same
39030 series, but there are some recommended versions in a newer series.
39031 A version is "new" if it is newer than any recommended version in
39033 - Stop most cases of hanging up on a socks connection without sending
39037 - Require BandwidthRate to be at least 20kB/s for servers.
39038 - When a dirserver causes you to give a warn, mention which dirserver
39040 - New config option DirAllowPrivateAddresses for authdirservers.
39041 Now by default they refuse router descriptors that have non-IP or
39042 private-IP addresses.
39043 - Stop publishing socksport in the directory, since it's not
39044 actually meant to be public. For compatibility, publish a 0 there
39046 - Change DirFetchPeriod/StatusFetchPeriod to have a special "Be
39047 smart" value, that is low for servers and high for clients.
39048 - If our clock jumps forward by 100 seconds or more, assume something
39049 has gone wrong with our network and abandon all not-yet-used circs.
39050 - Warn when exit policy implicitly allows local addresses.
39051 - If we get an incredibly skewed timestamp from a dirserver mirror
39052 that isn't a verified OR, don't warn -- it's probably him that's
39054 - Since we ship our own Privoxy on OS X, tweak it so it doesn't write
39055 cookies to disk and doesn't log each web request to disk. (Thanks
39056 to Brett Carrington for pointing this out.)
39057 - When a client asks us for a dir mirror and we don't have one,
39058 launch an attempt to get a fresh one.
39059 - If we're hibernating and we get a SIGINT, exit immediately.
39060 - Add --with-dmalloc ./configure option, to track memory leaks.
39061 - And try to free all memory on closing, so we can detect what
39063 - Cache local dns resolves correctly even when they're .exit
39065 - Give a better warning when some other server advertises an
39066 ORPort that is actually an apache running ssl.
39067 - Add "opt hibernating 1" to server descriptor to make it clearer
39068 whether the server is hibernating.
39071 Changes in version 0.0.9.6 - 2005-03-24
39072 o Bugfixes on 0.0.9.x (crashes and asserts):
39073 - Add new end stream reasons to maintenance branch. Fix bug where
39074 reason (8) could trigger an assert. Prevent bug from recurring.
39075 - Apparently win32 stat wants paths to not end with a slash.
39076 - Fix assert triggers in assert_cpath_layer_ok(), where we were
39077 blowing away the circuit that conn->cpath_layer points to, then
39078 checking to see if the circ is well-formed. Backport check to make
39079 sure we dont use the cpath on a closed connection.
39080 - Prevent circuit_resume_edge_reading_helper() from trying to package
39081 inbufs for marked-for-close streams.
39082 - Don't crash on hup if your options->address has become unresolvable.
39083 - Some systems (like OS X) sometimes accept() a connection and tell
39084 you the remote host is 0.0.0.0:0. If this happens, due to some
39085 other mis-features, we get confused; so refuse the conn for now.
39087 o Bugfixes on 0.0.9.x (other):
39088 - Fix harmless but scary "Unrecognized content encoding" warn message.
39089 - Add new stream error reason: TORPROTOCOL reason means "you are not
39090 speaking a version of Tor I understand; say bye-bye to your stream."
39091 - Be willing to cache directories from up to ROUTER_MAX_AGE seconds
39092 into the future, now that we are more tolerant of skew. This
39093 resolves a bug where a Tor server would refuse to cache a directory
39094 because all the directories it gets are too far in the future;
39095 yet the Tor server never logs any complaints about clock skew.
39096 - Mac packaging magic: make man pages useable, and do not overwrite
39097 existing torrc files.
39098 - Make OS X log happily to /var/log/tor/tor.log
39101 Changes in version 0.0.9.5 - 2005-02-22
39102 o Bugfixes on 0.0.9.x:
39103 - Fix an assert race at exit nodes when resolve requests fail.
39104 - Stop picking unverified dir mirrors--it only leads to misery.
39105 - Patch from Matt Edman to make NT services work better. Service
39106 support is still not compiled into the executable by default.
39107 - Patch from Dmitri Bely so the Tor service runs better under
39108 the win32 SYSTEM account.
39109 - Make tor-resolve actually work (?) on Win32.
39110 - Fix a sign bug when getrlimit claims to have 4+ billion
39111 file descriptors available.
39112 - Stop refusing to start when bandwidthburst == bandwidthrate.
39113 - When create cells have been on the onion queue more than five
39114 seconds, just send back a destroy and take them off the list.
39117 Changes in version 0.0.9.4 - 2005-02-03
39118 o Bugfixes on 0.0.9:
39119 - Fix an assert bug that took down most of our servers: when
39120 a server claims to have 1 GB of bandwidthburst, don't
39122 - Don't crash as badly if we have spawned the max allowed number
39123 of dnsworkers, or we're out of file descriptors.
39124 - Block more file-sharing ports in the default exit policy.
39125 - MaxConn is now automatically set to the hard limit of max
39126 file descriptors we're allowed (ulimit -n), minus a few for
39128 - Give a clearer message when servers need to raise their
39129 ulimit -n when they start running out of file descriptors.
39130 - SGI Compatibility patches from Jan Schaumann.
39131 - Tolerate a corrupt cached directory better.
39132 - When a dirserver hasn't approved your server, list which one.
39133 - Go into soft hibernation after 95% of the bandwidth is used,
39134 not 99%. This is especially important for daily hibernators who
39135 have a small accounting max. Hopefully it will result in fewer
39136 cut connections when the hard hibernation starts.
39137 - Load-balance better when using servers that claim more than
39138 800kB/s of capacity.
39139 - Make NT services work (experimental, only used if compiled in).
39142 Changes in version 0.0.9.3 - 2005-01-21
39143 o Bugfixes on 0.0.9:
39144 - Backport the cpu use fixes from main branch, so busy servers won't
39145 need as much processor time.
39146 - Work better when we go offline and then come back, or when we
39147 run Tor at boot before the network is up. We do this by
39148 optimistically trying to fetch a new directory whenever an
39149 application request comes in and we think we're offline -- the
39150 human is hopefully a good measure of when the network is back.
39151 - Backport some minimal hidserv bugfixes: keep rend circuits open as
39152 long as you keep using them; actually publish hidserv descriptors
39153 shortly after they change, rather than waiting 20-40 minutes.
39154 - Enable Mac startup script by default.
39155 - Fix duplicate dns_cancel_pending_resolve reported by Giorgos Pallas.
39156 - When you update AllowUnverifiedNodes or FirewallPorts via the
39157 controller's setconf feature, we were always appending, never
39159 - When you update HiddenServiceDir via setconf, it was screwing up
39160 the order of reading the lines, making it fail.
39161 - Do not rewrite a cached directory back to the cache; otherwise we
39162 will think it is recent and not fetch a newer one on startup.
39163 - Workaround for webservers that lie about Content-Encoding: Tor
39164 now tries to autodetect compressed directories and compression
39165 itself. This lets us Proxypass dir fetches through apache.
39168 Changes in version 0.0.9.2 - 2005-01-04
39169 o Bugfixes on 0.0.9 (crashes and asserts):
39170 - Fix an assert on startup when the disk is full and you're logging
39172 - If you do socks4 with an IP of 0.0.0.x but *don't* provide a socks4a
39173 style address, then we'd crash.
39174 - Fix an assert trigger when the running-routers string we get from
39175 a dirserver is broken.
39176 - Make worker threads start and run on win32. Now win32 servers
39178 - Bandaid (not actually fix, but now it doesn't crash) an assert
39179 where the dns worker dies mysteriously and the main Tor process
39180 doesn't remember anything about the address it was resolving.
39182 o Bugfixes on 0.0.9 (Win32):
39183 - Workaround for brain-damaged __FILE__ handling on MSVC: keep Nick's
39184 name out of the warning/assert messages.
39185 - Fix a superficial "unhandled error on read" bug on win32.
39186 - The win32 installer no longer requires a click-through for our
39187 license, since our Free Software license grants rights but does not
39189 - Win32: When connecting to a dirserver fails, try another one
39190 immediately. (This was already working for non-win32 Tors.)
39191 - Stop trying to parse $HOME on win32 when hunting for default
39193 - Make tor-resolve.c work on win32 by calling network_init().
39195 o Bugfixes on 0.0.9 (other):
39196 - Make 0.0.9.x build on Solaris again.
39197 - Due to a fencepost error, we were blowing away the \n when reporting
39198 confvalue items in the controller. So asking for multiple config
39199 values at once couldn't work.
39200 - When listing circuits that are pending on an opening OR connection,
39201 if we're an OR we were listing circuits that *end* at us as
39202 being pending on every listener, dns/cpu worker, etc. Stop that.
39203 - Dirservers were failing to create 'running-routers' or 'directory'
39204 strings if we had more than some threshold of routers. Fix them so
39205 they can handle any number of routers.
39206 - Fix a superficial "Duplicate mark for close" bug.
39207 - Stop checking for clock skew for OR connections, even for servers.
39208 - Fix a fencepost error that was chopping off the last letter of any
39209 nickname that is the maximum allowed nickname length.
39210 - Update URLs in log messages so they point to the new website.
39211 - Fix a potential problem in mangling server private keys while
39212 writing to disk (not triggered yet, as far as we know).
39213 - Include the licenses for other free software we include in Tor,
39214 now that we're shipping binary distributions more regularly.
39217 Changes in version 0.0.9.1 - 2004-12-15
39218 o Bugfixes on 0.0.9:
39219 - Make hibernation actually work.
39220 - Make HashedControlPassword config option work.
39221 - When we're reporting event circuit status to a controller,
39222 don't use the stream status code.
39225 Changes in version 0.0.9 - 2004-12-12
39227 - Clean up manpage and torrc.sample file.
39228 - Clean up severities and text of log warnings.
39230 - Make servers trigger an assert when they enter hibernation.
39233 Changes in version 0.0.9rc7 - 2004-12-08
39234 o Bugfixes on 0.0.9rc:
39235 - Fix a stack-trashing crash when an exit node begins hibernating.
39236 - Avoid looking at unallocated memory while considering which
39237 ports we need to build circuits to cover.
39238 - Stop a sigpipe: when an 'end' cell races with eof from the app,
39239 we shouldn't hold-open-until-flush if the eof arrived first.
39240 - Fix a bug with init_cookie_authentication() in the controller.
39241 - When recommending new-format log lines, if the upper bound is
39242 LOG_ERR, leave it implicit.
39244 o Bugfixes on 0.0.8.1:
39245 - Fix a whole slew of memory leaks.
39246 - Fix isspace() and friends so they still make Solaris happy
39247 but also so they don't trigger asserts on win32.
39248 - Fix parse_iso_time on platforms without strptime (eg win32).
39249 - win32: tolerate extra "readable" events better.
39250 - win32: when being multithreaded, leave parent fdarray open.
39251 - Make unit tests work on win32.
39254 Changes in version 0.0.9rc6 - 2004-12-06
39255 o Bugfixes on 0.0.9pre:
39256 - Clean up some more integer underflow opportunities (not exploitable
39258 - While hibernating, hup should not regrow our listeners.
39259 - Send an end to the streams we close when we hibernate, rather
39260 than just chopping them off.
39261 - React to eof immediately on non-open edge connections.
39263 o Bugfixes on 0.0.8.1:
39264 - Calculate timeout for waiting for a connected cell from the time
39265 we sent the begin cell, not from the time the stream started. If
39266 it took a long time to establish the circuit, we would time out
39267 right after sending the begin cell.
39268 - Fix router_compare_addr_to_addr_policy: it was not treating a port
39269 of * as always matching, so we were picking reject *:* nodes as
39270 exit nodes too. Oops.
39273 - New circuit building strategy: keep a list of ports that we've
39274 used in the past 6 hours, and always try to have 2 circuits open
39275 or on the way that will handle each such port. Seed us with port
39276 80 so web users won't complain that Tor is "slow to start up".
39277 - Make kill -USR1 dump more useful stats about circuits.
39278 - When warning about retrying or giving up, print the address, so
39279 the user knows which one it's talking about.
39280 - If you haven't used a clean circuit in an hour, throw it away,
39281 just to be on the safe side. (This means after 6 hours a totally
39282 unused Tor client will have no circuits open.)
39285 Changes in version 0.0.9rc5 - 2004-12-01
39286 o Bugfixes on 0.0.8.1:
39287 - Disallow NDEBUG. We don't ever want anybody to turn off debug.
39288 - Let resolve conns retry/expire also, rather than sticking around
39290 - If we are using select, make sure we stay within FD_SETSIZE.
39292 o Bugfixes on 0.0.9pre:
39293 - Fix integer underflow in tor_vsnprintf() that may be exploitable,
39294 but doesn't seem to be currently; thanks to Ilja van Sprundel for
39296 - If anybody set DirFetchPostPeriod, give them StatusFetchPeriod
39297 instead. Impose minima and maxima for all *Period options; impose
39298 even tighter maxima for fetching if we are a caching dirserver.
39299 Clip rather than rejecting.
39300 - Fetch cached running-routers from servers that serve it (that is,
39301 authdirservers and servers running 0.0.9rc5-cvs or later.)
39304 - Accept *:706 (silc) in default exit policy.
39305 - Implement new versioning format for post 0.1.
39306 - Support "foo.nickname.exit" addresses, to let Alice request the
39307 address "foo" as viewed by exit node "nickname". Based on a patch
39309 - Make tor --version --version dump the cvs Id of every file.
39312 Changes in version 0.0.9rc4 - 2004-11-28
39313 o Bugfixes on 0.0.8.1:
39314 - Make windows sockets actually non-blocking (oops), and handle
39315 win32 socket errors better.
39317 o Bugfixes on 0.0.9rc1:
39318 - Actually catch the -USR2 signal.
39321 Changes in version 0.0.9rc3 - 2004-11-25
39322 o Bugfixes on 0.0.8.1:
39323 - Flush the log file descriptor after we print "Tor opening log file",
39324 so we don't see those messages days later.
39326 o Bugfixes on 0.0.9rc1:
39327 - Make tor-resolve work again.
39328 - Avoid infinite loop in tor-resolve if tor hangs up on it.
39329 - Fix an assert trigger for clients/servers handling resolves.
39332 Changes in version 0.0.9rc2 - 2004-11-24
39333 o Bugfixes on 0.0.9rc1:
39334 - I broke socks5 support while fixing the eof bug.
39335 - Allow unitless bandwidths and intervals; they default to bytes
39337 - New servers don't start out hibernating; they are active until
39338 they run out of bytes, so they have a better estimate of how
39339 long it takes, and so their operators can know they're working.
39342 Changes in version 0.0.9rc1 - 2004-11-23
39343 o Bugfixes on 0.0.8.1:
39344 - Finally fix a bug that's been plaguing us for a year:
39345 With high load, circuit package window was reaching 0. Whenever
39346 we got a circuit-level sendme, we were reading a lot on each
39347 socket, but only writing out a bit. So we would eventually reach
39348 eof. This would be noticed and acted on even when there were still
39349 bytes sitting in the inbuf.
39350 - When poll() is interrupted, we shouldn't believe the revents values.
39352 o Bugfixes on 0.0.9pre6:
39353 - Fix hibernate bug that caused pre6 to be broken.
39354 - Don't keep rephist info for routers that haven't had activity for
39355 24 hours. (This matters now that clients have keys, since we track
39357 - Never call close_temp_logs while validating log options.
39358 - Fix backslash-escaping on tor.sh.in and torctl.in.
39361 - Implement weekly/monthly/daily accounting: now you specify your
39362 hibernation properties by
39363 AccountingMax N bytes|KB|MB|GB|TB
39364 AccountingStart day|week|month [day] HH:MM
39365 Defaults to "month 1 0:00".
39366 - Let bandwidth and interval config options be specified as 5 bytes,
39367 kb, kilobytes, etc; and as seconds, minutes, hours, days, weeks.
39368 - kill -USR2 now moves all logs to loglevel debug (kill -HUP to
39369 get back to normal.)
39370 - If your requested entry or exit node has advertised bandwidth 0,
39372 - Be more greedy about filling up relay cells -- we try reading again
39373 once we've processed the stuff we read, in case enough has arrived
39374 to fill the last cell completely.
39375 - Apply NT service patch from Osamu Fujino. Still needs more work.
39378 Changes in version 0.0.9pre6 - 2004-11-15
39379 o Bugfixes on 0.0.8.1:
39380 - Fix assert failure on malformed socks4a requests.
39381 - Use identity comparison, not nickname comparison, to choose which
39382 half of circuit-ID-space each side gets to use. This is needed
39383 because sometimes we think of a router as a nickname, and sometimes
39384 as a hex ID, and we can't predict what the other side will do.
39385 - Catch and ignore SIGXFSZ signals when log files exceed 2GB; our
39386 write() call will fail and we handle it there.
39387 - Add a FAST_SMARTLIST define to optionally inline smartlist_get
39388 and smartlist_len, which are two major profiling offenders.
39390 o Bugfixes on 0.0.9pre5:
39391 - Fix a bug in read_all that was corrupting config files on windows.
39392 - When we're raising the max number of open file descriptors to
39393 'unlimited', don't log that we just raised it to '-1'.
39394 - Include event code with events, as required by control-spec.txt.
39395 - Don't give a fingerprint when clients do --list-fingerprint:
39396 it's misleading, because it will never be the same again.
39397 - Stop using strlcpy in tor_strndup, since it was slowing us
39399 - Remove warn on startup about missing cached-directory file.
39400 - Make kill -USR1 work again.
39401 - Hibernate if we start tor during the "wait for wakeup-time" phase
39402 of an accounting interval. Log our hibernation plans better.
39403 - Authoritative dirservers now also cache their directory, so they
39404 have it on start-up.
39407 - Fetch running-routers; cache running-routers; compress
39408 running-routers; serve compressed running-routers.z
39409 - Add NSI installer script contributed by J Doe.
39410 - Commit VC6 and VC7 workspace/project files.
39411 - Commit a tor.spec for making RPM files, with help from jbash.
39412 - Add contrib/torctl.in contributed by Glenn Fink.
39413 - Implement the control-spec's SAVECONF command, to write your
39414 configuration to torrc.
39415 - Get cookie authentication for the controller closer to working.
39416 - Include control-spec.txt in the tarball.
39417 - When set_conf changes our server descriptor, upload a new copy.
39418 But don't upload it too often if there are frequent changes.
39419 - Document authentication config in man page, and document signals
39421 - Clean up confusing parts of man page and torrc.sample.
39422 - Make expand_filename handle ~ and ~username.
39423 - Use autoconf to enable largefile support where necessary. Use
39424 ftello where available, since ftell can fail at 2GB.
39425 - Distinguish between TOR_TLS_CLOSE and TOR_TLS_ERROR, so we can
39426 log more informatively.
39427 - Give a slightly more useful output for "tor -h".
39428 - Refuse application socks connections to port 0.
39429 - Check clock skew for verified servers, but allow unverified
39430 servers and clients to have any clock skew.
39431 - Break DirFetchPostPeriod into:
39432 - DirFetchPeriod for fetching full directory,
39433 - StatusFetchPeriod for fetching running-routers,
39434 - DirPostPeriod for posting server descriptor,
39435 - RendPostPeriod for posting hidden service descriptors.
39436 - Make sure the hidden service descriptors are at a random offset
39437 from each other, to hinder linkability.
39440 Changes in version 0.0.9pre5 - 2004-11-09
39441 o Bugfixes on 0.0.9pre4:
39442 - Fix a seg fault in unit tests (doesn't affect main program).
39443 - Fix an assert bug where a hidden service provider would fail if
39444 the first hop of his rendezvous circuit was down.
39445 - Hidden service operators now correctly handle version 1 style
39446 INTRODUCE1 cells (nobody generates them still, so not a critical
39448 - If do_hup fails, actually notice.
39449 - Handle more errnos from accept() without closing the listener.
39450 Some OpenBSD machines were closing their listeners because
39451 they ran out of file descriptors.
39452 - Send resolve cells to exit routers that are running a new
39453 enough version of the resolve code to work right.
39454 - Better handling of winsock includes on non-MSV win32 compilers.
39455 - Some people had wrapped their tor client/server in a script
39456 that would restart it whenever it died. This did not play well
39457 with our "shut down if your version is obsolete" code. Now people
39458 don't fetch a new directory if their local cached version is
39460 - Make our autogen.sh work on ksh as well as bash.
39463 - Hibernation: New config option "AccountingMaxKB" lets you
39464 set how many KBytes per month you want to allow your server to
39465 consume. Rather than spreading those bytes out evenly over the
39466 month, we instead hibernate for some of the month and pop up
39467 at a deterministic time, work until the bytes are consumed, then
39468 hibernate again. Config option "MonthlyAccountingStart" lets you
39469 specify which day of the month your billing cycle starts on.
39470 - Control interface: a separate program can now talk to your
39471 client/server over a socket, and get/set config options, receive
39472 notifications of circuits and streams starting/finishing/dying,
39473 bandwidth used, etc. The next step is to get some GUIs working.
39474 Let us know if you want to help out. See doc/control-spec.txt .
39475 - Ship a contrib/tor-control.py as an example script to interact
39476 with the control port.
39477 - "tor --hash-password zzyxz" will output a salted password for
39478 use in authenticating to the control interface.
39479 - New log format in config:
39480 "Log minsev[-maxsev] stdout|stderr|syslog" or
39481 "Log minsev[-maxsev] file /var/foo"
39484 - DirPolicy config option, to let people reject incoming addresses
39485 from their dirserver.
39486 - "tor --list-fingerprint" will list your identity key fingerprint
39488 - Add "pass" target for RedirectExit, to make it easier to break
39489 out of a sequence of RedirectExit rules.
39490 - Clients now generate a TLS cert too, in preparation for having
39491 them act more like real nodes.
39492 - Ship src/win32/ in the tarball, so people can use it to build.
39493 - Make old win32 fall back to CWD if SHGetSpecialFolderLocation
39495 - New "router-status" line in directory, to better bind each verified
39496 nickname to its identity key.
39497 - Deprecate unofficial config option abbreviations, and abbreviations
39498 not on the command line.
39499 - Add a pure-C tor-resolve implementation.
39500 - Use getrlimit and friends to ensure we can reach MaxConn (currently
39501 1024) file descriptors.
39503 o Code security improvements, inspired by Ilja:
39504 - Replace sprintf with snprintf. (I think they were all safe, but
39506 - Replace strcpy/strncpy with strlcpy in more places.
39507 - Avoid strcat; use snprintf or strlcat instead.
39508 - snprintf wrapper with consistent (though not C99) overflow behavior.
39511 Changes in version 0.0.9pre4 - 2004-10-17
39512 o Bugfixes on 0.0.9pre3:
39513 - If the server doesn't specify an exit policy, use the real default
39514 exit policy, not reject *:*.
39515 - Ignore fascistfirewall when uploading/downloading hidden service
39516 descriptors, since we go through Tor for those; and when using
39517 an HttpProxy, since we assume it can reach them all.
39518 - When looking for an authoritative dirserver, use only the ones
39519 configured at boot. Don't bother looking in the directory.
39520 - The rest of the fix for get_default_conf_file() on older win32.
39521 - Make 'Routerfile' config option obsolete.
39524 - New 'MyFamily nick1,...' config option for a server to
39525 specify other servers that shouldn't be used in the same circuit
39526 with it. Only believed if nick1 also specifies us.
39527 - New 'NodeFamily nick1,nick2,...' config option for a client to
39528 specify nodes that it doesn't want to use in the same circuit.
39529 - New 'Redirectexit pattern address:port' config option for a
39530 server to redirect exit connections, e.g. to a local squid.
39533 Changes in version 0.0.9pre3 - 2004-10-13
39534 o Bugfixes on 0.0.8.1:
39535 - Better torrc example lines for dirbindaddress and orbindaddress.
39536 - Improved bounds checking on parsed ints (e.g. config options and
39537 the ones we find in directories.)
39538 - Better handling of size_t vs int, so we're more robust on 64
39540 - Fix the rest of the bug where a newly started OR would appear
39541 as unverified even after we've added his fingerprint and hupped
39543 - Fix a bug from 0.0.7: when read() failed on a stream, we would
39544 close it without sending back an end. So 'connection refused'
39545 would simply be ignored and the user would get no response.
39547 o Bugfixes on 0.0.9pre2:
39548 - Serving the cached-on-disk directory to people is bad. We now
39549 provide no directory until we've fetched a fresh one.
39550 - Workaround for bug on windows where cached-directories get crlf
39552 - Make get_default_conf_file() work on older windows too.
39553 - If we write a *:* exit policy line in the descriptor, don't write
39554 any more exit policy lines.
39557 - Use only 0.0.9pre1 and later servers for resolve cells.
39558 - Make the dirservers file obsolete.
39559 - Include a dir-signing-key token in directories to tell the
39560 parsing entity which key is being used to sign.
39561 - Remove the built-in bulky default dirservers string.
39562 - New config option "Dirserver %s:%d [fingerprint]", which can be
39563 repeated as many times as needed. If no dirservers specified,
39564 default to moria1,moria2,tor26.
39565 - Make moria2 advertise a dirport of 80, so people behind firewalls
39566 will be able to get a directory.
39567 - Http proxy support
39568 - Dirservers translate requests for http://%s:%d/x to /x
39569 - You can specify "HttpProxy %s[:%d]" and all dir fetches will
39570 be routed through this host.
39571 - Clients ask for /tor/x rather than /x for new enough dirservers.
39572 This way we can one day coexist peacefully with apache.
39573 - Clients specify a "Host: %s%d" http header, to be compatible
39574 with more proxies, and so running squid on an exit node can work.
39577 Changes in version 0.0.8.1 - 2004-10-13
39579 - Fix a seg fault that can be triggered remotely for Tor
39580 clients/servers with an open dirport.
39581 - Fix a rare assert trigger, where routerinfos for entries in
39582 our cpath would expire while we're building the path.
39583 - Fix a bug in OutboundBindAddress so it (hopefully) works.
39584 - Fix a rare seg fault for people running hidden services on
39585 intermittent connections.
39586 - Fix a bug in parsing opt keywords with objects.
39587 - Fix a stale pointer assert bug when a stream detaches and
39589 - Fix a string format vulnerability (probably not exploitable)
39590 in reporting stats locally.
39591 - Fix an assert trigger: sometimes launching circuits can fail
39592 immediately, e.g. because too many circuits have failed recently.
39593 - Fix a compile warning on 64 bit platforms.
39596 Changes in version 0.0.9pre2 - 2004-10-03
39598 - Make fetching a cached directory work for 64-bit platforms too.
39599 - Make zlib.h a required header, not an optional header.
39602 Changes in version 0.0.9pre1 - 2004-10-01
39604 - Stop using separate defaults for no-config-file and
39605 empty-config-file. Now you have to explicitly turn off SocksPort,
39606 if you don't want it open.
39607 - Fix a bug in OutboundBindAddress so it (hopefully) works.
39608 - Improve man page to mention more of the 0.0.8 features.
39609 - Fix a rare seg fault for people running hidden services on
39610 intermittent connections.
39611 - Change our file IO stuff (especially wrt OpenSSL) so win32 is
39613 - Fix more dns related bugs: send back resolve_failed and end cells
39614 more reliably when the resolve fails, rather than closing the
39615 circuit and then trying to send the cell. Also attach dummy resolve
39616 connections to a circuit *before* calling dns_resolve(), to fix
39617 a bug where cached answers would never be sent in RESOLVED cells.
39618 - When we run out of disk space, or other log writing error, don't
39619 crash. Just stop logging to that log and continue.
39620 - We were starting to daemonize before we opened our logs, so if
39621 there were any problems opening logs, we would complain to stderr,
39622 which wouldn't work, and then mysteriously exit.
39623 - Fix a rare bug where sometimes a verified OR would connect to us
39624 before he'd uploaded his descriptor, which would cause us to
39625 assign conn->nickname as though he's unverified. Now we look through
39626 the fingerprint list to see if he's there.
39627 - Fix a rare assert trigger, where routerinfos for entries in
39628 our cpath would expire while we're building the path.
39631 - Clients can ask dirservers for /dir.z to get a compressed version
39632 of the directory. Only works for servers running 0.0.9, of course.
39633 - Make clients cache directories and use them to seed their router
39634 lists at startup. This means clients have a datadir again.
39635 - Configuration infrastructure support for warning on obsolete
39637 - Respond to content-encoding headers by trying to uncompress as
39639 - Reply with a deflated directory when a client asks for "dir.z".
39640 We could use allow-encodings instead, but allow-encodings isn't
39641 specified in HTTP 1.0.
39642 - Raise the max dns workers from 50 to 100.
39643 - Discourage people from setting their dirfetchpostperiod more often
39644 than once per minute.
39645 - Protect dirservers from overzealous descriptor uploading -- wait
39646 10 seconds after directory gets dirty, before regenerating.
39649 Changes in version 0.0.8 - 2004-08-25
39650 o Port it to SunOS 5.9 / Athena
39653 Changes in version 0.0.8rc2 - 2004-08-20
39654 o Make it compile on cygwin again.
39655 o When picking unverified routers, skip those with low uptime and/or
39656 low bandwidth, depending on what properties you care about.
39659 Changes in version 0.0.8rc1 - 2004-08-18
39660 o Changes from 0.0.7.3:
39662 - Fix assert triggers: if the other side returns an address 0.0.0.0,
39663 don't put it into the client dns cache.
39664 - If a begin failed due to exit policy, but we believe the IP address
39665 should have been allowed, switch that router to exitpolicy reject *:*
39666 until we get our next directory.
39668 - Clients choose nodes proportional to advertised bandwidth.
39669 - Avoid using nodes with low uptime as introduction points.
39670 - Handle servers with dynamic IP addresses: don't replace
39671 options->Address with the resolved one at startup, and
39672 detect our address right before we make a routerinfo each time.
39673 - 'FascistFirewall' option to pick dirservers and ORs on specific
39674 ports; plus 'FirewallPorts' config option to tell FascistFirewall
39675 which ports are open. (Defaults to 80,443)
39676 - Be more aggressive about trying to make circuits when the network
39677 has changed (e.g. when you unsuspend your laptop).
39678 - Check for time skew on http headers; report date in response to
39680 - If the entrynode config line has only one node, don't pick it as
39682 - Add strict{entry|exit}nodes config options. If set to 1, then
39683 we refuse to build circuits that don't include the specified entry
39685 - OutboundBindAddress config option, to bind to a specific
39686 IP address for outgoing connect()s.
39687 - End truncated log entries (e.g. directories) with "[truncated]".
39689 o Patches to 0.0.8preX:
39691 - Patches to compile and run on win32 again (maybe)?
39692 - Fix crash when looking for ~/.torrc with no $HOME set.
39693 - Fix a race bug in the unit tests.
39694 - Handle verified/unverified name collisions better when new
39695 routerinfo's arrive in a directory.
39696 - Sometimes routers were getting entered into the stats before
39697 we'd assigned their identity_digest. Oops.
39698 - Only pick and establish intro points after we've gotten a
39701 - AllowUnverifiedNodes config option to let circuits choose no-name
39702 routers in entry,middle,exit,introduction,rendezvous positions.
39703 Allow middle and rendezvous positions by default.
39704 - Add a man page for tor-resolve.
39707 Changes in version 0.0.7.3 - 2004-08-12
39708 o Stop dnsworkers from triggering an assert failure when you
39709 ask them to resolve the host "".
39712 Changes in version 0.0.8pre3 - 2004-08-09
39713 o Changes from 0.0.7.2:
39714 - Allow multiple ORs with same nickname in routerlist -- now when
39715 people give us one identity key for a nickname, then later
39716 another, we don't constantly complain until the first expires.
39717 - Remember used bandwidth (both in and out), and publish 15-minute
39718 snapshots for the past day into our descriptor.
39719 - You can now fetch $DIRURL/running-routers to get just the
39720 running-routers line, not the whole descriptor list. (But
39721 clients don't use this yet.)
39722 - When people mistakenly use Tor as an http proxy, point them
39723 at the tor-doc.html rather than the INSTALL.
39724 - Remove our mostly unused -- and broken -- hex_encode()
39725 function. Use base16_encode() instead. (Thanks to Timo Lindfors
39726 for pointing out this bug.)
39727 - Rotate onion keys every 12 hours, not every 2 hours, so we have
39728 fewer problems with people using the wrong key.
39729 - Change the default exit policy to reject the default edonkey,
39730 kazaa, gnutella ports.
39731 - Add replace_file() to util.[ch] to handle win32's rename().
39733 o Changes from 0.0.8preX:
39734 - Fix two bugs in saving onion keys to disk when rotating, so
39735 hopefully we'll get fewer people using old onion keys.
39736 - Fix an assert error that was making SocksPolicy not work.
39737 - Be willing to expire routers that have an open dirport -- it's
39738 just the authoritative dirservers we want to not forget.
39739 - Reject tor-resolve requests for .onion addresses early, so we
39740 don't build a whole rendezvous circuit and then fail.
39741 - When you're warning a server that he's unverified, don't cry
39742 wolf unpredictably.
39743 - Fix a race condition: don't try to extend onto a connection
39744 that's still handshaking.
39745 - For servers in clique mode, require the conn to be open before
39746 you'll choose it for your path.
39747 - Fix some cosmetic bugs about duplicate mark-for-close, lack of
39748 end relay cell, etc.
39749 - Measure bandwidth capacity over the last 24 hours, not just 12
39750 - Bugfix: authoritative dirservers were making and signing a new
39751 directory for each client, rather than reusing the cached one.
39754 Changes in version 0.0.8pre2 - 2004-08-04
39755 o Changes from 0.0.7.2:
39757 - Check directory signature _before_ you decide whether you're
39758 you're running an obsolete version and should exit.
39759 - Check directory signature _before_ you parse the running-routers
39760 list to decide who's running or verified.
39761 - Bugfixes and features:
39762 - Check return value of fclose while writing to disk, so we don't
39763 end up with broken files when servers run out of disk space.
39764 - Log a warning if the user uses an unsafe socks variant, so people
39765 are more likely to learn about privoxy or socat.
39766 - Dirservers now include RFC1123-style dates in the HTTP headers,
39767 which one day we will use to better detect clock skew.
39769 o Changes from 0.0.8pre1:
39770 - Make it compile without warnings again on win32.
39771 - Log a warning if you're running an unverified server, to let you
39772 know you might want to get it verified.
39773 - Only pick a default nickname if you plan to be a server.
39776 Changes in version 0.0.8pre1 - 2004-07-23
39778 - Made our unit tests compile again on OpenBSD 3.5, and tor
39779 itself compile again on OpenBSD on a sparc64.
39780 - We were neglecting milliseconds when logging on win32, so
39781 everything appeared to happen at the beginning of each second.
39783 o Protocol changes:
39784 - 'Extend' relay cell payloads now include the digest of the
39785 intended next hop's identity key. Now we can verify that we're
39786 extending to the right router, and also extend to routers we
39787 hadn't heard of before.
39790 - Tor nodes can now act as relays (with an advertised ORPort)
39791 without being manually verified by the dirserver operators.
39792 - Uploaded descriptors of unverified routers are now accepted
39793 by the dirservers, and included in the directory.
39794 - Verified routers are listed by nickname in the running-routers
39795 list; unverified routers are listed as "$<fingerprint>".
39796 - We now use hash-of-identity-key in most places rather than
39797 nickname or addr:port, for improved security/flexibility.
39798 - To avoid Sybil attacks, paths still use only verified servers.
39799 But now we have a chance to play around with hybrid approaches.
39800 - Nodes track bandwidth usage to estimate capacity (not used yet).
39801 - ClientOnly option for nodes that never want to become servers.
39802 - Directory caching.
39803 - "AuthoritativeDir 1" option for the official dirservers.
39804 - Now other nodes (clients and servers) will cache the latest
39805 directory they've pulled down.
39806 - They can enable their DirPort to serve it to others.
39807 - Clients will pull down a directory from any node with an open
39808 DirPort, and check the signature/timestamp correctly.
39809 - Authoritative dirservers now fetch directories from other
39810 authdirservers, to stay better synced.
39811 - Running-routers list tells who's down also, along with noting
39812 if they're verified (listed by nickname) or unverified (listed
39814 - Allow dirservers to serve running-router list separately.
39815 This isn't used yet.
39816 - ORs connect-on-demand to other ORs
39817 - If you get an extend cell to an OR you're not connected to,
39818 connect, handshake, and forward the create cell.
39819 - The authoritative dirservers stay connected to everybody,
39820 and everybody stays connected to 0.0.7 servers, but otherwise
39821 clients/servers expire unused connections after 5 minutes.
39822 - When servers get a sigint, they delay 30 seconds (refusing new
39823 connections) then exit. A second sigint causes immediate exit.
39824 - File and name management:
39825 - Look for .torrc if no CONFDIR "torrc" is found.
39826 - If no datadir is defined, then choose, make, and secure ~/.tor
39828 - If torrc not found, exitpolicy reject *:*.
39829 - Expands ~/ in filenames to $HOME/ (but doesn't yet expand ~arma).
39830 - If no nickname is defined, derive default from hostname.
39831 - Rename secret key files, e.g. identity.key -> secret_id_key,
39832 to discourage people from mailing their identity key to tor-ops.
39833 - Refuse to build a circuit before the directory has arrived --
39834 it won't work anyway, since you won't know the right onion keys
39836 - Try other dirservers immediately if the one you try is down. This
39837 should tolerate down dirservers better now.
39838 - Parse tor version numbers so we can do an is-newer-than check
39839 rather than an is-in-the-list check.
39840 - New socks command 'resolve', to let us shim gethostbyname()
39842 - A 'tor_resolve' script to access the socks resolve functionality.
39843 - A new socks-extensions.txt doc file to describe our
39844 interpretation and extensions to the socks protocols.
39845 - Add a ContactInfo option, which gets published in descriptor.
39846 - Publish OR uptime in descriptor (and thus in directory) too.
39847 - Write tor version at the top of each log file
39848 - New docs in the tarball:
39850 - Document that you should proxy your SSL traffic too.
39853 Changes in version 0.0.7.2 - 2004-07-07
39854 o A better fix for the 0.0.0.0 problem, that will hopefully
39855 eliminate the remaining related assertion failures.
39858 Changes in version 0.0.7.1 - 2004-07-04
39859 o When an address resolves to 0.0.0.0, treat it as a failed resolve,
39860 since internally we use 0.0.0.0 to signify "not yet resolved".
39863 Changes in version 0.0.7 - 2004-06-07
39864 o Updated the man page to reflect the new features.
39867 Changes in version 0.0.7rc2 - 2004-06-06
39868 o Changes from 0.0.7rc1:
39869 - Make it build on Win32 again.
39870 o Changes from 0.0.6.2:
39871 - Rotate dnsworkers and cpuworkers on SIGHUP, so they get new config
39875 Changes in version 0.0.7rc1 - 2004-06-02
39877 - On sighup, we were adding another log without removing the first
39878 one. So log messages would get duplicated n times for n sighups.
39879 - Several cases of using a connection after we'd freed it. The
39880 problem was that connections that are pending resolve are in both
39881 the pending_resolve tree, and also the circuit's resolving_streams
39882 list. When you want to remove one, you must remove it from both.
39883 - Fix a double-mark-for-close where an end cell arrived for a
39884 resolving stream, and then the resolve failed.
39885 - Check directory signatures based on name of signer, not on whom
39886 we got the directory from. This will let us cache directories more
39889 - Crank up some of our constants to handle more users.
39892 Changes in version 0.0.7pre1 - 2004-06-02
39893 o Fixes for crashes and other obnoxious bugs:
39894 - Fix an epipe bug: sometimes when directory connections failed
39895 to connect, we would give them a chance to flush before closing
39897 - When we detached from a circuit because of resolvefailed, we
39898 would immediately try the same circuit twice more, and then
39899 give up on the resolve thinking we'd tried three different
39901 - Limit the number of intro circuits we'll attempt to build for a
39902 hidden service per 15-minute period.
39903 - Check recommended-software string *early*, before actually parsing
39904 the directory. Thus we can detect an obsolete version and exit,
39905 even if the new directory format doesn't parse.
39906 o Fixes for security bugs:
39907 - Remember which nodes are dirservers when you startup, and if a
39908 random OR enables his dirport, don't automatically assume he's
39909 a trusted dirserver.
39911 - Directory connections were asking the wrong poll socket to
39912 start writing, and not asking themselves to start writing.
39913 - When we detached from a circuit because we sent a begin but
39914 didn't get a connected, we would use it again the first time;
39915 but after that we would correctly switch to a different one.
39916 - Stop warning when the first onion decrypt attempt fails; they
39917 will sometimes legitimately fail now that we rotate keys.
39918 - Override unaligned-access-ok check when $host_cpu is ia64 or
39919 arm. Apparently they allow it but the kernel whines.
39920 - Dirservers try to reconnect periodically too, in case connections
39922 - Fix some memory leaks in directory servers.
39923 - Allow backslash in Win32 filenames.
39924 - Made Tor build complain-free on FreeBSD, hopefully without
39925 breaking other BSD builds. We'll see.
39927 - Doxygen markup on all functions and global variables.
39928 - Make directory functions update routerlist, not replace it. So
39929 now directory disagreements are not so critical a problem.
39930 - Remove the upper limit on number of descriptors in a dirserver's
39931 directory (not that we were anywhere close).
39932 - Allow multiple logfiles at different severity ranges.
39933 - Allow *BindAddress to specify ":port" rather than setting *Port
39934 separately. Allow multiple instances of each BindAddress config
39935 option, so you can bind to multiple interfaces if you want.
39936 - Allow multiple exit policy lines, which are processed in order.
39937 Now we don't need that huge line with all the commas in it.
39938 - Enable accept/reject policies on SOCKS connections, so you can bind
39939 to 0.0.0.0 but still control who can use your OP.
39942 Changes in version 0.0.6.2 - 2004-05-16
39943 o Our integrity-checking digest was checking only the most recent cell,
39944 not the previous cells like we'd thought.
39945 Thanks to Stefan Mark for finding the flaw!
39948 Changes in version 0.0.6.1 - 2004-05-06
39949 o Fix two bugs in our AES counter-mode implementation (this affected
39950 onion-level stream encryption, but not TLS-level). It turns
39951 out we were doing something much more akin to a 16-character
39952 polyalphabetic cipher. Oops.
39953 Thanks to Stefan Mark for finding the flaw!
39954 o Retire moria3 as a directory server, and add tor26 as a directory
39958 Changes in version 0.0.6 - 2004-05-02
39959 [version bump only]
39962 Changes in version 0.0.6rc4 - 2004-05-01
39963 o Update the built-in dirservers list to use the new directory format
39964 o Fix a rare seg fault: if a node offering a hidden service attempts
39965 to build a circuit to Alice's rendezvous point and fails before it
39966 reaches the last hop, it retries with a different circuit, but
39968 o Handle windows socket errors correctly.
39971 Changes in version 0.0.6rc3 - 2004-04-28
39972 o Don't expire non-general excess circuits (if we had enough
39973 circuits open, we were expiring rendezvous circuits -- even
39974 when they had a stream attached. oops.)
39975 o Fetch randomness from /dev/urandom better (not via fopen/fread)
39976 o Better debugging for tls errors
39977 o Some versions of openssl have an SSL_pending function that erroneously
39978 returns bytes when there is a non-application record pending.
39979 o Set Content-Type on the directory and hidserv descriptor.
39980 o Remove IVs from cipher code, since AES-ctr has none.
39981 o Win32 fixes. Tor now compiles on win32 with no warnings/errors.
39982 o We were using an array of length zero in a few places.
39983 o win32's gethostbyname can't resolve an IP to an IP.
39984 o win32's close can't close a socket.
39987 Changes in version 0.0.6rc2 - 2004-04-26
39988 o Fix a bug where we were closing tls connections intermittently.
39989 It turns out openssl keeps its errors around -- so if an error
39990 happens, and you don't ask about it, and then another openssl
39991 operation happens and succeeds, and you ask if there was an error,
39992 it tells you about the first error. Fun fun.
39993 o Fix a bug that's been lurking since 27 may 03 (!)
39994 When passing back a destroy cell, we would use the wrong circ id.
39995 'Mostly harmless', but still worth fixing.
39996 o Since we don't support truncateds much, don't bother sending them;
39997 just close the circ.
39998 o check for <machine/limits.h> so we build on NetBSD again (I hope).
39999 o don't crash if a conn that sent a begin has suddenly lost its circuit
40000 (this was quite rare).
40003 Changes in version 0.0.6rc1 - 2004-04-25
40004 o We now rotate link (tls context) keys and onion keys.
40005 o CREATE cells now include oaep padding, so you can tell
40006 if you decrypted them correctly.
40007 o Add bandwidthburst to server descriptor.
40008 o Directories now say which dirserver signed them.
40009 o Use a tor_assert macro that logs failed assertions too.
40012 Changes in version 0.0.6pre5 - 2004-04-18
40013 o changes from 0.0.6pre4:
40014 - make tor build on broken freebsd 5.2 installs
40015 - fix a failed assert when you try an intro point, get a nack, and try
40016 a second one and it works.
40017 - when alice uses a port that the hidden service doesn't accept,
40018 it now sends back an end cell (denied by exit policy). otherwise
40019 alice would just have to wait to time out.
40020 - fix another rare bug: when we had tried all the intro
40021 points for a hidden service, we fetched the descriptor
40022 again, but we left our introcirc thinking it had already
40023 sent an intro, so it kept waiting for a response...
40024 - bugfix: when you sleep your hidden-service laptop, as soon
40025 as it wakes up it tries to upload a service descriptor, but
40026 socketpair fails for some reason (localhost not up yet?).
40027 now we simply give up on that upload, and we'll try again later.
40028 i'd still like to find the bug though.
40029 - if an intro circ waiting for an ack dies before getting one, then
40031 - we were reusing stale service descriptors and refetching usable
40035 Changes in version 0.0.6pre4 - 2004-04-14
40036 o changes from 0.0.6pre3:
40037 - when bob fails to connect to the rendezvous point, and his
40038 circ didn't fail because of the rendezvous point itself, then
40039 he retries a couple of times
40040 - we expire introduction and rendezvous circs more thoroughly
40041 (sometimes they were hanging around forever)
40042 - we expire unattached rendezvous streams that have been around
40043 too long (they were sticking around forever).
40044 - fix a measly fencepost error that was crashing everybody with
40048 Changes in version 0.0.6pre3 - 2004-04-14
40049 o changes from 0.0.6pre2:
40050 - make hup work again
40051 - fix some memory leaks for dirservers
40052 - allow more skew in rendezvous descriptor timestamps, to help
40053 handle people like blanu who don't know what time it is
40054 - normal circs are 3 hops, but some rend/intro circs are 4, if
40055 the initiator doesn't get to choose the last hop
40056 - send acks for introductions, so alice can know whether to try
40058 - bob publishes intro points more correctly
40059 o changes from 0.0.5:
40060 - fix an assert trigger that's been plaguing us since the days
40061 of 0.0.2prexx (thanks weasel!)
40062 - retry stream correctly when we fail to connect because of
40063 exit-policy-reject (should try another) or can't-resolve-address
40064 (also should try another, because dns on random internet servers
40066 - when we hup a dirserver and we've *removed* a server from the
40067 approved-routers list, now we remove that server from the
40068 in-memory directories too
40071 Changes in version 0.0.6pre2 - 2004-04-08
40072 o We fixed our base32 implementation. Now it works on all architectures.
40075 Changes in version 0.0.6pre1 - 2004-04-08
40077 - Hidden services and rendezvous points are implemented. Go to
40078 http://6sxoyfb3h2nvok2d.onion/ for an index of currently available
40079 hidden services. (This only works via a socks4a proxy such as
40080 Privoxy, and currently it's quite slow.)
40083 Changes in version 0.0.5 - 2004-03-30
40084 [version bump only]
40087 Changes in version 0.0.5rc3 - 2004-03-29
40088 o Install torrc as torrc.sample -- we no longer clobber your
40090 o Re-enable recommendedversion checking (we broke it in rc2, oops)
40091 o Add in a 'notice' log level for things the operator should hear
40092 but that aren't warnings
40095 Changes in version 0.0.5rc2 - 2004-03-29
40096 o Hold socks connection open until reply is flushed (if possible)
40097 o Make exit nodes resolve IPs to IPs immediately, rather than asking
40098 the dns farm to do it.
40099 o Fix c99 aliasing warnings in rephist.c
40100 o Don't include server descriptors that are older than 24 hours in the
40102 o Give socks 'reject' replies their whole 15s to attempt to flush,
40103 rather than seeing the 60s timeout and assuming the flush had failed.
40104 o Clean automake droppings from the cvs repository
40107 Changes in version 0.0.5rc1 - 2004-03-28
40108 o Fix mangled-state bug in directory fetching (was causing sigpipes).
40109 o Only build circuits after we've fetched the directory: clients were
40110 using only the directory servers before they'd fetched a directory.
40111 This also means longer startup time; so it goes.
40112 o Fix an assert trigger where an OP would fail to handshake, and we'd
40113 expect it to have a nickname.
40114 o Work around a tsocks bug: do a socks reject when AP connection dies
40115 early, else tsocks goes into an infinite loop.
40118 Changes in version 0.0.4 - 2004-03-26
40119 o When connecting to a dirserver or OR and the network is down,
40123 Changes in version 0.0.3 - 2004-03-26
40124 o Warn and fail if server chose a nickname with illegal characters
40125 o Port to Solaris and Sparc:
40126 - include missing header fcntl.h
40127 - have autoconf find -lsocket -lnsl automatically
40128 - deal with hardware word alignment
40129 - make uname() work (solaris has a different return convention)
40130 - switch from using signal() to sigaction()
40131 o Preliminary work on reputation system:
40132 - Keep statistics on success/fail of connect attempts; they're published
40133 by kill -USR1 currently.
40134 - Add a RunTesting option to try to learn link state by creating test
40135 circuits, even when SocksPort is off.
40136 - Remove unused open circuits when there are too many.
40139 Changes in version 0.0.2 - 2004-03-19
40140 - Include strlcpy and strlcat for safer string ops
40141 - define INADDR_NONE so we compile (but still not run) on solaris
40144 Changes in version 0.0.2pre27 - 2004-03-14
40146 - Allow internal tor networks (we were rejecting internal IPs,
40147 now we allow them if they're set explicitly).
40148 - And fix a few endian issues.
40151 Changes in version 0.0.2pre26 - 2004-03-14
40153 - If a stream times out after 15s without a connected cell, don't
40154 try that circuit again: try a new one.
40155 - Retry streams at most 4 times. Then give up.
40156 - When a dirserver gets a descriptor from an unknown router, it
40157 logs its fingerprint (so the dirserver operator can choose to
40158 accept it even without mail from the server operator).
40159 - Inform unapproved servers when we reject their descriptors.
40160 - Make tor build on Windows again. It works as a client, who knows
40162 - Clearer instructions in the torrc for how to set up a server.
40163 - Be more efficient about reading fd's when our global token bucket
40164 (used for rate limiting) becomes empty.
40166 - Stop asserting that computers always go forward in time. It's
40168 - When we sent a cell (e.g. destroy) and then marked an OR connection
40169 expired, we might close it before finishing a flush if the other
40170 side isn't reading right then.
40171 - Don't allow dirservers to start if they haven't defined
40172 RecommendedVersions
40173 - We were caching transient dns failures. Oops.
40174 - Prevent servers from publishing an internal IP as their address.
40175 - Address a strcat vulnerability in circuit.c
40178 Changes in version 0.0.2pre25 - 2004-03-04
40180 - Put the OR's IP in its router descriptor, not its fqdn. That way
40181 we'll stop being stalled by gethostbyname for nodes with flaky dns,
40184 - If the user typed in an address that didn't resolve, the server
40188 Changes in version 0.0.2pre24 - 2004-03-03
40190 - Fix an assertion failure in dns.c, where we were trying to dequeue
40191 a pending dns resolve even if it wasn't pending
40192 - Fix a spurious socks5 warning about still trying to write after the
40193 connection is finished.
40194 - Hold certain marked_for_close connections open until they're finished
40195 flushing, rather than losing bytes by closing them too early.
40196 - Correctly report the reason for ending a stream
40197 - Remove some duplicate calls to connection_mark_for_close
40198 - Put switch_id and start_daemon earlier in the boot sequence, so it
40199 will actually try to chdir() to options.DataDirectory
40200 - Make 'make test' exit(1) if a test fails; fix some unit tests
40201 - Make tor fail when you use a config option it doesn't know about,
40202 rather than warn and continue.
40203 - Make --version work
40204 - Bugfixes on the rpm spec file and tor.sh, so it's more up to date
40207 Changes in version 0.0.2pre23 - 2004-02-29
40209 - Print a statement when the first circ is finished, so the user
40210 knows it's working.
40211 - If a relay cell is unrecognized at the end of the circuit,
40212 send back a destroy. (So attacks to mutate cells are more
40214 - New config option 'excludenodes' to avoid certain nodes for circuits.
40215 - When it daemonizes, it chdir's to the DataDirectory rather than "/",
40216 so you can collect coredumps there.
40218 - Fix a bug in tls flushing where sometimes data got wedged and
40219 didn't flush until more data got sent. Hopefully this bug was
40220 a big factor in the random delays we were seeing.
40221 - Make 'connected' cells include the resolved IP, so the client
40222 dns cache actually gets populated.
40223 - Disallow changing from ORPort=0 to ORPort>0 on hup.
40224 - When we time-out on a stream and detach from the circuit, send an
40225 end cell down it first.
40226 - Only warn about an unknown router (in exitnodes, entrynodes,
40227 excludenodes) after we've fetched a directory.
40230 Changes in version 0.0.2pre22 - 2004-02-26
40232 - Servers publish less revealing uname information in descriptors.
40233 - More memory tracking and assertions, to crash more usefully when
40235 - If the default torrc isn't there, just use some default defaults.
40236 Plus provide an internal dirservers file if they don't have one.
40237 - When the user tries to use Tor as an http proxy, give them an http
40238 501 failure explaining that we're a socks proxy.
40239 - Dump a new router.desc on hup, to help confused people who change
40240 their exit policies and then wonder why router.desc doesn't reflect
40242 - Clean up the generic tor.sh init script that we ship with.
40244 - If the exit stream is pending on the resolve, and a destroy arrives,
40245 then the stream wasn't getting removed from the pending list. I
40246 think this was the one causing recent server crashes.
40247 - Use a more robust poll on OSX 10.3, since their poll is flaky.
40248 - When it couldn't resolve any dirservers, it was useless from then on.
40249 Now it reloads the RouterFile (or default dirservers) if it has no
40251 - Move the 'tor' binary back to /usr/local/bin/ -- it turns out
40252 many users don't even *have* a /usr/local/sbin/.
40255 Changes in version 0.0.2pre21 - 2004-02-18
40257 - There's a ChangeLog file that actually reflects the changelog.
40258 - There's a 'torify' wrapper script, with an accompanying
40259 tor-tsocks.conf, that simplifies the process of using tsocks for
40260 tor. It even has a man page.
40261 - The tor binary gets installed to sbin rather than bin now.
40262 - Retry streams where the connected cell hasn't arrived in 15 seconds
40263 - Clean up exit policy handling -- get the default out of the torrc,
40264 so we can update it without forcing each server operator to fix
40266 - Allow imaps and pop3s in default exit policy
40268 - Prevent picking middleman nodes as the last node in the circuit
40271 Changes in version 0.0.2pre20 - 2004-01-30
40273 - We now have a deb package, and it's in debian unstable. Go to
40274 it, apt-getters. :)
40275 - I've split the TotalBandwidth option into BandwidthRate (how many
40276 bytes per second you want to allow, long-term) and
40277 BandwidthBurst (how many bytes you will allow at once before the cap
40278 kicks in). This better token bucket approach lets you, say, set
40279 BandwidthRate to 10KB/s and BandwidthBurst to 10MB, allowing good
40280 performance while not exceeding your monthly bandwidth quota.
40281 - Push out a tls record's worth of data once you've got it, rather
40282 than waiting until you've read everything waiting to be read. This
40283 may improve performance by pipelining better. We'll see.
40284 - Add an AP_CONN_STATE_CONNECTING state, to allow streams to detach
40285 from failed circuits (if they haven't been connected yet) and attach
40287 - Expire old streams that haven't managed to connect. Some day we'll
40288 have them reattach to new circuits instead.
40291 - Fix several memory leaks that were causing servers to become bloated
40293 - Fix a few very rare assert triggers. A few more remain.
40294 - Setuid to User _before_ complaining about running as root.
40297 Changes in version 0.0.2pre19 - 2004-01-07
40299 - Fix deadlock condition in dns farm. We were telling a child to die by
40300 closing the parent's file descriptor to him. But newer children were
40301 inheriting the open file descriptor from the parent, and since they
40302 weren't closing it, the socket never closed, so the child never read
40303 eof, so he never knew to exit. Similarly, dns workers were holding
40304 open other sockets, leading to all sorts of chaos.
40305 - New cleaner daemon() code for forking and backgrounding.
40306 - If you log to a file, it now prints an entry at the top of the
40307 logfile so you know it's working.
40308 - The onionskin challenge length was 30 bytes longer than necessary.
40309 - Started to patch up the spec so it's not quite so out of date.
40312 Changes in version 0.0.2pre18 - 2004-01-02
40314 - Fix endian issues with the 'integrity' field in the relay header.
40315 - Fix a potential bug where connections in state
40316 AP_CONN_STATE_CIRCUIT_WAIT might unexpectedly ask to write.
40319 Changes in version 0.0.2pre17 - 2003-12-30
40321 - Made --debuglogfile (or any second log file, actually) work.
40322 - Resolved an edge case in get_unique_circ_id_by_conn where a smart
40323 adversary could force us into an infinite loop.
40326 - Each onionskin handshake now includes a hash of the computed key,
40327 to prove the server's identity and help perfect forward secrecy.
40328 - Changed cell size from 256 to 512 bytes (working toward compatibility
40330 - Changed cell length to 2 bytes, and moved it to the relay header.
40331 - Implemented end-to-end integrity checking for the payloads of
40333 - Separated streamid from 'recognized' (otherwise circuits will get
40334 messed up when we try to have streams exit from the middle). We
40335 use the integrity-checking to confirm that a cell is addressed to
40337 - Randomize the initial circid and streamid values, so an adversary who
40338 breaks into a node can't learn how many circuits or streams have
40342 Changes in version 0.0.2pre16 - 2003-12-14
40344 - Fixed a bug that made HUP trigger an assert
40345 - Fixed a bug where a circuit that immediately failed wasn't being
40346 counted as a failed circuit in counting retries.
40349 - Now we close the circuit when we get a truncated cell: otherwise we're
40350 open to an anonymity attack where a bad node in the path truncates
40351 the circuit and then we open streams at him.
40352 - Add port ranges to exit policies
40353 - Add a conservative default exit policy
40354 - Warn if you're running tor as root
40355 - on HUP, retry OR connections and close/rebind listeners
40356 - options.EntryNodes: try these nodes first when picking the first node
40357 - options.ExitNodes: if your best choices happen to include any of
40358 your preferred exit nodes, you choose among just those preferred
40360 - options.ExcludedNodes: nodes that are never picked in path building
40363 Changes in version 0.0.2pre15 - 2003-12-03
40364 o Robustness and bugfixes:
40365 - Sometimes clients would cache incorrect DNS resolves, which would
40366 really screw things up.
40367 - An OP that goes offline would slowly leak all its sockets and stop
40369 - A wide variety of bugfixes in exit node selection, exit policy
40370 handling, and processing pending streams when a new circuit is
40372 - Pick nodes for a path only from those the directory says are up
40373 - Choose randomly from all running dirservers, not always the first one
40374 - Increase allowed http header size for directory fetch.
40375 - Stop writing to stderr (if we're daemonized it will be closed).
40376 - Enable -g always, so cores will be more useful to me.
40377 - Switch "-lcrypto -lssl" to "-lssl -lcrypto" for broken distributions.
40380 - Wrote a man page. It lists commonly used options.
40383 - Change default loglevel to warn.
40384 - Make PidFile default to null rather than littering in your CWD.
40385 - OnionRouter config option is now obsolete. Instead it just checks
40387 - Moved to a single unified torrc file for both clients and servers.
40390 Changes in version 0.0.2pre14 - 2003-11-29
40391 o Robustness and bugfixes:
40392 - Force the admin to make the DataDirectory himself
40393 - to get ownership/permissions right
40394 - so clients no longer make a DataDirectory and then never use it
40395 - fix bug where a client who was offline for 45 minutes would never
40396 pull down a directory again
40397 - fix (or at least hide really well) the dns assert bug that was
40398 causing server crashes
40399 - warnings and improved robustness wrt clockskew for certs
40400 - use the native daemon(3) to daemonize, when available
40401 - exit if bind() fails
40402 - exit if neither socksport nor orport is defined
40403 - include our own tor_timegm (Win32 doesn't have its own)
40404 - bugfix for win32 with lots of connections
40405 - fix minor bias in PRNG
40406 - make dirserver more robust to corrupt cached directory
40409 - Wrote the design document (woo)
40411 o Circuit building and exit policies:
40412 - Circuits no longer try to use nodes that the directory has told them
40414 - Exit policies now support bitmasks (18.0.0.0/255.0.0.0) and
40415 bitcounts (18.0.0.0/8).
40416 - Make AP connections standby for a circuit if no suitable circuit
40417 exists, rather than failing
40418 - Circuits choose exit node based on addr/port, exit policies, and
40419 which AP connections are standing by
40420 - Bump min pathlen from 2 to 3
40421 - Relay end cells have a payload to describe why the stream ended.
40422 - If the stream failed because of exit policy, try again with a new
40424 - Clients have a dns cache to remember resolved addresses.
40425 - Notice more quickly when we have no working circuits
40428 - APPort is now called SocksPort
40429 - SocksBindAddress, ORBindAddress, DirBindAddress let you configure
40431 - RecommendedVersions is now a config variable rather than
40432 hardcoded (for dirservers)
40433 - Reloads config on HUP
40434 - Usage info on -h or --help
40435 - If you set User and Group config vars, it'll setu/gid to them.
40438 Changes in version 0.0.2pre13 - 2003-10-19
40439 o General stability:
40440 - SSL_write no longer fails when it returns WANTWRITE and the number
40441 of bytes in the buf has changed by the next SSL_write call.
40442 - Fix segfault fetching directory when network is down
40443 - Fix a variety of minor memory leaks
40444 - Dirservers reload the fingerprints file on HUP, so I don't have
40445 to take down the network when I approve a new router
40446 - Default server config file has explicit Address line to specify fqdn
40449 - Buffers grow and shrink as needed (Cut process size from 20M to 2M)
40450 - Make listener connections not ever alloc bufs
40452 o Autoconf improvements:
40453 - don't clobber an external CFLAGS in ./configure
40454 - Make install now works
40455 - create var/lib/tor on make install
40456 - autocreate a tor.sh initscript to help distribs
40457 - autocreate the torrc and sample-server-torrc with correct paths
40459 o Log files and Daemonizing now work:
40460 - If --DebugLogFile is specified, log to it at -l debug
40461 - If --LogFile is specified, use it instead of commandline
40462 - If --RunAsDaemon is set, tor forks and backgrounds on startup