1 Changes in version 0.4.8.2-alpha - 2023-07-12
2 This is our second alpha containing some minor bugfixes and one major bugfix
3 about L2 vanguard rotation. We believe this will be the last alpha before the
4 rc in a couple of weeks.
6 o Major bugfixes (vanguards):
7 - Rotate to a new L2 vanguard whenever an existing one loses the
8 Stable or Fast flag. Previously, we would leave these relays in
9 the L2 vanguard list but never use them, and if all of our
10 vanguards end up like this we wouldn't have any middle nodes left
11 to choose from so we would fail to make onion-related circuits.
12 Fixes bug 40805; bugfix on 0.4.7.1-alpha.
15 - Fix compiler warnings in equix and hashx when building with clang.
18 o Minor features (fallbackdir):
19 - Regenerate fallback directories generated on July 12, 2023.
21 o Minor features (geoip data):
22 - Update the geoip files to match the IPFire Location Database, as
23 retrieved on 2023/07/12.
25 o Minor bugfix (congestion control):
26 - Reduce the accepted range of a circuit's negotiated 'cc_sendme_inc'
27 to be +/- 1 from the consensus parameter value. Fixes bug 40569;
28 bugfix on 0.4.7.4-alpha.
29 - Remove unused congestion control algorithms and BDP calculation
30 code, now that we have settled on and fully tuned Vegas. Fixes bug
31 40566; bugfix on 0.4.7.4-alpha.
32 - Update default congestion control parameters to match consensus.
33 Fixes bug 40709; bugfix on 0.4.7.4-alpha.
35 o Minor bugfixes (compilation):
36 - Fix "initializer is not a constant" compilation error that
37 manifests itself on gcc versions < 8.1 and MSVC. Fixes bug 40773;
38 bugfix on 0.4.8.1-alpha
40 o Minor bugfixes (conflux):
41 - Count leg launch attempts prior to attempting to launch them. This
42 avoids inifinite launch attempts due to internal circuit building
43 failures. Additionally, double-check that we have enough exits in
44 our consensus overall, before attempting to launch conflux sets.
45 Fixes bug 40811; bugfix on 0.4.8.1-alpha.
46 - Fix a case where we were resuming reading on edge connections that
47 were already marked for close. Fixes bug 40801; bugfix
49 - Fix stream attachment order when creating conflux circuits, so
50 that stream attachment happens after finishing the full link
51 handshake, rather than upon set finalization. Fixes bug 40801;
52 bugfix on 0.4.8.1-alpha.
53 - Handle legs being closed or destroyed before computing an RTT
54 (resulting in warns about too many legs). Fixes bug 40810; bugfix
56 - Remove a "BUG" warning from conflux_pick_first_leg that can be
57 triggered by broken or malicious clients. Fixes bug 40801; bugfix
60 o Minor bugfixes (KIST):
61 - Prevent KISTSchedRunInterval from having values of 0 or 1, neither
62 of which work properly. Additionally, make a separate
63 KISTSchedRunIntervalClient parameter, so that the client and relay
64 KIST values can be set separately. Set the default of both to 2ms.
65 Fixes bug 40808; bugfix on 0.3.2.1-alpha.
68 Changes in version 0.4.8.1-alpha - 2023-06-01
69 This is the first alpha of the 0.4.8.x series. Two major features in this
70 version which are Conflux and onion service Proof-of-Work (PoW). There are
71 also many small features in particular, worth noting, the MetricsPort is now
72 exporting more relay and onion service metrics. Finally, there are
73 also numerous minor bugfixes included in this version.
75 o Major features (onion service, proof-of-work):
76 - Implement proposal 327 (Proof-Of-Work). This is aimed at thwarting
77 introduction flooding DoS attacks by introducing a dynamic Proof-Of-Work
78 protocol that occurs over introduction circuits. This introduces several
79 torrc options prefixed with "HiddenServicePoW" in order to control this
80 feature. By default, this is disabled. Closes ticket 40634.
82 o Major features (conflux):
83 - Implement Proposal 329 (conflux traffic splitting). Conflux splits
84 traffic across two circuits to Exits that support the protocol.
85 These circuits are pre-built only, which means that if the pre-
86 built conflux pool runs out, regular circuits will then be used.
87 When using conflux circuit pairs, clients choose the lower-latency
88 circuit to send data to the Exit. When the Exit sends data to the
89 client, it maximizes throughput, by fully utilizing both circuits
90 in a multiplexed fashion. Alternatively, clients can request that
91 the Exit optimize for latency when transmitting to them, by
92 setting the torrc option 'ConfluxClientUX latency'. Onion services
93 are not currently supported, but will be in arti. Many other
94 future optimizations will also be possible using this protocol.
97 o Major features (dirauth):
98 - Directory authorities and relays now interact properly with
99 directory authorities if they change addresses. In the past, they
100 would continue to upload votes, signatures, descriptors, etc to
101 the hard-coded address in the configuration. Now, if the directory
102 authority is listed in the consensus at a different address, they
103 will direct queries to this new address. Implements ticket 40705.
105 o Minor feature (CI):
106 - Update CI to use Debian Bullseye for runners.
108 o Minor feature (client, IPv6):
109 - Make client able to pick IPv6 relays by default now meaning
110 ClientUseIPv6 option now defaults to 1. Closes ticket 40785.
112 o Minor feature (compilation):
113 - Fix returning something other than "Unknown N/A" as libc version
114 if we build tor on an O.S. like DragonFlyBSD, FreeBSD, OpenBSD
117 o Minor feature (cpuworker):
118 - Always use the number of threads for our CPU worker pool to the
119 number of core available but cap it to a minimum of 2 in case of a
120 single core. Fixes bug 40713; bugfix on 0.3.5.1-alpha.
122 o Minor feature (lzma):
123 - Fix compiler warnings for liblzma >= 5.3.1. Closes ticket 40741.
125 o Minor feature (MetricsPort, relay):
126 - Expose time until online keys expires on the MetricsPort. Closes
129 o Minor feature (MetricsPort, relay, onion service):
130 - Add metrics for the relay side onion service interactions counting
131 seen cells. Closes ticket 40797. Patch by "friendly73".
133 o Minor features (directory authorities):
134 - Directory authorities now include their AuthDirMaxServersPerAddr
135 config option in the consensus parameter section of their vote.
136 Now external tools can better predict how they will behave.
137 Implements ticket 40753.
139 o Minor features (directory authority):
140 - Add a new consensus method in which the "published" times on
141 router entries in a microdesc consensus are all set to a
142 meaningless fixed date. Doing this will make the download size for
143 compressed microdesc consensus diffs much smaller. Part of ticket
144 40130; implements proposal 275.
146 o Minor features (network documents):
147 - Clients and relays no longer track the "published on" time
148 declared for relays in any consensus documents. When reporting
149 this time on the control port, they instead report a fixed date in
150 the future. Part of ticket 40130.
152 o Minor features (fallbackdir):
153 - Regenerate fallback directories generated on June 01, 2023.
155 o Minor features (geoip data):
156 - Update the geoip files to match the IPFire Location Database, as
157 retrieved on 2023/06/01.
159 o Minor features (hs, metrics):
160 - Add tor_hs_rend_circ_build_time and tor_hs_intro_circ_build_time
161 histograms to measure hidden service rend/intro circuit build time
162 durations. Part of ticket 40757.
164 o Minor features (metrics):
165 - Add a `reason` label to the HS error metrics. Closes ticket 40758.
166 - Add service side metrics for REND and introduction request
167 failures. Closes ticket 40755.
168 - Add support for histograms. Part of ticket 40757.
170 o Minor features (pluggable transports):
171 - Automatically restart managed Pluggable Transport processes when
172 their process terminate. Resolves ticket 33669.
174 o Minor features (portability, compilation):
175 - Use OpenSSL 1.1 APIs for LibreSSL, fixing LibreSSL 3.5
176 compatibility. Fixes issue 40630; patch by Alex Xu (Hello71).
178 o Minor features (relay):
179 - Do not warn about configuration options that may expose a non-
180 anonymous onion service. Closes ticket 40691.
182 o Minor features (relays):
183 - Trigger OOS when bind fails with EADDRINUSE. This improves
184 fairness when a large number of exit connections are requested,
185 and properly signals exhaustion to the network. Fixes issue 40597;
186 patch by Alex Xu (Hello71).
188 o Minor features (tests):
189 - Avoid needless key reinitialization with OpenSSL during unit
190 tests, saving significant time. Patch from Alex Xu.
192 o Minor bugfix (relay, logging):
193 - The wrong max queue cell size was used in a protocol warning
194 logging statement. Fixes bug 40745; bugfix on 0.4.7.1-alpha.
196 o Minor bugfixes (logging):
197 - Avoid ""double-quoting"" strings in several log messages. Fixes
198 bug 22723; bugfix on 0.1.2.2-alpha.
199 - Correct a log message when cleaning microdescriptors. Fixes bug
200 40619; bugfix on 0.2.5.4-alpha.
202 o Minor bugfixes (metrics):
203 - Decrement hs_intro_established_count on introduction circuit
204 close. Fixes bug 40751; bugfix on 0.4.7.12.
206 o Minor bugfixes (pluggable transports, windows):
207 - Remove a warning `BUG()` that could occur when attempting to
208 execute a non-existing pluggable transport on Windows. Fixes bug
209 40596; bugfix on 0.4.0.1-alpha.
211 o Minor bugfixes (relay):
212 - Remove a "BUG" warning for an acceptable race between a circuit
213 close and considering that circuit active. Fixes bug 40647; bugfix
215 - Remove a harmless "Bug" log message that can happen in
216 relay_addr_learn_from_dirauth() on relays during startup. Finishes
217 fixing bug 40231. Fixes bug 40523; bugfix on 0.4.5.4-rc.
219 o Minor bugfixes (sandbox):
220 - Allow membarrier for the sandbox. And allow rt_sigprocmask when
221 compiled with LTTng. Fixes bug 40799; bugfix on 0.3.5.1-alpha.
222 - Fix sandbox support on AArch64 systems. More "*at" variants of
223 syscalls are now supported. Signed 32 bit syscall parameters are
224 checked more precisely, which should lead to lower likelihood of
225 breakages with future compiler and libc releases. Fixes bug 40599;
226 bugfix on 0.4.4.3-alpha.
228 o Minor bugfixes (state file):
229 - Avoid a segfault if the state file doesn't contains TotalBuildTimes
230 along CircuitBuildAbandonedCount being above 0. Fixes bug 40437;
231 bugfix on 0.3.5.1-alpha.
234 - Remove the RendPostPeriod option. This was primarily used in
235 Version 2 Onion Services and after its deprecation isn't needed
236 anymore. Closes ticket 40431. Patch by Neel Chauhan.
239 Changes in version 0.4.7.13 - 2023-01-12
240 This version contains three major bugfixes, two for relays and one for
241 client being a security fix, TROVE-2022-002. We have added, for Linux, the
242 support for IP_BIND_ADDRESS_NO_PORT for relays using OutboundBindAddress.
243 We strongly recommend to upgrade to this version considering the important
244 congestion control fix detailed below.
246 o Major bugfixes (congestion control):
247 - Avoid incrementing the congestion window when the window is not
248 fully in use. Thia prevents overshoot in cases where long periods
249 of low activity would allow our congestion window to grow, and
250 then get followed by a burst, which would cause queue overload.
251 Also improve the increment checks for RFC3742. Fixes bug 40732;
252 bugfix on 0.4.7.5-alpha.
254 o Major bugfixes (relay):
255 - When opening a channel because of a circuit request that did not
256 include an Ed25519 identity, record the Ed25519 identity that we
257 actually received, so that we can use the channel for other
258 circuit requests that _do_ list an Ed25519 identity. (Previously
259 we had code to record this identity, but a logic bug caused it to
260 be disabled.) Fixes bug 40563; bugfix on 0.3.0.1-alpha. Patch
263 o Major bugfixes (TROVE-2022-002, client):
264 - The SafeSocks option had its logic inverted for SOCKS4 and
265 SOCKS4a. It would let the unsafe SOCKS4 pass but not the safe
266 SOCKS4a one. This is TROVE-2022-002 which was reported on
267 Hackerone by "cojabo". Fixes bug 40730; bugfix on 0.3.5.1-alpha.
269 o Minor feature (authority):
270 - Reject 0.4.6.x series at the authority level. Closes ticket 40664.
272 o Minor features (fallbackdir):
273 - Regenerate fallback directories generated on January 12, 2023.
275 o Minor features (geoip data):
276 - Update the geoip files to match the IPFire Location Database, as
277 retrieved on 2023/01/12.
279 o Minor features (relays):
280 - Set the Linux-specific IP_BIND_ADDRESS_NO_PORT option on outgoing
281 sockets, allowing relays using OutboundBindAddress to make more
282 outgoing connections than ephemeral ports, as long as they are to
283 separate destinations. Related to issue 40597; patch by Alex
286 o Minor bugfixes (relay, metrics):
287 - Fix typo in a congestion control label on the MetricsPort. Fixes
288 bug 40727; bugfix on 0.4.7.12.
290 o Minor bugfixes (sandbox, authority):
291 - With the sandbox enabled, allow to write "my-consensus-
292 {ns|microdesc}" and to rename them as well. Fixes bug 40729;
293 bugfix on 0.3.5.1-alpha.
295 o Code simplifications and refactoring:
296 - Rely on actual error returned by the kernel when choosing what
297 resource exhaustion to log. Fixes issue 40613; Fix
298 on tor-0.4.6.1-alpha.
301 Changes in version 0.4.5.16 - 2023-01-12
302 This version has one major bugfix for relay and a security fix,
303 TROVE-2022-002, affecting clients. We strongly recommend to upgrade to our
304 0.4.7.x stable series. As a reminder, this series is EOL on February 15th,
307 o Major bugfixes (relay):
308 - When opening a channel because of a circuit request that did not
309 include an Ed25519 identity, record the Ed25519 identity that we
310 actually received, so that we can use the channel for other
311 circuit requests that _do_ list an Ed25519 identity. (Previously
312 we had code to record this identity, but a logic bug caused it to
313 be disabled.) Fixes bug 40563; bugfix on 0.3.0.1-alpha. Patch
316 o Major bugfixes (TROVE-2022-002, client):
317 - The SafeSocks option had its logic inverted for SOCKS4 and
318 SOCKS4a. It would let the unsafe SOCKS4 pass but not the safe
319 SOCKS4a one. This is TROVE-2022-002 which was reported on
320 Hackerone by "cojabo". Fixes bug 40730; bugfix on 0.3.5.1-alpha.
322 o Minor features (fallbackdir):
323 - Regenerate fallback directories generated on January 12, 2023.
325 o Minor features (geoip data):
326 - Update the geoip files to match the IPFire Location Database, as
327 retrieved on 2023/01/12.
330 Changes in version 0.4.7.12 - 2022-12-06
331 This version contains a major change that is a new key for moria1. Also, new
332 metrics are exported on the MetricsPort for the congestion control
335 o Directory authority changes (moria1):
336 - Rotate the relay identity key and v3 identity key for moria1. They
337 have been online for more than a decade and refreshing keys
338 periodically is good practice. Advertise new ports too, to avoid
339 confusion. Closes ticket 40722.
341 o Minor feature (Congestion control metrics):
342 - Add additional metricsport relay metrics for congestion control.
345 o Minor features (fallbackdir):
346 - Regenerate fallback directories generated on December 06, 2022.
348 o Minor features (geoip data):
349 - Update the geoip files to match the IPFire Location Database, as
350 retrieved on 2022/12/06.
352 o Minor bugfixes (cpuworker, relay):
353 - Fix an off by one overload calculation on the number of CPUs being
354 used by our thread pool. Fixes bug 40719; bugfix on 0.3.5.1-alpha.
357 Changes in version 0.4.5.15 - 2022-12-06
358 This version has several major changes for directory authorities. And a
359 major bugfix on OSX. Again, we strongly recommend to upgrade to our 0.4.7.x
360 series latest stable. This series is EOL on February 15th, 2023.
362 o Directory authority changes (dizum):
363 - Change dizum IP address. Closes ticket 40687.
365 o Directory authority changes (Faravahar):
366 - Remove Faravahar until its operator, Sina, set it back up online
367 outside of Team Cymru network. Closes ticket 40688.
369 o Directory authority changes (moria1):
370 - Rotate the relay identity key and v3 identity key for moria1. They
371 have been online for more than a decade and refreshing keys
372 periodically is good practice. Advertise new ports too, to avoid
373 confusion. Closes ticket 40722.
375 o Major bugfixes (OSX):
376 - Fix coarse-time computation on Apple platforms (like Mac M1) where
377 the Mach absolute time ticks do not correspond directly to
378 nanoseconds. Previously, we computed our shift value wrong, which
379 led us to give incorrect timing results. Fixes bug 40684; bugfix
382 o Major bugfixes (relay):
383 - Improve security of our DNS cache by randomly clipping the TTL
384 value. TROVE-2021-009. Fixes bug 40674; bugfix on 0.3.5.1-alpha.
386 o Minor features (fallbackdir):
387 - Regenerate fallback directories generated on December 06, 2022.
389 o Minor features (geoip data):
390 - Update the geoip files to match the IPFire Location Database, as
391 retrieved on 2022/12/06.
394 Changes in version 0.4.7.11 - 2022-11-10
395 This version contains several major fixes aimed at helping defend against
396 network denial of service. It is also extending drastically the MetricsPort
397 for relays to help us gather more internal data to investigate performance
400 We strongly recommend to upgrade to this version especially for Exit relays
401 in order to help the network defend against this ongoing DDoS.
403 o Directory authority changes (dizum, Faravahar):
404 - Change dizum IP address. Closes ticket 40687.
405 - Remove Faravahar until its operator, Sina, set it back up online
406 outside of Team Cymru network. Closes ticket 40688.
408 o Major bugfixes (geoip data):
409 - IPFire informed us on August 12th that databases generated after
410 (including) August 10th did not have proper ARIN network
411 allocations. We are updating the database to use the one generated
412 on August 9th, 2022. Fixes bug 40658; bugfix on 0.4.5.13.
414 o Major bugfixes (onion service):
415 - Set a much higher circuit build timeout for opened client rendezvous
416 circuit. Before this, tor would time them out very quickly leading to
417 unnecessary retries meaning more load on the network. Fixes bug 40694;
418 bugfix on 0.3.5.1-alpha.
420 o Major bugfixes (OSX):
421 - Fix coarse-time computation on Apple platforms (like Mac M1) where
422 the Mach absolute time ticks do not correspond directly to
423 nanoseconds. Previously, we computed our shift value wrong, which
424 led us to give incorrect timing results. Fixes bug 40684; bugfix
427 o Major bugfixes (relay):
428 - Improve security of our DNS cache by randomly clipping the TTL
429 value. TROVE-2021-009. Fixes bug 40674; bugfix on 0.3.5.1-alpha.
431 o Minor feature (Mac and iOS build):
432 - Change how combine_libs works on Darwin like platforms to make
433 sure we don't include any `__.SYMDEF` and `__.SYMDEF SORTED`
434 symbols on the archive before we repack and run ${RANLIB} on the
435 archive. This fixes a build issue with recent Xcode versions on
436 Mac Silicon and iOS. Closes ticket 40683.
438 o Minor feature (metrics):
439 - Add various congestion control counters to the MetricsPort. Closes
442 o Minor feature (performance):
443 - Bump the maximum amount of CPU that can be used from 16 to 128. Note
444 that NumCPUs torrc option overrides this hardcoded maximum. Fixes bug
445 40703; bugfix on 0.3.5.1-alpha.
447 o Minor feature (relay):
448 - Make an hardcoded value for the maximum of per CPU tasks into a
450 - Two new consensus parameters are added to control the wait time in
451 queue of the onionskins. One of them is the torrc
452 MaxOnionQueueDelay options which supersedes the consensus
453 parameter. Closes ticket 40704.
455 o Minor feature (relay, DoS):
456 - Apply circuit creation anti-DoS defenses if the outbound circuit
457 max cell queue size is reached too many times. This introduces two
458 new consensus parameters to control the queue size limit and
459 number of times allowed to go over that limit. Closes ticket 40680.
461 o Minor feature (relay, metrics):
462 - Add DoS defenses counter to MetricsPort.
463 - Add congestion control RTT reset counter to MetricsPort.
464 - Add counters to the MetricsPort how many connections, per type,
465 are currently opened and how many were created.
466 - Add relay flags from the consensus to the MetricsPort.
467 - Add total number of opened circuits to MetricsPort.
468 - Add total number of streams seen by an Exit to the MetricsPort.
469 - Add traffic stats as in number of read/written bytes in total.
470 - Related to ticket 40194.
472 o Minor features (fallbackdir):
473 - Regenerate fallback directories generated on November 10, 2022.
475 o Minor features (geoip data):
476 - Update the geoip files to match the IPFire Location Database, as
477 retrieved on 2022/11/10.
479 o Minor bugfixes (authorities, sandbox):
480 - Allow to write file my-consensus-<flavor-name> to disk when
481 sandbox is activated. Fixes bug 40663; bugfix on 0.3.5.1-alpha.
483 o Minor bugfixes (dirauth):
484 - Directory authorities stop voting a consensus "Measured" weight
485 for relays with the Authority flag. Now these relays will be
486 considered unmeasured, which should reserve their bandwidth for
487 their dir auth role and minimize distractions from other roles. In
488 place of the "Measured" weight, they now include a
489 "MeasuredButAuthority" weight (not used by anything) so the
490 bandwidth authority's opinion on this relay can be recorded for
491 posterity. Lastly, remove the AuthDirDontVoteOnDirAuthBandwidth
492 torrc option which never worked right. Fixes bugs 40698 and 40700;
493 bugfix on 0.4.7.2-alpha.
495 o Minor bugfixes (onion service client):
496 - A collapsing onion service circuit should be seen as an
497 "unreachable" error so it can be retried. Fixes bug 40692; bugfix
500 o Minor bugfixes (onion service):
501 - Make the service retry a rendezvous if the circuit is being
502 repurposed for measurements. Fixes bug 40696; bugfix
505 o Minor bugfixes (relay overload statistics):
506 - Count total create cells vs dropped create cells properly, when
507 assessing if our fraction of dropped cells is too high. We only
508 count non-client circuits in the denominator, but we would include
509 client circuits in the numerator, leading to surprising log lines
510 claiming that we had dropped more than 100% of incoming create
511 cells. Fixes bug 40673; bugfix on 0.4.7.1-alpha.
513 o Code simplification and refactoring (bridges):
514 - Remove unused code related to ExtPort connection ID. Fixes bug
515 40648; bugfix on 0.3.5.1-alpha.
518 Changes in version 0.4.7.10 - 2022-08-12
519 This version updates the geoip cache that we generate from IPFire location
520 database to use the August 9th, 2022 one. Everyone MUST update to this
521 latest release else circuit path selection and relay metrics are badly
524 o Major bugfixes (geoip data):
525 - IPFire informed us on August 12th that databases generated after
526 (including) August 10th did not have proper ARIN network allocations. We
527 are updating the database to use the one generated on August 9th, 2022.
528 Fixes bug 40658; bugfix on 0.4.7.9.
531 Changes in version 0.4.6.12 - 2022-08-12
532 This version updates the geoip cache that we generate from IPFire location
533 database to use the August 9th, 2022 one. Everyone MUST update to this
534 latest release else circuit path selection and relay metrics are badly
537 o Major bugfixes (geoip data):
538 - IPFire informed us on August 12th that databases generated after
539 (including) August 10th did not have proper ARIN network allocations. We
540 are updating the database to use the one generated on August 9th, 2022.
541 Fixes bug 40658; bugfix on 0.4.6.11.
544 Changes in version 0.4.5.14 - 2022-08-12
545 This version updates the geoip cache that we generate from IPFire location
546 database to use the August 9th, 2022 one. Everyone MUST update to this
547 latest release else circuit path selection and relay metrics are badly
550 o Major bugfixes (geoip data):
551 - IPFire informed us on August 12th that databases generated after
552 (including) August 10th did not have proper ARIN network allocations. We
553 are updating the database to use the one generated on August 9th, 2022.
554 Fixes bug 40658; bugfix on 0.4.5.13.
557 Changes in version 0.4.7.9 - 2022-08-11
558 This version contains several major fixes aimed at reducing memory pressure on
559 relays and possible side-channel. It also contains a major bugfix related to
560 congestion control also aimed at reducing memory pressure on relays.
561 Finally, there is last one major bugfix related to Vanguard L2 layer node
564 We strongly recommend to upgrade to this version especially for Exit relays
565 in order to help the network defend against this ongoing DDoS.
567 o Major bugfixes (congestion control):
568 - Implement RFC3742 Limited Slow Start. Congestion control was
569 overshooting the congestion window during slow start, particularly
570 for onion service activity. With this fix, we now update the
571 congestion window more often during slow start, as well as dampen
572 the exponential growth when the congestion window grows above a
573 capping parameter. This should reduce the memory increases guard
574 relays were seeing, as well as allow us to set lower queue limits
575 to defend against ongoing DoS attacks. Fixes bug 40642; bugfix
578 o Major bugfixes (relay):
579 - Remove OR connections btrack subsystem entries when the connections
580 close normally. Before this, we would only remove the entry on error and
581 thus leaking memory for each normal OR connections. Fixes bug 40604;
582 bugfix on 0.4.0.1-alpha.
583 - Stop sending TRUNCATED cell and instead close the circuit from which we
584 received a DESTROY cell. This makes every relay in the circuit path to
585 stop queuing cells. Fixes bug 40623; bugfix on 0.1.0.2-rc.
587 o Major bugfixes (vanguards):
588 - We had omitted some checks for whether our vanguards (second layer
589 guards from proposal 333) overlapped. Now make sure to pick each
590 of them to be independent. Also, change the design to allow them
591 to come from the same family. Fixes bug 40639; bugfix
594 o Minor features (dirauth):
595 - Add a torrc option to control the Guard flag bandwidth threshold
596 percentile. Closes ticket 40652.
597 - Add an AuthDirVoteGuard torrc option that can allow authorities to
598 assign the Guard flag to the given fingerprints/country code/IPs.
599 This is a needed feature mostly for defense purposes in case a DoS
600 hits the network and relay start losing the Guard flags too fast.
601 - Make UPTIME_TO_GUARANTEE_STABLE, MTBF_TO_GUARANTEE_STABLE,
602 TIME_KNOWN_TO_GUARANTEE_FAMILIAR WFU_TO_GUARANTEE_GUARD tunable
605 o Minor features (fallbackdir):
606 - Regenerate fallback directories generated on August 11, 2022.
608 o Minor features (geoip data):
609 - Update the geoip files to match the IPFire Location Database, as
610 retrieved on 2022/08/11.
612 o Minor bugfixes (congestion control):
613 - Add a check for an integer underflow condition that might happen
614 in cases where the system clock is stopped, the ORconn is blocked,
615 and the endpoint sends more than a congestion window worth of non-
616 data control cells at once. This would cause a large congestion
617 window to be calculated instead of a small one. No security
618 impact. Fixes bug 40644; bugfix on 0.4.7.5-alpha.
620 o Minor bugfixes (defense in depth):
621 - Change a test in the netflow padding code to make it more
622 _obviously_ safe against remotely triggered crashes. (It was safe
623 against these before, but not obviously so.) Fixes bug 40645;
624 bugfix on 0.3.1.1-alpha.
626 o Minor bugfixes (relay):
627 - Do not propagate either forward or backward a DESTROY remote reason when
628 closing a circuit in order to avoid a possible side channel. Fixes bug
629 40649; bugfix on 0.1.2.4-alpha.
632 Changes in version 0.4.6.11 - 2022-08-11
633 This version contains two major fixes aimed at reducing memory pressure on
634 relays and possible side-channel. The rest of the fixes were backported for
635 stability or safety purposes.
637 This is the very LAST version of this series. As of August 1st 2022, it is
638 end-of-life (EOL). We thus strongly recommend to upgrade to the latest
639 stable of the 0.4.7.x series.
641 o Major bugfixes (relay):
642 - Remove OR connections btrack subsystem entries when the connections
643 close normally. Before this, we would only remove the entry on error and
644 thus leaking memory for each normal OR connections. Fixes bug 40604;
645 bugfix on 0.4.0.1-alpha.
646 - Stop sending TRUNCATED cell and instead close the circuit from which we
647 received a DESTROY cell. This makes every relay in the circuit path to
648 stop queuing cells. Fixes bug 40623; bugfix on 0.1.0.2-rc.
650 o Minor features (fallbackdir):
651 - Regenerate fallback directories generated on August 11, 2022.
653 o Minor features (geoip data):
654 - Update the geoip files to match the IPFire Location Database, as
655 retrieved on 2022/08/11.
657 o Minor features (linux seccomp2 sandbox):
658 - Permit the clone3 syscall, which is apparently used in glibc-2.34
659 and later. Closes ticket 40590.
661 o Minor bugfixes (controller, path bias):
662 - When a circuit's path is specified, in full or in part, from the
663 controller API, do not count that circuit towards our path-bias
664 calculations. (Doing so was incorrect, since we cannot tell
665 whether the controller is selecting relays randomly.) Resolves a
666 "Bug" warning. Fixes bug 40515; bugfix on 0.2.4.10-alpha.
668 o Minor bugfixes (defense in depth):
669 - Change a test in the netflow padding code to make it more
670 _obviously_ safe against remotely triggered crashes. (It was safe
671 against these before, but not obviously so.) Fixes bug 40645;
672 bugfix on 0.3.1.1-alpha.
674 o Minor bugfixes (linux seccomp2 sandbox):
675 - Allow the rseq system call in the sandbox. This solves a crash
676 issue with glibc 2.35 on Linux. Patch from pmu-ipf. Fixes bug
677 40601; bugfix on 0.3.5.11.
679 o Minor bugfixes (metrics port, onion service):
680 - The MetricsPort line for an onion service with multiple ports are now
681 unique that is one line per port. Before this, all ports of an onion
682 service would be on the same line which violates the Prometheus rules of
683 unique labels. Fixes bug 40581; bugfix on 0.4.5.1-alpha.
685 o Minor bugfixes (onion service, client):
686 - Fix a fatal assert due to a guard subsystem recursion triggered by
687 the onion service client. Fixes bug 40579; bugfix on 0.3.5.1-alpha.
689 o Minor bugfixes (performance, DoS):
690 - Fix one case of a not-especially viable denial-of-service attack
691 found by OSS-Fuzz in our consensus-diff parsing code. This attack
692 causes a lot small of memory allocations and then immediately
693 frees them: this is only slow when running with all the sanitizers
694 enabled. Fixes one case of bug 40472; bugfix on 0.3.1.1-alpha.
696 o Minor bugfixes (relay):
697 - Do not propagate either forward or backward a DESTROY remote reason when
698 closing a circuit in order to avoid a possible side channel. Fixes bug
699 40649; bugfix on 0.1.2.4-alpha.
702 Changes in version 0.4.5.13 - 2022-08-11
703 This version contains two major fixes aimed at reducing memory pressure on
704 relays and possible side-channel. The rest of the fixes were backported for
705 stability or safety purposes. We strongly recommend to upgrade your relay to
706 this version or, ideally, to the latest stable of the 0.4.7.x series.
708 o Major bugfixes (relay):
709 - Remove OR connections btrack subsystem entries when the connections
710 close normally. Before this, we would only remove the entry on error and
711 thus leaking memory for each normal OR connections. Fixes bug 40604;
712 bugfix on 0.4.0.1-alpha.
713 - Stop sending TRUNCATED cell and instead close the circuit from which we
714 received a DESTROY cell. This makes every relay in the circuit path to
715 stop queuing cells. Fixes bug 40623; bugfix on 0.1.0.2-rc.
717 o Minor features (fallbackdir):
718 - Regenerate fallback directories generated on August 11, 2022.
720 o Minor features (geoip data):
721 - Update the geoip files to match the IPFire Location Database, as
722 retrieved on 2022/08/11.
724 o Minor features (linux seccomp2 sandbox):
725 - Permit the clone3 syscall, which is apparently used in glibc-2.34
726 and later. Closes ticket 40590.
728 o Minor bugfixes (controller, path bias):
729 - When a circuit's path is specified, in full or in part, from the
730 controller API, do not count that circuit towards our path-bias
731 calculations. (Doing so was incorrect, since we cannot tell
732 whether the controller is selecting relays randomly.) Resolves a
733 "Bug" warning. Fixes bug 40515; bugfix on 0.2.4.10-alpha.
735 o Minor bugfixes (defense in depth):
736 - Change a test in the netflow padding code to make it more
737 _obviously_ safe against remotely triggered crashes. (It was safe
738 against these before, but not obviously so.) Fixes bug 40645;
739 bugfix on 0.3.1.1-alpha.
741 o Minor bugfixes (linux seccomp2 sandbox):
742 - Allow the rseq system call in the sandbox. This solves a crash
743 issue with glibc 2.35 on Linux. Patch from pmu-ipf. Fixes bug
744 40601; bugfix on 0.3.5.11.
746 o Minor bugfixes (metrics port, onion service):
747 - The MetricsPort line for an onion service with multiple ports are now
748 unique that is one line per port. Before this, all ports of an onion
749 service would be on the same line which violates the Prometheus rules of
750 unique labels. Fixes bug 40581; bugfix on 0.4.5.1-alpha.
752 o Minor bugfixes (onion service, client):
753 - Fix a fatal assert due to a guard subsystem recursion triggered by
754 the onion service client. Fixes bug 40579; bugfix on 0.3.5.1-alpha.
756 o Minor bugfixes (performance, DoS):
757 - Fix one case of a not-especially viable denial-of-service attack
758 found by OSS-Fuzz in our consensus-diff parsing code. This attack
759 causes a lot small of memory allocations and then immediately
760 frees them: this is only slow when running with all the sanitizers
761 enabled. Fixes one case of bug 40472; bugfix on 0.3.1.1-alpha.
763 o Minor bugfixes (relay):
764 - Do not propagate either forward or backward a DESTROY remote reason when
765 closing a circuit in order to avoid a possible side channel. Fixes bug
766 40649; bugfix on 0.1.2.4-alpha.
769 Changes in version 0.4.7.8 - 2022-06-17
770 This version fixes several bugfixes including a High severity security issue
771 categorized as a Denial of Service. Everyone running an earlier version
772 should upgrade to this version.
774 o Major bugfixes (congestion control, TROVE-2022-001):
775 - Fix a scenario where RTT estimation can become wedged, seriously
776 degrading congestion control performance on all circuits. This
777 impacts clients, onion services, and relays, and can be triggered
778 remotely by a malicious endpoint. Tracked as CVE-2022-33903. Fixes
779 bug 40626; bugfix on 0.4.7.5-alpha.
781 o Minor features (fallbackdir):
782 - Regenerate fallback directories generated on June 17, 2022.
784 o Minor features (geoip data):
785 - Update the geoip files to match the IPFire Location Database, as
786 retrieved on 2022/06/17.
788 o Minor bugfixes (linux seccomp2 sandbox):
789 - Allow the rseq system call in the sandbox. This solves a crash
790 issue with glibc 2.35 on Linux. Patch from pmu-ipf. Fixes bug
791 40601; bugfix on 0.3.5.11.
793 o Minor bugfixes (logging):
794 - Demote a harmless warn log message about finding a second hop to
795 from warn level to info level, if we do not have enough
796 descriptors yet. Leave it at notice level for other cases. Fixes
797 bug 40603; bugfix on 0.4.7.1-alpha.
798 - Demote a notice log message about "Unexpected path length" to info
799 level. These cases seem to happen arbitrarily, and we likely will
800 never find all of them before the switch to arti. Fixes bug 40612;
801 bugfix on 0.4.7.5-alpha.
803 o Minor bugfixes (relay, logging):
804 - Demote a harmless XOFF log message to from notice level to info
805 level. Fixes bug 40620; bugfix on 0.4.7.5-alpha.
808 Changes in version 0.4.7.7 - 2022-04-27
809 This is the first stable version of the 0.4.7.x series. This series includes
810 several major bugfixes from previous series and one massive new feature:
813 Congestion control should improve traffic speed and stability on the network
814 once a majority of Exit upgrade. You can find more details about it in
815 proposal 324 in the torspec.git repository.
817 For a complete list of changes since 0.4.6.10, see the ReleaseNotes file.
819 o Minor features (fallbackdir):
820 - Regenerate fallback directories generated on April 27, 2022.
822 o Minor features (geoip data):
823 - Update the geoip files to match the IPFire Location Database, as
824 retrieved on 2022/04/27.
826 o Minor bugfixes (congestion control, client side logs):
827 - Demote a warn about 1-hop circuits using congestion control down to
828 info; Demote the 4-hop case to notice. Fixes bug 40598; bugfix on
832 Changes in version 0.4.7.6-rc - 2022-04-07
833 This is the first release candidate of the 0.4.7.x series. Only one minor
834 bugfix went in since the last alpha couple weeks ago. We strongly recommend
835 anyone running an alpha version to upgrade to this version. Unless major
836 problems are found, the next release will finally be the stable!
838 o Minor features (fallbackdir):
839 - Regenerate fallback directories generated on April 07, 2022.
841 o Minor features (geoip data):
842 - Update the geoip files to match the IPFire Location Database, as
843 retrieved on 2022/04/07.
845 o Minor features (linux seccomp2 sandbox):
846 - Permit the clone3 syscall, which is apparently used in glibc-2.34
847 and later. Closes ticket 40590.
850 Changes in version 0.4.7.5-alpha - 2022-03-25
851 This version contains, of what we hope, the final work for congestion
852 control paving the way to the stable version. We expect this to be the last
853 alpha version of the 0.4.7.x series. Mostly minor bugfixes except one major
854 bugfix that changes how Tor behaves with DNS timeouts for Exit relays. As
855 always with an alpha, we recommend all relay operators to upgrade from
856 previous alpha to this one.
858 o Major bugfixes (onion service, congestion control):
859 - Fix the onion service upload case where the congestion control
860 parameters were not added to the right object. Fixes bug 40586;
861 bugfix on 0.4.7.4-alpha.
863 o Major bugfixes (relay, DNS):
864 - Lower the DNS timeout from 3 attempts at 5 seconds each to 2
865 attempts at 1 seconds each. Two new consensus parameters were
866 added to control these values. This change should improve observed
867 performance under DNS load; see ticket for more details. Fixes bug
868 40312; bugfix on 0.3.5.1-alpha.
870 o Minor features (control port):
871 - Provide congestion control fields on CIRC_BW and STREAM control
872 port events, for use by sbws. Closes ticket 40568.
874 o Minor features (fallbackdir):
875 - Regenerate fallback directories generated on March 25, 2022.
877 o Minor features (geoip data):
878 - Update the geoip files to match the IPFire Location Database, as
879 retrieved on 2022/03/25.
881 o Minor bugfixes (DNSPort, dormant mode):
882 - A request on the DNSPort now wakes up a dormant tor. Fixes bug
883 40577; bugfix on 0.3.5.1-alpha.
885 o Minor bugfixes (metrics port, onion service):
886 - Fix the metrics with a port label to be unique. Before this, all
887 ports of an onion service would be on the same line which violates
888 the Prometheus rules of unique labels. Fixes bug 40581; bugfix
891 o Minor bugfixes (onion service congestion control):
892 - Avoid a non-fatal assertion failure in the case where we fail to
893 set up congestion control on a rendezvous circuit. This could
894 happen naturally if a cache entry expired at an unexpected time.
895 Fixes bug 40576; bugfix on 0.4.7.4-alpha.
897 o Minor bugfixes (onion service, client):
898 - Fix a rare but fatal assertion failure due to a guard subsystem
899 recursion triggered by the onion service client. Fixes bug 40579;
900 bugfix on 0.3.5.1-alpha.
902 o Minor bugfixes (relay, overload):
903 - Decide whether to signal overload based on a fraction and
904 assessment period of ntor handshake drops. Previously, a single
905 drop could trigger an overload state, which caused many false
906 positives. Fixes bug 40560; bugfix on 0.4.7.1-alpha.
909 Changes in version 0.4.7.4-alpha - 2022-02-25
910 This version contains the negotiation congestion control work which is the
911 final part needed before going stable. There are also various bugfixes
912 including two major ones detailed below. Last, the Exit notice page layout
913 has been modernized but the text is unchanged. We recommend that all relay
914 operators running any previous alpha upgrade to this one.
916 o Major features (relay, client, onion services):
917 - Implement RTT-based congestion control for exits and onion
918 services, from Proposal 324. Disabled by default. Enabled by the
919 'cc_alg' consensus parameter. Closes ticket 40444.
921 o Major bugfixes (client):
922 - Stop caching TCP connect failures to relays/bridges when we
923 initiated the connection as a client. Now we only cache connect
924 failures as a relay or bridge when we initiated them because of an
925 EXTEND request. Declining to re-attempt the client-based
926 connections could cause problems when we lose connectivity and try
927 to reconnect. Fixes bug 40499; bugfix on 0.3.3.4-alpha.
929 o Major bugfixes (relay, overload):
930 - Do not trigger a general overload on DNS timeout. Even after
931 fixing 40527, some code remained that triggered the overload.
932 Fixes bug 40564; bugfix on 0.4.7.1-alpha.
934 o Minor feature (authority, relay):
935 - Reject End-Of-Life relays running version 0.3.5.x. Closes
938 o Minor features (fallbackdir):
939 - Regenerate fallback directories generated on February 25, 2022.
941 o Minor features (geoip data):
942 - Update the geoip files to match the IPFire Location Database, as
943 retrieved on 2022/02/25.
945 o Minor bugfix (logging):
946 - Update a log notice dead URL to a working one. Fixes bug 40544;
947 bugfix on 0.3.5.1-alpha.
949 o Minor bugfix (relay):
950 - Remove the HSDir and HSIntro onion service v2 protocol versions so
951 relay stop advertising that they support them. Fixes bug 40509;
954 o Minor bugfixes (cell scheduling):
955 - Avoid writing empty payload with NSS write.
956 - Don't attempt to write 0 bytes after a cell scheduling loop. No
957 empty payload was put on the wire. Fixes bug 40548; bugfix
960 o Minor bugfixes (compilation):
961 - Resume being able to build on old / esoteric gcc versions. Fixes
962 bug 40550; bugfix on 0.4.7.1-alpha.
964 o Minor bugfixes (compiler warnings):
965 - Fix couple compiler warnings on latest Ubuntu Jammy. Fixes bug
966 40516; bugfix on 0.3.5.1-alpha.
969 - Provide an improved version of the tor-exit-notice.html file for
970 exit relays to use as a landing page. The text is unchanged, but
971 the page design and layout are significantly modernized, and
972 several links are fixed. Patch from "n_user"; closes ticket 40529.
975 Changes in version 0.4.6.10 - 2022-02-04
976 This version contains minor bugfixes but one in particular is that relays
977 don't advertise onion service v2 support at the protocol version level.
979 o Minor features (fallbackdir):
980 - Regenerate fallback directories generated on February 04, 2022.
982 o Minor features (geoip data):
983 - Update the geoip files to match the IPFire Location Database, as
984 retrieved on 2022/02/04.
986 o Minor bugfix (logging):
987 - Update a log notice dead URL to a working one. Fixes bug 40544;
988 bugfix on 0.3.5.1-alpha.
990 o Minor bugfix (relay):
991 - Remove the HSDir and HSIntro onion service v2 protocol versions so
992 relay stop advertising that they support them. Fixes bug 40509;
995 o Minor bugfixes (MetricsPort, Prometheus):
996 - Add double quotes to the label values of the onion service
997 metrics. Fixes bug 40552; bugfix on 0.4.5.1-alpha.
1000 Changes in version 0.4.5.12 - 2022-02-04
1001 This version contains mostly minor bugfixes for which you can find the
1002 details below. The previous release (0.4.5.11) was suppose to update the
1003 GeoIP and fallbackdir lists but a problem in our release pipeline prevented
1004 those files to be updated correctly. Thus, this release regenerates up to
1005 date lists. Furthermore, another fix to highlight is that relays don't
1006 advertise onion service v2 support at the protocol version level.
1008 o Minor feature (reproducible build):
1009 - The repository can now build reproducible tarballs which adds the
1010 build command "make dist-reprod" for that purpose. Closes
1013 o Minor features (compilation):
1014 - Give an error message if trying to build with a version of
1015 LibreSSL known not to work with Tor. (There's an incompatibility
1016 with LibreSSL versions 3.2.1 through 3.4.0 inclusive because of
1017 their incompatibility with OpenSSL 1.1.1's TLSv1.3 APIs.) Closes
1020 o Minor features (fallbackdir):
1021 - Regenerate fallback directories generated on February 04, 2022.
1023 o Minor features (geoip data):
1024 - Update the geoip files to match the IPFire Location Database, as
1025 retrieved on 2022/02/04.
1027 o Minor bugfix (logging):
1028 - Update a log notice dead URL to a working one. Fixes bug 40544;
1029 bugfix on 0.3.5.1-alpha.
1031 o Minor bugfix (relay):
1032 - Remove the HSDir and HSIntro onion service v2 protocol versions so
1033 relay stop advertising that they support them. Fixes bug 40509;
1036 o Minor bugfixes (compilation):
1037 - Fix a compilation error when trying to build Tor with a compiler
1038 that does not support expanding statically initialized const
1039 values in macro's. Fixes bug 40410; bugfix on 0.4.5.1-alpha
1040 - Fix our configuration logic to detect whether we had OpenSSL 3:
1041 previously, our logic was reversed. This has no other effect than
1042 to change whether we suppress deprecated API warnings. Fixes bug
1043 40429; bugfix on 0.3.5.13.
1045 o Minor bugfixes (MetricsPort, Prometheus):
1046 - Add double quotes to the label values of the onion service
1047 metrics. Fixes bug 40552; bugfix on 0.4.5.1-alpha.
1049 o Minor bugfixes (relay):
1050 - Reject IPv6-only DirPorts. Our reachability self-test forces
1051 DirPorts to be IPv4, but our configuration parser allowed them to
1052 be IPv6-only, which led to an assertion failure. Fixes bug 40494;
1053 bugfix on 0.4.5.1-alpha.
1056 Changes in version 0.4.7.3-alpha - 2021-12-15
1057 This third alpha release of the 0.4.7.x series fixes several bugs including
1058 two major ones affecting Bridges and Relays (see below). If you are running
1059 an earlier 0.4.7.x version, you should upgrade to this version.
1061 o Major bugfixes (bridges):
1062 - Make Tor work reliably again when you have multiple bridges
1063 configured and one or more of them are unreachable. The problem
1064 came because we require that we have bridge descriptors for both
1065 of our first two bridges (else we refuse to try to connect), but
1066 in some cases we would wait three hours before trying to fetch
1067 these missing descriptors, and/or never recover when we do try to
1068 fetch them. Fixes bugs 40396 and 40495; bugfix on 0.3.0.5-rc
1071 o Major bugfixes (relay, overload):
1072 - Change the MetricsPort DNS "timeout" label to be "tor_timeout" in
1073 order to indicate that this was a DNS timeout from tor perspective
1074 and not the DNS server itself.
1075 - Deprecate overload_dns_timeout_period_secs and
1076 overload_dns_timeout_scale_percent consensus parameters as well.
1077 They were used to assess the overload state which is no more now.
1078 - Don't make Tor DNS timeout trigger an overload general state.
1079 These timeouts are different from DNS server timeout. They have to
1080 be seen as timeout related to UX and not because of a network
1081 problem. Fixes bug 40527; bugfix on 0.4.6.1-alpha.
1083 o Minor feature (reproducible build):
1084 - The repository can now build reproducible tarballs which adds the
1085 build command "make dist-reprod" for that purpose. Closes
1088 o Minor features (compilation):
1089 - Give an error message if trying to build with a version of
1090 LibreSSL known not to work with Tor. (There's an incompatibility
1091 with LibreSSL versions 3.2.1 through 3.4.0 inclusive because of
1092 their incompatibility with OpenSSL 1.1.1's TLSv1.3 APIs.) Closes
1095 o Minor features (fallbackdir):
1096 - Regenerate fallback directories generated on December 15, 2021.
1098 o Minor features (geoip data):
1099 - Update the geoip files to match the IPFire Location Database, as
1100 retrieved on 2021/12/15.
1102 o Minor features (portability):
1103 - Try to prevent a compiler warning about printf arguments that
1104 could sometimes occur on MSYS2 depending on the configuration.
1105 Closes ticket 40355.
1107 o Minor bugfix (pluggable transport):
1108 - Do not kill a managed proxy if one of its transport configurations
1109 emits a method error. Instead log a warning and continue processing
1110 method arguments. Fixes bug 7362; bugfix on 0.2.3.6-alpha.
1112 o Minor bugfixes (bridges):
1113 - When we don't yet have a descriptor for one of our bridges,
1114 disable the entry guard retry schedule on that bridge. The entry
1115 guard retry schedule and the bridge descriptor retry schedule can
1116 conflict, e.g. where we mark a bridge as "maybe up" yet we don't
1117 try to fetch its descriptor yet, leading Tor to wait (refusing to
1118 do anything) until it becomes time to fetch the descriptor. Fixes
1119 bug 40497; bugfix on 0.3.0.3-alpha.
1121 o Minor bugfixes (compilation):
1122 - Fix our configuration logic to detect whether we had OpenSSL 3:
1123 previously, our logic was reversed. This has no other effect than
1124 to change whether we suppress deprecated API warnings. Fixes bug
1125 40429; bugfix on 0.3.5.13.
1127 o Minor bugfixes (controller, path bias):
1128 - When a circuit's path is specified, in full or in part, from the
1129 controller API, do not count that circuit towards our path-bias
1130 calculations. (Doing so was incorrect, since we cannot tell
1131 whether the controller is selecting relays randomly.) Resolves a
1132 "Bug" warning. Fixes bug 40515; bugfix on 0.2.4.10-alpha.
1134 o Minor bugfixes (logging):
1135 - When we no longer have enough directory information to use the
1136 network, we would log a notice-level message -- but we would not
1137 reliably log a message when we recovered and resumed using the
1138 network. Now make sure there is always a corresponding message
1139 about recovering. Fixes bug 40496; bugfix on 0.3.5.1-alpha.
1141 o Minor bugfixes (performance, DoS):
1142 - Fix one case of a not-especially viable denial-of-service attack
1143 found by OSS-Fuzz in our consensus-diff parsing code. This attack
1144 causes a lot small of memory allocations and then immediately
1145 frees them: this is only slow when running with all the sanitizers
1146 enabled. Fixes one case of bug 40472; bugfix on 0.3.1.1-alpha.
1148 o Minor bugfixes (relay):
1149 - Reject IPv6-only DirPorts. Our reachability self-test forces
1150 DirPorts to be IPv4, but our configuration parser allowed them to
1151 be IPv6-only, which led to an assertion failure. Fixes bug 40494;
1152 bugfix on 0.4.5.1-alpha.
1154 o Minor bugfixes (sandbox):
1155 - Fix the sandbox on i386 by modifying it to allow the
1156 "clock_gettime64" and "statx" system calls and to filter the
1157 "chown32" and "stat64" system calls in place of "chown" and
1158 "stat", respectively. Fixes bug 40505; bugfix on 0.2.5.4-alpha.
1160 o Documentation (man, relay):
1161 - Missing "OverloadStatistics" in tor.1 manpage. Fixes bug 40504;
1162 bugfix on 0.4.6.1-alpha.
1165 Changes in version 0.4.6.9 - 2021-12-15
1166 This version fixes several bugs from earlier versions of Tor. One important
1167 piece is the removal of DNS timeout metric from the overload general signal.
1168 See below for more details.
1170 o Major bugfixes (relay, overload):
1171 - Don't make Tor DNS timeout trigger an overload general state.
1172 These timeouts are different from DNS server timeout. They have to
1173 be seen as timeout related to UX and not because of a network
1174 problem. Fixes bug 40527; bugfix on 0.4.6.1-alpha.
1176 o Minor feature (reproducible build):
1177 - The repository can now build reproducible tarballs which adds the
1178 build command "make dist-reprod" for that purpose. Closes
1181 o Minor features (compilation):
1182 - Give an error message if trying to build with a version of
1183 LibreSSL known not to work with Tor. (There's an incompatibility
1184 with LibreSSL versions 3.2.1 through 3.4.0 inclusive because of
1185 their incompatibility with OpenSSL 1.1.1's TLSv1.3 APIs.) Closes
1188 o Minor features (fallbackdir):
1189 - Regenerate fallback directories generated on December 15, 2021.
1191 o Minor features (geoip data):
1192 - Update the geoip files to match the IPFire Location Database, as
1193 retrieved on 2021/12/15.
1195 o Minor bugfixes (compilation):
1196 - Fix our configuration logic to detect whether we had OpenSSL 3:
1197 previously, our logic was reversed. This has no other effect than
1198 to change whether we suppress deprecated API warnings. Fixes bug
1199 40429; bugfix on 0.3.5.13.
1201 o Minor bugfixes (relay):
1202 - Reject IPv6-only DirPorts. Our reachability self-test forces
1203 DirPorts to be IPv4, but our configuration parser allowed them to
1204 be IPv6-only, which led to an assertion failure. Fixes bug 40494;
1205 bugfix on 0.4.5.1-alpha.
1207 o Documentation (man, relay):
1208 - Missing "OverloadStatistics" in tor.1 manpage. Fixes bug 40504;
1209 bugfix on 0.4.6.1-alpha.
1212 Changes in version 0.4.7.2-alpha - 2021-10-26
1213 This second alpha release of the 0.4.7.x series adds two major
1214 features: congestion control (prop324) for network performance, and
1215 the MiddleOnly flag (prop335) voted by the authorities to pin relays
1216 to the middle position for various network health reasons. This
1217 release also fixes numerous bugs.
1219 The congestion control feature, detailed in proposal 324, still needs
1220 more work before we can enable it by default. It is currently in its
1221 testing and tuning phase which means that you should expect more
1222 0.4.7.x alphas as congestion control gets stabilized and tuned for
1223 optimal performance. And so, at this release, it can not be used
1224 without a custom patch.
1226 o Major features (congestion control):
1227 - Implement support for flow control over congestion controlled
1228 circuits. This work comes from proposal 324. Closes ticket 40450.
1230 o Major features (directory authority):
1231 - Add a new consensus method to handle MiddleOnly specially. When
1232 enough authorities are using this method, then any relay tagged
1233 with the MiddleOnly flag will have its Exit, Guard, HSDir, and
1234 V2Dir flags automatically cleared, and will have its BadExit flag
1235 automatically set. Implements part of proposal 335.
1236 - Authorities can now be configured to label relays as "MiddleOnly".
1237 When voting for this flag, authorities automatically vote against
1238 Exit, Guard, HSDir, and V2Dir; and in favor of BadExit. Implements
1239 part of proposal 335. Based on a patch from Neel Chauhan.
1241 o Major bugfix (relay, metrics):
1242 - On the MetricsPort, the DNS error statistics are not reported by
1243 record type ("record=...") anymore due to a libevent bug
1244 (https://github.com/libevent/libevent/issues/1219). Fixes bug
1245 40490; bugfix on 0.4.7.1-alpha.
1247 o Major bugfixes (relay, overload state):
1248 - Relays report the general overload state for DNS timeout errors
1249 only if X% of all DNS queries over Y seconds are errors. Before
1250 that, it only took 1 timeout to report the overload state which
1251 was just too low of a threshold. The X and Y values are 1% and 10
1252 minutes respectively but they are also controlled by consensus
1253 parameters. Fixes bug 40491; bugfix on 0.4.6.1-alpha.
1255 o Minor feature (authority, relay):
1256 - Reject End-Of-Life relays running version 0.4.2.x, 0.4.3.x,
1257 0.4.4.x and 0.4.5 alphas/rc. Closes ticket 40480.
1259 o Minor feature (onion service v2):
1260 - Onion service v2 addresses are now not recognized anymore by tor
1261 meaning a bad hostname is returned when attempting to pass it on a
1262 SOCKS connection. No more deprecation log is emitted client side.
1263 Closes ticket 40476.
1264 - See https://blog.torproject.org/v2-deprecation-timeline for
1265 details on how to transition from v2 to v3.
1267 o Minor features (fallbackdir):
1268 - Regenerate fallback directories for October 2021. Closes
1271 o Minor features (logging, heartbeat):
1272 - When a relay receives a cell that isn't encrypted properly for it,
1273 but the relay is the last hop on the circuit, the relay now counts
1274 how many cells of this kind it receives, on how many circuits, and
1275 reports this information in the log. Previously, we'd log each
1276 cell at PROTOCOL_WARN level, which is far too verbose to be
1277 useful. Fixes part of ticket 40400.
1279 o Minor features (testing):
1280 - We now have separate fuzzers for the inner layers of v3 onion
1281 service descriptors, to prevent future bugs like 40392. Closes
1284 o Minor bugfixes (compilation):
1285 - Fix compilation error when __NR_time is not defined. Fixes bug
1286 40465; bugfix on 0.2.5.5-alpha. Patch by Daniel Pinto.
1288 o Minor bugfixes (dirauth, bandwidth scanner):
1289 - Add the AuthDirDontVoteOnDirAuthBandwidth dirauth config parameter
1290 to avoid voting on bandwidth scanner weights to v3 directory
1291 authorities. Fixes bug 40471; bugfix on 0.2.2.1-alpha. Patch by
1294 o Minor bugfixes (fragile-hardening, sandbox):
1295 - When building with --enable-fragile-hardening, add or relax Linux
1296 seccomp rules to allow AddressSanitizer to execute normally if the
1297 process terminates with the sandbox active. This has the side
1298 effect of disabling the filtering of file- and directory-open
1299 requests on most systems and dilutes the effectiveness of the
1300 sandbox overall, as a wider range of system calls must be
1301 permitted. Fixes bug 11477; bugfix on 0.2.5.4-alpha.
1303 o Minor bugfixes (logging):
1304 - If a channel has never received or transmitted a cell, or seen a
1305 client, do not calculate time diffs against 1/1/1970 but log a
1306 better prettier message. Fixes bug 40182; bugfix on 0.2.4.4.
1308 o Minor bugfixes (onion service):
1309 - Fix a warning BUG that would occur often on heavily loaded onion
1310 service leading to filling the logs with useless warnings. Fixes
1311 bug 34083; bugfix on 0.3.2.1-alpha.
1313 o Minor bugfix (CI, onion service):
1314 - Exclude onion service version 2 Stem tests in our CI. Fixes bug 40500;
1315 bugfix on 0.3.2.1-alpha.
1317 o Minor bugfixes (onion service, config):
1318 - Fix a memory leak for a small config line string that could occur
1319 if the onion service failed to be configured from file properly.
1320 Fixes bug 40484; bugfix on 0.3.2.1-alpha.
1322 o Minor bugfixes (onion service, TROVE-2021-008):
1323 - Only log v2 access attempts once total, in order to not pollute
1324 the logs with warnings and to avoid recording the times on disk
1325 when v2 access was attempted. Note that the onion address was
1326 _never_ logged. This counts as a Low-severity security issue.
1327 Fixes bug 40474; bugfix on 0.4.5.8.
1328 - Note that due to #40476 which removes v2 support entirely, this
1329 log line is not emitted anymore. We still mention this in the
1330 changelog because it is a Low-severity TROVE.
1332 o Minor bugfixes (usability):
1333 - Do not log "RENDEZVOUS1 cell with unrecognized rendezvous cookie"
1334 at LOG_PROTOCOL_WARN; instead log it at DEBUG. This warning can
1335 happen naturally if a client gives up on a rendezvous circuit
1336 after sending INTRODUCE1. Fixes part of bug 40400; bugfix
1338 - Do not log "circuit_receive_relay_cell failed" at
1339 LOG_PROTOCOL_WARN; instead log it at DEBUG. In every case where we
1340 would want to log this as a protocol warning, we are already
1341 logging another warning from inside circuit_receive_relay_cell.
1342 Fixes part of bug 40400; bugfix on 0.1.1.9-alpha.
1344 o Code simplification and refactoring:
1345 - Lower the official maximum for "guard-extreme-restriction-percent"
1346 to 100. This has no effect on when the guard code will generate a
1347 warning, but it makes the intent of the option clearer. Fixes bug
1348 40486; bugfix on 0.3.0.1-alpha.
1351 - Add unit tests for the Linux seccomp sandbox. Resolves
1354 o Code simplification and refactoring (rust):
1355 - Remove Rust support and its associated code. It is unsupported and
1356 Rust focus should be shifted to arti. Closes ticket 40469.
1358 o Testing (CI, chutney):
1359 - Bump the data size that chutney transmits to 5MBytes in order to
1360 trigger the flow control and congestion window code. Closes
1364 Changes in version 0.4.6.8 - 2021-10-26
1365 This version fixes several bugs from earlier versions of Tor. One
1366 highlight is a fix on how we track DNS timeouts to report general
1369 o Major bugfixes (relay, overload state):
1370 - Relays report the general overload state for DNS timeout errors
1371 only if X% of all DNS queries over Y seconds are errors. Before
1372 that, it only took 1 timeout to report the overload state which
1373 was just too low of a threshold. The X and Y values are 1% and 10
1374 minutes respectively but they are also controlled by consensus
1375 parameters. Fixes bug 40491; bugfix on 0.4.6.1-alpha.
1377 o Minor features (fallbackdir):
1378 - Regenerate fallback directories for October 2021. Closes
1381 o Minor features (testing):
1382 - On a testing network, relays can now use the
1383 TestingMinTimeToReportBandwidth option to change the smallest
1384 amount of time over which they're willing to report their observed
1385 maximum bandwidth. Previously, this was fixed at 1 day. For
1386 safety, values under 2 hours are only supported on testing
1387 networks. Part of a fix for ticket 40337.
1388 - Relays on testing networks no longer rate-limit how frequently
1389 they are willing to report new bandwidth measurements. Part of a
1390 fix for ticket 40337.
1391 - Relays on testing networks now report their observed bandwidths
1392 immediately from startup. Previously, they waited until they had
1393 been running for a full day. Closes ticket 40337.
1395 o Minor bugfix (onion service):
1396 - Do not flag an HSDir as non-running in case the descriptor upload
1397 or fetch fails. An onion service closes pending directory
1398 connections before uploading a new descriptor which can thus lead
1399 to wrongly flagging many relays and thus affecting circuit building
1400 path selection. Fixes bug 40434; bugfix on 0.2.0.13-alpha.
1401 - Improve logging when a bad HS version is given. Fixes bug 40476;
1402 bugfix on 0.4.6.1-alpha.
1404 o Minor bugfix (CI, onion service):
1405 - Exclude onion service version 2 Stem tests in our CI. Fixes bug 40500;
1406 bugfix on 0.3.2.1-alpha.
1408 o Minor bugfixes (compatibility):
1409 - Fix compatibility with the most recent Libevent versions, which no
1410 longer have an evdns_set_random_bytes() function. Because this
1411 function has been a no-op since Libevent 2.0.4-alpha, it is safe
1412 for us to just stop calling it. Fixes bug 40371; bugfix
1415 o Minor bugfixes (onion service, TROVE-2021-008):
1416 - Only log v2 access attempts once total, in order to not pollute
1417 the logs with warnings and to avoid recording the times on disk
1418 when v2 access was attempted. Note that the onion address was
1419 _never_ logged. This counts as a Low-severity security issue.
1420 Fixes bug 40474; bugfix on 0.4.5.8.
1423 Changes in version 0.4.5.11 - 2021-10-26
1424 The major change in this version is that v2 onion services are now
1425 disabled at the client, service, and relay: any Tor nodes running this
1426 version and onward will stop supporting v2 onion services. This is the
1427 last step in the long deprecation process of v2 onion services.
1428 Everyone running an earlier version, whether as a client, a relay, or
1429 an onion service, should upgrade to Tor 0.3.5.17, 0.4.5.11,
1432 o Major feature (onion service v2):
1433 - See https://blog.torproject.org/v2-deprecation-timeline for
1434 details on how to transition from v2 to v3.
1435 - The control port commands HSFETCH and HSPOST no longer allow
1436 version 2, and it is no longer possible to create a v2 service
1438 - Tor no longer allows creating v2 services, or connecting as a
1439 client to a v2 service. Relays will decline to be a v2 HSDir or
1440 introduction point. This effectively disables onion service
1441 version 2 Tor-wide. Closes ticket 40476.
1443 o Minor features (bridge, backport from 0.4.6.8):
1444 - We now announce the URL to Tor's new bridge status at
1445 https://bridges.torproject.org/ when Tor is configured to run as a
1446 bridge relay. Closes ticket 30477.
1448 o Minor features (fallbackdir):
1449 - Regenerate fallback directories for October 2021. Closes
1452 o Minor features (logging, diagnostic, backport from 0.4.6.5):
1453 - Log decompression failures at a higher severity level, since they
1454 can help provide missing context for other warning messages. We
1455 rate-limit these messages, to avoid flooding the logs if they
1456 begin to occur frequently. Closes ticket 40175.
1458 o Minor features (testing, backport from 0.4.6.8):
1459 - On a testing network, relays can now use the
1460 TestingMinTimeToReportBandwidth option to change the smallest
1461 amount of time over which they're willing to report their observed
1462 maximum bandwidth. Previously, this was fixed at 1 day. For
1463 safety, values under 2 hours are only supported on testing
1464 networks. Part of a fix for ticket 40337.
1465 - Relays on testing networks no longer rate-limit how frequently
1466 they are willing to report new bandwidth measurements. Part of a
1467 fix for ticket 40337.
1468 - Relays on testing networks now report their observed bandwidths
1469 immediately from startup. Previously, they waited until they had
1470 been running for a full day. Closes ticket 40337.
1472 o Minor bugfix (CI, onion service):
1473 - Exclude onion service version 2 Stem tests in our CI. Fixes bug 40500;
1474 bugfix on 0.3.2.1-alpha.
1476 o Minor bugfix (onion service, backport from 0.4.6.8):
1477 - Do not flag an HSDir as non-running in case the descriptor upload
1478 or fetch fails. An onion service closes pending directory
1479 connections before uploading a new descriptor which can thus lead
1480 to wrongly flagging many relays and thus affecting circuit building
1481 path selection. Fixes bug 40434; bugfix on 0.2.0.13-alpha.
1483 o Minor bugfixes (compatibility, backport from 0.4.6.8):
1484 - Fix compatibility with the most recent Libevent versions, which no
1485 longer have an evdns_set_random_bytes() function. Because this
1486 function has been a no-op since Libevent 2.0.4-alpha, it is safe
1487 for us to just stop calling it. Fixes bug 40371; bugfix
1490 o Minor bugfixes (consensus handling, backport from 0.4.6.4-rc):
1491 - Avoid a set of bugs that could be caused by inconsistently
1492 preferring an out-of-date consensus stored in a stale directory
1493 cache over a more recent one stored on disk as the latest
1494 consensus. Fixes bug 40375; bugfix on 0.3.1.1-alpha.
1496 o Minor bugfixes (onion service, TROVE-2021-008, backport from 0.4.6.8):
1497 - Only log v2 access attempts once total, in order to not pollute
1498 the logs with warnings and to avoid recording the times on disk
1499 when v2 access was attempted. Note that the onion address was
1500 _never_ logged. This counts as a Low-severity security issue.
1501 Fixes bug 40474; bugfix on 0.4.5.8.
1504 Changes in version 0.3.5.17 - 2021-10-26
1505 The major change in this version is that v2 onion services are now
1506 disabled at the client, service, and relay: any Tor nodes running this
1507 version and onward will stop supporting v2 onion services. This is the
1508 last step in the long deprecation process of v2 onion services.
1509 Everyone running an earlier version, whether as a client, a relay, or
1510 an onion service, should upgrade to Tor 0.3.5.17, 0.4.5.11,
1513 o Major feature (onion service v2, backport from 0.4.5.11):
1514 - See https://blog.torproject.org/v2-deprecation-timeline for
1515 details on how to transition from v2 to v3.
1516 - The control port commands HSFETCH and HSPOST no longer allow
1517 version 2, and it is no longer possible to create a v2 service
1519 - Tor no longer allows creating v2 services, or connecting as a
1520 client to a v2 service. Relays will decline to be a v2 HSDir or
1521 introduction point. This effectively disables onion service
1522 version 2 Tor-wide. Closes ticket 40476.
1524 o Minor features (bridge, backport from 0.4.6.8):
1525 - We now announce the URL to Tor's new bridge status at
1526 https://bridges.torproject.org/ when Tor is configured to run as a
1527 bridge relay. Closes ticket 30477.
1529 o Minor features (fallbackdir):
1530 - Regenerate fallback directories for October 2021. Closes
1533 o Minor bugfixes (compatibility, backport from 0.4.6.8):
1534 - Fix compatibility with the most recent Libevent versions, which no
1535 longer have an evdns_set_random_bytes() function. Because this
1536 function has been a no-op since Libevent 2.0.4-alpha, it is safe
1537 for us to just stop calling it. Fixes bug 40371; bugfix
1541 Changes in version 0.4.7.1-alpha - 2021-09-17
1542 This version is the first alpha release of the 0.4.7.x series. One
1543 major feature is Vanguards Lite, from proposal 333, to help mitigate
1544 guard discovery attacks against onion services. It also includes
1547 o Major features (Proposal 332, onion services, guard selection algorithm):
1548 - Clients and onion services now choose four long-lived "layer 2"
1549 guard relays for use as the middle hop in all onion circuits.
1550 These relays are kept in place for a randomized duration averaging
1551 1 week. This mitigates guard discovery attacks against clients and
1552 short-lived onion services such as OnionShare. Long-lived onion
1553 services that need high security should still use the Vanguards
1554 addon (https://github.com/mikeperry-tor/vanguards). Closes ticket
1555 40363; implements proposal 333.
1557 o Minor features (bridge testing support):
1558 - Let external bridge reachability testing tools discard cached
1559 bridge descriptors when setting new bridges, so they can be sure
1560 to get a clean reachability test. Implements ticket 40209.
1562 o Minor features (fuzzing):
1563 - When building with --enable-libfuzzer, use a set of compiler flags
1564 that works with more recent versions of the library. Previously we
1565 were using a set of flags from 2017. Closes ticket 40407.
1567 o Minor features (testing configuration):
1568 - When TestingTorNetwork is enabled, skip the permissions check on
1569 hidden service directories. Closes ticket 40338.
1570 - On a testing network, relays can now use the
1571 TestingMinTimeToReportBandwidth option to change the smallest
1572 amount of time over which they're willing to report their observed
1573 maximum bandwidth. Previously, this was fixed at 1 day. For
1574 safety, values under 2 hours are only supported on testing
1575 networks. Part of a fix for ticket 40337.
1576 - Relays on testing networks no longer rate-limit how frequently
1577 they are willing to report new bandwidth measurements. Part of a
1578 fix for ticket 40337.
1579 - Relays on testing networks now report their observed bandwidths
1580 immediately from startup. Previously, they waited until they had
1581 been running for a full day. Closes ticket 40337.
1583 o Minor bugfixes (circuit padding):
1584 - Don't send STOP circuit padding cells when the other side has
1585 already shut down the corresponding padding machine. Fixes bug
1586 40435; bugfix on 0.4.0.1-alpha.
1588 o Minor bugfixes (compatibility):
1589 - Fix compatibility with the most recent Libevent versions, which no
1590 longer have an evdns_set_random_bytes() function. Because this
1591 function has been a no-op since Libevent 2.0.4-alpha, it is safe
1592 for us to just stop calling it. Fixes bug 40371; bugfix
1595 o Minor bugfixes (control, sandbox):
1596 - Allows the control command SAVECONF to succeed when the seccomp
1597 sandbox is enabled. Makes SAVECONF keep only one backup file, to
1598 simplify implementation. Fixes bug 40317; bugfix on 0.2.5.4-alpha.
1599 Patch by Daniel Pinto.
1601 o Minor bugfixes (heartbeat):
1602 - Adjust the heartbeat log message about distinct clients to
1603 consider the HeartbeatPeriod rather than a flat 6-hour delay.
1604 Fixes bug 40330; bugfix on 0.2.6.3-alpha.
1606 o Minor bugfixes (logging, relay):
1607 - Add spaces between the "and" when logging the "Your server has not
1608 managed to confirm reachability for its" on dual-stack relays.
1609 Fixes bug 40453; bugfix on 0.4.5.1-alpha. Patch by Neel Chauhan.
1611 o Minor bugfixes (onion service):
1612 - Do not flag an HSDir as non-running in case the descriptor upload
1613 or fetch fails. An onion service closes pending directory
1614 connections before uploading a new descriptor which leads to
1615 wrongly flagging many relays and thus affecting circuit path
1616 selection. Fixes bug 40434; bugfix on 0.2.0.13-alpha.
1618 o Minor bugfixes (statistics):
1619 - Fix a fencepost issue when we check stability_last_downrated where
1620 we called rep_hist_downrate_old_runs() twice. Fixes bug 40394;
1621 bugfix on 0.2.0.5-alpha. Patch by Neel Chauhan.
1623 o Minor bugfixes (tests):
1624 - Fix a bug that prevented some tests from running with the correct
1625 names. Fixes bug 40365; bugfix on 0.4.3.1-alpha.
1628 - Add links to original tor design paper and anonbib to
1629 docs/HACKING/README.1st.md. Closes ticket 33742. Patch from
1631 - Describe the "fingerprint-ed25519" file in the tor.1 man page.
1632 Fixes bug 40467; bugfix on 0.4.3.1-alpha. Patch by Neel Chauhan.
1635 Changes in version 0.4.6.7 - 2021-08-16
1636 This version fixes several bugs from earlier versions of Tor,
1637 including one that could lead to a denial-of-service attack. Everyone
1638 running an earlier version, whether as a client, a relay, or an onion
1639 service, should upgrade to Tor 0.3.5.16, 0.4.5.10, or 0.4.6.7.
1641 o Major bugfixes (cryptography, security):
1642 - Resolve an assertion failure caused by a behavior mismatch between
1643 our batch-signature verification code and our single-signature
1644 verification code. This assertion failure could be triggered
1645 remotely, leading to a denial of service attack. We fix this issue
1646 by disabling batch verification. Fixes bug 40078; bugfix on
1647 0.2.6.1-alpha. This issue is also tracked as TROVE-2021-007 and
1648 CVE-2021-38385. Found by Henry de Valence.
1650 o Minor feature (fallbackdir):
1651 - Regenerate fallback directories list. Close ticket 40447.
1653 o Minor features (geoip data):
1654 - Update the geoip files to match the IPFire Location Database, as
1655 retrieved on 2021/08/12.
1657 o Minor bugfix (crypto):
1658 - Disable the unused batch verification feature of ed25519-donna.
1659 Fixes bug 40078; bugfix on 0.2.6.1-alpha. Found by Henry
1662 o Minor bugfixes (onion service):
1663 - Send back the extended SOCKS error 0xF6 (Onion Service Invalid
1664 Address) for a v2 onion address. Fixes bug 40421; bugfix
1667 o Minor bugfixes (relay):
1668 - Reduce the compression level for data streaming from HIGH to LOW
1669 in order to reduce CPU load on the directory relays. Fixes bug
1670 40301; bugfix on 0.3.5.1-alpha.
1672 o Minor bugfixes (timekeeping):
1673 - Calculate the time of day correctly on systems where the time_t
1674 type includes leap seconds. (This is not the case on most
1675 operating systems, but on those where it occurs, our tor_timegm
1676 function did not correctly invert the system's gmtime function,
1677 which could result in assertion failures when calculating voting
1678 schedules.) Fixes bug 40383; bugfix on 0.2.0.3-alpha.
1681 Changes in version 0.4.5.10 - 2021-08-16
1682 This version fixes several bugs from earlier versions of Tor,
1683 including one that could lead to a denial-of-service attack. Everyone
1684 running an earlier version, whether as a client, a relay, or an onion
1685 service, should upgrade to Tor 0.3.5.16, 0.4.5.10, or 0.4.6.7.
1687 o Major bugfixes (cryptography, security):
1688 - Resolve an assertion failure caused by a behavior mismatch between
1689 our batch-signature verification code and our single-signature
1690 verification code. This assertion failure could be triggered
1691 remotely, leading to a denial of service attack. We fix this issue
1692 by disabling batch verification. Fixes bug 40078; bugfix on
1693 0.2.6.1-alpha. This issue is also tracked as TROVE-2021-007 and
1694 CVE-2021-38385. Found by Henry de Valence.
1696 o Minor feature (fallbackdir):
1697 - Regenerate fallback directories list. Close ticket 40447.
1699 o Minor features (geoip data):
1700 - Update the geoip files to match the IPFire Location Database, as
1701 retrieved on 2021/08/12.
1703 o Minor features (testing):
1704 - Enable the deterministic RNG for unit tests that covers the
1705 address set bloomfilter-based API's. Fixes bug 40419; bugfix
1708 o Minor bugfix (crypto, backport from 0.4.6.7):
1709 - Disable the unused batch verification feature of ed25519-donna.
1710 Fixes bug 40078; bugfix on 0.2.6.1-alpha. Found by Henry
1713 o Minor bugfixes (relay, backport from 0.4.6.7):
1714 - Reduce the compression level for data streaming from HIGH to LOW.
1715 Fixes bug 40301; bugfix on 0.3.5.1-alpha.
1717 o Minor bugfixes (timekeeping, backport from 0.4.6.7):
1718 - Calculate the time of day correctly on systems where the time_t
1719 type includes leap seconds. (This is not the case on most
1720 operating systems, but on those where it occurs, our tor_timegm
1721 function did not correctly invert the system's gmtime function,
1722 which could result in assertion failures when calculating voting
1723 schedules.) Fixes bug 40383; bugfix on 0.2.0.3-alpha.
1725 o Minor bugfixes (warnings, portability, backport from 0.4.6.6):
1726 - Suppress a strict-prototype warning when building with some
1727 versions of NSS. Fixes bug 40409; bugfix on 0.3.5.1-alpha.
1730 Changes in version 0.3.5.16 - 2021-08-16
1731 This version fixes several bugs from earlier versions of Tor,
1732 including one that could lead to a denial-of-service attack. Everyone
1733 running an earlier version, whether as a client, a relay, or an onion
1734 service, should upgrade to Tor 0.3.5.16, 0.4.5.10, or 0.4.6.7.
1736 o Major bugfixes (cryptography, security):
1737 - Resolve an assertion failure caused by a behavior mismatch between
1738 our batch-signature verification code and our single-signature
1739 verification code. This assertion failure could be triggered
1740 remotely, leading to a denial of service attack. We fix this issue
1741 by disabling batch verification. Fixes bug 40078; bugfix on
1742 0.2.6.1-alpha. This issue is also tracked as TROVE-2021-007 and
1743 CVE-2021-38385. Found by Henry de Valence.
1745 o Minor feature (fallbackdir):
1746 - Regenerate fallback directories list. Close ticket 40447.
1748 o Minor features (geoip data):
1749 - Update the geoip files to match the IPFire Location Database, as
1750 retrieved on 2021/08/12.
1752 o Minor bugfix (crypto, backport from 0.4.6.7):
1753 - Disable the unused batch verification feature of ed25519-donna.
1754 Fixes bug 40078; bugfix on 0.2.6.1-alpha. Found by Henry
1757 o Minor bugfixes (relay, backport from 0.4.6.7):
1758 - Reduce the compression level for data streaming from HIGH to LOW.
1759 Fixes bug 40301; bugfix on 0.3.5.1-alpha.
1762 Changes in version 0.4.6.6 - 2021-06-30
1763 Tor 0.4.6.6 makes several small fixes on 0.4.6.5, including one that
1764 allows Tor to build correctly on older versions of GCC. You should
1765 upgrade to this version if you were having trouble building Tor
1766 0.4.6.5; otherwise, there is probably no need.
1768 o Minor bugfixes (compilation):
1769 - Fix a compilation error when trying to build Tor with a compiler
1770 that does not support const variables in static initializers.
1771 Fixes bug 40410; bugfix on 0.4.6.5.
1772 - Suppress a strict-prototype warning when building with some
1773 versions of NSS. Fixes bug 40409; bugfix on 0.3.5.1-alpha.
1775 o Minor bugfixes (testing):
1776 - Enable the deterministic RNG for unit tests that covers the
1777 address set bloomfilter-based API's. Fixes bug 40419; bugfix
1781 Changes in version 0.4.5.9 - 2021-06-14
1782 Tor 0.4.5.9 fixes several security issues, including a
1783 denial-of-service attack against onion service clients, and another
1784 denial-of-service attack against relays. Everybody should upgrade to
1785 one of 0.3.5.15, 0.4.4.9, 0.4.5.9, or 0.4.6.5.
1787 o Major bugfixes (security, backport from 0.4.6.5):
1788 - Don't allow relays to spoof RELAY_END or RELAY_RESOLVED cell on
1789 half-closed streams. Previously, clients failed to validate which
1790 hop sent these cells: this would allow a relay on a circuit to end
1791 a stream that wasn't actually built with it. Fixes bug 40389;
1792 bugfix on 0.3.5.1-alpha. This issue is also tracked as TROVE-2021-
1793 003 and CVE-2021-34548.
1795 o Major bugfixes (security, defense-in-depth, backport from 0.4.6.5):
1796 - Detect more failure conditions from the OpenSSL RNG code.
1797 Previously, we would detect errors from a missing RNG
1798 implementation, but not failures from the RNG code itself.
1799 Fortunately, it appears those failures do not happen in practice
1800 when Tor is using OpenSSL's default RNG implementation. Fixes bug
1801 40390; bugfix on 0.2.8.1-alpha. This issue is also tracked as
1802 TROVE-2021-004. Reported by Jann Horn at Google's Project Zero.
1804 o Major bugfixes (security, denial of service, backport from 0.4.6.5):
1805 - Resist a hashtable-based CPU denial-of-service attack against
1806 relays. Previously we used a naive unkeyed hash function to look
1807 up circuits in a circuitmux object. An attacker could exploit this
1808 to construct circuits with chosen circuit IDs, to create
1809 collisions and make the hash table inefficient. Now we use a
1810 SipHash construction here instead. Fixes bug 40391; bugfix on
1811 0.2.4.4-alpha. This issue is also tracked as TROVE-2021-005 and
1812 CVE-2021-34549. Reported by Jann Horn from Google's Project Zero.
1813 - Fix an out-of-bounds memory access in v3 onion service descriptor
1814 parsing. An attacker could exploit this bug by crafting an onion
1815 service descriptor that would crash any client that tried to visit
1816 it. Fixes bug 40392; bugfix on 0.3.0.1-alpha. This issue is also
1817 tracked as TROVE-2021-006 and CVE-2021-34550. Reported by Sergei
1818 Glazunov from Google's Project Zero.
1820 o Minor features (compatibility, backport from 0.4.6.4-rc):
1821 - Remove an assertion function related to TLS renegotiation. It was
1822 used nowhere outside the unit tests, and it was breaking
1823 compilation with recent alpha releases of OpenSSL 3.0.0. Closes
1826 o Minor features (geoip data):
1827 - Update the geoip files to match the IPFire Location Database, as
1828 retrieved on 2021/06/10.
1830 o Minor bugfixes (control, sandbox, backport from 0.4.6.4-rc):
1831 - Allow the control command SAVECONF to succeed when the seccomp
1832 sandbox is enabled, and make SAVECONF keep only one backup file to
1833 simplify implementation. Previously SAVECONF allowed a large
1834 number of backup files, which made it incompatible with the
1835 sandbox. Fixes bug 40317; bugfix on 0.2.5.4-alpha. Patch by
1838 o Minor bugfixes (metrics port, backport from 0.4.6.4-rc):
1839 - Fix a bug that made tor try to re-bind() on an already open
1840 MetricsPort every 60 seconds. Fixes bug 40370; bugfix
1844 Changes in version 0.4.4.9 - 2021-06-14
1845 Tor 0.4.4.9 fixes several security issues, including a
1846 denial-of-service attack against onion service clients, and another
1847 denial-of-service attack against relays. Everybody should upgrade to
1848 one of 0.3.5.15, 0.4.4.9, 0.4.5.9, or 0.4.6.5.
1850 Note that the scheduled end-of-life date for the Tor 0.4.4.x series is
1851 June 15. This is therefore the last release in its series. Everybody
1852 still running 0.4.4.x should plan to upgrade to 0.4.5.x or later.
1854 o Major bugfixes (security, backport from 0.4.6.5):
1855 - Don't allow relays to spoof RELAY_END or RELAY_RESOLVED cell on
1856 half-closed streams. Previously, clients failed to validate which
1857 hop sent these cells: this would allow a relay on a circuit to end
1858 a stream that wasn't actually built with it. Fixes bug 40389;
1859 bugfix on 0.3.5.1-alpha. This issue is also tracked as TROVE-2021-
1860 003 and CVE-2021-34548.
1862 o Major bugfixes (security, defense-in-depth, backport from 0.4.6.5):
1863 - Detect more failure conditions from the OpenSSL RNG code.
1864 Previously, we would detect errors from a missing RNG
1865 implementation, but not failures from the RNG code itself.
1866 Fortunately, it appears those failures do not happen in practice
1867 when Tor is using OpenSSL's default RNG implementation. Fixes bug
1868 40390; bugfix on 0.2.8.1-alpha. This issue is also tracked as
1869 TROVE-2021-004. Reported by Jann Horn at Google's Project Zero.
1871 o Major bugfixes (security, denial of service, backport from 0.4.6.5):
1872 - Resist a hashtable-based CPU denial-of-service attack against
1873 relays. Previously we used a naive unkeyed hash function to look
1874 up circuits in a circuitmux object. An attacker could exploit this
1875 to construct circuits with chosen circuit IDs, to create
1876 collisions and make the hash table inefficient. Now we use a
1877 SipHash construction here instead. Fixes bug 40391; bugfix on
1878 0.2.4.4-alpha. This issue is also tracked as TROVE-2021-005 and
1879 CVE-2021-34549. Reported by Jann Horn from Google's Project Zero.
1880 - Fix an out-of-bounds memory access in v3 onion service descriptor
1881 parsing. An attacker could exploit this bug by crafting an onion
1882 service descriptor that would crash any client that tried to visit
1883 it. Fixes bug 40392; bugfix on 0.3.0.1-alpha. This issue is also
1884 tracked as TROVE-2021-006 and CVE-2021-34550. Reported by Sergei
1885 Glazunov from Google's Project Zero.
1887 o Minor features (compatibility, backport from 0.4.6.4-rc):
1888 - Remove an assertion function related to TLS renegotiation. It was
1889 used nowhere outside the unit tests, and it was breaking
1890 compilation with recent alpha releases of OpenSSL 3.0.0. Closes
1893 o Minor features (fallback directory list, backport from 0.4.6.2-alpha):
1894 - Regenerate the list of fallback directories to contain a new set
1895 of 200 relays. Closes ticket 40265.
1897 o Minor features (geoip data):
1898 - Update the geoip files to match the IPFire Location Database, as
1899 retrieved on 2021/06/10.
1901 o Minor bugfixes (channel, DoS, backport from 0.4.6.2-alpha):
1902 - Fix a non-fatal BUG() message due to a too-early free of a string,
1903 when listing a client connection from the DoS defenses subsystem.
1904 Fixes bug 40345; bugfix on 0.4.3.4-rc.
1906 o Minor bugfixes (compiler warnings, backport from 0.4.6.3-rc):
1907 - Fix an indentation problem that led to a warning from GCC 11.1.1.
1908 Fixes bug 40380; bugfix on 0.3.0.1-alpha.
1911 Changes in version 0.3.5.15 - 2021-06-14
1912 Tor 0.3.5.15 fixes several security issues, including a
1913 denial-of-service attack against onion service clients, and another
1914 denial-of-service attack against relays. Everybody should upgrade to
1915 one of 0.3.5.15, 0.4.4.9, 0.4.5.9, or 0.4.6.5.
1917 o Major bugfixes (security, backport from 0.4.6.5):
1918 - Don't allow relays to spoof RELAY_END or RELAY_RESOLVED cell on
1919 half-closed streams. Previously, clients failed to validate which
1920 hop sent these cells: this would allow a relay on a circuit to end
1921 a stream that wasn't actually built with it. Fixes bug 40389;
1922 bugfix on 0.3.5.1-alpha. This issue is also tracked as TROVE-2021-
1923 003 and CVE-2021-34548.
1925 o Major bugfixes (security, defense-in-depth, backport from 0.4.6.5):
1926 - Detect more failure conditions from the OpenSSL RNG code.
1927 Previously, we would detect errors from a missing RNG
1928 implementation, but not failures from the RNG code itself.
1929 Fortunately, it appears those failures do not happen in practice
1930 when Tor is using OpenSSL's default RNG implementation. Fixes bug
1931 40390; bugfix on 0.2.8.1-alpha. This issue is also tracked as
1932 TROVE-2021-004. Reported by Jann Horn at Google's Project Zero.
1934 o Major bugfixes (security, denial of service, backport from 0.4.6.5):
1935 - Resist a hashtable-based CPU denial-of-service attack against
1936 relays. Previously we used a naive unkeyed hash function to look
1937 up circuits in a circuitmux object. An attacker could exploit this
1938 to construct circuits with chosen circuit IDs, to create
1939 collisions and make the hash table inefficient. Now we use a
1940 SipHash construction here instead. Fixes bug 40391; bugfix on
1941 0.2.4.4-alpha. This issue is also tracked as TROVE-2021-005 and
1942 CVE-2021-34549. Reported by Jann Horn from Google's Project Zero.
1943 - Fix an out-of-bounds memory access in v3 onion service descriptor
1944 parsing. An attacker could exploit this bug by crafting an onion
1945 service descriptor that would crash any client that tried to visit
1946 it. Fixes bug 40392; bugfix on 0.3.0.1-alpha. This issue is also
1947 tracked as TROVE-2021-006 and CVE-2021-34550. Reported by Sergei
1948 Glazunov from Google's Project Zero.
1950 o Minor bugfixes (compiler warnings, backport from 0.4.6.3-rc):
1951 - Fix an indentation problem that led to a warning from GCC 11.1.1.
1952 Fixes bug 40380; bugfix on 0.3.0.1-alpha.
1954 o Minor features (compatibility, backport from 0.4.6.4-rc):
1955 - Remove an assertion function related to TLS renegotiation. It was
1956 used nowhere outside the unit tests, and it was breaking
1957 compilation with recent alpha releases of OpenSSL 3.0.0. Closes
1960 o Minor features (fallback directory list, backport from 0.4.6.2-alpha):
1961 - Regenerate the list of fallback directories to contain a new set
1962 of 200 relays. Closes ticket 40265.
1964 o Minor features (geoip data):
1965 - Update the geoip files to match the IPFire Location Database, as
1966 retrieved on 2021/06/10.
1969 Changes in version 0.4.6.5 - 2021-06-14
1970 Tor 0.4.6.5 is the first stable release in its series. The 0.4.6.x
1971 series includes numerous features and bugfixes, including a significant
1972 improvement to our circuit timeout algorithm that should improve
1973 observed client performance, and a way for relays to report when they are
1976 This release also includes security fixes for several security issues,
1977 including a denial-of-service attack against onion service clients,
1978 and another denial-of-service attack against relays. Everybody should
1979 upgrade to one of 0.3.5.15, 0.4.4.9, 0.4.5.9, or 0.4.6.5.
1981 Below are the changes since 0.4.6.4-rc. For a complete list of changes
1982 since 0.4.5.8, see the ReleaseNotes file.
1984 o Major bugfixes (security):
1985 - Don't allow relays to spoof RELAY_END or RELAY_RESOLVED cell on
1986 half-closed streams. Previously, clients failed to validate which
1987 hop sent these cells: this would allow a relay on a circuit to end
1988 a stream that wasn't actually built with it. Fixes bug 40389;
1989 bugfix on 0.3.5.1-alpha. This issue is also tracked as TROVE-2021-
1990 003 and CVE-2021-34548.
1992 o Major bugfixes (security, defense-in-depth):
1993 - Detect more failure conditions from the OpenSSL RNG code.
1994 Previously, we would detect errors from a missing RNG
1995 implementation, but not failures from the RNG code itself.
1996 Fortunately, it appears those failures do not happen in practice
1997 when Tor is using OpenSSL's default RNG implementation. Fixes bug
1998 40390; bugfix on 0.2.8.1-alpha. This issue is also tracked as
1999 TROVE-2021-004. Reported by Jann Horn at Google's Project Zero.
2001 o Major bugfixes (security, denial of service):
2002 - Resist a hashtable-based CPU denial-of-service attack against
2003 relays. Previously we used a naive unkeyed hash function to look
2004 up circuits in a circuitmux object. An attacker could exploit this
2005 to construct circuits with chosen circuit IDs, to create
2006 collisions and make the hash table inefficient. Now we use a
2007 SipHash construction here instead. Fixes bug 40391; bugfix on
2008 0.2.4.4-alpha. This issue is also tracked as TROVE-2021-005 and
2009 CVE-2021-34549. Reported by Jann Horn from Google's Project Zero.
2010 - Fix an out-of-bounds memory access in v3 onion service descriptor
2011 parsing. An attacker could exploit this bug by crafting an onion
2012 service descriptor that would crash any client that tried to visit
2013 it. Fixes bug 40392; bugfix on 0.3.0.1-alpha. This issue is also
2014 tracked as TROVE-2021-006 and CVE-2021-34550. Reported by Sergei
2015 Glazunov from Google's Project Zero.
2017 o Minor features (geoip data):
2018 - Update the geoip files to match the IPFire Location Database, as
2019 retrieved on 2021/06/10.
2021 o Minor features (logging, diagnostic):
2022 - Log decompression failures at a higher severity level, since they
2023 can help provide missing context for other warning messages. We
2024 rate-limit these messages, to avoid flooding the logs if they
2025 begin to occur frequently. Closes ticket 40175.
2028 Changes in version 0.4.6.4-rc - 2021-05-28
2029 Tor 0.4.6.4-rc fixes a few bugs from previous releases. This, we hope,
2030 the final release candidate in its series: unless major new issues are
2031 found, the next release will be stable.
2033 o Minor features (compatibility):
2034 - Remove an assertion function related to TLS renegotiation. It was
2035 used nowhere outside the unit tests, and it was breaking
2036 compilation with recent alpha releases of OpenSSL 3.0.0. Closes
2039 o Minor bugfixes (consensus handling):
2040 - Avoid a set of bugs that could be caused by inconsistently
2041 preferring an out-of-date consensus stored in a stale directory
2042 cache over a more recent one stored on disk as the latest
2043 consensus. Fixes bug 40375; bugfix on 0.3.1.1-alpha.
2045 o Minor bugfixes (control, sandbox):
2046 - Allow the control command SAVECONF to succeed when the seccomp
2047 sandbox is enabled, and make SAVECONF keep only one backup file to
2048 simplify implementation. Previously SAVECONF allowed a large
2049 number of backup files, which made it incompatible with the
2050 sandbox. Fixes bug 40317; bugfix on 0.2.5.4-alpha. Patch by
2053 o Minor bugfixes (metrics port):
2054 - Fix a bug that made tor try to re-bind() on an already open
2055 MetricsPort every 60 seconds. Fixes bug 40370; bugfix
2059 - Remove unneeded code for parsing private keys in directory
2060 documents. This code was only used for client authentication in v2
2061 onion services, which are now unsupported. Closes ticket 40374.
2064 Changes in version 0.4.5.8 - 2021-05-10
2065 Tor 0.4.5.8 fixes several bugs in earlier version, backporting fixes
2066 from the 0.4.6.x series.
2068 o Minor features (compatibility, Linux seccomp sandbox, backport from 0.4.6.3-rc):
2069 - Add a workaround to enable the Linux sandbox to work correctly
2070 with Glibc 2.33. This version of Glibc has started using the
2071 fstatat() system call, which previously our sandbox did not allow.
2072 Closes ticket 40382; see the ticket for a discussion of trade-offs.
2074 o Minor features (compilation, backport from 0.4.6.3-rc):
2075 - Make the autoconf script build correctly with autoconf versions
2076 2.70 and later. Closes part of ticket 40335.
2078 o Minor features (fallback directory list, backport from 0.4.6.2-alpha):
2079 - Regenerate the list of fallback directories to contain a new set
2080 of 200 relays. Closes ticket 40265.
2082 o Minor features (geoip data):
2083 - Update the geoip files to match the IPFire Location Database, as
2084 retrieved on 2021/05/07.
2086 o Minor features (onion services):
2087 - Add warning message when connecting to now deprecated v2 onion
2088 services. As announced, Tor 0.4.5.x is the last series that will
2089 support v2 onions. Closes ticket 40373.
2091 o Minor bugfixes (bridge, pluggable transport, backport from 0.4.6.2-alpha):
2092 - Fix a regression that made it impossible start Tor using a bridge
2093 line with a transport name and no fingerprint. Fixes bug 40360;
2094 bugfix on 0.4.5.4-rc.
2096 o Minor bugfixes (build, cross-compilation, backport from 0.4.6.3-rc):
2097 - Allow a custom "ar" for cross-compilation. Our previous build
2098 script had used the $AR environment variable in most places, but
2099 it missed one. Fixes bug 40369; bugfix on 0.4.5.1-alpha.
2101 o Minor bugfixes (channel, DoS, backport from 0.4.6.2-alpha):
2102 - Fix a non-fatal BUG() message due to a too-early free of a string,
2103 when listing a client connection from the DoS defenses subsystem.
2104 Fixes bug 40345; bugfix on 0.4.3.4-rc.
2106 o Minor bugfixes (compiler warnings, backport from 0.4.6.3-rc):
2107 - Fix an indentation problem that led to a warning from GCC 11.1.1.
2108 Fixes bug 40380; bugfix on 0.3.0.1-alpha.
2110 o Minor bugfixes (controller, backport from 0.4.6.1-alpha):
2111 - Fix a "BUG" warning that would appear when a controller chooses
2112 the first hop for a circuit, and that circuit completes. Fixes bug
2113 40285; bugfix on 0.3.2.1-alpha.
2115 o Minor bugfixes (onion service, client, memory leak, backport from 0.4.6.3-rc):
2116 - Fix a bug where an expired cached descriptor could get overwritten
2117 with a new one without freeing it, leading to a memory leak. Fixes
2118 bug 40356; bugfix on 0.3.5.1-alpha.
2120 o Minor bugfixes (testing, BSD, backport from 0.4.6.2-alpha):
2121 - Fix pattern-matching errors when patterns expand to invalid paths
2122 on BSD systems. Fixes bug 40318; bugfix on 0.4.5.1-alpha. Patch by
2126 Changes in version 0.4.6.3-rc - 2021-05-10
2127 Tor 0.4.6.3-rc is the first release candidate in its series. It fixes
2128 a few small bugs from previous versions, and adds a better error
2129 message when trying to use (no longer supported) v2 onion services.
2131 Though we anticipate that we'll be doing a bit more clean-up between
2132 now and the stable release, we expect that our remaining changes will
2133 be fairly simple. There will likely be at least one more release
2134 candidate before 0.4.6.x is stable.
2136 o Major bugfixes (onion service, control port):
2137 - Make the ADD_ONION command properly configure client authorization.
2138 Before this fix, the created onion failed to add the client(s).
2139 Fixes bug 40378; bugfix on 0.4.6.1-alpha.
2141 o Minor features (compatibility, Linux seccomp sandbox):
2142 - Add a workaround to enable the Linux sandbox to work correctly
2143 with Glibc 2.33. This version of Glibc has started using the
2144 fstatat() system call, which previously our sandbox did not allow.
2145 Closes ticket 40382; see the ticket for a discussion of trade-offs.
2147 o Minor features (compilation):
2148 - Make the autoconf script build correctly with autoconf versions
2149 2.70 and later. Closes part of ticket 40335.
2151 o Minor features (geoip data):
2152 - Update the geoip files to match the IPFire Location Database, as
2153 retrieved on 2021/05/07.
2155 o Minor features (onion services):
2156 - Add a warning message when trying to connect to (no longer
2157 supported) v2 onion services. Closes ticket 40373.
2159 o Minor bugfixes (build, cross-compilation):
2160 - Allow a custom "ar" for cross-compilation. Our previous build
2161 script had used the $AR environment variable in most places, but
2162 it missed one. Fixes bug 40369; bugfix on 0.4.5.1-alpha.
2164 o Minor bugfixes (compiler warnings):
2165 - Fix an indentation problem that led to a warning from GCC 11.1.1.
2166 Fixes bug 40380; bugfix on 0.3.0.1-alpha.
2168 o Minor bugfixes (logging, relay):
2169 - Emit a warning if an Address is found to be internal and tor can't
2170 use it. Fixes bug 40290; bugfix on 0.4.5.1-alpha.
2172 o Minor bugfixes (onion service, client, memory leak):
2173 - Fix a bug where an expired cached descriptor could get overwritten
2174 with a new one without freeing it, leading to a memory leak. Fixes
2175 bug 40356; bugfix on 0.3.5.1-alpha.
2178 Changes in version 0.4.6.2-alpha - 2021-04-15
2179 Tor 0.4.6.2-alpha is the second alpha in its series. It fixes several
2180 small bugs in previous releases, and solves other issues that had
2181 enabled denial-of-service attacks and affected integration with
2184 o Minor features (client):
2185 - Clients now check whether their streams are attempting to re-enter
2186 the Tor network (i.e. to send Tor traffic over Tor), and close
2187 them preemptively if they think exit relays will refuse them for
2188 this reason. See ticket 2667 for details. Closes ticket 40271.
2190 o Minor features (command line):
2191 - Add long format name "--torrc-file" equivalent to the existing
2192 command-line option "-f". Closes ticket 40324. Patch by
2195 o Minor features (dormant mode):
2196 - Add a new 'DormantTimeoutEnabled' option to allow coarse-grained
2197 control over whether the client ever becomes dormant from
2198 inactivity. Most people won't need this. Closes ticket 40228.
2200 o Minor features (fallback directory list):
2201 - Regenerate the list of fallback directories to contain a new set
2202 of 200 relays. Closes ticket 40265.
2204 o Minor features (geoip data):
2205 - Update the geoip files to match the IPFire Location Database, as
2206 retrieved on 2021/04/13.
2208 o Minor features (logging):
2209 - Edit heartbeat log messages so that more of them begin with the
2210 string "Heartbeat: ". Closes ticket 40322; patch
2213 o Minor bugfixes (bridge, pluggable transport):
2214 - Fix a regression that made it impossible start Tor using a bridge
2215 line with a transport name and no fingerprint. Fixes bug 40360;
2216 bugfix on 0.4.5.4-rc.
2218 o Minor bugfixes (channel, DoS):
2219 - Fix a non-fatal BUG() message due to a too-early free of a string,
2220 when listing a client connection from the DoS defenses subsystem.
2221 Fixes bug 40345; bugfix on 0.4.3.4-rc.
2223 o Minor bugfixes (compilation):
2224 - Fix a compilation warning about unused functions when building
2225 with a libc that lacks the GLOB_ALTDIRFUNC constant. Fixes bug
2226 40354; bugfix on 0.4.5.1-alpha. Patch by Daniel Pinto.
2228 o Minor bugfixes (configuration):
2229 - Fix pattern-matching for directories on all platforms when using
2230 %include options in configuration files. This patch also fixes
2231 compilation on musl libc based systems. Fixes bug 40141; bugfix
2234 o Minor bugfixes (relay):
2235 - Move the "overload-general" line from extrainfo to the server
2236 descriptor. Fixes bug 40364; bugfix on 0.4.6.1-alpha.
2238 o Minor bugfixes (testing, BSD):
2239 - Fix pattern-matching errors when patterns expand to invalid paths
2240 on BSD systems. Fixes bug 40318; bugfix on 0.4.5.1-alpha. Patch by
2243 o Documentation (manual):
2244 - Move the ServerTransport* options to the "SERVER OPTIONS" section.
2246 - Indicate that the HiddenServiceStatistics option also applies to
2247 bridges. Closes ticket 40346.
2248 - Move the description of BridgeRecordUsageByCountry to the section
2249 "STATISTICS OPTIONS". Closes ticket 40323.
2252 Changes in version 0.4.6.1-alpha - 2021-03-18
2253 Tor 0.4.6.1-alpha is the first alpha release in the 0.4.6.x series. It
2254 improves client circuit performance, adds missing features, and
2255 improves some of our DoS handling and statistics reporting. It also
2256 includes numerous smaller bugfixes.
2258 Below are the changes since 0.4.5.7. (Note that this release DOES
2259 include the fixes for the security bugs already fixed in 0.4.5.7.)
2261 o Major features (control port, onion services):
2262 - Add controller support for creating version 3 onion services with
2263 client authorization. Previously, only v2 onion services could be
2264 created with client authorization. Closes ticket 40084. Patch by
2267 o Major features (directory authority):
2268 - When voting on a relay with a Sybil-like appearance, add the Sybil
2269 flag when clearing out the other flags. This lets a relay operator
2270 know why their relay hasn't been included in the consensus. Closes
2271 ticket 40255. Patch by Neel Chauhan.
2273 o Major features (metrics):
2274 - Relays now report how overloaded they are in their extrainfo
2275 documents. This information is controlled with the
2276 OverloadStatistics torrc option, and it will be used to improve
2277 decisions about the network's load balancing. Implements proposal
2278 328; closes ticket 40222.
2280 o Major features (relay, denial of service):
2281 - Add a new DoS subsystem feature to control the rate of client
2282 connections for relays. Closes ticket 40253.
2284 o Major features (statistics):
2285 - Relays now publish statistics about the number of v3 onion
2286 services and volume of v3 onion service traffic, in the same
2287 manner they already do for v2 onions. Closes ticket 23126.
2289 o Major bugfixes (circuit build timeout):
2290 - Improve the accuracy of our circuit build timeout calculation for
2291 60%, 70%, and 80% build rates for various guard choices. We now
2292 use a maximum likelihood estimator for Pareto parameters of the
2293 circuit build time distribution, instead of a "right-censored
2294 estimator". This causes clients to ignore circuits that never
2295 finish building in their timeout calculations. Previously, clients
2296 were counting such unfinished circuits as having the highest
2297 possible build time value, when in reality these circuits most
2298 likely just contain relays that are offline. We also now wait a
2299 bit longer to let circuits complete for measurement purposes,
2300 lower the minimum possible effective timeout from 1.5 seconds to
2301 10ms, and increase the resolution of the circuit build time
2302 histogram from 50ms bin widths to 10ms bin widths. Additionally,
2303 we alter our estimate Xm by taking the maximum of the top 10 most
2304 common build time values of the 10ms histogram, and compute Xm as
2305 the average of these. Fixes bug 40168; bugfix on 0.2.2.14-alpha.
2306 - Remove max_time calculation and associated warning from circuit
2307 build timeout 'alpha' parameter estimation, as this is no longer
2308 needed by our new estimator from 40168. Fixes bug 34088; bugfix
2311 o Major bugfixes (signing key):
2312 - In the tor-gencert utility, give an informative error message if
2313 the passphrase given in `--create-identity-key` is too short.
2314 Fixes bug 40189; bugfix on 0.2.0.1-alpha. Patch by Neel Chauhan.
2316 o Minor features (bridge):
2317 - We now announce the URL to Tor's new bridge status at
2318 https://bridges.torproject.org/ when Tor is configured to run as a
2319 bridge relay. Closes ticket 30477.
2321 o Minor features (build system):
2322 - New "make lsp" command to auto generate the compile_commands.json
2323 file used by the ccls server. The "bear" program is needed for
2324 this. Closes ticket 40227.
2326 o Minor features (command-line interface):
2327 - Add build informations to `tor --version` in order to ease
2328 reproducible builds. Closes ticket 32102.
2329 - When parsing command-line flags that take an optional argument,
2330 treat the argument as absent if it would start with a '-'
2331 character. Arguments in that form are not intelligible for any of
2332 our optional-argument flags. Closes ticket 40223.
2333 - Allow a relay operator to list the ed25519 keys on the command
2334 line by adding the `rsa` and `ed25519` arguments to the
2335 --list-fingerprint flag to show the respective RSA and ed25519
2336 relay fingerprint. Closes ticket 33632. Patch by Neel Chauhan.
2338 o Minor features (control port, stream handling):
2339 - Add the stream ID to the event line in the ADDRMAP control event.
2340 Closes ticket 40249. Patch by Neel Chauhan.
2342 o Minor features (dormant mode):
2343 - Add a new 'DormantTimeoutEnabled' option for coarse-grained
2344 control over whether the client can become dormant from
2345 inactivity. Most people won't need this. Closes ticket 40228.
2347 o Minor features (logging):
2348 - Change the DoS subsystem heartbeat line format to be more clear on
2349 what has been detected/rejected, and which option is disabled (if
2350 any). Closes ticket 40308.
2351 - In src/core/mainloop/mainloop.c and src/core/mainloop/connection.c,
2352 put brackets around IPv6 addresses in log messages. Closes ticket
2353 40232. Patch by Neel Chauhan.
2355 o Minor features (performance, windows):
2356 - Use SRWLocks to implement locking on Windows. Replaces the
2357 "critical section" locking implementation with the faster
2358 SRWLocks, available since Windows Vista. Closes ticket 17927.
2359 Patch by Daniel Pinto.
2361 o Minor features (protocol, proxy support, defense in depth):
2362 - Close HAProxy connections if they somehow manage to send us data
2363 before we start reading. Closes another case of ticket 40017.
2365 o Minor features (tests, portability):
2366 - Port the hs_build_address.py test script to work with recent
2367 versions of python. Closes ticket 40213. Patch from
2370 o Minor features (vote document):
2371 - Add a "stats" line to directory authority votes, to report various
2372 statistics that authorities compute about the relays. This will
2373 help us diagnose the network better. Closes ticket 40314.
2375 o Minor bugfixes (build):
2376 - The configure script now shows whether or not lzma and zstd have
2377 been used, not just if the enable flag was passed in. Fixes bug
2378 40236; bugfix on 0.4.3.1-alpha.
2380 o Minor bugfixes (compatibility):
2381 - Fix a failure in the test cases when running on the "hppa"
2382 architecture, along with a related test that might fail on other
2383 architectures in the future. Fixes bug 40274; bugfix
2386 o Minor bugfixes (controller):
2387 - Fix a "BUG" warning that would appear when a controller chooses
2388 the first hop for a circuit, and that circuit completes. Fixes bug
2389 40285; bugfix on 0.3.2.1-alpha.
2391 o Minor bugfixes (directory authorities, voting):
2392 - Add a new consensus method (31) to support any future changes that
2393 authorities decide to make to the value of bwweightscale or
2394 maxunmeasuredbw. Previously, there was a bug that prevented the
2395 authorities from parsing these consensus parameters correctly under
2396 most circumstances. Fixes bug 19011; bugfix on 0.2.2.10-alpha.
2398 o Minor bugfixes (ipv6):
2399 - Allow non-SOCKSPorts to disable IPv4, IPv6, and PreferIPv4. Some
2400 rare configurations might break, but in this case you can disable
2401 NoIPv4Traffic and NoIPv6Traffic as needed. Fixes bug 33607; bugfix
2402 on 0.4.1.1-alpha. Patch by Neel Chauhan.
2404 o Minor bugfixes (key generation):
2405 - Do not require a valid torrc when using the `--keygen` argument to
2406 generate a signing key. This allows us to generate keys on systems
2407 or users which may not run Tor. Fixes bug 40235; bugfix on
2408 0.2.7.2-alpha. Patch by Neel Chauhan.
2410 o Minor bugfixes (onion services, logging):
2411 - Downgrade the severity of a few rendezvous circuit-related
2412 warnings from warning to info. Fixes bug 40207; bugfix on
2413 0.3.2.1-alpha. Patch by Neel Chauhan.
2415 o Minor bugfixes (relay):
2416 - Reduce the compression level for data streaming from HIGH to LOW.
2417 This should reduce the CPU and memory burden for directory caches.
2418 Fixes bug 40301; bugfix on 0.3.5.1-alpha.
2420 o Code simplification and refactoring:
2421 - Remove the orconn_ext_or_id_map structure and related functions.
2422 (Nothing outside of unit tests used them.) Closes ticket 33383.
2423 Patch by Neel Chauhan.
2426 - As of this release, Tor no longer supports the old v2 onion
2427 services. They were deprecated last July for security, and support
2428 will be removed entirely later this year. We strongly encourage
2429 everybody to migrate to v3 onion services. For more information,
2430 see https://blog.torproject.org/v2-deprecation-timeline . Closes
2431 ticket 40266. (NOTE: We accidentally released an earlier version
2432 of the 0.4.6.1-alpha changelog without this entry. Sorry for
2435 o Code simplification and refactoring (metrics, DoS):
2436 - Move the DoS subsystem into the subsys manager, including its
2437 configuration options. Closes ticket 40261.
2439 o Removed features (relay):
2440 - Because DirPorts are only used on authorities, relays no longer
2441 advertise them. Similarly, self-testing for DirPorts has been
2442 disabled, since an unreachable DirPort is no reason for a relay
2443 not to advertise itself. (Configuring a DirPort will still work,
2444 for now.) Closes ticket 40282.
2447 Changes in version 0.3.5.14 - 2021-03-16
2448 Tor 0.3.5.14 backports fixes for two important denial-of-service bugs
2449 in earlier versions of Tor.
2451 One of these vulnerabilities (TROVE-2021-001) would allow an attacker
2452 who can send directory data to a Tor instance to force that Tor
2453 instance to consume huge amounts of CPU. This is easiest to exploit
2454 against authorities, since anybody can upload to them, but directory
2455 caches could also exploit this vulnerability against relays or clients
2456 when they download. The other vulnerability (TROVE-2021-002) only
2457 affects directory authorities, and would allow an attacker to remotely
2458 crash the authority with an assertion failure. Patches have already
2459 been provided to the authority operators, to help ensure
2462 We recommend that everybody upgrade to one of the releases that fixes
2463 these issues (0.3.5.14, 0.4.4.8, or 0.4.5.7) as they become available
2466 This release also updates our GeoIP data source, and fixes a
2467 compatibility issue.
2469 o Major bugfixes (security, denial of service, backport from 0.4.5.7):
2470 - Disable the dump_desc() function that we used to dump unparseable
2471 information to disk. It was called incorrectly in several places,
2472 in a way that could lead to excessive CPU usage. Fixes bug 40286;
2473 bugfix on 0.2.2.1-alpha. This bug is also tracked as TROVE-2021-
2474 001 and CVE-2021-28089.
2475 - Fix a bug in appending detached signatures to a pending consensus
2476 document that could be used to crash a directory authority. Fixes
2477 bug 40316; bugfix on 0.2.2.6-alpha. Tracked as TROVE-2021-002
2480 o Minor features (geoip data, backport from 0.4.5.7):
2481 - We have switched geoip data sources. Previously we shipped IP-to-
2482 country mappings from Maxmind's GeoLite2, but in 2019 they changed
2483 their licensing terms, so we were unable to update them after that
2484 point. We now ship geoip files based on the IPFire Location
2485 Database instead. (See https://location.ipfire.org/ for more
2486 information). This release updates our geoip files to match the
2487 IPFire Location Database as retrieved on 2021/03/12. Closes
2490 o Removed features (mallinfo deprecated, backport from 0.4.5.7):
2491 - Remove mallinfo() usage entirely. Libc 2.33+ now deprecates it.
2492 Closes ticket 40309.
2495 Changes in version 0.4.4.8 - 2021-03-16
2496 Tor 0.4.4.8 backports fixes for two important denial-of-service bugs
2497 in earlier versions of Tor.
2499 One of these vulnerabilities (TROVE-2021-001) would allow an attacker
2500 who can send directory data to a Tor instance to force that Tor
2501 instance to consume huge amounts of CPU. This is easiest to exploit
2502 against authorities, since anybody can upload to them, but directory
2503 caches could also exploit this vulnerability against relays or clients
2504 when they download. The other vulnerability (TROVE-2021-002) only
2505 affects directory authorities, and would allow an attacker to remotely
2506 crash the authority with an assertion failure. Patches have already
2507 been provided to the authority operators, to help ensure
2510 We recommend that everybody upgrade to one of the releases that fixes
2511 these issues (0.3.5.14, 0.4.4.8, or 0.4.5.7) as they become available
2514 This release also updates our GeoIP data source, and fixes a
2515 compatibility issue.
2517 o Major bugfixes (security, denial of service, backport from 0.4.5.7):
2518 - Disable the dump_desc() function that we used to dump unparseable
2519 information to disk. It was called incorrectly in several places,
2520 in a way that could lead to excessive CPU usage. Fixes bug 40286;
2521 bugfix on 0.2.2.1-alpha. This bug is also tracked as TROVE-2021-
2522 001 and CVE-2021-28089.
2523 - Fix a bug in appending detached signatures to a pending consensus
2524 document that could be used to crash a directory authority. Fixes
2525 bug 40316; bugfix on 0.2.2.6-alpha. Tracked as TROVE-2021-002
2528 o Minor features (geoip data, backport from 0.4.5.7):
2529 - We have switched geoip data sources. Previously we shipped IP-to-
2530 country mappings from Maxmind's GeoLite2, but in 2019 they changed
2531 their licensing terms, so we were unable to update them after that
2532 point. We now ship geoip files based on the IPFire Location
2533 Database instead. (See https://location.ipfire.org/ for more
2534 information). This release updates our geoip files to match the
2535 IPFire Location Database as retrieved on 2021/03/12. Closes
2538 o Removed features (mallinfo deprecated, backport from 0.4.5.7):
2539 - Remove mallinfo() usage entirely. Libc 2.33+ now deprecates it.
2540 Closes ticket 40309.
2543 Changes in version 0.4.5.7 - 2021-03-16
2544 Tor 0.4.5.7 fixes two important denial-of-service bugs in earlier
2547 One of these vulnerabilities (TROVE-2021-001) would allow an attacker
2548 who can send directory data to a Tor instance to force that Tor
2549 instance to consume huge amounts of CPU. This is easiest to exploit
2550 against authorities, since anybody can upload to them, but directory
2551 caches could also exploit this vulnerability against relays or clients
2552 when they download. The other vulnerability (TROVE-2021-002) only
2553 affects directory authorities, and would allow an attacker to remotely
2554 crash the authority with an assertion failure. Patches have already
2555 been provided to the authority operators, to help ensure
2558 We recommend that everybody upgrade to one of the releases that fixes
2559 these issues (0.3.5.14, 0.4.4.8, or 0.4.5.7) as they become available
2562 This release also updates our GeoIP data source, and fixes a few
2563 smaller bugs in earlier releases.
2565 o Major bugfixes (security, denial of service):
2566 - Disable the dump_desc() function that we used to dump unparseable
2567 information to disk. It was called incorrectly in several places,
2568 in a way that could lead to excessive CPU usage. Fixes bug 40286;
2569 bugfix on 0.2.2.1-alpha. This bug is also tracked as TROVE-2021-
2570 001 and CVE-2021-28089.
2571 - Fix a bug in appending detached signatures to a pending consensus
2572 document that could be used to crash a directory authority. Fixes
2573 bug 40316; bugfix on 0.2.2.6-alpha. Tracked as TROVE-2021-002
2576 o Minor features (geoip data):
2577 - We have switched geoip data sources. Previously we shipped IP-to-
2578 country mappings from Maxmind's GeoLite2, but in 2019 they changed
2579 their licensing terms, so we were unable to update them after that
2580 point. We now ship geoip files based on the IPFire Location
2581 Database instead. (See https://location.ipfire.org/ for more
2582 information). This release updates our geoip files to match the
2583 IPFire Location Database as retrieved on 2021/03/12. Closes
2586 o Minor bugfixes (directory authority):
2587 - Now that exit relays don't allow exit connections to directory
2588 authority DirPorts (to prevent network reentry), disable
2589 authorities' reachability self test on the DirPort. Fixes bug
2590 40287; bugfix on 0.4.5.5-rc.
2592 o Minor bugfixes (documentation):
2593 - Fix a formatting error in the documentation for
2594 VirtualAddrNetworkIPv6. Fixes bug 40256; bugfix on 0.2.9.4-alpha.
2596 o Minor bugfixes (Linux, relay):
2597 - Fix a bug in determining total available system memory that would
2598 have been triggered if the format of Linux's /proc/meminfo file
2599 had ever changed to include "MemTotal:" in the middle of a line.
2600 Fixes bug 40315; bugfix on 0.2.5.4-alpha.
2602 o Minor bugfixes (metrics port):
2603 - Fix a BUG() warning on the MetricsPort for an internal missing
2604 handler. Fixes bug 40295; bugfix on 0.4.5.1-alpha.
2606 o Minor bugfixes (onion service):
2607 - Remove a harmless BUG() warning when reloading tor configured with
2608 onion services. Fixes bug 40334; bugfix on 0.4.5.1-alpha.
2610 o Minor bugfixes (portability):
2611 - Fix a non-portable usage of "==" with "test" in the configure
2612 script. Fixes bug 40298; bugfix on 0.4.5.1-alpha.
2614 o Minor bugfixes (relay):
2615 - Remove a spammy log notice falsely claiming that the IPv4/v6
2616 address was missing. Fixes bug 40300; bugfix on 0.4.5.1-alpha.
2617 - Do not query the address cache early in the boot process when
2618 deciding if a relay needs to fetch early directory information
2619 from an authority. This bug resulted in a relay falsely believing
2620 it didn't have an address and thus triggering an authority fetch
2621 at each boot. Related to our fix for 40300.
2623 o Removed features (mallinfo deprecated):
2624 - Remove mallinfo() usage entirely. Libc 2.33+ now deprecates it.
2625 Closes ticket 40309.
2628 Changes in version 0.4.5.6 - 2021-02-15
2629 The Tor 0.4.5.x release series is dedicated to the memory of Karsten
2630 Loesing (1979-2020), Tor developer, cypherpunk, husband, and father.
2631 Karsten is best known for creating the Tor metrics portal and leading
2632 the metrics team, but he was involved in Tor from the early days. For
2633 example, while he was still a student he invented and implemented the
2634 v2 onion service directory design, and he also served as an ambassador
2635 to the many German researchers working in the anonymity field. We
2636 loved him and respected him for his patience, his consistency, and his
2637 welcoming approach to growing our community.
2639 This release series introduces significant improvements in relay IPv6
2640 address discovery, a new "MetricsPort" mechanism for relay operators
2641 to measure performance, LTTng support, build system improvements to
2642 help when using Tor as a static library, and significant bugfixes
2643 related to Windows relay performance. It also includes numerous
2644 smaller features and bugfixes.
2646 Below are the changes since 0.4.4.4-rc. For a complete list of changes
2647 since 0.4.4.7, see the ReleaseNotes file.
2649 o Major bugfixes (IPv6, relay):
2650 - Fix a bug that prevented a relay from publishing its descriptor if
2651 an auto-discovered IPv6 that was found unreachable. Fixes bug
2652 40279; bugfix on 0.4.5.1-alpha.
2654 o Minor features (protocol versions):
2655 - Stop claiming to support the "DirCache=1" subprotocol version.
2656 Technically, we stopped supporting this subprotocol back in
2657 0.4.5.1-alpha, but we needed to wait for the authorities to stop
2658 listing it as "required" before we could drop it from the list.
2659 Closes ticket 40221.
2661 o Minor bugfixes (logging):
2662 - Avoid a spurious log message about missing subprotocol versions,
2663 when the consensus that we're reading from is older than the
2664 current release. Previously we had made this message nonfatal, but
2665 in practice, it is never relevant when the consensus is older than
2666 the current release. Fixes bug 40281; bugfix on 0.4.0.1-alpha.
2668 o Minor bugfixes (metrics port):
2669 - Fix a bug warning when a metrics port socket was unexpectedly
2670 closed. Fixes bug 40257; bugfix on 0.4.5.1-alpha
2672 o Minor bugfixes (relay):
2673 - Allow relays to have a RFC1918 address if PublishServerDescriptor
2674 is set to 0 and AssumeReachable is set to 1. This is to support
2675 the use case of a bridge on a local network, exposed via a
2676 pluggable transport. Fixes bug 40208; bugfix on 0.4.5.1-alpha.
2678 o Minor bugfixes (relay, config):
2679 - Fix a problem in the removal of duplicate ORPorts from the
2680 internal port list when loading the config file. We were removing
2681 the wrong ports, breaking valid torrc uses cases for multiple
2682 ORPorts of the same address family. Fixes bug 40289; bugfix
2686 Changes in version 0.4.4.7 - 2021-02-03
2687 Tor 0.4.4.7 backports numerous bugfixes from later releases,
2688 including one that made v3 onion services more susceptible to
2689 denial-of-service attacks, and a feature that makes some kinds of
2690 DoS attacks harder to perform.
2692 o Major bugfixes (onion service v3, backport from 0.4.5.3-rc):
2693 - Stop requiring a live consensus for v3 clients and services, and
2694 allow a "reasonably live" consensus instead. This allows v3 onion
2695 services to work even if the authorities fail to generate a
2696 consensus for more than 2 hours in a row. Fixes bug 40237; bugfix
2699 o Major feature (exit, backport from 0.4.5.5-rc):
2700 - Re-entry into the network is now denied at the Exit level to all
2701 relays' ORPorts and authorities' ORPorts and DirPorts. This change
2702 should help mitgate a set of denial-of-service attacks. Closes
2705 o Minor feature (build system, backport from 0.4.5.4-rc):
2706 - New "make lsp" command to generate the compile_commands.json file
2707 used by the ccls language server. The "bear" program is needed for
2708 this. Closes ticket 40227.
2710 o Minor features (compilation, backport from 0.4.5.2-rc):
2711 - Disable deprecation warnings when building with OpenSSL 3.0.0 or
2712 later. There are a number of APIs newly deprecated in OpenSSL
2713 3.0.0 that Tor still requires. (A later version of Tor will try to
2714 stop depending on these APIs.) Closes ticket 40165.
2716 o Minor features (crypto, backport from 0.4.5.3-rc):
2717 - Fix undefined behavior on our Keccak library. The bug only
2718 appeared on platforms with 32-byte CPU cache lines (e.g. armv5tel)
2719 and would result in wrong digests. Fixes bug 40210; bugfix on
2720 0.2.8.1-alpha. Thanks to Bernhard Übelacker, Arnd Bergmann and
2721 weasel for diagnosing this.
2723 o Minor bugfixes (compatibility, backport from 0.4.5.1-rc):
2724 - Strip '\r' characters when reading text files on Unix platforms.
2725 This should resolve an issue where a relay operator migrates a
2726 relay from Windows to Unix, but does not change the line ending of
2727 Tor's various state files to match the platform, and the CRLF line
2728 endings from Windows end up leaking into other files such as the
2729 extra-info document. Fixes bug 33781; bugfix on 0.0.9pre5.
2731 o Minor bugfixes (compilation, backport from 0.4.5.3-rc):
2732 - Fix a compilation warning about unreachable fallthrough
2733 annotations when building with "--enable-all-bugs-are-fatal" on
2734 some compilers. Fixes bug 40241; bugfix on 0.3.5.4-alpha.
2736 o Minor bugfixes (SOCKS5, backport from 0.4.5.3-rc):
2737 - Handle partial SOCKS5 messages correctly. Previously, our code
2738 would send an incorrect error message if it got a SOCKS5 request
2739 that wasn't complete. Fixes bug 40190; bugfix on 0.3.5.1-alpha.
2741 o Minor bugfixes (testing, backport from 0.4.5.2-alpha):
2742 - Fix the `config/parse_tcp_proxy_line` test so that it works
2743 correctly on systems where the DNS provider hijacks invalid
2744 queries. Fixes part of bug 40179; bugfix on 0.4.3.1-alpha.
2745 - Fix our Python reference-implementation for the v3 onion service
2746 handshake so that it works correctly with the version of hashlib
2747 provided by Python 3.9. Fixes part of bug 40179; bugfix
2749 - Fix the `tortls/openssl/log_one_error` test to work with OpenSSL
2750 3.0.0. Fixes bug 40170; bugfix on 0.2.8.1-alpha.
2753 Changes in version 0.4.3.8 - 2021-02-03
2754 Tor 0.4.3.8 backports numerous bugfixes from later releases,
2755 including one that made v3 onion services more susceptible to
2756 denial-of-service attacks, and a feature that makes some kinds of
2757 DoS attacks harder to perform.
2759 Note that this is, in all likelihood, the last release of Tor 0.4.3.x,
2760 which will reach end-of-life on 15 Feb 2021.
2762 o Major bugfixes (onion service v3, backport from 0.4.5.3-rc):
2763 - Stop requiring a live consensus for v3 clients and services, and
2764 allow a "reasonably live" consensus instead. This allows v3 onion
2765 services to work even if the authorities fail to generate a
2766 consensus for more than 2 hours in a row. Fixes bug 40237; bugfix
2769 o Major bugfixes (stats, onion services, backport from 0.4.4.5):
2770 - Fix a bug where we were undercounting the Tor network's total
2771 onion service traffic, by ignoring any traffic originating from
2772 clients. Now we count traffic from both clients and services.
2773 Fixes bug 40117; bugfix on 0.2.6.2-alpha.
2775 o Major feature (exit, backport from 0.4.5.5-rc):
2776 - Re-entry into the network is now denied at the Exit level to all
2777 relays' ORPorts and authorities' ORPorts and DirPorts. This change
2778 should help mitgate a set of denial-of-service attacks. Closes
2781 o Minor feature (build system, backport from 0.4.5.4-rc):
2782 - New "make lsp" command to generate the compile_commands.json file
2783 used by the ccls language server. The "bear" program is needed for
2784 this. Closes ticket 40227.
2786 o Minor features (compilation, backport from 0.4.5.2-rc):
2787 - Disable deprecation warnings when building with OpenSSL 3.0.0 or
2788 later. There are a number of APIs newly deprecated in OpenSSL
2789 3.0.0 that Tor still requires. (A later version of Tor will try to
2790 stop depending on these APIs.) Closes ticket 40165.
2792 o Minor features (crypto, backport from 0.4.5.3-rc):
2793 - Fix undefined behavior on our Keccak library. The bug only
2794 appeared on platforms with 32-byte CPU cache lines (e.g. armv5tel)
2795 and would result in wrong digests. Fixes bug 40210; bugfix on
2796 0.2.8.1-alpha. Thanks to Bernhard Übelacker, Arnd Bergmann and
2797 weasel for diagnosing this.
2799 o Minor bugfixes (compatibility, backport from 0.4.5.1-rc):
2800 - Strip '\r' characters when reading text files on Unix platforms.
2801 This should resolve an issue where a relay operator migrates a
2802 relay from Windows to Unix, but does not change the line ending of
2803 Tor's various state files to match the platform, and the CRLF line
2804 endings from Windows end up leaking into other files such as the
2805 extra-info document. Fixes bug 33781; bugfix on 0.0.9pre5.
2807 o Minor bugfixes (compilation, backport from 0.4.5.1-rc):
2808 - Resolve a compilation warning that could occur in
2809 test_connection.c. Fixes bug 40113; bugfix on 0.2.9.3-alpha.
2811 o Minor bugfixes (compilation, backport from 0.4.5.3-rc):
2812 - Fix a compilation warning about unreachable fallthrough
2813 annotations when building with "--enable-all-bugs-are-fatal" on
2814 some compilers. Fixes bug 40241; bugfix on 0.3.5.4-alpha.
2816 o Minor bugfixes (SOCKS5, backport from 0.4.5.3-rc):
2817 - Handle partial SOCKS5 messages correctly. Previously, our code
2818 would send an incorrect error message if it got a SOCKS5 request
2819 that wasn't complete. Fixes bug 40190; bugfix on 0.3.5.1-alpha.
2821 o Minor bugfixes (testing, backport from 0.4.5.2-alpha):
2822 - Fix the `config/parse_tcp_proxy_line` test so that it works
2823 correctly on systems where the DNS provider hijacks invalid
2824 queries. Fixes part of bug 40179; bugfix on 0.4.3.1-alpha.
2825 - Fix our Python reference-implementation for the v3 onion service
2826 handshake so that it works correctly with the version of hashlib
2827 provided by Python 3.9. Fixes part of bug 40179; bugfix
2829 - Fix the `tortls/openssl/log_one_error` test to work with OpenSSL
2830 3.0.0. Fixes bug 40170; bugfix on 0.2.8.1-alpha.
2833 Changes in version 0.3.5.13 - 2020-02-03
2834 Tor 0.3.5.13 backports numerous bugfixes from later releases,
2835 including one that made v3 onion services more susceptible to
2836 denial-of-service attacks, and a feature that makes some kinds of
2837 DoS attacks harder to perform.
2839 o Major bugfixes (onion service v3, backport from 0.4.5.3-rc):
2840 - Stop requiring a live consensus for v3 clients and services, and
2841 allow a "reasonably live" consensus instead. This allows v3 onion
2842 services to work even if the authorities fail to generate a
2843 consensus for more than 2 hours in a row. Fixes bug 40237; bugfix
2846 o Major bugfixes (stats, onion services, backport from 0.4.4.5):
2847 - Fix a bug where we were undercounting the Tor network's total
2848 onion service traffic, by ignoring any traffic originating from
2849 clients. Now we count traffic from both clients and services.
2850 Fixes bug 40117; bugfix on 0.2.6.2-alpha.
2852 o Major feature (exit, backport from 0.4.5.5-rc):
2853 - Re-entry into the network is now denied at the Exit level to all
2854 relays' ORPorts and authorities' ORPorts and DirPorts. This change
2855 should help mitigate a set of denial-of-service attacks. Closes
2858 o Minor feature (build system, backport from 0.4.5.4-rc):
2859 - New "make lsp" command to generate the compile_commands.json file
2860 used by the ccls language server. The "bear" program is needed for
2861 this. Closes ticket 40227.
2863 o Minor features (compilation, backport from 0.4.5.2-rc):
2864 - Disable deprecation warnings when building with OpenSSL 3.0.0 or
2865 later. There are a number of APIs newly deprecated in OpenSSL
2866 3.0.0 that Tor still requires. (A later version of Tor will try to
2867 stop depending on these APIs.) Closes ticket 40165.
2869 o Minor features (crypto, backport from 0.4.5.3-rc):
2870 - Fix undefined behavior on our Keccak library. The bug only
2871 appeared on platforms with 32-byte CPU cache lines (e.g. armv5tel)
2872 and would result in wrong digests. Fixes bug 40210; bugfix on
2873 0.2.8.1-alpha. Thanks to Bernhard Übelacker, Arnd Bergmann and
2874 weasel for diagnosing this.
2876 o Minor bugfixes (compatibility, backport from 0.4.5.1-rc):
2877 - Strip '\r' characters when reading text files on Unix platforms.
2878 This should resolve an issue where a relay operator migrates a
2879 relay from Windows to Unix, but does not change the line ending of
2880 Tor's various state files to match the platform, and the CRLF line
2881 endings from Windows end up leaking into other files such as the
2882 extra-info document. Fixes bug 33781; bugfix on 0.0.9pre5.
2884 o Minor bugfixes (compilation, backport from 0.4.5.1-rc):
2885 - Resolve a compilation warning that could occur in
2886 test_connection.c. Fixes bug 40113; bugfix on 0.2.9.3-alpha.
2888 o Minor bugfixes (compilation, backport from 0.4.5.3-rc):
2889 - Fix a compilation warning about unreachable fallthrough
2890 annotations when building with "--enable-all-bugs-are-fatal" on
2891 some compilers. Fixes bug 40241; bugfix on 0.3.5.4-alpha.
2893 o Minor bugfixes (SOCKS5, backport from 0.4.5.3-rc):
2894 - Handle partial SOCKS5 messages correctly. Previously, our code
2895 would send an incorrect error message if it got a SOCKS5 request
2896 that wasn't complete. Fixes bug 40190; bugfix on 0.3.5.1-alpha.
2898 o Minor bugfixes (testing, backport from 0.4.5.2-alpha):
2899 - Fix our Python reference-implementation for the v3 onion service
2900 handshake so that it works correctly with the version of hashlib
2901 provided by Python 3.9. Fixes part of bug 40179; bugfix
2903 - Fix the `tortls/openssl/log_one_error` test to work with OpenSSL
2904 3.0.0. Fixes bug 40170; bugfix on 0.2.8.1-alpha.
2907 Changes in version 0.4.5.5-rc - 2021-02-01
2908 Tor 0.4.5.5-rc is the third release candidate in its series. We're
2909 coming closer and closer to a stable release series. This release
2910 fixes an annoyance with address detection code, and somewhat mitigates
2911 an ongoing denial-of-service attack.
2913 We anticipate no more code changes between this and the stable
2914 release, though of course that could change.
2916 o Major feature (exit):
2917 - Re-entry into the network is now denied at the Exit level to all
2918 relays' ORPorts and authorities' ORPorts and DirPorts. This change
2919 should help mitgate a set of denial-of-service attacks. Closes
2922 o Minor bugfixes (relay, configuration):
2923 - Don't attempt to discover our address (IPv4 or IPv6) if no ORPort
2924 for it can be found in the configuration. Fixes bug 40254; bugfix
2928 Changes in version 0.4.5.4-rc - 2021-01-22
2929 Tor 0.4.5.4-rc is the second release candidate in its series. It fixes
2930 several bugs present in previous releases.
2932 We expect that the stable release will be the same, or almost the
2933 same, as this release candidate, unless serious bugs are found.
2935 o Major bugfixes (authority, IPv6):
2936 - Do not consider multiple relays in the same IPv6 /64 network to be
2937 sybils. Fixes bug 40243; bugfix on 0.4.5.1-alpha.
2939 o Major bugfixes (directory cache, performance, windows):
2940 - Limit the number of items in the consensus diff cache to 64 on
2941 Windows. We hope this will mitigate an issue where Windows relay
2942 operators reported Tor using 100% CPU, while we investigate better
2943 solutions. Fixes bug 24857; bugfix on 0.3.1.1-alpha.
2945 o Minor feature (build system):
2946 - New "make lsp" command to generate the compile_commands.json file
2947 used by the ccls language server. The "bear" program is needed for
2948 this. Closes ticket 40227.
2950 o Minor features (authority, logging):
2951 - Log more information for directory authority operators during the
2952 consensus voting process, and while processing relay descriptors.
2953 Closes ticket 40245.
2954 - Reject obsolete router/extrainfo descriptors earlier and more
2955 quietly, to avoid spamming the logs. Fixes bug 40238; bugfix
2958 o Minor bugfixes (compilation):
2959 - Fix another warning about unreachable fallthrough annotations when
2960 building with "--enable-all-bugs-are-fatal" on some compilers.
2961 Fixes bug 40241; bugfix on 0.4.5.3-rc.
2962 - Change the linker flag ordering in our library search code so that
2963 it works for compilers that need the libraries to be listed in the
2964 right order. Fixes bug 33624; bugfix on 0.1.1.0-alpha.
2966 o Minor bugfixes (config, bridge):
2967 - Don't initiate a connection to a bridge configured to use a
2968 missing transport. This change reverts an earlier fix that would
2969 try to avoid such situations during configuration chcecking, but
2970 which doesn't work with DisableNetwork. Fixes bug 40106; bugfix
2973 o Minor bugfixes (onion services):
2974 - Avoid a non-fatal assertion in certain edge-cases when
2975 establishing a circuit to an onion service. Fixes bug 32666;
2976 bugfix on 0.3.0.3-alpha.
2978 o Minor bugfixes (relay):
2979 - If we were unable to build our descriptor, don't mark it as having
2980 been advertised. Also remove an harmless BUG(). Fixes bug 40231;
2981 bugfix on 0.4.5.1-alpha.
2984 Changes in version 0.4.5.3-rc - 2021-01-12
2985 Tor 0.4.5.3-rc is the first release candidate in its series. It fixes
2986 several bugs, including one that broke onion services on certain older
2987 ARM CPUs, and another that made v3 onion services less reliable.
2989 Though we anticipate that we'll be doing a bit more clean-up between
2990 now and the stable release, we expect that our remaining changes will
2991 be fairly simple. There will be at least one more release candidate
2992 before 0.4.5.x is stable.
2994 o Major bugfixes (onion service v3):
2995 - Stop requiring a live consensus for v3 clients and services, and
2996 allow a "reasonably live" consensus instead. This allows v3 onion
2997 services to work even if the authorities fail to generate a
2998 consensus for more than 2 hours in a row. Fixes bug 40237; bugfix
3001 o Minor features (crypto):
3002 - Fix undefined behavior on our Keccak library. The bug only
3003 appeared on platforms with 32-byte CPU cache lines (e.g. armv5tel)
3004 and would result in wrong digests. Fixes bug 40210; bugfix on
3005 0.2.8.1-alpha. Thanks to Bernhard Übelacker, Arnd Bergmann and
3006 weasel for diagnosing this.
3008 o Minor features (documentation):
3009 - Mention the "!badexit" directive that can appear in an authority's
3010 approved-routers file, and update the description of the
3011 "!invalid" directive. Closes ticket 40188.
3013 o Minor bugfixes (compilation):
3014 - Fix a compilation warning about unreachable fallthrough
3015 annotations when building with "--enable-all-bugs-are-fatal" on
3016 some compilers. Fixes bug 40241; bugfix on 0.3.5.4-alpha.
3017 - Fix the "--enable-static-tor" switch to properly set the "-static"
3018 compile option onto the tor binary only. Fixes bug 40111; bugfix
3021 o Minor bugfixes (config, bridge):
3022 - Really fix the case where torrc has a missing ClientTransportPlugin
3023 but is configured with a Bridge line and UseBridges. Previously,
3024 we didn't look at the managed proxy list and thus would fail for
3025 the "exec" case. Fixes bug 40106; bugfix on 0.4.5.1-alpha.
3027 o Minor bugfixes (logging, relay):
3028 - Log our address as reported by the directory authorities, if none
3029 was configured or detected before. Fixes bug 40201; bugfix
3031 - When a launching bandwidth testing circuit, don't incorrectly call
3032 it a reachability test, or trigger a "CHECKING_REACHABILITY"
3033 control event. Fixes bug 40205; bugfix on 0.4.5.1-alpha.
3035 o Minor bugfixes (relay, statistics):
3036 - Report the correct connection statistics in our extrainfo
3037 documents. Previously there was a problem in the file loading
3038 function which would wrongly truncate a state file, causing the
3039 wrong information to be reported. Fixes bug 40226; bugfix
3042 o Minor bugfixes (SOCKS5):
3043 - Handle partial SOCKS5 messages correctly. Previously, our code
3044 would send an incorrect error message if it got a SOCKS5 request
3045 that wasn't complete. Fixes bug 40190; bugfix on 0.3.5.1-alpha.
3048 Changes in version 0.4.5.2-alpha - 2020-11-23
3049 Tor 0.4.5.2-alpha is the second alpha release in the 0.4.5.x series.
3050 It fixes several bugs present in earlier releases, including one that
3051 made it impractical to run relays on Windows. It also adds a few small
3052 safety features to improve Tor's behavior in the presence of strange
3053 compile-time options, misbehaving proxies, and future versions
3056 o Major bugfixes (relay, windows):
3057 - Fix a bug in our implementation of condition variables on Windows.
3058 Previously, a relay on Windows would use 100% CPU after running
3059 for some time. Because of this change, Tor now require Windows
3060 Vista or later to build and run. Fixes bug 30187; bugfix on
3061 0.2.6.3-alpha. (This bug became more serious in 0.3.1.1-alpha with
3062 the introduction of consensus diffs.) Patch by Daniel Pinto.
3064 o Minor features (compilation):
3065 - Disable deprecation warnings when building with OpenSSL 3.0.0 or
3066 later. There are a number of APIs newly deprecated in OpenSSL
3067 3.0.0 that Tor still requires. (A later version of Tor will try to
3068 stop depending on these APIs.) Closes ticket 40165.
3070 o Minor features (protocol, proxy support, defense in depth):
3071 - Respond more deliberately to misbehaving proxies that leave
3072 leftover data on their connections, so as to make Tor even less
3073 likely to allow the proxies to pass their data off as having come
3074 from a relay. Closes ticket 40017.
3076 o Minor features (safety):
3077 - Log a warning at startup if Tor is built with compile-time options
3078 that are likely to make it less stable or reliable. Closes
3081 o Minor bugfixes (circuit, handshake):
3082 - In the v3 handshaking code, use connection_or_change_state() to
3083 change the state. Previously, we changed the state directly, but
3084 this did not pass the state change to the pubsub or channel
3085 objects, potentially leading to bugs. Fixes bug 32880; bugfix on
3086 0.2.3.6-alpha. Patch by Neel Chauhan.
3088 o Minor bugfixes (compilation):
3089 - Use the correct 'ranlib' program when building libtor.a.
3090 Previously we used the default ranlib, which broke some kinds of
3091 cross-compilation. Fixes bug 40172; bugfix on 0.4.5.1-alpha.
3092 - Remove a duplicate typedef in metrics_store.c. Fixes bug 40177;
3093 bugfix on 0.4.5.1-alpha.
3094 - When USDT tracing is enabled, and STAP_PROBEV() is missing, don't
3095 attempt to build. Linux supports that macro but not the BSDs.
3096 Fixes bug 40174; bugfix on 0.4.5.1-alpha.
3098 o Minor bugfixes (configuration):
3099 - Exit Tor on a misconfiguration when the Bridge line is configured
3100 to use a transport but no corresponding ClientTransportPlugin can
3101 be found. Prior to this fix, Tor would attempt to connect to the
3102 bridge directly without using the transport, making it easier for
3103 adversaries to notice the bridge. Fixes bug 25528; bugfix
3105 - Fix an issue where an ORPort was compared with other kinds of
3106 ports, when it should have been only checked against other
3107 ORPorts. This bug would lead to "DirPort auto" getting ignored.
3108 Fixes bug 40195; bugfix on 0.4.5.1-alpha.
3109 - Fix a bug where a second non-ORPort with a variant family (ex:
3110 SocksPort [::1]:9050) would be ignored due to a configuration
3111 parsing error. Fixes bug 40183; bugfix on 0.4.5.1-alpha.
3113 o Minor bugfixes (crash, relay, signing key):
3114 - Avoid assertion failures when we run Tor from the command line
3115 with `--key-expiration sign`, but an ORPort is not set. Fixes bug
3116 40015; bugfix on 0.3.2.1-alpha. Patch by Neel Chauhan.
3118 o Minor bugfixes (logging):
3119 - Remove trailing whitespace from control event log messages. Fixes
3120 bug 32178; bugfix on 0.1.1.1-alpha. Based on a patch by
3122 - Turn warning-level log message about SENDME failure into a debug-
3123 level message. (This event can happen naturally, and is no reason
3124 for concern). Fixes bug 40142; bugfix on 0.4.1.1-alpha.
3126 o Minor bugfixes (relay, address discovery):
3127 - Don't trigger an IP change when no new valid IP can be found.
3128 Fixes bug 40071; bugfix on 0.4.5.1-alpha.
3129 - When attempting to discover our IP, use a simple test circuit,
3130 rather than a descriptor fetch: the same address information is
3131 present in NETINFO cells, and is better authenticated there. Fixes
3132 bug 40071; bugfix on 0.4.5.1-alpha.
3134 o Minor bugfixes (testing):
3135 - Fix the `config/parse_tcp_proxy_line` test so that it works
3136 correctly on systems where the DNS provider hijacks invalid
3137 queries. Fixes part of bug 40179; bugfix on 0.4.3.1-alpha.
3138 - Fix unit tests that used newly generated list of routers so that
3139 they check them with respect to the date when they were generated,
3140 not with respect to the current time. Fixes bug 40187; bugfix
3142 - Fix our Python reference-implementation for the v3 onion service
3143 handshake so that it works correctly with the version of hashlib
3144 provided by Python 3.9. Fixes part of bug 40179; bugfix
3146 - Fix the `tortls/openssl/log_one_error` test to work with OpenSSL
3147 3.0.0. Fixes bug 40170; bugfix on 0.2.8.1-alpha.
3149 o Removed features (controller):
3150 - Remove the "GETINFO network-status" controller command. It has
3151 been deprecated since 0.3.1.1-alpha. Closes ticket 22473.
3154 Changes in version 0.4.4.6 - 2020-11-12
3155 Tor 0.4.4.6 is the second stable release in the 0.4.4.x series. It
3156 backports fixes from later releases, including a fix for TROVE-2020-
3157 005, a security issue that could be used, under certain cases, by an
3158 adversary to observe traffic patterns on a limited number of circuits
3159 intended for a different relay.
3161 o Major bugfixes (security, backport from 0.4.5.1-alpha):
3162 - When completing a channel, relays now check more thoroughly to
3163 make sure that it matches any pending circuits before attaching
3164 those circuits. Previously, address correctness and Ed25519
3165 identities were not checked in this case, but only when extending
3166 circuits on an existing channel. Fixes bug 40080; bugfix on
3167 0.2.7.2-alpha. Resolves TROVE-2020-005.
3169 o Minor features (directory authorities, backport from 0.4.5.1-alpha):
3170 - Authorities now list a different set of protocols as required and
3171 recommended. These lists have been chosen so that only truly
3172 recommended and/or required protocols are included, and so that
3173 clients using 0.2.9 or later will continue to work (even though
3174 they are not supported), whereas only relays running 0.3.5 or
3175 later will meet the requirements. Closes ticket 40162.
3176 - Make it possible to specify multiple ConsensusParams torrc lines.
3177 Now directory authority operators can for example put the main
3178 ConsensusParams config in one torrc file and then add to it from a
3179 different torrc file. Closes ticket 40164.
3181 o Minor features (subprotocol versions, backport from 0.4.5.1-alpha):
3182 - Tor no longer allows subprotocol versions larger than 63.
3183 Previously version numbers up to UINT32_MAX were allowed, which
3184 significantly complicated our code. Implements proposal 318;
3185 closes ticket 40133.
3187 o Minor features (tests, v2 onion services, backport from 0.4.5.1-alpha):
3188 - Fix a rendezvous cache unit test that was triggering an underflow
3189 on the global rend cache allocation. Fixes bug 40125; bugfix
3191 - Fix another rendezvous cache unit test that was triggering an
3192 underflow on the global rend cache allocation. Fixes bug 40126;
3193 bugfix on 0.2.8.1-alpha.
3195 o Minor bugfixes (compilation, backport from 0.4.5.1-alpha):
3196 - Fix compiler warnings that would occur when building with
3197 "--enable-all-bugs-are-fatal" and "--disable-module-relay" at the
3198 same time. Fixes bug 40129; bugfix on 0.4.4.1-alpha.
3199 - Resolve a compilation warning that could occur in
3200 test_connection.c. Fixes bug 40113; bugfix on 0.2.9.3-alpha.
3202 o Minor bugfixes (logging, backport from 0.4.5.1-alpha):
3203 - Remove a debug logging statement that uselessly spammed the logs.
3204 Fixes bug 40135; bugfix on 0.3.5.0-alpha.
3206 o Minor bugfixes (relay configuration, crash, backport from 0.4.5.1-alpha):
3207 - Avoid a fatal assert() when failing to create a listener
3208 connection for an address that was in use. Fixes bug 40073; bugfix
3211 o Minor bugfixes (v2 onion services, backport from 0.4.5.1-alpha):
3212 - For HSFETCH commands on v2 onion services addresses, check the
3213 length of bytes decoded, not the base32 length. Fixes bug 34400;
3214 bugfix on 0.4.1.1-alpha. Patch by Neel Chauhan.
3217 Changes in version 0.4.3.7 - 2020-11-12
3218 Tor 0.4.3.7 backports several bugfixes from later releases. It
3219 includes a fix for TROVE-2020-005, a security issue that could be
3220 used, under certain cases, by an adversary to observe traffic patterns
3221 on a limited number of circuits intended for a different relay.
3223 Please be aware that support for the 0.4.3.x series will end on 15
3224 February 2021. Please upgrade to 0.4.4.x or 0.4.5.x before then, or
3225 downgrade to 0.3.5.x, which will be supported until at least 1
3228 o Major features (fallback directory list, backport form 0.4.4.3-alpha):
3229 - Replace the 148 fallback directories originally included in Tor
3230 0.4.1.4-rc (of which around 105 are still functional) with a list
3231 of 144 fallbacks generated in July 2020. Closes ticket 40061.
3233 o Major bugfixes (security, backport from 0.4.5.1-alpha):
3234 - When completing a channel, relays now check more thoroughly to
3235 make sure that it matches any pending circuits before attaching
3236 those circuits. Previously, address correctness and Ed25519
3237 identities were not checked in this case, but only when extending
3238 circuits on an existing channel. Fixes bug 40080; bugfix on
3239 0.2.7.2-alpha. Resolves TROVE-2020-005.
3241 o Major bugfixes (NSS, backport from 0.4.4.3-alpha):
3242 - When running with NSS enabled, make sure that NSS knows to expect
3243 nonblocking sockets. Previously, we set our TCP sockets as
3244 nonblocking, but did not tell NSS, which in turn could lead to
3245 unexpected blocking behavior. Fixes bug 40035; bugfix
3248 o Minor features (security, backport from 0.4.4.4-rc):
3249 - Channels using obsolete versions of the Tor link protocol are no
3250 longer allowed to circumvent address-canonicity checks. (This is
3251 only a minor issue, since such channels have no way to set ed25519
3252 keys, and therefore should always be rejected for circuits that
3253 specify ed25519 identities.) Closes ticket 40081.
3255 o Minor features (subprotocol versions, backport from 0.4.5.1-alpha):
3256 - Tor no longer allows subprotocol versions larger than 63.
3257 Previously version numbers up to UINT32_MAX were allowed, which
3258 significantly complicated our code. Implements proposal 318;
3259 closes ticket 40133.
3261 o Minor features (tests, backport from 0.4.4.5):
3262 - Our "make check" target now runs the unit tests in 8 parallel
3263 chunks. Doing this speeds up hardened CI builds by more than a
3264 factor of two. Closes ticket 40098.
3266 o Minor features (tests, v2 onion services, backport from 0.4.5.1-alpha):
3267 - Fix a rendezvous cache unit test that was triggering an underflow
3268 on the global rend cache allocation. Fixes bug 40125; bugfix
3270 - Fix another rendezvous cache unit test that was triggering an
3271 underflow on the global rend cache allocation. Fixes bug 40126;
3272 bugfix on 0.2.8.1-alpha.
3274 o Minor bugfixes (correctness, buffers, backport from 0.4.4.4-rc):
3275 - Fix a correctness bug that could cause an assertion failure if we
3276 ever tried using the buf_move_all() function with an empty input
3277 buffer. As far as we know, no released versions of Tor do this.
3278 Fixes bug 40076; bugfix on 0.3.3.1-alpha.
3280 o Minor bugfixes (logging, backport from 0.4.5.1-alpha):
3281 - Remove a debug logging statement that uselessly spammed the logs.
3282 Fixes bug 40135; bugfix on 0.3.5.0-alpha.
3284 o Minor bugfixes (rate limiting, bridges, pluggable transports, backport from 0.4.4.4-rc):
3285 - On a bridge, treat all connections from an ExtORPort as remote by
3286 default for the purposes of rate-limiting. Previously, bridges
3287 would treat the connection as local unless they explicitly
3288 received a "USERADDR" command. ExtORPort connections still count
3289 as local if there is a USERADDR command with an explicit local
3290 address. Fixes bug 33747; bugfix on 0.2.5.1-alpha.
3292 o Minor bugfixes (relay configuration, crash, backport from 0.4.5.1-alpha):
3293 - Avoid a fatal assert() when failing to create a listener
3294 connection for an address that was in use. Fixes bug 40073; bugfix
3297 o Minor bugfixes (relay, usability, backport from 0.4.4.3-alpha):
3298 - Adjust the rules for when to warn about having too many
3299 connections to other relays. Previously we'd tolerate up to 1.5
3300 connections per relay on average. Now we tolerate more connections
3301 for directory authorities, and raise the number of total
3302 connections we need to see before we warn. Fixes bug 33880; bugfix
3305 o Minor bugfixes (tests, 0.4.4.5):
3306 - Fix the behavior of the rend_cache/clean_v2_descs_as_dir when run
3307 on its own. Previously, it would exit with an error. Fixes bug
3308 40099; bugfix on 0.2.8.1-alpha.
3310 o Minor bugfixes (v2 onion services, backport from 0.4.5.1-alpha):
3311 - For HSFETCH commands on v2 onion services addresses, check the
3312 length of bytes decoded, not the base32 length. Fixes bug 34400;
3313 bugfix on 0.4.1.1-alpha. Patch by Neel Chauhan.
3315 o Minor bugfixes (windows, backport from 0.4.4.4-rc):
3316 - Fix a bug that prevented Tor from starting if its log file grew
3317 above 2GB. Fixes bug 31036; bugfix on 0.2.1.8-alpha.
3319 o Deprecated features (onion service v2, backport form 0.4.4.2-alpha):
3320 - Add a deprecation warning for version 2 onion services. Closes
3323 o Removed features (backport from 0.4.4.3-alpha):
3324 - Our "check-local" test target no longer tries to use the
3325 Coccinelle semantic patching tool parse all the C files. While it
3326 is a good idea to try to make sure Coccinelle works on our C
3327 before we run a Coccinelle patch, doing so on every test run has
3328 proven to be disruptive. You can still run this tool manually with
3329 "make check-cocci". Closes ticket 40030. ticket 40030.
3332 Changes in version 0.3.5.12 - 2020-11-12
3333 Tor 0.4.3.7 backports several bugfixes from later releases. It
3334 includes a fix for TROVE-2020-005, a security issue that could be
3335 used, under certain cases, by an adversary to observe traffic patterns
3336 on a limited number of circuits intended for a different relay.
3338 o Major features (fallback directory list, backport form 0.4.4.3-alpha):
3339 - Replace the 148 fallback directories originally included in Tor
3340 0.4.1.4-rc (of which around 105 are still functional) with a list
3341 of 144 fallbacks generated in July 2020. Closes ticket 40061.
3343 o Major bugfixes (security, backport from 0.4.5.1-alpha):
3344 - When completing a channel, relays now check more thoroughly to
3345 make sure that it matches any pending circuits before attaching
3346 those circuits. Previously, address correctness and Ed25519
3347 identities were not checked in this case, but only when extending
3348 circuits on an existing channel. Fixes bug 40080; bugfix on
3349 0.2.7.2-alpha. Resolves TROVE-2020-005.
3351 o Major bugfixes (NSS, backport from 0.4.4.3-alpha):
3352 - When running with NSS enabled, make sure that NSS knows to expect
3353 nonblocking sockets. Previously, we set our TCP sockets as
3354 nonblocking, but did not tell NSS, which in turn could lead to
3355 unexpected blocking behavior. Fixes bug 40035; bugfix
3358 o Minor features (security, backport from 0.4.4.4-rc):
3359 - Channels using obsolete versions of the Tor link protocol are no
3360 longer allowed to circumvent address-canonicity checks. (This is
3361 only a minor issue, since such channels have no way to set ed25519
3362 keys, and therefore should always be rejected for circuits that
3363 specify ed25519 identities.) Closes ticket 40081.
3365 o Minor features (debugging, directory system):
3366 - Don't crash when we find a non-guard with a guard-fraction value
3367 set. Instead, log a bug warning, in an attempt to figure out how
3368 this happened. Diagnostic for ticket 32868.
3370 o Minor features (subprotocol versions, backport from 0.4.5.1-alpha):
3371 - Tor no longer allows subprotocol versions larger than 63.
3372 Previously version numbers up to UINT32_MAX were allowed, which
3373 significantly complicated our code. Implements proposal 318;
3374 closes ticket 40133.
3376 o Minor features (tests, backport from 0.4.4.5):
3377 - Our "make check" target now runs the unit tests in 8 parallel
3378 chunks. Doing this speeds up hardened CI builds by more than a
3379 factor of two. Closes ticket 40098.
3381 o Minor features (tests, v2 onion services, backport from 0.4.5.1-alpha):
3382 - Fix a rendezvous cache unit test that was triggering an underflow
3383 on the global rend cache allocation. Fixes bug 40125; bugfix
3385 - Fix another rendezvous cache unit test that was triggering an
3386 underflow on the global rend cache allocation. Fixes bug 40126;
3387 bugfix on 0.2.8.1-alpha.
3389 o Minor bugfixes (correctness, buffers, backport from 0.4.4.4-rc):
3390 - Fix a correctness bug that could cause an assertion failure if we
3391 ever tried using the buf_move_all() function with an empty input
3392 buffer. As far as we know, no released versions of Tor do this.
3393 Fixes bug 40076; bugfix on 0.3.3.1-alpha.
3395 o Minor bugfixes (logging, backport from 0.4.5.1-alpha):
3396 - Remove a debug logging statement that uselessly spammed the logs.
3397 Fixes bug 40135; bugfix on 0.3.5.0-alpha.
3399 o Minor bugfixes (rate limiting, bridges, pluggable transports, backport from 0.4.4.4-rc):
3400 - On a bridge, treat all connections from an ExtORPort as remote by
3401 default for the purposes of rate-limiting. Previously, bridges
3402 would treat the connection as local unless they explicitly
3403 received a "USERADDR" command. ExtORPort connections still count
3404 as local if there is a USERADDR command with an explicit local
3405 address. Fixes bug 33747; bugfix on 0.2.5.1-alpha.
3407 o Minor bugfixes (relay configuration, crash, backport from 0.4.5.1-alpha):
3408 - Avoid a fatal assert() when failing to create a listener
3409 connection for an address that was in use. Fixes bug 40073; bugfix
3412 o Minor bugfixes (relay, usability, backport from 0.4.4.3-alpha):
3413 - Adjust the rules for when to warn about having too many
3414 connections to other relays. Previously we'd tolerate up to 1.5
3415 connections per relay on average. Now we tolerate more connections
3416 for directory authorities, and raise the number of total
3417 connections we need to see before we warn. Fixes bug 33880; bugfix
3420 o Minor bugfixes (relays, backport from 0.4.4.1-alpha):
3421 - Stop advertising incorrect IPv6 ORPorts in relay and bridge
3422 descriptors, when the IPv6 port was configured as "auto". Fixes
3423 bug 32588; bugfix on 0.2.3.9-alpha.
3425 o Minor bugfixes (tests, 0.4.4.5):
3426 - Fix the behavior of the rend_cache/clean_v2_descs_as_dir when run
3427 on its own. Previously, it would exit with an error. Fixes bug
3428 40099; bugfix on 0.2.8.1-alpha.
3430 o Minor bugfixes (windows, backport from 0.4.4.4-rc):
3431 - Fix a bug that prevented Tor from starting if its log file grew
3432 above 2GB. Fixes bug 31036; bugfix on 0.2.1.8-alpha.
3434 o Deprecated features (onion service v2, backport form 0.4.4.2-alpha):
3435 - Add a deprecation warning for version 2 onion services. Closes
3439 Changes in version 0.4.5.1-alpha - 2020-11-01
3440 Tor 0.4.5.1-alpha is the first alpha release in the 0.4.5.x series. It
3441 improves support for IPv6, address discovery and self-testing, code
3442 metrics and tracing.
3444 This release also fixes TROVE-2020-005, a security issue that could be
3445 used, under certain cases, by an adversary to observe traffic patterns
3446 on a limited number of circuits intended for a different relay. To
3447 mount this attack, the adversary would need to actively extend
3448 circuits to an incorrect address, as well as compromise a relay's
3449 legacy RSA-1024 key. We'll be backporting this fix to other release
3450 series soon, after it has had some testing.
3452 Here are the changes since 0.4.4.5.
3454 o Major features (build):
3455 - When building Tor, first link all object files into a single
3456 static library. This may help with embedding Tor in other
3457 programs. Note that most Tor functions do not constitute a part of
3458 a stable or supported API: only those functions in tor_api.h
3459 should be used if embedding Tor. Closes ticket 40127.
3461 o Major features (metrics):
3462 - Introduce a new MetricsPort which exposes, through an HTTP
3463 interface, a series of metrics that tor collects at runtime. At
3464 the moment, the only supported output format is Prometheus data
3465 model. Closes ticket 40063. See the manual page for more
3466 information and security considerations.
3467 o Major features (relay, IPv6):
3468 - The torrc option Address now supports IPv6. This unifies our
3469 address discovery interface to support IPv4, IPv6, and hostnames.
3470 Closes ticket 33233.
3471 - Launch IPv4 and IPv6 ORPort self-test circuits on relays and
3472 bridges. Closes ticket 33222.
3473 - Relays now automatically bind on IPv6 for their ORPort, unless
3474 specified otherwise with the IPv4Only flag. Closes ticket 33246.
3475 - When a relay with IPv6 support is told to open a connection to
3476 another relay, and the extend cell lists both IPv4 and IPv6
3477 addresses, the first relay now picks randomly which address to
3478 use. Closes ticket 33220.
3479 - Relays now track their IPv6 ORPort reachability separately from
3480 the reachability of their IPv4 ORPort. They will not publish a
3481 descriptor unless _both_ ports appear to be externally reachable.
3482 Closes ticket 34067.
3484 o Major features (tracing):
3485 - Add event-tracing library support for USDT and LTTng-UST, and a
3486 few tracepoints in the circuit subsystem. More will come
3487 incrementally. This feature is compiled out by default: it needs
3488 to be enabled at configure time. See documentation in
3489 doc/HACKING/Tracing.md. Closes ticket 32910.
3491 o Major bugfixes (security):
3492 - When completing a channel, relays now check more thoroughly to
3493 make sure that it matches any pending circuits before attaching
3494 those circuits. Previously, address correctness and Ed25519
3495 identities were not checked in this case, but only when extending
3496 circuits on an existing channel. Fixes bug 40080; bugfix on
3497 0.2.7.2-alpha. Resolves TROVE-2020-005.
3499 o Major bugfixes (TLS, buffer):
3500 - When attempting to read N bytes on a TLS connection, really try to
3501 read all N bytes. Previously, Tor would stop reading after the
3502 first TLS record, which can be smaller than the N bytes requested,
3503 and not check for more data until the next mainloop event. Fixes
3504 bug 40006; bugfix on 0.1.0.5-rc.
3506 o Minor features (address discovery):
3507 - If no Address statements are found, relays now prioritize guessing
3508 their address by looking at the local interface instead of the
3509 local hostname. If the interface address can't be found, the local
3510 hostname is used. Closes ticket 33238.
3512 o Minor features (admin tools):
3513 - Add a new --format argument to -key-expiration option to allow
3514 specifying the time format of the expiration date. Adds Unix
3515 timestamp format support. Patch by Daniel Pinto. Closes
3518 o Minor features (bootstrap reporting):
3519 - When reporting bootstrapping status on a relay, do not consider
3520 connections that have never been the target of an origin circuit.
3521 Previously, all connection failures were treated as potential
3522 bootstrapping failures, including connections that had been opened
3523 because of client requests. Closes ticket 25061.
3525 o Minor features (build):
3526 - When running the configure script, try to detect version
3527 mismatches between the OpenSSL headers and libraries, and suggest
3528 that the user should try "--with-openssl-dir". Closes 40138.
3529 - If the configure script has given any warnings, remind the user
3530 about them at the end of the script. Related to 40138.
3532 o Minor features (configuration):
3533 - Allow using wildcards (* and ?) with the %include option on
3534 configuration files. Closes ticket 25140. Patch by Daniel Pinto.
3535 - Allow the configuration options EntryNodes, ExcludeNodes,
3536 ExcludeExitNodes, ExitNodes, MiddleNodes, HSLayer2Nodes and
3537 HSLayer3Nodes to be specified multiple times. Closes ticket 28361.
3538 Patch by Daniel Pinto.
3540 o Minor features (control port):
3541 - Add a DROPTIMEOUTS command to drop circuit build timeout history
3542 and reset the current timeout. Closes ticket 40002.
3543 - When a stream enters the AP_CONN_STATE_CONTROLLER_WAIT status,
3544 send a control port event. Closes ticket 32190. Patch by
3546 - Introduce GETINFO "stats/ntor/{assigned/requested}" and
3547 "stats/tap/{assigned/requested}" to get the NTor and TAP circuit
3548 onion handshake counts respectively. Closes ticket 28279. Patch by
3551 o Minor features (control port, IPv6):
3552 - Tor relays now try to report to the controller when they are
3553 launching an IPv6 self-test. Closes ticket 34068.
3554 - Introduce "GETINFO address/v4" and "GETINFO address/v6" in the
3555 control port to fetch the Tor host's respective IPv4 or IPv6
3556 address. We keep "GETINFO address" for backwards-compatibility.
3557 Closes ticket 40039. Patch by Neel Chauhan.
3559 o Minor features (directory authorities):
3560 - Authorities now list a different set of protocols as required and
3561 recommended. These lists have been chosen so that only truly
3562 recommended and/or required protocols are included, and so that
3563 clients using 0.2.9 or later will continue to work (even though
3564 they are not supported), whereas only relays running 0.3.5 or
3565 later will meet the requirements. Closes ticket 40162.
3566 - Add a new consensus method 30 that removes the unnecessary "="
3567 padding from ntor-onion-key. Closes ticket 7869. Patch by
3569 - Directory authorities now reject descriptors from relays running
3570 Tor versions from the obsolete 0.4.1 series. Resolves ticket
3571 34357. Patch by Neel Chauhan.
3572 - Make it possible to specify multiple ConsensusParams torrc lines.
3573 Now directory authority operators can for example put the main
3574 ConsensusParams config in one torrc file and then add to it from a
3575 different torrc file. Closes ticket 40164.
3576 - The AssumeReachable option no longer stops directory authorities
3577 from checking whether other relays are running. A new
3578 AuthDirTestReachability option can be used to disable these
3579 checks. Closes ticket 34445.
3580 - When looking for possible Sybil attacks, also consider IPv6
3581 addresses. Two routers are considered to have "the same" address
3582 by this metric if they are in the same /64 network. Patch from
3583 Maurice Pibouin. Closes ticket 7193.
3585 o Minor features (directory authorities, IPv6):
3586 - Make authorities add their IPv6 ORPort (if any) to the trusted
3587 servers list. Authorities previously added only their IPv4
3588 addresses. Closes ticket 32822.
3590 o Minor features (ed25519, relay):
3591 - Save a relay's base64-encoded ed25519 identity key to the data
3592 directory in a file named fingerprint-ed25519. Closes ticket
3593 30642. Patch by Neel Chauhan.
3595 o Minor features (heartbeat):
3596 - Include the total number of inbound and outbound IPv4 and IPv6
3597 connections in the heartbeat message. Closes ticket 29113.
3599 o Minor features (IPv6, ExcludeNodes):
3600 - Handle IPv6 addresses in ExcludeNodes; previously they were
3601 ignored. Closes ticket 34065. Patch by Neel Chauhan.
3603 o Minor features (logging):
3604 - Add the running glibc version to the log, and the compiled glibc
3605 version to the library list returned when using --library-versions.
3606 Patch from Daniel Pinto. Closes ticket 40047.
3607 - Consider an HTTP 301 response to be an error (like a 404) when
3608 processing a directory response. Closes ticket 40053.
3609 - Log directory fetch statistics as a single line. Closes
3611 - Provide more complete descriptions of our connections when logging
3612 about them. Closes ticket 40041.
3613 - When describing a relay in the logs, we now include its ed25519
3614 identity. Closes ticket 22668.
3616 o Minor features (onion services):
3617 - Only overwrite an onion service's existing hostname file if its
3618 contents are wrong. This enables read-only onion-service
3619 directories. Resolves ticket 40062. Patch by Neel Chauhan.
3621 o Minor features (pluggable transports):
3622 - Add an OutboundBindAddressPT option to allow users to specify
3623 which IPv4 and IPv6 address pluggable transports should use for
3624 outgoing IP packets. Tor does not have a way to enforce that the
3625 pluggable transport honors this option, so each pluggable transport
3626 needs to implement support on its own. Closes ticket 5304.
3628 o Minor features (relay address tracking):
3629 - We now store relay addresses for OR connections in a more logical
3630 way. Previously we would sometimes overwrite the actual address of
3631 a connection with a "canonical address", and then store the "real
3632 address" elsewhere to remember it. We now track the "canonical
3633 address" elsewhere for the cases where we need it, and leave the
3634 connection's address alone. Closes ticket 33898.
3636 o Minor features (relay):
3637 - If a relay is unable to discover its address, attempt to learn it
3638 from the NETINFO cell. Closes ticket 40022.
3639 - Log immediately when launching a relay self-check. Previously we
3640 would try to log before launching checks, or approximately when we
3641 intended to launch checks, but this tended to be error-prone.
3642 Closes ticket 34137.
3644 o Minor features (relay, address discovery):
3645 - If Address option is not found in torrc, attempt to learn our
3646 address with the configured ORPort address if any. Closes
3649 o Minor features (relay, IPv6):
3650 - Add an AssumeReachableIPv6 option to disable self-checking IPv6
3651 reachability. Closes part of ticket 33224.
3652 - Add new "assume-reachable" and "assume-reachable-ipv6" consensus
3653 parameters to be used in an emergency to tell relays that they
3654 should publish even if they cannot complete their ORPort self-
3655 checks. Closes ticket 34064 and part of 33224.
3656 - Allow relays to send IPv6-only extend cells. Closes ticket 33222.
3657 - Declare support for the Relay=3 subprotocol version. Closes
3659 - When launching IPv6 ORPort self-test circuits, make sure that the
3660 second-last hop can initiate an IPv6 extend. Closes ticket 33222.
3662 o Minor features (specification update):
3663 - Several fields in microdescriptors, router descriptors, and
3664 consensus documents that were formerly optional are now required.
3665 Implements proposal 315; closes ticket 40132.
3667 o Minor features (state management):
3668 - When loading the state file, remove entries from the statefile
3669 that have been obsolete for a long time. Ordinarily Tor preserves
3670 unrecognized entries in order to keep forward-compatibility, but
3671 these entries have not actually been used in any release since
3672 before 0.3.5.x. Closes ticket 40137.
3674 o Minor features (statistics, ipv6):
3675 - Relays now publish IPv6-specific counts of single-direction versus
3676 bidirectional relay connections. Closes ticket 33264.
3677 - Relays now publish their IPv6 read and write statistics over time,
3678 if statistics are enabled. Closes ticket 33263.
3680 o Minor features (subprotocol versions):
3681 - Tor no longer allows subprotocol versions larger than 63.
3682 Previously version numbers up to UINT32_MAX were allowed, which
3683 significantly complicated our code. Implements proposal 318;
3684 closes ticket 40133.
3685 - Use the new limitations on subprotocol versions due to proposal
3686 318 to simplify our implementation. Part of ticket 40133.
3688 o Minor features (testing configuration):
3689 - The TestingTorNetwork option no longer implicitly sets
3690 AssumeReachable to 1. This change allows us to test relays' self-
3691 testing mechanisms, and to test authorities' relay-testing
3692 functionality. Closes ticket 34446.
3694 o Minor features (testing):
3695 - Added unit tests for channel_matches_target_addr_for_extend().
3696 Closes Ticket 33919. Patch by MrSquanchee.
3698 o Minor features (tests, v2 onion services):
3699 - Fix a rendezvous cache unit test that was triggering an underflow
3700 on the global rend cache allocation. Fixes bug 40125; bugfix
3702 - Fix another rendezvous cache unit test that was triggering an
3703 underflow on the global rend cache allocation. Fixes bug 40126;
3704 bugfix on 0.2.8.1-alpha.
3706 o Minor bugfixes (circuit padding):
3707 - When circpad_send_padding_cell_for_callback is called,
3708 `is_padding_timer_scheduled` flag was not reset. Now it is set to
3709 0 at the top of that function. Fixes bug 32671; bugfix
3711 - Add a per-circuit padding machine instance counter, so we can
3712 differentiate between shutdown requests for old machines on a
3713 circuit. Fixes bug 30992; bugfix on 0.4.1.1-alpha.
3714 - Add the ability to keep circuit padding machines if they match a
3715 set of circuit states or purposes. This allows us to have machines
3716 that start up under some conditions but don't shut down under
3717 others. We now use this mask to avoid starting up introduction
3718 circuit padding again after the machines have already completed.
3719 Fixes bug 32040; bugfix on 0.4.1.1-alpha.
3721 o Minor bugfixes (compatibility):
3722 - Strip '\r' characters when reading text files on Unix platforms.
3723 This should resolve an issue where a relay operator migrates a
3724 relay from Windows to Unix, but does not change the line ending of
3725 Tor's various state files to match the platform, and the CRLF line
3726 endings from Windows end up leaking into other files such as the
3727 extra-info document. Fixes bug 33781; bugfix on 0.0.9pre5.
3729 o Minor bugfixes (compilation):
3730 - Fix compiler warnings that would occur when building with
3731 "--enable-all-bugs-are-fatal" and "--disable-module-relay" at the
3732 same time. Fixes bug 40129; bugfix on 0.4.4.1-alpha.
3733 - Resolve a compilation warning that could occur in
3734 test_connection.c. Fixes bug 40113; bugfix on 0.2.9.3-alpha.
3736 o Minor bugfixes (configuration):
3737 - Fix bug where %including a pattern ending with */ would include
3738 files and folders (instead of folders only) in versions of glibc <
3739 2.19. Fixes bug 40141; bugfix on 0.4.5.0-alpha-dev. Patch by
3742 o Minor bugfixes (control port):
3743 - Make sure we send the SOCKS request address in relay begin cells
3744 when a stream is attached with the purpose
3745 CIRCUIT_PURPOSE_CONTROLLER. Fixes bug 33124; bugfix on 0.0.5.
3746 Patch by Neel Chauhan.
3748 o Minor bugfixes (logging):
3749 - Remove a debug logging statement that uselessly spammed the logs.
3750 Fixes bug 40135; bugfix on 0.3.5.0-alpha.
3751 - When logging a rate-limited message about how many messages have
3752 been suppressed in the last N seconds, give an accurate value for
3753 N, rounded up to the nearest minute. Previously we would report
3754 the size of the rate-limiting interval, regardless of when the
3755 messages started to occur. Fixes bug 19431; bugfix
3758 o Minor bugfixes (relay configuration, crash):
3759 - Avoid a fatal assert() when failing to create a listener
3760 connection for an address that was in use. Fixes bug 40073; bugfix
3763 o Minor bugfixes (rust, protocol versions):
3764 - Declare support for the onion service introduction point denial of
3765 service extensions when building with Rust. Fixes bug 34248;
3766 bugfix on 0.4.2.1-alpha.
3767 - Make Rust protocol version support checks consistent with the
3768 undocumented error behavior of the corresponding C code. Fixes bug
3769 34251; bugfix on 0.3.3.5-rc.
3771 o Minor bugfixes (self-testing):
3772 - When receiving an incoming circuit, only accept it as evidence
3773 that we are reachable if the declared address of its channel is
3774 the same address we think that we have. Otherwise, it could be
3775 evidence that we're reachable on some other address. Fixes bug
3776 20165; bugfix on 0.1.0.1-rc.
3778 o Minor bugfixes (spec conformance):
3779 - Use the correct key type when generating signing->link
3780 certificates. Fixes bug 40124; bugfix on 0.2.7.2-alpha.
3782 o Minor bugfixes (subprotocol versions):
3783 - Consistently reject extra commas, instead of only rejecting
3784 leading commas. Fixes bug 27194; bugfix on 0.2.9.4-alpha.
3785 - In summarize_protover_flags(), treat empty strings the same as
3786 NULL. This prevents protocols_known from being set. Previously, we
3787 treated empty strings as normal strings, which led to
3788 protocols_known being set. Fixes bug 34232; bugfix on
3789 0.3.3.2-alpha. Patch by Neel Chauhan.
3791 o Minor bugfixes (v2 onion services):
3792 - For HSFETCH commands on v2 onion services addresses, check the
3793 length of bytes decoded, not the base32 length. Fixes bug 34400;
3794 bugfix on 0.4.1.1-alpha. Patch by Neel Chauhan.
3796 o Code simplification and refactoring:
3797 - Add and use a set of functions to perform down-casts on constant
3798 connection and channel pointers. Closes ticket 40046.
3799 - Refactor our code that logs descriptions of connections, channels,
3800 and the peers on them, to use a single call path. This change
3801 enables us to refactor the data types that they use, and eliminates
3802 many confusing usages of those types. Closes ticket 40041.
3803 - Refactor some common node selection code into a single function.
3804 Closes ticket 34200.
3805 - Remove the now-redundant 'outbuf_flushlen' field from our
3806 connection type. It was previously used for an older version of
3807 our rate-limiting logic. Closes ticket 33097.
3808 - Rename "fascist_firewall_*" identifiers to "reachable_addr_*"
3809 instead, for consistency with other code. Closes ticket 18106.
3810 - Rename functions about "advertised" ports which are not in fact
3811 guaranteed to return the ports that have been advertised. Closes
3813 - Split implementation of several command line options from
3814 options_init_from_torrc into smaller isolated functions. Patch by
3815 Daniel Pinto. Closes ticket 40102.
3816 - When an extend cell is missing an IPv4 or IPv6 address, fill in
3817 the address from the extend info. This is similar to what was done
3818 in ticket 33633 for ed25519 keys. Closes ticket 33816. Patch by
3821 o Deprecated features:
3822 - The "non-builtin" argument to the "--dump-config" command is now
3823 deprecated. When it works, it behaves the same as "short", which
3824 you should use instead. Closes ticket 33398.
3827 - Replace URLs from our old bugtracker so that they refer to the new
3828 bugtracker and wiki. Closes ticket 40101.
3831 - We no longer ship or build a "tor.service" file for use with
3832 systemd. No distribution included this script unmodified, and we
3833 don't have the expertise ourselves to maintain this in a way that
3834 all the various systemd-based distributions can use. Closes
3836 - We no longer ship support for the Android logging API. Modern
3837 versions of Android can use the syslog API instead. Closes
3839 - The "optimistic data" feature is now always on; there is no longer
3840 an option to disable it from the torrc file or from the consensus
3841 directory. Closes part of 40139.
3842 - The "usecreatefast" network parameter is now removed; there is no
3843 longer an option for authorities to turn it off. Closes part
3847 - Add unit tests for bandwidth statistics manipulation functions.
3848 Closes ticket 33812. Patch by MrSquanchee.
3850 o Code simplification and refactoring (autoconf):
3851 - Remove autoconf checks for unused funcs and headers. Closes ticket
3852 31699; Patch by @bduszel
3854 o Code simplification and refactoring (maintainer scripts):
3855 - Disable by default the pre-commit hook. Use the environment
3856 variable TOR_EXTRA_PRE_COMMIT_CHECKS in order to run it.
3857 Furthermore, stop running practracker in the pre-commit hook and
3858 make check-local. Closes ticket 40019.
3860 o Code simplification and refactoring (relay address):
3861 - Most of IPv4 representation was using "uint32_t". It has now been
3862 moved to use the internal "tor_addr_t" interface instead. This is
3863 so we can properly integrate IPv6 along IPv4 with common
3864 interfaces. Closes ticket 40043.
3866 o Documentation (manual page):
3867 - Move them from doc/ to doc/man/. Closes ticket 40044.
3868 - Describe the status of the "Sandbox" option more accurately. It is
3869 no longer "experimental", but it _is_ dependent on kernel and libc
3870 versions. Closes ticket 23378.
3872 o Documentation (tracing):
3873 - Document in depth the circuit subsystem trace events in the new
3874 doc/tracing/EventsCircuit.md. Closes ticket 40036.
3877 Changes in version 0.4.4.5 - 2020-09-15
3878 Tor 0.4.4.5 is the first stable release in the 0.4.4.x series. This
3879 series improves our guard selection algorithms, adds v3 onion balance
3880 support, improves the amount of code that can be disabled when running
3881 without relay support, and includes numerous small bugfixes and
3882 enhancements. It also lays the ground for some IPv6 features that
3883 we'll be developing more in the next (0.4.5) series.
3885 Per our support policy, we support each stable release series for nine
3886 months after its first stable release, or three months after the first
3887 stable release of the next series: whichever is longer. This means
3888 that 0.4.4.x will be supported until around June 2021--or later, if
3889 0.4.5.x is later than anticipated.
3891 Note also that support for 0.4.2.x has just ended; support for 0.4.3
3892 will continue until Feb 15, 2021. We still plan to continue supporting
3893 0.3.5.x, our long-term stable series, until Feb 2022.
3895 Below are the changes since 0.4.4.4-rc. For a complete list of changes
3896 since 0.4.3.6, see the ReleaseNotes file.
3898 o Major bugfixes (onion services, DoS):
3899 - Correct handling of parameters for the onion service DoS defense.
3900 Previously, the consensus parameters for the onion service DoS
3901 defenses were overwriting the parameters set by the service
3902 operator using HiddenServiceEnableIntroDoSDefense. Fixes bug
3903 40109; bugfix on 0.4.2.1-alpha.
3905 o Major bugfixes (stats, onion services):
3906 - Fix a bug where we were undercounting the Tor network's total
3907 onion service traffic, by ignoring any traffic originating from
3908 clients. Now we count traffic from both clients and services.
3909 Fixes bug 40117; bugfix on 0.2.6.2-alpha.
3911 o Minor features (control port):
3912 - If a ClientName was specified in ONION_CLIENT_AUTH_ADD for an
3913 onion service, display it when we use ONION_CLIENT_AUTH_VIEW.
3914 Closes ticket 40089. Patch by Neel Chauhan.
3916 o Minor features (denial-of-service memory limiter):
3917 - Allow the user to configure even lower values for the
3918 MaxMemInQueues parameter. Relays now enforce a minimum of 64 MB,
3919 when previously the minimum was 256 MB. On clients, there is no
3920 minimum. Relays and clients will both warn if the value is set so
3921 low that Tor is likely to stop working. Closes ticket 24308.
3923 o Minor features (tests):
3924 - Our "make check" target now runs the unit tests in 8 parallel
3925 chunks. Doing this speeds up hardened CI builds by more than a
3926 factor of two. Closes ticket 40098.
3928 o Minor bugfixes (guard selection algorithm):
3929 - Avoid needless guard-related warning when upgrading from 0.4.3 to
3930 0.4.4. Fixes bug 40105; bugfix on 0.4.4.1-alpha.
3932 o Minor bugfixes (tests):
3933 - Fix the behavior of the rend_cache/clean_v2_descs_as_dir when run
3934 on its own. Previously, it would exit with an error. Fixes bug
3935 40099; bugfix on 0.2.8.1-alpha.
3938 Changes in version 0.4.4.3-alpha - 2020-07-27
3939 Tor 0.4.4.3-alpha fixes several annoyances in previous versions,
3940 including one affecting NSS users, and several affecting the Linux
3943 o Major features (fallback directory list):
3944 - Replace the 148 fallback directories originally included in Tor
3945 0.4.1.4-rc (of which around 105 are still functional) with a list
3946 of 144 fallbacks generated in July 2020. Closes ticket 40061.
3948 o Major bugfixes (NSS):
3949 - When running with NSS enabled, make sure that NSS knows to expect
3950 nonblocking sockets. Previously, we set our TCP sockets as
3951 nonblocking, but did not tell NSS, which in turn could lead to
3952 unexpected blocking behavior. Fixes bug 40035; bugfix
3955 o Minor bugfixes (linux seccomp2 sandbox):
3956 - Fix a regression on sandboxing rules for the openat() syscall. The
3957 fix for bug 25440 fixed the problem on systems with glibc >= 2.27
3958 but broke with versions of glibc. We now choose a rule based on
3959 the glibc version. Patch from Daniel Pinto. Fixes bug 27315;
3961 - Makes the seccomp sandbox allow the correct syscall for opendir
3962 according to the running glibc version. This fixes crashes when
3963 reloading torrc with sandbox enabled when running on glibc 2.15 to
3964 2.21 and 2.26. Patch from Daniel Pinto. Fixes bug 40020; bugfix
3967 o Minor bugfixes (relay, usability):
3968 - Adjust the rules for when to warn about having too many
3969 connections to other relays. Previously we'd tolerate up to 1.5
3970 connections per relay on average. Now we tolerate more connections
3971 for directory authorities, and raise the number of total
3972 connections we need to see before we warn. Fixes bug 33880; bugfix
3976 - Replace most http:// URLs in our code and documentation with
3977 https:// URLs. (We have left unchanged the code in src/ext/, and
3978 the text in LICENSE.) Closes ticket 31812. Patch from Jeremy Rand.
3981 - Our "check-local" test target no longer tries to use the
3982 Coccinelle semantic patching tool parse all the C files. While it
3983 is a good idea to try to make sure Coccinelle works on our C
3984 before we run a Coccinelle patch, doing so on every test run has
3985 proven to be disruptive. You can still run this tool manually with
3986 "make check-cocci". Closes ticket 40030.
3989 Changes in version 0.3.5.11 - 2020-07-09
3990 Tor 0.3.5.11 backports fixes from later tor releases, including several
3991 usability, portability, and reliability fixes.
3993 This release also fixes TROVE-2020-001, a medium-severity denial of
3994 service vulnerability affecting all versions of Tor when compiled with
3995 the NSS encryption library. (This is not the default configuration.)
3996 Using this vulnerability, an attacker could cause an affected Tor
3997 instance to crash remotely. This issue is also tracked as CVE-2020-
3998 15572. Anybody running a version of Tor built with the NSS library
3999 should upgrade to 0.3.5.11, 0.4.2.8, 0.4.3.6, or 0.4.4.2-alpha
4002 o Major bugfixes (NSS, security, backport from 0.4.4.2-alpha):
4003 - Fix a crash due to an out-of-bound memory access when Tor is
4004 compiled with NSS support. Fixes bug 33119; bugfix on
4005 0.3.5.1-alpha. This issue is also tracked as TROVE-2020-001
4008 o Major bugfixes (DoS defenses, bridges, pluggable transport, backport from 0.4.3.4-rc):
4009 - Fix a bug that was preventing DoS defenses from running on bridges
4010 with a pluggable transport. Previously, the DoS subsystem was not
4011 given the transport name of the client connection, thus failed to
4012 find the GeoIP cache entry for that client address. Fixes bug
4013 33491; bugfix on 0.3.3.2-alpha.
4015 o Minor features (testing, backport from 0.4.3.4-rc):
4016 - The unit tests now support a "TOR_SKIP_TESTCASES" environment
4017 variable to specify a list of space-separated test cases that
4018 should not be executed. We will use this to disable certain tests
4019 that are failing on Appveyor because of mismatched OpenSSL
4020 libraries. Part of ticket 33643.
4022 o Minor bugfix (CI, Windows, backport from 0.4.4.2-alpha):
4023 - Use the correct 64-bit printf format when compiling with MINGW on
4024 Appveyor. Fixes bug 40026; bugfix on 0.3.5.5-alpha.
4026 o Minor bugfix (relay, configuration, backport from 0.4.3.3-alpha):
4027 - Warn if the ContactInfo field is not set, and tell the relay
4028 operator that not having a ContactInfo field set might cause their
4029 relay to get rejected in the future. Fixes bug 33361; bugfix
4032 o Minor bugfixes (client performance, backport from 0.4.4.1-alpha):
4033 - Resume use of preemptively-built circuits when UseEntryGuards is set
4034 to 0. We accidentally disabled this feature with that config
4035 setting, leading to slower load times. Fixes bug 34303; bugfix
4038 o Minor bugfixes (compiler compatibility, backport from 0.4.3.5):
4039 - Avoid compiler warnings from Clang 10 related to the use of GCC-
4040 style "/* falls through */" comments. Both Clang and GCC allow
4041 __attribute__((fallthrough)) instead, so that's what we're using
4042 now. Fixes bug 34078; bugfix on 0.3.1.3-alpha.
4044 o Minor bugfixes (compiler warnings, backport from 0.4.4.2-alpha):
4045 - Fix a compiler warning on platforms with 32-bit time_t values.
4046 Fixes bug 40028; bugfix on 0.3.2.8-rc.
4048 o Minor bugfixes (embedded Tor, backport from 0.4.3.1-alpha):
4049 - When starting Tor any time after the first time in a process,
4050 register the thread in which it is running as the main thread.
4051 Previously, we only did this on Windows, which could lead to bugs
4052 like 23081 on non-Windows platforms. Fixes bug 32884; bugfix
4055 o Minor bugfixes (key portability, backport from 0.4.3.4-rc):
4056 - When reading PEM-encoded key data, tolerate CRLF line-endings even
4057 if we are not running on Windows. Previously, non-Windows hosts
4058 would reject these line-endings in certain positions, making
4059 certain key files hard to move from one host to another. Fixes bug
4060 33032; bugfix on 0.3.5.1-alpha.
4062 o Minor bugfixes (logging, backport from 0.4.4.2-alpha):
4063 - Downgrade a noisy log message that could occur naturally when
4064 receiving an extrainfo document that we no longer want. Fixes bug
4065 16016; bugfix on 0.2.6.3-alpha.
4067 o Minor bugfixes (onion service v3, client, backport from 0.4.3.3-alpha):
4068 - Remove a BUG() warning that would cause a stack trace if an onion
4069 service descriptor was freed while we were waiting for a
4070 rendezvous circuit to complete. Fixes bug 28992; bugfix
4073 o Testing (CI, backport from 0.4.3.4-rc):
4074 - In our Appveyor Windows CI, copy required DLLs to test and app
4075 directories, before running tor's tests. This ensures that tor.exe
4076 and test*.exe use the correct version of each DLL. This fix is not
4077 required, but we hope it will avoid DLL search issues in future.
4078 Fixes bug 33673; bugfix on 0.3.4.2-alpha.
4079 - On Appveyor, skip the crypto/openssl_version test, which is
4080 failing because of a mismatched library installation. Fix
4084 Changes in version 0.4.2.8 - 2020-07-09
4085 Tor 0.4.2.8 backports various fixes from later releases, including
4086 several that affect usability and portability.
4088 This release also fixes TROVE-2020-001, a medium-severity denial of
4089 service vulnerability affecting all versions of Tor when compiled with
4090 the NSS encryption library. (This is not the default configuration.)
4091 Using this vulnerability, an attacker could cause an affected Tor
4092 instance to crash remotely. This issue is also tracked as CVE-2020-
4093 15572. Anybody running a version of Tor built with the NSS library
4094 should upgrade to 0.3.5.11, 0.4.2.8, 0.4.3.6, or 0.4.4.2-alpha
4097 o Major bugfixes (NSS, security, backport from 0.4.4.2-alpha):
4098 - Fix a crash due to an out-of-bound memory access when Tor is
4099 compiled with NSS support. Fixes bug 33119; bugfix on
4100 0.3.5.1-alpha. This issue is also tracked as TROVE-2020-001
4103 o Major bugfixes (DoS defenses, bridges, pluggable transport, backport from 0.4.3.4-rc):
4104 - Fix a bug that was preventing DoS defenses from running on bridges
4105 with a pluggable transport. Previously, the DoS subsystem was not
4106 given the transport name of the client connection, thus failed to
4107 find the GeoIP cache entry for that client address. Fixes bug
4108 33491; bugfix on 0.3.3.2-alpha.
4110 o Minor feature (sendme, flow control, backport form 0.4.3.4-rc):
4111 - Default to sending SENDME version 1 cells. (Clients are already
4112 sending these, because of a consensus parameter telling them to do
4113 so: this change only affects what clients would do if the
4114 consensus didn't contain a recommendation.) Closes ticket 33623.
4116 o Minor features (diagnostic, backport from 0.4.3.3-alpha):
4117 - Improve assertions and add some memory-poisoning code to try to
4118 track down possible causes of a rare crash (32564) in the EWMA
4119 code. Closes ticket 33290.
4121 o Minor features (testing, backport from 0.4.3.4-rc):
4122 - The unit tests now support a "TOR_SKIP_TESTCASES" environment
4123 variable to specify a list of space-separated test cases that
4124 should not be executed. We will use this to disable certain tests
4125 that are failing on Appveyor because of mismatched OpenSSL
4126 libraries. Part of ticket 33643.
4128 o Minor bugfix (CI, Windows, backport from 0.4.4.2-alpha):
4129 - Use the correct 64-bit printf format when compiling with MINGW on
4130 Appveyor. Fixes bug 40026; bugfix on 0.3.5.5-alpha.
4132 o Minor bugfix (relay, configuration, backport from 0.4.3.3-alpha):
4133 - Warn if the ContactInfo field is not set, and tell the relay
4134 operator that not having a ContactInfo field set might cause their
4135 relay to get rejected in the future. Fixes bug 33361; bugfix
4138 o Minor bugfixes (client performance, backport from 0.4.4.1-alpha):
4139 - Resume use of preemptively-built circuits when UseEntryGuards is set
4140 to 0. We accidentally disabled this feature with that config
4141 setting, leading to slower load times. Fixes bug 34303; bugfix
4144 o Minor bugfixes (compiler compatibility, backport from 0.4.3.5):
4145 - Avoid compiler warnings from Clang 10 related to the use of GCC-
4146 style "/* falls through */" comments. Both Clang and GCC allow
4147 __attribute__((fallthrough)) instead, so that's what we're using
4148 now. Fixes bug 34078; bugfix on 0.3.1.3-alpha.
4149 - Fix compilation warnings with GCC 10.0.1. Fixes bug 34077; bugfix
4152 o Minor bugfixes (compiler warnings, backport from 0.4.4.2-alpha):
4153 - Fix a compiler warning on platforms with 32-bit time_t values.
4154 Fixes bug 40028; bugfix on 0.3.2.8-rc.
4156 o Minor bugfixes (controller protocol, backport from 0.4.3.2-alpha):
4157 - When receiving "ACTIVE" or "DORMANT" signals on the control port,
4158 report them as SIGNAL events. Previously we would log a bug
4159 warning. Fixes bug 33104; bugfix on 0.4.0.1-alpha.
4161 o Minor bugfixes (embedded Tor, backport from 0.4.3.1-alpha):
4162 - When starting Tor any time after the first time in a process,
4163 register the thread in which it is running as the main thread.
4164 Previously, we only did this on Windows, which could lead to bugs
4165 like 23081 on non-Windows platforms. Fixes bug 32884; bugfix
4168 o Minor bugfixes (key portability, backport from 0.4.3.4-rc):
4169 - When reading PEM-encoded key data, tolerate CRLF line-endings even
4170 if we are not running on Windows. Previously, non-Windows hosts
4171 would reject these line-endings in certain positions, making
4172 certain key files hard to move from one host to another. Fixes bug
4173 33032; bugfix on 0.3.5.1-alpha.
4175 o Minor bugfixes (logging, backport from 0.4.3.2-rc):
4176 - When logging a bug, do not say "Future instances of this warning
4177 will be silenced" unless we are actually going to silence them.
4178 Previously we would say this whenever a BUG() check failed in the
4179 code. Fixes bug 33095; bugfix on 0.4.1.1-alpha.
4181 o Minor bugfixes (logging, backport from 0.4.3.4-rc):
4182 - Flush stderr, stdout, and file logs during shutdown, if supported
4183 by the OS. This change helps make sure that any final logs are
4184 recorded. Fixes bug 33087; bugfix on 0.4.1.6.
4186 o Minor bugfixes (logging, backport from 0.4.4.2-alpha):
4187 - Downgrade a noisy log message that could occur naturally when
4188 receiving an extrainfo document that we no longer want. Fixes bug
4189 16016; bugfix on 0.2.6.3-alpha.
4191 o Minor bugfixes (onion service v3, client, backport from 0.4.3.3-alpha):
4192 - Remove a BUG() warning that would cause a stack trace if an onion
4193 service descriptor was freed while we were waiting for a
4194 rendezvous circuit to complete. Fixes bug 28992; bugfix
4197 o Testing (CI, backport from 0.4.3.4-rc):
4198 - In our Appveyor Windows CI, copy required DLLs to test and app
4199 directories, before running tor's tests. This ensures that tor.exe
4200 and test*.exe use the correct version of each DLL. This fix is not
4201 required, but we hope it will avoid DLL search issues in future.
4202 Fixes bug 33673; bugfix on 0.3.4.2-alpha.
4203 - On Appveyor, skip the crypto/openssl_version test, which is
4204 failing because of a mismatched library installation. Fix
4208 Changes in version 0.4.3.6 - 2020-07-09
4209 Tor 0.4.3.6 backports several bugfixes from later releases, including
4210 some affecting usability.
4212 This release also fixes TROVE-2020-001, a medium-severity denial of
4213 service vulnerability affecting all versions of Tor when compiled with
4214 the NSS encryption library. (This is not the default configuration.)
4215 Using this vulnerability, an attacker could cause an affected Tor
4216 instance to crash remotely. This issue is also tracked as CVE-2020-
4217 15572. Anybody running a version of Tor built with the NSS library
4218 should upgrade to 0.3.5.11, 0.4.2.8, 0.4.3.6, or 0.4.4.2-alpha
4221 o Major bugfixes (NSS, security, backport from 0.4.4.2-alpha):
4222 - Fix a crash due to an out-of-bound memory access when Tor is
4223 compiled with NSS support. Fixes bug 33119; bugfix on
4224 0.3.5.1-alpha. This issue is also tracked as TROVE-2020-001
4227 o Minor bugfix (CI, Windows, backport from 0.4.4.2-alpha):
4228 - Use the correct 64-bit printf format when compiling with MINGW on
4229 Appveyor. Fixes bug 40026; bugfix on 0.3.5.5-alpha.
4231 o Minor bugfixes (client performance, backport from 0.4.4.1-alpha):
4232 - Resume use of preemptively-built circuits when UseEntryGuards is set
4233 to 0. We accidentally disabled this feature with that config
4234 setting, leading to slower load times. Fixes bug 34303; bugfix
4237 o Minor bugfixes (compiler warnings, backport from 0.4.4.2-alpha):
4238 - Fix a compiler warning on platforms with 32-bit time_t values.
4239 Fixes bug 40028; bugfix on 0.3.2.8-rc.
4241 o Minor bugfixes (linux seccomp sandbox, nss, backport from 0.4.4.1-alpha):
4242 - Fix a startup crash when tor is compiled with --enable-nss and
4243 sandbox support is enabled. Fixes bug 34130; bugfix on
4244 0.3.5.1-alpha. Patch by Daniel Pinto.
4246 o Minor bugfixes (logging, backport from 0.4.4.2-alpha):
4247 - Downgrade a noisy log message that could occur naturally when
4248 receiving an extrainfo document that we no longer want. Fixes bug
4249 16016; bugfix on 0.2.6.3-alpha.
4251 o Minor bugfixes (manual page, backport from 0.4.4.1-alpha):
4252 - Update the man page to reflect that MinUptimeHidServDirectoryV2
4253 defaults to 96 hours. Fixes bug 34299; bugfix on 0.2.6.3-alpha.
4255 o Minor bugfixes (onion service v3, backport from 0.4.4.1-alpha):
4256 - Prevent an assert() that would occur when cleaning the client
4257 descriptor cache, and attempting to close circuits for a non-
4258 decrypted descriptor (lacking client authorization). Fixes bug
4259 33458; bugfix on 0.4.2.1-alpha.
4261 o Minor bugfixes (portability, backport from 0.4.4.1-alpha):
4262 - Fix a portability error in the configure script, where we were
4263 using "==" instead of "=". Fixes bug 34233; bugfix on 0.4.3.5.
4265 o Minor bugfixes (relays, backport from 0.4.4.1-alpha):
4266 - Stop advertising incorrect IPv6 ORPorts in relay and bridge
4267 descriptors, when the IPv6 port was configured as "auto". Fixes
4268 bug 32588; bugfix on 0.2.3.9-alpha.
4270 o Documentation (backport from 0.4.4.1-alpha):
4271 - Fix several doxygen warnings related to imbalanced groups. Closes
4275 Changes in version 0.4.4.2-alpha - 2020-07-09
4276 This is the second alpha release in the 0.4.4.x series. It fixes a few
4277 bugs in the previous release, and solves a few usability,
4278 compatibility, and portability issues.
4280 This release also fixes TROVE-2020-001, a medium-severity denial of
4281 service vulnerability affecting all versions of Tor when compiled with
4282 the NSS encryption library. (This is not the default configuration.)
4283 Using this vulnerability, an attacker could cause an affected Tor
4284 instance to crash remotely. This issue is also tracked as CVE-2020-
4285 15572. Anybody running a version of Tor built with the NSS library
4286 should upgrade to 0.3.5.11, 0.4.2.8, 0.4.3.6, or 0.4.4.2-alpha
4289 o Major bugfixes (NSS, security):
4290 - Fix a crash due to an out-of-bound memory access when Tor is
4291 compiled with NSS support. Fixes bug 33119; bugfix on
4292 0.3.5.1-alpha. This issue is also tracked as TROVE-2020-001
4295 o Minor features (bootstrap reporting):
4296 - Report more detailed reasons for bootstrap failure when the
4297 failure happens due to a TLS error. Previously we would just call
4298 these errors "MISC" when they happened during read, and "DONE"
4299 when they happened during any other TLS operation. Closes
4302 o Minor features (directory authority):
4303 - Authorities now recommend the protocol versions that are supported
4304 by Tor 0.3.5 and later. (Earlier versions of Tor have been
4305 deprecated since January of this year.) This recommendation will
4306 cause older clients and relays to give a warning on startup, or
4307 when they download a consensus directory. Closes ticket 32696.
4309 o Minor features (entry guards):
4310 - Reinstate support for GUARD NEW/UP/DOWN control port events.
4311 Closes ticket 40001.
4313 o Minor features (linux seccomp2 sandbox, portability):
4314 - Allow Tor to build on platforms where it doesn't know how to
4315 report which syscall caused the linux seccomp2 sandbox to fail.
4316 This change should make the sandbox code more portable to less
4317 common Linux architectures. Closes ticket 34382.
4318 - Permit the unlinkat() syscall, which some Libc implementations use
4319 to implement unlink(). Closes ticket 33346.
4321 o Minor bugfix (CI, Windows):
4322 - Use the correct 64-bit printf format when compiling with MINGW on
4323 Appveyor. Fixes bug 40026; bugfix on 0.3.5.5-alpha.
4325 o Minor bugfix (onion service v3 client):
4326 - Remove a BUG() warning that could occur naturally. Fixes bug
4327 34087; bugfix on 0.3.2.1-alpha.
4329 o Minor bugfix (SOCKS, onion service client):
4330 - Detect v3 onion service addresses of the wrong length when
4331 returning the F6 ExtendedErrors code. Fixes bug 33873; bugfix
4334 o Minor bugfixes (compiler warnings):
4335 - Fix a compiler warning on platforms with 32-bit time_t values.
4336 Fixes bug 40028; bugfix on 0.3.2.8-rc.
4338 o Minor bugfixes (control port, onion service):
4339 - Consistently use 'address' in "Invalid v3 address" response to
4340 ONION_CLIENT_AUTH commands. Previously, we would sometimes say
4341 'addr'. Fixes bug 40005; bugfix on 0.4.3.1-alpha.
4343 o Minor bugfixes (logging):
4344 - Downgrade a noisy log message that could occur naturally when
4345 receiving an extrainfo document that we no longer want. Fixes bug
4346 16016; bugfix on 0.2.6.3-alpha.
4348 o Minor bugfixes (onion services v3):
4349 - Avoid a non-fatal assertion failure in certain edge-cases when
4350 opening an intro circuit as a client. Fixes bug 34084; bugfix
4353 o Deprecated features (onion service v2):
4354 - Add a deprecation warning for version 2 onion services. Closes
4357 o Removed features (IPv6, revert):
4358 - Revert the change in the default value of ClientPreferIPv6OrPort:
4359 it breaks the torsocks use case. The SOCKS resolve command has no
4360 mechanism to ask for a specific address family (v4 or v6), and so
4361 prioritizing IPv6 when an IPv4 address is requested on the SOCKS
4362 interface resulted in a failure. Tor Browser explicitly sets
4363 PreferIPv6, so this should not affect the majority of our users.
4364 Closes ticket 33796; bugfix on 0.4.4.1-alpha.
4367 Changes in version 0.4.4.1-alpha - 2020-06-16
4368 This is the first alpha release in the 0.4.4.x series. It improves
4369 our guard selection algorithms, improves the amount of code that
4370 can be disabled when running without relay support, and includes numerous
4371 small bugfixes and enhancements. It also lays the ground for some IPv6
4372 features that we'll be developing more in the next (0.4.5) series.
4374 Here are the changes since 0.4.3.5.
4376 o Major features (Proposal 310, performance + security):
4377 - Implements Proposal 310, "Bandaid on guard selection". Proposal
4378 310 solves load-balancing issues with older versions of the guard
4379 selection algorithm, and improves its security. Under this new
4380 algorithm, a newly selected guard never becomes Primary unless all
4381 previously sampled guards are unreachable. Implements
4382 recommendation from 32088. (Proposal 310 is linked to the CLAPS
4383 project researching optimal client location-aware path selections.
4384 This project is a collaboration between the UCLouvain Crypto Group,
4385 the U.S. Naval Research Laboratory, and Princeton University.)
4387 o Major features (IPv6, relay):
4388 - Consider IPv6-only EXTEND2 cells valid on relays. Log a protocol
4389 warning if the IPv4 or IPv6 address is an internal address, and
4390 internal addresses are not allowed. But continue to use the other
4391 address, if it is valid. Closes ticket 33817.
4392 - If a relay can extend over IPv4 and IPv6, and both addresses are
4393 provided, it chooses between them uniformly at random. Closes
4395 - Re-use existing IPv6 connections for circuit extends. Closes
4397 - Relays may extend circuits over IPv6, if the relay has an IPv6
4398 ORPort, and the client supplies the other relay's IPv6 ORPort in
4399 the EXTEND2 cell. IPv6 extends will be used by the relay IPv6
4400 ORPort self-tests in 33222. Closes ticket 33817.
4402 o Major features (v3 onion services):
4403 - Allow v3 onion services to act as OnionBalance backend instances,
4404 by using the HiddenServiceOnionBalanceInstance torrc option.
4405 Closes ticket 32709.
4407 o Minor feature (developer tools):
4408 - Add a script to help check the alphabetical ordering of option
4409 names in the manual page. Closes ticket 33339.
4411 o Minor feature (onion service client, SOCKS5):
4412 - Add 3 new SocksPort ExtendedErrors (F2, F3, F7) that reports back
4413 new type of onion service connection failures. The semantics of
4414 these error codes are documented in proposal 309. Closes
4417 o Minor feature (onion service v3):
4418 - If a service cannot upload its descriptor(s), log why at INFO
4419 level. Closes ticket 33400; bugfix on 0.3.2.1-alpha.
4421 o Minor feature (python scripts):
4422 - Stop assuming that /usr/bin/python exists. Instead of using a
4423 hardcoded path in scripts that still use Python 2, use
4424 /usr/bin/env, similarly to the scripts that use Python 3. Fixes
4425 bug 33192; bugfix on 0.4.2.
4427 o Minor features (client-only compilation):
4428 - Disable more code related to the ext_orport protocol when
4429 compiling without support for relay mode. Closes ticket 33368.
4430 - Disable more of our self-testing code when support for relay mode
4431 is disabled. Closes ticket 33370.
4433 o Minor features (code safety):
4434 - Check for failures of tor_inet_ntop() and tor_inet_ntoa()
4435 functions in DNS and IP address processing code, and adjust
4436 codepaths to make them less likely to crash entire Tor instances.
4437 Resolves issue 33788.
4439 o Minor features (compilation size):
4440 - Most server-side DNS code is now disabled when building without
4441 support for relay mode. Closes ticket 33366.
4443 o Minor features (continuous integration):
4444 - Run unit-test and integration test (Stem, Chutney) jobs with
4445 ALL_BUGS_ARE_FATAL macro being enabled on Travis and Appveyor.
4446 Resolves ticket 32143.
4448 o Minor features (control port):
4449 - Return a descriptive error message from the 'GETINFO status/fresh-
4450 relay-descs' command on the control port. Previously, we returned
4451 a generic error of "Error generating descriptor". Closes ticket
4452 32873. Patch by Neel Chauhan.
4454 o Minor features (developer tooling):
4455 - Refrain from listing all .a files that are generated by the Tor
4456 build in .gitignore. Add a single wildcard *.a entry that covers
4457 all of them for present and future. Closes ticket 33642.
4458 - Add a script ("git-install-tools.sh") to install git hooks and
4459 helper scripts. Closes ticket 33451.
4461 o Minor features (directory authority, shared random):
4462 - Refactor more authority-only parts of the shared-random scheduling
4463 code to reside in the dirauth module, and to be disabled when
4464 compiling with --disable-module-dirauth. Closes ticket 33436.
4466 o Minor features (directory):
4467 - Remember the number of bytes we have downloaded for each directory
4468 purpose while bootstrapping, and while fully bootstrapped. Log
4469 this information as part of the heartbeat message. Closes
4472 o Minor features (IPv6 support):
4473 - Adds IPv6 support to tor_addr_is_valid(). Adds tests for the above
4474 changes and tor_addr_is_null(). Closes ticket 33679. Patch
4476 - Allow clients and relays to send dual-stack and IPv6-only EXTEND2
4477 cells. Parse dual-stack and IPv6-only EXTEND2 cells on relays.
4478 Closes ticket 33901.
4480 o Minor features (logging):
4481 - When trying to find our own address, add debug-level logging to
4482 report the sources of candidate addresses. Closes ticket 32888.
4484 o Minor features (testing, architecture):
4485 - Our test scripts now double-check that subsystem initialization
4486 order is consistent with the inter-module dependencies established
4487 by our .may_include files. Implements ticket 31634.
4488 - Initialize all subsystems at the beginning of our unit test
4489 harness, to avoid crashes due to uninitialized subsystems. Follow-
4490 up from ticket 33316.
4492 o Minor features (v3 onion services):
4493 - Add v3 onion service status to the dumpstats() call which is
4494 triggered by a SIGUSR1 signal. Previously, we only did v2 onion
4495 services. Closes ticket 24844. Patch by Neel Chauhan.
4497 o Minor features (windows):
4498 - Add support for console control signals like Ctrl+C in Windows.
4499 Closes ticket 34211. Patch from Damon Harris (TheDcoder).
4501 o Minor bugfix (onion service v3):
4502 - Prevent an assert() that would occur when cleaning the client
4503 descriptor cache, and attempting to close circuits for a non-
4504 decrypted descriptor (lacking client authorization). Fixes bug
4505 33458; bugfix on 0.4.2.1-alpha.
4507 o Minor bugfix (refactoring):
4508 - Lift circuit_build_times_disabled() out of the
4509 circuit_expire_building() loop, to save CPU time when there are
4510 many circuits open. Fixes bug 33977; bugfix on 0.3.5.9.
4512 o Minor bugfixes (client performance):
4513 - Resume use of preemptively-built circuits when UseEntryGuards is set
4514 to 0. We accidentally disabled this feature with that config
4515 setting, leading to slower load times. Fixes bug 34303; bugfix
4518 o Minor bugfixes (directory authorities):
4519 - Directory authorities now reject votes that arrive too late. In
4520 particular, once an authority has started fetching missing votes,
4521 it no longer accepts new votes posted by other authorities. This
4522 change helps prevent a consensus split, where only some authorities
4523 have the late vote. Fixes bug 4631; bugfix on 0.2.0.5-alpha.
4525 o Minor bugfixes (git scripts):
4526 - Stop executing the checked-out pre-commit hook from the pre-push
4527 hook. Instead, execute the copy in the user's git directory. Fixes
4528 bug 33284; bugfix on 0.4.1.1-alpha.
4530 o Minor bugfixes (initialization):
4531 - Initialize the subsystems in our code in an order more closely
4532 corresponding to their dependencies, so that every system is
4533 initialized before the ones that (theoretically) depend on it.
4534 Fixes bug 33316; bugfix on 0.4.0.1-alpha.
4536 o Minor bugfixes (IPv4, relay):
4537 - Check for invalid zero IPv4 addresses and ports when sending and
4538 receiving extend cells. Fixes bug 33900; bugfix on 0.2.4.8-alpha.
4540 o Minor bugfixes (IPv6, relay):
4541 - Consider IPv6 addresses when checking if a connection is
4542 canonical. In 17604, relays assumed that a remote relay could
4543 consider an IPv6 connection canonical, but did not set the
4544 canonical flag on their side of the connection. Fixes bug 33899;
4545 bugfix on 0.3.1.1-alpha.
4546 - Log IPv6 addresses on connections where this relay is the
4547 responder. Previously, responding relays would replace the remote
4548 IPv6 address with the IPv4 address from the consensus. Fixes bug
4549 33899; bugfix on 0.3.1.1-alpha.
4551 o Minor bugfixes (linux seccomp sandbox nss):
4552 - Fix a startup crash when tor is compiled with --enable-nss and
4553 sandbox support is enabled. Fixes bug 34130; bugfix on
4554 0.3.5.1-alpha. Patch by Daniel Pinto.
4556 o Minor bugfixes (logging, testing):
4557 - Make all of tor's assertion macros support the ALL_BUGS_ARE_FATAL
4558 and DISABLE_ASSERTS_IN_UNIT_TESTS debugging modes. (IF_BUG_ONCE()
4559 used to log a non-fatal warning, regardless of the debugging
4560 mode.) Fixes bug 33917; bugfix on 0.2.9.1-alpha.
4562 o Minor bugfixes (logs):
4563 - Remove surprising empty line in the INFO-level log about circuit
4564 build timeout. Fixes bug 33531; bugfix on 0.3.3.1-alpha.
4566 o Minor bugfixes (mainloop):
4567 - Better guard against growing a buffer past its maximum 2GB in
4568 size. Fixes bug 33131; bugfix on 0.3.0.4-rc.
4570 o Minor bugfixes (manual page):
4571 - Update the man page to reflect that MinUptimeHidServDirectoryV2
4572 defaults to 96 hours. Fixes bug 34299; bugfix on 0.2.6.3-alpha.
4574 o Minor bugfixes (onion service v3, client):
4575 - Remove a BUG() that was causing a stacktrace when a descriptor
4576 changed at an unexpected time. Fixes bug 28992; bugfix
4579 o Minor bugfixes (onion service, logging):
4580 - Fix a typo in a log message PublishHidServDescriptors is set to 0.
4581 Fixes bug 33779; bugfix on 0.3.2.1-alpha.
4583 o Minor bugfixes (portability):
4584 - Fix a portability error in the configure script, where we were
4585 using "==" instead of "=". Fixes bug 34233; bugfix on 0.4.3.5.
4587 o Minor bugfixes (protocol versions):
4588 - Sort tor's supported protocol version lists, as recommended by the
4589 tor directory specification. Fixes bug 33285; bugfix
4592 o Minor bugfixes (relays):
4593 - Stop advertising incorrect IPv6 ORPorts in relay and bridge
4594 descriptors, when the IPv6 port was configured as "auto". Fixes
4595 bug 32588; bugfix on 0.2.3.9-alpha.
4597 o Code simplification and refactoring:
4598 - Define and use a new constant TOR_ADDRPORT_BUF_LEN which is like
4599 TOR_ADDR_BUF_LEN but includes enough space for an IP address,
4600 brackets, separating colon, and port number. Closes ticket 33956.
4601 Patch by Neel Chauhan.
4602 - Merge the orconn and ocirc events into the "core" subsystem, which
4603 manages or connections and origin circuits. Previously they were
4604 isolated in subsystems of their own.
4605 - Move LOG_PROTOCOL_WARN to app/config. Resolves a dependency
4606 inversion. Closes ticket 33633.
4607 - Move the circuit extend code to the relay module. Split the
4608 circuit extend function into smaller functions. Closes
4610 - Rewrite port_parse_config() to use the default port flags from
4611 port_cfg_new(). Closes ticket 32994. Patch by MrSquanchee.
4612 - Updated comments in 'scheduler.c' to reflect old code changes, and
4613 simplified the scheduler channel state change code. Closes
4617 - Document the limitations of using %include on config files with
4618 seccomp sandbox enabled. Fixes documentation bug 34133; bugfix on
4619 0.3.1.1-alpha. Patch by Daniel Pinto.
4620 - Fix several doxygen warnings related to imbalanced groups. Closes
4624 - Remove the ClientAutoIPv6ORPort option. This option attempted to
4625 randomly choose between IPv4 and IPv6 for client connections, and
4626 wasn't a true implementation of Happy Eyeballs. Often, this option
4627 failed on IPv4-only or IPv6-only connections. Closes ticket 32905.
4628 Patch by Neel Chauhan.
4629 - Stop shipping contrib/dist/rc.subr file, as it is not being used
4630 on FreeBSD anymore. Closes issue 31576.
4633 - Add a basic IPv6 test to "make test-network". This test only runs
4634 when the local machine has an IPv6 stack. Closes ticket 33300.
4635 - Add test-network-ipv4 and test-network-ipv6 jobs to the Makefile.
4636 These jobs run the IPv4-only and dual-stack chutney flavours from
4637 test-network-all. Closes ticket 33280.
4638 - Remove a redundant distcheck job. Closes ticket 33194.
4639 - Run the test-network-ipv6 Makefile target in the Travis CI IPv6
4640 chutney job. This job runs on macOS, so it's a bit slow. Closes
4642 - Sort the Travis jobs in order of speed. Putting the slowest jobs
4643 first takes full advantage of Travis job concurrency. Closes
4645 - Stop allowing the Chutney IPv6 Travis job to fail. This job was
4646 previously configured to fast_finish (which requires
4647 allow_failure), to speed up the build. Closes ticket 33195.
4648 - Test v3 onion services to tor's mixed IPv4 chutney network. And
4649 add a mixed IPv6 chutney network. These networks are used in the
4650 test-network-all, test-network-ipv4, and test-network-ipv6 make
4651 targets. Closes ticket 33334.
4652 - Use the "bridges+hs-v23" chutney network flavour in "make test-
4653 network". This test requires a recent version of chutney (mid-
4654 February 2020). Closes ticket 28208.
4655 - When a Travis chutney job fails, use chutney's new "diagnostics.sh"
4656 tool to produce detailed diagnostic output. Closes ticket 32792.
4658 o Code simplification and refactoring (onion service):
4659 - Refactor configuration parsing to use the new config subsystem
4660 code. Closes ticket 33014.
4662 o Code simplification and refactoring (relay address):
4663 - Move a series of functions related to address resolving into their
4664 own files. Closes ticket 33789.
4666 o Documentation (manual page):
4667 - Add cross reference links and a table of contents to the HTML tor
4668 manual page. Closes ticket 33369. Work by Swati Thacker as part of
4669 Google Season of Docs.
4670 - Alphabetize the Denial of Service Mitigation Options, Directory
4671 Authority Server Options, Hidden Service Options, and Testing
4672 Network Options sections of the tor(1) manual page. Closes ticket
4673 33275. Work by Swati Thacker as part of Google Season of Docs.
4674 - Refrain from mentioning nicknames in manpage section for MyFamily
4675 torrc option. Resolves issue 33417.
4676 - Updated the options set by TestingTorNetwork in the manual page.
4677 Closes ticket 33778.
4680 Changes in version 0.4.3.5 - 2020-05-15
4681 Tor 0.4.3.5 is the first stable release in the 0.4.3.x series. This
4682 series adds support for building without relay code enabled, and
4683 implements functionality needed for OnionBalance with v3 onion
4684 services. It includes significant refactoring of our configuration and
4685 controller functionality, and fixes numerous smaller bugs and
4688 Per our support policy, we support each stable release series for nine
4689 months after its first stable release, or three months after the first
4690 stable release of the next series: whichever is longer. This means
4691 that 0.4.3.x will be supported until around February 2021--later, if
4692 0.4.4.x is later than anticipated.
4694 Note also that support for 0.4.1.x is about to end on May 20 of this
4695 year; 0.4.2.x will be supported until September 15. We still plan to
4696 continue supporting 0.3.5.x, our long-term stable series, until
4699 Below are the changes since 0.4.3.4-rc. For a complete list of changes
4700 since 0.4.2.6, see the ReleaseNotes file.
4702 o Minor bugfixes (compiler compatibility):
4703 - Avoid compiler warnings from Clang 10 related to the use of GCC-
4704 style "/* falls through */" comments. Both Clang and GCC allow
4705 __attribute__((fallthrough)) instead, so that's what we're using
4706 now. Fixes bug 34078; bugfix on 0.3.1.3-alpha.
4707 - Fix compilation warnings with GCC 10.0.1. Fixes bug 34077; bugfix
4710 o Minor bugfixes (logging):
4711 - Stop truncating IPv6 addresses and ports in channel and connection
4712 logs. Fixes bug 33918; bugfix on 0.2.4.4-alpha.
4713 - Fix a logic error in a log message about whether an address was
4714 invalid. Previously, the code would never report that onion
4715 addresses were onion addresses. Fixes bug 34131; bugfix
4719 Changes in version 0.4.3.4-rc - 2020-04-13
4720 Tor 0.4.3.4-rc is the first release candidate in its series. It fixes
4721 several bugs from earlier versions, including one affecting DoS
4722 defenses on bridges using pluggable transports.
4724 o Major bugfixes (DoS defenses, bridges, pluggable transport):
4725 - Fix a bug that was preventing DoS defenses from running on bridges
4726 with a pluggable transport. Previously, the DoS subsystem was not
4727 given the transport name of the client connection, thus failed to
4728 find the GeoIP cache entry for that client address. Fixes bug
4729 33491; bugfix on 0.3.3.2-alpha.
4731 o Minor feature (sendme, flow control):
4732 - Default to sending SENDME version 1 cells. (Clients are already
4733 sending these, because of a consensus parameter telling them to do
4734 so: this change only affects what clients would do if the
4735 consensus didn't contain a recommendation.) Closes ticket 33623.
4737 o Minor features (testing):
4738 - The unit tests now support a "TOR_SKIP_TESTCASES" environment
4739 variable to specify a list of space-separated test cases that
4740 should not be executed. We will use this to disable certain tests
4741 that are failing on Appveyor because of mismatched OpenSSL
4742 libraries. Part of ticket 33643.
4744 o Minor bugfixes (--disable-module-relay):
4745 - Fix an assertion failure when Tor is built without the relay
4746 module, and then invoked with the "User" option. Fixes bug 33668;
4747 bugfix on 0.4.3.1-alpha.
4749 o Minor bugfixes (--disable-module-relay,--disable-module-dirauth):
4750 - Set some output arguments in the relay and dirauth module stubs,
4751 to guard against future stub argument handling bugs like 33668.
4752 Fixes bug 33674; bugfix on 0.4.3.1-alpha.
4754 o Minor bugfixes (build system):
4755 - Correctly output the enabled module in the configure summary.
4756 Before that, the list shown was just plain wrong. Fixes bug 33646;
4757 bugfix on 0.4.3.2-alpha.
4759 o Minor bugfixes (client, IPv6):
4760 - Stop forcing all non-SocksPorts to prefer IPv6 exit connections.
4761 Instead, prefer IPv6 connections by default, but allow users to
4762 change their configs using the "NoPreferIPv6" port flag. Fixes bug
4763 33608; bugfix on 0.4.3.1-alpha.
4764 - Revert PreferIPv6 set by default on the SocksPort because it broke
4765 the torsocks use case. Tor doesn't have a way for an application
4766 to request the hostname to be resolved for a specific IP version,
4767 but torsocks requires that. Up until now, IPv4 was used by default
4768 so torsocks is expecting that, and can't handle a possible IPv6
4769 being returned. Fixes bug 33804; bugfix on 0.4.3.1-alpha.
4771 o Minor bugfixes (key portability):
4772 - When reading PEM-encoded key data, tolerate CRLF line-endings even
4773 if we are not running on Windows. Previously, non-Windows hosts
4774 would reject these line-endings in certain positions, making
4775 certain key files hard to move from one host to another. Fixes bug
4776 33032; bugfix on 0.3.5.1-alpha.
4778 o Minor bugfixes (logging):
4779 - Flush stderr, stdout, and file logs during shutdown, if supported
4780 by the OS. This change helps make sure that any final logs are
4781 recorded. Fixes bug 33087; bugfix on 0.4.1.6.
4782 - Stop closing stderr and stdout during shutdown. Closing these file
4783 descriptors can hide sanitiser logs. Fixes bug 33087; bugfix
4786 o Minor bugfixes (onion services v3):
4787 - Relax severity of a log message that can appear naturally when
4788 decoding onion service descriptors as a relay. Also add some
4789 diagnostics to debug any future bugs in that area. Fixes bug
4790 31669; bugfix on 0.3.0.1-alpha.
4791 - Block a client-side assertion by disallowing the registration of
4792 an x25519 client auth key that's all zeroes. Fixes bug 33545;
4793 bugfix on 0.4.3.1-alpha. Based on patch from "cypherpunks".
4795 o Code simplification and refactoring:
4796 - Disable our coding standards best practices tracker in our git
4797 hooks. (0.4.3 branches only.) Closes ticket 33678.
4800 - Avoid conflicts between the fake sockets in tor's unit tests, and
4801 real file descriptors. Resolves issues running unit tests with
4802 GitHub Actions, where the process that embeds or launches the
4803 tests has already opened a large number of file descriptors. Fixes
4804 bug 33782; bugfix on 0.2.8.1-alpha. Found and fixed by
4808 - In our Appveyor Windows CI, copy required DLLs to test and app
4809 directories, before running tor's tests. This ensures that tor.exe
4810 and test*.exe use the correct version of each DLL. This fix is not
4811 required, but we hope it will avoid DLL search issues in future.
4812 Fixes bug 33673; bugfix on 0.3.4.2-alpha.
4813 - On Appveyor, skip the crypto/openssl_version test, which is
4814 failing because of a mismatched library installation. Fix
4818 Changes in version 0.4.3.3-alpha - 2020-03-18
4819 Tor 0.4.3.3-alpha fixes several bugs in previous releases, including
4820 TROVE-2020-002, a major denial-of-service vulnerability that affected
4821 all released Tor instances since 0.2.1.5-alpha. Using this
4822 vulnerability, an attacker could cause Tor instances to consume a huge
4823 amount of CPU, disrupting their operations for several seconds or
4824 minutes. This attack could be launched by anybody against a relay, or
4825 by a directory cache against any client that had connected to it. The
4826 attacker could launch this attack as much as they wanted, thereby
4827 disrupting service or creating patterns that could aid in traffic
4828 analysis. This issue was found by OSS-Fuzz, and is also tracked
4831 We do not have reason to believe that this attack is currently being
4832 exploited in the wild, but nonetheless we advise everyone to upgrade
4833 as soon as packages are available.
4835 o Major bugfixes (security, denial-of-service):
4836 - Fix a denial-of-service bug that could be used by anyone to
4837 consume a bunch of CPU on any Tor relay or authority, or by
4838 directories to consume a bunch of CPU on clients or hidden
4839 services. Because of the potential for CPU consumption to
4840 introduce observable timing patterns, we are treating this as a
4841 high-severity security issue. Fixes bug 33119; bugfix on
4842 0.2.1.5-alpha. Found by OSS-Fuzz. We are also tracking this issue
4843 as TROVE-2020-002 and CVE-2020-10592.
4845 o Major bugfixes (circuit padding, memory leak):
4846 - Avoid a remotely triggered memory leak in the case that a circuit
4847 padding machine is somehow negotiated twice on the same circuit.
4848 Fixes bug 33619; bugfix on 0.4.0.1-alpha. Found by Tobias Pulls.
4849 This is also tracked as TROVE-2020-004 and CVE-2020-10593.
4851 o Major bugfixes (directory authority):
4852 - Directory authorities will now send a 503 (not enough bandwidth)
4853 code to clients when under bandwidth pressure. Known relays and
4854 other authorities will always be answered regardless of the
4855 bandwidth situation. Fixes bug 33029; bugfix on 0.1.2.5-alpha.
4857 o Minor features (diagnostic):
4858 - Improve assertions and add some memory-poisoning code to try to
4859 track down possible causes of a rare crash (32564) in the EWMA
4860 code. Closes ticket 33290.
4862 o Minor features (directory authorities):
4863 - Directory authorities now reject descriptors from relays running
4864 Tor versions from the 0.2.9 and 0.4.0 series. The 0.3.5 series is
4865 still allowed. Resolves ticket 32672. Patch by Neel Chauhan.
4867 o Minor features (usability):
4868 - Include more information when failing to parse a configuration
4869 value. This should make it easier to tell what's going wrong when
4870 a configuration file doesn't parse. Closes ticket 33460.
4872 o Minor bugfix (relay, configuration):
4873 - Warn if the ContactInfo field is not set, and tell the relay
4874 operator that not having a ContactInfo field set might cause their
4875 relay to get rejected in the future. Fixes bug 33361; bugfix
4878 o Minor bugfixes (coding best practices checks):
4879 - Allow the "practracker" script to read unicode files when using
4880 Python 2. We made the script use unicode literals in 0.4.3.1-alpha,
4881 but didn't change the codec for opening files. Fixes bug 33374;
4882 bugfix on 0.4.3.1-alpha.
4884 o Minor bugfixes (continuous integration):
4885 - Remove the buggy and unused mirroring job. Fixes bug 33213; bugfix
4888 o Minor bugfixes (onion service v3, client):
4889 - Remove a BUG() warning that would cause a stack trace if an onion
4890 service descriptor was freed while we were waiting for a
4891 rendezvous circuit to complete. Fixes bug 28992; bugfix
4894 o Minor bugfixes (onion services v3):
4895 - Fix an assertion failure that could result from a corrupted
4896 ADD_ONION control port command. Found by Saibato. Fixes bug 33137;
4897 bugfix on 0.3.3.1-alpha. This issue is also tracked
4900 o Documentation (manpage):
4901 - Alphabetize the Server and Directory server sections of the tor
4902 manpage. Also split Statistics options into their own section of
4903 the manpage. Closes ticket 33188. Work by Swati Thacker as part of
4904 Google Season of Docs.
4905 - Document the __OwningControllerProcess torrc option and specify
4906 its polling interval. Resolves issue 32971.
4908 o Testing (Travis CI):
4909 - Remove a redundant distcheck job. Closes ticket 33194.
4910 - Sort the Travis jobs in order of speed: putting the slowest jobs
4911 first takes full advantage of Travis job concurrency. Closes
4913 - Stop allowing the Chutney IPv6 Travis job to fail. This job was
4914 previously configured to fast_finish (which requires
4915 allow_failure), to speed up the build. Closes ticket 33195.
4916 - When a Travis chutney job fails, use chutney's new "diagnostics.sh"
4917 tool to produce detailed diagnostic output. Closes ticket 32792.
4920 Changes in version 0.4.2.7 - 2020-03-18
4921 This is the third stable release in the 0.4.2.x series. It backports
4922 numerous fixes from later releases, including a fix for TROVE-2020-
4923 002, a major denial-of-service vulnerability that affected all
4924 released Tor instances since 0.2.1.5-alpha. Using this vulnerability,
4925 an attacker could cause Tor instances to consume a huge amount of CPU,
4926 disrupting their operations for several seconds or minutes. This
4927 attack could be launched by anybody against a relay, or by a directory
4928 cache against any client that had connected to it. The attacker could
4929 launch this attack as much as they wanted, thereby disrupting service
4930 or creating patterns that could aid in traffic analysis. This issue
4931 was found by OSS-Fuzz, and is also tracked as CVE-2020-10592.
4933 We do not have reason to believe that this attack is currently being
4934 exploited in the wild, but nonetheless we advise everyone to upgrade
4935 as soon as packages are available.
4937 o Major bugfixes (security, denial-of-service, backport from 0.4.3.3-alpha):
4938 - Fix a denial-of-service bug that could be used by anyone to
4939 consume a bunch of CPU on any Tor relay or authority, or by
4940 directories to consume a bunch of CPU on clients or hidden
4941 services. Because of the potential for CPU consumption to
4942 introduce observable timing patterns, we are treating this as a
4943 high-severity security issue. Fixes bug 33119; bugfix on
4944 0.2.1.5-alpha. Found by OSS-Fuzz. We are also tracking this issue
4945 as TROVE-2020-002 and CVE-2020-10592.
4947 o Major bugfixes (circuit padding, memory leak, backport from 0.4.3.3-alpha):
4948 - Avoid a remotely triggered memory leak in the case that a circuit
4949 padding machine is somehow negotiated twice on the same circuit.
4950 Fixes bug 33619; bugfix on 0.4.0.1-alpha. Found by Tobias Pulls.
4951 This is also tracked as TROVE-2020-004 and CVE-2020-10593.
4953 o Major bugfixes (directory authority, backport from 0.4.3.3-alpha):
4954 - Directory authorities will now send a 503 (not enough bandwidth)
4955 code to clients when under bandwidth pressure. Known relays and
4956 other authorities will always be answered regardless of the
4957 bandwidth situation. Fixes bug 33029; bugfix on 0.1.2.5-alpha.
4959 o Minor features (continuous integration, backport from 0.4.3.2-alpha):
4960 - Stop allowing failures on the Travis CI stem tests job. It looks
4961 like all the stem hangs we were seeing before are now fixed.
4962 Closes ticket 33075.
4964 o Minor bugfixes (bridges, backport from 0.4.3.1-alpha):
4965 - Lowercase the configured value of BridgeDistribution before adding
4966 it to the descriptor. Fixes bug 32753; bugfix on 0.3.2.3-alpha.
4968 o Minor bugfixes (logging, backport from 0.4.3.2-alpha):
4969 - If we encounter a bug when flushing a buffer to a TLS connection,
4970 only log the bug once per invocation of the Tor process.
4971 Previously we would log with every occurrence, which could cause
4972 us to run out of disk space. Fixes bug 33093; bugfix
4975 o Minor bugfixes (onion services v3, backport from 0.4.3.3-alpha):
4976 - Fix an assertion failure that could result from a corrupted
4977 ADD_ONION control port command. Found by Saibato. Fixes bug 33137;
4978 bugfix on 0.3.3.1-alpha. This issue is also tracked
4981 o Minor bugfixes (rust, build, backport from 0.4.3.2-alpha):
4982 - Fix a syntax warning given by newer versions of Rust that was
4983 creating problems for our continuous integration. Fixes bug 33212;
4984 bugfix on 0.3.5.1-alpha.
4986 o Testing (Travis CI, backport from 0.4.3.3-alpha):
4987 - Remove a redundant distcheck job. Closes ticket 33194.
4988 - Sort the Travis jobs in order of speed: putting the slowest jobs
4989 first takes full advantage of Travis job concurrency. Closes
4991 - Stop allowing the Chutney IPv6 Travis job to fail. This job was
4992 previously configured to fast_finish (which requires
4993 allow_failure), to speed up the build. Closes ticket 33195.
4994 - When a Travis chutney job fails, use chutney's new "diagnostics.sh"
4995 tool to produce detailed diagnostic output. Closes ticket 32792.
4998 Changes in version 0.4.1.9 - 2020-03-18
4999 Tor 0.4.1.9 backports important fixes from later Tor releases,
5000 including a fix for TROVE-2020-002, a major denial-of-service
5001 vulnerability that affected all released Tor instances since
5002 0.2.1.5-alpha. Using this vulnerability, an attacker could cause Tor
5003 instances to consume a huge amount of CPU, disrupting their operations
5004 for several seconds or minutes. This attack could be launched by
5005 anybody against a relay, or by a directory cache against any client
5006 that had connected to it. The attacker could launch this attack as
5007 much as they wanted, thereby disrupting service or creating patterns
5008 that could aid in traffic analysis. This issue was found by OSS-Fuzz,
5009 and is also tracked as CVE-2020-10592.
5011 We do not have reason to believe that this attack is currently being
5012 exploited in the wild, but nonetheless we advise everyone to upgrade
5013 as soon as packages are available.
5015 o Major bugfixes (security, denial-of-service, backport from 0.4.3.3-alpha):
5016 - Fix a denial-of-service bug that could be used by anyone to
5017 consume a bunch of CPU on any Tor relay or authority, or by
5018 directories to consume a bunch of CPU on clients or hidden
5019 services. Because of the potential for CPU consumption to
5020 introduce observable timing patterns, we are treating this as a
5021 high-severity security issue. Fixes bug 33119; bugfix on
5022 0.2.1.5-alpha. Found by OSS-Fuzz. We are also tracking this issue
5023 as TROVE-2020-002 and CVE-2020-10592.
5025 o Major bugfixes (circuit padding, memory leak, backport from 0.4.3.3-alpha):
5026 - Avoid a remotely triggered memory leak in the case that a circuit
5027 padding machine is somehow negotiated twice on the same circuit.
5028 Fixes bug 33619; bugfix on 0.4.0.1-alpha. Found by Tobias Pulls.
5029 This is also tracked as TROVE-2020-004 and CVE-2020-10593.
5031 o Minor bugfixes (bridges, backport from 0.4.3.1-alpha):
5032 - Lowercase the configured value of BridgeDistribution before adding
5033 it to the descriptor. Fixes bug 32753; bugfix on 0.3.2.3-alpha.
5035 o Minor bugfixes (logging, backport from 0.4.3.2-alpha):
5036 - If we encounter a bug when flushing a buffer to a TLS connection,
5037 only log the bug once per invocation of the Tor process.
5038 Previously we would log with every occurrence, which could cause
5039 us to run out of disk space. Fixes bug 33093; bugfix
5042 o Minor bugfixes (onion services v3, backport from 0.4.3.3-alpha):
5043 - Fix an assertion failure that could result from a corrupted
5044 ADD_ONION control port command. Found by Saibato. Fixes bug 33137;
5045 bugfix on 0.3.3.1-alpha. This issue is also tracked
5048 o Minor bugfixes (rust, build, backport from 0.4.3.2-alpha):
5049 - Fix a syntax warning given by newer versions of Rust that was
5050 creating problems for our continuous integration. Fixes bug 33212;
5051 bugfix on 0.3.5.1-alpha.
5053 o Testing (Travis CI, backport from 0.4.3.3-alpha):
5054 - Remove a redundant distcheck job. Closes ticket 33194.
5055 - Sort the Travis jobs in order of speed: putting the slowest jobs
5056 first takes full advantage of Travis job concurrency. Closes
5058 - Stop allowing the Chutney IPv6 Travis job to fail. This job was
5059 previously configured to fast_finish (which requires
5060 allow_failure), to speed up the build. Closes ticket 33195.
5061 - When a Travis chutney job fails, use chutney's new "diagnostics.sh"
5062 tool to produce detailed diagnostic output. Closes ticket 32792.
5065 Changes in version 0.3.5.10 - 2020-03-18
5066 Tor 0.3.5.10 backports many fixes from later Tor releases, including a
5067 fix for TROVE-2020-002, a major denial-of-service vulnerability that
5068 affected all released Tor instances since 0.2.1.5-alpha. Using this
5069 vulnerability, an attacker could cause Tor instances to consume a huge
5070 amount of CPU, disrupting their operations for several seconds or
5071 minutes. This attack could be launched by anybody against a relay, or
5072 by a directory cache against any client that had connected to it. The
5073 attacker could launch this attack as much as they wanted, thereby
5074 disrupting service or creating patterns that could aid in traffic
5075 analysis. This issue was found by OSS-Fuzz, and is also tracked
5078 We do not have reason to believe that this attack is currently being
5079 exploited in the wild, but nonetheless we advise everyone to upgrade
5080 as soon as packages are available.
5082 o Major bugfixes (security, denial-of-service, backport from 0.4.3.3-alpha):
5083 - Fix a denial-of-service bug that could be used by anyone to
5084 consume a bunch of CPU on any Tor relay or authority, or by
5085 directories to consume a bunch of CPU on clients or hidden
5086 services. Because of the potential for CPU consumption to
5087 introduce observable timing patterns, we are treating this as a
5088 high-severity security issue. Fixes bug 33119; bugfix on
5089 0.2.1.5-alpha. Found by OSS-Fuzz. We are also tracking this issue
5090 as TROVE-2020-002 and CVE-2020-10592.
5092 o Major bugfixes (linux seccomp sandbox, backport from 0.4.3.1-alpha):
5093 - Correct how we use libseccomp. Particularly, stop assuming that
5094 rules are applied in a particular order or that more rules are
5095 processed after the first match. Neither is the case! In
5096 libseccomp <2.4.0 this lead to some rules having no effect.
5097 libseccomp 2.4.0 changed how rules are generated, leading to a
5098 different ordering, which in turn led to a fatal crash during
5099 startup. Fixes bug 29819; bugfix on 0.2.5.1-alpha. Patch by
5102 o Minor features (continuous integration, backport from 0.4.3.2-alpha):
5103 - Stop allowing failures on the Travis CI stem tests job. It looks
5104 like all the stem hangs we were seeing before are now fixed.
5105 Closes ticket 33075.
5107 o Minor bugfixes (bridges, backport from 0.4.3.1-alpha):
5108 - Lowercase the configured value of BridgeDistribution before adding
5109 it to the descriptor. Fixes bug 32753; bugfix on 0.3.2.3-alpha.
5111 o Minor bugfixes (crash, backport from 0.4.2.4-rc):
5112 - When running Tor with an option like --verify-config or
5113 --dump-config that does not start the event loop, avoid crashing
5114 if we try to exit early because of an error. Fixes bug 32407;
5115 bugfix on 0.3.3.1-alpha.
5117 o Minor bugfixes (logging, backport from 0.4.3.2-alpha):
5118 - If we encounter a bug when flushing a buffer to a TLS connection,
5119 only log the bug once per invocation of the Tor process.
5120 Previously we would log with every occurrence, which could cause
5121 us to run out of disk space. Fixes bug 33093; bugfix
5124 o Minor bugfixes (onion services v3, backport from 0.4.3.3-alpha):
5125 - Fix an assertion failure that could result from a corrupted
5126 ADD_ONION control port command. Found by Saibato. Fixes bug 33137;
5127 bugfix on 0.3.3.1-alpha. This issue is also tracked
5130 o Minor bugfixes (rust, build, backport from 0.4.3.2-alpha):
5131 - Fix a syntax warning given by newer versions of Rust that was
5132 creating problems for our continuous integration. Fixes bug 33212;
5133 bugfix on 0.3.5.1-alpha.
5135 o Testing (backport from 0.4.3.1-alpha):
5136 - Re-enable the Travis CI macOS Chutney build, but don't let it
5137 prevent the Travis job from finishing. (The Travis macOS jobs are
5138 slow, so we don't want to have it delay the whole CI process.)
5139 Closes ticket 32629.
5140 - Turn off Tor's Sandbox in Chutney jobs, and run those jobs on
5141 Ubuntu Bionic. Turning off the Sandbox is a work-around, until we
5142 fix the sandbox errors in 32722. Closes ticket 32240.
5144 o Testing (continuous integration, backport from 0.4.3.1-alpha):
5145 - Use zstd in our Travis Linux builds. Closes ticket 32242.
5147 o Testing (Travis CI, backport from 0.4.3.3-alpha):
5148 - Remove a redundant distcheck job. Closes ticket 33194.
5149 - Sort the Travis jobs in order of speed: putting the slowest jobs
5150 first takes full advantage of Travis job concurrency. Closes
5152 - Stop allowing the Chutney IPv6 Travis job to fail. This job was
5153 previously configured to fast_finish (which requires
5154 - When a Travis chutney job fails, use chutney's new "diagnostics.sh"
5155 tool to produce detailed diagnostic output. Closes ticket 32792.
5158 Changes in version 0.4.3.2-alpha - 2020-02-10
5159 This is the second stable alpha release in the Tor 0.4.3.x series. It
5160 fixes several bugs present in the previous alpha release. Anybody
5161 running the previous alpha should upgrade, and look for bugs in this
5164 o Major bugfixes (onion service client, authorization):
5165 - On a NEWNYM signal, purge entries from the ephemeral client
5166 authorization cache. The permanent ones are kept. Fixes bug 33139;
5167 bugfix on 0.4.3.1-alpha.
5169 o Minor features (best practices tracker):
5170 - Practracker now supports a --regen-overbroad option to regenerate
5171 the exceptions file, but only to revise exceptions to be _less_
5172 tolerant of best-practices violations. Closes ticket 32372.
5174 o Minor features (continuous integration):
5175 - Run Doxygen Makefile target on Travis, so we can learn about
5176 regressions in our internal documentation. Closes ticket 32455.
5177 - Stop allowing failures on the Travis CI stem tests job. It looks
5178 like all the stem hangs we were seeing before are now fixed.
5179 Closes ticket 33075.
5181 o Minor bugfixes (build system):
5182 - Revise configure options that were either missing or incorrect in
5183 the configure summary. Fixes bug 32230; bugfix on 0.4.3.1-alpha.
5185 o Minor bugfixes (controller protocol):
5186 - Fix a memory leak introduced by refactoring of control reply
5187 formatting code. Fixes bug 33039; bugfix on 0.4.3.1-alpha.
5188 - Fix a memory leak in GETINFO responses. Fixes bug 33103; bugfix
5190 - When receiving "ACTIVE" or "DORMANT" signals on the control port,
5191 report them as SIGNAL events. Previously we would log a bug
5192 warning. Fixes bug 33104; bugfix on 0.4.0.1-alpha.
5194 o Minor bugfixes (logging):
5195 - If we encounter a bug when flushing a buffer to a TLS connection,
5196 only log the bug once per invocation of the Tor process.
5197 Previously we would log with every occurrence, which could cause
5198 us to run out of disk space. Fixes bug 33093; bugfix
5200 - When logging a bug, do not say "Future instances of this warning
5201 will be silenced" unless we are actually going to silence them.
5202 Previously we would say this whenever a BUG() check failed in the
5203 code. Fixes bug 33095; bugfix on 0.4.1.1-alpha.
5205 o Minor bugfixes (onion service v2):
5206 - Move a series of v2 onion service warnings to protocol-warning
5207 level because they can all be triggered remotely by a malformed
5208 request. Fixes bug 32706; bugfix on 0.1.1.14-alpha.
5210 o Minor bugfixes (onion service v3, client authorization):
5211 - When removing client authorization credentials using the control
5212 port, also remove the associated descriptor, so the onion service
5213 can no longer be contacted. Fixes bug 33148; bugfix
5216 o Minor bugfixes (pluggable transports):
5217 - When receiving a message on standard error from a pluggable
5218 transport, log it at info level, rather than as a warning. Fixes
5219 bug 33005; bugfix on 0.4.0.1-alpha.
5221 o Minor bugfixes (rust, build):
5222 - Fix a syntax warning given by newer versions of Rust that was
5223 creating problems for our continuous integration. Fixes bug 33212;
5224 bugfix on 0.3.5.1-alpha.
5226 o Minor bugfixes (TLS bug handling):
5227 - When encountering a bug in buf_read_from_tls(), return a "MISC"
5228 error code rather than "WANTWRITE". This change might help avoid
5229 some CPU-wasting loops if the bug is ever triggered. Bug reported
5230 by opara. Fixes bug 32673; bugfix on 0.3.0.4-alpha.
5232 o Code simplification and refactoring (mainloop):
5233 - Simplify the ip_address_changed() function by removing redundant
5234 checks. Closes ticket 33091.
5236 o Documentation (manpage):
5237 - Split "Circuit Timeout" options and "Node Selection" options into
5238 their own sections of the tor manpage. Closes tickets 32928 and
5239 32929. Work by Swati Thacker as part of Google Season of Docs.
5242 Changes in version 0.4.2.6 - 2020-01-30
5243 This is the second stable release in the 0.4.2.x series. It backports
5244 several bugfixes from 0.4.3.1-alpha, including some that had affected
5245 the Linux seccomp2 sandbox or Windows services. If you're running with
5246 one of those configurations, you'll probably want to upgrade;
5247 otherwise, you should be fine with 0.4.2.5.
5249 o Major bugfixes (linux seccomp sandbox, backport from 0.4.3.1-alpha):
5250 - Correct how we use libseccomp. Particularly, stop assuming that
5251 rules are applied in a particular order or that more rules are
5252 processed after the first match. Neither is the case! In
5253 libseccomp <2.4.0 this led to some rules having no effect.
5254 libseccomp 2.4.0 changed how rules are generated, leading to a
5255 different ordering, which in turn led to a fatal crash during
5256 startup. Fixes bug 29819; bugfix on 0.2.5.1-alpha. Patch by
5258 - Fix crash when reloading logging configuration while the
5259 experimental sandbox is enabled. Fixes bug 32841; bugfix on
5260 0.4.1.7. Patch by Peter Gerber.
5262 o Minor bugfixes (correctness checks, backport from 0.4.3.1-alpha):
5263 - Use GCC/Clang's printf-checking feature to make sure that
5264 tor_assertf() arguments are correctly typed. Fixes bug 32765;
5265 bugfix on 0.4.1.1-alpha.
5267 o Minor bugfixes (logging, crash, backport from 0.4.3.1-alpha):
5268 - Avoid a possible crash when trying to log a (fatal) assertion
5269 failure about mismatched magic numbers in configuration objects.
5270 Fixes bug 32771; bugfix on 0.4.2.1-alpha.
5272 o Minor bugfixes (testing, backport from 0.4.3.1-alpha):
5273 - When TOR_DISABLE_PRACTRACKER is set, do not apply it to the
5274 test_practracker.sh script. Doing so caused a test failure. Fixes
5275 bug 32705; bugfix on 0.4.2.1-alpha.
5276 - When TOR_DISABLE_PRACTRACKER is set, log a notice to stderr when
5277 skipping practracker checks. Fixes bug 32705; bugfix
5280 o Minor bugfixes (windows service, backport from 0.4.3.1-alpha):
5281 - Initialize the publish/subscribe system when running as a windows
5282 service. Fixes bug 32778; bugfix on 0.4.1.1-alpha.
5284 o Testing (backport from 0.4.3.1-alpha):
5285 - Turn off Tor's Sandbox in Chutney jobs, and run those jobs on
5286 Ubuntu Bionic. Turning off the Sandbox is a work-around, until we
5287 fix the sandbox errors in 32722. Closes ticket 32240.
5288 - Re-enable the Travis CI macOS Chutney build, but don't let it
5289 prevent the Travis job from finishing. (The Travis macOS jobs are
5290 slow, so we don't want to have it delay the whole CI process.)
5291 Closes ticket 32629.
5293 o Testing (continuous integration, backport from 0.4.3.1-alpha):
5294 - Use zstd in our Travis Linux builds. Closes ticket 32242.
5297 Changes in version 0.4.1.8 - 2020-01-30
5298 This release backports several bugfixes from later release series,
5299 including some that had affected the Linux seccomp2 sandbox or Windows
5300 services. If you're running with one of those configurations, you'll
5301 probably want to upgrade; otherwise, you should be fine with your
5302 current version of 0.4.1.x.
5304 o Major bugfixes (linux seccomp sandbox, backport from 0.4.3.1-alpha):
5305 - Correct how we use libseccomp. Particularly, stop assuming that
5306 rules are applied in a particular order or that more rules are
5307 processed after the first match. Neither is the case! In
5308 libseccomp <2.4.0 this led to some rules having no effect.
5309 libseccomp 2.4.0 changed how rules are generated, leading to a
5310 different ordering, which in turn led to a fatal crash during
5311 startup. Fixes bug 29819; bugfix on 0.2.5.1-alpha. Patch by
5313 - Fix crash when reloading logging configuration while the
5314 experimental sandbox is enabled. Fixes bug 32841; bugfix on
5315 0.4.1.7. Patch by Peter Gerber.
5317 o Minor bugfixes (crash, backport form 0.4.2.4-rc):
5318 - When running Tor with an option like --verify-config or
5319 --dump-config that does not start the event loop, avoid crashing
5320 if we try to exit early because of an error. Fixes bug 32407;
5321 bugfix on 0.3.3.1-alpha.
5323 o Minor bugfixes (windows service, backport from 0.4.3.1-alpha):
5324 - Initialize the publish/subscribe system when running as a windows
5325 service. Fixes bug 32778; bugfix on 0.4.1.1-alpha.
5327 o Testing (backport from 0.4.3.1-alpha):
5328 - Turn off Tor's Sandbox in Chutney jobs, and run those jobs on
5329 Ubuntu Bionic. Turning off the Sandbox is a work-around, until we
5330 fix the sandbox errors in 32722. Closes ticket 32240.
5331 - Re-enable the Travis CI macOS Chutney build, but don't let it
5332 prevent the Travis job from finishing. (The Travis macOS jobs are
5333 slow, so we don't want to have it delay the whole CI process.)
5334 Closes ticket 32629.
5336 o Testing (continuous integration, backport from 0.4.3.1-alpha):
5337 - Use zstd in our Travis Linux builds. Closes ticket 32242.
5340 Changes in version 0.4.3.1-alpha - 2020-01-22
5341 This is the first alpha release in the 0.4.3.x series. It includes
5342 improved support for application integration of onion services, support
5343 for building in a client-only mode, and newly improved internal
5344 documentation (online at https://src-ref.docs.torproject.org/tor/). It
5345 also has numerous other small bugfixes and features, as well as
5346 improvements to our code's internal organization that should help us
5347 write better code in the future.
5349 o New system requirements:
5350 - When building Tor, you now need to have Python 3 in order to run
5351 the integration tests. (Python 2 is officially unsupported
5352 upstream, as of 1 Jan 2020.) Closes ticket 32608.
5354 o Major features (build system):
5355 - The relay code can now be disabled using the --disable-module-relay
5356 configure option. When this option is set, we also disable the
5357 dirauth module. Closes ticket 32123.
5358 - When Tor is compiled --disable-module-relay, we also omit the code
5359 used to act as a directory cache. Closes ticket 32487.
5361 o Major features (directory authority, ed25519):
5362 - Add support for banning a relay's ed25519 keys in the approved-
5363 routers file. This will help us migrate away from RSA keys in the
5364 future. Previously, only RSA keys could be banned in approved-
5365 routers. Resolves ticket 22029. Patch by Neel Chauhan.
5367 o Major features (onion service, controller):
5368 - New control port commands to manage client-side onion service
5369 authorization credentials. The ONION_CLIENT_AUTH_ADD command adds
5370 a credential, ONION_CLIENT_AUTH_REMOVE deletes a credential, and
5371 ONION_CLIENT_AUTH_VIEW lists the credentials. Closes ticket 30381.
5373 o Major features (onion service, SOCKS5):
5374 - Introduce a new SocksPort flag, ExtendedErrors, to support more
5375 detailed error codes in information for applications that support
5376 them. Closes ticket 30382; implements proposal 304.
5378 o Major features (proxy):
5379 - In addition to its current supported proxy types (HTTP CONNECT,
5380 SOCKS4, and SOCKS5), Tor can now make its OR connections through a
5381 HAProxy server. A new torrc option was added to specify the
5382 address/port of the server: TCPProxy <protocol> <host>:<port>.
5383 Currently the only supported protocol for the option is haproxy.
5384 Closes ticket 31518. Patch done by Suphanat Chunhapanya (haxxpop).
5386 o Major bugfixes (linux seccomp sandbox):
5387 - Correct how we use libseccomp. Particularly, stop assuming that
5388 rules are applied in a particular order or that more rules are
5389 processed after the first match. Neither is the case! In
5390 libseccomp <2.4.0 this led to some rules having no effect.
5391 libseccomp 2.4.0 changed how rules are generated, leading to a
5392 different ordering, which in turn led to a fatal crash during
5393 startup. Fixes bug 29819; bugfix on 0.2.5.1-alpha. Patch by
5395 - Fix crash when reloading logging configuration while the
5396 experimental sandbox is enabled. Fixes bug 32841; bugfix on
5397 0.4.1.7. Patch by Peter Gerber.
5399 o Major bugfixes (networking):
5400 - Correctly handle IPv6 addresses in SOCKS5 RESOLVE_PTR requests,
5401 and accept strings as well as binary addresses. Fixes bug 32315;
5402 bugfix on 0.3.5.1-alpha.
5404 o Major bugfixes (onion service):
5405 - Report HS circuit failure back into the HS subsystem so we take
5406 appropriate action with regards to the client introduction point
5407 failure cache. This improves reachability of onion services, since
5408 now clients notice failing introduction circuits properly. Fixes
5409 bug 32020; bugfix on 0.3.2.1-alpha.
5411 o Minor feature (configure, build system):
5412 - Output a list of enabled/disabled features at the end of the
5413 configure process in a pleasing way. Closes ticket 31373.
5415 o Minor feature (heartbeat, onion service):
5416 - Add the DoS INTRODUCE2 defenses counter to the heartbeat DoS
5417 message. Closes ticket 31371.
5419 o Minor features (configuration validation):
5420 - Configuration validation can now be done by per-module callbacks,
5421 rather than a global validation function. This will let us reduce
5422 the size of config.c and some of its more cumbersome functions.
5423 Closes ticket 31241.
5425 o Minor features (configuration):
5426 - If a configured hardware crypto accelerator in AccelName is
5427 prefixed with "!", Tor now exits when it cannot be found. Closes
5429 - We now use flag-driven logic to warn about obsolete configuration
5430 fields, so that we can include their names. In 0.4.2, we used a
5431 special type, which prevented us from generating good warnings.
5432 Implements ticket 32404.
5434 o Minor features (controller):
5435 - Add stream isolation data to STREAM event. Closes ticket 19859.
5436 - Implement a new GETINFO command to fetch microdescriptor
5437 consensus. Closes ticket 31684.
5439 o Minor features (debugging, directory system):
5440 - Don't crash when we find a non-guard with a guard-fraction value
5441 set. Instead, log a bug warning, in an attempt to figure out how
5442 this happened. Diagnostic for ticket 32868.
5444 o Minor features (defense in depth):
5445 - Add additional checks around tor_vasprintf() usage, in case the
5446 function returns an error. Patch by Tobias Stoeckmann. Fixes
5449 o Minor features (developer tooling):
5450 - Remove the 0.2.9.x series branches from git scripts (git-merge-
5451 forward.sh, git-pull-all.sh, git-push-all.sh, git-setup-dirs.sh).
5452 Closes ticket 32772.
5454 o Minor features (developer tools):
5455 - Add a check_cocci_parse.sh script that checks that new code is
5456 parseable by Coccinelle. Add an exceptions file for unparseable
5457 files, and run the script from travis CI. Closes ticket 31919.
5458 - Call the check_cocci_parse.sh script from a 'check-cocci' Makefile
5459 target. Closes ticket 31919.
5460 - Add a rename_c_identifiers.py tool to rename a bunch of C
5461 identifiers at once, and generate a well-formed commit message
5462 describing the change. This should help with refactoring. Closes
5464 - Add some scripts in "scripts/coccinelle" to invoke the Coccinelle
5465 semantic patching tool with the correct flags. These flags are
5466 fairly easy to forget, and these scripts should help us use
5467 Coccinelle more effectively in the future. Closes ticket 31705.
5469 o Minor features (Doxygen):
5470 - Update Doxygen configuration file to a more recent template (from
5471 1.8.15). Closes ticket 32110.
5472 - "make doxygen" now works with out-of-tree builds. Closes
5474 - Make sure that doxygen outputs documentation for all of our C
5475 files. Previously, some were missing @file declarations, causing
5476 them to be ignored. Closes ticket 32307.
5477 - Our "make doxygen" target now respects --enable-fatal-warnings by
5478 default, and does not warn about items that are missing
5479 documentation. To warn about missing documentation, run configure
5480 with the "--enable-missing-doc-warnings" flag: doing so suspends
5481 fatal warnings for doxygen. Closes ticket 32385.
5483 o Minor features (git scripts):
5484 - Add TOR_EXTRA_CLONE_ARGS to git-setup-dirs.sh for git clone
5485 customisation. Closes ticket 32347.
5486 - Add git-setup-dirs.sh, which sets up an upstream git repository
5487 and worktrees for tor maintainers. Closes ticket 29603.
5488 - Add TOR_EXTRA_REMOTE_* to git-setup-dirs.sh for a custom extra
5489 remote. Closes ticket 32347.
5490 - Call the check_cocci_parse.sh script from the git commit and push
5491 hooks. Closes ticket 31919.
5492 - Make git-push-all.sh skip unchanged branches when pushing to
5493 upstream. The script already skipped unchanged test branches.
5494 Closes ticket 32216.
5495 - Make git-setup-dirs.sh create a master symlink in the worktree
5496 directory. Closes ticket 32347.
5497 - Skip unmodified source files when doing some existing git hook
5498 checks. Related to ticket 31919.
5500 o Minor features (IPv6, client):
5501 - Make Tor clients tell dual-stack exits that they prefer IPv6
5502 connections. This change is equivalent to setting the PreferIPv6
5503 flag on SOCKSPorts (and most other listener ports). Tor Browser
5504 has been setting this flag for some time, and we want to remove a
5505 client distinguisher at exits. Closes ticket 32637.
5507 o Minor features (portability, android):
5508 - When building for Android, disable some tests that depend on $HOME
5509 and/or pwdb, which Android doesn't have. Closes ticket 32825.
5510 Patch from Hans-Christoph Steiner.
5512 o Minor features (relay modularity):
5513 - Split the relay and server pluggable transport config code into
5514 separate files in the relay module. Disable this code when the
5515 relay module is disabled. Closes part of ticket 32213.
5516 - When the relay module is disabled, reject attempts to set the
5517 ORPort, DirPort, DirCache, BridgeRelay, ExtORPort, or
5518 ServerTransport* options, rather than ignoring the values of these
5519 options. Closes part of ticket 32213.
5521 o Minor features (relay):
5522 - When the relay module is disabled, change the default config so
5523 that DirCache is 0, and ClientOnly is 1. Closes ticket 32410.
5525 o Minor features (release tools):
5526 - Port our ChangeLog formatting and sorting tools to Python 3.
5527 Closes ticket 32704.
5529 o Minor features (testing):
5530 - Detect some common failure cases for test_parseconf.sh in
5531 src/test/conf_failures. Closes ticket 32451.
5532 - Allow test_parseconf.sh to test expected log outputs for successful
5533 configs, as well as failed configs. Closes ticket 32451.
5534 - The test_parseconf.sh script now supports result variants for any
5535 combination of the optional libraries lzma, nss, and zstd. Closes
5538 o Minor features (tests, Android):
5539 - When running the unit tests on Android, create temporary files in
5540 a subdirectory of /data/local/tmp. Closes ticket 32172. Based on a
5541 patch from Hans-Christoph Steiner.
5543 o Minor bugfixes (bridges):
5544 - Lowercase the configured value of BridgeDistribution before adding
5545 it to the descriptor. Fixes bug 32753; bugfix on 0.3.2.3-alpha.
5547 o Minor bugfixes (build system):
5548 - Fix "make autostyle" for out-of-tree builds. Fixes bug 32370;
5549 bugfix on 0.4.1.2-alpha.
5551 o Minor bugfixes (configuration handling):
5552 - Make control_event_conf_changed() take in a config_line_t instead
5553 of a smartlist of alternating key/value entries. Fixes bug 31531;
5554 bugfix on 0.2.3.3-alpha. Patch by Neel Chauhan.
5556 o Minor bugfixes (configuration):
5557 - Check for multiplication overflow when parsing memory units inside
5558 configuration. Fixes bug 30920; bugfix on 0.0.9rc1.
5559 - When dumping the configuration, stop adding a trailing space after
5560 the option name when there is no option value. This issue only
5561 affects options that accept an empty value or list. (Most options
5562 reject empty values, or delete the entire line from the dumped
5563 options.) Fixes bug 32352; bugfix on 0.0.9pre6.
5564 - Avoid changing the user's value of HardwareAccel as stored by
5565 SAVECONF, when AccelName is set but HardwareAccel is not. Fixes
5566 bug 32382; bugfix on 0.2.2.1-alpha.
5567 - When creating a KeyDirectory with the same location as the
5568 DataDirectory (not recommended), respect the DataDirectory's
5569 group-readable setting if one has not been set for the
5570 KeyDirectory. Fixes bug 27992; bugfix on 0.3.3.1-alpha.
5572 o Minor bugfixes (controller):
5573 - In routerstatus_has_changed(), check all the fields that are
5574 output over the control port. Fixes bug 20218; bugfix
5577 o Minor bugfixes (correctness checks):
5578 - Use GCC/Clang's printf-checking feature to make sure that
5579 tor_assertf() arguments are correctly typed. Fixes bug 32765;
5580 bugfix on 0.4.1.1-alpha.
5582 o Minor bugfixes (developer tools):
5583 - Allow paths starting with ./ in scripts/add_c_file.py. Fixes bug
5584 31336; bugfix on 0.4.1.2-alpha.
5586 o Minor bugfixes (dirauth module):
5587 - Split the dirauth config code into a separate file in the dirauth
5588 module. Disable this code when the dirauth module is disabled.
5589 Closes ticket 32213.
5590 - When the dirauth module is disabled, reject attempts to set the
5591 AuthoritativeDir option, rather than ignoring the value of the
5592 option. Fixes bug 32213; bugfix on 0.3.4.1-alpha.
5594 o Minor bugfixes (embedded Tor):
5595 - When starting Tor any time after the first time in a process,
5596 register the thread in which it is running as the main thread.
5597 Previously, we only did this on Windows, which could lead to bugs
5598 like 23081 on non-Windows platforms. Fixes bug 32884; bugfix
5601 o Minor bugfixes (git scripts):
5602 - Avoid sleeping before the last push in git-push-all.sh. Closes
5604 - Forward all unrecognised arguments in git-push-all.sh to git push.
5605 Closes ticket 32216.
5607 o Minor bugfixes (hidden service v3):
5608 - Do not rely on a "circuit established" flag for intro circuits but
5609 instead always query the HS circuit map. This is to avoid sync
5610 issue with that flag and the map. Fixes bug 32094; bugfix
5613 o Minor bugfixes (logging, crash):
5614 - Avoid a possible crash when trying to log a (fatal) assertion
5615 failure about mismatched magic numbers in configuration objects.
5616 Fixes bug 32771; bugfix on 0.4.2.1-alpha.
5618 o Minor bugfixes (onion service v2):
5619 - When sending the INTRO cell for a v2 Onion Service, look at the
5620 failure cache alongside timeout values to check if the intro point
5621 is marked as failed. Previously, we only looked at the relay
5622 timeout values. Fixes bug 25568; bugfix on 0.2.7.3-rc. Patch by
5625 o Minor bugfixes (onion services v3, client):
5626 - Properly handle the client rendezvous circuit timeout. Previously
5627 Tor would sometimes timeout a rendezvous circuit awaiting the
5628 introduction ACK, and find itself unable to re-establish all
5629 circuits because the rendezvous circuit timed out too early. Fixes
5630 bug 32021; bugfix on 0.3.2.1-alpha.
5632 o Minor bugfixes (onion services):
5633 - In cancel_descriptor_fetches(), use
5634 connection_list_by_type_purpose() instead of
5635 connection_list_by_type_state(). Fixes bug 32639; bugfix on
5636 0.3.2.1-alpha. Patch by Neel Chauhan.
5638 o Minor bugfixes (scripts):
5639 - Fix update_versions.py for out-of-tree builds. Fixes bug 32371;
5640 bugfix on 0.4.0.1-alpha.
5642 o Minor bugfixes (test):
5643 - Use the same code to find the tor binary in all of our test
5644 scripts. This change makes sure we are always using the coverage
5645 binary when coverage is enabled. Fixes bug 32368; bugfix
5648 o Minor bugfixes (testing):
5649 - Stop ignoring "tor --dump-config" errors in test_parseconf.sh.
5650 Fixes bug 32468; bugfix on 0.4.2.1-alpha.
5651 - When TOR_DISABLE_PRACTRACKER is set, do not apply it to the
5652 test_practracker.sh script. Doing so caused a test failure. Fixes
5653 bug 32705; bugfix on 0.4.2.1-alpha.
5654 - When TOR_DISABLE_PRACTRACKER is set, log a notice to stderr when
5655 skipping practracker checks. Fixes bug 32705; bugfix
5658 o Minor bugfixes (tests):
5659 - Our option-validation tests no longer depend on specially
5660 configured non-default, non-passing sets of options. Previously,
5661 the tests had been written to assume that options would _not_ be
5662 set to their defaults, which led to needless complexity and
5663 verbosity. Fixes bug 32175; bugfix on 0.2.8.1-alpha.
5665 o Minor bugfixes (windows service):
5666 - Initialize the publish/subscribe system when running as a windows
5667 service. Fixes bug 32778; bugfix on 0.4.1.1-alpha.
5669 o Deprecated features:
5670 - Deprecate the ClientAutoIPv6ORPort option. This option was not
5671 true "Happy Eyeballs", and often failed on connections that
5672 weren't reliably dual-stack. Closes ticket 32942. Patch by
5676 - Provide a quickstart guide for a Circuit Padding Framework, and
5677 documentation for researchers to implement and study circuit
5678 padding machines. Closes ticket 28804.
5679 - Add documentation in 'HelpfulTools.md' to describe how to build a
5680 tag file. Closes ticket 32779.
5681 - Create a high-level description of the long-term software
5682 architecture goals. Closes ticket 32206.
5683 - Describe the --dump-config command in the manual page. Closes
5685 - Unite coding advice from this_not_that.md in torguts repo into our
5686 coding standards document. Resolves ticket 31853.
5689 - Our Doxygen configuration no longer generates LaTeX output. The
5690 reference manual produced by doing this was over 4000 pages long,
5691 and generally unusable. Closes ticket 32099.
5692 - The option "TestingEstimatedDescriptorPropagationTime" is now
5693 marked as obsolete. It has had no effect since 0.3.0.7, when
5694 clients stopped rejecting consensuses "from the future". Closes
5696 - We no longer support consensus methods before method 28; these
5697 methods were only used by authorities running versions of Tor that
5698 are now at end-of-life. In effect, this means that clients,
5699 relays, and authorities now assume that authorities will be
5700 running version 0.3.5.x or later. Closes ticket 32695.
5703 - Add more test cases for tor's UTF-8 validation function. Also,
5704 check the arguments passed to the function for consistency. Closes
5706 - Improve test coverage for relay and dirauth config code, focusing
5707 on option validation and normalization. Closes ticket 32213.
5708 - Improve the consistency of test_parseconf.sh output, and run all
5709 the tests, even if one fails. Closes ticket 32213.
5710 - Re-enable the Travis CI macOS Chutney build, but don't let it
5711 prevent the Travis job from finishing. (The Travis macOS jobs are
5712 slow, so we don't want to have it delay the whole CI process.)
5713 Closes ticket 32629.
5714 - Run the practracker unit tests in the pre-commit git hook. Closes
5716 - Turn off Tor's Sandbox in Chutney jobs, and run those jobs on
5717 Ubuntu Bionic. Turning off the Sandbox is a work-around, until we
5718 fix the sandbox errors in 32722. Closes ticket 32240.
5720 o Code simplification and refactoring (channel):
5721 - Channel layer had a variable length cell handler that was not used
5722 and thus removed. Closes ticket 32892.
5724 o Code simplification and refactoring (configuration):
5725 - Immutability is now implemented as a flag on individual
5726 configuration options rather than as part of the option-transition
5727 checking code. Closes ticket 32344.
5728 - Instead of keeping a list of configuration options to check for
5729 relative paths, check all the options whose type is "FILENAME".
5730 Solves part of ticket 32339.
5731 - Our default log (which ordinarily sends NOTICE-level messages to
5732 standard output) is now handled in a more logical manner.
5733 Previously, we replaced the configured log options if they were
5734 empty. Now, we interpret an empty set of log options as meaning
5735 "use the default log". Closes ticket 31999.
5736 - Remove some unused arguments from the options_validate() function,
5737 to simplify our code and tests. Closes ticket 32187.
5738 - Simplify the options_validate() code so that it looks at the
5739 default options directly, rather than taking default options as an
5740 argument. This change lets us simplify its interface. Closes
5742 - Use our new configuration architecture to move most authority-
5743 related options to the directory authority module. Closes
5745 - When parsing the command line, handle options that determine our
5746 "quiet level" and our mode of operation (e.g., --dump-config and
5747 so on) all in one table. Closes ticket 32003.
5749 o Code simplification and refactoring (controller):
5750 - Create a new abstraction for formatting control protocol reply
5751 lines based on key-value pairs. Refactor some existing control
5752 protocol code to take advantage of this. Closes ticket 30984.
5753 - Create a helper function that can fetch network status or
5754 microdesc consensuses. Closes ticket 31684.
5756 o Code simplification and refactoring (dirauth modularization):
5757 - Remove the last remaining HAVE_MODULE_DIRAUTH inside a function.
5758 Closes ticket 32163.
5759 - Replace some confusing identifiers in process_descs.c. Closes
5761 - Simplify some relay and dirauth config code. Closes ticket 32213.
5763 o Code simplification and refactoring (misc):
5764 - Make all the structs we declare follow the same naming convention
5765 of ending with "_t". Closes ticket 32415.
5766 - Move and rename some configuration-related code for clarity.
5767 Closes ticket 32304.
5768 - Our include.am files are now broken up by subdirectory.
5769 Previously, src/core/include.am covered all of the subdirectories
5770 in "core", "feature", and "app". Closes ticket 32137.
5771 - Remove underused NS*() macros from test code: they make our tests
5772 more confusing, especially for code-formatting tools. Closes
5775 o Code simplification and refactoring (relay modularization):
5776 - Disable relay_periodic when the relay module is disabled. Closes
5778 - Disable relay_sys when the relay module is disabled. Closes
5781 o Code simplification and refactoring (tool support):
5782 - Add numerous missing dependencies to our include files, so that
5783 they can be included in different reasonable orders and still
5784 compile. Addresses part of ticket 32764.
5785 - Fix some parts of our code that were difficult for Coccinelle to
5786 parse. Related to ticket 31705.
5787 - Fix some small issues in our code that prevented automatic
5788 formatting tools from working. Addresses part of ticket 32764.
5790 o Documentation (manpage):
5791 - Alphabetize the Client Options section of the tor manpage. Closes
5793 - Alphabetize the General Options section of the tor manpage. Closes
5795 - In the tor(1) manpage, reword and improve formatting of the
5796 COMMAND-LINE OPTIONS and DESCRIPTION sections. Closes ticket
5797 32277. Based on work by Swati Thacker as part of Google Season
5799 - In the tor(1) manpage, reword and improve formatting of the FILES,
5800 SEE ALSO, and BUGS sections. Closes ticket 32176. Based on work by
5801 Swati Thacker as part of Google Season of Docs.
5803 o Testing (circuit, EWMA):
5804 - Add unit tests for circuitmux and EWMA subsystems. Closes
5807 o Testing (continuous integration):
5808 - Use zstd in our Travis Linux builds. Closes ticket 32242.
5811 Changes in version 0.4.2.5 - 2019-12-09
5812 This is the first stable release in the 0.4.2.x series. This series
5813 improves reliability and stability, and includes several stability and
5814 correctness improvements for onion services. It also fixes many smaller
5815 bugs present in previous series.
5817 Per our support policy, we will support the 0.4.2.x series for nine
5818 months, or until three months after the release of a stable 0.4.3.x:
5819 whichever is longer. If you need longer-term support, please stick
5820 with 0.3.5.x, which will we plan to support until Feb 2022.
5822 Per our support policy, we will support the 0.4.2.x series for nine
5823 months, or until three months after the release of a stable 0.4.3.x:
5824 whichever is longer. If you need longer-term support, please stick
5825 with 0.3.5.x, which will we plan to support until Feb 2022.
5827 Below are the changes since 0.4.1.4-rc. For a complete list of changes
5828 since 0.4.1.5, see the ReleaseNotes file.
5830 o Minor features (geoip):
5831 - Update geoip and geoip6 to the December 3 2019 Maxmind GeoLite2
5832 Country database. Closes ticket 32685.
5835 - Require C99 standards-conforming code in Travis CI, but allow GNU
5836 gcc extensions. Also activates clang's -Wtypedef-redefinition
5837 warnings. Build some jobs with -std=gnu99, and some jobs without.
5838 Closes ticket 32500.
5841 Changes in version 0.4.1.7 - 2019-12-09
5842 This release backports several bugfixes to improve stability and
5843 correctness. Anyone experiencing build problems or crashes with 0.4.1.6,
5844 including all relays relying on AccountingMax, should upgrade.
5846 o Major features (directory authorities, backport from 0.4.2.2-alpha):
5847 - Directory authorities now reject relays running all currently
5848 deprecated release series. The currently supported release series
5849 are: 0.2.9, 0.3.5, 0.4.0, 0.4.1, and 0.4.2. Closes ticket 31549.
5851 o Major bugfixes (embedded Tor, backport from 0.4.2.2-alpha):
5852 - Avoid a possible crash when restarting Tor in embedded mode and
5853 enabling a different set of publish/subscribe messages. Fixes bug
5854 31898; bugfix on 0.4.1.1-alpha.
5856 o Major bugfixes (relay, backport from 0.4.2.3-alpha):
5857 - Relays now respect their AccountingMax bandwidth again. When
5858 relays entered "soft" hibernation (which typically starts when
5859 we've hit 90% of our AccountingMax), we had stopped checking
5860 whether we should enter hard hibernation. Soft hibernation refuses
5861 new connections and new circuits, but the existing circuits can
5862 continue, meaning that relays could have exceeded their configured
5863 AccountingMax. Fixes bug 32108; bugfix on 0.4.0.1-alpha.
5865 o Major bugfixes (torrc parsing, backport from 0.4.2.2-alpha):
5866 - Stop ignoring torrc options after an %include directive, when the
5867 included directory ends with a file that does not contain any
5868 config options (but does contain comments or whitespace). Fixes
5869 bug 31408; bugfix on 0.3.1.1-alpha.
5871 o Major bugfixes (v3 onion services, backport from 0.4.2.3-alpha):
5872 - Onion services now always use the exact number of intro points
5873 configured with the HiddenServiceNumIntroductionPoints option (or
5874 fewer if nodes are excluded). Before, a service could sometimes
5875 pick more intro points than configured. Fixes bug 31548; bugfix
5878 o Minor features (continuous integration, backport from 0.4.2.2-alpha):
5879 - When building on Appveyor and Travis, pass the "-k" flag to make,
5880 so that we are informed of all compilation failures, not just the
5881 first one or two. Closes ticket 31372.
5883 o Minor features (geoip, backport from 0.4.2.5):
5884 - Update geoip and geoip6 to the December 3 2019 Maxmind GeoLite2
5885 Country database. Closes ticket 32685.
5887 o Minor bugfixes (Appveyor CI, backport from 0.4.2.2-alpha):
5888 - Avoid spurious errors when Appveyor CI fails before the install step.
5889 Fixes bug 31884; bugfix on 0.3.4.2-alpha.
5891 o Minor bugfixes (client, onion service v3, backport from 0.4.2.4-rc):
5892 - Fix a BUG() assertion that occurs within a very small race window
5893 between when a client intro circuit opens and when its descriptor
5894 gets cleaned up from the cache. The circuit is now closed early,
5895 which will trigger a re-fetch of the descriptor and continue the
5896 connection. Fixes bug 28970; bugfix on 0.3.2.1-alpha.
5898 o Minor bugfixes (connections, backport from 0.4.2.3-rc):
5899 - Avoid trying to read data from closed connections, which can cause
5900 needless loops in Libevent and infinite loops in Shadow. Fixes bug
5901 30344; bugfix on 0.1.1.1-alpha.
5903 o Minor bugfixes (error handling, backport from 0.4.2.1-alpha):
5904 - On abort, try harder to flush the output buffers of log messages.
5905 On some platforms (macOS), log messages could be discarded when
5906 the process terminates. Fixes bug 31571; bugfix on 0.3.5.1-alpha.
5907 - Report the tor version whenever an assertion fails. Previously, we
5908 only reported the Tor version on some crashes, and some non-fatal
5909 assertions. Fixes bug 31571; bugfix on 0.3.5.1-alpha.
5910 - When tor aborts due to an error, close log file descriptors before
5911 aborting. Closing the logs makes some OSes flush log file buffers,
5912 rather than deleting buffered log lines. Fixes bug 31594; bugfix
5915 o Minor bugfixes (logging, backport from 0.4.2.2-alpha):
5916 - Add a missing check for HAVE_PTHREAD_H, because the backtrace code
5917 uses mutexes. Fixes bug 31614; bugfix on 0.2.5.2-alpha.
5918 - Disable backtrace signal handlers when shutting down tor. Fixes
5919 bug 31614; bugfix on 0.2.5.2-alpha.
5920 - Rate-limit the logging message about the obsolete .exit
5921 notation. Previously, there was no limit on this warning, which
5922 could potentially be triggered many times by a hostile website.
5923 Fixes bug 31466; bugfix on 0.2.2.1-alpha.
5925 o Minor bugfixes (logging, protocol violations, backport from 0.4.2.2-alpha):
5926 - Do not log a nonfatal assertion failure when receiving a VERSIONS
5927 cell on a connection using the obsolete v1 link protocol. Log a
5928 protocol_warn instead. Fixes bug 31107; bugfix on 0.2.4.4-alpha.
5930 o Minor bugfixes (mainloop, periodic events, in-process API, backport from 0.4.2.3-alpha):
5931 - Reset the periodic events' "enabled" flag when Tor is shut down
5932 cleanly. Previously, this flag was left on, which caused periodic
5933 events not to be re-enabled when Tor was relaunched in-process
5934 with tor_api.h after a shutdown. Fixes bug 32058; bugfix
5937 o Minor bugfixes (multithreading, backport from 0.4.2.2-alpha):
5938 - Avoid some undefined behaviour when freeing mutexes. Fixes bug
5939 31736; bugfix on 0.0.7.
5941 o Minor bugfixes (process management, backport from 0.4.2.3-alpha):
5942 - Remove overly strict assertions that triggered when a pluggable
5943 transport failed to launch. Fixes bug 31091; bugfix
5945 - Remove an assertion in the Unix process backend. This assertion
5946 would trigger when we failed to find the executable for a child
5947 process. Fixes bug 31810; bugfix on 0.4.0.1-alpha.
5949 o Minor bugfixes (relay, backport from 0.4.2.2-alpha):
5950 - Avoid crashing when starting with a corrupt keys directory where
5951 the old ntor key and the new ntor key are identical. Fixes bug
5952 30916; bugfix on 0.2.4.8-alpha.
5954 o Minor bugfixes (testing, backport from 0.4.2.3-alpha):
5955 - When testing port rebinding, don't busy-wait for tor to log.
5956 Instead, actually sleep for a short time before polling again.
5957 Also improve the formatting of control commands and log messages.
5958 Fixes bug 31837; bugfix on 0.3.5.1-alpha.
5960 o Minor bugfixes (tests, SunOS, backport from 0.4.2.2-alpha):
5961 - Avoid a map_anon_nofork test failure due to a signed/unsigned
5962 integer comparison. Fixes bug 31897; bugfix on 0.4.1.1-alpha.
5964 o Minor bugfixes (tls, logging, backport from 0.4.2.3-alpha):
5965 - Log bugs about the TLS read buffer's length only once, rather than
5966 filling the logs with similar warnings. Fixes bug 31939; bugfix
5969 o Documentation (backport from 0.4.2.2-alpha):
5970 - Explain why we can't destroy the backtrace buffer mutex. Explain
5971 why we don't need to destroy the log mutex. Closes ticket 31736.
5973 o Testing (continuous integration, backport from 0.4.2.3-alpha):
5974 - Disable all but one Travis CI macOS build, to mitigate slow
5975 scheduling of Travis macOS jobs. Closes ticket 32177.
5976 - Run the chutney IPv6 networks as part of Travis CI. Closes
5978 - Simplify the Travis CI build matrix, and optimise for build time.
5979 Closes ticket 31859.
5980 - Use Windows Server 2019 instead of Windows Server 2016 in our
5981 Appveyor builds. Closes ticket 32086.
5983 o Testing (continuous integration, backport from 0.4.2.4-rc):
5984 - In Travis, use Xcode 11.2 on macOS 10.14. Closes ticket 32241.
5985 - Use Ubuntu Bionic images for our Travis CI builds, so we can get a
5986 recent version of coccinelle. But leave chutney on Ubuntu Trusty,
5987 until we can fix some Bionic permissions issues (see ticket
5988 32240). Related to ticket 31919.
5989 - Install the mingw OpenSSL package in Appveyor. This makes sure
5990 that the OpenSSL headers and libraries match in Tor's Appveyor
5991 builds. (This bug was triggered by an Appveyor image update.)
5992 Fixes bug 32449; bugfix on 0.3.5.6-rc.
5994 o Testing (continuous integration, backport from 0.4.2.5):
5995 - Require C99 standards-conforming code in Travis CI, but allow GNU gcc
5996 extensions. Also activates clang's -Wtypedef-redefinition warnings.
5997 Build some jobs with -std=gnu99, and some jobs without.
5998 Closes ticket 32500.
6001 Changes in version 0.4.0.6 - 2019-12-09
6002 This is the second stable release in the 0.4.0.x series. This release
6003 backports several bugfixes to improve stability and correctness. Anyone
6004 experiencing build problems or crashes with 0.4.0.5, including all relays
6005 relying on AccountingMax, should upgrade.
6007 Note that, per our support policy, support for the 0.4.0.x series will end
6008 on 2 Feb 2020. Anyone still running 0.4.0.x should plan to upgrade to the
6009 latest stable release, or downgrade to 0.3.5.x, which will get long-term
6010 support until 1 Feb 2022.
6012 o Directory authority changes (backport from 0.4.1.5):
6013 - The directory authority "dizum" has a new IP address. Closes
6016 o Major bugfixes (bridges, backport from 0.4.1.2-alpha):
6017 - Consider our directory information to have changed when our list
6018 of bridges changes. Previously, Tor would not re-compute the
6019 status of its directory information when bridges changed, and
6020 therefore would not realize that it was no longer able to build
6021 circuits. Fixes part of bug 29875.
6022 - Do not count previously configured working bridges towards our
6023 total of working bridges. Previously, when Tor's list of bridges
6024 changed, it would think that the old bridges were still usable,
6025 and delay fetching router descriptors for the new ones. Fixes part
6026 of bug 29875; bugfix on 0.3.0.1-alpha.
6028 o Major bugfixes (circuit build, guard, backport from 0.4.1.4-rc):
6029 - When considering upgrading circuits from "waiting for guard" to
6030 "open", always ignore circuits that are marked for close. Otherwise,
6031 we can end up in the situation where a subsystem is notified that
6032 a closing circuit has just opened, leading to undesirable
6033 behavior. Fixes bug 30871; bugfix on 0.3.0.1-alpha.
6035 o Major bugfixes (Onion service reachability, backport from 0.4.1.3-alpha):
6036 - Properly clean up the introduction point map when circuits change
6037 purpose from onion service circuits to pathbias, measurement, or
6038 other circuit types. This should fix some service-side instances
6039 of introduction point failure. Fixes bug 29034; bugfix
6042 o Major bugfixes (onion service v3, backport from 0.4.1.1-alpha):
6043 - Fix an unreachable bug in which an introduction point could try to
6044 send an INTRODUCE_ACK with a status code that Trunnel would refuse
6045 to encode, leading the relay to assert(). We've consolidated the
6046 ABI values into Trunnel now. Fixes bug 30454; bugfix
6048 - Clients can now handle unknown status codes from INTRODUCE_ACK
6049 cells. (The NACK behavior will stay the same.) This will allow us
6050 to extend status codes in the future without breaking the normal
6051 client behavior. Fixes another part of bug 30454; bugfix
6054 o Major bugfixes (relay, backport from 0.4.2.3-alpha):
6055 - Relays now respect their AccountingMax bandwidth again. When
6056 relays entered "soft" hibernation (which typically starts when
6057 we've hit 90% of our AccountingMax), we had stopped checking
6058 whether we should enter hard hibernation. Soft hibernation refuses
6059 new connections and new circuits, but the existing circuits can
6060 continue, meaning that relays could have exceeded their configured
6061 AccountingMax. Fixes bug 32108; bugfix on 0.4.0.1-alpha.
6063 o Major bugfixes (torrc parsing, backport from 0.4.2.2-alpha):
6064 - Stop ignoring torrc options after an %include directive, when the
6065 included directory ends with a file that does not contain any
6066 config options (but does contain comments or whitespace). Fixes
6067 bug 31408; bugfix on 0.3.1.1-alpha.
6069 o Major bugfixes (v3 onion services, backport from 0.4.2.3-alpha):
6070 - Onion services now always use the exact number of intro points
6071 configured with the HiddenServiceNumIntroductionPoints option (or
6072 fewer if nodes are excluded). Before, a service could sometimes
6073 pick more intro points than configured. Fixes bug 31548; bugfix
6076 o Minor features (compile-time modules, backport from version 0.4.1.1-alpha):
6077 - Add a "--list-modules" command to print a list of which compile-
6078 time modules are enabled. Closes ticket 30452.
6080 o Minor features (continuous integration, backport from 0.4.1.1-alpha):
6081 - Remove sudo configuration lines from .travis.yml as they are no
6082 longer needed with current Travis build environment. Resolves
6085 o Minor features (continuous integration, backport from 0.4.1.4-rc):
6086 - Our Travis configuration now uses Chutney to run some network
6087 integration tests automatically. Closes ticket 29280.
6089 o Minor features (continuous integration, backport from 0.4.2.2-alpha):
6090 - When building on Appveyor and Travis, pass the "-k" flag to make,
6091 so that we are informed of all compilation failures, not just the
6092 first one or two. Closes ticket 31372.
6094 o Minor features (fallback directory list, backport from 0.4.1.4-rc):
6095 - Replace the 157 fallbacks originally introduced in Tor 0.3.5.6-rc
6096 in December 2018 (of which ~122 were still functional), with a
6097 list of 148 fallbacks (70 new, 78 existing, 79 removed) generated
6098 in June 2019. Closes ticket 28795.
6100 o Minor features (geoip, backport from 0.4.2.5):
6101 - Update geoip and geoip6 to the December 3 2019 Maxmind GeoLite2
6102 Country database. Closes ticket 32685.
6104 o Minor features (stem tests, backport from 0.4.2.1-alpha):
6105 - Change "make test-stem" so it only runs the stem tests that use
6106 tor. This change makes test-stem faster and more reliable. Closes
6109 o Minor bugfixes (Appveyor CI, backport from 0.4.2.2-alpha):
6110 - Avoid spurious errors when Appveyor CI fails before the install step.
6111 Fixes bug 31884; bugfix on 0.3.4.2-alpha.
6113 o Minor bugfixes (build system, backport form 0.4.2.1-alpha):
6114 - Do not include the deprecated <sys/sysctl.h> on Linux or Windows
6115 systems. Fixes bug 31673; bugfix on 0.2.5.4-alpha.
6117 o Minor bugfixes (circuit isolation, backport from 0.4.1.3-alpha):
6118 - Fix a logic error that prevented the SessionGroup sub-option from
6119 being accepted. Fixes bug 22619; bugfix on 0.2.7.2-alpha.
6121 o Minor bugfixes (circuit padding, backport from 0.4.1.4-rc):
6122 - On relays, properly check that a padding machine is absent before
6123 logging a warning about it being absent. Fixes bug 30649; bugfix
6126 o Minor bugfixes (client, onion service v3, backport from 0.4.2.4-rc):
6127 - Fix a BUG() assertion that occurs within a very small race window
6128 between when a client intro circuit opens and when its descriptor
6129 gets cleaned up from the cache. The circuit is now closed early,
6130 which will trigger a re-fetch of the descriptor and continue the
6131 connection. Fixes bug 28970; bugfix on 0.3.2.1-alpha.
6133 o Minor bugfixes (clock skew detection, backport from 0.4.1.5):
6134 - Don't believe clock skew results from NETINFO cells that appear to
6135 arrive before we sent the VERSIONS cells they are responding to.
6136 Previously, we would accept them up to 3 minutes "in the past".
6137 Fixes bug 31343; bugfix on 0.2.4.4-alpha.
6139 o Minor bugfixes (compilation warning, backport from 0.4.1.5):
6140 - Fix a compilation warning on Windows about casting a function
6141 pointer for GetTickCount64(). Fixes bug 31374; bugfix
6144 o Minor bugfixes (compilation, backport from 0.4.1.5):
6145 - Avoid using labs() on time_t, which can cause compilation warnings
6146 on 64-bit Windows builds. Fixes bug 31343; bugfix on 0.2.4.4-alpha.
6148 o Minor bugfixes (compilation, backport from 0.4.2.1-alpha):
6149 - Suppress spurious float-conversion warnings from GCC when calling
6150 floating-point classifier functions on FreeBSD. Fixes part of bug
6151 31687; bugfix on 0.3.1.5-alpha.
6153 o Minor bugfixes (compilation, unusual configurations, backport from 0.4.1.1-alpha):
6154 - Avoid failures when building with the ALL_BUGS_ARE_FATAL option
6155 due to missing declarations of abort(), and prevent other such
6156 failures in the future. Fixes bug 30189; bugfix on 0.3.4.1-alpha.
6158 o Minor bugfixes (configuration, proxies, backport from 0.4.1.2-alpha):
6159 - Fix a bug that prevented us from supporting SOCKS5 proxies that
6160 want authentication along with configured (but unused!)
6161 ClientTransportPlugins. Fixes bug 29670; bugfix on 0.2.6.1-alpha.
6163 o Minor bugfixes (connections, backport from 0.4.2.3-rc):
6164 - Avoid trying to read data from closed connections, which can cause
6165 needless loops in Libevent and infinite loops in Shadow. Fixes bug
6166 30344; bugfix on 0.1.1.1-alpha.
6168 o Minor bugfixes (continuous integration, backport from 0.4.1.3-alpha):
6169 - Allow the test-stem job to fail in Travis, because it sometimes
6170 hangs. Fixes bug 30744; bugfix on 0.3.5.4-alpha.
6171 - Skip test_rebind on macOS in Travis, because it is unreliable on
6172 macOS on Travis. Fixes bug 30713; bugfix on 0.3.5.1-alpha.
6173 - Skip test_rebind when the TOR_SKIP_TEST_REBIND environment
6174 variable is set. Fixes bug 30713; bugfix on 0.3.5.1-alpha.
6176 o Minor bugfixes (crash on exit, backport from 0.4.1.4-rc):
6177 - Avoid a set of possible code paths that could try to use freed
6178 memory in routerlist_free() while Tor was exiting. Fixes bug
6179 31003; bugfix on 0.1.2.2-alpha.
6181 o Minor bugfixes (directory authorities, backport from 0.4.1.3-alpha):
6182 - Stop crashing after parsing an unknown descriptor purpose
6183 annotation. We think this bug can only be triggered by modifying a
6184 local file. Fixes bug 30781; bugfix on 0.2.0.8-alpha.
6186 o Minor bugfixes (directory authority, backport from 0.4.1.2-alpha):
6187 - Move the "bandwidth-file-headers" line in directory authority
6188 votes so that it conforms to dir-spec.txt. Fixes bug 30316; bugfix
6191 o Minor bugfixes (error handling, backport from 0.4.2.1-alpha):
6192 - On abort, try harder to flush the output buffers of log messages.
6193 On some platforms (macOS), log messages could be discarded when
6194 the process terminates. Fixes bug 31571; bugfix on 0.3.5.1-alpha.
6195 - Report the tor version whenever an assertion fails. Previously, we
6196 only reported the Tor version on some crashes, and some non-fatal
6197 assertions. Fixes bug 31571; bugfix on 0.3.5.1-alpha.
6199 o Minor bugfixes (FreeBSD, PF-based proxy, IPv6, backport from 0.4.2.1-alpha):
6200 - When extracting an IPv6 address from a PF-based proxy, verify that
6201 we are actually configured to receive an IPv6 address, and log an
6202 internal error if not. Fixes part of bug 31687; bugfix
6205 o Minor bugfixes (guards, backport from 0.4.2.1-alpha):
6206 - When tor is missing descriptors for some primary entry guards,
6207 make the log message less alarming. It's normal for descriptors to
6208 expire, as long as tor fetches new ones soon after. Fixes bug
6209 31657; bugfix on 0.3.3.1-alpha.
6211 o Minor bugfixes (logging, backport from 0.4.1.1-alpha):
6212 - Do not log a warning when running with an OpenSSL version other
6213 than the one Tor was compiled with, if the two versions should be
6214 compatible. Previously, we would warn whenever the version was
6215 different. Fixes bug 30190; bugfix on 0.2.4.2-alpha.
6217 o Minor bugfixes (logging, backport from 0.4.2.1-alpha):
6218 - Change log level of message "Hash of session info was not as
6219 expected" to LOG_PROTOCOL_WARN. Fixes bug 12399; bugfix
6222 o Minor bugfixes (logging, backport from 0.4.2.2-alpha):
6223 - Rate-limit the logging message about the obsolete .exit
6224 notation. Previously, there was no limit on this warning, which
6225 could potentially be triggered many times by a hostile website.
6226 Fixes bug 31466; bugfix on 0.2.2.1-alpha.
6228 o Minor bugfixes (logging, protocol violations, backport from 0.4.2.2-alpha):
6229 - Do not log a nonfatal assertion failure when receiving a VERSIONS
6230 cell on a connection using the obsolete v1 link protocol. Log a
6231 protocol_warn instead. Fixes bug 31107; bugfix on 0.2.4.4-alpha.
6233 o Minor bugfixes (mainloop, periodic events, in-process API, backport from 0.4.2.3-alpha):
6234 - Reset the periodic events' "enabled" flag when Tor is shut down
6235 cleanly. Previously, this flag was left on, which caused periodic
6236 events not to be re-enabled when Tor was relaunched in-process
6237 with tor_api.h after a shutdown. Fixes bug 32058; bugfix
6240 o Minor bugfixes (memory leak, backport from 0.4.1.1-alpha):
6241 - Avoid a minor memory leak that could occur on relays when failing
6242 to create a "keys" directory. Fixes bug 30148; bugfix
6245 o Minor bugfixes (memory leak, backport from 0.4.1.4-rc):
6246 - Fix a trivial memory leak when parsing an invalid value
6247 from a download schedule in the configuration. Fixes bug
6248 30894; bugfix on 0.3.4.1-alpha.
6250 o Minor bugfixes (NetBSD, backport from 0.4.1.2-alpha):
6251 - Fix usage of minherit() on NetBSD and other platforms that define
6252 MAP_INHERIT_{ZERO,NONE} instead of INHERIT_{ZERO,NONE}. Fixes bug
6253 30614; bugfix on 0.4.0.2-alpha. Patch from Taylor Campbell.
6255 o Minor bugfixes (onion services, backport from 0.4.1.1-alpha):
6256 - Avoid a GCC 9.1.1 warning (and possible crash depending on libc
6257 implementation) when failing to load an onion service client
6258 authorization file. Fixes bug 30475; bugfix on 0.3.5.1-alpha.
6260 o Minor bugfixes (out-of-memory handler, backport from 0.4.1.2-alpha):
6261 - When purging the DNS cache because of an out-of-memory condition,
6262 try purging just the older entries at first. Previously, we would
6263 always purge the whole thing. Fixes bug 29617; bugfix
6266 o Minor bugfixes (portability, backport from 0.4.1.2-alpha):
6267 - Avoid crashing in our tor_vasprintf() implementation on systems
6268 that define neither vasprintf() nor _vscprintf(). (This bug has
6269 been here long enough that we question whether people are running
6270 Tor on such systems, but we're applying the fix out of caution.)
6271 Fixes bug 30561; bugfix on 0.2.8.2-alpha. Found and fixed by
6274 o Minor bugfixes (process management, backport from 0.4.2.3-alpha):
6275 - Remove overly strict assertions that triggered when a pluggable
6276 transport failed to launch. Fixes bug 31091; bugfix
6278 - Remove an assertion in the Unix process backend. This assertion
6279 would trigger when we failed to find the executable for a child
6280 process. Fixes bug 31810; bugfix on 0.4.0.1-alpha.
6282 o Minor bugfixes (relay, backport from 0.4.2.2-alpha):
6283 - Avoid crashing when starting with a corrupt keys directory where
6284 the old ntor key and the new ntor key are identical. Fixes bug
6285 30916; bugfix on 0.2.4.8-alpha.
6287 o Minor bugfixes (rust, backport from 0.4.2.1-alpha):
6288 - Correctly exclude a redundant rust build job in Travis. Fixes bug
6289 31463; bugfix on 0.3.5.4-alpha.
6291 o Minor bugfixes (testing, backport from 0.4.2.3-alpha):
6292 - When testing port rebinding, don't busy-wait for tor to log.
6293 Instead, actually sleep for a short time before polling again.
6294 Also improve the formatting of control commands and log messages.
6295 Fixes bug 31837; bugfix on 0.3.5.1-alpha.
6297 o Minor bugfixes (tls, logging, backport from 0.4.2.3-alpha):
6298 - Log bugs about the TLS read buffer's length only once, rather than
6299 filling the logs with similar warnings. Fixes bug 31939; bugfix
6302 o Minor bugfixes (v2 single onion services, backport from 0.4.2.1-alpha):
6303 - Always retry v2 single onion service intro and rend circuits with
6304 a 3-hop path. Previously, v2 single onion services used a 3-hop
6305 path when rendezvous circuits were retried after a remote or
6306 delayed failure, but a 1-hop path for immediate retries. Fixes bug
6307 23818; bugfix on 0.2.9.3-alpha.
6308 - Make v3 single onion services fall back to a 3-hop intro, when all
6309 intro points are unreachable via a 1-hop path. Previously, v3
6310 single onion services failed when all intro nodes were unreachable
6311 via a 1-hop path. Fixes bug 23507; bugfix on 0.3.2.1-alpha.
6313 o Documentation (backport from 0.4.2.1-alpha):
6314 - Use RFC 2397 data URL scheme to embed an image into tor-exit-
6315 notice.html so that operators no longer have to host it
6316 themselves. Closes ticket 31089.
6318 o Testing (backport from 0.4.1.2-alpha):
6319 - Specify torrc paths (with empty files) when launching tor in
6320 integration tests; refrain from reading user and system torrcs.
6321 Resolves issue 29702.
6323 o Testing (continuous integration, backport from 0.4.1.1-alpha):
6324 - In Travis, show stem's tor log after failure. Closes ticket 30234.
6326 o Testing (continuous integration, backport from 0.4.1.5):
6327 - In Travis, make stem log a controller trace to the console, and
6328 tail stem's tor log after failure. Closes ticket 30591.
6329 - In Travis, only run the stem tests that use a tor binary. Closes
6332 o Testing (continuous integration, backport from 0.4.2.3-alpha):
6333 - Disable all but one Travis CI macOS build, to mitigate slow
6334 scheduling of Travis macOS jobs. Closes ticket 32177.
6335 - Run the chutney IPv6 networks as part of Travis CI. Closes
6337 - Simplify the Travis CI build matrix, and optimise for build time.
6338 Closes ticket 31859.
6339 - Use Windows Server 2019 instead of Windows Server 2016 in our
6340 Appveyor builds. Closes ticket 32086.
6342 o Testing (continuous integration, backport from 0.4.2.4-rc):
6343 - Use Ubuntu Bionic images for our Travis CI builds, so we can get a
6344 recent version of coccinelle. But leave chutney on Ubuntu Trusty,
6345 until we can fix some Bionic permissions issues (see ticket
6346 32240). Related to ticket 31919.
6347 - Install the mingw OpenSSL package in Appveyor. This makes sure
6348 that the OpenSSL headers and libraries match in Tor's Appveyor
6349 builds. (This bug was triggered by an Appveyor image update.)
6350 Fixes bug 32449; bugfix on 0.3.5.6-rc.
6351 - In Travis, use Xcode 11.2 on macOS 10.14. Closes ticket 32241.
6353 o Testing (continuous integration, backport from 0.4.2.5):
6354 - Require C99 standards-conforming code in Travis CI, but allow GNU gcc
6355 extensions. Also activates clang's -Wtypedef-redefinition warnings.
6356 Build some jobs with -std=gnu99, and some jobs without.
6357 Closes ticket 32500.
6359 Changes in version 0.3.5.9 - 2019-12-09
6360 Tor 0.3.5.9 backports serveral fixes from later releases, including
6361 several that affect bridge users, relay stability, onion services,
6364 o Directory authority changes (backport from 0.4.1.5):
6365 - The directory authority "dizum" has a new IP address. Closes
6368 o Major bugfixes (bridges, backport from 0.4.1.2-alpha):
6369 - Consider our directory information to have changed when our list
6370 of bridges changes. Previously, Tor would not re-compute the
6371 status of its directory information when bridges changed, and
6372 therefore would not realize that it was no longer able to build
6373 circuits. Fixes part of bug 29875.
6374 - Do not count previously configured working bridges towards our
6375 total of working bridges. Previously, when Tor's list of bridges
6376 changed, it would think that the old bridges were still usable,
6377 and delay fetching router descriptors for the new ones. Fixes part
6378 of bug 29875; bugfix on 0.3.0.1-alpha.
6380 o Major bugfixes (circuit build, guard, backport from 0.4.1.4-rc):
6381 - When considering upgrading circuits from "waiting for guard" to
6382 "open", always ignore circuits that are marked for close. Otherwise,
6383 we can end up in the situation where a subsystem is notified that
6384 a closing circuit has just opened, leading to undesirable
6385 behavior. Fixes bug 30871; bugfix on 0.3.0.1-alpha.
6387 o Major bugfixes (NSS, relay, backport from 0.4.0.4-rc):
6388 - When running with NSS, disable TLS 1.2 ciphersuites that use
6389 SHA384 for their PRF. Due to an NSS bug, the TLS key exporters for
6390 these ciphersuites don't work -- which caused relays to fail to
6391 handshake with one another when these ciphersuites were enabled.
6392 Fixes bug 29241; bugfix on 0.3.5.1-alpha.
6394 o Major bugfixes (Onion service reachability, backport from 0.4.1.3-alpha):
6395 - Properly clean up the introduction point map when circuits change
6396 purpose from onion service circuits to pathbias, measurement, or
6397 other circuit types. This should fix some service-side instances
6398 of introduction point failure. Fixes bug 29034; bugfix
6401 o Major bugfixes (onion service v3, backport from 0.4.1.1-alpha):
6402 - Fix an unreachable bug in which an introduction point could try to
6403 send an INTRODUCE_ACK with a status code that Trunnel would refuse
6404 to encode, leading the relay to assert(). We've consolidated the
6405 ABI values into Trunnel now. Fixes bug 30454; bugfix
6407 - Clients can now handle unknown status codes from INTRODUCE_ACK
6408 cells. (The NACK behavior will stay the same.) This will allow us
6409 to extend status codes in the future without breaking the normal
6410 client behavior. Fixes another part of bug 30454; bugfix
6413 o Major bugfixes (torrc parsing, backport from 0.4.2.2-alpha):
6414 - Stop ignoring torrc options after an %include directive, when the
6415 included directory ends with a file that does not contain any
6416 config options (but does contain comments or whitespace). Fixes
6417 bug 31408; bugfix on 0.3.1.1-alpha.
6419 o Major bugfixes (v3 onion services, backport from 0.4.2.3-alpha):
6420 - Onion services now always use the exact number of intro points
6421 configured with the HiddenServiceNumIntroductionPoints option (or
6422 fewer if nodes are excluded). Before, a service could sometimes
6423 pick more intro points than configured. Fixes bug 31548; bugfix
6426 o Minor features (address selection, backport from 0.4.0.3-alpha):
6427 - Treat the subnet 100.64.0.0/10 as public for some purposes;
6428 private for others. This subnet is the RFC 6598 (Carrier Grade
6429 NAT) IP range, and is deployed by many ISPs as an alternative to
6430 RFC 1918 that does not break existing internal networks. Tor now
6431 blocks SOCKS and control ports on these addresses and warns users
6432 if client ports or ExtORPorts are listening on a RFC 6598 address.
6433 Closes ticket 28525. Patch by Neel Chauhan.
6435 o Minor features (bandwidth authority, backport from 0.4.0.4-rc):
6436 - Make bandwidth authorities ignore relays that are reported in the
6437 bandwidth file with the flag "vote=0". This change allows us to
6438 report unmeasured relays for diagnostic reasons without including
6439 their bandwidth in the bandwidth authorities' vote. Closes
6442 o Minor features (compile-time modules, backport from version 0.4.1.1-alpha):
6443 - Add a "--list-modules" command to print a list of which compile-
6444 time modules are enabled. Closes ticket 30452.
6446 o Minor features (continuous integration, backport from 0.4.0.4-rc):
6447 - On Travis Rust builds, cleanup Rust registry and refrain from
6448 caching the "target/" directory to speed up builds. Resolves
6451 o Minor features (continuous integration, backport from 0.4.0.5):
6452 - In Travis, tell timelimit to use stem's backtrace signals, and
6453 launch python directly from timelimit, so python receives the
6454 signals from timelimit, rather than make. Closes ticket 30117.
6456 o Minor features (continuous integration, backport from 0.4.1.1-alpha):
6457 - Remove sudo configuration lines from .travis.yml as they are no
6458 longer needed with current Travis build environment. Resolves
6461 o Minor features (continuous integration, backport from 0.4.1.4-rc):
6462 - Our Travis configuration now uses Chutney to run some network
6463 integration tests automatically. Closes ticket 29280.
6465 o Minor features (continuous integration, backport from 0.4.2.2-alpha):
6466 - When building on Appveyor and Travis, pass the "-k" flag to make,
6467 so that we are informed of all compilation failures, not just the
6468 first one or two. Closes ticket 31372.
6470 o Minor features (fallback directory list, backport from 0.4.1.4-rc):
6471 - Replace the 157 fallbacks originally introduced in Tor 0.3.5.6-rc
6472 in December 2018 (of which ~122 were still functional), with a
6473 list of 148 fallbacks (70 new, 78 existing, 79 removed) generated
6474 in June 2019. Closes ticket 28795.
6476 o Minor features (geoip, backport from 0.4.2.5):
6477 - Update geoip and geoip6 to the December 3 2019 Maxmind GeoLite2
6478 Country database. Closes ticket 32685.
6480 o Minor features (NSS, diagnostic, backport from 0.4.0.4-rc):
6481 - Try to log an error from NSS (if there is any) and a more useful
6482 description of our situation if we are using NSS and a call to
6483 SSL_ExportKeyingMaterial() fails. Diagnostic for ticket 29241.
6485 o Minor features (stem tests, backport from 0.4.2.1-alpha):
6486 - Change "make test-stem" so it only runs the stem tests that use
6487 tor. This change makes test-stem faster and more reliable. Closes
6490 o Minor bugfixes (security, backport from 0.4.0.4-rc):
6491 - Verify in more places that we are not about to create a buffer
6492 with more than INT_MAX bytes, to avoid possible OOB access in the
6493 event of bugs. Fixes bug 30041; bugfix on 0.2.0.16. Found and
6494 fixed by Tobias Stoeckmann.
6495 - Fix a potential double free bug when reading huge bandwidth files.
6496 The issue is not exploitable in the current Tor network because
6497 the vulnerable code is only reached when directory authorities
6498 read bandwidth files, but bandwidth files come from a trusted
6499 source (usually the authorities themselves). Furthermore, the
6500 issue is only exploitable in rare (non-POSIX) 32-bit architectures,
6501 which are not used by any of the current authorities. Fixes bug
6502 30040; bugfix on 0.3.5.1-alpha. Bug found and fixed by
6505 o Minor bugfix (continuous integration, backport from 0.4.0.4-rc):
6506 - Reset coverage state on disk after Travis CI has finished. This
6507 should prevent future coverage merge errors from causing the test
6508 suite for the "process" subsystem to fail. The process subsystem
6509 was introduced in 0.4.0.1-alpha. Fixes bug 29036; bugfix
6511 - Terminate test-stem if it takes more than 9.5 minutes to run.
6512 (Travis terminates the job after 10 minutes of no output.)
6513 Diagnostic for 29437. Fixes bug 30011; bugfix on 0.3.5.4-alpha.
6515 o Minor bugfixes (Appveyor CI, backport from 0.4.2.2-alpha):
6516 - Avoid spurious errors when Appveyor CI fails before the install step.
6517 Fixes bug 31884; bugfix on 0.3.4.2-alpha.
6519 o Minor bugfixes (build system, backport form 0.4.2.1-alpha):
6520 - Do not include the deprecated <sys/sysctl.h> on Linux or Windows
6521 systems. Fixes bug 31673; bugfix on 0.2.5.4-alpha.
6523 o Minor bugfixes (C correctness, backport from 0.4.0.4-rc):
6524 - Fix an unlikely memory leak in consensus_diff_apply(). Fixes bug
6525 29824; bugfix on 0.3.1.1-alpha. This is Coverity warning
6528 o Minor bugfixes (circuit isolation, backport from 0.4.1.3-alpha):
6529 - Fix a logic error that prevented the SessionGroup sub-option from
6530 being accepted. Fixes bug 22619; bugfix on 0.2.7.2-alpha.
6532 o Minor bugfixes (client, onion service v3, backport from 0.4.2.4-rc):
6533 - Fix a BUG() assertion that occurs within a very small race window
6534 between when a client intro circuit opens and when its descriptor
6535 gets cleaned up from the cache. The circuit is now closed early,
6536 which will trigger a re-fetch of the descriptor and continue the
6537 connection. Fixes bug 28970; bugfix on 0.3.2.1-alpha.
6539 o Minor bugfixes (clock skew detection, backport from 0.4.1.5):
6540 - Don't believe clock skew results from NETINFO cells that appear to
6541 arrive before we sent the VERSIONS cells they are responding to.
6542 Previously, we would accept them up to 3 minutes "in the past".
6543 Fixes bug 31343; bugfix on 0.2.4.4-alpha.
6545 o Minor bugfixes (compilation warning, backport from 0.4.1.5):
6546 - Fix a compilation warning on Windows about casting a function
6547 pointer for GetTickCount64(). Fixes bug 31374; bugfix
6550 o Minor bugfixes (compilation, backport from 0.4.0.2-alpha):
6551 - Silence a compiler warning in test-memwipe.c on OpenBSD. Fixes bug
6552 29145; bugfix on 0.2.9.3-alpha. Patch from Kris Katterjohn.
6554 o Minor bugfixes (compilation, backport from 0.4.1.5):
6555 - Avoid using labs() on time_t, which can cause compilation warnings
6556 on 64-bit Windows builds. Fixes bug 31343; bugfix on 0.2.4.4-alpha.
6558 o Minor bugfixes (compilation, backport from 0.4.2.1-alpha):
6559 - Suppress spurious float-conversion warnings from GCC when calling
6560 floating-point classifier functions on FreeBSD. Fixes part of bug
6561 31687; bugfix on 0.3.1.5-alpha.
6563 o Minor bugfixes (compilation, unusual configurations, backport from 0.4.1.1-alpha):
6564 - Avoid failures when building with the ALL_BUGS_ARE_FATAL option
6565 due to missing declarations of abort(), and prevent other such
6566 failures in the future. Fixes bug 30189; bugfix on 0.3.4.1-alpha.
6568 o Minor bugfixes (configuration, proxies, backport from 0.4.1.2-alpha):
6569 - Fix a bug that prevented us from supporting SOCKS5 proxies that
6570 want authentication along with configured (but unused!)
6571 ClientTransportPlugins. Fixes bug 29670; bugfix on 0.2.6.1-alpha.
6573 o Minor bugfixes (connections, backport from 0.4.2.3-rc):
6574 - Avoid trying to read data from closed connections, which can cause
6575 needless loops in Libevent and infinite loops in Shadow. Fixes bug
6576 30344; bugfix on 0.1.1.1-alpha.
6578 o Minor bugfixes (continuous integration, backport from 0.4.1.3-alpha):
6579 - Allow the test-stem job to fail in Travis, because it sometimes
6580 hangs. Fixes bug 30744; bugfix on 0.3.5.4-alpha.
6581 - Skip test_rebind on macOS in Travis, because it is unreliable on
6582 macOS on Travis. Fixes bug 30713; bugfix on 0.3.5.1-alpha.
6583 - Skip test_rebind when the TOR_SKIP_TEST_REBIND environment
6584 variable is set. Fixes bug 30713; bugfix on 0.3.5.1-alpha.
6586 o Minor bugfixes (crash on exit, backport from 0.4.1.4-rc):
6587 - Avoid a set of possible code paths that could try to use freed
6588 memory in routerlist_free() while Tor was exiting. Fixes bug
6589 31003; bugfix on 0.1.2.2-alpha.
6591 o Minor bugfixes (directory authorities, backport from 0.4.1.3-alpha):
6592 - Stop crashing after parsing an unknown descriptor purpose
6593 annotation. We think this bug can only be triggered by modifying a
6594 local file. Fixes bug 30781; bugfix on 0.2.0.8-alpha.
6596 o Minor bugfixes (directory authority, backport from 0.4.1.2-alpha):
6597 - Move the "bandwidth-file-headers" line in directory authority
6598 votes so that it conforms to dir-spec.txt. Fixes bug 30316; bugfix
6601 o Minor bugfixes (error handling, backport from 0.4.2.1-alpha):
6602 - On abort, try harder to flush the output buffers of log messages.
6603 On some platforms (macOS), log messages could be discarded when
6604 the process terminates. Fixes bug 31571; bugfix on 0.3.5.1-alpha.
6605 - Report the tor version whenever an assertion fails. Previously, we
6606 only reported the Tor version on some crashes, and some non-fatal
6607 assertions. Fixes bug 31571; bugfix on 0.3.5.1-alpha.
6609 o Minor bugfixes (FreeBSD, PF-based proxy, IPv6, backport from 0.4.2.1-alpha):
6610 - When extracting an IPv6 address from a PF-based proxy, verify that
6611 we are actually configured to receive an IPv6 address, and log an
6612 internal error if not. Fixes part of bug 31687; bugfix
6615 o Minor bugfixes (guards, backport from 0.4.2.1-alpha):
6616 - When tor is missing descriptors for some primary entry guards,
6617 make the log message less alarming. It's normal for descriptors to
6618 expire, as long as tor fetches new ones soon after. Fixes bug
6619 31657; bugfix on 0.3.3.1-alpha.
6621 o Minor bugfixes (logging, backport from 0.4.0.2-alpha):
6622 - Avoid logging that we are relaxing a circuit timeout when that
6623 timeout is fixed. Fixes bug 28698; bugfix on 0.2.4.7-alpha.
6625 o Minor bugfixes (logging, backport from 0.4.0.3-alpha):
6626 - Correct a misleading error message when IPv4Only or IPv6Only is
6627 used but the resolved address can not be interpreted as an address
6628 of the specified IP version. Fixes bug 13221; bugfix on
6629 0.2.3.9-alpha. Patch from Kris Katterjohn.
6630 - Log the correct port number for listening sockets when "auto" is
6631 used to let Tor pick the port number. Previously, port 0 was
6632 logged instead of the actual port number. Fixes bug 29144; bugfix
6633 on 0.3.5.1-alpha. Patch from Kris Katterjohn.
6634 - Stop logging a BUG() warning when Tor is waiting for exit
6635 descriptors. Fixes bug 28656; bugfix on 0.3.5.1-alpha.
6637 o Minor bugfixes (logging, backport from 0.4.1.1-alpha):
6638 - Do not log a warning when running with an OpenSSL version other
6639 than the one Tor was compiled with, if the two versions should be
6640 compatible. Previously, we would warn whenever the version was
6641 different. Fixes bug 30190; bugfix on 0.2.4.2-alpha.
6643 o Minor bugfixes (logging, backport from 0.4.2.1-alpha):
6644 - Change log level of message "Hash of session info was not as
6645 expected" to LOG_PROTOCOL_WARN. Fixes bug 12399; bugfix
6648 o Minor bugfixes (logging, backport from 0.4.2.2-alpha):
6649 - Rate-limit the logging message about the obsolete .exit
6650 notation. Previously, there was no limit on this warning, which
6651 could potentially be triggered many times by a hostile website.
6652 Fixes bug 31466; bugfix on 0.2.2.1-alpha.
6654 o Minor bugfixes (logging, protocol violations, backport from 0.4.2.2-alpha):
6655 - Do not log a nonfatal assertion failure when receiving a VERSIONS
6656 cell on a connection using the obsolete v1 link protocol. Log a
6657 protocol_warn instead. Fixes bug 31107; bugfix on 0.2.4.4-alpha.
6659 o Minor bugfixes (mainloop, periodic events, in-process API, backport from 0.4.2.3-alpha):
6660 - Reset the periodic events' "enabled" flag when Tor is shut down
6661 cleanly. Previously, this flag was left on, which caused periodic
6662 events not to be re-enabled when Tor was relaunched in-process
6663 with tor_api.h after a shutdown. Fixes bug 32058; bugfix
6666 o Minor bugfixes (memory leak, backport from 0.4.1.1-alpha):
6667 - Avoid a minor memory leak that could occur on relays when failing
6668 to create a "keys" directory. Fixes bug 30148; bugfix
6671 o Minor bugfixes (memory leak, backport from 0.4.1.4-rc):
6672 - Fix a trivial memory leak when parsing an invalid value
6673 from a download schedule in the configuration. Fixes bug
6674 30894; bugfix on 0.3.4.1-alpha.
6676 o Minor bugfixes (memory management, backport from 0.4.0.3-alpha):
6677 - Refactor the shared random state's memory management so that it
6678 actually takes ownership of the shared random value pointers.
6679 Fixes bug 29706; bugfix on 0.2.9.1-alpha.
6681 o Minor bugfixes (memory management, testing, backport from 0.4.0.3-alpha):
6682 - Stop leaking parts of the shared random state in the shared-random
6683 unit tests. Fixes bug 29599; bugfix on 0.2.9.1-alpha.
6685 o Minor bugfixes (onion services, backport from 0.4.1.1-alpha):
6686 - Avoid a GCC 9.1.1 warning (and possible crash depending on libc
6687 implementation) when failing to load an onion service client
6688 authorization file. Fixes bug 30475; bugfix on 0.3.5.1-alpha.
6690 o Minor bugfixes (out-of-memory handler, backport from 0.4.1.2-alpha):
6691 - When purging the DNS cache because of an out-of-memory condition,
6692 try purging just the older entries at first. Previously, we would
6693 always purge the whole thing. Fixes bug 29617; bugfix
6696 o Minor bugfixes (portability, backport from 0.4.1.2-alpha):
6697 - Avoid crashing in our tor_vasprintf() implementation on systems
6698 that define neither vasprintf() nor _vscprintf(). (This bug has
6699 been here long enough that we question whether people are running
6700 Tor on such systems, but we're applying the fix out of caution.)
6701 Fixes bug 30561; bugfix on 0.2.8.2-alpha. Found and fixed by
6704 o Minor bugfixes (relay, backport from 0.4.2.2-alpha):
6705 - Avoid crashing when starting with a corrupt keys directory where
6706 the old ntor key and the new ntor key are identical. Fixes bug
6707 30916; bugfix on 0.2.4.8-alpha.
6709 o Minor bugfixes (rust, backport from 0.4.0.5):
6710 - Abort on panic in all build profiles, instead of potentially
6711 unwinding into C code. Fixes bug 27199; bugfix on 0.3.3.1-alpha.
6713 o Minor bugfixes (rust, backport from 0.4.2.1-alpha):
6714 - Correctly exclude a redundant rust build job in Travis. Fixes bug
6715 31463; bugfix on 0.3.5.4-alpha.
6717 o Minor bugfixes (single onion services, backport from 0.4.0.3-alpha):
6718 - Allow connections to single onion services to remain idle without
6719 being disconnected. Previously, relays acting as rendezvous points
6720 for single onion services were mistakenly closing idle rendezvous
6721 circuits after 60 seconds, thinking that they were unused
6722 directory-fetching circuits that had served their purpose. Fixes
6723 bug 29665; bugfix on 0.2.1.26.
6725 o Minor bugfixes (stats, backport from 0.4.0.3-alpha):
6726 - When ExtraInfoStatistics is 0, stop including PaddingStatistics in
6727 relay and bridge extra-info documents. Fixes bug 29017; bugfix
6730 o Minor bugfixes (testing, backport from 0.4.0.3-alpha):
6731 - Downgrade some LOG_ERR messages in the address/* tests to
6732 warnings. The LOG_ERR messages were occurring when we had no
6733 configured network. We were failing the unit tests, because we
6734 backported 28668 to 0.3.5.8, but did not backport 29530. Fixes bug
6735 29530; bugfix on 0.3.5.8.
6736 - Fix our gcov wrapper script to look for object files at the
6737 correct locations. Fixes bug 29435; bugfix on 0.3.5.1-alpha.
6739 o Minor bugfixes (testing, backport from 0.4.0.4-rc):
6740 - Backport the 0.3.4 src/test/test-network.sh to 0.2.9. We need a
6741 recent test-network.sh to use new chutney features in CI. Fixes
6742 bug 29703; bugfix on 0.2.9.1-alpha.
6743 - Fix a test failure on Windows caused by an unexpected "BUG"
6744 warning in our tests for tor_gmtime_r(-1). Fixes bug 29922; bugfix
6747 o Minor bugfixes (testing, backport from 0.4.2.3-alpha):
6748 - When testing port rebinding, don't busy-wait for tor to log.
6749 Instead, actually sleep for a short time before polling again.
6750 Also improve the formatting of control commands and log messages.
6751 Fixes bug 31837; bugfix on 0.3.5.1-alpha.
6753 o Minor bugfixes (TLS protocol, backport form 0.4.0.4-rc):
6754 - When classifying a client's selection of TLS ciphers, if the
6755 client ciphers are not yet available, do not cache the result.
6756 Previously, we had cached the unavailability of the cipher list
6757 and never looked again, which in turn led us to assume that the
6758 client only supported the ancient V1 link protocol. This, in turn,
6759 was causing Stem integration tests to stall in some cases. Fixes
6760 bug 30021; bugfix on 0.2.4.8-alpha.
6762 o Minor bugfixes (tls, logging, backport from 0.4.2.3-alpha):
6763 - Log bugs about the TLS read buffer's length only once, rather than
6764 filling the logs with similar warnings. Fixes bug 31939; bugfix
6767 o Minor bugfixes (v2 single onion services, backport from 0.4.2.1-alpha):
6768 - Always retry v2 single onion service intro and rend circuits with
6769 a 3-hop path. Previously, v2 single onion services used a 3-hop
6770 path when rendezvous circuits were retried after a remote or
6771 delayed failure, but a 1-hop path for immediate retries. Fixes bug
6772 23818; bugfix on 0.2.9.3-alpha.
6773 - Make v3 single onion services fall back to a 3-hop intro, when all
6774 intro points are unreachable via a 1-hop path. Previously, v3
6775 single onion services failed when all intro nodes were unreachable
6776 via a 1-hop path. Fixes bug 23507; bugfix on 0.3.2.1-alpha.
6778 o Minor bugfixes (Windows, CI, backport from 0.4.0.3-alpha):
6779 - Skip the Appveyor 32-bit Windows Server 2016 job, and 64-bit
6780 Windows Server 2012 R2 job. The remaining 2 jobs still provide
6781 coverage of 64/32-bit, and Windows Server 2016/2012 R2. Also set
6782 fast_finish, so failed jobs terminate the build immediately. Fixes
6783 bug 29601; bugfix on 0.3.5.4-alpha.
6785 o Documentation (backport from 0.4.2.1-alpha):
6786 - Use RFC 2397 data URL scheme to embed an image into tor-exit-
6787 notice.html so that operators no longer have to host it
6788 themselves. Closes ticket 31089.
6790 o Testing (backport from 0.4.1.2-alpha):
6791 - Specify torrc paths (with empty files) when launching tor in
6792 integration tests; refrain from reading user and system torrcs.
6793 Resolves issue 29702.
6795 o Testing (continuous integration, backport from 0.4.1.1-alpha):
6796 - In Travis, show stem's tor log after failure. Closes ticket 30234.
6798 o Testing (continuous integration, backport from 0.4.1.5):
6799 - In Travis, make stem log a controller trace to the console, and
6800 tail stem's tor log after failure. Closes ticket 30591.
6801 - In Travis, only run the stem tests that use a tor binary. Closes
6804 o Testing (continuous integration, backport from 0.4.2.3-alpha):
6805 - Disable all but one Travis CI macOS build, to mitigate slow
6806 scheduling of Travis macOS jobs. Closes ticket 32177.
6807 - Run the chutney IPv6 networks as part of Travis CI. Closes
6809 - Simplify the Travis CI build matrix, and optimise for build time.
6810 Closes ticket 31859.
6811 - Use Windows Server 2019 instead of Windows Server 2016 in our
6812 Appveyor builds. Closes ticket 32086.
6814 o Testing (continuous integration, backport from 0.4.2.4-rc):
6815 - Use Ubuntu Bionic images for our Travis CI builds, so we can get a
6816 recent version of coccinelle. But leave chutney on Ubuntu Trusty,
6817 until we can fix some Bionic permissions issues (see ticket
6818 32240). Related to ticket 31919.
6819 - Install the mingw OpenSSL package in Appveyor. This makes sure
6820 that the OpenSSL headers and libraries match in Tor's Appveyor
6821 builds. (This bug was triggered by an Appveyor image update.)
6822 Fixes bug 32449; bugfix on 0.3.5.6-rc.
6823 - In Travis, use Xcode 11.2 on macOS 10.14. Closes ticket 32241.
6825 o Testing (continuous integration, backport from 0.4.2.5):
6826 - Require C99 standards-conforming code in Travis CI, but allow GNU gcc
6827 extensions. Also activates clang's -Wtypedef-redefinition warnings.
6828 Build some jobs with -std=gnu99, and some jobs without.
6829 Closes ticket 32500.
6831 Changes in version 0.4.2.4-rc - 2019-11-15
6832 Tor 0.4.2.4-rc is the first release candidate in its series. It fixes
6833 several bugs from earlier versions, including a few that would result in
6834 stack traces or incorrect behavior.
6836 o Minor features (build system):
6837 - Make pkg-config use --prefix when cross-compiling, if
6838 PKG_CONFIG_PATH is not set. Closes ticket 32191.
6840 o Minor features (geoip):
6841 - Update geoip and geoip6 to the November 6 2019 Maxmind GeoLite2
6842 Country database. Closes ticket 32440.
6844 o Minor bugfixes (client, onion service v3):
6845 - Fix a BUG() assertion that occurs within a very small race window
6846 between when a client intro circuit opens and when its descriptor
6847 gets cleaned up from the cache. The circuit is now closed early,
6848 which will trigger a re-fetch of the descriptor and continue the
6849 connection. Fixes bug 28970; bugfix on 0.3.2.1-alpha.
6851 o Minor bugfixes (code quality):
6852 - Fix "make check-includes" so it runs correctly on out-of-tree
6853 builds. Fixes bug 31335; bugfix on 0.3.5.1-alpha.
6855 o Minor bugfixes (configuration):
6856 - Log the option name when skipping an obsolete option. Fixes bug
6857 32295; bugfix on 0.4.2.1-alpha.
6859 o Minor bugfixes (crash):
6860 - When running Tor with an option like --verify-config or
6861 --dump-config that does not start the event loop, avoid crashing
6862 if we try to exit early because of an error. Fixes bug 32407;
6863 bugfix on 0.3.3.1-alpha.
6865 o Minor bugfixes (directory):
6866 - When checking if a directory connection is anonymous, test if the
6867 circuit was marked for close before looking at its channel. This
6868 avoids a BUG() stacktrace if the circuit was previously closed.
6869 Fixes bug 31958; bugfix on 0.4.2.1-alpha.
6871 o Minor bugfixes (shellcheck):
6872 - Fix minor shellcheck errors in the git-*.sh scripts. Fixes bug
6873 32402; bugfix on 0.4.2.1-alpha.
6874 - Start checking most scripts for shellcheck errors again. Fixes bug
6875 32402; bugfix on 0.4.2.1-alpha.
6877 o Testing (continuous integration):
6878 - Use Ubuntu Bionic images for our Travis CI builds, so we can get a
6879 recent version of coccinelle. But leave chutney on Ubuntu Trusty,
6880 until we can fix some Bionic permissions issues (see ticket
6881 32240). Related to ticket 31919.
6882 - Install the mingw OpenSSL package in Appveyor. This makes sure
6883 that the OpenSSL headers and libraries match in Tor's Appveyor
6884 builds. (This bug was triggered by an Appveyor image update.)
6885 Fixes bug 32449; bugfix on 0.3.5.6-rc.
6886 - In Travis, use Xcode 11.2 on macOS 10.14. Closes ticket 32241.
6889 Changes in version 0.4.2.3-alpha - 2019-10-24
6890 This release fixes several bugs from the previous alpha release, and
6891 from earlier versions of Tor.
6893 o Major bugfixes (relay):
6894 - Relays now respect their AccountingMax bandwidth again. When
6895 relays entered "soft" hibernation (which typically starts when
6896 we've hit 90% of our AccountingMax), we had stopped checking
6897 whether we should enter hard hibernation. Soft hibernation refuses
6898 new connections and new circuits, but the existing circuits can
6899 continue, meaning that relays could have exceeded their configured
6900 AccountingMax. Fixes bug 32108; bugfix on 0.4.0.1-alpha.
6902 o Major bugfixes (v3 onion services):
6903 - Onion services now always use the exact number of intro points
6904 configured with the HiddenServiceNumIntroductionPoints option (or
6905 fewer if nodes are excluded). Before, a service could sometimes
6906 pick more intro points than configured. Fixes bug 31548; bugfix
6909 o Minor feature (onion services, control port):
6910 - The ADD_ONION command's keyword "BEST" now defaults to ED25519-V3
6911 (v3) onion services. Previously it defaulted to RSA1024 (v2).
6912 Closes ticket 29669.
6914 o Minor features (testing):
6915 - When running tests that attempt to look up hostnames, replace the
6916 libc name lookup functions with ones that do not actually touch
6917 the network. This way, the tests complete more quickly in the
6918 presence of a slow or missing DNS resolver. Closes ticket 31841.
6920 o Minor features (testing, continuous integration):
6921 - Disable all but one Travis CI macOS build, to mitigate slow
6922 scheduling of Travis macOS jobs. Closes ticket 32177.
6923 - Run the chutney IPv6 networks as part of Travis CI. Closes
6925 - Simplify the Travis CI build matrix, and optimise for build time.
6926 Closes ticket 31859.
6927 - Use Windows Server 2019 instead of Windows Server 2016 in our
6928 Appveyor builds. Closes ticket 32086.
6930 o Minor bugfixes (build system):
6931 - Interpret "--disable-module-dirauth=no" correctly. Fixes bug
6932 32124; bugfix on 0.3.4.1-alpha.
6933 - Interpret "--with-tcmalloc=no" correctly. Fixes bug 32124; bugfix
6935 - Stop failing when jemalloc is requested, but tcmalloc is not
6936 found. Fixes bug 32124; bugfix on 0.3.5.1-alpha.
6937 - When pkg-config is not installed, or a library that depends on
6938 pkg-config is not found, tell the user what to do to fix the
6939 problem. Fixes bug 31922; bugfix on 0.3.1.1-alpha.
6941 o Minor bugfixes (connections):
6942 - Avoid trying to read data from closed connections, which can cause
6943 needless loops in Libevent and infinite loops in Shadow. Fixes bug
6944 30344; bugfix on 0.1.1.1-alpha.
6946 o Minor bugfixes (error handling):
6947 - Always lock the backtrace buffer before it is used. Fixes bug
6948 31734; bugfix on 0.2.5.3-alpha.
6950 o Minor bugfixes (mainloop, periodic events, in-process API):
6951 - Reset the periodic events' "enabled" flag when Tor is shut down
6952 cleanly. Previously, this flag was left on, which caused periodic
6953 events not to be re-enabled when Tor was relaunched in-process
6954 with tor_api.h after a shutdown. Fixes bug 32058; bugfix
6957 o Minor bugfixes (process management):
6958 - Remove overly strict assertions that triggered when a pluggable
6959 transport failed to launch. Fixes bug 31091; bugfix
6961 - Remove an assertion in the Unix process backend. This assertion
6962 would trigger when we failed to find the executable for a child
6963 process. Fixes bug 31810; bugfix on 0.4.0.1-alpha.
6965 o Minor bugfixes (testing):
6966 - Avoid intermittent test failures due to a test that had relied on
6967 inconsistent timing sources. Fixes bug 31995; bugfix
6969 - When testing port rebinding, don't busy-wait for tor to log.
6970 Instead, actually sleep for a short time before polling again.
6971 Also improve the formatting of control commands and log messages.
6972 Fixes bug 31837; bugfix on 0.3.5.1-alpha.
6974 o Minor bugfixes (tls, logging):
6975 - Log bugs about the TLS read buffer's length only once, rather than
6976 filling the logs with similar warnings. Fixes bug 31939; bugfix
6979 o Minor bugfixes (v3 onion services):
6980 - Fix an implicit conversion from ssize_t to size_t discovered by
6981 Coverity. Fixes bug 31682; bugfix on 0.4.2.1-alpha.
6982 - Fix a memory leak in an unlikely error code path when encoding HS
6983 DoS establish intro extension cell. Fixes bug 32063; bugfix
6985 - When cleaning up intro circuits for a v3 onion service, don't
6986 remove circuits that have an established or pending circuit, even
6987 if they ran out of retries. This way, we don't remove a circuit on
6988 its last retry. Fixes bug 31652; bugfix on 0.3.2.1-alpha.
6991 - Correct the description of "GuardLifetime". Fixes bug 31189;
6992 bugfix on 0.3.0.1-alpha.
6993 - Make clear in the man page, in both the bandwidth section and the
6994 AccountingMax section, that Tor counts in powers of two, not
6995 powers of ten: 1 GByte is 1024*1024*1024 bytes, not one billion
6996 bytes. Resolves ticket 32106.
6999 Changes in version 0.4.2.2-alpha - 2019-10-07
7000 This release fixes several bugs from the previous alpha release, and
7001 from earlier versions. It also includes a change in authorities, so
7002 that they begin to reject the currently unsupported release series.
7004 o Major features (directory authorities):
7005 - Directory authorities now reject relays running all currently
7006 deprecated release series. The currently supported release series
7007 are: 0.2.9, 0.3.5, 0.4.0, 0.4.1, and 0.4.2. Closes ticket 31549.
7009 o Major bugfixes (embedded Tor):
7010 - Avoid a possible crash when restarting Tor in embedded mode and
7011 enabling a different set of publish/subscribe messages. Fixes bug
7012 31898; bugfix on 0.4.1.1-alpha.
7014 o Major bugfixes (torrc parsing):
7015 - Stop ignoring torrc options after an %include directive, when the
7016 included directory ends with a file that does not contain any
7017 config options (but does contain comments or whitespace). Fixes
7018 bug 31408; bugfix on 0.3.1.1-alpha.
7020 o Minor features (auto-formatting scripts):
7021 - When annotating C macros, never generate a line that our check-
7022 spaces script would reject. Closes ticket 31759.
7023 - When annotating C macros, try to remove cases of double-negation.
7024 Closes ticket 31779.
7026 o Minor features (continuous integration):
7027 - When building on Appveyor and Travis, pass the "-k" flag to make,
7028 so that we are informed of all compilation failures, not just the
7029 first one or two. Closes ticket 31372.
7031 o Minor features (geoip):
7032 - Update geoip and geoip6 to the October 1 2019 Maxmind GeoLite2
7033 Country database. Closes ticket 31931.
7035 o Minor features (maintenance scripts):
7036 - Add a Coccinelle script to detect bugs caused by incrementing or
7037 decrementing a variable inside a call to log_debug(). Since
7038 log_debug() is a macro whose arguments are conditionally
7039 evaluated, it is usually an error to do this. One such bug was
7040 30628, in which SENDME cells were miscounted by a decrement
7041 operator inside a log_debug() call. Closes ticket 30743.
7043 o Minor features (onion services v3):
7044 - Assist users who try to setup v2 client authorization in v3 onion
7045 services by pointing them to the right documentation. Closes
7048 o Minor bugfixes (Appveyor continuous integration):
7049 - Avoid spurious errors when Appveyor CI fails before the install
7050 step. Fixes bug 31884; bugfix on 0.3.4.2-alpha.
7052 o Minor bugfixes (best practices tracker):
7053 - When listing overbroad exceptions, do not also list problems, and
7054 do not list insufficiently broad exceptions. Fixes bug 31338;
7055 bugfix on 0.4.2.1-alpha.
7057 o Minor bugfixes (controller protocol):
7058 - Fix the MAPADDRESS controller command to accept one or more
7059 arguments. Previously, it required two or more arguments, and
7060 ignored the first. Fixes bug 31772; bugfix on 0.4.1.1-alpha.
7062 o Minor bugfixes (logging):
7063 - Add a missing check for HAVE_PTHREAD_H, because the backtrace code
7064 uses mutexes. Fixes bug 31614; bugfix on 0.2.5.2-alpha.
7065 - Disable backtrace signal handlers when shutting down tor. Fixes
7066 bug 31614; bugfix on 0.2.5.2-alpha.
7067 - Rate-limit the logging message about the obsolete .exit
7068 notation. Previously, there was no limit on this warning, which
7069 could potentially be triggered many times by a hostile website.
7070 Fixes bug 31466; bugfix on 0.2.2.1-alpha.
7071 - When initialising log domain masks, only set known log domains.
7072 Fixes bug 31854; bugfix on 0.2.1.1-alpha.
7074 o Minor bugfixes (logging, protocol violations):
7075 - Do not log a nonfatal assertion failure when receiving a VERSIONS
7076 cell on a connection using the obsolete v1 link protocol. Log a
7077 protocol_warn instead. Fixes bug 31107; bugfix on 0.2.4.4-alpha.
7079 o Minor bugfixes (modules):
7080 - Explain what the optional Directory Authority module is, and what
7081 happens when it is disabled. Fixes bug 31825; bugfix
7084 o Minor bugfixes (multithreading):
7085 - Avoid some undefined behaviour when freeing mutexes. Fixes bug
7086 31736; bugfix on 0.0.7.
7088 o Minor bugfixes (relay):
7089 - Avoid crashing when starting with a corrupt keys directory where
7090 the old ntor key and the new ntor key are identical. Fixes bug
7091 30916; bugfix on 0.2.4.8-alpha.
7093 o Minor bugfixes (tests, SunOS):
7094 - Avoid a map_anon_nofork test failure due to a signed/unsigned
7095 integer comparison. Fixes bug 31897; bugfix on 0.4.1.1-alpha.
7097 o Code simplification and refactoring:
7098 - Refactor connection_control_process_inbuf() to reduce the size of
7099 a practracker exception. Closes ticket 31840.
7100 - Refactor the microdescs_parse_from_string() function into smaller
7101 pieces, for better comprehensibility. Closes ticket 31675.
7102 - Use SEVERITY_MASK_IDX() to find the LOG_* mask indexes in the unit
7103 tests and fuzzers, rather than using hard-coded values. Closes
7105 - Interface for function `decrypt_desc_layer` cleaned up. Closes
7109 - Document the signal-safe logging behaviour in the tor man page.
7110 Also add some comments to the relevant functions. Closes
7112 - Explain why we can't destroy the backtrace buffer mutex. Explain
7113 why we don't need to destroy the log mutex. Closes ticket 31736.
7114 - The Tor source code repository now includes a (somewhat dated)
7115 description of Tor's modular architecture, in doc/HACKING/design.
7116 This is based on the old "tor-guts.git" repository, which we are
7117 adopting and superseding. Closes ticket 31849.
7120 Changes in version 0.4.1.6 - 2019-09-19
7121 This release backports several bugfixes to improve stability and
7122 correctness. Anyone experiencing build problems or crashes with 0.4.1.5,
7123 or experiencing reliability issues with single onion services, should
7126 o Major bugfixes (crash, Linux, Android, backport from 0.4.2.1-alpha):
7127 - Tolerate systems (including some Android installations) where
7128 madvise and MADV_DONTDUMP are available at build-time, but not at
7129 run time. Previously, these systems would notice a failed syscall
7130 and abort. Fixes bug 31570; bugfix on 0.4.1.1-alpha.
7131 - Tolerate systems (including some Linux installations) where
7132 madvise and/or MADV_DONTFORK are available at build-time, but not
7133 at run time. Previously, these systems would notice a failed
7134 syscall and abort. Fixes bug 31696; bugfix on 0.4.1.1-alpha.
7136 o Minor features (stem tests, backport from 0.4.2.1-alpha):
7137 - Change "make test-stem" so it only runs the stem tests that use
7138 tor. This change makes test-stem faster and more reliable. Closes
7141 o Minor bugfixes (build system, backport form 0.4.2.1-alpha):
7142 - Do not include the deprecated <sys/sysctl.h> on Linux or Windows
7143 systems. Fixes bug 31673; bugfix on 0.2.5.4-alpha.
7145 o Minor bugfixes (compilation, backport from 0.4.2.1-alpha):
7146 - Add more stub functions to fix compilation on Android with link-
7147 time optimization when --disable-module-dirauth is used.
7148 Previously, these compilation settings would make the compiler
7149 look for functions that didn't exist. Fixes bug 31552; bugfix
7151 - Suppress spurious float-conversion warnings from GCC when calling
7152 floating-point classifier functions on FreeBSD. Fixes part of bug
7153 31687; bugfix on 0.3.1.5-alpha.
7155 o Minor bugfixes (controller protocol):
7156 - Fix the MAPADDRESS controller command to accept one or more
7157 arguments. Previously, it required two or more arguments, and ignored
7158 the first. Fixes bug 31772; bugfix on 0.4.1.1-alpha.
7160 o Minor bugfixes (FreeBSD, PF-based proxy, IPv6, backport from 0.4.2.1-alpha):
7161 - When extracting an IPv6 address from a PF-based proxy, verify that
7162 we are actually configured to receive an IPv6 address, and log an
7163 internal error if not. Fixes part of bug 31687; bugfix
7166 o Minor bugfixes (guards, backport from 0.4.2.1-alpha):
7167 - When tor is missing descriptors for some primary entry guards,
7168 make the log message less alarming. It's normal for descriptors to
7169 expire, as long as tor fetches new ones soon after. Fixes bug
7170 31657; bugfix on 0.3.3.1-alpha.
7172 o Minor bugfixes (logging, backport from 0.4.2.1-alpha):
7173 - Change log level of message "Hash of session info was not as
7174 expected" to LOG_PROTOCOL_WARN. Fixes bug 12399; bugfix
7177 o Minor bugfixes (rust, backport from 0.4.2.1-alpha):
7178 - Correctly exclude a redundant rust build job in Travis. Fixes bug
7179 31463; bugfix on 0.3.5.4-alpha.
7181 o Minor bugfixes (v2 single onion services, backport from 0.4.2.1-alpha):
7182 - Always retry v2 single onion service intro and rend circuits with
7183 a 3-hop path. Previously, v2 single onion services used a 3-hop
7184 path when rendezvous circuits were retried after a remote or
7185 delayed failure, but a 1-hop path for immediate retries. Fixes bug
7186 23818; bugfix on 0.2.9.3-alpha.
7188 o Minor bugfixes (v3 single onion services, backport from 0.4.2.1-alpha):
7189 - Always retry v3 single onion service intro and rend circuits with
7190 a 3-hop path. Previously, v3 single onion services used a 3-hop
7191 path when rend circuits were retried after a remote or delayed
7192 failure, but a 1-hop path for immediate retries. Fixes bug 23818;
7193 bugfix on 0.3.2.1-alpha.
7194 - Make v3 single onion services fall back to a 3-hop intro, when all
7195 intro points are unreachable via a 1-hop path. Previously, v3
7196 single onion services failed when all intro nodes were unreachable
7197 via a 1-hop path. Fixes bug 23507; bugfix on 0.3.2.1-alpha.
7199 o Documentation (backport from 0.4.2.1-alpha):
7200 - Use RFC 2397 data URL scheme to embed an image into tor-exit-
7201 notice.html so that operators no longer have to host it
7202 themselves. Closes ticket 31089.
7205 Changes in version 0.4.2.1-alpha - 2019-09-17
7206 This is the first alpha release in the 0.4.2.x series. It adds new
7207 defenses for denial-of-service attacks against onion services. It also
7208 includes numerous kinds of bugfixes and refactoring to help improve
7209 Tor's stability and ease of development.
7211 o Major features (onion service v3, denial of service):
7212 - Add onion service introduction denial of service defenses. Intro
7213 points can now rate-limit client introduction requests, using
7214 parameters that can be sent by the service within the
7215 ESTABLISH_INTRO cell. If the cell extension for this is not used,
7216 the intro point will honor the consensus parameters. Closes
7219 o Major bugfixes (circuit build, guard):
7220 - When considering upgrading circuits from "waiting for guard" to
7221 "open", always ignore circuits that are marked for close.
7222 Previously we could end up in the situation where a subsystem is
7223 notified of a circuit opening, but the circuit is still marked for
7224 close, leading to undesirable behavior. Fixes bug 30871; bugfix
7227 o Major bugfixes (crash, Linux, Android):
7228 - Tolerate systems (including some Android installations) where
7229 madvise and MADV_DONTDUMP are available at build-time, but not at
7230 run time. Previously, these systems would notice a failed syscall
7231 and abort. Fixes bug 31570; bugfix on 0.4.1.1-alpha.
7232 - Tolerate systems (including some Linux installations) where
7233 madvise and/or MADV_DONTFORK are available at build-time, but not
7234 at run time. Previously, these systems would notice a failed
7235 syscall and abort. Fixes bug 31696; bugfix on 0.4.1.1-alpha.
7237 o Minor features (best practices tracker):
7238 - Our best-practices tracker now integrates with our include-checker
7239 tool to keep track of how many layering violations we have not yet
7240 fixed. We hope to reduce this number over time to improve Tor's
7241 modularity. Closes ticket 31176.
7242 - Add a TOR_PRACTRACKER_OPTIONS variable for passing arguments to
7243 practracker from the environment. We may want this for continuous
7244 integration. Closes ticket 31309.
7245 - Give a warning rather than an error when a practracker exception
7246 is violated by a small amount, add a --list-overbroad option to
7247 practracker that lists exceptions that are stricter than they need
7248 to be, and provide an environment variable for disabling
7249 practracker. Closes ticket 30752.
7250 - Our best-practices tracker now looks at headers as well as C
7251 files. Closes ticket 31175.
7253 o Minor features (build system):
7254 - Add --disable-manpage and --disable-html-manual options to
7255 configure script. This will enable shortening build times by not
7256 building documentation. Resolves issue 19381.
7258 o Minor features (compilation):
7259 - Log a more useful error message when we are compiling and one of
7260 the compile-time hardening options we have selected can be linked
7261 but not executed. Closes ticket 27530.
7263 o Minor features (configuration):
7264 - The configuration code has been extended to allow splitting
7265 configuration data across multiple objects. Previously, all
7266 configuration data needed to be kept in a single object, which
7267 tended to become bloated. Closes ticket 31240.
7269 o Minor features (continuous integration):
7270 - When running CI builds on Travis, put some random data in
7271 ~/.torrc, to make sure no tests are reading the Tor configuration
7272 file from its default location. Resolves issue 30102.
7274 o Minor features (debugging):
7275 - Log a nonfatal assertion failure if we encounter a configuration
7276 line whose command is "CLEAR" but which has a nonempty value. This
7277 should be impossible, according to the rules of our configuration
7278 line parsing. Closes ticket 31529.
7280 o Minor features (git hooks):
7281 - Our pre-commit git hook now checks for a special file before
7282 running practracker, so that practracker only runs on branches
7283 that are based on master. Since the pre-push hook calls the pre-
7284 commit hook, practracker will also only run before pushes of
7285 branches based on master. Closes ticket 30979.
7287 o Minor features (git scripts):
7288 - Add a "--" command-line argument, to separate git-push-all.sh
7289 script arguments from arguments that are passed through to git
7290 push. Closes ticket 31314.
7291 - Add a -r <remote-name> argument to git-push-all.sh, so the script
7292 can push test branches to a personal remote. Closes ticket 31314.
7293 - Add a -t <test-branch-prefix> argument to git-merge-forward.sh and
7294 git-push-all.sh, which makes these scripts create, merge forward,
7295 and push test branches. Closes ticket 31314.
7296 - Add a -u argument to git-merge-forward.sh, so that the script can
7297 re-use existing test branches after a merge failure and fix.
7298 Closes ticket 31314.
7299 - Add a TOR_GIT_PUSH env var, which sets the default git push
7300 command and arguments for git-push-all.sh. Closes ticket 31314.
7301 - Add a TOR_PUSH_DELAY variable to git-push-all.sh, which makes the
7302 script push master and maint branches with a delay between each
7303 branch. These delays trigger the CI jobs in a set order, which
7304 should show the most likely failures first. Also make pushes
7305 atomic by default, and make the script pass any command-line
7306 arguments to git push. Closes ticket 29879.
7307 - Call the shellcheck script from the pre-commit hook. Closes
7309 - Skip pushing test branches that are the same as a remote
7310 maint/release/master branch in git-push-all.sh by default. Add a
7311 -s argument, so git-push-all.sh can push all test branches. Closes
7314 o Minor features (IPv6, logging):
7315 - Log IPv6 addresses as well as IPv4 addresses when describing
7316 routerinfos, routerstatuses, and nodes. Closes ticket 21003.
7318 o Minor features (onion service v3):
7319 - Do not allow single hop clients to fetch or post an HS descriptor
7320 from an HSDir. Closes ticket 24964.
7322 o Minor features (onion service):
7323 - Disallow single-hop clients at the introduction point. We've
7324 removed Tor2web support a while back and single-hop rendezvous
7325 attempts are blocked at the relays. This change should remove load
7326 off the network from spammy clients. Close ticket 24963.
7328 o Minor features (stem tests):
7329 - Change "make test-stem" so it only runs the stem tests that use
7330 tor. This change makes test-stem faster and more reliable. Closes
7333 o Minor features (testing):
7334 - Add a script to invoke "tor --dump-config" and "tor
7335 --verify-config" with various configuration options, and see
7336 whether tor's resulting configuration or error messages are what
7337 we expect. Use it for integration testing of our +Option and
7338 /Option flags. Closes ticket 31637.
7339 - Improve test coverage for our existing configuration parsing and
7340 management API. Closes ticket 30893.
7341 - Add integration tests to make sure that practracker gives the
7342 outputs we expect. Closes ticket 31477.
7343 - The practracker self-tests are now run as part of the Tor test
7344 suite. Closes ticket 31304.
7346 o Minor features (token bucket):
7347 - Implement a generic token bucket that uses a single counter, for
7348 use in anti-DoS onion service work. Closes ticket 30687.
7350 o Minor bugfixes (best practices tracker):
7351 - Fix a few issues in the best-practices script, including tests,
7352 tab tolerance, error reporting, and directory-exclusion logic.
7353 Fixes bug 29746; bugfix on 0.4.1.1-alpha.
7354 - When running check-best-practices, only consider files in the src
7355 subdirectory. Previously we had recursively considered all
7356 subdirectories, which made us get confused by the temporary
7357 directories made by "make distcheck". Fixes bug 31578; bugfix
7360 o Minor bugfixes (build system):
7361 - Do not include the deprecated <sys/sysctl.h> on Linux or Windows
7362 systems. Fixes bug 31673; bugfix on 0.2.5.4-alpha.
7364 o Minor bugfixes (chutney, makefiles, documentation):
7365 - "make test-network-all" now shows the warnings from each test-
7366 network.sh run on the console, so developers see new warnings
7367 early. We've also improved the documentation for this feature, and
7368 renamed a Makefile variable so the code is self-documenting. Fixes
7369 bug 30455; bugfix on 0.3.0.4-rc.
7371 o Minor bugfixes (compilation):
7372 - Add more stub functions to fix compilation on Android with link-
7373 time optimization when --disable-module-dirauth is used.
7374 Previously, these compilation settings would make the compiler
7375 look for functions that didn't exist. Fixes bug 31552; bugfix
7377 - Suppress spurious float-conversion warnings from GCC when calling
7378 floating-point classifier functions on FreeBSD. Fixes part of bug
7379 31687; bugfix on 0.3.1.5-alpha.
7381 o Minor bugfixes (configuration):
7382 - Invalid floating-point values in the configuration file are now
7383 treated as errors in the configuration. Previously, they were
7384 ignored and treated as zero. Fixes bug 31475; bugfix on 0.0.1.
7386 o Minor bugfixes (coverity):
7387 - Add an assertion when parsing a BEGIN cell so that coverity can be
7388 sure that we are not about to dereference a NULL address. Fixes
7389 bug 31026; bugfix on 0.2.4.7-alpha. This is CID 1447296.
7390 - In our siphash implementation, when building for coverity, use
7391 memcpy in place of a switch statement, so that coverity can tell
7392 we are not accessing out-of-bounds memory. Fixes bug 31025; bugfix
7393 on 0.2.8.1-alpha. This is tracked as CID 1447293 and 1447295.
7394 - Fix several coverity warnings from our unit tests. Fixes bug
7395 31030; bugfix on 0.2.4.1-alpha, 0.3.2.1-alpha, and 0.4.0.1-alpha.
7397 o Minor bugfixes (developer tooling):
7398 - Only log git script changes in the post-merge script when the
7399 merge was to the master branch. Fixes bug 31040; bugfix
7402 o Minor bugfixes (directory authorities):
7403 - Return a distinct status when formatting annotations fails. Fixes
7404 bug 30780; bugfix on 0.2.0.8-alpha.
7406 o Minor bugfixes (error handling):
7407 - On abort, try harder to flush the output buffers of log messages.
7408 On some platforms (macOS), log messages could be discarded when
7409 the process terminates. Fixes bug 31571; bugfix on 0.3.5.1-alpha.
7410 - Report the tor version whenever an assertion fails. Previously, we
7411 only reported the Tor version on some crashes, and some non-fatal
7412 assertions. Fixes bug 31571; bugfix on 0.3.5.1-alpha.
7413 - When tor aborts due to an error, close log file descriptors before
7414 aborting. Closing the logs makes some OSes flush log file buffers,
7415 rather than deleting buffered log lines. Fixes bug 31594; bugfix
7418 o Minor bugfixes (FreeBSD, PF-based proxy, IPv6):
7419 - When extracting an IPv6 address from a PF-based proxy, verify that
7420 we are actually configured to receive an IPv6 address, and log an
7421 internal error if not. Fixes part of bug 31687; bugfix
7424 o Minor bugfixes (git hooks):
7425 - Remove a duplicate call to practracker from the pre-push hook. The
7426 pre-push hook already calls the pre-commit hook, which calls
7427 practracker. Fixes bug 31462; bugfix on 0.4.1.1-alpha.
7429 o Minor bugfixes (git scripts):
7430 - Stop hard-coding the bash path in the git scripts. Some OSes don't
7431 have bash in /usr/bin, others have an ancient bash at this path.
7432 Fixes bug 30840; bugfix on 0.4.0.1-alpha.
7433 - Stop hard-coding the tor master branch name and worktree path in
7434 the git scripts. Fixes bug 30841; bugfix on 0.4.0.1-alpha.
7435 - Allow git-push-all.sh to be run from any directory. Previously,
7436 the script only worked if run from an upstream worktree directory.
7437 Closes ticket 31678.
7439 o Minor bugfixes (guards):
7440 - When tor is missing descriptors for some primary entry guards,
7441 make the log message less alarming. It's normal for descriptors to
7442 expire, as long as tor fetches new ones soon after. Fixes bug
7443 31657; bugfix on 0.3.3.1-alpha.
7445 o Minor bugfixes (ipv6):
7446 - Check for private IPv6 addresses alongside their IPv4 equivalents
7447 when authorities check descriptors. Previously, we only checked
7448 for private IPv4 addresses. Fixes bug 31088; bugfix on
7449 0.2.3.21-rc. Patch by Neel Chauhan.
7450 - When parsing microdescriptors, we should check the IPv6 exit
7451 policy alongside IPv4. Previously, we checked both exit policies
7452 for only router info structures, while microdescriptors were
7453 IPv4-only. Fixes bug 27284; bugfix on 0.2.3.1-alpha. Patch by
7456 o Minor bugfixes (logging):
7457 - Change log level of message "Hash of session info was not as
7458 expected" to LOG_PROTOCOL_WARN. Fixes bug 12399; bugfix
7460 - Fix a code issue that would have broken our parsing of log domains
7461 as soon as we had 33 of them. Fortunately, we still only have 29.
7462 Fixes bug 31451; bugfix on 0.4.1.4-rc.
7464 o Minor bugfixes (memory management):
7465 - Stop leaking a small amount of memory in nt_service_install(), in
7466 unreachable code. Fixes bug 30799; bugfix on 0.2.0.7-alpha. Patch
7469 o Minor bugfixes (networking, IP addresses):
7470 - When parsing addresses via Tor's internal DNS lookup API, reject
7471 IPv4 addresses in square brackets, and accept IPv6 addresses in
7472 square brackets. This change completes the work started in 23082,
7473 making address parsing consistent between tor's internal DNS
7474 lookup and address parsing APIs. Fixes bug 30721; bugfix
7476 - When parsing addresses via Tor's internal address:port parsing and
7477 DNS lookup APIs, require IPv6 addresses with ports to have square
7478 brackets. But allow IPv6 addresses without ports, whether or not
7479 they have square brackets. Fixes bug 30721; bugfix
7482 o Minor bugfixes (onion service v3):
7483 - When purging the client descriptor cache, close any introduction
7484 point circuits associated with purged cache entries. This avoids
7485 picking those circuits later when connecting to the same
7486 introduction points. Fixes bug 30921; bugfix on 0.3.2.1-alpha.
7488 o Minor bugfixes (onion services):
7489 - In the hs_ident_circuit_t data structure, remove the unused field
7490 circuit_type and the respective argument in hs_ident_circuit_new().
7491 This field was set by clients (for introduction) and services (for
7492 introduction and rendezvous) but was never used afterwards. Fixes
7493 bug 31490; bugfix on 0.3.2.1-alpha. Patch by Neel Chauhan.
7495 o Minor bugfixes (operator tools):
7496 - Make tor-print-ed-signing-cert(1) print certificate expiration
7497 date in RFC 1123 and UNIX timestamp formats, to make output
7498 machine readable. Fixes bug 31012; bugfix on 0.3.5.1-alpha.
7500 o Minor bugfixes (rust):
7501 - Correctly exclude a redundant rust build job in Travis. Fixes bug
7502 31463; bugfix on 0.3.5.4-alpha.
7503 - Raise the minimum rustc version to 1.31.0, as checked by configure
7504 and CI. Fixes bug 31442; bugfix on 0.3.5.4-alpha.
7506 o Minor bugfixes (sendme, code structure):
7507 - Rename the trunnel SENDME file definition from sendme.trunnel to
7508 sendme_cell.trunnel to avoid having twice sendme.{c|h} in the
7509 repository. Fixes bug 30769; bugfix on 0.4.1.1-alpha.
7511 o Minor bugfixes (statistics):
7512 - Stop removing the ed25519 signature if the extra info file is too
7513 big. If the signature data was removed, but the keyword was kept,
7514 this could result in an unparseable extra info file. Fixes bug
7515 30958; bugfix on 0.2.7.2-alpha.
7517 o Minor bugfixes (subsystems):
7518 - Make the subsystem init order match the subsystem module
7519 dependencies. Call windows process security APIs as early as
7520 possible. Initialize logging before network and time, so that
7521 network and time can use logging. Fixes bug 31615; bugfix
7524 o Minor bugfixes (testing):
7525 - Teach the util/socketpair_ersatz test to work correctly when we
7526 have no network stack configured. Fixes bug 30804; bugfix
7529 o Minor bugfixes (v2 single onion services):
7530 - Always retry v2 single onion service intro and rend circuits with
7531 a 3-hop path. Previously, v2 single onion services used a 3-hop
7532 path when rendezvous circuits were retried after a remote or
7533 delayed failure, but a 1-hop path for immediate retries. Fixes bug
7534 23818; bugfix on 0.2.9.3-alpha.
7536 o Minor bugfixes (v3 single onion services):
7537 - Always retry v3 single onion service intro and rend circuits with
7538 a 3-hop path. Previously, v3 single onion services used a 3-hop
7539 path when rend circuits were retried after a remote or delayed
7540 failure, but a 1-hop path for immediate retries. Fixes bug 23818;
7541 bugfix on 0.3.2.1-alpha.
7542 - Make v3 single onion services fall back to a 3-hop intro, when all
7543 intro points are unreachable via a 1-hop path. Previously, v3
7544 single onion services failed when all intro nodes were unreachable
7545 via a 1-hop path. Fixes bug 23507; bugfix on 0.3.2.1-alpha.
7548 - Improve documentation in circuit padding subsystem. Patch by
7549 Tobias Pulls. Closes ticket 31113.
7550 - Include an example usage for IPv6 ORPort in our sample torrc.
7551 Closes ticket 31320; patch from Ali Raheem.
7552 - Use RFC 2397 data URL scheme to embed an image into tor-exit-
7553 notice.html so that operators no longer have to host it
7554 themselves. Closes ticket 31089.
7557 - No longer include recommended package digests in votes as detailed
7558 in proposal 301. The RecommendedPackages torrc option is
7559 deprecated and will no longer have any effect. "package" lines
7560 will still be considered when computing consensuses for consensus
7561 methods that include them. (This change has no effect on the list
7562 of recommended Tor versions, which is still in use.) Closes
7564 - Remove torctl.in from contrib/dist directory. Resolves
7568 - Run shellcheck for all non-third-party shell scripts that are
7569 shipped with Tor. Closes ticket 29533.
7570 - When checking shell scripts, ignore any user-created directories.
7571 Closes ticket 30967.
7573 o Code simplification and refactoring (config handling):
7574 - Extract our variable manipulation code from confparse.c to a new
7575 lower-level typedvar.h module. Closes ticket 30864.
7576 - Lower another layer of object management from confparse.c to a
7577 more general tool. Now typed structure members are accessible via
7578 an abstract type. Implements ticket 30914.
7579 - Move our backend logic for working with configuration and state
7580 files into a lower-level library, since it no longer depends on
7581 any tor-specific functionality. Closes ticket 31626.
7582 - Numerous simplifications in configuration-handling logic: remove
7583 duplicated macro definitions, replace magical names with flags,
7584 and refactor "TestingTorNetwork" to use the same default-option
7585 logic as the rest of Tor. Closes ticket 30935.
7586 - Replace our ad-hoc set of flags for configuration variables and
7587 configuration variable types with fine-grained orthogonal flags
7588 corresponding to the actual behavior we want. Closes ticket 31625.
7590 o Code simplification and refactoring (misc):
7591 - Eliminate some uses of lower-level control reply abstractions,
7592 primarily in the onion_helper functions. Closes ticket 30889.
7593 - Rework bootstrap tracking to use the new publish-subscribe
7594 subsystem. Closes ticket 29976.
7595 - Rewrite format_node_description() and router_get_verbose_nickname()
7596 to use strlcpy() and strlcat(). The previous implementation used
7597 memcpy() and pointer arithmetic, which was error-prone. Closes
7598 ticket 31545. This is CID 1452819.
7599 - Split extrainfo_dump_to_string() into smaller functions. Closes
7601 - Use the ptrdiff_t type consistently for expressing variable
7602 offsets and pointer differences. Previously we incorrectly (but
7603 harmlessly) used int and sometimes off_t for these cases. Closes
7605 - Use the subsystems mechanism to manage the main event loop code.
7606 Closes ticket 30806.
7607 - Various simplifications and minor improvements to the circuit
7608 padding machines. Patch by Tobias Pulls. Closes tickets 31112
7611 o Documentation (hard-coded directories):
7612 - Improve the documentation for the DirAuthority and FallbackDir
7613 torrc options. Closes ticket 30955.
7615 o Documentation (tor.1 man page):
7616 - Fix typo in tor.1 man page: the option is "--help", not "-help".
7617 Fixes bug 31008; bugfix on 0.2.2.9-alpha.
7620 Changes in version 0.4.1.5 - 2019-08-20
7621 This is the first stable release in the 0.4.1.x series. This series
7622 adds experimental circuit-level padding, authenticated SENDME cells to
7623 defend against certain attacks, and several performance improvements
7624 to save on CPU consumption. It fixes bugs in bootstrapping and v3
7625 onion services. It also includes numerous smaller features and
7626 bugfixes on earlier versions.
7628 Per our support policy, we will support the 0.4.1.x series for nine
7629 months, or until three months after the release of a stable 0.4.2.x:
7630 whichever is longer. If you need longer-term support, please stick
7631 with 0.3.5.x, which will we plan to support until Feb 2022.
7633 Below are the changes since 0.4.1.4-rc. For a complete list of changes
7634 since 0.4.0.5, see the ReleaseNotes file.
7636 o Directory authority changes:
7637 - The directory authority "dizum" has a new IP address. Closes
7640 o Minor features (circuit padding logging):
7641 - Demote noisy client-side warn logs about circuit padding to
7642 protocol warnings. Add additional log messages and circuit ID
7643 fields to help with bug 30992 and any other future issues.
7645 o Minor bugfixes (circuit padding negotiation):
7646 - Bump the circuit padding protocol version to explicitly signify
7647 that the HS setup machine support is finalized in 0.4.1.x-stable.
7648 This also means that 0.4.1.x-alpha clients will not negotiate
7649 padding with 0.4.1.x-stable relays, and 0.4.1.x-stable clients
7650 will not negotiate padding with 0.4.1.x-alpha relays (or 0.4.0.x
7651 relays). Fixes bug 31356; bugfix on 0.4.1.1-alpha.
7653 o Minor bugfixes (circuit padding):
7654 - Ignore non-padding cells on padding circuits. This addresses
7655 various warning messages from subsystems that were not expecting
7656 padding circuits. Fixes bug 30942; bugfix on 0.4.1.1-alpha.
7658 o Minor bugfixes (clock skew detection):
7659 - Don't believe clock skew results from NETINFO cells that appear to
7660 arrive before we sent the VERSIONS cells they are responding to.
7661 Previously, we would accept them up to 3 minutes "in the past".
7662 Fixes bug 31343; bugfix on 0.2.4.4-alpha.
7664 o Minor bugfixes (compatibility, standards compliance):
7665 - Fix a bug that would invoke undefined behavior on certain
7666 operating systems when trying to asprintf() a string exactly
7667 INT_MAX bytes long. We don't believe this is exploitable, but it's
7668 better to fix it anyway. Fixes bug 31001; bugfix on 0.2.2.11-alpha.
7669 Found and fixed by Tobias Stoeckmann.
7671 o Minor bugfixes (compilation warning):
7672 - Fix a compilation warning on Windows about casting a function
7673 pointer for GetTickCount64(). Fixes bug 31374; bugfix
7676 o Minor bugfixes (compilation):
7677 - Avoid using labs() on time_t, which can cause compilation warnings
7678 on 64-bit Windows builds. Fixes bug 31343; bugfix on 0.2.4.4-alpha.
7680 o Minor bugfixes (distribution):
7681 - Do not ship any temporary files found in the
7682 scripts/maint/practracker directory. Fixes bug 31311; bugfix
7685 o Testing (continuous integration):
7686 - In Travis, make stem log a controller trace to the console, and
7687 tail stem's tor log after failure. Closes ticket 30591.
7688 - In Travis, only run the stem tests that use a tor binary. Closes
7692 Changes in version 0.4.1.4-rc - 2019-07-25
7693 Tor 0.4.1.4-rc fixes a few bugs from previous versions of Tor, and
7694 updates to a new list of fallback directories. If no new bugs are
7695 found, the next release in the 0.4.1.x serious should be stable.
7697 o Major bugfixes (circuit build, guard):
7698 - When considering upgrading circuits from "waiting for guard" to
7699 "open", always ignore circuits that are marked for close. Otherwise,
7700 we can end up in the situation where a subsystem is notified that
7701 a closing circuit has just opened, leading to undesirable
7702 behavior. Fixes bug 30871; bugfix on 0.3.0.1-alpha.
7704 o Minor features (continuous integration):
7705 - Our Travis configuration now uses Chutney to run some network
7706 integration tests automatically. Closes ticket 29280.
7708 o Minor features (fallback directory list):
7709 - Replace the 157 fallbacks originally introduced in Tor 0.3.5.6-rc
7710 in December 2018 (of which ~122 were still functional), with a
7711 list of 148 fallbacks (70 new, 78 existing, 79 removed) generated
7712 in June 2019. Closes ticket 28795.
7714 o Minor bugfixes (circuit padding):
7715 - On relays, properly check that a padding machine is absent before
7716 logging a warning about it being absent. Fixes bug 30649; bugfix
7718 - Add two NULL checks in unreachable places to silence Coverity (CID
7719 144729 and 1447291) and better future-proof ourselves. Fixes bug
7720 31024; bugfix on 0.4.1.1-alpha.
7722 o Minor bugfixes (crash on exit):
7723 - Avoid a set of possible code paths that could try to use freed
7724 memory in routerlist_free() while Tor was exiting. Fixes bug
7725 31003; bugfix on 0.1.2.2-alpha.
7727 o Minor bugfixes (logging):
7728 - Fix a conflict between the flag used for messaging-domain log
7729 messages, and the LD_NO_MOCK testing flag. Fixes bug 31080; bugfix
7732 o Minor bugfixes (memory leaks):
7733 - Fix a trivial memory leak when parsing an invalid value from a
7734 download schedule in the configuration. Fixes bug 30894; bugfix
7737 o Code simplification and refactoring:
7738 - Remove some dead code from circpad_machine_remove_token() to fix
7739 some Coverity warnings (CID 1447298). Fixes bug 31027; bugfix
7743 Changes in version 0.4.1.3-alpha - 2019-06-25
7744 Tor 0.4.1.3-alpha resolves numerous bugs left over from the previous
7745 alpha, most of them from earlier release series.
7747 o Major bugfixes (Onion service reachability):
7748 - Properly clean up the introduction point map when circuits change
7749 purpose from onion service circuits to pathbias, measurement, or
7750 other circuit types. This should fix some service-side instances
7751 of introduction point failure. Fixes bug 29034; bugfix
7754 o Minor features (geoip):
7755 - Update geoip and geoip6 to the June 10 2019 Maxmind GeoLite2
7756 Country database. Closes ticket 30852.
7758 o Minor features (logging):
7759 - Give a more useful assertion failure message if we think we have
7760 minherit() but we fail to make a region non-inheritable. Give a
7761 compile-time warning if our support for minherit() is incomplete.
7762 Closes ticket 30686.
7764 o Minor bugfixes (circuit isolation):
7765 - Fix a logic error that prevented the SessionGroup sub-option from
7766 being accepted. Fixes bug 22619; bugfix on 0.2.7.2-alpha.
7768 o Minor bugfixes (continuous integration):
7769 - Allow the test-stem job to fail in Travis, because it sometimes
7770 hangs. Fixes bug 30744; bugfix on 0.3.5.4-alpha.
7771 - Skip test_rebind on macOS in Travis, because it is unreliable on
7772 macOS on Travis. Fixes bug 30713; bugfix on 0.3.5.1-alpha.
7773 - Skip test_rebind when the TOR_SKIP_TEST_REBIND environment
7774 variable is set. Fixes bug 30713; bugfix on 0.3.5.1-alpha.
7776 o Minor bugfixes (directory authorities):
7777 - Stop crashing after parsing an unknown descriptor purpose
7778 annotation. We think this bug can only be triggered by modifying a
7779 local file. Fixes bug 30781; bugfix on 0.2.0.8-alpha.
7781 o Minor bugfixes (pluggable transports):
7782 - When running as a bridge with pluggable transports, always publish
7783 pluggable transport information in our extrainfo descriptor, even
7784 if ExtraInfoStatistics is 0. This information is needed by
7785 BridgeDB. Fixes bug 30956; bugfix on 0.4.1.1-alpha.
7788 - Mention URLs for Travis/Appveyor/Jenkins in ReleasingTor.md.
7789 Closes ticket 30630.
7792 Changes in version 0.4.1.2-alpha - 2019-06-06
7793 Tor 0.4.1.2-alpha resolves numerous bugs--some of them from the
7794 previous alpha, and some much older. It also contains minor testing
7795 improvements, and an improvement to the security of our authenticated
7796 SENDME implementation.
7798 o Major bugfixes (bridges):
7799 - Consider our directory information to have changed when our list
7800 of bridges changes. Previously, Tor would not re-compute the
7801 status of its directory information when bridges changed, and
7802 therefore would not realize that it was no longer able to build
7803 circuits. Fixes part of bug 29875.
7804 - Do not count previously configured working bridges towards our
7805 total of working bridges. Previously, when Tor's list of bridges
7806 changed, it would think that the old bridges were still usable,
7807 and delay fetching router descriptors for the new ones. Fixes part
7808 of bug 29875; bugfix on 0.3.0.1-alpha.
7810 o Major bugfixes (flow control, SENDME):
7811 - Decrement the stream-level package window after packaging a cell.
7812 Previously, it was done inside a log_debug() call, meaning that if
7813 debug logs were not enabled, the decrement would never happen, and
7814 thus the window would be out of sync with the other end point.
7815 Fixes bug 30628; bugfix on 0.4.1.1-alpha.
7817 o Major bugfixes (onion service reachability):
7818 - Properly clean up the introduction point map and associated state
7819 when circuits change purpose from onion service circuits to
7820 pathbias, measurement, or other circuit types. This may fix some
7821 instances of introduction point failure. Fixes bug 29034; bugfix
7824 o Minor features (authenticated SENDME):
7825 - Ensure that there is enough randomness on every circuit to prevent
7826 an attacker from successfully predicting the hashes they will need
7827 to include in authenticated SENDME cells. At a random interval, if
7828 we have not sent randomness already, we now leave some extra space
7829 at the end of a cell that we can fill with random bytes. Closes
7832 o Minor features (continuous integration):
7833 - When running coverage builds on Travis, we now set
7834 TOR_TEST_RNG_SEED, to avoid RNG-based coverage differences. Part
7837 o Minor features (maintenance):
7838 - Add a new "make autostyle" target that developers can use to apply
7839 all automatic Tor style and consistency conversions to the
7840 codebase. Closes ticket 30539.
7842 o Minor features (testing):
7843 - The circuitpadding tests now use a reproducible RNG implementation,
7844 so that if a test fails, we can learn why. Part of ticket 28878.
7845 - Tor's tests now support an environment variable, TOR_TEST_RNG_SEED,
7846 to set the RNG seed for tests that use a reproducible RNG. Part of
7848 - When running tests in coverage mode, take additional care to make
7849 our coverage deterministic, so that we can accurately track
7850 changes in code coverage. Closes ticket 30519.
7852 o Minor bugfixes (configuration, proxies):
7853 - Fix a bug that prevented us from supporting SOCKS5 proxies that
7854 want authentication along with configured (but unused!)
7855 ClientTransportPlugins. Fixes bug 29670; bugfix on 0.2.6.1-alpha.
7857 o Minor bugfixes (controller):
7858 - POSTDESCRIPTOR requests should work again. Previously, they were
7859 broken if a "purpose=" flag was specified. Fixes bug 30580; bugfix
7861 - Repair the HSFETCH command so that it works again. Previously, it
7862 expected a body when it shouldn't have. Fixes bug 30646; bugfix
7865 o Minor bugfixes (developer tooling):
7866 - Fix pre-push hook to allow fixup and squash commits when pushing
7867 to non-upstream git remote. Fixes bug 30286; bugfix
7870 o Minor bugfixes (directory authority):
7871 - Move the "bandwidth-file-headers" line in directory authority
7872 votes so that it conforms to dir-spec.txt. Fixes bug 30316; bugfix
7875 o Minor bugfixes (NetBSD):
7876 - Fix usage of minherit() on NetBSD and other platforms that define
7877 MAP_INHERIT_{ZERO,NONE} instead of INHERIT_{ZERO,NONE}. Fixes bug
7878 30614; bugfix on 0.4.0.2-alpha. Patch from Taylor Campbell.
7880 o Minor bugfixes (out-of-memory handler):
7881 - When purging the DNS cache because of an out-of-memory condition,
7882 try purging just the older entries at first. Previously, we would
7883 always purge the whole thing. Fixes bug 29617; bugfix
7886 o Minor bugfixes (portability):
7887 - Avoid crashing in our tor_vasprintf() implementation on systems
7888 that define neither vasprintf() nor _vscprintf(). (This bug has
7889 been here long enough that we question whether people are running
7890 Tor on such systems, but we're applying the fix out of caution.)
7891 Fixes bug 30561; bugfix on 0.2.8.2-alpha. Found and fixed by
7894 o Minor bugfixes (shutdown, libevent, memory safety):
7895 - Avoid use-after-free bugs when shutting down, by making sure that
7896 we shut down libevent only after shutting down all of its users.
7897 We believe these are harmless in practice, since they only occur
7898 on the shutdown path, and do not involve any attacker-controlled
7899 data. Fixes bug 30629; bugfix on 0.4.1.1-alpha.
7901 o Minor bugfixes (static analysis):
7902 - Fix several spurious Coverity warnings about the unit tests, to
7903 lower our chances of missing real warnings in the future. Fixes
7904 bug 30150; bugfix on 0.3.5.1-alpha and various other Tor versions.
7907 - Specify torrc paths (with empty files) when launching tor in
7908 integration tests; refrain from reading user and system torrcs.
7909 Resolves issue 29702.
7912 Changes in version 0.4.1.1-alpha - 2019-05-22
7913 This is the first alpha in the 0.4.1.x series. It introduces
7914 lightweight circuit padding to make some onion-service circuits harder
7915 to distinguish, includes a new "authenticated SENDME" feature to make
7916 certain denial-of-service attacks more difficult, and improves
7917 performance in several areas.
7919 o Major features (circuit padding):
7920 - Onion service clients now add padding cells at the start of their
7921 INTRODUCE and RENDEZVOUS circuits, to make those circuits' traffic
7922 look more like general purpose Exit traffic. The overhead for this
7923 is 2 extra cells in each direction for RENDEZVOUS circuits, and 1
7924 extra upstream cell and 10 downstream cells for INTRODUCE
7925 circuits. This feature is only enabled when also supported by the
7926 circuit's middle node. (Clients may specify fixed middle nodes
7927 with the MiddleNodes option, and may force-disable this feature
7928 with the CircuitPadding option.) Closes ticket 28634.
7930 o Major features (code organization):
7931 - Tor now includes a generic publish-subscribe message-passing
7932 subsystem that we can use to organize intermodule dependencies. We
7933 hope to use this to reduce dependencies between modules that don't
7934 need to be related, and to generally simplify our codebase. Closes
7937 o Major features (controller protocol):
7938 - Controller commands are now parsed using a generalized parsing
7939 subsystem. Previously, each controller command was responsible for
7940 parsing its own input, which led to strange inconsistencies.
7941 Closes ticket 30091.
7943 o Major features (flow control):
7944 - Implement authenticated SENDMEs as detailed in proposal 289. A
7945 SENDME cell now includes the digest of the traffic that it
7946 acknowledges, so that once an end point receives the SENDME, it
7947 can confirm the other side's knowledge of the previous cells that
7948 were sent, and prevent certain types of denial-of-service attacks.
7949 This behavior is controlled by two new consensus parameters: see
7950 the proposal for more details. Fixes ticket 26288.
7952 o Major features (performance):
7953 - Our node selection algorithm now excludes nodes in linear time.
7954 Previously, the algorithm was quadratic, which could slow down
7955 heavily used onion services. Closes ticket 30307.
7957 o Major features (performance, RNG):
7958 - Tor now constructs a fast secure pseudorandom number generator for
7959 each thread, to use when performance is critical. This PRNG is
7960 based on AES-CTR, using a buffering construction similar to
7961 libottery and the (newer) OpenBSD arc4random() code. It
7962 outperforms OpenSSL 1.1.1a's CSPRNG by roughly a factor of 100 for
7963 small outputs. Although we believe it to be cryptographically
7964 strong, we are only using it when necessary for performance.
7965 Implements tickets 29023 and 29536.
7967 o Major bugfixes (onion service v3):
7968 - Fix an unreachable bug in which an introduction point could try to
7969 send an INTRODUCE_ACK with a status code that Trunnel would refuse
7970 to encode, leading the relay to assert(). We've consolidated the
7971 ABI values into Trunnel now. Fixes bug 30454; bugfix
7973 - Clients can now handle unknown status codes from INTRODUCE_ACK
7974 cells. (The NACK behavior will stay the same.) This will allow us
7975 to extend status codes in the future without breaking the normal
7976 client behavior. Fixes another part of bug 30454; bugfix
7979 o Minor features (circuit padding):
7980 - We now use a fast PRNG when scheduling circuit padding. Part of
7982 - Allow the padding machine designer to pick the edges of their
7983 histogram instead of trying to compute them automatically using an
7984 exponential formula. Resolves some undefined behavior in the case
7985 of small histograms and allows greater flexibility on machine
7986 design. Closes ticket 29298; bugfix on 0.4.0.1-alpha.
7987 - Allow circuit padding machines to hold a circuit open until they
7988 are done padding it. Closes ticket 28780.
7990 o Minor features (compile-time modules):
7991 - Add a "--list-modules" command to print a list of which compile-
7992 time modules are enabled. Closes ticket 30452.
7994 o Minor features (continuous integration):
7995 - Remove sudo configuration lines from .travis.yml as they are no
7996 longer needed with current Travis build environment. Resolves
7998 - In Travis, show stem's tor log after failure. Closes ticket 30234.
8000 o Minor features (controller):
8001 - Add onion service version 3 support to the HSFETCH command.
8002 Previously, only version 2 onion services were supported. Closes
8003 ticket 25417. Patch by Neel Chauhan.
8005 o Minor features (debugging):
8006 - Introduce tor_assertf() and tor_assertf_nonfatal() to enable
8007 logging of additional information during assert failure. Now we
8008 can use format strings to include information for trouble
8009 shooting. Resolves ticket 29662.
8011 o Minor features (defense in depth):
8012 - In smartlist_remove_keeporder(), set unused pointers to NULL, in
8013 case a bug causes them to be used later. Closes ticket 30176.
8014 Patch from Tobias Stoeckmann.
8015 - Tor now uses a cryptographically strong PRNG even for decisions
8016 that we do not believe are security-sensitive. Previously, for
8017 performance reasons, we had used a trivially predictable linear
8018 congruential generator algorithm for certain load-balancing and
8019 statistical sampling decisions. Now we use our fast RNG in those
8020 cases. Closes ticket 29542.
8022 o Minor features (developer tools):
8023 - Tor's "practracker" test script now checks for files and functions
8024 that seem too long and complicated. Existing overlong functions
8025 and files are accepted for now, but should eventually be
8026 refactored. Closes ticket 29221.
8027 - Add some scripts used for git maintenance to scripts/git. Closes
8029 - Call practracker from pre-push and pre-commit git hooks to let
8030 developers know if they made any code style violations. Closes
8032 - Add a script to check that each header has a well-formed and
8033 unique guard macro. Closes ticket 29756.
8035 o Minor features (geoip):
8036 - Update geoip and geoip6 to the May 13 2019 Maxmind GeoLite2
8037 Country database. Closes ticket 30522.
8039 o Minor features (HTTP tunnel):
8040 - Return an informative web page when the HTTPTunnelPort is used as
8041 an HTTP proxy. Closes ticket 27821, patch by "eighthave".
8043 o Minor features (IPv6, v3 onion services):
8044 - Make v3 onion services put IPv6 addresses in service descriptors.
8045 Before this change, service descriptors only contained IPv4
8046 addresses. Implements 26992.
8048 o Minor features (modularity):
8049 - The "--disable-module-dirauth" compile-time option now disables
8050 even more dirauth-only code. Closes ticket 30345.
8052 o Minor features (performance):
8053 - Use OpenSSL's implementations of SHA3 when available (in OpenSSL
8054 1.1.1 and later), since they tend to be faster than tiny-keccak.
8055 Closes ticket 28837.
8057 o Minor features (testing):
8058 - Tor's unit test code now contains helper functions to replace the
8059 PRNG with a deterministic or reproducible version for testing.
8060 Previously, various tests implemented this in various ways.
8061 Implements ticket 29732.
8062 - We now have a script, cov-test-determinism.sh, to identify places
8063 where our unit test coverage has become nondeterministic. Closes
8065 - Check that representative subsets of values of `int` and `unsigned
8066 int` can be represented by `void *`. Resolves issue 29537.
8068 o Minor bugfixes (bridge authority):
8069 - Bridge authorities now set bridges as running or non-running when
8070 about to dump their status to a file. Previously, they set bridges
8071 as running in response to a GETINFO command, but those shouldn't
8072 modify data structures. Fixes bug 24490; bugfix on 0.2.0.13-alpha.
8073 Patch by Neel Chauhan.
8075 o Minor bugfixes (channel padding statistics):
8076 - Channel padding write totals and padding-enabled totals are now
8077 counted properly in relay extrainfo descriptors. Fixes bug 29231;
8078 bugfix on 0.3.1.1-alpha.
8080 o Minor bugfixes (circuit padding):
8081 - Add a "CircuitPadding" torrc option to disable circuit padding.
8082 Fixes bug 28693; bugfix on 0.4.0.1-alpha.
8083 - Allow circuit padding machines to specify that they do not
8084 contribute much overhead, and provide consensus flags and torrc
8085 options to force clients to only use these low overhead machines.
8086 Fixes bug 29203; bugfix on 0.4.0.1-alpha.
8087 - Provide a consensus parameter to fully disable circuit padding, to
8088 be used in emergency network overload situations. Fixes bug 30173;
8089 bugfix on 0.4.0.1-alpha.
8090 - The circuit padding subsystem will no longer schedule padding if
8091 dormant mode is enabled. Fixes bug 28636; bugfix on 0.4.0.1-alpha.
8092 - Inspect a circuit-level cell queue before sending padding, to
8093 avoid sending padding while too much data is already queued. Fixes
8094 bug 29204; bugfix on 0.4.0.1-alpha.
8095 - Avoid calling monotime_absolute_usec() in circuit padding machines
8096 that do not use token removal or circuit RTT estimation. Fixes bug
8097 29085; bugfix on 0.4.0.1-alpha.
8099 o Minor bugfixes (compilation, unusual configurations):
8100 - Avoid failures when building with the ALL_BUGS_ARE_FATAL option
8101 due to missing declarations of abort(), and prevent other such
8102 failures in the future. Fixes bug 30189; bugfix on 0.3.4.1-alpha.
8104 o Minor bugfixes (controller protocol):
8105 - Teach the controller parser to distinguish an object preceded by
8106 an argument list from one without. Previously, it couldn't
8107 distinguish an argument list from the first line of a multiline
8108 object. Fixes bug 29984; bugfix on 0.2.3.8-alpha.
8110 o Minor bugfixes (directory authority, ipv6):
8111 - Directory authorities with IPv6 support now always mark themselves
8112 as reachable via IPv6. Fixes bug 24338; bugfix on 0.2.4.1-alpha.
8113 Patch by Neel Chauhan.
8115 o Minor bugfixes (documentation):
8116 - Improve the documentation for using MapAddress with ".exit". Fixes
8117 bug 30109; bugfix on 0.1.0.1-rc.
8118 - Improve the monotonic time module and function documentation to
8119 explain what "monotonic" actually means, and document some results
8120 that have surprised people. Fixes bug 29640; bugfix
8122 - Use proper formatting when providing an example on quoting options
8123 that contain whitespace. Fixes bug 29635; bugfix on 0.2.3.18-rc.
8125 o Minor bugfixes (logging):
8126 - Do not log a warning when running with an OpenSSL version other
8127 than the one Tor was compiled with, if the two versions should be
8128 compatible. Previously, we would warn whenever the version was
8129 different. Fixes bug 30190; bugfix on 0.2.4.2-alpha.
8130 - Warn operators when the MyFamily option is set but ContactInfo is
8131 missing, as the latter should be set too. Fixes bug 25110; bugfix
8134 o Minor bugfixes (memory leak):
8135 - Avoid a minor memory leak that could occur on relays when failing
8136 to create a "keys" directory. Fixes bug 30148; bugfix
8139 o Minor bugfixes (onion services):
8140 - Avoid a GCC 9.1.1 warning (and possible crash depending on libc
8141 implementation) when failing to load an onion service client
8142 authorization file. Fixes bug 30475; bugfix on 0.3.5.1-alpha.
8143 - When refusing to launch a controller's HSFETCH request because of
8144 rate-limiting, respond to the controller with a new response,
8145 "QUERY_RATE_LIMITED". Previously, we would log QUERY_NO_HSDIR for
8146 this case. Fixes bug 28269; bugfix on 0.3.1.1-alpha. Patch by
8148 - When relaunching a circuit to a rendezvous service, mark the
8149 circuit as needing high-uptime routers as appropriate. Fixes bug
8150 17357; bugfix on 0.1.0.1-rc. Patch by Neel Chauhan.
8151 - Stop ignoring IPv6 link specifiers sent to v3 onion services.
8152 (IPv6 support for v3 onion services is still incomplete: see
8153 ticket 23493 for details.) Fixes bug 23588; bugfix on
8154 0.3.2.1-alpha. Patch by Neel Chauhan.
8156 o Minor bugfixes (onion services, performance):
8157 - When building circuits to onion services, call tor_addr_parse()
8158 less often. Previously, we called tor_addr_parse() in
8159 circuit_is_acceptable() even if its output wasn't used. This
8160 change should improve performance when building circuits. Fixes
8161 bug 22210; bugfix on 0.2.8.12. Patch by Neel Chauhan.
8163 o Minor bugfixes (performance):
8164 - When checking whether a node is a bridge, use a fast check to make
8165 sure that its identity is set. Previously, we used a constant-time
8166 check, which is not necessary in this case. Fixes bug 30308;
8167 bugfix on 0.3.5.1-alpha.
8169 o Minor bugfixes (pluggable transports):
8170 - Tor now sets TOR_PT_EXIT_ON_STDIN_CLOSE=1 for client transports as
8171 well as servers. Fixes bug 25614; bugfix on 0.2.7.1-alpha.
8173 o Minor bugfixes (probability distributions):
8174 - Refactor and improve parts of the probability distribution code
8175 that made Coverity complain. Fixes bug 29805; bugfix
8178 o Minor bugfixes (python):
8179 - Stop assuming that /usr/bin/python3 exists. For scripts that work
8180 with python2, use /usr/bin/python. Otherwise, use /usr/bin/env
8181 python3. Fixes bug 29913; bugfix on 0.2.5.3-alpha.
8183 o Minor bugfixes (relay):
8184 - When running as a relay, if IPv6Exit is set to 1 while ExitRelay
8185 is auto, act as if ExitRelay is 1. Previously, we would ignore
8186 IPv6Exit if ExitRelay was 0 or auto. Fixes bug 29613; bugfix on
8187 0.3.5.1-alpha. Patch by Neel Chauhan.
8189 o Minor bugfixes (stats):
8190 - When ExtraInfoStatistics is 0, stop including bandwidth usage
8191 statistics, GeoIPFile hashes, ServerTransportPlugin lines, and
8192 bridge statistics by country in extra-info documents. Fixes bug
8193 29018; bugfix on 0.2.4.1-alpha.
8195 o Minor bugfixes (testing):
8196 - Call setrlimit() to disable core dumps in test_bt_cl.c. Previously
8197 we used `ulimit -c` in test_bt.sh, which violates POSIX shell
8198 compatibility. Fixes bug 29061; bugfix on 0.3.5.1-alpha.
8199 - Fix some incorrect code in the v3 onion service unit tests. Fixes
8200 bug 29243; bugfix on 0.3.2.1-alpha.
8201 - In the "routerkeys/*" tests, check the return values of mkdir()
8202 for possible failures. Fixes bug 29939; bugfix on 0.2.7.2-alpha.
8203 Found by Coverity as CID 1444254.
8204 - Split test_utils_general() into several smaller test functions.
8205 This makes it easier to perform resource deallocation on assert
8206 failure, and fixes Coverity warnings CID 1444117 and CID 1444118.
8207 Fixes bug 29823; bugfix on 0.2.9.1-alpha.
8209 o Minor bugfixes (tor-resolve):
8210 - Fix a memory leak in tor-resolve that could happen if Tor gave it
8211 a malformed SOCKS response. (Memory leaks in tor-resolve don't
8212 actually matter, but it's good to fix them anyway.) Fixes bug
8213 30151; bugfix on 0.4.0.1-alpha.
8215 o Code simplification and refactoring:
8216 - Abstract out the low-level formatting of replies on the control
8217 port. Implements ticket 30007.
8218 - Add several assertions in an attempt to fix some Coverity
8219 warnings. Closes ticket 30149.
8220 - Introduce a connection_dir_buf_add() helper function that checks
8221 for compress_state of dir_connection_t and automatically writes a
8222 string to directory connection with or without compression.
8223 Resolves issue 28816.
8224 - Make the base32_decode() API return the number of bytes written,
8225 for consistency with base64_decode(). Closes ticket 28913.
8226 - Move most relay-only periodic events out of mainloop.c into the
8227 relay subsystem. Closes ticket 30414.
8228 - Refactor and encapsulate parts of the codebase that manipulate
8229 crypt_path_t objects. Resolves issue 30236.
8230 - Refactor several places in our code that Coverity incorrectly
8231 believed might have memory leaks. Closes ticket 30147.
8232 - Remove redundant return values in crypto_format, and the
8233 associated return value checks elsewhere in the code. Make the
8234 implementations in crypto_format consistent, and remove redundant
8235 code. Resolves ticket 29660.
8236 - Rename tor_mem_is_zero() to fast_mem_is_zero(), to emphasize that
8237 it is not a constant-time function. Closes ticket 30309.
8238 - Replace hs_desc_link_specifier_t with link_specifier_t, and remove
8239 all hs_desc_link_specifier_t-specific code. Fixes bug 22781;
8240 bugfix on 0.3.2.1-alpha.
8241 - Simplify v3 onion service link specifier handling code. Fixes bug
8242 23576; bugfix on 0.3.2.1-alpha.
8243 - Split crypto_digest.c into NSS code, OpenSSL code, and shared
8244 code. Resolves ticket 29108.
8245 - Split control.c into several submodules, in preparation for
8246 distributing its current responsibilities throughout the codebase.
8247 Closes ticket 29894.
8248 - Start to move responsibility for knowing about periodic events to
8249 the appropriate subsystems, so that the mainloop doesn't need to
8250 know all the periodic events in the rest of the codebase.
8251 Implements tickets 30293 and 30294.
8254 - Document how to find git commits and tags for bug fixes in
8255 CodingStandards.md. Update some file documentation. Closes
8259 - Remove the linux-tor-prio.sh script from contrib/operator-tools
8260 directory. Resolves issue 29434.
8261 - Remove the obsolete OpenSUSE initscript. Resolves issue 30076.
8262 - Remove the obsolete script at contrib/dist/tor.sh.in. Resolves
8265 o Code simplification and refactoring (shell scripts):
8266 - Clean up many of our shell scripts to fix shellcheck warnings.
8267 These include autogen.sh (ticket 26069), test_keygen.sh (ticket
8268 29062), test_switch_id.sh (ticket 29065), test_rebind.sh (ticket
8269 29063), src/test/fuzz/minimize.sh (ticket 30079), test_rust.sh
8270 (ticket 29064), torify (ticket 29070), asciidoc-helper.sh (29926),
8271 fuzz_multi.sh (30077), fuzz_static_testcases.sh (ticket 29059),
8272 nagios-check-tor-authority-cert (ticket 29071),
8273 src/test/fuzz/fixup_filenames.sh (ticket 30078), test-network.sh
8274 (ticket 29060), test_key_expiration.sh (ticket 30002),
8275 zero_length_keys.sh (ticket 29068), and test_workqueue_*.sh
8278 o Testing (chutney):
8279 - In "make test-network-all", test IPv6-only v3 single onion
8280 services, using the chutney network single-onion-v23-ipv6-md.
8281 Closes ticket 27251.
8284 Changes in version 0.4.0.5 - 2019-05-02
8285 This is the first stable release in the 0.4.0.x series. It contains
8286 improvements for power management and bootstrap reporting, as well as
8287 preliminary backend support for circuit padding to prevent some kinds
8288 of traffic analysis. It also continues our work in refactoring Tor for
8289 long-term maintainability.
8291 Per our support policy, we will support the 0.4.0.x series for nine
8292 months, or until three months after the release of a stable 0.4.1.x:
8293 whichever is longer. If you need longer-term support, please stick
8294 with 0.3.5.x, which will we plan to support until Feb 2022.
8296 Below are the changes since 0.4.0.4-rc. For a complete list of changes
8297 since 0.3.5.7, see the ReleaseNotes file.
8299 o Minor features (continuous integration):
8300 - In Travis, tell timelimit to use stem's backtrace signals, and
8301 launch python directly from timelimit, so python receives the
8302 signals from timelimit, rather than make. Closes ticket 30117.
8304 o Minor features (diagnostic):
8305 - Add more diagnostic log messages in an attempt to solve the issue
8306 of NUL bytes appearing in a microdescriptor cache. Related to
8309 o Minor features (testing):
8310 - Use the approx_time() function when setting the "Expires" header
8311 in directory replies, to make them more testable. Needed for
8314 o Minor bugfixes (rust):
8315 - Abort on panic in all build profiles, instead of potentially
8316 unwinding into C code. Fixes bug 27199; bugfix on 0.3.3.1-alpha.
8318 o Minor bugfixes (shellcheck):
8319 - Look for scripts in their correct locations during "make
8320 shellcheck". Previously we had looked in the wrong place during
8321 out-of-tree builds. Fixes bug 30263; bugfix on 0.4.0.1-alpha.
8323 o Minor bugfixes (testing):
8324 - Check the time in the "Expires" header using approx_time(). Fixes
8325 bug 30001; bugfix on 0.4.0.4-rc.
8327 o Minor bugfixes (UI):
8328 - Lower log level of unlink() errors during bootstrap. Fixes bug
8329 29930; bugfix on 0.4.0.1-alpha.
8332 Changes in version 0.4.0.4-rc - 2019-04-11
8333 Tor 0.4.0.4-rc is the first release candidate in its series; it fixes
8334 several bugs from earlier versions, including some that had affected
8335 stability, and one that prevented relays from working with NSS.
8337 o Major bugfixes (NSS, relay):
8338 - When running with NSS, disable TLS 1.2 ciphersuites that use
8339 SHA384 for their PRF. Due to an NSS bug, the TLS key exporters for
8340 these ciphersuites don't work -- which caused relays to fail to
8341 handshake with one another when these ciphersuites were enabled.
8342 Fixes bug 29241; bugfix on 0.3.5.1-alpha.
8344 o Minor features (bandwidth authority):
8345 - Make bandwidth authorities ignore relays that are reported in the
8346 bandwidth file with the flag "vote=0". This change allows us to
8347 report unmeasured relays for diagnostic reasons without including
8348 their bandwidth in the bandwidth authorities' vote. Closes
8350 - When a directory authority is using a bandwidth file to obtain the
8351 bandwidth values that will be included in the next vote, serve
8352 this bandwidth file at /tor/status-vote/next/bandwidth. Closes
8355 o Minor features (circuit padding):
8356 - Stop warning about undefined behavior in the probability
8357 distribution tests. Float division by zero may technically be
8358 undefined behavior in C, but it's well defined in IEEE 754.
8359 Partial backport of 29298. Closes ticket 29527; bugfix
8362 o Minor features (continuous integration):
8363 - On Travis Rust builds, cleanup Rust registry and refrain from
8364 caching the "target/" directory to speed up builds. Resolves
8367 o Minor features (dormant mode):
8368 - Add a DormantCanceledByStartup option to tell Tor that it should
8369 treat a startup event as cancelling any previous dormant state.
8370 Integrators should use this option with caution: it should only be
8371 used if Tor is being started because of something that the user
8372 did, and not if Tor is being automatically started in the
8373 background. Closes ticket 29357.
8375 o Minor features (geoip):
8376 - Update geoip and geoip6 to the April 2 2019 Maxmind GeoLite2
8377 Country database. Closes ticket 29992.
8379 o Minor features (NSS, diagnostic):
8380 - Try to log an error from NSS (if there is any) and a more useful
8381 description of our situation if we are using NSS and a call to
8382 SSL_ExportKeyingMaterial() fails. Diagnostic for ticket 29241.
8384 o Minor bugfixes (security):
8385 - Fix a potential double free bug when reading huge bandwidth files.
8386 The issue is not exploitable in the current Tor network because
8387 the vulnerable code is only reached when directory authorities
8388 read bandwidth files, but bandwidth files come from a trusted
8389 source (usually the authorities themselves). Furthermore, the
8390 issue is only exploitable in rare (non-POSIX) 32-bit architectures,
8391 which are not used by any of the current authorities. Fixes bug
8392 30040; bugfix on 0.3.5.1-alpha. Bug found and fixed by
8394 - Verify in more places that we are not about to create a buffer
8395 with more than INT_MAX bytes, to avoid possible OOB access in the
8396 event of bugs. Fixes bug 30041; bugfix on 0.2.0.16. Found and
8397 fixed by Tobias Stoeckmann.
8399 o Minor bugfix (continuous integration):
8400 - Reset coverage state on disk after Travis CI has finished. This
8401 should prevent future coverage merge errors from causing the test
8402 suite for the "process" subsystem to fail. The process subsystem
8403 was introduced in 0.4.0.1-alpha. Fixes bug 29036; bugfix
8405 - Terminate test-stem if it takes more than 9.5 minutes to run.
8406 (Travis terminates the job after 10 minutes of no output.)
8407 Diagnostic for 29437. Fixes bug 30011; bugfix on 0.3.5.4-alpha.
8409 o Minor bugfixes (bootstrap reporting):
8410 - During bootstrap reporting, correctly distinguish pluggable
8411 transports from plain proxies. Fixes bug 28925; bugfix
8414 o Minor bugfixes (C correctness):
8415 - Fix an unlikely memory leak in consensus_diff_apply(). Fixes bug
8416 29824; bugfix on 0.3.1.1-alpha. This is Coverity warning
8419 o Minor bugfixes (circuitpadding testing):
8420 - Minor tweaks to avoid rare test failures related to timers and
8421 monotonic time. Fixes bug 29500; bugfix on 0.4.0.1-alpha.
8423 o Minor bugfixes (directory authorities):
8424 - Actually include the bandwidth-file-digest line in directory
8425 authority votes. Fixes bug 29959; bugfix on 0.4.0.2-alpha.
8427 o Minor bugfixes (logging):
8428 - On Windows, when errors cause us to reload a consensus from disk,
8429 tell the user that we are retrying at log level "notice".
8430 Previously we only logged this information at "info", which was
8431 confusing because the errors themselves were logged at "warning".
8432 Improves previous fix for 28614. Fixes bug 30004; bugfix
8435 o Minor bugfixes (pluggable transports):
8436 - Restore old behavior when it comes to discovering the path of a
8437 given Pluggable Transport executable file. A change in
8438 0.4.0.1-alpha had broken this behavior on paths containing a
8439 space. Fixes bug 29874; bugfix on 0.4.0.1-alpha.
8441 o Minor bugfixes (testing):
8442 - Backport the 0.3.4 src/test/test-network.sh to 0.2.9. We need a
8443 recent test-network.sh to use new chutney features in CI. Fixes
8444 bug 29703; bugfix on 0.2.9.1-alpha.
8445 - Fix a test failure on Windows caused by an unexpected "BUG"
8446 warning in our tests for tor_gmtime_r(-1). Fixes bug 29922; bugfix
8449 o Minor bugfixes (TLS protocol):
8450 - When classifying a client's selection of TLS ciphers, if the
8451 client ciphers are not yet available, do not cache the result.
8452 Previously, we had cached the unavailability of the cipher list
8453 and never looked again, which in turn led us to assume that the
8454 client only supported the ancient V1 link protocol. This, in turn,
8455 was causing Stem integration tests to stall in some cases. Fixes
8456 bug 30021; bugfix on 0.2.4.8-alpha.
8458 o Code simplification and refactoring:
8459 - Introduce a connection_dir_buf_add() helper function that detects
8460 whether compression is in use, and adds a string accordingly.
8461 Resolves issue 28816.
8462 - Refactor handle_get_next_bandwidth() to use
8463 connection_dir_buf_add(). Implements ticket 29897.
8466 - Clarify that Tor performs stream isolation among *Port listeners
8467 by default. Resolves issue 29121.
8470 Changes in version 0.4.0.3-alpha - 2019-03-22
8471 Tor 0.4.0.3-alpha is the third in its series; it fixes several small
8472 bugs from earlier versions.
8474 o Minor features (address selection):
8475 - Treat the subnet 100.64.0.0/10 as public for some purposes;
8476 private for others. This subnet is the RFC 6598 (Carrier Grade
8477 NAT) IP range, and is deployed by many ISPs as an alternative to
8478 RFC 1918 that does not break existing internal networks. Tor now
8479 blocks SOCKS and control ports on these addresses and warns users
8480 if client ports or ExtORPorts are listening on a RFC 6598 address.
8481 Closes ticket 28525. Patch by Neel Chauhan.
8483 o Minor features (geoip):
8484 - Update geoip and geoip6 to the March 4 2019 Maxmind GeoLite2
8485 Country database. Closes ticket 29666.
8487 o Minor bugfixes (circuitpadding):
8488 - Inspect the circuit-level cell queue before sending padding, to
8489 avoid sending padding when too much data is queued. Fixes bug
8490 29204; bugfix on 0.4.0.1-alpha.
8492 o Minor bugfixes (logging):
8493 - Correct a misleading error message when IPv4Only or IPv6Only is
8494 used but the resolved address can not be interpreted as an address
8495 of the specified IP version. Fixes bug 13221; bugfix on
8496 0.2.3.9-alpha. Patch from Kris Katterjohn.
8497 - Log the correct port number for listening sockets when "auto" is
8498 used to let Tor pick the port number. Previously, port 0 was
8499 logged instead of the actual port number. Fixes bug 29144; bugfix
8500 on 0.3.5.1-alpha. Patch from Kris Katterjohn.
8501 - Stop logging a BUG() warning when Tor is waiting for exit
8502 descriptors. Fixes bug 28656; bugfix on 0.3.5.1-alpha.
8504 o Minor bugfixes (memory management):
8505 - Refactor the shared random state's memory management so that it
8506 actually takes ownership of the shared random value pointers.
8507 Fixes bug 29706; bugfix on 0.2.9.1-alpha.
8509 o Minor bugfixes (memory management, testing):
8510 - Stop leaking parts of the shared random state in the shared-random
8511 unit tests. Fixes bug 29599; bugfix on 0.2.9.1-alpha.
8513 o Minor bugfixes (pluggable transports):
8514 - Fix an assertion failure crash bug when a pluggable transport is
8515 terminated during the bootstrap phase. Fixes bug 29562; bugfix
8518 o Minor bugfixes (Rust, protover):
8519 - Add a missing "Padding" value to the Rust implementation of
8520 protover. Fixes bug 29631; bugfix on 0.4.0.1-alpha.
8522 o Minor bugfixes (single onion services):
8523 - Allow connections to single onion services to remain idle without
8524 being disconnected. Previously, relays acting as rendezvous points
8525 for single onion services were mistakenly closing idle rendezvous
8526 circuits after 60 seconds, thinking that they were unused
8527 directory-fetching circuits that had served their purpose. Fixes
8528 bug 29665; bugfix on 0.2.1.26.
8530 o Minor bugfixes (stats):
8531 - When ExtraInfoStatistics is 0, stop including PaddingStatistics in
8532 relay and bridge extra-info documents. Fixes bug 29017; bugfix
8535 o Minor bugfixes (testing):
8536 - Downgrade some LOG_ERR messages in the address/* tests to
8537 warnings. The LOG_ERR messages were occurring when we had no
8538 configured network. We were failing the unit tests, because we
8539 backported 28668 to 0.3.5.8, but did not backport 29530. Fixes bug
8540 29530; bugfix on 0.3.5.8.
8541 - Fix our gcov wrapper script to look for object files at the
8542 correct locations. Fixes bug 29435; bugfix on 0.3.5.1-alpha.
8543 - Decrease the false positive rate of stochastic probability
8544 distribution tests. Fixes bug 29693; bugfix on 0.4.0.1-alpha.
8546 o Minor bugfixes (Windows, CI):
8547 - Skip the Appveyor 32-bit Windows Server 2016 job, and 64-bit
8548 Windows Server 2012 R2 job. The remaining 2 jobs still provide
8549 coverage of 64/32-bit, and Windows Server 2016/2012 R2. Also set
8550 fast_finish, so failed jobs terminate the build immediately. Fixes
8551 bug 29601; bugfix on 0.3.5.4-alpha.
8554 Changes in version 0.3.5.8 - 2019-02-21
8555 Tor 0.3.5.8 backports several fixes from later releases, including fixes
8556 for an annoying SOCKS-parsing bug that affected users in earlier 0.3.5.x
8559 It also includes a fix for a medium-severity security bug affecting Tor
8560 0.3.2.1-alpha and later. All Tor instances running an affected release
8561 should upgrade to 0.3.3.12, 0.3.4.11, 0.3.5.8, or 0.4.0.2-alpha.
8563 o Major bugfixes (cell scheduler, KIST, security):
8564 - Make KIST consider the outbuf length when computing what it can
8565 put in the outbuf. Previously, KIST acted as though the outbuf
8566 were empty, which could lead to the outbuf becoming too full. It
8567 is possible that an attacker could exploit this bug to cause a Tor
8568 client or relay to run out of memory and crash. Fixes bug 29168;
8569 bugfix on 0.3.2.1-alpha. This issue is also being tracked as
8570 TROVE-2019-001 and CVE-2019-8955.
8572 o Major bugfixes (networking, backport from 0.4.0.2-alpha):
8573 - Gracefully handle empty username/password fields in SOCKS5
8574 username/password auth message and allow SOCKS5 handshake to
8575 continue. Previously, we had rejected these handshakes, breaking
8576 certain applications. Fixes bug 29175; bugfix on 0.3.5.1-alpha.
8578 o Minor features (compilation, backport from 0.4.0.2-alpha):
8579 - Compile correctly when OpenSSL is built with engine support
8580 disabled, or with deprecated APIs disabled. Closes ticket 29026.
8581 Patches from "Mangix".
8583 o Minor features (geoip):
8584 - Update geoip and geoip6 to the February 5 2019 Maxmind GeoLite2
8585 Country database. Closes ticket 29478.
8587 o Minor features (testing, backport from 0.4.0.2-alpha):
8588 - Treat all unexpected ERR and BUG messages as test failures. Closes
8591 o Minor bugfixes (onion service v3, client, backport from 0.4.0.1-alpha):
8592 - Stop logging a "BUG()" warning and stacktrace when we find a SOCKS
8593 connection waiting for a descriptor that we actually have in the
8594 cache. It turns out that this can actually happen, though it is
8595 rare. Now, tor will recover and retry the descriptor. Fixes bug
8596 28669; bugfix on 0.3.2.4-alpha.
8598 o Minor bugfixes (IPv6, backport from 0.4.0.1-alpha):
8599 - Fix tor_ersatz_socketpair on IPv6-only systems. Previously, the
8600 IPv6 socket was bound using an address family of AF_INET instead
8601 of AF_INET6. Fixes bug 28995; bugfix on 0.3.5.1-alpha. Patch from
8604 o Minor bugfixes (build, compatibility, rust, backport from 0.4.0.2-alpha):
8605 - Update Cargo.lock file to match the version made by the latest
8606 version of Rust, so that "make distcheck" will pass again. Fixes
8607 bug 29244; bugfix on 0.3.3.4-alpha.
8609 o Minor bugfixes (client, clock skew, backport from 0.4.0.1-alpha):
8610 - Select guards even if the consensus has expired, as long as the
8611 consensus is still reasonably live. Fixes bug 24661; bugfix
8614 o Minor bugfixes (compilation, backport from 0.4.0.1-alpha):
8615 - Compile correctly on OpenBSD; previously, we were missing some
8616 headers required in order to detect it properly. Fixes bug 28938;
8617 bugfix on 0.3.5.1-alpha. Patch from Kris Katterjohn.
8619 o Minor bugfixes (documentation, backport from 0.4.0.2-alpha):
8620 - Describe the contents of the v3 onion service client authorization
8621 files correctly: They hold public keys, not private keys. Fixes
8622 bug 28979; bugfix on 0.3.5.1-alpha. Spotted by "Felixix".
8624 o Minor bugfixes (logging, backport from 0.4.0.1-alpha):
8625 - Rework rep_hist_log_link_protocol_counts() to iterate through all
8626 link protocol versions when logging incoming/outgoing connection
8627 counts. Tor no longer skips version 5, and we won't have to
8628 remember to update this function when new link protocol version is
8629 developed. Fixes bug 28920; bugfix on 0.2.6.10.
8631 o Minor bugfixes (logging, backport from 0.4.0.2-alpha):
8632 - Log more information at "warning" level when unable to read a
8633 private key; log more information at "info" level when unable to
8634 read a public key. We had warnings here before, but they were lost
8635 during our NSS work. Fixes bug 29042; bugfix on 0.3.5.1-alpha.
8637 o Minor bugfixes (misc, backport from 0.4.0.2-alpha):
8638 - The amount of total available physical memory is now determined
8639 using the sysctl identifier HW_PHYSMEM (rather than HW_USERMEM)
8640 when it is defined and a 64-bit variant is not available. Fixes
8641 bug 28981; bugfix on 0.2.5.4-alpha. Patch from Kris Katterjohn.
8643 o Minor bugfixes (onion services, backport from 0.4.0.2-alpha):
8644 - Avoid crashing if ClientOnionAuthDir (incorrectly) contains more
8645 than one private key for a hidden service. Fixes bug 29040; bugfix
8647 - In hs_cache_store_as_client() log an HSDesc we failed to parse at
8648 "debug" level. Tor used to log it as a warning, which caused very
8649 long log lines to appear for some users. Fixes bug 29135; bugfix
8651 - Stop logging "Tried to establish rendezvous on non-OR circuit..."
8652 as a warning. Instead, log it as a protocol warning, because there
8653 is nothing that relay operators can do to fix it. Fixes bug 29029;
8654 bugfix on 0.2.5.7-rc.
8656 o Minor bugfixes (tests, directory clients, backport from 0.4.0.1-alpha):
8657 - Mark outdated dirservers when Tor only has a reasonably live
8658 consensus. Fixes bug 28569; bugfix on 0.3.2.5-alpha.
8660 o Minor bugfixes (tests, backport from 0.4.0.2-alpha):
8661 - Detect and suppress "bug" warnings from the util/time test on
8662 Windows. Fixes bug 29161; bugfix on 0.2.9.3-alpha.
8663 - Do not log an error-level message if we fail to find an IPv6
8664 network interface from the unit tests. Fixes bug 29160; bugfix
8667 o Minor bugfixes (usability, backport from 0.4.0.1-alpha):
8668 - Stop saying "Your Guard ..." in pathbias_measure_{use,close}_rate().
8669 Some users took this phrasing to mean that the mentioned guard was
8670 under their control or responsibility, which it is not. Fixes bug
8671 28895; bugfix on Tor 0.3.0.1-alpha.
8674 Changes in version 0.3.4.11 - 2019-02-21
8675 Tor 0.3.4.11 is the third stable release in its series. It includes
8676 a fix for a medium-severity security bug affecting Tor 0.3.2.1-alpha and
8677 later. All Tor instances running an affected release should upgrade to
8678 0.3.3.12, 0.3.4.11, 0.3.5.8, or 0.4.0.2-alpha.
8680 o Major bugfixes (cell scheduler, KIST, security):
8681 - Make KIST consider the outbuf length when computing what it can
8682 put in the outbuf. Previously, KIST acted as though the outbuf
8683 were empty, which could lead to the outbuf becoming too full. It
8684 is possible that an attacker could exploit this bug to cause a Tor
8685 client or relay to run out of memory and crash. Fixes bug 29168;
8686 bugfix on 0.3.2.1-alpha. This issue is also being tracked as
8687 TROVE-2019-001 and CVE-2019-8955.
8689 o Minor features (geoip):
8690 - Update geoip and geoip6 to the February 5 2019 Maxmind GeoLite2
8691 Country database. Closes ticket 29478.
8693 o Minor bugfixes (build, compatibility, rust, backport from 0.4.0.2-alpha):
8694 - Update Cargo.lock file to match the version made by the latest
8695 version of Rust, so that "make distcheck" will pass again. Fixes
8696 bug 29244; bugfix on 0.3.3.4-alpha.
8698 o Minor bugfixes (onion services, backport from 0.4.0.2-alpha):
8699 - Stop logging "Tried to establish rendezvous on non-OR circuit..."
8700 as a warning. Instead, log it as a protocol warning, because there
8701 is nothing that relay operators can do to fix it. Fixes bug 29029;
8702 bugfix on 0.2.5.7-rc.
8705 Changes in version 0.3.3.12 - 2019-02-21
8706 Tor 0.3.3.12 fixes a medium-severity security bug affecting Tor
8707 0.3.2.1-alpha and later. All Tor instances running an affected release
8708 should upgrade to 0.3.3.12, 0.3.4.11, 0.3.5.8, or 0.4.0.2-alpha.
8710 This release marks the end of support for the Tor 0.3.3.x series. We
8711 recommend that users switch to either the Tor 0.3.4 series (supported
8712 until at least 10 June 2019), or the Tor 0.3.5 series, which will
8713 receive long-term support until at least 1 Feb 2022.
8715 o Major bugfixes (cell scheduler, KIST, security):
8716 - Make KIST consider the outbuf length when computing what it can
8717 put in the outbuf. Previously, KIST acted as though the outbuf
8718 were empty, which could lead to the outbuf becoming too full. It
8719 is possible that an attacker could exploit this bug to cause a Tor
8720 client or relay to run out of memory and crash. Fixes bug 29168;
8721 bugfix on 0.3.2.1-alpha. This issue is also being tracked as
8722 TROVE-2019-001 and CVE-2019-8955.
8724 o Minor features (geoip):
8725 - Update geoip and geoip6 to the February 5 2019 Maxmind GeoLite2
8726 Country database. Closes ticket 29478.
8728 o Minor bugfixes (build, compatibility, rust, backport from 0.4.0.2-alpha):
8729 - Update Cargo.lock file to match the version made by the latest
8730 version of Rust, so that "make distcheck" will pass again. Fixes
8731 bug 29244; bugfix on 0.3.3.4-alpha.
8733 o Minor bugfixes (onion services, backport from 0.4.0.2-alpha):
8734 - Stop logging "Tried to establish rendezvous on non-OR circuit..."
8735 as a warning. Instead, log it as a protocol warning, because there
8736 is nothing that relay operators can do to fix it. Fixes bug 29029;
8737 bugfix on 0.2.5.7-rc.
8740 Changes in version 0.4.0.2-alpha - 2019-02-21
8741 Tor 0.4.0.2-alpha is the second alpha in its series; it fixes several
8742 bugs from earlier versions, including several that had broken
8743 backward compatibility.
8745 It also includes a fix for a medium-severity security bug affecting Tor
8746 0.3.2.1-alpha and later. All Tor instances running an affected release
8747 should upgrade to 0.3.3.12, 0.3.4.11, 0.3.5.8, or 0.4.0.2-alpha.
8749 o Major bugfixes (cell scheduler, KIST, security):
8750 - Make KIST consider the outbuf length when computing what it can
8751 put in the outbuf. Previously, KIST acted as though the outbuf
8752 were empty, which could lead to the outbuf becoming too full. It
8753 is possible that an attacker could exploit this bug to cause a Tor
8754 client or relay to run out of memory and crash. Fixes bug 29168;
8755 bugfix on 0.3.2.1-alpha. This issue is also being tracked as
8756 TROVE-2019-001 and CVE-2019-8955.
8758 o Major bugfixes (networking):
8759 - Gracefully handle empty username/password fields in SOCKS5
8760 username/password auth messsage and allow SOCKS5 handshake to
8761 continue. Previously, we had rejected these handshakes, breaking
8762 certain applications. Fixes bug 29175; bugfix on 0.3.5.1-alpha.
8764 o Major bugfixes (windows, startup):
8765 - When reading a consensus file from disk, detect whether it was
8766 written in text mode, and re-read it in text mode if so. Always
8767 write consensus files in binary mode so that we can map them into
8768 memory later. Previously, we had written in text mode, which
8769 confused us when we tried to map the file on windows. Fixes bug
8770 28614; bugfix on 0.4.0.1-alpha.
8772 o Minor features (compilation):
8773 - Compile correctly when OpenSSL is built with engine support
8774 disabled, or with deprecated APIs disabled. Closes ticket 29026.
8775 Patches from "Mangix".
8777 o Minor features (developer tooling):
8778 - Check that bugfix versions in changes files look like Tor versions
8779 from the versions spec. Warn when bugfixes claim to be on a future
8780 release. Closes ticket 27761.
8781 - Provide a git pre-commit hook that disallows committing if we have
8782 any failures in our code and changelog formatting checks. It is
8783 now available in scripts/maint/pre-commit.git-hook. Implements
8786 o Minor features (directory authority):
8787 - When a directory authority is using a bandwidth file to obtain
8788 bandwidth values, include the digest of that file in the vote.
8789 Closes ticket 26698.
8791 o Minor features (geoip):
8792 - Update geoip and geoip6 to the February 5 2019 Maxmind GeoLite2
8793 Country database. Closes ticket 29478.
8795 o Minor features (testing):
8796 - Treat all unexpected ERR and BUG messages as test failures. Closes
8799 o Minor bugfixes (build, compatibility, rust):
8800 - Update Cargo.lock file to match the version made by the latest
8801 version of Rust, so that "make distcheck" will pass again. Fixes
8802 bug 29244; bugfix on 0.3.3.4-alpha.
8804 o Minor bugfixes (compilation):
8805 - Fix compilation warnings in test_circuitpadding.c. Fixes bug
8806 29169; bugfix on 0.4.0.1-alpha.
8807 - Silence a compiler warning in test-memwipe.c on OpenBSD. Fixes bug
8808 29145; bugfix on 0.2.9.3-alpha. Patch from Kris Katterjohn.
8810 o Minor bugfixes (documentation):
8811 - Describe the contents of the v3 onion service client authorization
8812 files correctly: They hold public keys, not private keys. Fixes
8813 bug 28979; bugfix on 0.3.5.1-alpha. Spotted by "Felixix".
8815 o Minor bugfixes (linux seccomp sandbox):
8816 - Fix startup crash when experimental sandbox support is enabled.
8817 Fixes bug 29150; bugfix on 0.4.0.1-alpha. Patch by Peter Gerber.
8819 o Minor bugfixes (logging):
8820 - Avoid logging that we are relaxing a circuit timeout when that
8821 timeout is fixed. Fixes bug 28698; bugfix on 0.2.4.7-alpha.
8822 - Log more information at "warning" level when unable to read a
8823 private key; log more information at "info" level when unable to
8824 read a public key. We had warnings here before, but they were lost
8825 during our NSS work. Fixes bug 29042; bugfix on 0.3.5.1-alpha.
8827 o Minor bugfixes (misc):
8828 - The amount of total available physical memory is now determined
8829 using the sysctl identifier HW_PHYSMEM (rather than HW_USERMEM)
8830 when it is defined and a 64-bit variant is not available. Fixes
8831 bug 28981; bugfix on 0.2.5.4-alpha. Patch from Kris Katterjohn.
8833 o Minor bugfixes (onion services):
8834 - Avoid crashing if ClientOnionAuthDir (incorrectly) contains more
8835 than one private key for a hidden service. Fixes bug 29040; bugfix
8837 - In hs_cache_store_as_client() log an HSDesc we failed to parse at
8838 "debug" level. Tor used to log it as a warning, which caused very
8839 long log lines to appear for some users. Fixes bug 29135; bugfix
8841 - Stop logging "Tried to establish rendezvous on non-OR circuit..."
8842 as a warning. Instead, log it as a protocol warning, because there
8843 is nothing that relay operators can do to fix it. Fixes bug 29029;
8844 bugfix on 0.2.5.7-rc.
8846 o Minor bugfixes (scheduler):
8847 - When re-adding channels to the pending list, check the correct
8848 channel's sched_heap_idx. This issue has had no effect in mainline
8849 Tor, but could have led to bugs down the road in improved versions
8850 of our circuit scheduling code. Fixes bug 29508; bugfix
8853 o Minor bugfixes (tests):
8854 - Fix intermittent failures on an adaptive padding test. Fixes one
8855 case of bug 29122; bugfix on 0.4.0.1-alpha.
8856 - Disable an unstable circuit-padding test that was failing
8857 intermittently because of an ill-defined small histogram. Such
8858 histograms will be allowed again after 29298 is implemented. Fixes
8859 a second case of bug 29122; bugfix on 0.4.0.1-alpha.
8860 - Detect and suppress "bug" warnings from the util/time test on
8861 Windows. Fixes bug 29161; bugfix on 0.2.9.3-alpha.
8862 - Do not log an error-level message if we fail to find an IPv6
8863 network interface from the unit tests. Fixes bug 29160; bugfix
8867 - In the manpage entry describing MapAddress torrc setting, use
8868 example IP addresses from ranges specified for use in documentation
8869 by RFC 5737. Resolves issue 28623.
8872 - Remove the old check-tor script. Resolves issue 29072.
8875 Changes in version 0.4.0.1-alpha - 2019-01-18
8876 Tor 0.4.0.1-alpha is the first release in the new 0.4.0.x series. It
8877 introduces improved features for power and bandwidth conservation,
8878 more accurate reporting of bootstrap progress for user interfaces, and
8879 an experimental backend for an exciting new adaptive padding feature.
8880 There is also the usual assortment of bugfixes and minor features, all
8883 o Major features (battery management, client, dormant mode):
8884 - When Tor is running as a client, and it is unused for a long time,
8885 it can now enter a "dormant" state. When Tor is dormant, it avoids
8886 network and CPU activity until it is reawoken either by a user
8887 request or by a controller command. For more information, see the
8888 configuration options starting with "Dormant". Implements tickets
8890 - The client's memory of whether it is "dormant", and how long it
8891 has spent idle, persists across invocations. Implements
8893 - There is a DormantOnFirstStartup option that integrators can use
8894 if they expect that in many cases, Tor will be installed but
8897 o Major features (bootstrap reporting):
8898 - When reporting bootstrap progress, report the first connection
8899 uniformly, regardless of whether it's a connection for building
8900 application circuits. This allows finer-grained reporting of early
8901 progress than previously possible, with the improvements of ticket
8902 27169. Closes tickets 27167 and 27103. Addresses ticket 27308.
8903 - When reporting bootstrap progress, treat connecting to a proxy or
8904 pluggable transport as separate from having successfully used that
8905 proxy or pluggable transport to connect to a relay. Closes tickets
8908 o Major features (circuit padding):
8909 - Implement preliminary support for the circuit padding portion of
8910 Proposal 254. The implementation supports Adaptive Padding (aka
8911 WTF-PAD) state machines for use between experimental clients and
8912 relays. Support is also provided for APE-style state machines that
8913 use probability distributions instead of histograms to specify
8914 inter-packet delay. At the moment, Tor does not provide any
8915 padding state machines that are used in normal operation: for now,
8916 this feature exists solely for experimentation. Closes
8919 o Major features (refactoring):
8920 - Tor now uses an explicit list of its own subsystems when
8921 initializing and shutting down. Previously, these systems were
8922 managed implicitly in various places throughout the codebase.
8923 (There may still be some subsystems using the old system.) Closes
8926 o Minor features (bootstrap reporting):
8927 - When reporting bootstrap progress, stop distinguishing between
8928 situations where only internal paths are available and situations
8929 where external paths are available. Previously, Tor would often
8930 erroneously report that it had only internal paths. Closes
8933 o Minor features (continuous integration):
8934 - Log Python version during each Travis CI job. Resolves
8937 o Minor features (controller):
8938 - Add a DROPOWNERSHIP command to undo the effects of TAKEOWNERSHIP.
8939 Implements ticket 28843.
8941 o Minor features (developer tooling):
8942 - Provide a git hook script to prevent "fixup!" and "squash!"
8943 commits from ending up in the master branch, as scripts/main/pre-
8944 push.git-hook. Closes ticket 27993.
8946 o Minor features (directory authority):
8947 - Directory authorities support a new consensus algorithm, under
8948 which the family lines in microdescriptors are encoded in a
8949 canonical form. This change makes family lines more compressible
8950 in transit, and on the client. Closes ticket 28266; implements
8953 o Minor features (directory authority, relay):
8954 - Authorities now vote on a "StaleDesc" flag to indicate that a
8955 relay's descriptor is so old that the relay should upload again
8956 soon. Relays treat this flag as a signal to upload a new
8957 descriptor. This flag will eventually let us remove the
8958 'published' date from routerstatus entries, and make our consensus
8959 diffs much smaller. Closes ticket 26770; implements proposal 293.
8961 o Minor features (fallback directory mirrors):
8962 - Update the fallback whitelist based on operator opt-ins and opt-
8963 outs. Closes ticket 24805, patch by Phoul.
8965 o Minor features (FreeBSD):
8966 - On FreeBSD-based systems, warn relay operators if the
8967 "net.inet.ip.random_id" sysctl (IP ID randomization) is disabled.
8968 Closes ticket 28518.
8970 o Minor features (HTTP standards compliance):
8971 - Stop sending the header "Content-type: application/octet-stream"
8972 along with transparently compressed documents: this confused
8973 browsers. Closes ticket 28100.
8975 o Minor features (IPv6):
8976 - We add an option ClientAutoIPv6ORPort, to make clients randomly
8977 prefer a node's IPv4 or IPv6 ORPort. The random preference is set
8978 every time a node is loaded from a new consensus or bridge config.
8979 We expect that this option will enable clients to bootstrap more
8980 quickly without having to determine whether they support IPv4,
8981 IPv6, or both. Closes ticket 27490. Patch by Neel Chauhan.
8982 - When using addrs_in_same_network_family(), avoid choosing circuit
8983 paths that pass through the same IPv6 subnet more than once.
8984 Previously, we only checked IPv4 subnets. Closes ticket 24393.
8985 Patch by Neel Chauhan.
8987 o Minor features (log messages):
8988 - Improve log message in v3 onion services that could print out
8989 negative revision counters. Closes ticket 27707. Patch
8992 o Minor features (memory usage):
8993 - Save memory by storing microdescriptor family lists with a more
8994 compact representation. Closes ticket 27359.
8995 - Tor clients now use mmap() to read consensus files from disk, so
8996 that they no longer need keep the full text of a consensus in
8997 memory when parsing it or applying a diff. Closes ticket 27244.
8999 o Minor features (parsing):
9000 - Directory authorities now validate that router descriptors and
9001 ExtraInfo documents are in a valid subset of UTF-8, and reject
9002 them if they are not. Closes ticket 27367.
9004 o Minor features (performance):
9005 - Cache the results of summarize_protocol_flags(), so that we don't
9006 have to parse the same protocol-versions string over and over.
9007 This should save us a huge number of malloc calls on startup, and
9008 may reduce memory fragmentation with some allocators. Closes
9010 - Remove a needless memset() call from get_token_arguments, thereby
9011 speeding up the tokenization of directory objects by about 20%.
9012 Closes ticket 28852.
9013 - Replace parse_short_policy() with a faster implementation, to
9014 improve microdescriptor parsing time. Closes ticket 28853.
9015 - Speed up directory parsing a little by avoiding use of the non-
9016 inlined strcmp_len() function. Closes ticket 28856.
9017 - Speed up microdescriptor parsing by about 30%, to help improve
9018 startup time. Closes ticket 28839.
9020 o Minor features (pluggable transports):
9021 - Add support for emitting STATUS updates to Tor's control port from
9022 a pluggable transport process. Closes ticket 28846.
9023 - Add support for logging to Tor's logging subsystem from a
9024 pluggable transport process. Closes ticket 28180.
9026 o Minor features (process management):
9027 - Add a new process API for handling child processes. This new API
9028 allows Tor to have bi-directional communication with child
9029 processes on both Unix and Windows. Closes ticket 28179.
9030 - Use the subsystem manager to initialize and shut down the process
9031 module. Closes ticket 28847.
9033 o Minor features (relay):
9034 - When listing relay families, list them in canonical form including
9035 the relay's own identity, and try to give a more useful set of
9036 warnings. Part of ticket 28266 and proposal 298.
9038 o Minor features (required protocols):
9039 - Before exiting because of a missing required protocol, Tor will
9040 now check the publication time of the consensus, and not exit
9041 unless the consensus is newer than the Tor program's own release
9042 date. Previously, Tor would not check the consensus publication
9043 time, and so might exit because of a missing protocol that might
9044 no longer be required in a current consensus. Implements proposal
9045 297; closes ticket 27735.
9047 o Minor features (testing):
9048 - Allow a HeartbeatPeriod of less than 30 minutes in testing Tor
9049 networks. Closes ticket 28840. Patch by Rob Jansen.
9051 o Minor bugfixes (client, clock skew):
9052 - Bootstrap successfully even when Tor's clock is behind the clocks
9053 on the authorities. Fixes bug 28591; bugfix on 0.2.0.9-alpha.
9054 - Select guards even if the consensus has expired, as long as the
9055 consensus is still reasonably live. Fixes bug 24661; bugfix
9058 o Minor bugfixes (compilation):
9059 - Compile correctly on OpenBSD; previously, we were missing some
9060 headers required in order to detect it properly. Fixes bug 28938;
9061 bugfix on 0.3.5.1-alpha. Patch from Kris Katterjohn.
9063 o Minor bugfixes (directory clients):
9064 - Mark outdated dirservers when Tor only has a reasonably live
9065 consensus. Fixes bug 28569; bugfix on 0.3.2.5-alpha.
9067 o Minor bugfixes (directory mirrors):
9068 - Even when a directory mirror's clock is behind the clocks on the
9069 authorities, we now allow the mirror to serve "future"
9070 consensuses. Fixes bug 28654; bugfix on 0.3.0.1-alpha.
9072 o Minor bugfixes (DNS):
9073 - Gracefully handle an empty or absent resolve.conf file by falling
9074 back to using "localhost" as a DNS server (and hoping it works).
9075 Previously, we would just stop running as an exit. Fixes bug
9076 21900; bugfix on 0.2.1.10-alpha.
9078 o Minor bugfixes (guards):
9079 - In count_acceptable_nodes(), the minimum number is now one bridge
9080 or guard node, and two non-guard nodes for a circuit. Previously,
9081 we had added up the sum of all nodes with a descriptor, but that
9082 could cause us to build failing circuits when we had either too
9083 many bridges or not enough guard nodes. Fixes bug 25885; bugfix on
9084 0.2.3.1-alpha. Patch by Neel Chauhan.
9086 o Minor bugfixes (IPv6):
9087 - Fix tor_ersatz_socketpair on IPv6-only systems. Previously, the
9088 IPv6 socket was bound using an address family of AF_INET instead
9089 of AF_INET6. Fixes bug 28995; bugfix on 0.3.5.1-alpha. Patch from
9092 o Minor bugfixes (logging):
9093 - Rework rep_hist_log_link_protocol_counts() to iterate through all
9094 link protocol versions when logging incoming/outgoing connection
9095 counts. Tor no longer skips version 5, and we won't have to
9096 remember to update this function when new link protocol version is
9097 developed. Fixes bug 28920; bugfix on 0.2.6.10.
9099 o Minor bugfixes (networking):
9100 - Introduce additional checks into tor_addr_parse() to reject
9101 certain incorrect inputs that previously were not detected. Fixes
9102 bug 23082; bugfix on 0.2.0.10-alpha.
9104 o Minor bugfixes (onion service v3, client):
9105 - Stop logging a "BUG()" warning and stacktrace when we find a SOCKS
9106 connection waiting for a descriptor that we actually have in the
9107 cache. It turns out that this can actually happen, though it is
9108 rare. Now, tor will recover and retry the descriptor. Fixes bug
9109 28669; bugfix on 0.3.2.4-alpha.
9111 o Minor bugfixes (periodic events):
9112 - Refrain from calling routerlist_remove_old_routers() from
9113 check_descriptor_callback(). Instead, create a new hourly periodic
9114 event. Fixes bug 27929; bugfix on 0.2.8.1-alpha.
9116 o Minor bugfixes (pluggable transports):
9117 - Make sure that data is continously read from standard output and
9118 standard error pipes of a pluggable transport child-process, to
9119 avoid deadlocking when a pipe's buffer is full. Fixes bug 26360;
9120 bugfix on 0.2.3.6-alpha.
9122 o Minor bugfixes (unit tests):
9123 - Instead of relying on hs_free_all() to clean up all onion service
9124 objects in test_build_descriptors(), we now deallocate them one by
9125 one. This lets Coverity know that we are not leaking memory there
9126 and fixes CID 1442277. Fixes bug 28989; bugfix on 0.3.5.1-alpha.
9128 o Minor bugfixes (usability):
9129 - Stop saying "Your Guard ..." in pathbias_measure_{use,close}_rate().
9130 Some users took this phrasing to mean that the mentioned guard was
9131 under their control or responsibility, which it is not. Fixes bug
9132 28895; bugfix on Tor 0.3.0.1-alpha.
9134 o Code simplification and refactoring:
9135 - Reimplement NETINFO cell parsing and generation to rely on
9136 trunnel-generated wire format handling code. Closes ticket 27325.
9137 - Remove unnecessary unsafe code from the Rust macro "cstr!". Closes
9139 - Rework SOCKS wire format handling to rely on trunnel-generated
9140 parsing/generation code. Resolves ticket 27620.
9141 - Split out bootstrap progress reporting from control.c into a
9142 separate file. Part of ticket 27402.
9143 - The .may_include files that we use to describe our directory-by-
9144 directory dependency structure now describe a noncircular
9145 dependency graph over the directories that they cover. Our
9146 checkIncludes.py tool now enforces this noncircularity. Closes
9150 - Mention that you cannot add a new onion service if Tor is already
9151 running with Sandbox enabled. Closes ticket 28560.
9152 - Improve ControlPort documentation. Mention that it accepts
9153 address:port pairs, and can be used multiple times. Closes
9155 - Document the exact output of "tor --version". Closes ticket 28889.
9158 - Stop responding to the 'GETINFO status/version/num-concurring' and
9159 'GETINFO status/version/num-versioning' control port commands, as
9160 those were deprecated back in 0.2.0.30. Also stop listing them in
9161 output of 'GETINFO info/names'. Resolves ticket 28757.
9162 - The scripts used to generate and maintain the list of fallback
9163 directories have been extracted into a new "fallback-scripts"
9164 repository. Closes ticket 27914.
9167 - Run shellcheck for scripts in the in scripts/ directory. Closes
9169 - Add unit tests for tokenize_string() and get_next_token()
9170 functions. Resolves ticket 27625.
9172 o Code simplification and refactoring (onion service v3):
9173 - Consolidate the authorized client descriptor cookie computation
9174 code from client and service into one function. Closes
9177 o Code simplification and refactoring (shell scripts):
9178 - Cleanup scan-build.sh to silence shellcheck warnings. Closes
9180 - Fix issues that shellcheck found in chutney-git-bisect.sh.
9181 Resolves ticket 28006.
9182 - Fix issues that shellcheck found in updateRustDependencies.sh.
9183 Resolves ticket 28012.
9184 - Fix shellcheck warnings in cov-diff script. Resolves issue 28009.
9185 - Fix shellcheck warnings in run_calltool.sh. Resolves ticket 28011.
9186 - Fix shellcheck warnings in run_trunnel.sh. Resolves issue 28010.
9187 - Fix shellcheck warnings in scripts/test/coverage. Resolves
9191 Changes in version 0.3.3.11 - 2019-01-07
9192 Tor 0.3.3.11 backports numerous fixes from later versions of Tor.
9193 numerous fixes, including an important fix for anyone using OpenSSL
9194 1.1.1. Anyone running an earlier version of Tor 0.3.3 should upgrade
9195 to this version, or to a later series.
9197 As a reminder, support the Tor 0.3.3 series will end on 22 Feb 2019.
9198 We anticipate that this will be the last release of Tor 0.3.3, unless
9199 some major bug is before then. Some time between now and then, users
9200 should switch to either the Tor 0.3.4 series (supported until at least
9201 10 June 2019), or the Tor 0.3.5 series, which will receive long-term
9202 support until at least 1 Feb 2022.
9204 o Major bugfixes (OpenSSL, portability, backport from 0.3.5.5-alpha):
9205 - Fix our usage of named groups when running as a TLS 1.3 client in
9206 OpenSSL 1.1.1. Previously, we only initialized EC groups when
9207 running as a relay, which caused clients to fail to negotiate TLS
9208 1.3 with relays. Fixes bug 28245; bugfix on 0.2.9.15 (when TLS 1.3
9211 o Major bugfixes (restart-in-process, backport from 0.3.5.1-alpha):
9212 - Fix a use-after-free error that could be caused by passing Tor an
9213 impossible set of options that would fail during options_act().
9214 Fixes bug 27708; bugfix on 0.3.3.1-alpha.
9216 o Minor features (continuous integration, backport from 0.3.5.1-alpha):
9217 - Only run one online rust build in Travis, to reduce network
9218 errors. Skip offline rust builds on Travis for Linux gcc, because
9219 they're redundant. Implements ticket 27252.
9220 - Skip gcc on OSX in Travis CI, because it's rarely used. Skip a
9221 duplicate hardening-off build in Travis on Tor 0.2.9. Skip gcc on
9222 Linux with default settings, because all the non-default builds
9223 use gcc on Linux. Implements ticket 27252.
9225 o Minor features (continuous integration, backport from 0.3.5.3-alpha):
9226 - Use the Travis Homebrew addon to install packages on macOS during
9227 Travis CI. The package list is the same, but the Homebrew addon
9228 does not do a `brew update` by default. Implements ticket 27738.
9230 o Minor features (fallback directory list, backport from 0.3.5.6-rc):
9231 - Replace the 150 fallbacks originally introduced in Tor
9232 0.3.3.1-alpha in January 2018 (of which ~115 were still
9233 functional), with a list of 157 fallbacks (92 new, 65 existing, 85
9234 removed) generated in December 2018. Closes ticket 24803.
9236 o Minor features (geoip):
9237 - Update geoip and geoip6 to the January 3 2019 Maxmind GeoLite2
9238 Country database. Closes ticket 29012.
9240 o Minor features (OpenSSL bug workaround, backport from 0.3.5.7):
9241 - Work around a bug in OpenSSL 1.1.1a, which prevented the TLS 1.3
9242 key export function from handling long labels. When this bug is
9243 detected, Tor will disable TLS 1.3. We recommend upgrading to a
9244 version of OpenSSL without this bug when it becomes available.
9245 Closes ticket 28973.
9247 o Minor bugfixes (relay statistics, backport from 0.3.5.7):
9248 - Update relay descriptor on bandwidth changes only when the uptime
9249 is smaller than 24h, in order to reduce the efficiency of guard
9250 discovery attacks. Fixes bug 24104; bugfix on 0.1.1.6-alpha.
9252 o Minor bugfixes (C correctness, backport from 0.3.5.4-alpha):
9253 - Avoid undefined behavior in an end-of-string check when parsing
9254 the BEGIN line in a directory object. Fixes bug 28202; bugfix
9257 o Minor bugfixes (code safety, backport from 0.3.5.3-alpha):
9258 - Rewrite our assertion macros so that they no longer suppress the
9259 compiler's -Wparentheses warnings. Fixes bug 27709; bugfix
9261 o Minor bugfixes (compilation, backport from 0.3.5.5-alpha):
9262 - Initialize a variable unconditionally in aes_new_cipher(), since
9263 some compilers cannot tell that we always initialize it before
9264 use. Fixes bug 28413; bugfix on 0.2.9.3-alpha.
9266 o Minor bugfixes (directory authority, backport from 0.3.5.4-alpha):
9267 - Log additional info when we get a relay that shares an ed25519 ID
9268 with a different relay, instead making a BUG() warning. Fixes bug
9269 27800; bugfix on 0.3.2.1-alpha.
9271 o Minor bugfixes (directory permissions, backport form 0.3.5.3-alpha):
9272 - When a user requests a group-readable DataDirectory, give it to
9273 them. Previously, when the DataDirectory and the CacheDirectory
9274 were the same, the default setting (0) for
9275 CacheDirectoryGroupReadable would override the setting for
9276 DataDirectoryGroupReadable. Fixes bug 26913; bugfix
9279 o Minor bugfixes (onion service v3, backport from 0.3.5.1-alpha):
9280 - When the onion service directory can't be created or has the wrong
9281 permissions, do not log a stack trace. Fixes bug 27335; bugfix
9284 o Minor bugfixes (onion service v3, backport from 0.3.5.2-alpha):
9285 - Close all SOCKS request (for the same .onion) if the newly fetched
9286 descriptor is unusable. Before that, we would close only the first
9287 one leaving the other hanging and let to time out by themselves.
9288 Fixes bug 27410; bugfix on 0.3.2.1-alpha.
9290 o Minor bugfixes (onion service v3, backport from 0.3.5.3-alpha):
9291 - Don't warn so loudly when Tor is unable to decode an onion
9292 descriptor. This can now happen as a normal use case if a client
9293 gets a descriptor with client authorization but the client is not
9294 authorized. Fixes bug 27550; bugfix on 0.3.5.1-alpha.
9296 o Minor bugfixes (onion service v3, backport from 0.3.5.6-rc):
9297 - When deleting an ephemeral onion service (DEL_ONION), do not close
9298 any rendezvous circuits in order to let the existing client
9299 connections finish by themselves or closed by the application. The
9300 HS v2 is doing that already so now we have the same behavior for
9301 all versions. Fixes bug 28619; bugfix on 0.3.3.1-alpha.
9303 o Minor bugfixes (HTTP tunnel):
9304 - Fix a bug warning when closing an HTTP tunnel connection due to
9305 an HTTP request we couldn't handle. Fixes bug 26470; bugfix on
9308 o Minor bugfixes (memory leaks, backport from 0.3.5.5-alpha):
9309 - Fix a harmless memory leak in libtorrunner.a. Fixes bug 28419;
9310 bugfix on 0.3.3.1-alpha. Patch from Martin Kepplinger.
9312 o Minor bugfixes (netflow padding, backport from 0.3.5.1-alpha):
9313 - Ensure circuitmux queues are empty before scheduling or sending
9314 padding. Fixes bug 25505; bugfix on 0.3.1.1-alpha.
9316 o Minor bugfixes (protover, backport from 0.3.5.3-alpha):
9317 - Reject protocol names containing bytes other than alphanumeric
9318 characters and hyphens ([A-Za-z0-9-]). Fixes bug 27316; bugfix
9321 o Minor bugfixes (rust, backport from 0.3.5.1-alpha):
9322 - Compute protover votes correctly in the rust version of the
9323 protover code. Previously, the protover rewrite in 24031 allowed
9324 repeated votes from the same voter for the same protocol version
9325 to be counted multiple times in protover_compute_vote(). Fixes bug
9326 27649; bugfix on 0.3.3.5-rc.
9327 - Reject protover names that contain invalid characters. Fixes bug
9328 27687; bugfix on 0.3.3.1-alpha.
9330 o Minor bugfixes (rust, backport from 0.3.5.2-alpha):
9331 - protover_all_supported() would attempt to allocate up to 16GB on
9332 some inputs, leading to a potential memory DoS. Fixes bug 27206;
9333 bugfix on 0.3.3.5-rc.
9335 o Minor bugfixes (rust, backport from 0.3.5.4-alpha):
9336 - Fix a potential null dereference in protover_all_supported(). Add
9337 a test for it. Fixes bug 27804; bugfix on 0.3.3.1-alpha.
9338 - Return a string that can be safely freed by C code, not one
9339 created by the rust allocator, in protover_all_supported(). Fixes
9340 bug 27740; bugfix on 0.3.3.1-alpha.
9341 - Fix an API mismatch in the rust implementation of
9342 protover_compute_vote(). This bug could have caused crashes on any
9343 directory authorities running Tor with Rust (which we do not yet
9344 recommend). Fixes bug 27741; bugfix on 0.3.3.6.
9346 o Minor bugfixes (testing, backport from 0.3.5.1-alpha):
9347 - If a unit test running in a subprocess exits abnormally or with a
9348 nonzero status code, treat the test as having failed, even if the
9349 test reported success. Without this fix, memory leaks don't cause
9350 the tests to fail, even with LeakSanitizer. Fixes bug 27658;
9351 bugfix on 0.2.2.4-alpha.
9353 o Minor bugfixes (testing, backport from 0.3.5.4-alpha):
9354 - Treat backtrace test failures as expected on BSD-derived systems
9355 (NetBSD, OpenBSD, and macOS/Darwin) until we solve bug 17808.
9356 (FreeBSD failures have been treated as expected since 18204 in
9357 0.2.8.) Fixes bug 27948; bugfix on 0.2.5.2-alpha.
9359 o Minor bugfixes (unit tests, guard selection, backport from 0.3.5.6-rc):
9360 - Stop leaking memory in an entry guard unit test. Fixes bug 28554;
9361 bugfix on 0.3.0.1-alpha.
9364 Changes in version 0.3.4.10 - 2019-01-07
9365 Tor 0.3.4.9 is the second stable release in its series; it backports
9366 numerous fixes, including an important fix for relays, and for anyone
9367 using OpenSSL 1.1.1. Anyone running an earlier version of Tor 0.3.4
9370 As a reminder, the Tor 0.3.4 series will be supported until 10 June
9371 2019. Some time between now and then, users should switch to the Tor
9372 0.3.5 series, which will receive long-term support until at least 1
9375 o Major bugfixes (OpenSSL, portability, backport from 0.3.5.5-alpha):
9376 - Fix our usage of named groups when running as a TLS 1.3 client in
9377 OpenSSL 1.1.1. Previously, we only initialized EC groups when
9378 running as a relay, which caused clients to fail to negotiate TLS
9379 1.3 with relays. Fixes bug 28245; bugfix on 0.2.9.15 (when TLS 1.3
9382 o Major bugfixes (relay, directory, backport from 0.3.5.7):
9383 - Always reactivate linked connections in the main loop so long as
9384 any linked connection has been active. Previously, connections
9385 serving directory information wouldn't get reactivated after the
9386 first chunk of data was sent (usually 32KB), which would prevent
9387 clients from bootstrapping. Fixes bug 28912; bugfix on
9388 0.3.4.1-alpha. Patch by "cypherpunks3".
9390 o Minor features (continuous integration, Windows, backport from 0.3.5.6-rc):
9391 - Always show the configure and test logs, and upload them as build
9392 artifacts, when building for Windows using Appveyor CI.
9395 o Minor features (controller, backport from 0.3.5.1-alpha):
9396 - For purposes of CIRC_BW-based dropped cell detection, track half-
9397 closed stream ids, and allow their ENDs, SENDMEs, DATA and path
9398 bias check cells to arrive without counting it as dropped until
9399 either the END arrives, or the windows are empty. Closes
9402 o Minor features (fallback directory list, backport from 0.3.5.6-rc):
9403 - Replace the 150 fallbacks originally introduced in Tor
9404 0.3.3.1-alpha in January 2018 (of which ~115 were still
9405 functional), with a list of 157 fallbacks (92 new, 65 existing, 85
9406 removed) generated in December 2018. Closes ticket 24803.
9408 o Minor features (geoip):
9409 - Update geoip and geoip6 to the November 6 2018 Maxmind GeoLite2
9410 Country database. Closes ticket 28395.
9412 o Minor features (OpenSSL bug workaround, backport from 0.3.5.7):
9413 - Work around a bug in OpenSSL 1.1.1a, which prevented the TLS 1.3
9414 key export function from handling long labels. When this bug is
9415 detected, Tor will disable TLS 1.3. We recommend upgrading to a
9416 version of OpenSSL without this bug when it becomes available.
9417 Closes ticket 28973.
9419 o Minor bugfixes (compilation, backport from 0.3.5.5-alpha):
9420 - Initialize a variable unconditionally in aes_new_cipher(), since
9421 some compilers cannot tell that we always initialize it before
9422 use. Fixes bug 28413; bugfix on 0.2.9.3-alpha.
9424 o Minor bugfixes (connection, relay, backport from 0.3.5.5-alpha):
9425 - Avoid a logging a BUG() stacktrace when closing connection held
9426 open because the write side is rate limited but not the read side.
9427 Now, the connection read side is simply shut down until Tor is
9428 able to flush the connection and close it. Fixes bug 27750; bugfix
9431 o Minor bugfixes (continuous integration, Windows, backport from 0.3.5.5-alpha):
9432 - Manually configure the zstd compiler options, when building using
9433 mingw on Appveyor Windows CI. The MSYS2 mingw zstd package does
9434 not come with a pkg-config file. Fixes bug 28454; bugfix
9436 - Stop using an external OpenSSL install, and stop installing MSYS2
9437 packages, when building using mingw on Appveyor Windows CI. Fixes
9438 bug 28399; bugfix on 0.3.4.1-alpha.
9440 o Minor bugfixes (continuous integration, Windows, backport from 0.3.5.6-rc):
9441 - Explicitly specify the path to the OpenSSL library and do not
9442 download OpenSSL from Pacman, but instead use the library that is
9443 already provided by AppVeyor. Fixes bug 28574; bugfix on master.
9445 o Minor bugfixes (directory permissions, backport form 0.3.5.3-alpha):
9446 - When a user requests a group-readable DataDirectory, give it to
9447 them. Previously, when the DataDirectory and the CacheDirectory
9448 were the same, the default setting (0) for
9449 CacheDirectoryGroupReadable would override the setting for
9450 DataDirectoryGroupReadable. Fixes bug 26913; bugfix
9453 o Minor bugfixes (memory leaks, backport from 0.3.5.5-alpha):
9454 - Fix a harmless memory leak in libtorrunner.a. Fixes bug 28419;
9455 bugfix on 0.3.3.1-alpha. Patch from Martin Kepplinger.
9457 o Minor bugfixes (onion service v3, backport from 0.3.5.3-alpha):
9458 - Don't warn so loudly when Tor is unable to decode an onion
9459 descriptor. This can now happen as a normal use case if a client
9460 gets a descriptor with client authorization but the client is not
9461 authorized. Fixes bug 27550; bugfix on 0.3.5.1-alpha.
9463 o Minor bugfixes (onion service v3, backport from 0.3.5.6-rc):
9464 - When deleting an ephemeral onion service (DEL_ONION), do not close
9465 any rendezvous circuits in order to let the existing client
9466 connections finish by themselves or closed by the application. The
9467 HS v2 is doing that already so now we have the same behavior for
9468 all versions. Fixes bug 28619; bugfix on 0.3.3.1-alpha.
9470 o Minor bugfixes (relay statistics, backport from 0.3.5.7):
9471 - Update relay descriptor on bandwidth changes only when the uptime
9472 is smaller than 24h, in order to reduce the efficiency of guard
9473 discovery attacks. Fixes bug 24104; bugfix on 0.1.1.6-alpha.
9475 o Minor bugfixes (unit tests, guard selection, backport from 0.3.5.6-rc):
9476 - Stop leaking memory in an entry guard unit test. Fixes bug 28554;
9477 bugfix on 0.3.0.1-alpha.
9480 Changes in version 0.3.5.7 - 2019-01-07
9481 Tor 0.3.5.7 is the first stable release in its series; it includes
9482 compilation and portability fixes, and a fix for a severe problem
9483 affecting directory caches.
9485 The Tor 0.3.5 series includes several new features and performance
9486 improvements, including client authorization for v3 onion services,
9487 cleanups to bootstrap reporting, support for improved bandwidth-
9488 measurement tools, experimental support for NSS in place of OpenSSL,
9489 and much more. It also begins a full reorganization of Tor's code
9490 layout, for improved modularity and maintainability in the future.
9491 Finally, there is the usual set of performance improvements and
9492 bugfixes that we try to do in every release series.
9494 There are a couple of changes in the 0.3.5 that may affect
9495 compatibility. First, the default version for newly created onion
9496 services is now v3. Use the HiddenServiceVersion option if you want to
9497 override this. Second, some log messages related to bootstrapping have
9498 changed; if you use stem, you may need to update to the latest version
9499 so it will recognize them.
9501 We have designated 0.3.5 as a "long-term support" (LTS) series: we
9502 will continue to patch major bugs in typical configurations of 0.3.5
9503 until at least 1 Feb 2022. (We do not plan to provide long-term
9504 support for embedding, Rust support, NSS support, running a directory
9505 authority, or unsupported platforms. For these, you will need to stick
9506 with the latest stable release.)
9508 Below are the changes since 0.3.5.6-rc. For a complete list of changes
9509 since 0.3.4.9, see the ReleaseNotes file.
9511 o Major bugfixes (relay, directory):
9512 - Always reactivate linked connections in the main loop so long as
9513 any linked connection has been active. Previously, connections
9514 serving directory information wouldn't get reactivated after the
9515 first chunk of data was sent (usually 32KB), which would prevent
9516 clients from bootstrapping. Fixes bug 28912; bugfix on
9517 0.3.4.1-alpha. Patch by "cypherpunks3".
9519 o Minor features (compilation):
9520 - When possible, place our warning flags in a separate file, to
9521 avoid flooding verbose build logs. Closes ticket 28924.
9523 o Minor features (geoip):
9524 - Update geoip and geoip6 to the January 3 2019 Maxmind GeoLite2
9525 Country database. Closes ticket 29012.
9527 o Minor features (OpenSSL bug workaround):
9528 - Work around a bug in OpenSSL 1.1.1a, which prevented the TLS 1.3
9529 key export function from handling long labels. When this bug is
9530 detected, Tor will disable TLS 1.3. We recommend upgrading to a
9531 version of OpenSSL without this bug when it becomes available.
9532 Closes ticket 28973.
9534 o Minor features (performance):
9535 - Remove about 96% of the work from the function that we run at
9536 startup to test our curve25519_basepoint implementation. Since
9537 this function has yet to find an actual failure, we now only run
9538 it for 8 iterations instead of 200. Based on our profile
9539 information, this change should save around 8% of our startup time
9540 on typical desktops, and may have a similar effect on other
9541 platforms. Closes ticket 28838.
9542 - Stop re-validating our hardcoded Diffie-Hellman parameters on
9543 every startup. Doing this wasted time and cycles, especially on
9544 low-powered devices. Closes ticket 28851.
9546 o Minor bugfixes (compilation):
9547 - Fix compilation for Android by adding a missing header to
9548 freespace.c. Fixes bug 28974; bugfix on 0.3.5.1-alpha.
9550 o Minor bugfixes (correctness):
9551 - Fix an unreached code path where we checked the value of
9552 "hostname" inside send_resolved_hostname_cell(). Previously, we
9553 used it before checking it; now we check it first. Fixes bug
9554 28879; bugfix on 0.1.2.7-alpha.
9556 o Minor bugfixes (testing):
9557 - Make sure that test_rebind.py actually obeys its timeout, even
9558 when it receives a large number of log messages. Fixes bug 28883;
9559 bugfix on 0.3.5.4-alpha.
9560 - Stop running stem's unit tests as part of "make test-stem", but
9561 continue to run stem's unit and online tests during "make test-
9562 stem-full". Fixes bug 28568; bugfix on 0.2.6.3-alpha.
9564 o Minor bugfixes (windows services):
9565 - Make Tor start correctly as an NT service again: previously it was
9566 broken by refactoring. Fixes bug 28612; bugfix on 0.3.5.3-alpha.
9568 o Code simplification and refactoring:
9569 - When parsing a port configuration, make it more obvious to static
9570 analyzer tools that we always initialize the address. Closes
9574 Changes in version 0.3.5.6-rc - 2018-12-18
9575 Tor 0.3.5.6-rc fixes numerous small bugs in earlier versions of Tor.
9576 It is the first release candidate in the 0.3.5.x series; if no further
9577 huge bugs are found, our next release may be the stable 0.3.5.x.
9579 o Minor features (continuous integration, Windows):
9580 - Always show the configure and test logs, and upload them as build
9581 artifacts, when building for Windows using Appveyor CI.
9584 o Minor features (fallback directory list):
9585 - Replace the 150 fallbacks originally introduced in Tor
9586 0.3.3.1-alpha in January 2018 (of which ~115 were still
9587 functional), with a list of 157 fallbacks (92 new, 65 existing, 85
9588 removed) generated in December 2018. Closes ticket 24803.
9590 o Minor features (geoip):
9591 - Update geoip and geoip6 to the December 5 2018 Maxmind GeoLite2
9592 Country database. Closes ticket 28744.
9594 o Minor bugfixes (compilation):
9595 - Add missing dependency on libgdi32.dll for tor-print-ed-signing-
9596 cert.exe on Windows. Fixes bug 28485; bugfix on 0.3.5.1-alpha.
9598 o Minor bugfixes (continuous integration, Windows):
9599 - Explicitly specify the path to the OpenSSL library and do not
9600 download OpenSSL from Pacman, but instead use the library that is
9601 already provided by AppVeyor. Fixes bug 28574; bugfix on master.
9603 o Minor bugfixes (onion service v3):
9604 - When deleting an ephemeral onion service (DEL_ONION), do not close
9605 any rendezvous circuits in order to let the existing client
9606 connections finish by themselves or closed by the application. The
9607 HS v2 is doing that already so now we have the same behavior for
9608 all versions. Fixes bug 28619; bugfix on 0.3.3.1-alpha.
9610 o Minor bugfixes (restart-in-process, boostrap):
9611 - Add missing resets of bootstrap tracking state when shutting down
9612 (regression caused by ticket 27169). Fixes bug 28524; bugfix
9615 o Minor bugfixes (testing):
9616 - Use a separate DataDirectory for the test_rebind script.
9617 Previously, this script would run using the default DataDirectory,
9618 and sometimes fail. Fixes bug 28562; bugfix on 0.3.5.1-alpha.
9619 Patch from Taylor R Campbell.
9620 - Stop leaking memory in an entry guard unit test. Fixes bug 28554;
9621 bugfix on 0.3.0.1-alpha.
9623 o Minor bugfixes (Windows):
9624 - Correctly identify Windows 8.1, Windows 10, and Windows Server
9625 2008 and later from their NT versions. Fixes bug 28096; bugfix on
9626 0.2.2.34; reported by Keifer Bly.
9627 - On recent Windows versions, the GetVersionEx() function may report
9628 an earlier Windows version than the running OS. To avoid user
9629 confusion, add "[or later]" to Tor's version string on affected
9630 versions of Windows. Fixes bug 28096; bugfix on 0.2.2.34; reported
9632 - Remove Windows versions that were never supported by the
9633 GetVersionEx() function. Stop duplicating the latest Windows
9634 version in get_uname(). Fixes bug 28096; bugfix on 0.2.2.34;
9635 reported by Keifer Bly.
9638 - Increase logging and tag all log entries with timestamps in
9639 test_rebind.py. Provides diagnostics for issue 28229.
9641 o Code simplification and refactoring (shared random, dirauth):
9642 - Change many tor_assert() to use BUG() instead. The idea is to not
9643 crash a dirauth but rather scream loudly with a stacktrace and let
9644 it continue run. The shared random subsystem is very resilient and
9645 if anything wrong happens with it, at worst a non coherent value
9646 will be put in the vote and discarded by the other authorities.
9647 Closes ticket 19566.
9649 o Documentation (onion services):
9650 - Document in the man page that changing ClientOnionAuthDir value or
9651 adding a new file in the directory will not work at runtime upon
9652 sending a HUP if Sandbox 1. Closes ticket 28128.
9653 - Note in the man page that the only real way to fully revoke an
9654 onion service v3 client authorization is by restarting the tor
9655 process. Closes ticket 28275.
9658 Changes in version 0.3.5.5-alpha - 2018-11-16
9659 Tor 0.3.5.5-alpha includes numerous bugfixes on earlier releases,
9660 including several that we hope to backport to older release series in
9663 o Major bugfixes (OpenSSL, portability):
9664 - Fix our usage of named groups when running as a TLS 1.3 client in
9665 OpenSSL 1.1.1. Previously, we only initialized EC groups when
9666 running as a relay, which caused clients to fail to negotiate TLS
9667 1.3 with relays. Fixes bug 28245; bugfix on 0.2.9.15 (when TLS 1.3
9670 o Minor features (geoip):
9671 - Update geoip and geoip6 to the November 6 2018 Maxmind GeoLite2
9672 Country database. Closes ticket 28395.
9674 o Minor bugfixes (compilation):
9675 - Initialize a variable unconditionally in aes_new_cipher(), since
9676 some compilers cannot tell that we always initialize it before
9677 use. Fixes bug 28413; bugfix on 0.2.9.3-alpha.
9679 o Minor bugfixes (connection, relay):
9680 - Avoid a logging a BUG() stacktrace when closing connection held
9681 open because the write side is rate limited but not the read side.
9682 Now, the connection read side is simply shut down until Tor is
9683 able to flush the connection and close it. Fixes bug 27750; bugfix
9686 o Minor bugfixes (continuous integration, Windows):
9687 - Manually configure the zstd compiler options, when building using
9688 mingw on Appveyor Windows CI. The MSYS2 mingw zstd package does
9689 not come with a pkg-config file. Fixes bug 28454; bugfix
9691 - Stop using an external OpenSSL install, and stop installing MSYS2
9692 packages, when building using mingw on Appveyor Windows CI. Fixes
9693 bug 28399; bugfix on 0.3.4.1-alpha.
9695 o Minor bugfixes (documentation):
9696 - Make Doxygen work again after the code movement in the 0.3.5
9697 source tree. Fixes bug 28435; bugfix on 0.3.5.1-alpha.
9699 o Minor bugfixes (Linux seccomp2 sandbox):
9700 - Permit the "shutdown()" system call, which is apparently used by
9701 OpenSSL under some circumstances. Fixes bug 28183; bugfix
9704 o Minor bugfixes (logging):
9705 - Stop talking about the Named flag in log messages. Clients have
9706 ignored the Named flag since 0.3.2. Fixes bug 28441; bugfix
9709 o Minor bugfixes (memory leaks):
9710 - Fix a harmless memory leak in libtorrunner.a. Fixes bug 28419;
9711 bugfix on 0.3.3.1-alpha. Patch from Martin Kepplinger.
9713 o Minor bugfixes (onion services):
9714 - On an intro point for a version 3 onion service, stop closing
9715 introduction circuits on an NACK. This lets the client decide
9716 whether to reuse the circuit or discard it. Previously, we closed
9717 intro circuits when sending NACKs. Fixes bug 27841; bugfix on
9718 0.3.2.1-alpha. Patch by Neel Chaunan.
9719 - When replacing a descriptor in the client cache, make sure to
9720 close all client introduction circuits for the old descriptor, so
9721 we don't end up with unusable leftover circuits. Fixes bug 27471;
9722 bugfix on 0.3.2.1-alpha.
9725 Changes in version 0.3.5.4-alpha - 2018-11-08
9726 Tor 0.3.5.4-alpha includes numerous bugfixes on earlier versions and
9727 improves our continuous integration support. It continues our attempts
9728 to stabilize this alpha branch and build it into a foundation for an
9729 acceptable long-term-support release.
9731 o Major bugfixes (compilation, rust):
9732 - Rust tests can now build and run successfully with the
9733 --enable-fragile-hardening option enabled. Doing this currently
9734 requires the rust beta channel; it will be possible with stable
9735 rust once Rust version 1.31 is released. Patch from Alex Crichton.
9736 Fixes bugs 27272, 27273, and 27274. Bugfix on 0.3.1.1-alpha.
9738 o Major bugfixes (embedding, main loop):
9739 - When DisableNetwork becomes set, actually disable periodic events
9740 that are already enabled. (Previously, we would refrain from
9741 enabling new ones, but we would leave the old ones turned on.)
9742 Fixes bug 28348; bugfix on 0.3.4.1-alpha.
9744 o Minor features (continuous integration):
9745 - Add a Travis CI build for --enable-nss on Linux gcc. Closes
9747 - Add new CI job to Travis configuration to run stem-based
9748 integration tests. Closes ticket 27913.
9750 o Minor features (Windows, continuous integration):
9751 - Build tor on Windows Server 2012 R2 and Windows Server 2016 using
9752 Appveyor's CI. Closes ticket 28318.
9754 o Minor bugfixes (C correctness, also in 0.3.4.9):
9755 - Avoid undefined behavior in an end-of-string check when parsing
9756 the BEGIN line in a directory object. Fixes bug 28202; bugfix
9759 o Minor bugfixes (compilation):
9760 - Fix a pair of missing headers on OpenBSD. Fixes bug 28303; bugfix
9761 on 0.3.5.1-alpha. Patch from Kris Katterjohn.
9763 o Minor bugfixes (compilation, OpenSolaris):
9764 - Fix compilation on OpenSolaris and its descendants by adding a
9765 missing include to compat_pthreads.c. Fixes bug 27963; bugfix
9768 o Minor bugfixes (configuration):
9769 - Refuse to start with relative file paths and RunAsDaemon set
9770 (regression from the fix for bug 22731). Fixes bug 28298; bugfix
9773 o Minor bugfixes (directory authority, also in 0.3.4.9):
9774 - Log additional info when we get a relay that shares an ed25519 ID
9775 with a different relay, instead of a BUG() warning with a
9776 backtrace. Fixes bug 27800; bugfix on 0.3.2.1-alpha.
9778 o Minor bugfixes (onion service v3):
9779 - Build the service descriptor's signing key certificate before
9780 uploading, so we always have a fresh one: leaving no chances for
9781 it to expire service side. Fixes bug 27838; bugfix
9784 o Minor bugfixes (onion service v3, client authorization):
9785 - Fix an assert() when adding a client authorization for the first
9786 time and then sending a HUP signal to the service. Before that,
9787 Tor would stop abruptly. Fixes bug 27995; bugfix on 0.3.5.1-alpha.
9789 o Minor bugfixes (onion services):
9790 - Unless we have explicitly set HiddenServiceVersion, detect the
9791 onion service version and then look for invalid options.
9792 Previously, we did the reverse, but that broke existing configs
9793 which were pointed to a v2 service and had options like
9794 HiddenServiceAuthorizeClient set. Fixes bug 28127; bugfix on
9795 0.3.5.1-alpha. Patch by Neel Chauhan.
9797 o Minor bugfixes (portability):
9798 - Make the OPE code (which is used for v3 onion services) run
9799 correctly on big-endian platforms. Fixes bug 28115; bugfix
9802 o Minor bugfixes (protover, rust):
9803 - Reject extra commas in version strings. Fixes bug 27197; bugfix
9806 o Minor bugfixes (relay shutdown, systemd):
9807 - Notify systemd of ShutdownWaitLength so it can be set to longer
9808 than systemd's TimeoutStopSec. In Tor's systemd service file, set
9809 TimeoutSec to 60 seconds to allow Tor some time to shut down.
9810 Fixes bug 28113; bugfix on 0.2.6.2-alpha.
9812 o Minor bugfixes (rust, also in 0.3.4.9):
9813 - Fix a potential null dereference in protover_all_supported(). Add
9814 a test for it. Fixes bug 27804; bugfix on 0.3.3.1-alpha.
9815 - Return a string that can be safely freed by C code, not one
9816 created by the rust allocator, in protover_all_supported(). Fixes
9817 bug 27740; bugfix on 0.3.3.1-alpha.
9819 o Minor bugfixes (rust, directory authority, also in 0.3.4.9):
9820 - Fix an API mismatch in the rust implementation of
9821 protover_compute_vote(). This bug could have caused crashes on any
9822 directory authorities running Tor with Rust (which we do not yet
9823 recommend). Fixes bug 27741; bugfix on 0.3.3.6.
9825 o Minor bugfixes (testing):
9826 - Avoid hangs and race conditions in test_rebind.py. Fixes bug
9827 27968; bugfix on 0.3.5.1-alpha.
9829 o Minor bugfixes (testing, also in 0.3.4.9):
9830 - Treat backtrace test failures as expected on BSD-derived systems
9831 (NetBSD, OpenBSD, and macOS/Darwin) until we solve bug 17808.
9832 (FreeBSD failures have been treated as expected since 18204 in
9833 0.2.8.) Fixes bug 27948; bugfix on 0.2.5.2-alpha.
9835 o Documentation (onion service manpage):
9836 - Improve HSv3 client authorization by making some options more
9837 explicit and detailed. Closes ticket 28026. Patch by Mike Tigas.
9840 Changes in version 0.3.4.9 - 2018-11-02
9841 Tor 0.3.4.9 is the second stable release in its series; it backports
9842 numerous fixes, including a fix for a bandwidth management bug that
9843 was causing memory exhaustion on relays. Anyone running an earlier
9844 version of Tor 0.3.4.9 should upgrade.
9846 o Major bugfixes (compilation, backport from 0.3.5.3-alpha):
9847 - Fix compilation on ARM (and other less-used CPUs) when compiling
9848 with OpenSSL before 1.1. Fixes bug 27781; bugfix on 0.3.4.1-alpha.
9850 o Major bugfixes (mainloop, bootstrap, backport from 0.3.5.3-alpha):
9851 - Make sure Tor bootstraps and works properly if only the
9852 ControlPort is set. Prior to this fix, Tor would only bootstrap
9853 when a client port was set (Socks, Trans, NATD, DNS or HTTPTunnel
9854 port). Fixes bug 27849; bugfix on 0.3.4.1-alpha.
9856 o Major bugfixes (relay, backport from 0.3.5.3-alpha):
9857 - When our write bandwidth limit is exhausted, stop writing on the
9858 connection. Previously, we had a typo in the code that would make
9859 us stop reading instead, leading to relay connections being stuck
9860 indefinitely and consuming kernel RAM. Fixes bug 28089; bugfix
9863 o Major bugfixes (restart-in-process, backport from 0.3.5.1-alpha):
9864 - Fix a use-after-free error that could be caused by passing Tor an
9865 impossible set of options that would fail during options_act().
9866 Fixes bug 27708; bugfix on 0.3.3.1-alpha.
9868 o Minor features (continuous integration, backport from 0.3.5.1-alpha):
9869 - Don't do a distcheck with --disable-module-dirauth in Travis.
9870 Implements ticket 27252.
9871 - Only run one online rust build in Travis, to reduce network
9872 errors. Skip offline rust builds on Travis for Linux gcc, because
9873 they're redundant. Implements ticket 27252.
9874 - Skip gcc on OSX in Travis CI, because it's rarely used. Skip a
9875 duplicate hardening-off build in Travis on Tor 0.2.9. Skip gcc on
9876 Linux with default settings, because all the non-default builds
9877 use gcc on Linux. Implements ticket 27252.
9879 o Minor features (continuous integration, backport from 0.3.5.3-alpha):
9880 - Use the Travis Homebrew addon to install packages on macOS during
9881 Travis CI. The package list is the same, but the Homebrew addon
9882 does not do a `brew update` by default. Implements ticket 27738.
9884 o Minor features (geoip):
9885 - Update geoip and geoip6 to the October 9 2018 Maxmind GeoLite2
9886 Country database. Closes ticket 27991.
9888 o Minor bugfixes (32-bit OSX and iOS, timing, backport from 0.3.5.2-alpha):
9889 - Fix an integer overflow bug in our optimized 32-bit millisecond-
9890 difference algorithm for 32-bit Apple platforms. Previously, it
9891 would overflow when calculating the difference between two times
9892 more than 47 days apart. Fixes part of bug 27139; bugfix
9894 - Improve the precision of our 32-bit millisecond difference
9895 algorithm for 32-bit Apple platforms. Fixes part of bug 27139;
9896 bugfix on 0.3.4.1-alpha.
9897 - Relax the tolerance on the mainloop/update_time_jumps test when
9898 running on 32-bit Apple platforms. Fixes part of bug 27139; bugfix
9901 o Minor bugfixes (C correctness, to appear in 0.3.5.4-alpha):
9902 - Avoid undefined behavior in an end-of-string check when parsing
9903 the BEGIN line in a directory object. Fixes bug 28202; bugfix
9906 o Minor bugfixes (CI, appveyor, to appear in 0.3.5.4-alpha):
9907 - Only install the necessary mingw packages during our appveyor
9908 builds. This change makes the build a little faster, and prevents
9909 a conflict with a preinstalled mingw openssl that appveyor now
9910 ships. Fixes bugs 27943 and 27765; bugfix on 0.3.4.2-alpha.
9912 o Minor bugfixes (code safety, backport from 0.3.5.3-alpha):
9913 - Rewrite our assertion macros so that they no longer suppress the
9914 compiler's -Wparentheses warnings. Fixes bug 27709; bugfix
9916 o Minor bugfixes (continuous integration, backport from 0.3.5.1-alpha):
9917 - Stop reinstalling identical packages in our Windows CI. Fixes bug
9918 27464; bugfix on 0.3.4.1-alpha.
9920 o Minor bugfixes (directory authority, to appear in 0.3.5.4-alpha):
9921 - Log additional info when we get a relay that shares an ed25519 ID
9922 with a different relay, instead making a BUG() warning. Fixes bug
9923 27800; bugfix on 0.3.2.1-alpha.
9925 o Minor bugfixes (directory connection shutdown, backport from 0.3.5.1-alpha):
9926 - Avoid a double-close when shutting down a stalled directory
9927 connection. Fixes bug 26896; bugfix on 0.3.4.1-alpha.
9929 o Minor bugfixes (HTTP tunnel, backport from 0.3.5.1-alpha):
9930 - Fix a bug warning when closing an HTTP tunnel connection due to an
9931 HTTP request we couldn't handle. Fixes bug 26470; bugfix
9934 o Minor bugfixes (netflow padding, backport from 0.3.5.1-alpha):
9935 - Ensure circuitmux queues are empty before scheduling or sending
9936 padding. Fixes bug 25505; bugfix on 0.3.1.1-alpha.
9938 o Minor bugfixes (onion service v3, backport from 0.3.5.1-alpha):
9939 - When the onion service directory can't be created or has the wrong
9940 permissions, do not log a stack trace. Fixes bug 27335; bugfix
9943 o Minor bugfixes (onion service v3, backport from 0.3.5.2-alpha):
9944 - Close all SOCKS request (for the same .onion) if the newly fetched
9945 descriptor is unusable. Before that, we would close only the first
9946 one leaving the other hanging and let to time out by themselves.
9947 Fixes bug 27410; bugfix on 0.3.2.1-alpha.
9949 o Minor bugfixes (onion service v3, backport from 0.3.5.3-alpha):
9950 - When selecting a v3 rendezvous point, don't only look at the
9951 protover, but also check whether the curve25519 onion key is
9952 present. This way we avoid picking a relay that supports the v3
9953 rendezvous but for which we don't have the microdescriptor. Fixes
9954 bug 27797; bugfix on 0.3.2.1-alpha.
9956 o Minor bugfixes (protover, backport from 0.3.5.3-alpha):
9957 - Reject protocol names containing bytes other than alphanumeric
9958 characters and hyphens ([A-Za-z0-9-]). Fixes bug 27316; bugfix
9961 o Minor bugfixes (rust, backport from 0.3.5.1-alpha):
9962 - Compute protover votes correctly in the rust version of the
9963 protover code. Previously, the protover rewrite in 24031 allowed
9964 repeated votes from the same voter for the same protocol version
9965 to be counted multiple times in protover_compute_vote(). Fixes bug
9966 27649; bugfix on 0.3.3.5-rc.
9967 - Reject protover names that contain invalid characters. Fixes bug
9968 27687; bugfix on 0.3.3.1-alpha.
9970 o Minor bugfixes (rust, backport from 0.3.5.2-alpha):
9971 - protover_all_supported() would attempt to allocate up to 16GB on
9972 some inputs, leading to a potential memory DoS. Fixes bug 27206;
9973 bugfix on 0.3.3.5-rc.
9975 o Minor bugfixes (rust, directory authority, to appear in 0.3.5.4-alpha):
9976 - Fix an API mismatch in the rust implementation of
9977 protover_compute_vote(). This bug could have caused crashes on any
9978 directory authorities running Tor with Rust (which we do not yet
9979 recommend). Fixes bug 27741; bugfix on 0.3.3.6.
9981 o Minor bugfixes (rust, to appear in 0.3.5.4-alpha):
9982 - Fix a potential null dereference in protover_all_supported(). Add
9983 a test for it. Fixes bug 27804; bugfix on 0.3.3.1-alpha.
9984 - Return a string that can be safely freed by C code, not one
9985 created by the rust allocator, in protover_all_supported(). Fixes
9986 bug 27740; bugfix on 0.3.3.1-alpha.
9988 o Minor bugfixes (testing, backport from 0.3.5.1-alpha):
9989 - If a unit test running in a subprocess exits abnormally or with a
9990 nonzero status code, treat the test as having failed, even if the
9991 test reported success. Without this fix, memory leaks don't cause
9992 the tests to fail, even with LeakSanitizer. Fixes bug 27658;
9993 bugfix on 0.2.2.4-alpha.
9995 o Minor bugfixes (testing, backport from 0.3.5.3-alpha):
9996 - Make the hs_service tests use the same time source when creating
9997 the introduction point and when testing it. Now tests work better
9998 on very slow systems like ARM or Travis. Fixes bug 27810; bugfix
10001 o Minor bugfixes (testing, to appear in 0.3.5.4-alpha):
10002 - Treat backtrace test failures as expected on BSD-derived systems
10003 (NetBSD, OpenBSD, and macOS/Darwin) until we solve bug 17808.
10004 (FreeBSD failures have been treated as expected since 18204 in
10005 0.2.8.) Fixes bug 27948; bugfix on 0.2.5.2-alpha.
10008 Changes in version 0.3.5.3-alpha - 2018-10-17
10009 Tor 0.3.5.3-alpha fixes several bugs, mostly from previous 0.3.5.x
10010 versions. One important fix for relays addresses a problem with rate-
10011 limiting code from back in 0.3.4.x: If the fix works out, we'll be
10012 backporting it soon. This release is still an alpha, but we hope it's
10013 getting closer and closer to stability.
10015 o Major features (onion services):
10016 - Version 3 onion services can now use the per-service
10017 HiddenServiceExportCircuitID option to differentiate client
10018 circuits. It communicates with the service by using the HAProxy
10019 protocol to assign virtual IP addresses to inbound client
10020 circuits. Closes ticket 4700. Patch by Mahrud Sayrafi.
10022 o Major bugfixes (compilation):
10023 - Fix compilation on ARM (and other less-used CPUs) when compiling
10024 with OpenSSL before 1.1. Fixes bug 27781; bugfix on 0.3.4.1-alpha.
10026 o Major bugfixes (initialization, crash):
10027 - Fix an assertion crash that would stop Tor from starting up if it
10028 tried to activate a periodic event too early. Fixes bug 27861;
10029 bugfix on 0.3.5.1-alpha.
10031 o Major bugfixes (mainloop, bootstrap):
10032 - Make sure Tor bootstraps and works properly if only the
10033 ControlPort is set. Prior to this fix, Tor would only bootstrap
10034 when a client port was set (Socks, Trans, NATD, DNS or HTTPTunnel
10035 port). Fixes bug 27849; bugfix on 0.3.4.1-alpha.
10037 o Major bugfixes (relay):
10038 - When our write bandwidth limit is exhausted, stop writing on the
10039 connection. Previously, we had a typo in the code that would make
10040 us stop reading instead, leading to relay connections being stuck
10041 indefinitely and consuming kernel RAM. Fixes bug 28089; bugfix
10044 o Minor features (continuous integration):
10045 - Use the Travis Homebrew addon to install packages on macOS during
10046 Travis CI. The package list is the same, but the Homebrew addon
10047 does not do a `brew update` by default. Implements ticket 27738.
10048 - Report what program produced the mysterious core file that we
10049 occasionally see on Travis CI during make distcheck. Closes
10052 o Minor features (geoip):
10053 - Update geoip and geoip6 to the October 9 2018 Maxmind GeoLite2
10054 Country database. Closes ticket 27991.
10056 o Minor bugfixes (code safety):
10057 - Rewrite our assertion macros so that they no longer suppress the
10058 compiler's -Wparentheses warnings. Fixes bug 27709; bugfix
10061 o Minor bugfixes (compilation):
10062 - Compile the ed25519-donna code with a correct declaration of
10063 crypto_strongest_rand(). Previously, we built it with one type,
10064 but linked it against another in the unit tests, which caused
10065 compilation failures with LTO enabled. This could have caused
10066 other undefined behavior in the tests. Fixes bug 27728; bugfix
10069 o Minor bugfixes (compilation, netbsd):
10070 - Add a missing include back into procmon.c. Fixes bug 27990; bugfix
10073 o Minor bugfixes (continuous integration, appveyor):
10074 - Install only the necessary mingw packages during our appveyor
10075 builds. This change makes the build a little faster, and prevents
10076 a conflict with a preinstalled mingw openssl that appveyor now
10077 ships. Fixes bugs 27765 and 27943; bugfix on 0.3.4.2-alpha.
10079 o Minor bugfixes (directory permissions):
10080 - When a user requests a group-readable DataDirectory, give it to
10081 them. Previously, when the DataDirectory and the CacheDirectory
10082 were the same, the default setting (0) for
10083 CacheDirectoryGroupReadable would override the setting for
10084 DataDirectoryGroupReadable. Fixes bug 26913; bugfix
10087 o Minor bugfixes (memory leaks):
10088 - Fix a small memory leak when calling Tor with --dump-config. Fixes
10089 bug 27893; bugfix on 0.3.2.1-alpha.
10091 o Minor bugfixes (networking):
10092 - In retry_listeners_ports(), make sure that we're removing a member
10093 of old_conns smartlist at most once. Fixes bug 27808; bugfix
10095 - Refrain from attempting socket rebinding when old and new
10096 listeners are in different address families. Fixes bug 27928;
10097 bugfix on 0.3.5.1-alpha.
10099 o Minor bugfixes (onion service v3):
10100 - Stop dumping a stack trace when trying to connect to an intro
10101 point without having a descriptor for it. Fixes bug 27774; bugfix
10103 - Don't warn so loudly when Tor is unable to decode an onion
10104 descriptor. This can now happen as a normal use case if a client
10105 gets a descriptor with client authorization but the client is not
10106 authorized. Fixes bug 27550; bugfix on 0.3.5.1-alpha.
10107 - When selecting a v3 rendezvous point, don't only look at the
10108 protover, but also check whether the curve25519 onion key is
10109 present. This way we avoid picking a relay that supports the v3
10110 rendezvous but for which we don't have the microdescriptor. Fixes
10111 bug 27797; bugfix on 0.3.2.1-alpha.
10113 o Minor bugfixes (protover):
10114 - Reject protocol names containing bytes other than alphanumeric
10115 characters and hyphens ([A-Za-z0-9-]). Fixes bug 27316; bugfix
10118 o Minor bugfixes (testing):
10119 - Make the hs_service tests use the same time source when creating
10120 the introduction point and when testing it. Now tests work better
10121 on very slow systems like ARM or Travis. Fixes bug 27810; bugfix
10123 - In test_rebind.py, check if the Python version is in the supported
10124 range. Fixes bug 27675; bugfix on 0.3.5.1-alpha.
10126 o Code simplification and refactoring:
10127 - Divide more large Tor source files -- especially ones that span
10128 multiple areas of functionality -- into smaller parts, including
10129 onion.c and main.c. Closes ticket 26747.
10130 - Divide the "routerparse.c" module into separate modules for each
10131 group of parsed objects. Closes ticket 27924.
10132 - Move protover_rust.c to the same place protover.c was moved to.
10133 Closes ticket 27814.
10134 - Split directory.c into separate pieces for client, server, and
10135 common functionality. Closes ticket 26744.
10136 - Split the non-statistics-related parts from the rephist.c and
10137 geoip.c modules. Closes ticket 27892.
10138 - Split the router.c file into relay-only and shared components, to
10139 help with future modularization. Closes ticket 27864.
10142 - In the tor-resolve(1) manpage, fix the reference to socks-
10143 extensions.txt by adding a web URL. Resolves ticket 27853.
10144 - Mention that we require Python to be 2.7 or newer for some
10145 integration tests that we ship with Tor. Resolves ticket 27677.
10148 Changes in version 0.3.5.2-alpha - 2018-09-21
10149 Tor 0.3.5.2-alpha fixes several bugs in 0.3.5.1-alpha, including one
10150 that made Tor think it had run out of sockets. Anybody running a relay
10151 or an onion service on 0.3.5.1-alpha should upgrade.
10153 o Major bugfixes (relay bandwidth statistics):
10154 - When we close relayed circuits, report the data in the circuit
10155 queues as being written in our relay bandwidth stats. This
10156 mitigates guard discovery and other attacks that close circuits
10157 for the explicit purpose of noticing this discrepancy in
10158 statistics. Fixes bug 23512; bugfix on 0.0.8pre3.
10160 o Major bugfixes (socket accounting):
10161 - In our socket accounting code, count a socket as closed even when
10162 it is closed indirectly by the TLS layer. Previously, we would
10163 count these sockets as still in use, and incorrectly believe that
10164 we had run out of sockets. Fixes bug 27795; bugfix
10167 o Minor bugfixes (32-bit OSX and iOS, timing):
10168 - Fix an integer overflow bug in our optimized 32-bit millisecond-
10169 difference algorithm for 32-bit Apple platforms. Previously, it
10170 would overflow when calculating the difference between two times
10171 more than 47 days apart. Fixes part of bug 27139; bugfix
10173 - Improve the precision of our 32-bit millisecond difference
10174 algorithm for 32-bit Apple platforms. Fixes part of bug 27139;
10175 bugfix on 0.3.4.1-alpha.
10176 - Relax the tolerance on the mainloop/update_time_jumps test when
10177 running on 32-bit Apple platforms. Fixes part of bug 27139; bugfix
10180 o Minor bugfixes (onion service v3):
10181 - Close all SOCKS request (for the same .onion) if the newly fetched
10182 descriptor is unusable. Before that, we would close only the first
10183 one leaving the other hanging and let to time out by themselves.
10184 Fixes bug 27410; bugfix on 0.3.2.1-alpha.
10186 o Minor bugfixes (memory leak):
10187 - Fix an unlikely memory leak when trying to read a private key from
10188 a ridiculously large file. Fixes bug 27764; bugfix on
10189 0.3.5.1-alpha. This is CID 1439488.
10191 o Minor bugfixes (NSS):
10192 - Correctly detect failure to open a dummy TCP socket when stealing
10193 ownership of an fd from the NSS layer. Fixes bug 27782; bugfix
10196 o Minor bugfixes (rust):
10197 - protover_all_supported() would attempt to allocate up to 16GB on
10198 some inputs, leading to a potential memory DoS. Fixes bug 27206;
10199 bugfix on 0.3.3.5-rc.
10201 o Minor bugfixes (testing):
10202 - Revise the "conditionvar_timeout" test so that it succeeds even on
10203 heavily loaded systems where the test threads are not scheduled
10204 within 200 msec. Fixes bug 27073; bugfix on 0.2.6.3-alpha.
10206 o Code simplification and refactoring:
10207 - Divide the routerlist.c and dirserv.c modules into smaller parts.
10208 Closes ticket 27799.
10211 Changes in version 0.3.5.1-alpha - 2018-09-18
10212 Tor 0.3.5.1-alpha is the first release of the 0.3.5.x series. It adds
10213 client authorization for modern (v3) onion services, improves
10214 bootstrap reporting, begins reorganizing Tor's codebase, adds optional
10215 support for NSS in place of OpenSSL, and much more.
10217 o Major features (onion services, UI change):
10218 - For a newly created onion service, the default version is now 3.
10219 Tor still supports existing version 2 services, but the operator
10220 now needs to set "HiddenServiceVersion 2" in order to create a new
10221 version 2 service. For existing services, Tor now learns the
10222 version by reading the key file. Closes ticket 27215.
10224 o Major features (relay, UI change):
10225 - Relays no longer run as exits by default. If the "ExitRelay"
10226 option is auto (or unset), and no exit policy is specified with
10227 ExitPolicy or ReducedExitPolicy, we now treat ExitRelay as 0.
10228 Previously in this case, we allowed exit traffic and logged a
10229 warning message. Closes ticket 21530. Patch by Neel Chauhan.
10230 - Tor now validates that the ContactInfo config option is valid UTF-
10231 8 when parsing torrc. Closes ticket 27428.
10233 o Major features (bootstrap):
10234 - Don't report directory progress until after a connection to a
10235 relay or bridge has succeeded. Previously, we'd report 80%
10236 progress based on cached directory information when we couldn't
10237 even connect to the network. Closes ticket 27169.
10239 o Major features (new code layout):
10240 - Nearly all of Tor's source code has been moved around into more
10241 logical places. The "common" directory is now divided into a set
10242 of libraries in "lib", and files in the "or" directory have been
10243 split into "core" (logic absolutely needed for onion routing),
10244 "feature" (independent modules in Tor), and "app" (to configure
10245 and invoke the rest of Tor). See doc/HACKING/CodeStructure.md for
10246 more information. Closes ticket 26481.
10248 This refactoring is not complete: although the libraries have been
10249 refactored to be acyclic, the main body of Tor is still too
10250 interconnected. We will attempt to improve this in the future.
10252 o Major features (onion services v3):
10253 - Implement onion service client authorization at the descriptor
10254 level: only authorized clients can decrypt a service's descriptor
10255 to find out how to contact it. A new torrc option was added to
10256 control this client side: ClientOnionAuthDir <path>. On the
10257 service side, if the "authorized_clients/" directory exists in the
10258 onion service directory path, client configurations are read from
10259 the files within. See the manpage for more details. Closes ticket
10260 27547. Patch done by Suphanat Chunhapanya (haxxpop).
10261 - Improve revision counter generation in next-gen onion services.
10262 Onion services can now scale by hosting multiple instances on
10263 different hosts without synchronization between them, which was
10264 previously impossible because descriptors would get rejected by
10265 HSDirs. Addresses ticket 25552.
10267 o Major features (portability, cryptography, experimental, TLS):
10268 - Tor now has the option to compile with the NSS library instead of
10269 OpenSSL. This feature is experimental, and we expect that bugs may
10270 remain. It is mainly intended for environments where Tor's
10271 performance is not CPU-bound, and where NSS is already known to be
10272 installed. To try it out, configure Tor with the --enable-nss
10273 flag. Closes tickets 26631, 26815, and 26816.
10275 If you are experimenting with this option and using an old cached
10276 consensus, Tor may fail to start. To solve this, delete your
10277 "cached-consensus" and "cached-microdesc-consensus" files,
10278 (if present), and restart Tor.
10280 o Major bugfixes (directory authority):
10281 - Actually check that the address we get from DirAuthority
10282 configuration line is valid IPv4. Explicitly disallow DirAuthority
10283 address to be a DNS hostname. Fixes bug 26488; bugfix
10286 o Major bugfixes (restart-in-process):
10287 - Fix a use-after-free error that could be caused by passing Tor an
10288 impossible set of options that would fail during options_act().
10289 Fixes bug 27708; bugfix on 0.3.3.1-alpha.
10291 o Minor features (admin tools):
10292 - Add a new --key-expiration option to print the expiration date of
10293 the signing cert in an ed25519_signing_cert file. Resolves
10296 o Minor features (build):
10297 - If you pass the "--enable-pic" option to configure, Tor will try
10298 to tell the compiler to build position-independent code suitable
10299 to link into a dynamic library. (The default remains -fPIE, for
10300 code suitable for a relocatable executable.) Closes ticket 23846.
10302 o Minor features (code correctness, testing):
10303 - Tor's build process now includes a "check-includes" make target to
10304 verify that no module of Tor relies on any headers from a higher-
10305 level module. We hope to use this feature over time to help
10306 refactor our codebase. Closes ticket 26447.
10308 o Minor features (code layout):
10309 - We have a new "lowest-level" error-handling API for use by code
10310 invoked from within the logging module. With this interface, the
10311 logging code is no longer at risk of calling into itself if a
10312 failure occurs while it is trying to log something. Closes
10315 o Minor features (compilation):
10316 - Tor's configure script now supports a --with-malloc= option to
10317 select your malloc implementation. Supported options are
10318 "tcmalloc", "jemalloc", "openbsd" (deprecated), and "system" (the
10319 default). Addresses part of ticket 20424. Based on a patch from
10322 o Minor features (config):
10323 - The "auto" keyword in torrc is now case-insensitive. Closes
10326 o Minor features (continuous integration):
10327 - Don't do a distcheck with --disable-module-dirauth in Travis.
10328 Implements ticket 27252.
10329 - Install libcap-dev and libseccomp2-dev so these optional
10330 dependencies get tested on Travis CI. Closes ticket 26560.
10331 - Only run one online rust build in Travis, to reduce network
10332 errors. Skip offline rust builds on Travis for Linux gcc, because
10333 they're redundant. Implements ticket 27252.
10334 - Skip gcc on OSX in Travis CI, because it's rarely used. Skip a
10335 duplicate hardening-off build in Travis on Tor 0.2.9. Skip gcc on
10336 Linux with default settings, because all the non-default builds
10337 use gcc on Linux. Implements ticket 27252.
10339 o Minor features (controller):
10340 - Emit CIRC_BW events as soon as we detect that we processed an
10341 invalid or otherwise dropped cell on a circuit. This allows
10342 vanguards and other controllers to react more quickly to dropped
10343 cells. Closes ticket 27678.
10344 - For purposes of CIRC_BW-based dropped cell detection, track half-
10345 closed stream ids, and allow their ENDs, SENDMEs, DATA and path
10346 bias check cells to arrive without counting it as dropped until
10347 either the END arrives, or the windows are empty. Closes
10349 - Implement a 'GETINFO md/all' controller command to enable getting
10350 all known microdescriptors. Closes ticket 8323.
10351 - The GETINFO command now support an "uptime" argument, to return
10352 Tor's uptime in seconds. Closes ticket 25132.
10354 o Minor features (denial-of-service avoidance):
10355 - Make our OOM handler aware of the DNS cache so that it doesn't
10356 fill up the memory. This check is important for our DoS mitigation
10357 subsystem. Closes ticket 18642. Patch by Neel Chauhan.
10359 o Minor features (development):
10360 - Tor's makefile now supports running the "clippy" Rust style tool
10361 on our Rust code. Closes ticket 22156.
10363 o Minor features (directory authority):
10364 - There is no longer an artificial upper limit on the length of
10365 bandwidth lines. Closes ticket 26223.
10366 - When a bandwidth file is used to obtain the bandwidth measurements,
10367 include this bandwidth file headers in the votes. Closes
10369 - Improved support for networks with only a single authority or a
10370 single fallback directory. Patch from Gabriel Somlo. Closes
10373 o Minor features (embedding API):
10374 - The Tor controller API now supports a function to launch Tor with
10375 a preconstructed owning controller FD, so that embedding
10376 applications don't need to manage controller ports and
10377 authentication. Closes ticket 24204.
10378 - The Tor controller API now has a function that returns the name
10379 and version of the backend implementing the API. Closes
10382 o Minor features (geoip):
10383 - Update geoip and geoip6 to the September 6 2018 Maxmind GeoLite2
10384 Country database. Closes ticket 27631.
10386 o Minor features (memory management):
10387 - Get Libevent to use the same memory allocator as Tor, by calling
10388 event_set_mem_functions() during initialization. Resolves
10391 o Minor features (memory usage):
10392 - When not using them, store legacy TAP public onion keys in DER-
10393 encoded format, rather than as expanded public keys. This should
10394 save several megabytes on typical clients. Closes ticket 27246.
10396 o Minor features (OpenSSL):
10397 - When possible, use RFC5869 HKDF implementation from OpenSSL rather
10398 than our own. Resolves ticket 19979.
10400 o Minor features (Rust, code quality):
10401 - Improve rust code quality in the rust protover implementation by
10402 making it more idiomatic. Includes changing an internal API to
10403 take &str instead of &String. Closes ticket 26492.
10405 o Minor features (testing):
10406 - Add scripts/test/chutney-git-bisect.sh, for bisecting using
10407 chutney. Implements ticket 27211.
10409 o Minor features (tor-resolve):
10410 - The tor-resolve utility can now be used with IPv6 SOCKS proxies.
10411 Side-effect of the refactoring for ticket 26526.
10413 o Minor features (UI):
10414 - Log each included configuration file or directory as we read it,
10415 to provide more visibility about where Tor is reading from. Patch
10416 from Unto Sten; closes ticket 27186.
10417 - Lower log level of "Scheduler type KIST has been enabled" to INFO.
10418 Closes ticket 26703.
10420 o Minor bugfixes (bootstrap):
10421 - Try harder to get descriptors in non-exit test networks, by using
10422 the mid weight for the third hop when there are no exits. Fixes
10423 bug 27237; bugfix on 0.2.6.2-alpha.
10425 o Minor bugfixes (C correctness):
10426 - Avoid casting smartlist index to int implicitly, as it may trigger
10427 a warning (-Wshorten-64-to-32). Fixes bug 26282; bugfix on
10428 0.2.3.13-alpha, 0.2.7.1-alpha and 0.2.1.1-alpha.
10429 - Use time_t for all values in
10430 predicted_ports_prediction_time_remaining(). Rework the code that
10431 computes difference between durations/timestamps. Fixes bug 27165;
10432 bugfix on 0.3.1.1-alpha.
10434 o Minor bugfixes (client, memory usage):
10435 - When not running as a directory cache, there is no need to store
10436 the text of the current consensus networkstatus in RAM.
10437 Previously, however, clients would store it anyway, at a cost of
10438 over 5 MB. Now, they do not. Fixes bug 27247; bugfix
10441 o Minor bugfixes (client, reachableaddresses):
10442 - Instead of adding a "reject *:*" line to ReachableAddresses when
10443 loading the configuration, add one to the policy after parsing it
10444 in parse_reachable_addresses(). This prevents extra "reject *.*"
10445 lines from accumulating on reloads. Fixes bug 20874; bugfix on
10446 0.1.1.5-alpha. Patch by Neel Chauhan.
10448 o Minor bugfixes (code quality):
10449 - Rename sandbox_getaddrinfo() and other functions to no longer
10450 misleadingly suggest that they are sandbox-only. Fixes bug 26525;
10451 bugfix on 0.2.7.1-alpha.
10453 o Minor bugfixes (configuration, Onion Services):
10454 - In rend_service_parse_port_config(), disallow any input to remain
10455 after address-port pair was parsed. This will catch address and
10456 port being whitespace-separated by mistake of the user. Fixes bug
10457 27044; bugfix on 0.2.9.10.
10459 o Minor bugfixes (continuous integration):
10460 - Stop reinstalling identical packages in our Windows CI. Fixes bug
10461 27464; bugfix on 0.3.4.1-alpha.
10463 o Minor bugfixes (controller):
10464 - Consider all routerinfo errors other than "not a server" to be
10465 transient for the purpose of "GETINFO exit-policy/*" controller
10466 request. Print stacktrace in the unlikely case of failing to
10467 recompute routerinfo digest. Fixes bug 27034; bugfix
10470 o Minor bugfixes (directory connection shutdown):
10471 - Avoid a double-close when shutting down a stalled directory
10472 connection. Fixes bug 26896; bugfix on 0.3.4.1-alpha.
10474 o Minor bugfixes (HTTP tunnel):
10475 - Fix a bug warning when closing an HTTP tunnel connection due to an
10476 HTTP request we couldn't handle. Fixes bug 26470; bugfix
10479 o Minor bugfixes (ipv6):
10480 - In addrs_in_same_network_family(), we choose the subnet size based
10481 on the IP version (IPv4 or IPv6). Previously, we chose a fixed
10482 subnet size of /16 for both IPv4 and IPv6 addresses. Fixes bug
10483 15518; bugfix on 0.2.3.1-alpha. Patch by Neel Chauhan.
10485 o Minor bugfixes (logging):
10486 - As a precaution, do an early return from log_addr_has_changed() if
10487 Tor is running as client. Also, log a stack trace for debugging as
10488 this function should only be called when Tor runs as server. Fixes
10489 bug 26892; bugfix on 0.1.1.9-alpha.
10490 - Refrain from mentioning bug 21018 in the logs, as it is already
10491 fixed. Fixes bug 25477; bugfix on 0.2.9.8.
10493 o Minor bugfixes (logging, documentation):
10494 - When SafeLogging is enabled, scrub IP address in
10495 channel_tls_process_netinfo_cell(). Also, add a note to manpage
10496 that scrubbing is not guaranteed on loglevels below Notice. Fixes
10497 bug 26882; bugfix on 0.2.4.10-alpha.
10499 o Minor bugfixes (netflow padding):
10500 - Ensure circuitmux queues are empty before scheduling or sending
10501 padding. Fixes bug 25505; bugfix on 0.3.1.1-alpha.
10503 o Minor bugfixes (onion service v2):
10504 - Log at level "info", not "warning", in the case that we do not
10505 have a consensus when a .onion request comes in. This can happen
10506 normally while bootstrapping. Fixes bug 27040; bugfix
10509 o Minor bugfixes (onion service v3):
10510 - When the onion service directory can't be created or has the wrong
10511 permissions, do not log a stack trace. Fixes bug 27335; bugfix
10514 o Minor bugfixes (OS compatibility):
10515 - Properly handle configuration changes that move a listener to/from
10516 wildcard IP address. If the first attempt to bind a socket fails,
10517 close the old listener and try binding the socket again. Fixes bug
10518 17873; bugfix on 0.0.8pre-1.
10520 o Minor bugfixes (performance)::
10521 - Rework node_is_a_configured_bridge() to no longer call
10522 node_get_all_orports(), which was performing too many memory
10523 allocations. Fixes bug 27224; bugfix on 0.2.3.9.
10525 o Minor bugfixes (relay statistics):
10526 - Update relay descriptor on bandwidth changes only when the uptime
10527 is smaller than 24h, in order to reduce the efficiency of guard
10528 discovery attacks. Fixes bug 24104; bugfix on 0.1.1.6-alpha.
10530 o Minor bugfixes (relays):
10531 - Consider the fact that we'll be making direct connections to our
10532 entry and guard nodes when computing the fraction of nodes that
10533 have their descriptors. Also, if we are using bridges and there is
10534 at least one bridge with a full descriptor, treat the fraction of
10535 guards available as 100%. Fixes bug 25886; bugfix on 0.2.4.10-alpha.
10536 Patch by Neel Chauhan.
10537 - Update the message logged on relays when DirCache is disabled.
10538 Since 0.3.3.5-rc, authorities require DirCache (V2Dir) for the
10539 Guard flag. Fixes bug 24312; bugfix on 0.3.3.5-rc.
10541 o Minor bugfixes (rust, protover):
10542 - Compute protover votes correctly in the rust version of the
10543 protover code. Previously, the protover rewrite in 24031 allowed
10544 repeated votes from the same voter for the same protocol version
10545 to be counted multiple times in protover_compute_vote(). Fixes bug
10546 27649; bugfix on 0.3.3.5-rc.
10547 - Reject protover names that contain invalid characters. Fixes bug
10548 27687; bugfix on 0.3.3.1-alpha.
10550 o Minor bugfixes (testing):
10551 - Fix two unit tests to work when HOME environment variable is not
10552 set. Fixes bug 27096; bugfix on 0.2.8.1-alpha.
10553 - If a unit test running in a subprocess exits abnormally or with a
10554 nonzero status code, treat the test as having failed, even if the
10555 test reported success. Without this fix, memory leaks don't cause
10556 the tests to fail, even with LeakSanitizer. Fixes bug 27658;
10557 bugfix on 0.2.2.4-alpha.
10558 - When logging a version mismatch in our openssl_version tests,
10559 report the actual offending version strings. Fixes bug 26152;
10560 bugfix on 0.2.9.1-alpha.
10561 - Fix forking tests on Windows when there is a space somewhere in
10562 the path. Fixes bug 26437; bugfix on 0.2.2.4-alpha.
10564 o Code simplification and refactoring:
10565 - 'updateFallbackDirs.py' now ignores the blacklist file, as it's not
10566 longer needed. Closes ticket 26502.
10567 - Include paths to header files within Tor are now qualified by
10568 directory within the top-level src directory.
10569 - Many structures have been removed from the centralized "or.h"
10570 header, and moved into their own headers. This will allow us to
10571 reduce the number of places in the code that rely on each
10572 structure's contents and layout. Closes ticket 26383.
10573 - Remove ATTR_NONNULL macro from codebase. Resolves ticket 26527.
10574 - Remove GetAdaptersAddresses_fn_t. The code that used it was
10575 removed as part of the 26481 refactor. Closes ticket 27467.
10576 - Rework Tor SOCKS server code to use Trunnel and benefit from
10577 autogenerated functions for parsing and generating SOCKS wire
10578 format. New implementation is cleaner, more maintainable and
10579 should be less prone to heartbleed-style vulnerabilities.
10580 Implements a significant fraction of ticket 3569.
10581 - Split sampled_guards_update_from_consensus() and
10582 select_entry_guard_for_circuit() into subfunctions. In
10583 entry_guards_update_primary() unite three smartlist enumerations
10584 into one and move smartlist comparison code out of the function.
10585 Closes ticket 21349.
10586 - Tor now assumes that you have standards-conformant stdint.h and
10587 inttypes.h headers when compiling. Closes ticket 26626.
10588 - Unify our bloom filter logic. Previously we had two copies of this
10589 code: one for routerlist filtering, and one for address set
10590 calculations. Closes ticket 26510.
10591 - Use the simpler strcmpstart() helper in
10592 rend_parse_v2_service_descriptor instead of strncmp(). Closes
10594 - Utility functions that can perform a DNS lookup are now wholly
10595 separated from those that can't, in separate headers and C
10596 modules. Closes ticket 26526.
10599 - Copy paragraph and URL to Tor's code of conduct document from
10600 CONTRIBUTING to new CODE_OF_CONDUCT file. Resolves ticket 26638.
10601 - Remove old instructions from INSTALL document. Closes ticket 26588.
10602 - Warn users that they should not include MyFamily line(s) in their
10603 torrc when running Tor bridge. Closes ticket 26908.
10605 o Removed features:
10606 - Tor no longer supports building with the dmalloc library. For
10607 debugging memory issues, we suggest using gperftools or msan
10608 instead. Closes ticket 26426.
10609 - Tor no longer attempts to run on Windows environments without the
10610 GetAdaptersAddresses() function. This function has existed since
10611 Windows XP, which is itself already older than we support.
10612 - Remove Tor2web functionality for version 2 onion services. The
10613 Tor2webMode and Tor2webRendezvousPoints options are now obsolete.
10614 (This feature was never shipped in vanilla Tor and it was only
10615 possible to use this feature by building the support at compile
10616 time. Tor2webMode is not implemented for version 3 onion services.)
10617 Closes ticket 26367.
10620 Changes in version 0.2.9.17 - 2018-09-10
10621 Tor 0.2.9.17 backports numerous bugfixes from later versions of Tor.
10623 o Minor features (compatibility, backport from 0.3.4.8):
10624 - Tell OpenSSL to maintain backward compatibility with previous
10625 RSA1024/DH1024 users in Tor. With OpenSSL 1.1.1-pre6, these
10626 ciphers are disabled by default. Closes ticket 27344.
10628 o Minor features (continuous integration, backport from 0.3.4.7-rc):
10629 - Enable macOS builds in our Travis CI configuration. Closes
10631 - Install libcap-dev and libseccomp2-dev so these optional
10632 dependencies get tested on Travis CI. Closes ticket 26560.
10633 - Run asciidoc during Travis CI. Implements ticket 27087.
10634 - Use ccache in our Travis CI configuration. Closes ticket 26952.
10636 o Minor features (geoip):
10637 - Update geoip and geoip6 to the August 7 2018 Maxmind GeoLite2
10638 Country database. Closes ticket 27089.
10640 o Minor bugfixes (compilation, backport from 0.3.4.6-rc):
10641 - When compiling with --enable-openbsd-malloc or --enable-tcmalloc,
10642 tell the compiler not to include the system malloc implementation.
10643 Fixes bug 20424; bugfix on 0.2.0.20-rc.
10645 o Minor bugfixes (compilation, backport from 0.3.4.7-rc):
10646 - Silence a spurious compiler warning on the GetAdaptersAddresses
10647 function pointer cast. This issue is already fixed by 26481 in
10648 0.3.5 and later, by removing the lookup and cast. Fixes bug 27465;
10649 bugfix on 0.2.3.11-alpha.
10650 - Stop calling SetProcessDEPPolicy() on 64-bit Windows. It is not
10651 supported, and always fails. Some compilers warn about the
10652 function pointer cast on 64-bit Windows. Fixes bug 27461; bugfix
10655 o Minor bugfixes (compilation, windows, backport from 0.3.4.7-rc):
10656 - Don't link or search for pthreads when building for Windows, even
10657 if we are using build environment (like mingw) that provides a
10658 pthreads library. Fixes bug 27081; bugfix on 0.1.0.1-rc.
10660 o Minor bugfixes (continuous integration, backport from 0.3.4.6-rc):
10661 - Skip a pair of unreliable key generation tests on Windows, until
10662 the underlying issue in bug 26076 is resolved. Fixes bug 26830 and
10663 bug 26853; bugfix on 0.2.7.3-rc and 0.3.2.1-alpha respectively.
10665 o Minor bugfixes (continuous integration, backport from 0.3.4.7-rc):
10666 - Pass the module flags to distcheck configure, and log the flags
10667 before running configure. (Backported to 0.2.9 and later as a
10668 precaution.) Fixes bug 27088; bugfix on 0.3.4.1-alpha.
10670 o Minor bugfixes (continuous integration, backport from 0.3.4.8):
10671 - When a Travis build fails, and showing a log fails, keep trying to
10672 show the other logs. Fixes bug 27453; bugfix on 0.3.4.7-rc.
10673 - When we use echo in Travis, don't pass a --flag as the first
10674 argument. Fixes bug 27418; bugfix on 0.3.4.7-rc.
10676 o Minor bugfixes (directory authority, backport from 0.3.4.6-rc):
10677 - When voting for recommended versions, make sure that all of the
10678 versions are well-formed and parsable. Fixes bug 26485; bugfix
10681 o Minor bugfixes (linux seccomp2 sandbox, backport from 0.3.4.7-rc):
10682 - Fix a bug in out sandboxing rules for the openat() syscall.
10683 Previously, no openat() call would be permitted, which would break
10684 filesystem operations on recent glibc versions. Fixes bug 25440;
10685 bugfix on 0.2.9.15. Diagnosis and patch from Daniel Pinto.
10687 o Minor bugfixes (onion services, backport from 0.3.4.8):
10688 - Silence a spurious compiler warning in
10689 rend_client_send_introduction(). Fixes bug 27463; bugfix
10692 o Minor bugfixes (single onion services, Tor2web, backport from 0.3.4.6-rc):
10693 - Log a protocol warning when single onion services or Tor2web clients
10694 fail to authenticate direct connections to relays.
10695 Fixes bug 26924; bugfix on 0.2.9.1-alpha.
10697 o Minor bugfixes (testing, backport from 0.3.4.6-rc):
10698 - Disable core dumps in test_bt.sh, to avoid failures in "make
10699 distcheck". Fixes bug 26787; bugfix on 0.2.5.2-alpha.
10701 o Minor bugfixes (testing, chutney, backport from 0.3.4.8):
10702 - Before running make test-network-all, delete old logs and test
10703 result files, to avoid spurious failures. Fixes bug 27295; bugfix
10706 o Minor bugfixes (testing, openssl compatibility, backport from 0.3.4.7-rc):
10707 - Our "tortls/cert_matches_key" unit test no longer relies on
10708 OpenSSL internals. Previously, it relied on unsupported OpenSSL
10709 behavior in a way that caused it to crash with OpenSSL 1.0.2p.
10710 Fixes bug 27226; bugfix on 0.2.5.1-alpha.
10712 o Minor bugfixes (Windows, compilation, backport from 0.3.4.7-rc):
10713 - Silence a compilation warning on MSVC 2017 and clang-cl. Fixes bug
10714 27185; bugfix on 0.2.2.2-alpha.
10717 Changes in version 0.3.2.12 - 2018-09-10
10718 Tor 0.3.2.12 backport numerous fixes from later versions of Tor.
10720 o Minor features (compatibility, backport from 0.3.4.8):
10721 - Tell OpenSSL to maintain backward compatibility with previous
10722 RSA1024/DH1024 users in Tor. With OpenSSL 1.1.1-pre6, these
10723 ciphers are disabled by default. Closes ticket 27344.
10725 o Minor features (continuous integration, backport from 0.3.4.7-rc):
10726 - Enable macOS builds in our Travis CI configuration. Closes
10728 - Install libcap-dev and libseccomp2-dev so these optional
10729 dependencies get tested on Travis CI. Closes ticket 26560.
10730 - Run asciidoc during Travis CI. Implements ticket 27087.
10731 - Use ccache in our Travis CI configuration. Closes ticket 26952.
10733 o Minor features (continuous integration, rust, backport from 0.3.4.7-rc):
10734 - Use cargo cache in our Travis CI configuration. Closes
10737 o Minor features (controller, backport from 0.3.4.6-rc):
10738 - The control port now exposes the list of HTTPTunnelPorts and
10739 ExtOrPorts via GETINFO net/listeners/httptunnel and
10740 net/listeners/extor respectively. Closes ticket 26647.
10742 o Minor features (directory authorities, backport from 0.3.4.7-rc):
10743 - Authorities no longer vote to make the subprotocol version
10744 "LinkAuth=1" a requirement: it is unsupportable with NSS, and
10745 hasn't been needed since Tor 0.3.0.1-alpha. Closes ticket 27286.
10747 o Minor features (geoip):
10748 - Update geoip and geoip6 to the August 7 2018 Maxmind GeoLite2
10749 Country database. Closes ticket 27089.
10751 o Minor bugfixes (compilation, backport from 0.3.4.6-rc):
10752 - When compiling with --enable-openbsd-malloc or --enable-tcmalloc,
10753 tell the compiler not to include the system malloc implementation.
10754 Fixes bug 20424; bugfix on 0.2.0.20-rc.
10755 - Don't try to use a pragma to temporarily disable the
10756 -Wunused-const-variable warning if the compiler doesn't support
10757 it. Fixes bug 26785; bugfix on 0.3.2.11.
10759 o Minor bugfixes (compilation, backport from 0.3.4.7-rc):
10760 - Silence a spurious compiler warning on the GetAdaptersAddresses
10761 function pointer cast. This issue is already fixed by 26481 in
10762 0.3.5 and later, by removing the lookup and cast. Fixes bug 27465;
10763 bugfix on 0.2.3.11-alpha.
10764 - Stop calling SetProcessDEPPolicy() on 64-bit Windows. It is not
10765 supported, and always fails. Some compilers warn about the
10766 function pointer cast on 64-bit Windows. Fixes bug 27461; bugfix
10769 o Minor bugfixes (compilation, windows, backport from 0.3.4.7-rc):
10770 - Don't link or search for pthreads when building for Windows, even
10771 if we are using build environment (like mingw) that provides a
10772 pthreads library. Fixes bug 27081; bugfix on 0.1.0.1-rc.
10774 o Minor bugfixes (continuous integration, backport from 0.3.4.6-rc):
10775 - Skip a pair of unreliable key generation tests on Windows, until
10776 the underlying issue in bug 26076 is resolved. Fixes bug 26830 and
10777 bug 26853; bugfix on 0.2.7.3-rc and 0.3.2.1-alpha respectively.
10779 o Minor bugfixes (continuous integration, backport from 0.3.4.7-rc):
10780 - Build with zstd on macOS. Fixes bug 27090; bugfix on 0.3.1.5-alpha.
10781 - Pass the module flags to distcheck configure, and log the flags
10782 before running configure. (Backported to 0.2.9 and later as a
10783 precaution.) Fixes bug 27088; bugfix on 0.3.4.1-alpha.
10785 o Minor bugfixes (continuous integration, backport from 0.3.4.8):
10786 - When a Travis build fails, and showing a log fails, keep trying to
10787 show the other logs. Fixes bug 27453; bugfix on 0.3.4.7-rc.
10788 - When we use echo in Travis, don't pass a --flag as the first
10789 argument. Fixes bug 27418; bugfix on 0.3.4.7-rc.
10791 o Minor bugfixes (directory authority, backport from 0.3.4.6-rc):
10792 - When voting for recommended versions, make sure that all of the
10793 versions are well-formed and parsable. Fixes bug 26485; bugfix
10796 o Minor bugfixes (linux seccomp2 sandbox, backport from 0.3.4.7-rc):
10797 - Fix a bug in out sandboxing rules for the openat() syscall.
10798 Previously, no openat() call would be permitted, which would break
10799 filesystem operations on recent glibc versions. Fixes bug 25440;
10800 bugfix on 0.2.9.15. Diagnosis and patch from Daniel Pinto.
10802 o Minor bugfixes (logging, backport from 0.3.4.6-rc):
10803 - Improve the log message when connection initiators fail to
10804 authenticate direct connections to relays. Fixes bug 26927; bugfix
10807 o Minor bugfixes (onion services, backport from 0.3.4.7-rc):
10808 - Fix bug that causes services to not ever rotate their descriptors
10809 if they were getting SIGHUPed often. Fixes bug 26932; bugfix
10812 o Minor bugfixes (onion services, backport from 0.3.4.8):
10813 - Silence a spurious compiler warning in
10814 rend_client_send_introduction(). Fixes bug 27463; bugfix
10817 o Minor bugfixes (rust, backport from 0.3.4.7-rc):
10818 - Backport test_rust.sh from master. Fixes bug 26497; bugfix
10820 - Consistently use ../../.. as a fallback for $abs_top_srcdir in
10821 test_rust.sh. Fixes bug 27093; bugfix on 0.3.4.3-alpha.
10822 - Stop setting $CARGO_HOME. cargo will use the user's $CARGO_HOME, or
10823 $HOME/.cargo by default. Fixes bug 26497; bugfix on 0.3.1.5-alpha.
10825 o Minor bugfixes (single onion services, Tor2web, backport from 0.3.4.6-rc):
10826 - Log a protocol warning when single onion services or Tor2web clients
10827 fail to authenticate direct connections to relays.
10828 Fixes bug 26924; bugfix on 0.2.9.1-alpha.
10830 o Minor bugfixes (testing, backport from 0.3.4.6-rc):
10831 - Disable core dumps in test_bt.sh, to avoid failures in "make
10832 distcheck". Fixes bug 26787; bugfix on 0.2.5.2-alpha.
10834 o Minor bugfixes (testing, chutney, backport from 0.3.4.8):
10835 - When running make test-network-all, use the mixed+hs-v2 network.
10836 (A previous fix to chutney removed v3 onion services from the
10837 mixed+hs-v23 network, so seeing "mixed+hs-v23" in tests is
10838 confusing.) Fixes bug 27345; bugfix on 0.3.2.1-alpha.
10839 - Before running make test-network-all, delete old logs and test
10840 result files, to avoid spurious failures. Fixes bug 27295; bugfix
10843 o Minor bugfixes (testing, openssl compatibility):
10844 - Our "tortls/cert_matches_key" unit test no longer relies on OpenSSL
10845 internals. Previously, it relied on unsupported OpenSSL behavior in
10846 a way that caused it to crash with OpenSSL 1.0.2p. Fixes bug 27226;
10847 bugfix on 0.2.5.1-alpha.
10849 o Minor bugfixes (testing, openssl compatibility, backport from 0.3.4.7-rc):
10850 - Our "tortls/cert_matches_key" unit test no longer relies on
10851 OpenSSL internals. Previously, it relied on unsupported OpenSSL
10852 behavior in a way that caused it to crash with OpenSSL 1.0.2p.
10853 Fixes bug 27226; bugfix on 0.2.5.1-alpha.
10855 o Minor bugfixes (Windows, compilation, backport from 0.3.4.7-rc):
10856 - Silence a compilation warning on MSVC 2017 and clang-cl. Fixes bug
10857 27185; bugfix on 0.2.2.2-alpha.
10860 Changes in version 0.3.3.10 - 2018-09-10
10861 Tor 0.3.3.10 backports numerous fixes from later versions of Tor.
10863 o Minor features (bug workaround, backport from 0.3.4.7-rc):
10864 - Compile correctly on systems that provide the C11 stdatomic.h
10865 header, but where C11 atomic functions don't actually compile.
10866 Closes ticket 26779; workaround for Debian issue 903709.
10868 o Minor features (compatibility, backport from 0.3.4.8):
10869 - Tell OpenSSL to maintain backward compatibility with previous
10870 RSA1024/DH1024 users in Tor. With OpenSSL 1.1.1-pre6, these
10871 ciphers are disabled by default. Closes ticket 27344.
10873 o Minor features (continuous integration, backport from 0.3.4.7-rc):
10874 - Backport Travis rust distcheck to 0.3.3. Closes ticket 24629.
10875 - Enable macOS builds in our Travis CI configuration. Closes
10877 - Install libcap-dev and libseccomp2-dev so these optional
10878 dependencies get tested on Travis CI. Closes ticket 26560.
10879 - Run asciidoc during Travis CI. Implements ticket 27087.
10880 - Use ccache in our Travis CI configuration. Closes ticket 26952.
10882 o Minor features (continuous integration, rust, backport from 0.3.4.7-rc):
10883 - Use cargo cache in our Travis CI configuration. Closes
10886 o Minor features (controller, backport from 0.3.4.6-rc):
10887 - The control port now exposes the list of HTTPTunnelPorts and
10888 ExtOrPorts via GETINFO net/listeners/httptunnel and
10889 net/listeners/extor respectively. Closes ticket 26647.
10891 o Minor features (directory authorities, backport from 0.3.4.7-rc):
10892 - Authorities no longer vote to make the subprotocol version
10893 "LinkAuth=1" a requirement: it is unsupportable with NSS, and
10894 hasn't been needed since Tor 0.3.0.1-alpha. Closes ticket 27286.
10896 o Minor features (geoip):
10897 - Update geoip and geoip6 to the August 7 2018 Maxmind GeoLite2
10898 Country database. Closes ticket 27089.
10900 o Minor bugfixes (compilation, backport from 0.3.4.6-rc):
10901 - When compiling with --enable-openbsd-malloc or --enable-tcmalloc,
10902 tell the compiler not to include the system malloc implementation.
10903 Fixes bug 20424; bugfix on 0.2.0.20-rc.
10904 - Don't try to use a pragma to temporarily disable the
10905 -Wunused-const-variable warning if the compiler doesn't support
10906 it. Fixes bug 26785; bugfix on 0.3.2.11.
10908 o Minor bugfixes (compilation, backport from 0.3.4.7-rc):
10909 - Silence a spurious compiler warning on the GetAdaptersAddresses
10910 function pointer cast. This issue is already fixed by 26481 in
10911 0.3.5 and later, by removing the lookup and cast. Fixes bug 27465;
10912 bugfix on 0.2.3.11-alpha.
10913 - Stop calling SetProcessDEPPolicy() on 64-bit Windows. It is not
10914 supported, and always fails. Some compilers warn about the
10915 function pointer cast on 64-bit Windows. Fixes bug 27461; bugfix
10918 o Minor bugfixes (compilation, windows, backport from 0.3.4.7-rc):
10919 - Don't link or search for pthreads when building for Windows, even
10920 if we are using build environment (like mingw) that provides a
10921 pthreads library. Fixes bug 27081; bugfix on 0.1.0.1-rc.
10923 o Minor bugfixes (continuous integration, backport from 0.3.4.6-rc):
10924 - Skip a pair of unreliable key generation tests on Windows, until
10925 the underlying issue in bug 26076 is resolved. Fixes bug 26830 and
10926 bug 26853; bugfix on 0.2.7.3-rc and 0.3.2.1-alpha respectively.
10928 o Minor bugfixes (continuous integration, backport from 0.3.4.7-rc):
10929 - Build with zstd on macOS. Fixes bug 27090; bugfix on 0.3.1.5-alpha.
10930 - Pass the module flags to distcheck configure, and log the flags
10931 before running configure. (Backported to 0.2.9 and later as a
10932 precaution.) Fixes bug 27088; bugfix on 0.3.4.1-alpha.
10934 o Minor bugfixes (continuous integration, backport from 0.3.4.8):
10935 - When a Travis build fails, and showing a log fails, keep trying to
10936 show the other logs. Fixes bug 27453; bugfix on 0.3.4.7-rc.
10937 - When we use echo in Travis, don't pass a --flag as the first
10938 argument. Fixes bug 27418; bugfix on 0.3.4.7-rc.
10940 o Minor bugfixes (directory authority, backport from 0.3.4.6-rc):
10941 - When voting for recommended versions, make sure that all of the
10942 versions are well-formed and parsable. Fixes bug 26485; bugfix
10945 o Minor bugfixes (in-process restart, backport from 0.3.4.7-rc):
10946 - Always call tor_free_all() when leaving tor_run_main(). When we
10947 did not, restarting tor in-process would cause an assertion
10948 failure. Fixes bug 26948; bugfix on 0.3.3.1-alpha.
10950 o Minor bugfixes (linux seccomp2 sandbox, backport from 0.3.4.7-rc):
10951 - Fix a bug in our sandboxing rules for the openat() syscall.
10952 Previously, no openat() call would be permitted, which would break
10953 filesystem operations on recent glibc versions. Fixes bug 25440;
10954 bugfix on 0.2.9.15. Diagnosis and patch from Daniel Pinto.
10956 o Minor bugfixes (logging, backport from 0.3.4.6-rc):
10957 - Improve the log message when connection initiators fail to
10958 authenticate direct connections to relays. Fixes bug 26927; bugfix
10961 o Minor bugfixes (onion services, backport from 0.3.4.7-rc):
10962 - Fix bug that causes services to not ever rotate their descriptors
10963 if they were getting SIGHUPed often. Fixes bug 26932; bugfix
10966 o Minor bugfixes (onion services, backport from 0.3.4.8):
10967 - Silence a spurious compiler warning in
10968 rend_client_send_introduction(). Fixes bug 27463; bugfix
10971 o Minor bugfixes (portability, backport from 0.3.4.6-rc):
10972 - Work around two different bugs in the OS X 10.10 and later SDKs
10973 that would prevent us from successfully targeting earlier versions
10974 of OS X. Fixes bug 26876; bugfix on 0.3.3.1-alpha.
10976 o Minor bugfixes (portability, backport from 0.3.4.7-rc):
10977 - Fix compilation of the unit tests on GNU/Hurd, which does not
10978 define PATH_MAX. Fixes bug 26873; bugfix on 0.3.3.1-alpha. Patch
10981 o Minor bugfixes (rust, backport from 0.3.4.7-rc):
10982 - Backport test_rust.sh from master. Fixes bug 26497; bugfix
10984 - Consistently use ../../.. as a fallback for $abs_top_srcdir in
10985 test_rust.sh. Fixes bug 27093; bugfix on 0.3.4.3-alpha.
10986 - Protover parsing was accepting the presence of whitespace in
10987 version strings, which the C implementation would choke on, e.g.
10988 "Desc=1\t,2". Fixes bug 27177; bugfix on 0.3.3.5-rc.
10989 - Protover parsing was ignoring a 2nd hyphen and everything after
10990 it, accepting entries like "Link=1-5-foo". Fixes bug 27164; bugfix
10992 - Stop setting $CARGO_HOME. cargo will use the user's $CARGO_HOME, or
10993 $HOME/.cargo by default. Fixes bug 26497; bugfix on 0.3.1.5-alpha.
10994 - cd to ${abs_top_builddir}/src/rust before running cargo in
10995 src/test/test_rust.sh. This makes the working directory consistent
10996 between builds and tests. Fixes bug 26497; bugfix on 0.3.3.2-alpha.
10998 o Minor bugfixes (single onion services, Tor2web, backport from 0.3.4.6-rc):
10999 - Log a protocol warning when single onion services or Tor2web clients
11000 fail to authenticate direct connections to relays.
11001 Fixes bug 26924; bugfix on 0.2.9.1-alpha.
11003 o Minor bugfixes (testing, backport from 0.3.4.6-rc):
11004 - Disable core dumps in test_bt.sh, to avoid failures in "make
11005 distcheck". Fixes bug 26787; bugfix on 0.2.5.2-alpha.
11007 o Minor bugfixes (testing, chutney, backport from 0.3.4.8):
11008 - When running make test-network-all, use the mixed+hs-v2 network.
11009 (A previous fix to chutney removed v3 onion services from the
11010 mixed+hs-v23 network, so seeing "mixed+hs-v23" in tests is
11011 confusing.) Fixes bug 27345; bugfix on 0.3.2.1-alpha.
11012 - Before running make test-network-all, delete old logs and test
11013 result files, to avoid spurious failures. Fixes bug 27295; bugfix
11016 o Minor bugfixes (testing, openssl compatibility, backport from 0.3.4.7-rc):
11017 - Our "tortls/cert_matches_key" unit test no longer relies on
11018 OpenSSL internals. Previously, it relied on unsupported OpenSSL
11019 behavior in a way that caused it to crash with OpenSSL 1.0.2p.
11020 Fixes bug 27226; bugfix on 0.2.5.1-alpha.
11022 o Minor bugfixes (v3 onion services, backport from 0.3.4.6-rc):
11023 - Stop sending ed25519 link specifiers in v3 onion service introduce
11024 cells and descriptors, when the rendezvous or introduction point
11025 doesn't support ed25519 link authentication. Fixes bug 26627;
11026 bugfix on 0.3.2.4-alpha.
11028 o Minor bugfixes (Windows, compilation, backport from 0.3.4.7-rc):
11029 - Silence a compilation warning on MSVC 2017 and clang-cl. Fixes bug
11030 27185; bugfix on 0.2.2.2-alpha.
11033 Changes in version 0.3.4.8 - 2018-09-10
11034 Tor 0.3.4.8 is the first stable release in its series; it includes
11035 compilation and portability fixes.
11037 The Tor 0.3.4 series includes improvements for running Tor in
11038 low-power and embedded environments, which should help performance in
11039 general. We've begun work on better modularity, and included preliminary
11040 changes on the directory authority side to accommodate a new bandwidth
11041 measurement system. We've also integrated more continuous-integration
11042 systems into our development process, and made corresponding changes to
11043 Tor's testing infrastructure. Finally, we've continued to refine
11044 our anti-denial-of-service code.
11046 Below are the changes since 0.3.4.7-rc. For a complete list of changes
11047 since 0.3.3.9, see the ReleaseNotes file.
11049 o Minor features (compatibility):
11050 - Tell OpenSSL to maintain backward compatibility with previous
11051 RSA1024/DH1024 users in Tor. With OpenSSL 1.1.1-pre6, these
11052 ciphers are disabled by default. Closes ticket 27344.
11054 o Minor features (continuous integration):
11055 - Log the compiler path and version during Appveyor builds.
11056 Implements ticket 27449.
11057 - Show config.log and test-suite.log after failed Appveyor builds.
11058 Also upload the zipped full logs as a build artifact. Implements
11061 o Minor bugfixes (compilation):
11062 - Silence a spurious compiler warning on the GetAdaptersAddresses
11063 function pointer cast. This issue is already fixed by 26481 in
11064 0.3.5 and later, by removing the lookup and cast. Fixes bug 27465;
11065 bugfix on 0.2.3.11-alpha.
11066 - Stop calling SetProcessDEPPolicy() on 64-bit Windows. It is not
11067 supported, and always fails. Some compilers warn about the
11068 function pointer cast on 64-bit Windows. Fixes bug 27461; bugfix
11071 o Minor bugfixes (continuous integration):
11072 - Disable gcc hardening in Appveyor Windows 64-bit builds. As of
11073 August 29 2018, Appveyor images come with gcc 8.2.0 by default.
11074 Executables compiled for 64-bit Windows with this version of gcc
11075 crash when Tor's --enable-gcc-hardening flag is set. Fixes bug
11076 27460; bugfix on 0.3.4.1-alpha.
11077 - When a Travis build fails, and showing a log fails, keep trying to
11078 show the other logs. Fixes bug 27453; bugfix on 0.3.4.7-rc.
11079 - When we use echo in Travis, don't pass a --flag as the first
11080 argument. Fixes bug 27418; bugfix on 0.3.4.7-rc.
11082 o Minor bugfixes (onion services):
11083 - Silence a spurious compiler warning in
11084 rend_client_send_introduction(). Fixes bug 27463; bugfix
11087 o Minor bugfixes (testing, chutney):
11088 - When running make test-network-all, use the mixed+hs-v2 network.
11089 (A previous fix to chutney removed v3 onion services from the
11090 mixed+hs-v23 network, so seeing "mixed+hs-v23" in tests is
11091 confusing.) Fixes bug 27345; bugfix on 0.3.2.1-alpha.
11092 - Before running make test-network-all, delete old logs and test
11093 result files, to avoid spurious failures. Fixes bug 27295; bugfix
11096 Changes in version 0.3.4.7-rc - 2018-08-24
11097 Tor 0.3.4.7-rc fixes several small compilation, portability, and
11098 correctness issues in previous versions of Tor. This version is a
11099 release candidate: if no serious bugs are found, we expect that the
11100 stable 0.3.4 release will be (almost) the same as this release.
11102 o Minor features (bug workaround):
11103 - Compile correctly on systems that provide the C11 stdatomic.h
11104 header, but where C11 atomic functions don't actually compile.
11105 Closes ticket 26779; workaround for Debian issue 903709.
11107 o Minor features (continuous integration):
11108 - Backport Travis rust distcheck to 0.3.3. Closes ticket 24629.
11109 - Enable macOS builds in our Travis CI configuration. Closes
11111 - Install libcap-dev and libseccomp2-dev so these optional
11112 dependencies get tested on Travis CI. Closes ticket 26560.
11113 - Only post Appveyor IRC notifications when the build fails.
11114 Implements ticket 27275.
11115 - Run asciidoc during Travis CI. Implements ticket 27087.
11116 - Use ccache in our Travis CI configuration. Closes ticket 26952.
11118 o Minor features (continuous integration, rust):
11119 - Use cargo cache in our Travis CI configuration. Closes
11122 o Minor features (directory authorities):
11123 - Authorities no longer vote to make the subprotocol version
11124 "LinkAuth=1" a requirement: it is unsupportable with NSS, and
11125 hasn't been needed since Tor 0.3.0.1-alpha. Closes ticket 27286.
11127 o Minor features (geoip):
11128 - Update geoip and geoip6 to the August 7 2018 Maxmind GeoLite2
11129 Country database. Closes ticket 27089.
11131 o Minor bugfixes (compilation, windows):
11132 - Don't link or search for pthreads when building for Windows, even
11133 if we are using build environment (like mingw) that provides a
11134 pthreads library. Fixes bug 27081; bugfix on 0.1.0.1-rc.
11136 o Minor bugfixes (continuous integration):
11137 - Improve Appveyor CI IRC logging. Generate correct branches and
11138 URLs for pull requests and tags. Use unambiguous short commits.
11139 Fixes bug 26979; bugfix on master.
11140 - Build with zstd on macOS. Fixes bug 27090; bugfix on 0.3.1.5-alpha.
11141 - Pass the module flags to distcheck configure, and log the flags
11142 before running configure. (Backported to 0.2.9 and later as a
11143 precaution.) Fixes bug 27088; bugfix on 0.3.4.1-alpha.
11145 o Minor bugfixes (in-process restart):
11146 - Always call tor_free_all() when leaving tor_run_main(). When we
11147 did not, restarting tor in-process would cause an assertion
11148 failure. Fixes bug 26948; bugfix on 0.3.3.1-alpha.
11150 o Minor bugfixes (linux seccomp2 sandbox):
11151 - Fix a bug in out sandboxing rules for the openat() syscall.
11152 Previously, no openat() call would be permitted, which would break
11153 filesystem operations on recent glibc versions. Fixes bug 25440;
11154 bugfix on 0.2.9.15. Diagnosis and patch from Daniel Pinto.
11156 o Minor bugfixes (onion services):
11157 - Fix bug that causes services to not ever rotate their descriptors
11158 if they were getting SIGHUPed often. Fixes bug 26932; bugfix
11161 o Minor bugfixes (portability):
11162 - Fix compilation of the unit tests on GNU/Hurd, which does not
11163 define PATH_MAX. Fixes bug 26873; bugfix on 0.3.3.1-alpha. Patch
11166 o Minor bugfixes (rust):
11167 - Backport test_rust.sh from master. Fixes bug 26497; bugfix
11169 - Consistently use ../../.. as a fallback for $abs_top_srcdir in
11170 test_rust.sh. Fixes bug 27093; bugfix on 0.3.4.3-alpha.
11171 - Protover parsing was accepting the presence of whitespace in
11172 version strings, which the C implementation would choke on, e.g.
11173 "Desc=1\t,2". Fixes bug 27177; bugfix on 0.3.3.5-rc.
11174 - Protover parsing was ignoring a 2nd hyphen and everything after
11175 it, accepting entries like "Link=1-5-foo". Fixes bug 27164; bugfix
11177 - Stop setting $CARGO_HOME. cargo will use the user's $CARGO_HOME, or
11178 $HOME/.cargo by default. Fixes bug 26497; bugfix on 0.3.1.5-alpha.
11179 - cd to ${abs_top_builddir}/src/rust before running cargo in
11180 src/test/test_rust.sh. This makes the working directory consistent
11181 between builds and tests. Fixes bug 26497; bugfix on 0.3.3.2-alpha.
11183 o Minor bugfixes (testing, bootstrap):
11184 - When calculating bootstrap progress, check exit policies and the
11185 exit flag. Previously, Tor would only check the exit flag, which
11186 caused race conditions in small and fast networks like chutney.
11187 Fixes bug 27236; bugfix on 0.2.6.3-alpha.
11189 o Minor bugfixes (testing, openssl compatibility):
11190 - Our "tortls/cert_matches_key" unit test no longer relies on
11191 OpenSSL internals. Previously, it relied on unsupported OpenSSL
11192 behavior in a way that caused it to crash with OpenSSL 1.0.2p.
11193 Fixes bug 27226; bugfix on 0.2.5.1-alpha.
11195 o Minor bugfixes (Windows, compilation):
11196 - Silence a compilation warning on MSVC 2017 and clang-cl. Fixes bug
11197 27185; bugfix on 0.2.2.2-alpha.
11200 Changes in version 0.3.4.6-rc - 2018-08-06
11201 Tor 0.3.4.6-rc fixes several small compilation, portability, and
11202 correctness issues in previous versions of Tor. This version is a
11203 release candidate: if no serious bugs are found, we expect that the
11204 stable 0.3.4 release will be (almost) the same as this release.
11206 o Major bugfixes (event scheduler):
11207 - When we enable a periodic event, schedule it in the event loop
11208 rather than running it immediately. Previously, we would re-run
11209 periodic events immediately in the middle of (for example)
11210 changing our options, with unpredictable effects. Fixes bug 27003;
11211 bugfix on 0.3.4.1-alpha.
11213 o Minor features (compilation):
11214 - When building Tor, prefer to use Python 3 over Python 2, and more
11215 recent (contemplated) versions over older ones. Closes
11217 - When compiling with --enable-openbsd-malloc or --enable-tcmalloc,
11218 tell the compiler not to include the system malloc implementation.
11219 Fixes bug 20424; bugfix on 0.2.0.20-rc.
11220 - Don't try to use a pragma to temporarily disable the
11221 -Wunused-const-variable warning if the compiler doesn't support
11222 it. Fixes bug 26785; bugfix on 0.3.2.11.
11224 o Minor bugfixes (continuous integration):
11225 - Skip a pair of unreliable key generation tests on Windows, until
11226 the underlying issue in bug 26076 is resolved. Fixes bug 26830 and
11227 bug 26853; bugfix on 0.2.7.3-rc and 0.3.2.1-alpha respectively.
11229 o Minor features (controller):
11230 - The control port now exposes the list of HTTPTunnelPorts and
11231 ExtOrPorts via GETINFO net/listeners/httptunnel and
11232 net/listeners/extor respectively. Closes ticket 26647.
11234 o Minor bugfixes (directory authority):
11235 - When voting for recommended versions, make sure that all of the
11236 versions are well-formed and parsable. Fixes bug 26485; bugfix
11239 o Minor features (geoip):
11240 - Update geoip and geoip6 to the July 3 2018 Maxmind GeoLite2
11241 Country database. Closes ticket 26674.
11243 o Minor features (Rust, portability):
11244 - Rust cross-compilation is now supported. Closes ticket 25895.
11246 o Minor bugfixes (compilation):
11247 - Update build system so that tor builds again with --disable-unittests
11248 after recent refactoring. Fixes bug 26789; bugfix on 0.3.4.3-alpha.
11249 - Fix a compilation warning on some versions of GCC when building
11250 code that calls routerinfo_get_my_routerinfo() twice, assuming
11251 that the second call will succeed if the first one did. Fixes bug
11252 26269; bugfix on 0.2.8.2-alpha.
11254 o Minor bugfixes (controller):
11255 - Report the port correctly when a port is configured to bind to
11256 "auto". Fixes bug 26568; bugfix on 0.3.4.1-alpha.
11257 - Parse the "HSADDRESS=" parameter in HSPOST commands properly.
11258 Previously, it was misparsed and ignored. Fixes bug 26523; bugfix
11259 on 0.3.3.1-alpha. Patch by "akwizgran".
11261 o Minor bugfixes (correctness, flow control):
11262 - Upon receiving a stream-level SENDME cell, verify that our window
11263 has not grown too large. Fixes bug 26214; bugfix on svn
11266 o Minor bugfixes (memory, correctness):
11267 - Fix a number of small memory leaks identified by coverity. Fixes
11268 bug 26467; bugfix on numerous Tor versions.
11270 o Minor bugfixes (logging):
11271 - Improve the log message when connection initiators fail to
11272 authenticate direct connections to relays. Fixes bug 26927; bugfix
11275 o Minor bugfixes (portability):
11276 - Avoid a compilation error in test_bwmgt.c on Solaris 10. Fixes bug
11277 26994; bugfix on 0.3.4.1-alpha.
11278 - Work around two different bugs in the OS X 10.10 and later SDKs
11279 that would prevent us from successfully targeting earlier versions
11280 of OS X. Fixes bug 26876; bugfix on 0.3.3.1-alpha.
11282 o Minor bugfixes (single onion services, Tor2web):
11283 - Log a protocol warning when single onion services or Tor2web
11284 clients fail to authenticate direct connections to relays. Fixes
11285 bug 26924; bugfix on 0.2.9.1-alpha.
11287 o Minor bugfixes (testing):
11288 - Disable core dumps in test_bt.sh, to avoid failures in "make
11289 distcheck". Fixes bug 26787; bugfix on 0.2.5.2-alpha.
11291 o Minor bugfixes (testing, compatibility):
11292 - When running the ntor_ref.py and hs_ntor_ref.py tests, make sure
11293 only to pass strings (rather than "bytes" objects) to the Python
11294 subprocess module. Python 3 on Windows seems to require this.
11295 Fixes bug 26535; bugfix on 0.2.5.5-alpha (for ntor_ref.py) and
11296 0.3.1.1-alpha (for hs_ntor_ref.py).
11298 o Minor bugfixes (v3 onion services):
11299 - Stop sending ed25519 link specifiers in v3 onion service introduce
11300 cells and descriptors, when the rendezvous or introduction point
11301 doesn't support ed25519 link authentication. Fixes bug 26627;
11302 bugfix on 0.3.2.4-alpha.
11305 Changes in version 0.3.4.5-rc - 2018-07-13
11306 Tor 0.3.4.5-rc moves to a new bridge authority, meaning people running
11307 bridge relays should upgrade.
11309 o Directory authority changes:
11310 - The "Bifroest" bridge authority has been retired; the new bridge
11311 authority is "Serge", and it is operated by George from the
11312 TorBSD project. Closes ticket 26771.
11315 Changes in version 0.3.3.9 - 2018-07-13
11316 Tor 0.3.3.9 moves to a new bridge authority, meaning people running
11317 bridge relays should upgrade.
11319 o Directory authority changes:
11320 - The "Bifroest" bridge authority has been retired; the new bridge
11321 authority is "Serge", and it is operated by George from the
11322 TorBSD project. Closes ticket 26771.
11325 Changes in version 0.3.2.11 - 2018-07-13
11326 Tor 0.3.2.11 moves to a new bridge authority, meaning people running
11327 bridge relays should upgrade. We also take this opportunity to backport
11330 o Directory authority changes:
11331 - The "Bifroest" bridge authority has been retired; the new bridge
11332 authority is "Serge", and it is operated by George from the
11333 TorBSD project. Closes ticket 26771.
11335 o Directory authority changes (backport from 0.3.3.7):
11336 - Add an IPv6 address for the "dannenberg" directory authority.
11337 Closes ticket 26343.
11339 o Major bugfixes (directory authorities, backport from 0.3.4.1-alpha):
11340 - When directory authorities read a zero-byte bandwidth file, they
11341 would previously log a warning with the contents of an
11342 uninitialised buffer. They now log a warning about the empty file
11343 instead. Fixes bug 26007; bugfix on 0.2.2.1-alpha.
11345 o Major bugfixes (onion service, backport from 0.3.4.1-alpha):
11346 - Correctly detect when onion services get disabled after HUP. Fixes
11347 bug 25761; bugfix on 0.3.2.1.
11349 o Minor features (sandbox, backport from 0.3.3.4-alpha):
11350 - Explicitly permit the poll() system call when the Linux
11351 seccomp2-based sandbox is enabled: apparently, some versions of
11352 libc use poll() when calling getpwnam(). Closes ticket 25313.
11354 o Minor feature (continuous integration, backport from 0.3.3.5-rc):
11355 - Update the Travis CI configuration to use the stable Rust channel,
11356 now that we have decided to require that. Closes ticket 25714.
11358 o Minor features (continuous integration, backport from 0.3.4.1-alpha):
11359 - Our .travis.yml configuration now includes support for testing the
11360 results of "make distcheck". (It's not uncommon for "make check"
11361 to pass but "make distcheck" to fail.) Closes ticket 25814.
11362 - Our Travis CI configuration now integrates with the Coveralls
11363 coverage analysis tool. Closes ticket 25818.
11365 o Minor features (relay, diagnostic, backport from 0.3.4.3-alpha):
11366 - Add several checks to detect whether Tor relays are uploading
11367 their descriptors without specifying why they regenerated them.
11368 Diagnostic for ticket 25686.
11370 o Minor features (compilation, backport from 0.3.4.4-rc):
11371 - When building Tor, prefer to use Python 3 over Python 2, and more
11372 recent (contemplated) versions over older ones. Closes
11375 o Minor features (geoip):
11376 - Update geoip and geoip6 to the July 3 2018 Maxmind GeoLite2
11377 Country database. Closes ticket 26674.
11379 o Minor bugfixes (correctness, client, backport from 0.3.4.1-alpha):
11380 - Upon receiving a malformed connected cell, stop processing the
11381 cell immediately. Previously we would mark the connection for
11382 close, but continue processing the cell as if the connection were
11383 open. Fixes bug 26072; bugfix on 0.2.4.7-alpha.
11385 o Minor bugfixes (Linux seccomp2 sandbox, backport from 0.3.4.1-alpha):
11386 - Allow the nanosleep() system call, which glibc uses to implement
11387 sleep() and usleep(). Fixes bug 24969; bugfix on 0.2.5.1-alpha.
11389 o Minor bugfixes (testing, compatibility, backport from 0.3.4.4-rc):
11390 - When running the hs_ntor_ref.py test, make sure only to pass
11391 strings (rather than "bytes" objects) to the Python subprocess
11392 module. Python 3 on Windows seems to require this. Fixes bug
11393 26535; bugfix on 0.3.1.1-alpha.
11394 - When running the ntor_ref.py test, make sure only to pass strings
11395 (rather than "bytes" objects) to the Python subprocess module.
11396 Python 3 on Windows seems to require this. Fixes bug 26535; bugfix
11399 o Minor bugfixes (compatibility, openssl, backport from 0.3.4.2-alpha):
11400 - Work around a change in OpenSSL 1.1.1 where return values that
11401 would previously indicate "no password" now indicate an empty
11402 password. Without this workaround, Tor instances running with
11403 OpenSSL 1.1.1 would accept descriptors that other Tor instances
11404 would reject. Fixes bug 26116; bugfix on 0.2.5.16.
11406 o Minor bugfixes (documentation, backport from 0.3.3.5-rc):
11407 - Document that the PerConnBW{Rate,Burst} options will fall back to
11408 their corresponding consensus parameters only if those parameters
11409 are set. Previously we had claimed that these values would always
11410 be set in the consensus. Fixes bug 25296; bugfix on 0.2.2.7-alpha.
11412 o Minor bugfixes (compilation, backport from 0.3.4.4-rc):
11413 - Fix a compilation warning on some versions of GCC when building
11414 code that calls routerinfo_get_my_routerinfo() twice, assuming
11415 that the second call will succeed if the first one did. Fixes bug
11416 26269; bugfix on 0.2.8.2-alpha.
11418 o Minor bugfixes (client, backport from 0.3.4.1-alpha):
11419 - Don't consider Tor running as a client if the ControlPort is open,
11420 but no actual client ports are open. Fixes bug 26062; bugfix
11423 o Minor bugfixes (hardening, backport from 0.3.4.2-alpha):
11424 - Prevent a possible out-of-bounds smartlist read in
11425 protover_compute_vote(). Fixes bug 26196; bugfix on 0.2.9.4-alpha.
11427 o Minor bugfixes (C correctness, backport from 0.3.3.4-alpha):
11428 - Fix a very unlikely (impossible, we believe) null pointer
11429 dereference. Fixes bug 25629; bugfix on 0.2.9.15. Found by
11430 Coverity; this is CID 1430932.
11432 o Minor bugfixes (onion service, backport from 0.3.4.1-alpha):
11433 - Fix a memory leak when a v3 onion service is configured and gets a
11434 SIGHUP signal. Fixes bug 25901; bugfix on 0.3.2.1-alpha.
11435 - When parsing the descriptor signature, look for the token plus an
11436 extra white-space at the end. This is more correct but also will
11437 allow us to support new fields that might start with "signature".
11438 Fixes bug 26069; bugfix on 0.3.0.1-alpha.
11440 o Minor bugfixes (relay, backport from 0.3.4.3-alpha):
11441 - Relays now correctly block attempts to re-extend to the previous
11442 relay by Ed25519 identity. Previously they would warn in this
11443 case, but not actually reject the attempt. Fixes bug 26158; bugfix
11446 o Minor bugfixes (relay, crash, backport from 0.3.4.1-alpha):
11447 - Avoid a crash when running with DirPort set but ORPort turned off.
11448 Fixes a case of bug 23693; bugfix on 0.3.1.1-alpha.
11450 o Minor bugfixes (compilation, backport from 0.3.4.2-alpha):
11451 - Silence unused-const-variable warnings in zstd.h with some GCC
11452 versions. Fixes bug 26272; bugfix on 0.3.1.1-alpha.
11454 o Minor bugfixes (testing, backport from 0.3.3.4-alpha):
11455 - Avoid intermittent test failures due to a test that had relied on
11456 onion service introduction point creation finishing within 5
11457 seconds of real clock time. Fixes bug 25450; bugfix
11460 o Minor bugfixes (compilation, backport from 0.3.3.4-alpha):
11461 - Fix a C99 compliance issue in our configuration script that caused
11462 compilation issues when compiling Tor with certain versions of
11463 xtools. Fixes bug 25474; bugfix on 0.3.2.5-alpha.
11465 o Minor bugfixes (memory, correctness, backport from 0.3.4.4-rc):
11466 - Fix a number of small memory leaks identified by coverity. Fixes
11467 bug 26467; bugfix on numerous Tor versions.
11469 o Code simplification and refactoring (backport from 0.3.3.5-rc):
11470 - Move the list of default directory authorities to its own file.
11471 Closes ticket 24854. Patch by "beastr0".
11474 Changes in version 0.2.9.16 - 2018-07-13
11475 Tor 0.2.9.16 moves to a new bridge authority, meaning people running
11476 bridge relays should upgrade. We also take this opportunity to backport
11479 o Directory authority changes:
11480 - The "Bifroest" bridge authority has been retired; the new bridge
11481 authority is "Serge", and it is operated by George from the
11482 TorBSD project. Closes ticket 26771.
11484 o Directory authority changes (backport from 0.3.3.7):
11485 - Add an IPv6 address for the "dannenberg" directory authority.
11486 Closes ticket 26343.
11488 o Major bugfixes (directory authorities, backport from 0.3.4.1-alpha):
11489 - When directory authorities read a zero-byte bandwidth file, they
11490 would previously log a warning with the contents of an
11491 uninitialised buffer. They now log a warning about the empty file
11492 instead. Fixes bug 26007; bugfix on 0.2.2.1-alpha.
11494 o Minor features (sandbox, backport from 0.3.3.4-alpha):
11495 - Explicitly permit the poll() system call when the Linux
11496 seccomp2-based sandbox is enabled: apparently, some versions of
11497 libc use poll() when calling getpwnam(). Closes ticket 25313.
11499 o Minor features (continuous integration, backport from 0.3.4.1-alpha):
11500 - Our .travis.yml configuration now includes support for testing the
11501 results of "make distcheck". (It's not uncommon for "make check"
11502 to pass but "make distcheck" to fail.) Closes ticket 25814.
11503 - Our Travis CI configuration now integrates with the Coveralls
11504 coverage analysis tool. Closes ticket 25818.
11506 o Minor features (compilation, backport from 0.3.4.4-rc):
11507 - When building Tor, prefer to use Python 3 over Python 2, and more
11508 recent (contemplated) versions over older ones. Closes
11511 o Minor features (geoip):
11512 - Update geoip and geoip6 to the July 3 2018 Maxmind GeoLite2
11513 Country database. Closes ticket 26674.
11515 o Minor bugfixes (correctness, client, backport from 0.3.4.1-alpha):
11516 - Upon receiving a malformed connected cell, stop processing the
11517 cell immediately. Previously we would mark the connection for
11518 close, but continue processing the cell as if the connection were
11519 open. Fixes bug 26072; bugfix on 0.2.4.7-alpha.
11521 o Minor bugfixes (Linux seccomp2 sandbox, backport from 0.3.4.1-alpha):
11522 - Allow the nanosleep() system call, which glibc uses to implement
11523 sleep() and usleep(). Fixes bug 24969; bugfix on 0.2.5.1-alpha.
11525 o Minor bugfixes (testing, compatibility, backport from 0.3.4.4-rc):
11526 - When running the ntor_ref.py test, make sure only to pass strings
11527 (rather than "bytes" objects) to the Python subprocess module.
11528 Python 3 on Windows seems to require this. Fixes bug 26535; bugfix
11531 o Minor bugfixes (compatibility, openssl, backport from 0.3.4.2-alpha):
11532 - Work around a change in OpenSSL 1.1.1 where return values that
11533 would previously indicate "no password" now indicate an empty
11534 password. Without this workaround, Tor instances running with
11535 OpenSSL 1.1.1 would accept descriptors that other Tor instances
11536 would reject. Fixes bug 26116; bugfix on 0.2.5.16.
11538 o Minor bugfixes (compilation, backport from 0.3.4.4-rc):
11539 - Fix a compilation warning on some versions of GCC when building
11540 code that calls routerinfo_get_my_routerinfo() twice, assuming
11541 that the second call will succeed if the first one did. Fixes bug
11542 26269; bugfix on 0.2.8.2-alpha.
11544 o Minor bugfixes (client, backport from 0.3.4.1-alpha):
11545 - Don't consider Tor running as a client if the ControlPort is open,
11546 but no actual client ports are open. Fixes bug 26062; bugfix
11549 o Minor bugfixes (hardening, backport from 0.3.4.2-alpha):
11550 - Prevent a possible out-of-bounds smartlist read in
11551 protover_compute_vote(). Fixes bug 26196; bugfix on 0.2.9.4-alpha.
11553 o Minor bugfixes (C correctness, backport from 0.3.3.4-alpha):
11554 - Fix a very unlikely (impossible, we believe) null pointer
11555 dereference. Fixes bug 25629; bugfix on 0.2.9.15. Found by
11556 Coverity; this is CID 1430932.
11558 o Minor bugfixes (memory, correctness, backport from 0.3.4.4-rc):
11559 - Fix a number of small memory leaks identified by coverity. Fixes
11560 bug 26467; bugfix on numerous Tor versions.
11562 o Code simplification and refactoring (backport from 0.3.3.5-rc):
11563 - Move the list of default directory authorities to its own file.
11564 Closes ticket 24854. Patch by "beastr0".
11567 Changes in version 0.3.4.4-rc - 2018-07-09
11568 Tor 0.3.4.4-rc fixes several small compilation, portability, and
11569 correctness issues in previous versions of Tor. This version is a
11570 release candidate: if no serious bugs are found, we expect that the
11571 stable 0.3.4 release will be (almost) the same as this release.
11573 o Minor features (compilation):
11574 - When building Tor, prefer to use Python 3 over Python 2, and more
11575 recent (contemplated) versions over older ones. Closes
11578 o Minor features (geoip):
11579 - Update geoip and geoip6 to the July 3 2018 Maxmind GeoLite2
11580 Country database. Closes ticket 26674.
11582 o Minor features (Rust, portability):
11583 - Rust cross-compilation is now supported. Closes ticket 25895.
11585 o Minor bugfixes (compilation):
11586 - Fix a compilation warning on some versions of GCC when building
11587 code that calls routerinfo_get_my_routerinfo() twice, assuming
11588 that the second call will succeed if the first one did. Fixes bug
11589 26269; bugfix on 0.2.8.2-alpha.
11591 o Minor bugfixes (control port):
11592 - Report the port correctly when a port is configured to bind to
11593 "auto". Fixes bug 26568; bugfix on 0.3.4.1-alpha.
11594 - Handle the HSADDRESS= argument to the HSPOST command properly.
11595 (Previously, this argument was misparsed and thus ignored.) Fixes
11596 bug 26523; bugfix on 0.3.3.1-alpha. Patch by "akwizgran".
11598 o Minor bugfixes (correctness, flow control):
11599 - Upon receiving a stream-level SENDME cell, verify that our window
11600 has not grown too large. Fixes bug 26214; bugfix on svn
11603 o Minor bugfixes (memory, correctness):
11604 - Fix a number of small memory leaks identified by coverity. Fixes
11605 bug 26467; bugfix on numerous Tor versions.
11607 o Minor bugfixes (testing, compatibility):
11608 - When running the hs_ntor_ref.py test, make sure only to pass
11609 strings (rather than "bytes" objects) to the Python subprocess
11610 module. Python 3 on Windows seems to require this. Fixes bug
11611 26535; bugfix on 0.3.1.1-alpha.
11612 - When running the ntor_ref.py test, make sure only to pass strings
11613 (rather than "bytes" objects) to the Python subprocess module.
11614 Python 3 on Windows seems to require this. Fixes bug 26535; bugfix
11618 Changes in version 0.3.3.8 - 2018-07-09
11619 Tor 0.3.3.8 backports several changes from the 0.3.4.x series, including
11620 fixes for a memory leak affecting directory authorities.
11622 o Major bugfixes (directory authority, backport from 0.3.4.3-alpha):
11623 - Stop leaking memory on directory authorities when planning to
11624 vote. This bug was crashing authorities by exhausting their
11625 memory. Fixes bug 26435; bugfix on 0.3.3.6.
11627 o Major bugfixes (rust, testing, backport from 0.3.4.3-alpha):
11628 - Make sure that failing tests in Rust will actually cause the build
11629 to fail: previously, they were ignored. Fixes bug 26258; bugfix
11632 o Minor features (compilation, backport from 0.3.4.4-rc):
11633 - When building Tor, prefer to use Python 3 over Python 2, and more
11634 recent (contemplated) versions over older ones. Closes
11637 o Minor features (geoip):
11638 - Update geoip and geoip6 to the July 3 2018 Maxmind GeoLite2
11639 Country database. Closes ticket 26674.
11641 o Minor features (relay, diagnostic, backport from 0.3.4.3-alpha):
11642 - Add several checks to detect whether Tor relays are uploading
11643 their descriptors without specifying why they regenerated them.
11644 Diagnostic for ticket 25686.
11646 o Minor bugfixes (circuit path selection, backport from 0.3.4.1-alpha):
11647 - Don't count path selection failures as circuit build failures.
11648 This change should eliminate cases where Tor blames its guard or
11649 the network for situations like insufficient microdescriptors
11650 and/or overly restrictive torrc settings. Fixes bug 25705; bugfix
11653 o Minor bugfixes (compilation, backport from 0.3.4.4-rc):
11654 - Fix a compilation warning on some versions of GCC when building
11655 code that calls routerinfo_get_my_routerinfo() twice, assuming
11656 that the second call will succeed if the first one did. Fixes bug
11657 26269; bugfix on 0.2.8.2-alpha.
11659 o Minor bugfixes (control port, backport from 0.3.4.4-rc):
11660 - Handle the HSADDRESS= argument to the HSPOST command properly.
11661 (Previously, this argument was misparsed and thus ignored.) Fixes
11662 bug 26523; bugfix on 0.3.3.1-alpha. Patch by "akwizgran".
11664 o Minor bugfixes (memory, correctness, backport from 0.3.4.4-rc):
11665 - Fix a number of small memory leaks identified by coverity. Fixes
11666 bug 26467; bugfix on numerous Tor versions.
11668 o Minor bugfixes (relay, backport from 0.3.4.3-alpha):
11669 - Relays now correctly block attempts to re-extend to the previous
11670 relay by Ed25519 identity. Previously they would warn in this
11671 case, but not actually reject the attempt. Fixes bug 26158; bugfix
11674 o Minor bugfixes (restart-in-process, backport from 0.3.4.1-alpha):
11675 - When shutting down, Tor now clears all the flags in the control.c
11676 module. This should prevent a bug where authentication cookies are
11677 not generated on restart. Fixes bug 25512; bugfix on 0.3.3.1-alpha.
11679 o Minor bugfixes (testing, compatibility, backport from 0.3.4.4-rc):
11680 - When running the hs_ntor_ref.py test, make sure only to pass
11681 strings (rather than "bytes" objects) to the Python subprocess
11682 module. Python 3 on Windows seems to require this. Fixes bug
11683 26535; bugfix on 0.3.1.1-alpha.
11684 - When running the ntor_ref.py test, make sure only to pass strings
11685 (rather than "bytes" objects) to the Python subprocess module.
11686 Python 3 on Windows seems to require this. Fixes bug 26535; bugfix
11690 Changes in version 0.3.4.3-alpha - 2018-06-26
11691 Tor 0.3.4.3-alpha fixes several bugs in earlier versions, including
11692 one that was causing stability issues on directory authorities.
11694 o Major bugfixes (directory authority):
11695 - Stop leaking memory on directory authorities when planning to
11696 vote. This bug was crashing authorities by exhausting their
11697 memory. Fixes bug 26435; bugfix on 0.3.3.6.
11699 o Major bugfixes (rust, testing):
11700 - Make sure that failing tests in Rust will actually cause the build
11701 to fail: previously, they were ignored. Fixes bug 26258; bugfix
11704 o Minor feature (directory authorities):
11705 - Stop warning about incomplete bw lines before the first complete
11706 bw line has been found, so that additional header lines can be
11707 ignored. Fixes bug 25960; bugfix on 0.2.2.1-alpha
11709 o Minor features (relay, diagnostic):
11710 - Add several checks to detect whether Tor relays are uploading
11711 their descriptors without specifying why they regenerated them.
11712 Diagnostic for ticket 25686.
11714 o Minor features (unit tests):
11715 - Test complete bandwidth measurements files, and test that
11716 incomplete bandwidth lines only give warnings when the end of the
11717 header has not been detected. Fixes bug 25947; bugfix
11720 o Minor bugfixes (compilation):
11721 - Refrain from compiling unit testing related object files when
11722 --disable-unittests is set to configure script. Fixes bug 24891;
11723 bugfix on 0.2.5.1-alpha.
11724 - When linking the libtor_testing.a library, only include the
11725 dirauth object files once. Previously, they were getting added
11726 twice. Fixes bug 26402; bugfix on 0.3.4.1-alpha.
11727 - The --enable-fatal-warnings flag now affects Rust code as well.
11728 Closes ticket 26245.
11730 o Minor bugfixes (onion services):
11731 - Recompute some consensus information after detecting a clock jump,
11732 or after transitioning from a non-live consensus to a live
11733 consensus. We do this to avoid having an outdated state, and
11734 miscalculating the index for next-generation onion services. Fixes
11735 bug 24977; bugfix on 0.3.2.1-alpha.
11737 o Minor bugfixes (relay):
11738 - Relays now correctly block attempts to re-extend to the previous
11739 relay by Ed25519 identity. Previously they would warn in this
11740 case, but not actually reject the attempt. Fixes bug 26158; bugfix
11743 o Minor bugfixes (testing):
11744 - Fix compilation of the doctests in the Rust crypto crate. Fixes
11745 bug 26415; bugfix on 0.3.4.1-alpha.
11746 - Instead of trying to read the geoip configuration files from
11747 within the unit tests, instead create our own ersatz files with
11748 just enough geoip data in the format we expect. Trying to read
11749 from the source directory created problems on Windows with mingw,
11750 where the build system's paths are not the same as the platform's
11751 paths. Fixes bug 25787; bugfix on 0.3.4.1-alpha.
11752 - Refrain from trying to get an item from an empty smartlist in
11753 test_bridges_clear_bridge_list. Set DEBUG_SMARTLIST in unit tests
11754 to catch improper smartlist usage. Furthermore, enable
11755 DEBUG_SMARTLIST globally when build is configured with fragile
11756 hardening. Fixes bug 26196; bugfix on 0.3.4.1-alpha.
11759 Changes in version 0.3.3.7 - 2018-06-12
11760 Tor 0.3.3.7 backports several changes from the 0.3.4.x series, including
11761 fixes for bugs affecting compatibility and stability.
11763 o Directory authority changes:
11764 - Add an IPv6 address for the "dannenberg" directory authority.
11765 Closes ticket 26343.
11767 o Minor features (geoip):
11768 - Update geoip and geoip6 to the June 7 2018 Maxmind GeoLite2
11769 Country database. Closes ticket 26351.
11771 o Minor bugfixes (compatibility, openssl, backport from 0.3.4.2-alpha):
11772 - Work around a change in OpenSSL 1.1.1 where return values that
11773 would previously indicate "no password" now indicate an empty
11774 password. Without this workaround, Tor instances running with
11775 OpenSSL 1.1.1 would accept descriptors that other Tor instances
11776 would reject. Fixes bug 26116; bugfix on 0.2.5.16.
11778 o Minor bugfixes (compilation, backport from 0.3.4.2-alpha):
11779 - Silence unused-const-variable warnings in zstd.h with some GCC
11780 versions. Fixes bug 26272; bugfix on 0.3.1.1-alpha.
11782 o Minor bugfixes (controller, backport from 0.3.4.2-alpha):
11783 - Improve accuracy of the BUILDTIMEOUT_SET control port event's
11784 TIMEOUT_RATE and CLOSE_RATE fields. (We were previously
11785 miscounting the total number of circuits for these field values.)
11786 Fixes bug 26121; bugfix on 0.3.3.1-alpha.
11788 o Minor bugfixes (hardening, backport from 0.3.4.2-alpha):
11789 - Prevent a possible out-of-bounds smartlist read in
11790 protover_compute_vote(). Fixes bug 26196; bugfix on 0.2.9.4-alpha.
11792 o Minor bugfixes (path selection, backport from 0.3.4.1-alpha):
11793 - Only select relays when they have the descriptors we prefer to use
11794 for them. This change fixes a bug where we could select a relay
11795 because it had _some_ descriptor, but reject it later with a
11796 nonfatal assertion error because it didn't have the exact one we
11797 wanted. Fixes bugs 25691 and 25692; bugfix on 0.3.3.4-alpha.
11800 Changes in version 0.3.4.2-alpha - 2018-06-12
11801 Tor 0.3.4.2-alpha fixes several minor bugs in the previous alpha
11802 release, and forward-ports an authority-only security fix from 0.3.3.6.
11804 o Directory authority changes:
11805 - Add an IPv6 address for the "dannenberg" directory authority.
11806 Closes ticket 26343.
11808 o Major bugfixes (security, directory authority, denial-of-service, also in 0.3.3.6):
11809 - Fix a bug that could have allowed an attacker to force a directory
11810 authority to use up all its RAM by passing it a maliciously
11811 crafted protocol versions string. Fixes bug 25517; bugfix on
11812 0.2.9.4-alpha. This issue is also tracked as TROVE-2018-005.
11814 o Minor features (continuous integration):
11815 - Add the necessary configuration files for continuous integration
11816 testing on Windows, via the Appveyor platform. Closes ticket
11817 25549. Patches from Marcin Cieślak and Isis Lovecruft.
11819 o Minor features (geoip):
11820 - Update geoip and geoip6 to the June 7 2018 Maxmind GeoLite2
11821 Country database. Closes ticket 26351.
11823 o Minor bugfixes (compatibility, openssl):
11824 - Work around a change in OpenSSL 1.1.1 where return values that
11825 would previously indicate "no password" now indicate an empty
11826 password. Without this workaround, Tor instances running with
11827 OpenSSL 1.1.1 would accept descriptors that other Tor instances
11828 would reject. Fixes bug 26116; bugfix on 0.2.5.16.
11830 o Minor bugfixes (compilation):
11831 - Silence unused-const-variable warnings in zstd.h with some GCC
11832 versions. Fixes bug 26272; bugfix on 0.3.1.1-alpha.
11833 - Fix compilation when using OpenSSL 1.1.0 with the "no-deprecated"
11834 flag enabled. Fixes bug 26156; bugfix on 0.3.4.1-alpha.
11835 - Avoid a compiler warning when casting the return value of
11836 smartlist_len() to double with DEBUG_SMARTLIST enabled. Fixes bug
11837 26283; bugfix on 0.2.4.10-alpha.
11839 o Minor bugfixes (control port):
11840 - Do not count 0-length RELAY_COMMAND_DATA cells as valid data in
11841 CIRC_BW events. Previously, such cells were counted entirely in
11842 the OVERHEAD field. Now they are not. Fixes bug 26259; bugfix
11845 o Minor bugfixes (controller):
11846 - Improve accuracy of the BUILDTIMEOUT_SET control port event's
11847 TIMEOUT_RATE and CLOSE_RATE fields. (We were previously
11848 miscounting the total number of circuits for these field values.)
11849 Fixes bug 26121; bugfix on 0.3.3.1-alpha.
11851 o Minor bugfixes (hardening):
11852 - Prevent a possible out-of-bounds smartlist read in
11853 protover_compute_vote(). Fixes bug 26196; bugfix on 0.2.9.4-alpha.
11855 o Minor bugfixes (onion services):
11856 - Fix a bug that blocked the creation of ephemeral v3 onion
11857 services. Fixes bug 25939; bugfix on 0.3.4.1-alpha.
11859 o Minor bugfixes (test coverage tools):
11860 - Update our "cov-diff" script to handle output from the latest
11861 version of gcov, and to remove extraneous timestamp information
11862 from its output. Fixes bugs 26101 and 26102; bugfix
11866 Changes in version 0.3.3.6 - 2018-05-22
11867 Tor 0.3.3.6 is the first stable release in the 0.3.3 series. It
11868 backports several important fixes from the 0.3.4.1-alpha.
11870 The Tor 0.3.3 series includes controller support and other
11871 improvements for v3 onion services, official support for embedding Tor
11872 within other applications, and our first non-trivial module written in
11873 the Rust programming language. (Rust is still not enabled by default
11874 when building Tor.) And as usual, there are numerous other smaller
11875 bugfixes, features, and improvements.
11877 Below are the changes since 0.3.3.5-rc. For a list of all changes
11878 since 0.3.2.10, see the ReleaseNotes file.
11880 o Major bugfixes (directory authorities, security, backport from 0.3.4.1-alpha):
11881 - When directory authorities read a zero-byte bandwidth file, they
11882 would previously log a warning with the contents of an
11883 uninitialised buffer. They now log a warning about the empty file
11884 instead. Fixes bug 26007; bugfix on 0.2.2.1-alpha.
11886 o Major bugfixes (security, directory authority, denial-of-service):
11887 - Fix a bug that could have allowed an attacker to force a directory
11888 authority to use up all its RAM by passing it a maliciously
11889 crafted protocol versions string. Fixes bug 25517; bugfix on
11890 0.2.9.4-alpha. This issue is also tracked as TROVE-2018-005.
11892 o Major bugfixes (crash, backport from 0.3.4.1-alpha):
11893 - Avoid a rare assertion failure in the circuit build timeout code
11894 if we fail to allow any circuits to actually complete. Fixes bug
11895 25733; bugfix on 0.2.2.2-alpha.
11897 o Major bugfixes (directory authorities, backport from 0.3.4.1-alpha):
11898 - Avoid a crash when testing router reachability on a router that
11899 could have an ed25519 ID, but which does not. Fixes bug 25415;
11900 bugfix on 0.3.3.2-alpha.
11902 o Major bugfixes (onion service, backport from 0.3.4.1-alpha):
11903 - Correctly detect when onion services get disabled after HUP. Fixes
11904 bug 25761; bugfix on 0.3.2.1.
11906 o Major bugfixes (relay, denial of service, backport from 0.3.4.1-alpha):
11907 - Impose a limit on circuit cell queue size. The limit can be
11908 controlled by a consensus parameter. Fixes bug 25226; bugfix
11911 o Minor features (compatibility, backport from 0.3.4.1-alpha):
11912 - Avoid some compilation warnings with recent versions of LibreSSL.
11913 Closes ticket 26006.
11915 o Minor features (continuous integration, backport from 0.3.4.1-alpha):
11916 - Our .travis.yml configuration now includes support for testing the
11917 results of "make distcheck". (It's not uncommon for "make check"
11918 to pass but "make distcheck" to fail.) Closes ticket 25814.
11919 - Our Travis CI configuration now integrates with the Coveralls
11920 coverage analysis tool. Closes ticket 25818.
11922 o Minor features (geoip):
11923 - Update geoip and geoip6 to the May 1 2018 Maxmind GeoLite2 Country
11924 database. Closes ticket 26104.
11926 o Minor bugfixes (client, backport from 0.3.4.1-alpha):
11927 - Don't consider Tor running as a client if the ControlPort is open,
11928 but no actual client ports are open. Fixes bug 26062; bugfix
11931 o Minor bugfixes (correctness, client, backport from 0.3.4.1-alpha):
11932 - Upon receiving a malformed connected cell, stop processing the
11933 cell immediately. Previously we would mark the connection for
11934 close, but continue processing the cell as if the connection were
11935 open. Fixes bug 26072; bugfix on 0.2.4.7-alpha.
11937 o Minor bugfixes (documentation, backport from 0.3.4.1-alpha):
11938 - Stop saying in the manual that clients cache ipv4 dns answers from
11939 exit relays. We haven't used them since 0.2.6.3-alpha, and in
11940 ticket 24050 we stopped even caching them as of 0.3.2.6-alpha, but
11941 we forgot to say so in the man page. Fixes bug 26052; bugfix
11944 o Minor bugfixes (Linux seccomp2 sandbox, backport from 0.3.4.1-alpha):
11945 - Allow the nanosleep() system call, which glibc uses to implement
11946 sleep() and usleep(). Fixes bug 24969; bugfix on 0.2.5.1-alpha.
11948 o Minor bugfixes (onion service, backport from 0.3.4.1-alpha):
11949 - Fix a memory leak when a v3 onion service is configured and gets a
11950 SIGHUP signal. Fixes bug 25901; bugfix on 0.3.2.1-alpha.
11951 - When parsing the descriptor signature, look for the token plus an
11952 extra white-space at the end. This is more correct but also will
11953 allow us to support new fields that might start with "signature".
11954 Fixes bug 26069; bugfix on 0.3.0.1-alpha.
11956 o Minor bugfixes (relay, crash, backport from 0.3.4.1-alpha):
11957 - Avoid a crash when running with DirPort set but ORPort turned off.
11958 Fixes a case of bug 23693; bugfix on 0.3.1.1-alpha.
11960 o Documentation (backport from 0.3.4.1-alpha):
11961 - Correct an IPv6 error in the documentation for ExitPolicy. Closes
11962 ticket 25857. Patch from "CTassisF".
11965 Changes in version 0.3.4.1-alpha - 2018-05-17
11966 Tor 0.3.4.1-alpha is the first release in the 0.3.4.x series. It
11967 includes refactoring to begin reducing Tor's binary size and idle CPU
11968 usage on mobile, along with prep work for new bandwidth scanners,
11969 improvements to the experimental "vanguards" feature, and numerous
11970 other small features and bugfixes.
11972 o New system requirements:
11973 - Tor no longer tries to support old operating systems without
11974 mmap() or some local equivalent. Apparently, compilation on such
11975 systems has been broken for some time, without anybody noticing or
11976 complaining. Closes ticket 25398.
11978 o Major feature (directory authority, modularization):
11979 - The directory authority subsystem has been modularized. The code
11980 is now located in src/or/dirauth/, and is compiled in by default.
11981 To disable the module, the configure option
11982 --disable-module-dirauth has been added. This module may be
11983 disabled by default in some future release. Closes ticket 25610.
11985 o Major features (main loop, CPU usage):
11986 - When Tor is disabled (via DisableNetwork or via hibernation), it
11987 no longer needs to run any per-second events. This change should
11988 make it easier for mobile applications to disable Tor while the
11989 device is sleeping, or Tor is not running. Closes ticket 26063.
11990 - Tor no longer enables all of its periodic events by default.
11991 Previously, Tor would enable all possible main loop events,
11992 regardless of whether it needed them. Furthermore, many of these
11993 events are now disabled with Tor is hibernating or DisableNetwork
11994 is set. This is a big step towards reducing client CPU usage by
11995 reducing the amount of wake-ups the daemon does. Closes ticket
11997 - The bandwidth-limitation logic has been refactored so that
11998 bandwidth calculations are performed on-demand, rather than every
11999 TokenBucketRefillInterval milliseconds. This change should improve
12000 the granularity of our bandwidth calculations, and limit the
12001 number of times that the Tor process needs to wake up when it is
12002 idle. Closes ticket 25373.
12003 - Move responsibility for many operations from a once-per-second
12004 callback to a callback that is only scheduled as needed. Moving
12005 this functionality has allowed us to disable the callback when
12006 Tor's network is disabled. Once enough items are removed from our
12007 once-per-second callback, we can eliminate it entirely to conserve
12008 CPU when idle. The functionality removed includes: closing
12009 connections, circuits, and channels (ticket 25932); consensus
12010 voting (25937); flushing log callbacks (25951); honoring delayed
12011 SIGNEWNYM requests (25949); rescanning the consensus cache
12012 (25931); saving the state file to disk (25948); warning relay
12013 operators about unreachable ports (25952); and keeping track of
12014 Tor's uptime (26009).
12016 o Major bugfixes (directory authorities, security):
12017 - When directory authorities read a zero-byte bandwidth file, they
12018 would previously log a warning with the contents of an
12019 uninitialised buffer. They now log a warning about the empty file
12020 instead. Fixes bug 26007; bugfix on 0.2.2.1-alpha.
12022 o Major bugfixes (crash):
12023 - Avoid a rare assertion failure in the circuit build timeout code
12024 if we fail to allow any circuits to actually complete. Fixes bug
12025 25733; bugfix on 0.2.2.2-alpha.
12027 o Major bugfixes (directory authority):
12028 - Avoid a crash when testing router reachability on a router that
12029 could have an ed25519 ID, but which does not. Fixes bug 25415;
12030 bugfix on 0.3.3.2-alpha.
12032 o Major bugfixes (onion service):
12033 - Correctly detect when onion services get disabled after HUP. Fixes
12034 bug 25761; bugfix on 0.3.2.1.
12036 o Major bugfixes (protover, voting):
12037 - Revise Rust implementation of protover to use a more memory-
12038 efficient voting algorithm and corresponding data structures, thus
12039 avoiding a potential (but small impact) DoS attack where specially
12040 crafted protocol strings would expand to several potential
12041 megabytes in memory. In the process, several portions of code were
12042 revised to be methods on new, custom types, rather than functions
12043 taking interchangeable types, thus increasing type safety of the
12044 module. Custom error types and handling were added as well, in
12045 order to facilitate better error dismissal/handling in outside
12046 crates and avoid mistakenly passing an internal error string to C
12047 over the FFI boundary. Many tests were added, and some previous
12048 differences between the C and Rust implementations have been
12049 remedied. Fixes bug 24031; bugfix on 0.3.3.1-alpha.
12051 o Major bugfixes (relay, denial of service):
12052 - Impose a limit on circuit cell queue size. The limit can be
12053 controlled by a consensus parameter. Fixes bug 25226; bugfix
12056 o Minor features (accounting):
12057 - When Tor becomes dormant, it now uses a scheduled event to wake up
12058 at the right time. Previously, we would use the per-second timer
12059 to check whether to wake up, but we no longer have any per-second
12060 timers enabled when the network is disabled. Closes ticket 26064.
12062 o Minor features (code quality):
12063 - Add optional spell-checking for the Tor codebase, using the
12064 "misspell" program. To use this feature, run "make check-typos".
12065 Closes ticket 25024.
12067 o Minor features (compatibility):
12068 - Tor now detects versions of OpenSSL 1.1.0 and later compiled with
12069 the no-deprecated option, and builds correctly with them. Closes
12070 tickets 19429, 19981, and 25353.
12071 - Avoid some compilation warnings with recent versions of LibreSSL.
12072 Closes ticket 26006.
12074 o Minor features (compression, zstd):
12075 - When running with zstd, Tor now considers using advanced functions
12076 that the zstd maintainers have labeled as potentially unstable. To
12077 prevent breakage, Tor will only use this functionality when the
12078 runtime version of the zstd library matches the version with which
12079 Tor was compiled. Closes ticket 25162.
12081 o Minor features (configuration):
12082 - The "DownloadSchedule" options have been renamed to end with
12083 "DownloadInitialDelay". The old names are still allowed, but will
12084 produce a warning. Comma-separated lists are still permitted for
12085 these options, but all values after the first are ignored (as they
12086 have been since 0.2.9). Closes ticket 23354.
12088 o Minor features (continuous integration):
12089 - Our .travis.yml configuration now includes support for testing the
12090 results of "make distcheck". (It's not uncommon for "make check"
12091 to pass but "make distcheck" to fail.) Closes ticket 25814.
12092 - Our Travis CI configuration now integrates with the Coveralls
12093 coverage analysis tool. Closes ticket 25818.
12095 o Minor features (control port):
12096 - Introduce GETINFO "current-time/{local,utc}" to return the local
12097 and UTC times respectively in ISO format. This helps a controller
12098 like Tor Browser detect a time-related error. Closes ticket 25511.
12099 Patch by Neel Chauhan.
12100 - Introduce new fields to the CIRC_BW event. There are two new
12101 fields in each of the read and written directions. The DELIVERED
12102 fields report the total valid data on the circuit, as measured by
12103 the payload sizes of verified and error-checked relay command
12104 cells. The OVERHEAD fields report the total unused bytes in each
12105 of these cells. Closes ticket 25903.
12107 o Minor features (directory authority):
12108 - Directory authorities now open their key-pinning files as O_SYNC,
12109 to limit their chances of accidentally writing partial lines.
12110 Closes ticket 23909.
12112 o Minor features (directory authority, forward compatibility):
12113 - Make the lines of the measured bandwidth file able to contain
12114 their entries in any order. Previously, the node_id entry needed
12115 to come first. Closes ticket 26004.
12117 o Minor features (entry guards):
12118 - Introduce a new torrc option NumPrimaryGuards for controlling the
12119 number of primary guards. Closes ticket 25843.
12121 o Minor features (geoip):
12122 - Update geoip and geoip6 to the May 1 2018 Maxmind GeoLite2 Country
12123 database. Closes ticket 26104.
12125 o Minor features (performance):
12126 - Avoid a needless call to malloc() when processing an incoming
12127 relay cell. Closes ticket 24914.
12128 - Make our timing-wheel code run a tiny bit faster on 32-bit
12129 platforms, by preferring 32-bit math to 64-bit. Closes
12131 - Avoid a needless malloc()/free() pair every time we handle an ntor
12132 handshake. Closes ticket 25150.
12134 o Minor features (testing):
12135 - Add a unit test for voting_schedule_get_start_of_next_interval().
12136 Closes ticket 26014, and helps make unit test coverage
12137 more deterministic.
12138 - A new unittests module specifically for testing the functions in
12139 the (new-ish) bridges.c module has been created with new
12140 unittests, raising the code coverage percentages. Closes 25425.
12141 - We now have improved testing for addressmap_get_virtual_address()
12142 function. This should improve our test coverage, and make our test
12143 coverage more deterministic. Closes ticket 25993.
12145 o Minor features (timekeeping, circuit scheduling):
12146 - When keeping track of how busy each circuit have been recently on
12147 a given connection, use coarse-grained monotonic timers rather
12148 than gettimeofday(). This change should marginally increase
12149 accuracy and performance. Implements part of ticket 25927.
12151 o Minor bugfixes (bandwidth management):
12152 - Consider ourselves "low on write bandwidth" if we have exhausted
12153 our write bandwidth some time in the last second. This was the
12154 documented behavior before, but the actual behavior was to change
12155 this value every TokenBucketRefillInterval. Fixes bug 25828;
12156 bugfix on 0.2.3.5-alpha.
12158 o Minor bugfixes (C correctness):
12159 - Add a missing lock acquisition in the shutdown code of the control
12160 subsystem. Fixes bug 25675; bugfix on 0.2.7.3-rc. Found by
12161 Coverity; this is CID 1433643.
12163 o Minor bugfixes (circuit path selection):
12164 - Don't count path selection failures as circuit build failures.
12165 This change should eliminate cases where Tor blames its guard or
12166 the network for situations like insufficient microdescriptors
12167 and/or overly restrictive torrc settings. Fixes bug 25705; bugfix
12170 o Minor bugfixes (client):
12171 - Don't consider Tor running as a client if the ControlPort is open,
12172 but no actual client ports are open. Fixes bug 26062; bugfix
12175 o Minor bugfixes (code style):
12176 - Fixed multiple includes of transports.h in src/or/connection.c
12177 Fixes bug 25261; bugfix on 0.2.5.1-alpha.
12178 - Remove the unused variable n_possible from the function
12179 channel_get_for_extend(). Fixes bug 25645; bugfix on 0.2.4.4-alpha
12181 o Minor bugfixes (control interface):
12182 - Respond with more human-readable error messages to GETINFO exit-
12183 policy/* requests. Also, let controller know if an error is
12184 transient (response code 551) or not (response code 552). Fixes
12185 bug 25852; bugfix on 0.2.8.1-alpha.
12187 o Minor bugfixes (controller):
12188 - Make CIRC_BW event reflect the total of all data sent on a
12189 circuit, including padding and dropped cells. Also fix a mis-
12190 counting bug when STREAM_BW events were enabled. Fixes bug 25400;
12191 bugfix on 0.2.5.2-alpha.
12193 o Minor bugfixes (correctness, client):
12194 - Upon receiving a malformed connected cell, stop processing the cell
12195 immediately. Previously we would mark the connection for close, but
12196 continue processing the cell as if the connection were open. Fixes bug
12197 26072; bugfix on 0.2.4.7-alpha.
12199 o Minor bugfixes (directory client):
12200 - When unverified-consensus is verified, rename it to cached-
12201 consenus. Fixes bug 4187; bugfix on 0.2.0.3-alpha.
12202 - Fixed launching a certificate fetch always during the scheduled
12203 periodic consensus fetch by fetching only in those cases when
12204 consensus are waiting for certs. Fixes bug 24740; bugfix
12207 o Minor bugfixes (documentation):
12208 - Stop saying in the manual that clients cache ipv4 dns answers from
12209 exit relays. We haven't used them since 0.2.6.3-alpha, and in
12210 ticket 24050 we stopped even caching them as of 0.3.2.6-alpha, but
12211 we forgot to say so in the man page. Fixes bug 26052; bugfix
12214 o Minor bugfixes (error reporting):
12215 - Improve tolerance for directory authorities with skewed clocks.
12216 Previously, an authority with a clock more than 60 seconds ahead
12217 could cause a client with a correct clock to warn that the
12218 client's clock was behind. Now the clocks of a majority of
12219 directory authorities have to be ahead of the client before this
12220 warning will occur. Fixes bug 25756; bugfix on 0.2.2.25-alpha.
12222 o Minor bugfixes (Linux seccomp2 sandbox):
12223 - Allow the nanosleep() system call, which glibc uses to implement
12224 sleep() and usleep(). Fixes bug 24969; bugfix on 0.2.5.1-alpha.
12226 o Minor bugfixes (onion service):
12227 - Fix a memory leak when a v3 onion service is configured and gets a
12228 SIGHUP signal. Fixes bug 25901; bugfix on 0.3.2.1-alpha.
12229 - When parsing the descriptor signature, look for the token plus an
12230 extra white-space at the end. This is more correct but also will
12231 allow us to support new fields that might start with "signature".
12232 Fixes bug 26069; bugfix on 0.3.0.1-alpha.
12234 o Minor bugfixes (path selection):
12235 - Only select relays when they have the descriptors we prefer to use
12236 for them. This change fixes a bug where we could select a relay
12237 because it had _some_ descriptor, but reject it later with a
12238 nonfatal assertion error because it didn't have the exact one we
12239 wanted. Fixes bugs 25691 and 25692; bugfix on 0.3.3.4-alpha.
12241 o Minor bugfixes (portability):
12242 - Do not align mmap length, as it is not required by POSIX, and the
12243 getpagesize function is deprecated. Fixes bug 25399; bugfix
12246 o Minor bugfixes (portability, FreeBSD):
12247 - In have_enough_mem_for_dircache(), the variable DIRCACHE_MIN_MEM_MB
12248 does not stringify on FreeBSD, so we switch to tor_asprintf().
12249 Fixes bug 20887; bugfix on 0.2.8.1-alpha. Patch by Neel Chauhan.
12251 o Minor bugfixes (relay statistics):
12252 - When a relay is collecting internal statistics about how many
12253 create cell requests it has seen of each type, accurately count
12254 the requests from relays that temporarily fall out of the
12255 consensus. (To be extra conservative, we were already ignoring
12256 requests from clients in our counts, and we continue ignoring them
12257 here.) Fixes bug 24910; bugfix on 0.2.4.17-rc.
12259 o Minor bugfixes (relay, crash):
12260 - Avoid a crash when running with DirPort set but ORPort turned off.
12261 Fixes a case of bug 23693; bugfix on 0.3.1.1-alpha.
12263 o Minor bugfixes (restart-in-process):
12264 - When shutting down, Tor now clears all the flags in the control.c
12265 module. This should prevent a bug where authentication cookies are
12266 not generated on restart. Fixes bug 25512; bugfix on 0.3.3.1-alpha.
12268 o Minor bugfixes (testing):
12269 - When testing workqueue event-cancellation, make sure that we
12270 actually cancel an event, and that cancel each event with equal
12271 probability. (It was previously possible, though extremely
12272 unlikely, for our event-canceling test not to cancel any events.)
12273 Fixes bug 26008; bugfix on 0.2.6.3-alpha.
12274 - Repeat part of the test in test_client_pick_intro() a number of
12275 times, to give it consistent coverage. Fixes bug 25996; bugfix
12277 - Remove randomness from the hs_common/responsible_hsdirs test, so
12278 that it always takes the same path through the function it tests.
12279 Fixes bug 25997; bugfix on 0.3.2.1-alpha.
12280 - Change the behavior of the "channel/outbound" test so that it
12281 never causes a 10-second rollover for the EWMA circuitmux code.
12282 Previously, this behavior would happen randomly, and result in
12283 fluctuating test coverage. Fixes bug 25994; bugfix
12285 - Use X509_new() to allocate certificates that will be freed later
12286 with X509_free(). Previously, some parts of the unit tests had
12287 used tor_malloc_zero(), which is incorrect, and which caused test
12288 failures on Windows when they were built with extra hardening.
12289 Fixes bugs 25943 and 25944; bugfix on 0.2.8.1-alpha. Patch by
12291 - While running the circuit_timeout test, fix the PRNG to a
12292 deterministic AES stream, so that the test coverage from this test
12293 will itself be deterministic. Fixes bug 25995; bugfix
12296 o Minor bugfixes (vanguards):
12297 - Allow the last hop in a vanguard circuit to be the same as our
12298 first, to prevent the adversary from influencing guard node choice
12299 by choice of last hop. Also prevent the creation of A - B - A
12300 paths, or A - A paths, which are forbidden by relays. Fixes bug
12301 25870; bugfix on 0.3.3.1-alpha.
12303 o Code simplification and refactoring:
12304 - Remove duplicate code in parse_{c,s}method_line and bootstrap
12305 their functionalities into a single function. Fixes bug 6236;
12306 bugfix on 0.2.3.6-alpha.
12307 - We remove the PortForwarding and PortForwardingHelper options,
12308 related functions, and the port_forwarding tests. These options
12309 were used by the now-deprecated Vidalia to help ordinary users
12310 become Tor relays or bridges. Closes ticket 25409. Patch by
12312 - In order to make the OR and dir checking function in router.c less
12313 confusing we renamed some functions and
12314 consider_testing_reachability() has been split into
12315 router_should_check_reachability() and
12316 router_do_reachability_checks(). Also we improved the documentation
12317 in some functions. Closes ticket 18918.
12318 - Initial work to isolate Libevent usage to a handful of modules in
12319 our codebase, to simplify our call structure, and so that we can
12320 more easily change event loops in the future if needed. Closes
12322 - Introduce a function to call getsockname() and return tor_addr_t,
12323 to save a little complexity throughout the codebase. Closes
12325 - Make hsdir_index in node_t a hsdir_index_t rather than a pointer
12326 as hsdir_index is always present. Also, we move hsdir_index_t into
12327 or.h. Closes ticket 23094. Patch by Neel Chauhan.
12328 - Merge functions used for describing nodes and suppress the
12329 functions that do not allocate memory for the output buffer
12330 string. NODE_DESC_BUF_LEN constant and format_node_description()
12331 function cannot be used externally from router.c module anymore.
12332 Closes ticket 25432. Patch by valentecaio.
12333 - Our main loop has been simplified so that all important operations
12334 happen inside events. Previously, some operations had to happen
12335 outside the event loop, to prevent infinite sequences of event
12336 activations. Closes ticket 25374.
12337 - Put a SHA1 public key digest in hs_service_intro_point_t, and use
12338 it in register_intro_circ() and service_intro_point_new(). This
12339 prevents the digest from being re-calculated each time. Closes
12340 ticket 23107. Patch by Neel Chauhan.
12341 - Refactor token-bucket implementations to use a common backend.
12342 Closes ticket 25766.
12343 - Remove extern declaration of stats_n_seconds_working variable from
12344 main, protecting its accesses with get_uptime() and reset_uptime()
12345 functions. Closes ticket 25081, patch by “valentecaio”.
12346 - Remove our previous logic for "cached gettimeofday()" -- our
12347 coarse monotonic timers are fast enough for this purpose, and far
12348 less error-prone. Implements part of ticket 25927.
12349 - Remove the return value for fascist_firewall_choose_address_base(),
12350 and sister functions such as fascist_firewall_choose_address_node()
12351 and fascist_firewall_choose_address_rs(). Also, while we're here,
12352 initialize the ap argument as leaving it uninitialized can pose a
12353 security hazard. Closes ticket 24734. Patch by Neel Chauhan.
12354 - Rename two fields of connection_t struct. timestamp_lastwritten is
12355 renamed to timestamp_last_write_allowed and timestamp_lastread is
12356 renamed to timestamp_last_read_allowed. Closes ticket 24714, patch
12358 - Since Tor requires C99, remove our old workaround code for libc
12359 implementations where free(NULL) doesn't work. Closes ticket 24484.
12360 - Use our standard rate-limiting code to deal with excessive
12361 libevent failures, rather than the hand-rolled logic we had
12362 before. Closes ticket 26016.
12363 - We remove the return value of node_get_prim_orport() and
12364 node_get_prim_dirport(), and introduce node_get_prim_orport() in
12365 node_ipv6_or_preferred() and node_ipv6_dir_preferred() in order to
12366 check for a null address. Closes ticket 23873. Patch by
12368 - We switch to should_record_bridge_info() in
12369 geoip_note_client_seen() and options_need_geoip_info() instead of
12370 accessing the configuration values directly. Fixes bug 25290;
12371 bugfix on 0.2.1.6-alpha. Patch by Neel Chauhan.
12373 o Deprecated features:
12374 - As we are not recommending 0.2.5 anymore, we require relays that
12375 once had an ed25519 key associated with their RSA key to always
12376 have that key, instead of allowing them to drop back to a version
12377 that didn't support ed25519. This means they need to use a new RSA
12378 key if they want to downgrade to an older version of tor without
12379 ed25519. Closes ticket 20522.
12382 - Correct an IPv6 error in the documentation for ExitPolicy. Closes
12383 ticket 25857. Patch from "CTassisF".
12385 o Removed features:
12386 - Directory authorities will no longer support voting according to
12387 any consensus method before consensus method 25. This keeps
12388 authorities compatible with all authorities running 0.2.9.8 and
12389 later, and does not break any clients or relays. Implements ticket
12390 24378 and proposal 290.
12391 - The PortForwarding and PortForwardingHelper features have been
12392 removed. The reasoning is, given that implementations of NAT
12393 traversal protocols within common consumer grade routers are
12394 frequently buggy, and that the target audience for a NAT punching
12395 feature is a perhaps less-technically-inclined relay operator,
12396 when the helper fails to setup traversal the problems are usually
12397 deep, ugly, and very router specific, making them horrendously
12398 impossible for technical support to reliable assist with, and thus
12399 resulting in frustration all around. Unfortunately, relay
12400 operators who would like to run relays behind NATs will need to
12401 become more familiar with the port forwarding configurations on
12402 their local router. Closes 25409.
12403 - The TestingEnableTbEmptyEvent option has been removed. It was used
12404 in testing simulations to measure how often connection buckets
12405 were emptied, in order to improve our scheduling, but it has not
12406 been actively used in years. Closes ticket 25760.
12407 - The old "round-robin" circuit multiplexer (circuitmux)
12408 implementation has been removed, along with a fairly large set of
12409 code that existed to support it. It has not been the default
12410 circuitmux since we introduced the "EWMA" circuitmux in 0.2.4.x,
12411 but it still required an unreasonable amount of memory and CPU.
12412 Closes ticket 25268.
12415 Changes in version 0.3.3.5-rc - 2018-04-15
12416 Tor 0.3.3.5-rc fixes various bugs in earlier versions of Tor,
12417 including some that could affect reliability or correctness.
12419 This is the first release candidate in the 0.3.3 series. If we find no
12420 new bugs or regression here, then the first stable 0.3.3 release will
12421 be nearly identical to this one.
12423 o Major bugfixes (security, protover, voting):
12424 - Revise Rust implementation of protover to use a more memory-
12425 efficient voting algorithm and corresponding data structures, thus
12426 avoiding a potential memory-based DoS attack where specially
12427 crafted protocol strings would expand to fill available memory.
12428 Fixes bug 24031; bugfix on 0.3.3.1-alpha.
12430 o Major bugfixes (performance, load balancing):
12431 - Directory authorities no longer vote in favor of the Guard flag
12432 for relays without directory support. Starting in Tor
12433 0.3.0.1-alpha, clients have been avoiding using such relays in the
12434 Guard position, leading to increasingly broken load balancing for
12435 the 5%-or-so of Guards that don't advertise directory support.
12436 Fixes bug 22310; bugfix on 0.3.0.6.
12438 o Minor feature (continuous integration):
12439 - Update the Travis CI configuration to use the stable Rust channel,
12440 now that we have decided to require that. Closes ticket 25714.
12442 o Minor features (config options):
12443 - Change the way the default value for MaxMemInQueues is calculated.
12444 We now use 40% of the hardware RAM if the system has 8 GB RAM or
12445 more. Otherwise we use the former value of 75%. Closes
12448 o Minor features (geoip):
12449 - Update geoip and geoip6 to the April 3 2018 Maxmind GeoLite2
12450 Country database. Closes ticket 25718.
12452 o Minor bugfixes (client):
12453 - When using a listed relay as a bridge, and also using
12454 microdescriptors, and considering that relay as a non-bridge in a
12455 circuit, treat its microdescriptor as a valid source of
12456 information about that relay. This change should prevent a non-
12457 fatal assertion error. Fixes bug 25691; bugfix on 0.3.3.4-alpha.
12459 o Minor bugfixes (controller):
12460 - Restore the correct operation of the RESOLVE command, which had
12461 been broken since we added the ability to enable/disable DNS on
12462 specific listener ports. Fixes bug 25617; bugfix on 0.2.9.3-alpha.
12464 o Minor bugfixes (distribution, compilation, rust):
12465 - Build correctly when the rust dependencies submodule is loaded,
12466 but the TOR_RUST_DEPENDENCIES environment variable is not set.
12467 Fixes bug 25679; bugfix on 0.3.3.1-alpha.
12468 - Actually include all of our Rust source in our source
12469 distributions. (Previously, a few of the files were accidentally
12470 omitted.) Fixes bug 25732; bugfix on 0.3.3.2-alpha.
12472 o Minor bugfixes (documentation):
12473 - Document that the PerConnBW{Rate,Burst} options will fall back to
12474 their corresponding consensus parameters only if those parameters
12475 are set. Previously we had claimed that these values would always
12476 be set in the consensus. Fixes bug 25296; bugfix on 0.2.2.7-alpha.
12477 - Revert a misformatting issue in the ExitPolicy documentation.
12478 Fixes bug 25582; bugfix on 0.3.3.1-alpha.
12480 o Minor bugfixes (exit relay DNS retries):
12481 - Re-attempt timed-out DNS queries 3 times before failure, since our
12482 timeout is 5 seconds for them, but clients wait 10-15. Also allow
12483 slightly more timeouts per resolver when an exit has multiple
12484 resolvers configured. Fixes bug 21394; bugfix on 0.3.1.9.
12486 o Minor bugfixes (onion services):
12487 - Re-instate counting the client HSDir fetch circuits against the
12488 MaxClientCircuitsPending rate limit. Fixes bug 24989; bugfix
12490 - Remove underscores from the _HSLayer{2,3}Nodes options. This
12491 expert-user configuration can now be enabled as HSLayer{2,3}Nodes.
12492 Fixes bug 25581; bugfix on 0.3.3.1-alpha
12494 o Code simplification and refactoring:
12495 - Move the list of default directory authorities to its own file.
12496 Closes ticket 24854. Patch by "beastr0".
12498 o Documentation (manpage, denial of service):
12499 - Provide more detail about the denial-of-service options, by
12500 listing each mitigation and explaining how they relate. Closes
12504 Changes in version 0.3.3.4-alpha - 2018-03-29
12505 Tor 0.3.3.4-alpha includes various bugfixes for issues found during
12506 the alpha testing of earlier releases in its series. We are
12507 approaching a stable 0.3.3.4-alpha release: more testing is welcome!
12509 o New system requirements:
12510 - When built with Rust, Tor now depends on version 0.2.39 of the
12511 libc crate. Closes tickets 25310 and 25664.
12513 o Major bugfixes (relay, connection):
12514 - If we have failed to connect to a relay and received a connection
12515 refused, timeout, or similar error (at the TCP level), do not try
12516 that same address/port again for 60 seconds after the failure has
12517 occurred. Fixes bug 24767; bugfix on 0.0.6.
12519 o Minor features (geoip):
12520 - Update geoip and geoip6 to the March 8 2018 Maxmind GeoLite2
12521 Country database. Closes ticket 25469.
12523 o Minor features (log messages):
12524 - Improve log message in the out-of-memory handler to include
12525 information about memory usage from the different compression
12526 backends. Closes ticket 25372.
12528 o Minor features (sandbox):
12529 - Explicitly permit the poll() system call when the Linux
12530 seccomp2-based sandbox is enabled: apparently, some versions of
12531 libc use poll() when calling getpwnam(). Closes ticket 25313.
12533 o Minor bugfixes (C correctness):
12534 - Fix a very unlikely (impossible, we believe) null pointer
12535 dereference. Fixes bug 25629; bugfix on 0.2.9.15. Found by
12536 Coverity; this is CID 1430932.
12538 o Minor bugfixes (channel, client):
12539 - Better identify client connection when reporting to the geoip
12540 client cache. Fixes bug 24904; bugfix on 0.3.1.7.
12542 o Minor bugfixes (compilation):
12543 - Fix a C99 compliance issue in our configuration script that caused
12544 compilation issues when compiling Tor with certain versions of
12545 xtools. Fixes bug 25474; bugfix on 0.3.2.5-alpha.
12547 o Minor bugfixes (controller, reliability):
12548 - Avoid a (nonfatal) assertion failure when extending a one-hop
12549 circuit from the controller to become a multihop circuit. Fixes
12550 bug 24903; bugfix on 0.2.5.2-alpha.
12552 o Major bugfixes (networking):
12553 - Tor will no longer reject IPv6 address strings from Tor Browser
12554 when they are passed as hostnames in SOCKS5 requests. Fixes bug
12555 25036, bugfix on Tor 0.3.1.2.
12557 o Minor bugfixes (networking):
12558 - string_is_valid_hostname() will not consider IP strings to be
12559 valid hostnames. Fixes bug 25055; bugfix on Tor 0.2.5.5.
12561 o Minor bugfixes (onion service v3):
12562 - Avoid an assertion failure when the next onion service
12563 descriptor rotation type is out of sync with the consensus's
12564 valid-after time. Instead, log a warning message with extra
12565 information, so we can better hunt down the cause of this
12566 assertion. Fixes bug 25306; bugfix on 0.3.2.1-alpha.
12568 o Minor bugfixes (testing):
12569 - Avoid intermittent test failures due to a test that had relied on
12570 onion service introduction point creation finishing within 5
12571 seconds of real clock time. Fixes bug 25450; bugfix
12573 - Rust crates are now automatically detected and tested. Previously,
12574 some crates were not tested by `make test-rust` due to a static
12575 string in the `src/test/test_rust.sh` script specifying which
12576 crates to test. Fixes bug 25560; bugfix on 0.3.3.3-alpha.
12578 o Minor bugfixes (testing, benchmarks):
12579 - Fix a crash when running benchmark tests on win32 systems. The
12580 crash was due to a mutex that wasn't initialized before logging
12581 and options were initialized. Fixes bug 25479; bugfix
12584 o Minor bugfixes (warnings, ipv6):
12585 - Avoid a bug warning that could occur when trying to connect to a
12586 relay over IPv6. This warning would occur on a Tor instance that
12587 downloads router descriptors, but prefers to use microdescriptors.
12588 Fixes bug 25213; bugfix on 0.3.3.1-alpha.
12590 o Code simplification and refactoring:
12591 - Remove the old (deterministic) directory retry logic entirely:
12592 We've used exponential backoff exclusively for some time. Closes
12596 - Improved the documentation of AccountingStart parameter. Closes
12598 - Update the documentation for "Log" to include the current list of
12599 logging domains. Closes ticket 25378.
12602 Changes in version 0.3.1.10 - 2018-03-03
12603 Tor 0.3.1.10 backports a number of bugfixes, including important fixes for
12606 It includes an important security fix for a remote crash attack
12607 against directory authorities, tracked as TROVE-2018-001.
12609 This release also backports our new system for improved resistance to
12610 denial-of-service attacks against relays.
12612 This release also fixes several minor bugs and annoyances from
12615 All directory authorities should upgrade to one of the versions
12616 released today. Relays running 0.3.1.x may wish to update to one of
12617 the versions released today, for the DoS mitigations.
12619 Please note: according to our release calendar, Tor 0.3.1 will no
12620 longer be supported after 1 July 2018. If you will be running Tor
12621 after that date, you should make sure to plan to upgrade to the latest
12622 stable version, or downgrade to 0.2.9 (which will receive long-term
12625 o Major bugfixes (denial-of-service, directory authority, backport from 0.3.3.3-alpha):
12626 - Fix a protocol-list handling bug that could be used to remotely crash
12627 directory authorities with a null-pointer exception. Fixes bug 25074;
12628 bugfix on 0.2.9.4-alpha. Also tracked as TROVE-2018-001 and
12631 o Major features (denial-of-service mitigation, backport from 0.3.3.2-alpha):
12632 - Give relays some defenses against the recent network overload. We
12633 start with three defenses (default parameters in parentheses).
12634 First: if a single client address makes too many concurrent
12635 connections (>100), hang up on further connections. Second: if a
12636 single client address makes circuits too quickly (more than 3 per
12637 second, with an allowed burst of 90) while also having too many
12638 connections open (3), refuse new create cells for the next while
12639 (1-2 hours). Third: if a client asks to establish a rendezvous
12640 point to you directly, ignore the request. These defenses can be
12641 manually controlled by new torrc options, but relays will also
12642 take guidance from consensus parameters, so there's no need to
12643 configure anything manually. Implements ticket 24902.
12645 o Minor features (linux seccomp2 sandbox, backport from 0.3.2.5-alpha):
12646 - Update the sandbox rules so that they should now work correctly
12647 with Glibc 2.26. Closes ticket 24315.
12649 o Major bugfixes (onion services, retry behavior, backport from 0.3.3.1-alpha):
12650 - Fix an "off by 2" error in counting rendezvous failures on the
12651 onion service side. While we thought we would stop the rendezvous
12652 attempt after one failed circuit, we were actually making three
12653 circuit attempts before giving up. Now switch to a default of 2,
12654 and allow the consensus parameter "hs_service_max_rdv_failures" to
12655 override. Fixes bug 24895; bugfix on 0.0.6.
12657 o Major bugfixes (protocol versions, backport from 0.3.3.2-alpha):
12658 - Add Link protocol version 5 to the supported protocols list. Fixes
12659 bug 25070; bugfix on 0.3.1.1-alpha.
12661 o Major bugfixes (relay, backport from 0.3.3.1-alpha):
12662 - Fix a set of false positives where relays would consider
12663 connections to other relays as being client-only connections (and
12664 thus e.g. deserving different link padding schemes) if those
12665 relays fell out of the consensus briefly. Now we look only at the
12666 initial handshake and whether the connection authenticated as a
12667 relay. Fixes bug 24898; bugfix on 0.3.1.1-alpha.
12669 o Minor features (denial-of-service avoidance, backport from 0.3.3.2-alpha):
12670 - Make our OOM handler aware of the geoip client history cache so it
12671 doesn't fill up the memory. This check is important for IPv6 and
12672 our DoS mitigation subsystem. Closes ticket 25122.
12674 o Minor feature (relay statistics, backport from 0.3.2.6-alpha):
12675 - Change relay bandwidth reporting stats interval from 4 hours to 24
12676 hours in order to reduce the efficiency of guard discovery
12677 attacks. Fixes ticket 23856.
12679 o Minor features (compatibility, OpenSSL, backport from 0.3.3.3-alpha):
12680 - Tor will now support TLS1.3 once OpenSSL 1.1.1 is released.
12681 Previous versions of Tor would not have worked with OpenSSL 1.1.1,
12682 since they neither disabled TLS 1.3 nor enabled any of the
12683 ciphersuites it requires. Now we enable the TLS 1.3 ciphersuites.
12684 Closes ticket 24978.
12686 o Minor features (fallback directory mirrors, backport from 0.3.2.9):
12687 - The fallback directory list has been re-generated based on the
12688 current status of the network. Tor uses fallback directories to
12689 bootstrap when it doesn't yet have up-to-date directory
12690 information. Closes ticket 24801.
12691 - Make the default DirAuthorityFallbackRate 0.1, so that clients
12692 prefer to bootstrap from fallback directory mirrors. This is a
12693 follow-up to 24679, which removed weights from the default
12694 fallbacks. Implements ticket 24681.
12696 o Minor features (geoip):
12697 - Update geoip and geoip6 to the February 7 2018 Maxmind GeoLite2
12700 o Minor bugfix (channel connection, backport from 0.3.3.2-alpha):
12701 - Use the actual observed address of an incoming relay connection,
12702 not the canonical address of the relay from its descriptor, when
12703 making decisions about how to handle the incoming connection.
12704 Fixes bug 24952; bugfix on 0.2.4.11-alpha. Patch by "ffmancera".
12706 o Minor bugfix (directory authority, backport from 0.3.3.2-alpha):
12707 - Directory authorities, when refusing a descriptor from a rejected
12708 relay, now explicitly tell the relay (in its logs) to set a valid
12709 ContactInfo address and contact the bad-relays@ mailing list.
12710 Fixes bug 25170; bugfix on 0.2.9.1.
12712 o Minor bugfixes (address selection, backport from 0.3.2.9):
12713 - When the fascist_firewall_choose_address_ functions don't find a
12714 reachable address, set the returned address to the null address
12715 and port. This is a precautionary measure, because some callers do
12716 not check the return value. Fixes bug 24736; bugfix
12719 o Major bugfixes (bootstrapping, backport from 0.3.2.5-alpha):
12720 - Fetch descriptors aggressively whenever we lack enough to build
12721 circuits, regardless of how many descriptors we are missing.
12722 Previously, we would delay launching the fetch when we had fewer
12723 than 15 missing descriptors, even if some of those descriptors
12724 were blocking circuits from building. Fixes bug 23985; bugfix on
12725 0.1.1.11-alpha. The effects of this bug became worse in
12726 0.3.0.3-alpha, when we began treating missing descriptors from our
12727 primary guards as a reason to delay circuits.
12728 - Don't try fetching microdescriptors from relays that have failed
12729 to deliver them in the past. Fixes bug 23817; bugfix
12732 o Minor bugfixes (compilation, backport from 0.3.2.7-rc):
12733 - Fix a signed/unsigned comparison warning introduced by our fix to
12734 TROVE-2017-009. Fixes bug 24480; bugfix on 0.2.5.16.
12736 o Minor bugfixes (control port, linux seccomp2 sandbox, backport from 0.3.2.5-alpha):
12737 - Avoid a crash when attempting to use the seccomp2 sandbox together
12738 with the OwningControllerProcess feature. Fixes bug 24198; bugfix
12741 o Minor bugfixes (denial-of-service, backport from 0.3.3.3-alpha):
12742 - Fix a possible crash on malformed consensus. If a consensus had
12743 contained an unparseable protocol line, it could have made clients
12744 and relays crash with a null-pointer exception. To exploit this
12745 issue, however, an attacker would need to be able to subvert the
12746 directory authority system. Fixes bug 25251; bugfix on
12747 0.2.9.4-alpha. Also tracked as TROVE-2018-004.
12749 o Minor bugfixes (directory cache, backport from 0.3.2.5-alpha):
12750 - Recover better from empty or corrupt files in the consensus cache
12751 directory. Fixes bug 24099; bugfix on 0.3.1.1-alpha.
12752 - When a consensus diff calculation is only partially successful,
12753 only record the successful parts as having succeeded. Partial
12754 success can happen if (for example) one compression method fails
12755 but the others succeed. Previously we misrecorded all the
12756 calculations as having succeeded, which would later cause a
12757 nonfatal assertion failure. Fixes bug 24086; bugfix
12760 o Minor bugfixes (entry guards, backport from 0.3.2.3-alpha):
12761 - Tor now updates its guard state when it reads a consensus
12762 regardless of whether it's missing descriptors. That makes tor use
12763 its primary guards to fetch descriptors in some edge cases where
12764 it would previously have used fallback directories. Fixes bug
12765 23862; bugfix on 0.3.0.1-alpha.
12767 o Minor bugfixes (logging, backport from 0.3.3.2-alpha):
12768 - Don't treat inability to store a cached consensus object as a bug:
12769 it can happen normally when we are out of disk space. Fixes bug
12770 24859; bugfix on 0.3.1.1-alpha.
12772 o Minor bugfixes (memory usage, backport from 0.3.2.8-rc):
12773 - When queuing DESTROY cells on a channel, only queue the circuit-id
12774 and reason fields: not the entire 514-byte cell. This fix should
12775 help mitigate any bugs or attacks that fill up these queues, and
12776 free more RAM for other uses. Fixes bug 24666; bugfix
12779 o Minor bugfixes (network layer, backport from 0.3.2.5-alpha):
12780 - When closing a connection via close_connection_immediately(), we
12781 mark it as "not blocked on bandwidth", to prevent later calls from
12782 trying to unblock it, and give it permission to read. This fixes a
12783 backtrace warning that can happen on relays under various
12784 circumstances. Fixes bug 24167; bugfix on 0.1.0.1-rc.
12786 o Minor bugfixes (path selection, backport from 0.3.2.4-alpha):
12787 - When selecting relays by bandwidth, avoid a rounding error that
12788 could sometimes cause load to be imbalanced incorrectly.
12789 Previously, we would always round upwards; now, we round towards
12790 the nearest integer. This had the biggest effect when a relay's
12791 weight adjustments should have given it weight 0, but it got
12792 weight 1 instead. Fixes bug 23318; bugfix on 0.2.4.3-alpha.
12793 - When calculating the fraction of nodes that have descriptors, and
12794 all nodes in the network have zero bandwidths, count the number of
12795 nodes instead. Fixes bug 23318; bugfix on 0.2.4.10-alpha.
12796 - Actually log the total bandwidth in compute_weighted_bandwidths().
12797 Fixes bug 24170; bugfix on 0.2.4.3-alpha.
12799 o Minor bugfixes (performance, fragile-hardening, backport from 0.3.3.1-alpha):
12800 - Improve the performance of our consensus-diff application code
12801 when Tor is built with the --enable-fragile-hardening option set.
12802 Fixes bug 24826; bugfix on 0.3.1.1-alpha.
12804 o Minor bugfixes (OSX, backport from 0.3.3.1-alpha):
12805 - Don't exit the Tor process if setrlimit() fails to change the file
12806 limit (which can happen sometimes on some versions of OSX). Fixes
12807 bug 21074; bugfix on 0.0.9pre5.
12809 o Minor bugfixes (portability, msvc, backport from 0.3.2.9):
12810 - Fix a bug in the bit-counting parts of our timing-wheel code on
12811 MSVC. (Note that MSVC is still not a supported build platform, due
12812 to cyptographic timing channel risks.) Fixes bug 24633; bugfix
12815 o Minor bugfixes (relay, partial backport):
12816 - Make the internal channel_is_client() function look at what sort
12817 of connection handshake the other side used, rather than whether
12818 the other side ever sent a create_fast cell to us. Backports part
12819 of the fixes from bugs 22805 and 24898.
12821 o Minor bugfixes (spec conformance, backport from 0.3.3.3-alpha):
12822 - Forbid "-0" as a protocol version. Fixes part of bug 25249; bugfix on
12824 - Forbid UINT32_MAX as a protocol version. Fixes part of bug 25249;
12825 bugfix on 0.2.9.4-alpha.
12827 o Code simplification and refactoring (backport from 0.3.3.3-alpha):
12828 - Update the "rust dependencies" submodule to be a project-level
12829 repository, rather than a user repository. Closes ticket 25323.
12832 Changes in version 0.2.9.15 - 2018-03-03
12833 Tor 0.2.9.15 backports important security and stability bugfixes from
12834 later Tor releases.
12836 It includes an important security fix for a remote crash attack
12837 against directory authorities, tracked as TROVE-2018-001.
12839 This release also backports our new system for improved resistance to
12840 denial-of-service attacks against relays.
12842 This release also fixes several minor bugs and annoyances from
12845 All directory authorities should upgrade to one of the versions
12846 released today. Relays running 0.2.9.x may wish to update to one of
12847 the versions released today, for the DoS mitigations.
12849 o Major bugfixes (denial-of-service, directory authority, backport from 0.3.3.3-alpha):
12850 - Fix a protocol-list handling bug that could be used to remotely crash
12851 directory authorities with a null-pointer exception. Fixes bug 25074;
12852 bugfix on 0.2.9.4-alpha. Also tracked as TROVE-2018-001 and
12855 o Major features (denial-of-service mitigation):
12856 - Give relays some defenses against the recent network overload. We
12857 start with three defenses (default parameters in parentheses).
12858 First: if a single client address makes too many concurrent
12859 connections (>100), hang up on further connections. Second: if a
12860 single client address makes circuits too quickly (more than 3 per
12861 second, with an allowed burst of 90) while also having too many
12862 connections open (3), refuse new create cells for the next while
12863 (1-2 hours). Third: if a client asks to establish a rendezvous
12864 point to you directly, ignore the request. These defenses can be
12865 manually controlled by new torrc options, but relays will also
12866 take guidance from consensus parameters, so there's no need to
12867 configure anything manually. Implements ticket 24902.
12869 o Major bugfixes (bootstrapping):
12870 - Fetch descriptors aggressively whenever we lack enough to build
12871 circuits, regardless of how many descriptors we are missing.
12872 Previously, we would delay launching the fetch when we had fewer
12873 than 15 missing descriptors, even if some of those descriptors
12874 were blocking circuits from building. Fixes bug 23985; bugfix on
12875 0.1.1.11-alpha. The effects of this bug became worse in
12876 0.3.0.3-alpha, when we began treating missing descriptors from our
12877 primary guards as a reason to delay circuits.
12879 o Major bugfixes (onion services, retry behavior):
12880 - Fix an "off by 2" error in counting rendezvous failures on the
12881 onion service side. While we thought we would stop the rendezvous
12882 attempt after one failed circuit, we were actually making three
12883 circuit attempts before giving up. Now switch to a default of 2,
12884 and allow the consensus parameter "hs_service_max_rdv_failures" to
12885 override. Fixes bug 24895; bugfix on 0.0.6.
12887 o Minor feature (relay statistics):
12888 - Change relay bandwidth reporting stats interval from 4 hours to 24
12889 hours in order to reduce the efficiency of guard discovery
12890 attacks. Fixes ticket 23856.
12892 o Minor features (compatibility, OpenSSL):
12893 - Tor will now support TLS1.3 once OpenSSL 1.1.1 is released.
12894 Previous versions of Tor would not have worked with OpenSSL 1.1.1,
12895 since they neither disabled TLS 1.3 nor enabled any of the
12896 ciphersuites it requires. Now we enable the TLS 1.3 ciphersuites.
12897 Closes ticket 24978.
12899 o Minor features (denial-of-service avoidance):
12900 - Make our OOM handler aware of the geoip client history cache so it
12901 doesn't fill up the memory. This check is important for IPv6 and
12902 our DoS mitigation subsystem. Closes ticket 25122.
12904 o Minor features (fallback directory mirrors):
12905 - The fallback directory list has been re-generated based on the
12906 current status of the network. Tor uses fallback directories to
12907 bootstrap when it doesn't yet have up-to-date directory
12908 information. Closes ticket 24801.
12909 - Make the default DirAuthorityFallbackRate 0.1, so that clients
12910 prefer to bootstrap from fallback directory mirrors. This is a
12911 follow-up to 24679, which removed weights from the default
12912 fallbacks. Implements ticket 24681.
12914 o Minor features (geoip):
12915 - Update geoip and geoip6 to the February 7 2018 Maxmind GeoLite2
12918 o Minor features (linux seccomp2 sandbox):
12919 - Update the sandbox rules so that they should now work correctly
12920 with Glibc 2.26. Closes ticket 24315.
12922 o Minor bugfix (channel connection):
12923 - Use the actual observed address of an incoming relay connection,
12924 not the canonical address of the relay from its descriptor, when
12925 making decisions about how to handle the incoming connection.
12926 Fixes bug 24952; bugfix on 0.2.4.11-alpha. Patch by "ffmancera".
12928 o Minor bugfix (directory authority):
12929 - Directory authorities, when refusing a descriptor from a rejected
12930 relay, now explicitly tell the relay (in its logs) to set a valid
12931 ContactInfo address and contact the bad-relays@ mailing list.
12932 Fixes bug 25170; bugfix on 0.2.9.1.
12934 o Minor bugfixes (address selection):
12935 - When the fascist_firewall_choose_address_ functions don't find a
12936 reachable address, set the returned address to the null address
12937 and port. This is a precautionary measure, because some callers do
12938 not check the return value. Fixes bug 24736; bugfix
12941 o Minor bugfixes (compilation):
12942 - Fix a signed/unsigned comparison warning introduced by our fix to
12943 TROVE-2017-009. Fixes bug 24480; bugfix on 0.2.5.16.
12945 o Minor bugfixes (control port, linux seccomp2 sandbox):
12946 - Avoid a crash when attempting to use the seccomp2 sandbox together
12947 with the OwningControllerProcess feature. Fixes bug 24198; bugfix
12950 o Minor bugfixes (denial-of-service, backport from 0.3.3.3-alpha):
12951 - Fix a possible crash on malformed consensus. If a consensus had
12952 contained an unparseable protocol line, it could have made clients
12953 and relays crash with a null-pointer exception. To exploit this
12954 issue, however, an attacker would need to be able to subvert the
12955 directory authority system. Fixes bug 25251; bugfix on
12956 0.2.9.4-alpha. Also tracked as TROVE-2018-004.
12958 o Minor bugfixes (memory usage):
12959 - When queuing DESTROY cells on a channel, only queue the circuit-id
12960 and reason fields: not the entire 514-byte cell. This fix should
12961 help mitigate any bugs or attacks that fill up these queues, and
12962 free more RAM for other uses. Fixes bug 24666; bugfix
12965 o Minor bugfixes (network layer):
12966 - When closing a connection via close_connection_immediately(), we
12967 mark it as "not blocked on bandwidth", to prevent later calls from
12968 trying to unblock it, and give it permission to read. This fixes a
12969 backtrace warning that can happen on relays under various
12970 circumstances. Fixes bug 24167; bugfix on 0.1.0.1-rc.
12972 o Minor bugfixes (OSX):
12973 - Don't exit the Tor process if setrlimit() fails to change the file
12974 limit (which can happen sometimes on some versions of OSX). Fixes
12975 bug 21074; bugfix on 0.0.9pre5.
12977 o Minor bugfixes (path selection):
12978 - When selecting relays by bandwidth, avoid a rounding error that
12979 could sometimes cause load to be imbalanced incorrectly.
12980 Previously, we would always round upwards; now, we round towards
12981 the nearest integer. This had the biggest effect when a relay's
12982 weight adjustments should have given it weight 0, but it got
12983 weight 1 instead. Fixes bug 23318; bugfix on 0.2.4.3-alpha.
12984 - When calculating the fraction of nodes that have descriptors, and
12985 all nodes in the network have zero bandwidths, count the number of
12986 nodes instead. Fixes bug 23318; bugfix on 0.2.4.10-alpha.
12987 - Actually log the total bandwidth in compute_weighted_bandwidths().
12988 Fixes bug 24170; bugfix on 0.2.4.3-alpha.
12990 o Minor bugfixes (portability, msvc):
12991 - Fix a bug in the bit-counting parts of our timing-wheel code on
12992 MSVC. (Note that MSVC is still not a supported build platform, due
12993 to cryptographic timing channel risks.) Fixes bug 24633; bugfix
12996 o Minor bugfixes (relay):
12997 - Make the internal channel_is_client() function look at what sort
12998 of connection handshake the other side used, rather than whether
12999 the other side ever sent a create_fast cell to us. Backports part
13000 of the fixes from bugs 22805 and 24898.
13002 o Minor bugfixes (spec conformance, backport from 0.3.3.3-alpha):
13003 - Forbid "-0" as a protocol version. Fixes part of bug 25249; bugfix on
13005 - Forbid UINT32_MAX as a protocol version. Fixes part of bug 25249;
13006 bugfix on 0.2.9.4-alpha.
13009 Changes in version 0.3.2.10 - 2018-03-03
13010 Tor 0.3.2.10 is the second stable release in the 0.3.2 series. It
13011 backports a number of bugfixes, including important fixes for security
13014 It includes an important security fix for a remote crash attack
13015 against directory authorities, tracked as TROVE-2018-001.
13017 Additionally, it backports a fix for a bug whose severity we have
13018 upgraded: Bug 24700, which was fixed in 0.3.3.2-alpha, can be remotely
13019 triggered in order to crash relays with a use-after-free pattern. As
13020 such, we are now tracking that bug as TROVE-2018-002 and
13021 CVE-2018-0491, and backporting it to earlier releases. This bug
13022 affected versions 0.3.2.1-alpha through 0.3.2.9, as well as version
13025 This release also backports our new system for improved resistance to
13026 denial-of-service attacks against relays.
13028 This release also fixes several minor bugs and annoyances from
13031 Relays running 0.3.2.x SHOULD upgrade to one of the versions released
13032 today, for the fix to TROVE-2018-002. Directory authorities should
13033 also upgrade. (Relays on earlier versions might want to update too for
13034 the DoS mitigations.)
13036 o Major bugfixes (denial-of-service, directory authority, backport from 0.3.3.3-alpha):
13037 - Fix a protocol-list handling bug that could be used to remotely crash
13038 directory authorities with a null-pointer exception. Fixes bug 25074;
13039 bugfix on 0.2.9.4-alpha. Also tracked as TROVE-2018-001 and
13042 o Major bugfixes (scheduler, KIST, denial-of-service, backport from 0.3.3.2-alpha):
13043 - Avoid adding the same channel twice in the KIST scheduler pending
13044 list, which could lead to remote denial-of-service use-after-free
13045 attacks against relays. Fixes bug 24700; bugfix on 0.3.2.1-alpha.
13047 o Major features (denial-of-service mitigation, backport from 0.3.3.2-alpha):
13048 - Give relays some defenses against the recent network overload. We
13049 start with three defenses (default parameters in parentheses).
13050 First: if a single client address makes too many concurrent
13051 connections (>100), hang up on further connections. Second: if a
13052 single client address makes circuits too quickly (more than 3 per
13053 second, with an allowed burst of 90) while also having too many
13054 connections open (3), refuse new create cells for the next while
13055 (1-2 hours). Third: if a client asks to establish a rendezvous
13056 point to you directly, ignore the request. These defenses can be
13057 manually controlled by new torrc options, but relays will also
13058 take guidance from consensus parameters, so there's no need to
13059 configure anything manually. Implements ticket 24902.
13061 o Major bugfixes (onion services, retry behavior, backport from 0.3.3.1-alpha):
13062 - Fix an "off by 2" error in counting rendezvous failures on the
13063 onion service side. While we thought we would stop the rendezvous
13064 attempt after one failed circuit, we were actually making three
13065 circuit attempts before giving up. Now switch to a default of 2,
13066 and allow the consensus parameter "hs_service_max_rdv_failures" to
13067 override. Fixes bug 24895; bugfix on 0.0.6.
13068 - New-style (v3) onion services now obey the "max rendezvous circuit
13069 attempts" logic. Previously they would make as many rendezvous
13070 circuit attempts as they could fit in the MAX_REND_TIMEOUT second
13071 window before giving up. Fixes bug 24894; bugfix on 0.3.2.1-alpha.
13073 o Major bugfixes (protocol versions, backport from 0.3.3.2-alpha):
13074 - Add Link protocol version 5 to the supported protocols list. Fixes
13075 bug 25070; bugfix on 0.3.1.1-alpha.
13077 o Major bugfixes (relay, backport from 0.3.3.1-alpha):
13078 - Fix a set of false positives where relays would consider
13079 connections to other relays as being client-only connections (and
13080 thus e.g. deserving different link padding schemes) if those
13081 relays fell out of the consensus briefly. Now we look only at the
13082 initial handshake and whether the connection authenticated as a
13083 relay. Fixes bug 24898; bugfix on 0.3.1.1-alpha.
13085 o Major bugfixes (scheduler, consensus, backport from 0.3.3.2-alpha):
13086 - The scheduler subsystem was failing to promptly notice changes in
13087 consensus parameters, making it harder to switch schedulers
13088 network-wide. Fixes bug 24975; bugfix on 0.3.2.1-alpha.
13090 o Minor features (denial-of-service avoidance, backport from 0.3.3.2-alpha):
13091 - Make our OOM handler aware of the geoip client history cache so it
13092 doesn't fill up the memory. This check is important for IPv6 and
13093 our DoS mitigation subsystem. Closes ticket 25122.
13095 o Minor features (compatibility, OpenSSL, backport from 0.3.3.3-alpha):
13096 - Tor will now support TLS1.3 once OpenSSL 1.1.1 is released.
13097 Previous versions of Tor would not have worked with OpenSSL 1.1.1,
13098 since they neither disabled TLS 1.3 nor enabled any of the
13099 ciphersuites it requires. Now we enable the TLS 1.3 ciphersuites.
13100 Closes ticket 24978.
13102 o Minor features (geoip):
13103 - Update geoip and geoip6 to the February 7 2018 Maxmind GeoLite2
13106 o Minor features (logging, diagnostic, backport from 0.3.3.2-alpha):
13107 - When logging a failure to create an onion service's descriptor,
13108 also log what the problem with the descriptor was. Diagnostic
13111 o Minor bugfix (channel connection, backport from 0.3.3.2-alpha):
13112 - Use the actual observed address of an incoming relay connection,
13113 not the canonical address of the relay from its descriptor, when
13114 making decisions about how to handle the incoming connection.
13115 Fixes bug 24952; bugfix on 0.2.4.11-alpha. Patch by "ffmancera".
13117 o Minor bugfixes (denial-of-service, backport from 0.3.3.3-alpha):
13118 - Fix a possible crash on malformed consensus. If a consensus had
13119 contained an unparseable protocol line, it could have made clients
13120 and relays crash with a null-pointer exception. To exploit this
13121 issue, however, an attacker would need to be able to subvert the
13122 directory authority system. Fixes bug 25251; bugfix on
13123 0.2.9.4-alpha. Also tracked as TROVE-2018-004.
13125 o Minor bugfix (directory authority, backport from 0.3.3.2-alpha):
13126 - Directory authorities, when refusing a descriptor from a rejected
13127 relay, now explicitly tell the relay (in its logs) to set a valid
13128 ContactInfo address and contact the bad-relays@ mailing list.
13129 Fixes bug 25170; bugfix on 0.2.9.1.
13131 o Minor bugfixes (build, rust, backport from 0.3.3.1-alpha):
13132 - When building with Rust on OSX, link against libresolv, to work
13133 around the issue at https://github.com/rust-lang/rust/issues/46797.
13134 Fixes bug 24652; bugfix on 0.3.1.1-alpha.
13136 o Minor bugfixes (onion services, backport from 0.3.3.2-alpha):
13137 - Remove a BUG() statement when a client fetches an onion descriptor
13138 that has a lower revision counter than the one in its cache. This
13139 can happen in normal circumstances due to HSDir desync. Fixes bug
13140 24976; bugfix on 0.3.2.1-alpha.
13142 o Minor bugfixes (logging, backport from 0.3.3.2-alpha):
13143 - Don't treat inability to store a cached consensus object as a bug:
13144 it can happen normally when we are out of disk space. Fixes bug
13145 24859; bugfix on 0.3.1.1-alpha.
13147 o Minor bugfixes (performance, fragile-hardening, backport from 0.3.3.1-alpha):
13148 - Improve the performance of our consensus-diff application code
13149 when Tor is built with the --enable-fragile-hardening option set.
13150 Fixes bug 24826; bugfix on 0.3.1.1-alpha.
13152 o Minor bugfixes (OSX, backport from 0.3.3.1-alpha):
13153 - Don't exit the Tor process if setrlimit() fails to change the file
13154 limit (which can happen sometimes on some versions of OSX). Fixes
13155 bug 21074; bugfix on 0.0.9pre5.
13157 o Minor bugfixes (spec conformance, backport from 0.3.3.3-alpha):
13158 - Forbid "-0" as a protocol version. Fixes part of bug 25249; bugfix on
13160 - Forbid UINT32_MAX as a protocol version. Fixes part of bug 25249;
13161 bugfix on 0.2.9.4-alpha.
13163 o Minor bugfixes (testing, backport from 0.3.3.1-alpha):
13164 - Fix a memory leak in the scheduler/loop_kist unit test. Fixes bug
13165 25005; bugfix on 0.3.2.7-rc.
13167 o Minor bugfixes (v3 onion services, backport from 0.3.3.2-alpha):
13168 - Look at the "HSRend" protocol version, not the "HSDir" protocol
13169 version, when deciding whether a consensus entry can support the
13170 v3 onion service protocol as a rendezvous point. Fixes bug 25105;
13171 bugfix on 0.3.2.1-alpha.
13173 o Code simplification and refactoring (backport from 0.3.3.3-alpha):
13174 - Update the "rust dependencies" submodule to be a project-level
13175 repository, rather than a user repository. Closes ticket 25323.
13177 o Documentation (backport from 0.3.3.1-alpha)
13178 - Document that operators who run more than one relay or bridge are
13179 expected to set MyFamily and ContactInfo correctly. Closes
13183 Changes in version 0.3.3.3-alpha - 2018-03-03
13184 Tor 0.3.3.3-alpha is the third alpha release for the 0.3.3.x series.
13185 It includes an important security fix for a remote crash attack
13186 against directory authorities tracked as TROVE-2018-001.
13188 Additionally, with this release, we are upgrading the severity of a
13189 bug fixed in 0.3.3.2-alpha. Bug 24700, which was fixed in
13190 0.3.3.2-alpha, can be remotely triggered in order to crash relays with
13191 a use-after-free pattern. As such, we are now tracking that bug as
13192 TROVE-2018-002 and CVE-2018-0491. This bug affected versions
13193 0.3.2.1-alpha through 0.3.2.9, as well as 0.3.3.1-alpha.
13195 This release also fixes several minor bugs and annoyances from
13198 Relays running 0.3.2.x should upgrade to one of the versions released
13199 today, for the fix to TROVE-2018-002. Directory authorities should
13200 also upgrade. (Relays on earlier versions might want to update too for
13201 the DoS mitigations.)
13203 o Major bugfixes (denial-of-service, directory authority):
13204 - Fix a protocol-list handling bug that could be used to remotely crash
13205 directory authorities with a null-pointer exception. Fixes bug 25074;
13206 bugfix on 0.2.9.4-alpha. Also tracked as TROVE-2018-001 and
13209 o Minor features (compatibility, OpenSSL):
13210 - Tor will now support TLS1.3 once OpenSSL 1.1.1 is released.
13211 Previous versions of Tor would not have worked with OpenSSL 1.1.1,
13212 since they neither disabled TLS 1.3 nor enabled any of the
13213 ciphersuites it requires. Now we enable the TLS 1.3 ciphersuites.
13214 Closes ticket 24978.
13216 o Minor features (logging):
13217 - Clarify the log messages produced when getrandom() or a related
13218 entropy-generation mechanism gives an error. Closes ticket 25120.
13220 o Minor features (testing):
13221 - Add a "make test-rust" target to run the rust tests only. Closes
13224 o Minor bugfixes (denial-of-service):
13225 - Fix a possible crash on malformed consensus. If a consensus had
13226 contained an unparseable protocol line, it could have made clients
13227 and relays crash with a null-pointer exception. To exploit this
13228 issue, however, an attacker would need to be able to subvert the
13229 directory authority system. Fixes bug 25251; bugfix on
13230 0.2.9.4-alpha. Also tracked as TROVE-2018-004.
13232 o Minor bugfixes (DoS mitigation):
13233 - Add extra safety checks when refilling the circuit creation bucket
13234 to ensure we never set a value above the allowed maximum burst.
13235 Fixes bug 25202; bugfix on 0.3.3.2-alpha.
13236 - When a new consensus arrives, don't update our DoS-mitigation
13237 parameters if we aren't a public relay. Fixes bug 25223; bugfix
13240 o Minor bugfixes (man page, SocksPort):
13241 - Remove dead code from the old "SocksSocket" option, and rename
13242 SocksSocketsGroupWritable to UnixSocksGroupWritable. The old option
13243 still works, but is deprecated. Fixes bug 24343; bugfix on 0.2.6.3.
13245 o Minor bugfixes (performance):
13246 - Reduce the number of circuits that will be opened at once during
13247 the circuit build timeout phase. This is done by increasing the
13248 idle timeout to 3 minutes, and lowering the maximum number of
13249 concurrent learning circuits to 10. Fixes bug 24769; bugfix
13252 o Minor bugfixes (spec conformance):
13253 - Forbid "-0" as a protocol version. Fixes part of bug 25249; bugfix on
13255 - Forbid UINT32_MAX as a protocol version. Fixes part of bug 25249;
13256 bugfix on 0.2.9.4-alpha.
13258 o Minor bugfixes (spec conformance, rust):
13259 - Resolve a denial-of-service issue caused by an infinite loop in
13260 the rust protover code. Fixes bug 25250, bugfix on 0.3.3.1-alpha.
13261 Also tracked as TROVE-2018-003.
13263 o Code simplification and refactoring:
13264 - Update the "rust dependencies" submodule to be a project-level
13265 repository, rather than a user repository. Closes ticket 25323.
13268 Changes in version 0.3.3.2-alpha - 2018-02-10
13269 Tor 0.3.3.2-alpha is the second alpha in the 0.3.3.x series. It
13270 introduces a mechanism to handle the high loads that many relay
13271 operators have been reporting recently. It also fixes several bugs in
13272 older releases. If this new code proves reliable, we plan to backport
13273 it to older supported release series.
13275 o Major features (denial-of-service mitigation):
13276 - Give relays some defenses against the recent network overload. We
13277 start with three defenses (default parameters in parentheses).
13278 First: if a single client address makes too many concurrent
13279 connections (>100), hang up on further connections. Second: if a
13280 single client address makes circuits too quickly (more than 3 per
13281 second, with an allowed burst of 90) while also having too many
13282 connections open (3), refuse new create cells for the next while
13283 (1-2 hours). Third: if a client asks to establish a rendezvous
13284 point to you directly, ignore the request. These defenses can be
13285 manually controlled by new torrc options, but relays will also
13286 take guidance from consensus parameters, so there's no need to
13287 configure anything manually. Implements ticket 24902.
13289 o Major bugfixes (netflow padding):
13290 - Stop adding unneeded channel padding right after we finish
13291 flushing to a connection that has been trying to flush for many
13292 seconds. Instead, treat all partial or complete flushes as
13293 activity on the channel, which will defer the time until we need
13294 to add padding. This fix should resolve confusing and scary log
13295 messages like "Channel padding timeout scheduled 221453ms in the
13296 past." Fixes bug 22212; bugfix on 0.3.1.1-alpha.
13298 o Major bugfixes (protocol versions):
13299 - Add Link protocol version 5 to the supported protocols list. Fixes
13300 bug 25070; bugfix on 0.3.1.1-alpha.
13302 o Major bugfixes (scheduler, consensus):
13303 - The scheduler subsystem was failing to promptly notice changes in
13304 consensus parameters, making it harder to switch schedulers
13305 network-wide. Fixes bug 24975; bugfix on 0.3.2.1-alpha.
13307 o Minor features (denial-of-service avoidance):
13308 - Make our OOM handler aware of the geoip client history cache so it
13309 doesn't fill up the memory. This check is important for IPv6 and
13310 our DoS mitigation subsystem. Closes ticket 25122.
13312 o Minor features (directory authority):
13313 - When directory authorities are unable to add signatures to a
13314 pending consensus, log the reason why. Closes ticket 24849.
13316 o Minor features (geoip):
13317 - Update geoip and geoip6 to the February 7 2018 Maxmind GeoLite2
13320 o Minor features (logging, diagnostic):
13321 - When logging a failure to create an onion service's descriptor,
13322 also log what the problem with the descriptor was. Diagnostic for
13325 o Minor bugfix (channel connection):
13326 - Use the actual observed address of an incoming relay connection,
13327 not the canonical address of the relay from its descriptor, when
13328 making decisions about how to handle the incoming connection.
13329 Fixes bug 24952; bugfix on 0.2.4.11-alpha. Patch by "ffmancera".
13331 o Minor bugfix (directory authority):
13332 - Directory authorities, when refusing a descriptor from a rejected
13333 relay, now explicitly tell the relay (in its logs) to set a valid
13334 ContactInfo address and contact the bad-relays@ mailing list.
13335 Fixes bug 25170; bugfix on 0.2.9.1.
13337 o Minor bugfixes (all versions of Tor):
13338 - Use the "misspell" tool to detect and fix typos throughout the
13339 source code. Fixes bug 23650; bugfix on various versions of Tor.
13340 Patch from Deepesh Pathak.
13342 o Minor bugfixes (circuit, cannibalization):
13343 - Don't cannibalize preemptively-built circuits if we no longer
13344 recognize their first hop. This situation can happen if our Guard
13345 relay went off the consensus after the circuit was created. Fixes
13346 bug 24469; bugfix on 0.0.6.
13348 o Minor bugfixes (correctness):
13349 - Remove a nonworking, unnecessary check to see whether a circuit
13350 hop's identity digest was set when the circuit failed. Fixes bug
13351 24927; bugfix on 0.2.4.4-alpha.
13353 o Minor bugfixes (logging):
13354 - Don't treat inability to store a cached consensus object as a bug:
13355 it can happen normally when we are out of disk space. Fixes bug
13356 24859; bugfix on 0.3.1.1-alpha.
13357 - Fix a (mostly harmless) race condition when invoking
13358 LOG_PROTOCOL_WARN message from a subthread while the torrc options
13359 are changing. Fixes bug 23954; bugfix on 0.1.1.9-alpha.
13361 o Minor bugfixes (onion services):
13362 - Remove a BUG() statement when a client fetches an onion descriptor
13363 that has a lower revision counter than the one in its cache. This
13364 can happen in normal circumstances due to HSDir desync. Fixes bug
13365 24976; bugfix on 0.3.2.1-alpha.
13366 - If we are configured to offer a single onion service, don't log
13367 long-term established one hop rendezvous points in the heartbeat.
13368 Fixes bug 25116; bugfix on 0.2.9.6-rc.
13370 o Minor bugfixes (performance):
13371 - Avoid calling protocol_list_supports_protocol() from inside tight
13372 loops when running with cached routerinfo_t objects. Instead,
13373 summarize the relevant protocols as flags in the routerinfo_t, as
13374 we do for routerstatus_t objects. This change simplifies our code
13375 a little, and saves a large amount of short-term memory allocation
13376 operations. Fixes bug 25008; bugfix on 0.2.9.4-alpha.
13378 o Minor bugfixes (Rust FFI):
13379 - Fix a minor memory leak which would happen whenever the C code
13380 would call the Rust implementation of
13381 protover_get_supported_protocols(). This was due to the C version
13382 returning a static string, whereas the Rust version newly allocated
13383 a CString to pass across the FFI boundary. Consequently, the C
13384 code was not expecting to need to free() what it was given. Fixes
13385 bug 25127; bugfix on 0.3.2.1-alpha.
13387 o Minor bugfixes (scheduler, KIST):
13388 - Avoid adding the same channel twice in the KIST scheduler pending
13389 list, which would waste CPU cycles. Fixes bug 24700; bugfix
13392 o Minor bugfixes (unit test, monotonic time):
13393 - Increase a constant (1msec to 10msec) in the monotonic time test
13394 that makes sure the nsec/usec/msec times read are synchronized.
13395 This change was needed to accommodate slow systems like armel or
13396 when the clock_gettime() is not a VDSO on the running kernel.
13397 Fixes bug 25113; bugfix on 0.2.9.1.
13399 o Minor bugfixes (v3 onion services):
13400 - Look at the "HSRend" protocol version, not the "HSDir" protocol
13401 version, when deciding whether a consensus entry can support the
13402 v3 onion service protocol as a rendezvous point. Fixes bug 25105;
13403 bugfix on 0.3.2.1-alpha.
13405 o Code simplification and refactoring:
13406 - Remove the unused nodelist_recompute_all_hsdir_indices(). Closes
13408 - Remove a series of counters used to track circuit extend attempts
13409 and connection status but that in reality we aren't using for
13410 anything other than stats logged by a SIGUSR1 signal. Closes
13413 o Documentation (man page):
13414 - The HiddenServiceVersion torrc option accepts only one number:
13415 either version 2 or 3. Closes ticket 25026; bugfix
13419 Changes in version 0.3.3.1-alpha - 2018-01-25
13420 Tor 0.3.3.1-alpha is the first release in the 0.3.3.x series. It adds
13421 several new features to Tor, including several improvements to
13422 bootstrapping, and support for an experimental "vanguards" feature to
13423 resist guard discovery attacks. This series also includes better
13424 support for applications that need to embed Tor or manage v3
13427 o Major features (embedding):
13428 - There is now a documented stable API for programs that need to
13429 embed Tor. See tor_api.h for full documentation and known bugs.
13430 Closes ticket 23684.
13431 - Tor now has support for restarting in the same process.
13432 Controllers that run Tor using the "tor_api.h" interface can now
13433 restart Tor after Tor has exited. This support is incomplete,
13434 however: we fixed crash bugs that prevented it from working at
13435 all, but many bugs probably remain, including a possibility of
13436 security issues. Implements ticket 24581.
13438 o Major features (IPv6, directory documents):
13439 - Add consensus method 27, which adds IPv6 ORPorts to the microdesc
13440 consensus. This information makes it easier for IPv6 clients to
13441 bootstrap and choose reachable entry guards. Implements ticket 23826.
13442 - Add consensus method 28, which removes IPv6 ORPorts from
13443 microdescriptors. Now that the consensus contains IPv6 ORPorts, they
13444 are redundant in microdescs. This change will be used by Tor clients
13445 on 0.2.8.x and later. (That is to say, with all Tor clients that
13446 have IPv6 bootstrap and guard support.) Implements ticket 23828.
13447 - Expand the documentation for AuthDirHasIPv6Connectivity when it is
13448 set by different numbers of authorities. Fixes 23870
13451 o Major features (onion service v3, control port):
13452 - The control port now supports commands and events for v3 onion
13453 services. It is now possible to create ephemeral v3 services using
13454 ADD_ONION. Additionally, several events (HS_DESC, HS_DESC_CONTENT,
13455 CIRC and CIRC_MINOR) and commands (GETINFO, HSPOST, ADD_ONION and
13456 DEL_ONION) have been extended to support v3 onion services. Closes
13457 ticket 20699; implements proposal 284.
13459 o Major features (onion services):
13460 - Provide torrc options to pin the second and third hops of onion
13461 service circuits to a list of nodes. The option HSLayer2Guards
13462 pins the second hop, and the option HSLayer3Guards pins the third
13463 hop. These options are for use in conjunction with experiments
13464 with "vanguards" for preventing guard enumeration attacks. Closes
13467 o Major features (rust, portability, experimental):
13468 - Tor now ships with an optional implementation of one of its
13469 smaller modules (protover.c) in the Rust programming language. To
13470 try it out, install a Rust build environment, and configure Tor
13471 with "--enable-rust --enable-cargo-online-mode". This should not
13472 cause any user-visible changes, but should help us gain more
13473 experience with Rust, and plan future Rust integration work.
13474 Implementation by Chelsea Komlo. Closes ticket 22840.
13476 o Minor features (storage, configuration):
13477 - Users can store cached directory documents somewhere other than
13478 the DataDirectory by using the CacheDirectory option. Similarly,
13479 the storage location for relay's keys can be overridden with the
13480 KeyDirectory option. Closes ticket 22703.
13482 o Major features (v3 onion services, ipv6):
13483 - When v3 onion service clients send introduce cells, they now
13484 include the IPv6 address of the rendezvous point, if it has one.
13485 Current v3 onion services running 0.3.2 ignore IPv6 addresses, but
13486 in future Tor versions, IPv6-only v3 single onion services will be
13487 able to use IPv6 addresses to connect directly to the rendezvous
13488 point. Closes ticket 23577. Patch by Neel Chauhan.
13490 o Major bugfixes (onion services, retry behavior):
13491 - Fix an "off by 2" error in counting rendezvous failures on the
13492 onion service side. While we thought we would stop the rendezvous
13493 attempt after one failed circuit, we were actually making three
13494 circuit attempts before giving up. Now switch to a default of 2,
13495 and allow the consensus parameter "hs_service_max_rdv_failures" to
13496 override. Fixes bug 24895; bugfix on 0.0.6.
13497 - New-style (v3) onion services now obey the "max rendezvous circuit
13498 attempts" logic. Previously they would make as many rendezvous
13499 circuit attempts as they could fit in the MAX_REND_TIMEOUT second
13500 window before giving up. Fixes bug 24894; bugfix on 0.3.2.1-alpha.
13502 o Major bugfixes (relays):
13503 - Fix a set of false positives where relays would consider
13504 connections to other relays as being client-only connections (and
13505 thus e.g. deserving different link padding schemes) if those
13506 relays fell out of the consensus briefly. Now we look only at the
13507 initial handshake and whether the connection authenticated as a
13508 relay. Fixes bug 24898; bugfix on 0.3.1.1-alpha.
13510 o Minor feature (IPv6):
13511 - Make IPv6-only clients wait for microdescs for relays, even if we
13512 were previously using descriptors (or were using them as a bridge)
13513 and have a cached descriptor for them. Implements ticket 23827.
13514 - When a consensus has IPv6 ORPorts, make IPv6-only clients use
13515 them, rather than waiting to download microdescriptors.
13516 Implements ticket 23827.
13518 o Minor features (cleanup):
13519 - Tor now deletes the CookieAuthFile and ExtORPortCookieAuthFile
13520 when it stops. Closes ticket 23271.
13522 o Minor features (defensive programming):
13523 - Most of the functions in Tor that free objects have been replaced
13524 with macros that free the objects and set the corresponding
13525 pointers to NULL. This change should help prevent a large class of
13526 dangling pointer bugs. Closes ticket 24337.
13527 - Where possible, the tor_free() macro now only evaluates its input
13528 once. Part of ticket 24337.
13529 - Check that microdesc ed25519 ids are non-zero in
13530 node_get_ed25519_id() before returning them. Implements ticket
13531 24001, patch by "aruna1234".
13533 o Minor features (embedding):
13534 - Tor can now start with a preauthenticated control connection
13535 created by the process that launched it. This feature is meant for
13536 use by programs that want to launch and manage a Tor process
13537 without allowing other programs to manage it as well. For more
13538 information, see the __OwningControllerFD option documented in
13539 control-spec.txt. Closes ticket 23900.
13540 - On most errors that would cause Tor to exit, it now tries to
13541 return from the tor_main() function, rather than calling the
13542 system exit() function. Most users won't notice a difference here,
13543 but it should be significant for programs that run Tor inside
13544 a separate thread: they should now be able to survive Tor's exit
13545 conditions rather than having Tor shut down the entire process.
13546 Closes ticket 23848.
13547 - Applications that want to embed Tor can now tell Tor not to
13548 register any of its own POSIX signal handlers, using the
13549 __DisableSignalHandlers option. Closes ticket 24588.
13551 o Minor features (fallback directory list):
13552 - Avoid selecting fallbacks that change their IP addresses too
13553 often. Select more fallbacks by ignoring the Guard flag, and
13554 allowing lower cutoffs for the Running and V2Dir flags. Also allow
13555 a lower bandwidth, and a higher number of fallbacks per operator
13556 (5% of the list). Implements ticket 24785.
13557 - Update the fallback whitelist and blacklist based on opt-ins and
13558 relay changes. Closes tickets 22321, 24678, 22527, 24135,
13561 o Minor features (fallback directory mirror configuration):
13562 - Add a nickname to each fallback in a C comment. This makes it
13563 easier for operators to find their relays, and allows stem to use
13564 nicknames to identify fallbacks. Implements ticket 24600.
13565 - Add a type and version header to the fallback directory mirror
13566 file. Also add a delimiter to the end of each fallback entry. This
13567 helps external parsers like stem and Relay Search. Implements
13569 - Add an extrainfo cache flag for each fallback in a C comment. This
13570 allows stem to use fallbacks to fetch extra-info documents, rather
13571 than using authorities. Implements ticket 22759.
13572 - Add the generateFallbackDirLine.py script for automatically
13573 generating fallback directory mirror lines from relay fingerprints.
13574 No more typos! Add the lookupFallbackDirContact.py script for
13575 automatically looking up operator contact info from relay
13576 fingerprints. Implements ticket 24706, patch by teor and atagar.
13577 - Reject any fallback directory mirror that serves an expired
13578 consensus. Implements ticket 20942, patch by "minik".
13579 - Remove commas and equals signs from external string inputs to the
13580 fallback list. This avoids format confusion attacks. Implements
13582 - Remove the "weight=10" line from fallback directory mirror
13583 entries. Ticket 24681 will maintain the current fallback weights
13584 by changing Tor's default fallback weight to 10. Implements
13586 - Stop logging excessive information about fallback netblocks.
13587 Implements ticket 24791.
13589 o Minor features (forward-compatibility):
13590 - If a relay supports some link authentication protocol that we do
13591 not recognize, then include that relay's ed25519 key when telling
13592 other relays to extend to it. Previously, we treated future
13593 versions as if they were too old to support ed25519 link
13594 authentication. Closes ticket 20895.
13596 o Minor features (heartbeat):
13597 - Add onion service information to our heartbeat logs, displaying
13598 stats about the activity of configured onion services. Closes
13601 o Minor features (instrumentation, development):
13602 - Add the MainloopStats option to allow developers to get
13603 instrumentation information from the main event loop via the
13604 heartbeat messages. We hope to use this to improve Tor's behavior
13605 when it's trying to sleep. Closes ticket 24605.
13607 o Minor features (log messages):
13608 - Improve a warning message that happens when we fail to re-parse an
13609 old router because of an expired certificate. Closes ticket 20020.
13610 - Make the log more quantitative when we hit MaxMemInQueues
13611 threshold exposing some values. Closes ticket 24501.
13613 o Minor features (logging, android):
13614 - Added support for the Android logging subsystem. Closes
13617 o Minor features (performance):
13618 - Support predictive circuit building for onion service circuits
13619 with multiple layers of guards. Closes ticket 23101.
13620 - Use stdatomic.h where available, rather than mutexes, to implement
13621 atomic_counter_t. Closes ticket 23953.
13623 o Minor features (performance, 32-bit):
13624 - Improve performance on 32-bit systems by avoiding 64-bit division
13625 when calculating the timestamp in milliseconds for channel padding
13626 computations. Implements ticket 24613.
13627 - Improve performance on 32-bit systems by avoiding 64-bit division
13628 when timestamping cells and buffer chunks for OOM calculations.
13629 Implements ticket 24374.
13631 o Minor features (performance, OSX, iOS):
13632 - Use the mach_approximate_time() function (when available) to
13633 implement coarse monotonic time. Having a coarse time function
13634 should avoid a large number of system calls, and improve
13635 performance slightly, especially under load. Closes ticket 24427.
13637 o Minor features (performance, windows):
13638 - Improve performance on Windows Vista and Windows 7 by adjusting
13639 TCP send window size according to the recommendation from
13640 SIO_IDEAL_SEND_BACKLOG_QUERY. Closes ticket 22798. Patch
13643 o Major features (relay):
13644 - Implement an option, ReducedExitPolicy, to allow an Tor exit relay
13645 operator to use a more reasonable ("reduced") exit policy, rather
13646 than the default one. If you want to run an exit node without
13647 thinking too hard about which ports to allow, this one is for you.
13648 Closes ticket 13605. Patch from Neel Chauhan.
13650 o Minor features (testing, debugging, embedding):
13651 - For development purposes, Tor now has a mode in which it runs for
13652 a few seconds, then stops, and starts again without exiting the
13653 process. This mode is meant to help us debug various issues with
13654 ticket 23847. To use this feature, compile with
13655 --enable-restart-debugging, and set the TOR_DEBUG_RESTART
13656 environment variable. This is expected to crash a lot, and is
13657 really meant for developers only. It will likely be removed in a
13658 future release. Implements ticket 24583.
13660 o Minor bugfix (network IPv6 test):
13661 - Tor's test scripts now check if "ping -6 ::1" works when the user
13662 runs "make test-network-all". Fixes bug 24677; bugfix on
13663 0.2.9.3-alpha. Patch by "ffmancera".
13665 o Minor bugfixes (build, rust):
13666 - Fix output of autoconf checks to display success messages for Rust
13667 dependencies and a suitable rustc compiler version. Fixes bug
13668 24612; bugfix on 0.3.1.3-alpha.
13669 - When building with Rust on OSX, link against libresolv, to work
13670 around the issue at https://github.com/rust-lang/rust/issues/46797.
13671 Fixes bug 24652; bugfix on 0.3.1.1-alpha.
13672 - Don't pass the --quiet option to cargo: it seems to suppress some
13673 errors, which is not what we want to do when building. Fixes bug
13674 24518; bugfix on 0.3.1.7.
13675 - Build correctly when building from outside Tor's source tree with
13676 the TOR_RUST_DEPENDENCIES option set. Fixes bug 22768; bugfix
13679 o Minor bugfixes (directory authorities, IPv6):
13680 - When creating a routerstatus (vote) from a routerinfo (descriptor),
13681 set the IPv6 address to the unspecified IPv6 address, and
13682 explicitly initialize the port to zero. Fixes bug 24488; bugfix
13685 o Minor bugfixes (fallback directory mirrors):
13686 - Make updateFallbackDirs.py search harder for python. (Some OSs
13687 don't put it in /usr/bin.) Fixes bug 24708; bugfix
13690 o Minor bugfixes (hibernation, bandwidth accounting, shutdown):
13691 - When hibernating, close connections normally and allow them to
13692 flush. Fixes bug 23571; bugfix on 0.2.4.7-alpha. Also fixes
13694 - Do not attempt to launch self-reachability tests when entering
13695 hibernation. Fixes a case of bug 12062; bugfix on 0.0.9pre5.
13696 - Resolve several bugs related to descriptor fetching on bridge
13697 clients with bandwidth accounting enabled. (This combination is
13698 not recommended!) Fixes a case of bug 12062; bugfix
13700 - When hibernating, do not attempt to launch DNS checks. Fixes a
13701 case of bug 12062; bugfix on 0.1.2.2-alpha.
13702 - When hibernating, do not try to upload or download descriptors.
13703 Fixes a case of bug 12062; bugfix on 0.0.9pre5.
13705 o Minor bugfixes (IPv6, bridges):
13706 - Tor now always sets IPv6 preferences for bridges. Fixes bug 24573;
13707 bugfix on 0.2.8.2-alpha.
13708 - Tor now sets IPv6 address in the routerstatus as well as in the
13709 router descriptors when updating addresses for a bridge. Closes
13710 ticket 24572; bugfix on 0.2.4.5-alpha. Patch by "ffmancera".
13712 o Minor bugfixes (linux seccomp2 sandbox):
13713 - When running with the sandbox enabled, reload configuration files
13714 correctly even when %include was used. Previously we would crash.
13715 Fixes bug 22605; bugfix on 0.3.1. Patch from Daniel Pinto.
13717 o Minor bugfixes (memory leaks):
13718 - Avoid possible at-exit memory leaks related to use of Libevent's
13719 event_base_once() function. (This function tends to leak memory if
13720 the event_base is closed before the event fires.) Fixes bug 24584;
13721 bugfix on 0.2.8.1-alpha.
13722 - Fix a harmless memory leak in tor-resolve. Fixes bug 24582; bugfix
13725 o Minor bugfixes (OSX):
13726 - Don't exit the Tor process if setrlimit() fails to change the file
13727 limit (which can happen sometimes on some versions of OSX). Fixes
13728 bug 21074; bugfix on 0.0.9pre5.
13730 o Minor bugfixes (performance, fragile-hardening):
13731 - Improve the performance of our consensus-diff application code
13732 when Tor is built with the --enable-fragile-hardening option set.
13733 Fixes bug 24826; bugfix on 0.3.1.1-alpha.
13735 o Minor bugfixes (performance, timeouts):
13736 - Consider circuits for timeout as soon as they complete a hop. This
13737 is more accurate than applying the timeout in
13738 circuit_expire_building() because that function is only called
13739 once per second, which is now too slow for typical timeouts on the
13740 current network. Fixes bug 23114; bugfix on 0.2.2.2-alpha.
13741 - Use onion service circuits (and other circuits longer than 3 hops)
13742 to calculate a circuit build timeout. Previously, Tor only
13743 calculated its build timeout based on circuits that planned to be
13744 exactly 3 hops long. With this change, we include measurements
13745 from all circuits at the point where they complete their third
13746 hop. Fixes bug 23100; bugfix on 0.2.2.2-alpha.
13748 o Minor bugfixes (testing):
13749 - Give out Exit flags in bootstrapping networks. Fixes bug 24137;
13750 bugfix on 0.2.3.1-alpha.
13751 - Fix a memory leak in the scheduler/loop_kist unit test. Fixes bug
13752 25005; bugfix on 0.3.2.7-rc.
13754 o Code simplification and refactoring:
13755 - Remove /usr/athena from search path in configure.ac. Closes
13757 - Remove duplicate code in node_has_curve25519_onion_key() and
13758 node_get_curve25519_onion_key(), and add a check for a zero
13759 microdesc curve25519 onion key. Closes ticket 23966, patch by
13760 "aruna1234" and teor.
13761 - Rewrite channel_rsa_id_group_set_badness to reduce temporary
13762 memory allocations with large numbers of OR connections (e.g.
13763 relays). Closes ticket 24119.
13764 - Separate the function that deletes ephemeral files when Tor
13766 - Small changes to Tor's buf_t API to make it suitable for use as a
13767 general-purpose safe string constructor. Closes ticket 22342.
13768 - Switch -Wnormalized=id to -Wnormalized=nfkc in configure.ac to
13769 avoid source code identifier confusion. Closes ticket 24467.
13770 - The tor_git_revision[] constant no longer needs to be redeclared
13771 by everything that links against the rest of Tor. Done as part of
13772 ticket 23845, to simplify our external API.
13773 - We make extend_info_from_node() use node_get_curve25519_onion_key()
13774 introduced in ticket 23577 to access the curve25519 public keys
13775 rather than accessing it directly. Closes ticket 23760. Patch by
13777 - Add a function to log channels' scheduler state changes to aid
13778 debugging efforts. Closes ticket 24531.
13781 - Add documentation on how to build tor with Rust dependencies
13782 without having to be online. Closes ticket 22907; bugfix
13784 - Clarify the behavior of RelayBandwidth{Rate,Burst} with client
13785 traffic. Closes ticket 24318.
13786 - Document that OutboundBindAddress doesn't apply to DNS requests.
13787 Closes ticket 22145. Patch from Aruna Maurya.
13788 - Document that operators who run more than one relay or bridge are
13789 expected to set MyFamily and ContactInfo correctly. Closes
13792 o Code simplification and refactoring (channels):
13793 - Remove the incoming and outgoing channel queues. These were never
13794 used, but still took up a step in our fast path.
13795 - The majority of the channel unit tests have been rewritten and the
13796 code coverage has now been raised to 83.6% for channel.c. Closes
13798 - Remove other dead code from the channel subsystem: All together,
13799 this cleanup has removed more than 1500 lines of code overall and
13800 adding very little except for unit test.
13802 o Code simplification and refactoring (circuit rendezvous):
13803 - Split the client-side rendezvous circuit lookup into two
13804 functions: one that returns only established circuits and another
13805 that returns all kinds of circuits. Closes ticket 23459.
13807 o Code simplification and refactoring (controller):
13808 - Make most of the variables in networkstatus_getinfo_by_purpose()
13809 const. Implements ticket 24489.
13812 Changes in version 0.3.2.9 - 2018-01-09
13813 Tor 0.3.2.9 is the first stable release in the 0.3.2 series.
13815 The 0.3.2 series includes our long-anticipated new onion service
13816 design, with numerous security features. (For more information, see
13817 our blog post at https://blog.torproject.org/fall-harvest.) We also
13818 have a new circuit scheduler algorithm for improved performance on
13819 relays everywhere (see https://blog.torproject.org/kist-and-tell),
13820 along with many smaller features and bugfixes.
13822 Per our stable release policy, we plan to support each stable release
13823 series for at least the next nine months, or for three months after
13824 the first stable release of the next series: whichever is longer. If
13825 you need a release with long-term support, we recommend that you stay
13826 with the 0.2.9 series.
13828 Below is a list of the changes since 0.3.2.8-rc. For a list of all
13829 changes since 0.3.1, see the ReleaseNotes file.
13831 o Minor features (fallback directory mirrors):
13832 - The fallback directory list has been re-generated based on the
13833 current status of the network. Tor uses fallback directories to
13834 bootstrap when it doesn't yet have up-to-date directory
13835 information. Closes ticket 24801.
13836 - Make the default DirAuthorityFallbackRate 0.1, so that clients
13837 prefer to bootstrap from fallback directory mirrors. This is a
13838 follow-up to 24679, which removed weights from the default
13839 fallbacks. Implements ticket 24681.
13841 o Minor features (geoip):
13842 - Update geoip and geoip6 to the January 5 2018 Maxmind GeoLite2
13845 o Minor bugfixes (address selection):
13846 - When the fascist_firewall_choose_address_ functions don't find a
13847 reachable address, set the returned address to the null address
13848 and port. This is a precautionary measure, because some callers do
13849 not check the return value. Fixes bug 24736; bugfix
13852 o Minor bugfixes (compilation):
13853 - Resolve a few shadowed-variable warnings in the onion service
13854 code. Fixes bug 24634; bugfix on 0.3.2.1-alpha.
13856 o Minor bugfixes (portability, msvc):
13857 - Fix a bug in the bit-counting parts of our timing-wheel code on
13858 MSVC. (Note that MSVC is still not a supported build platform, due
13859 to cryptographic timing channel risks.) Fixes bug 24633; bugfix
13863 Changes in version 0.3.2.8-rc - 2017-12-21
13864 Tor 0.3.2.8-rc fixes a pair of bugs in the KIST and KISTLite
13865 schedulers that had led servers under heavy load to overload their
13866 outgoing connections. All relay operators running earlier 0.3.2.x
13867 versions should upgrade. This version also includes a mitigation for
13868 over-full DESTROY queues leading to out-of-memory conditions: if it
13869 works, we will soon backport it to earlier release series.
13871 This is the second release candidate in the 0.3.2 series. If we find
13872 no new bugs or regression here, then the first stable 0.3.2 release
13873 will be nearly identical to this.
13875 o Major bugfixes (KIST, scheduler):
13876 - The KIST scheduler did not correctly account for data already
13877 enqueued in each connection's send socket buffer, particularly in
13878 cases when the TCP/IP congestion window was reduced between
13879 scheduler calls. This situation lead to excessive per-connection
13880 buffering in the kernel, and a potential memory DoS. Fixes bug
13881 24665; bugfix on 0.3.2.1-alpha.
13883 o Minor features (geoip):
13884 - Update geoip and geoip6 to the December 6 2017 Maxmind GeoLite2
13887 o Minor bugfixes (hidden service v3):
13888 - Bump hsdir_spread_store parameter from 3 to 4 in order to increase
13889 the probability of reaching a service for a client missing
13890 microdescriptors. Fixes bug 24425; bugfix on 0.3.2.1-alpha.
13892 o Minor bugfixes (memory usage):
13893 - When queuing DESTROY cells on a channel, only queue the circuit-id
13894 and reason fields: not the entire 514-byte cell. This fix should
13895 help mitigate any bugs or attacks that fill up these queues, and
13896 free more RAM for other uses. Fixes bug 24666; bugfix
13899 o Minor bugfixes (scheduler, KIST):
13900 - Use a sane write limit for KISTLite when writing onto a connection
13901 buffer instead of using INT_MAX and shoving as much as it can.
13902 Because the OOM handler cleans up circuit queues, we are better
13903 off at keeping them in that queue instead of the connection's
13904 buffer. Fixes bug 24671; bugfix on 0.3.2.1-alpha.
13907 Changes in version 0.3.2.7-rc - 2017-12-14
13908 Tor 0.3.2.7-rc fixes various bugs in earlier versions of Tor,
13909 including some that could affect reliability or correctness.
13911 This is the first release candidate in the 0.3.2 series. If we find no
13912 new bugs or regression here, then the first stable 0.3.2. release will
13913 be nearly identical to this.
13915 o Major bugfixes (circuit prediction):
13916 - Fix circuit prediction logic so that a client doesn't treat a port
13917 as being "handled" by a circuit if that circuit already has
13918 isolation settings on it. This change should make Tor clients more
13919 responsive by improving their chances of having a pre-created
13920 circuit ready for use when a request arrives. Fixes bug 18859;
13921 bugfix on 0.2.3.3-alpha.
13923 o Minor features (logging):
13924 - Provide better warnings when the getrandom() syscall fails. Closes
13927 o Minor features (portability):
13928 - Tor now compiles correctly on arm64 with libseccomp-dev installed.
13929 (It doesn't yet work with the sandbox enabled.) Closes
13932 o Minor bugfixes (bridge clients, bootstrap):
13933 - Retry directory downloads when we get our first bridge descriptor
13934 during bootstrap or while reconnecting to the network. Keep
13935 retrying every time we get a bridge descriptor, until we have a
13936 reachable bridge. Fixes part of bug 24367; bugfix on 0.2.0.3-alpha.
13937 - Stop delaying bridge descriptor fetches when we have cached bridge
13938 descriptors. Instead, only delay bridge descriptor fetches when we
13939 have at least one reachable bridge. Fixes part of bug 24367;
13940 bugfix on 0.2.0.3-alpha.
13941 - Stop delaying directory fetches when we have cached bridge
13942 descriptors. Instead, only delay bridge descriptor fetches when
13943 all our bridges are definitely unreachable. Fixes part of bug
13944 24367; bugfix on 0.2.0.3-alpha.
13946 o Minor bugfixes (compilation):
13947 - Fix a signed/unsigned comparison warning introduced by our fix to
13948 TROVE-2017-009. Fixes bug 24480; bugfix on 0.2.5.16.
13950 o Minor bugfixes (correctness):
13951 - Fix several places in our codebase where a C compiler would be
13952 likely to eliminate a check, based on assuming that undefined
13953 behavior had not happened elsewhere in the code. These cases are
13954 usually a sign of redundant checking or dubious arithmetic. Found
13955 by Georg Koppen using the "STACK" tool from Wang, Zeldovich,
13956 Kaashoek, and Solar-Lezama. Fixes bug 24423; bugfix on various
13959 o Minor bugfixes (onion service v3):
13960 - Fix a race where an onion service would launch a new intro circuit
13961 after closing an old one, but fail to register it before freeing
13962 the previously closed circuit. This bug was making the service
13963 unable to find the established intro circuit and thus not upload
13964 its descriptor, thus making a service unavailable for up to 24
13965 hours. Fixes bug 23603; bugfix on 0.3.2.1-alpha.
13967 o Minor bugfixes (scheduler, KIST):
13968 - Properly set the scheduler state of an unopened channel in the
13969 KIST scheduler main loop. This prevents a harmless but annoying
13970 log warning. Fixes bug 24502; bugfix on 0.3.2.4-alpha.
13971 - Avoid a possible integer overflow when computing the available
13972 space on the TCP buffer of a channel. This had no security
13973 implications; but could make KIST allow too many cells on a
13974 saturated connection. Fixes bug 24590; bugfix on 0.3.2.1-alpha.
13975 - Downgrade to "info" a harmless warning about the monotonic time
13976 moving backwards: This can happen on platform not supporting
13977 monotonic time. Fixes bug 23696; bugfix on 0.3.2.1-alpha.
13980 Changes in version 0.3.2.6-alpha - 2017-12-01
13981 This version of Tor is the latest in the 0.3.2 alpha series. It
13982 includes fixes for several important security issues. All Tor users
13983 should upgrade to this release, or to one of the other releases coming
13986 o Major bugfixes (security):
13987 - Fix a denial of service bug where an attacker could use a
13988 malformed directory object to cause a Tor instance to pause while
13989 OpenSSL would try to read a passphrase from the terminal. (Tor
13990 instances run without a terminal, which is the case for most Tor
13991 packages, are not impacted.) Fixes bug 24246; bugfix on every
13992 version of Tor. Also tracked as TROVE-2017-011 and CVE-2017-8821.
13993 Found by OSS-Fuzz as testcase 6360145429790720.
13994 - Fix a denial of service issue where an attacker could crash a
13995 directory authority using a malformed router descriptor. Fixes bug
13996 24245; bugfix on 0.2.9.4-alpha. Also tracked as TROVE-2017-010
13998 - When checking for replays in the INTRODUCE1 cell data for a
13999 (legacy) onion service, correctly detect replays in the RSA-
14000 encrypted part of the cell. We were previously checking for
14001 replays on the entire cell, but those can be circumvented due to
14002 the malleability of Tor's legacy hybrid encryption. This fix helps
14003 prevent a traffic confirmation attack. Fixes bug 24244; bugfix on
14004 0.2.4.1-alpha. This issue is also tracked as TROVE-2017-009
14007 o Major bugfixes (security, onion service v2):
14008 - Fix a use-after-free error that could crash v2 Tor onion services
14009 when they failed to open circuits while expiring introduction
14010 points. Fixes bug 24313; bugfix on 0.2.7.2-alpha. This issue is
14011 also tracked as TROVE-2017-013 and CVE-2017-8823.
14013 o Major bugfixes (security, relay):
14014 - When running as a relay, make sure that we never build a path
14015 through ourselves, even in the case where we have somehow lost the
14016 version of our descriptor appearing in the consensus. Fixes part
14017 of bug 21534; bugfix on 0.2.0.1-alpha. This issue is also tracked
14018 as TROVE-2017-012 and CVE-2017-8822.
14019 - When running as a relay, make sure that we never choose ourselves
14020 as a guard. Fixes part of bug 21534; bugfix on 0.3.0.1-alpha. This
14021 issue is also tracked as TROVE-2017-012 and CVE-2017-8822.
14023 o Minor feature (relay statistics):
14024 - Change relay bandwidth reporting stats interval from 4 hours to 24
14025 hours in order to reduce the efficiency of guard discovery
14026 attacks. Fixes ticket 23856.
14028 o Minor features (directory authority):
14029 - Add an IPv6 address for the "bastet" directory authority. Closes
14032 o Minor bugfixes (client):
14033 - By default, do not enable storage of client-side DNS values. These
14034 values were unused by default previously, but they should not have
14035 been cached at all. Fixes bug 24050; bugfix on 0.2.6.3-alpha.
14038 Changes in version 0.3.1.9 - 2017-12-01:
14039 Tor 0.3.1.9 backports important security and stability fixes from the
14040 0.3.2 development series. All Tor users should upgrade to this
14041 release, or to another of the releases coming out today.
14043 o Major bugfixes (security, backport from 0.3.2.6-alpha):
14044 - Fix a denial of service bug where an attacker could use a
14045 malformed directory object to cause a Tor instance to pause while
14046 OpenSSL would try to read a passphrase from the terminal. (Tor
14047 instances run without a terminal, which is the case for most Tor
14048 packages, are not impacted.) Fixes bug 24246; bugfix on every
14049 version of Tor. Also tracked as TROVE-2017-011 and CVE-2017-8821.
14050 Found by OSS-Fuzz as testcase 6360145429790720.
14051 - Fix a denial of service issue where an attacker could crash a
14052 directory authority using a malformed router descriptor. Fixes bug
14053 24245; bugfix on 0.2.9.4-alpha. Also tracked as TROVE-2017-010
14055 - When checking for replays in the INTRODUCE1 cell data for a
14056 (legacy) onion service, correctly detect replays in the RSA-
14057 encrypted part of the cell. We were previously checking for
14058 replays on the entire cell, but those can be circumvented due to
14059 the malleability of Tor's legacy hybrid encryption. This fix helps
14060 prevent a traffic confirmation attack. Fixes bug 24244; bugfix on
14061 0.2.4.1-alpha. This issue is also tracked as TROVE-2017-009
14064 o Major bugfixes (security, onion service v2, backport from 0.3.2.6-alpha):
14065 - Fix a use-after-free error that could crash v2 Tor onion services
14066 when they failed to open circuits while expiring introduction
14067 points. Fixes bug 24313; bugfix on 0.2.7.2-alpha. This issue is
14068 also tracked as TROVE-2017-013 and CVE-2017-8823.
14070 o Major bugfixes (security, relay, backport from 0.3.2.6-alpha):
14071 - When running as a relay, make sure that we never build a path
14072 through ourselves, even in the case where we have somehow lost the
14073 version of our descriptor appearing in the consensus. Fixes part
14074 of bug 21534; bugfix on 0.2.0.1-alpha. This issue is also tracked
14075 as TROVE-2017-012 and CVE-2017-8822.
14076 - When running as a relay, make sure that we never choose ourselves
14077 as a guard. Fixes part of bug 21534; bugfix on 0.3.0.1-alpha. This
14078 issue is also tracked as TROVE-2017-012 and CVE-2017-8822.
14080 o Major bugfixes (exit relays, DNS, backport from 0.3.2.4-alpha):
14081 - Fix an issue causing DNS to fail on high-bandwidth exit nodes,
14082 making them nearly unusable. Fixes bugs 21394 and 18580; bugfix on
14083 0.1.2.2-alpha, which introduced eventdns. Thanks to Dhalgren for
14084 identifying and finding a workaround to this bug and to Moritz,
14085 Arthur Edelstein, and Roger for helping to track it down and
14088 o Minor features (bridge):
14089 - Bridges now include notice in their descriptors that they are
14090 bridges, and notice of their distribution status, based on their
14091 publication settings. Implements ticket 18329. For more fine-
14092 grained control of how a bridge is distributed, upgrade to 0.3.2.x
14095 o Minor features (directory authority, backport from 0.3.2.6-alpha):
14096 - Add an IPv6 address for the "bastet" directory authority. Closes
14099 o Minor features (geoip):
14100 - Update geoip and geoip6 to the November 6 2017 Maxmind GeoLite2
14103 o Minor bugfix (relay address resolution, backport from 0.3.2.1-alpha):
14104 - Avoid unnecessary calls to directory_fetches_from_authorities() on
14105 relays, to prevent spurious address resolutions and descriptor
14106 rebuilds. This is a mitigation for bug 21789. Fixes bug 23470;
14107 bugfix on in 0.2.8.1-alpha.
14109 o Minor bugfixes (compilation, backport from 0.3.2.1-alpha):
14110 - Fix unused variable warnings in donna's Curve25519 SSE2 code.
14111 Fixes bug 22895; bugfix on 0.2.7.2-alpha.
14113 o Minor bugfixes (logging, relay shutdown, annoyance, backport from 0.3.2.2-alpha):
14114 - When a circuit is marked for close, do not attempt to package any
14115 cells for channels on that circuit. Previously, we would detect
14116 this condition lower in the call stack, when we noticed that the
14117 circuit had no attached channel, and log an annoying message.
14118 Fixes bug 8185; bugfix on 0.2.5.4-alpha.
14120 o Minor bugfixes (onion service, backport from 0.3.2.5-alpha):
14121 - Rename the consensus parameter "hsdir-interval" to "hsdir_interval"
14122 so it matches dir-spec.txt. Fixes bug 24262; bugfix
14125 o Minor bugfixes (relay, crash, backport from 0.3.2.4-alpha):
14126 - Avoid a crash when transitioning from client mode to bridge mode.
14127 Previously, we would launch the worker threads whenever our
14128 "public server" mode changed, but not when our "server" mode
14129 changed. Fixes bug 23693; bugfix on 0.2.6.3-alpha.
14132 Changes in version 0.3.0.13 - 2017-12-01
14133 Tor 0.3.0.13 backports important security and stability bugfixes from
14134 later Tor releases. All Tor users should upgrade to this release, or
14135 to another of the releases coming out today.
14137 Note: the Tor 0.3.0 series will no longer be supported after 26 Jan
14138 2018. If you need a release with long-term support, please stick with
14139 the 0.2.9 series. Otherwise, please upgrade to 0.3.1 or later.
14141 o Major bugfixes (security, backport from 0.3.2.6-alpha):
14142 - Fix a denial of service bug where an attacker could use a
14143 malformed directory object to cause a Tor instance to pause while
14144 OpenSSL would try to read a passphrase from the terminal. (Tor
14145 instances run without a terminal, which is the case for most Tor
14146 packages, are not impacted.) Fixes bug 24246; bugfix on every
14147 version of Tor. Also tracked as TROVE-2017-011 and CVE-2017-8821.
14148 Found by OSS-Fuzz as testcase 6360145429790720.
14149 - Fix a denial of service issue where an attacker could crash a
14150 directory authority using a malformed router descriptor. Fixes bug
14151 24245; bugfix on 0.2.9.4-alpha. Also tracked as TROVE-2017-010
14153 - When checking for replays in the INTRODUCE1 cell data for a
14154 (legacy) onion service, correctly detect replays in the RSA-
14155 encrypted part of the cell. We were previously checking for
14156 replays on the entire cell, but those can be circumvented due to
14157 the malleability of Tor's legacy hybrid encryption. This fix helps
14158 prevent a traffic confirmation attack. Fixes bug 24244; bugfix on
14159 0.2.4.1-alpha. This issue is also tracked as TROVE-2017-009
14162 o Major bugfixes (security, onion service v2, backport from 0.3.2.6-alpha):
14163 - Fix a use-after-free error that could crash v2 Tor onion services
14164 when they failed to open circuits while expiring introduction
14165 points. Fixes bug 24313; bugfix on 0.2.7.2-alpha. This issue is
14166 also tracked as TROVE-2017-013 and CVE-2017-8823.
14168 o Major bugfixes (security, relay, backport from 0.3.2.6-alpha):
14169 - When running as a relay, make sure that we never build a path
14170 through ourselves, even in the case where we have somehow lost the
14171 version of our descriptor appearing in the consensus. Fixes part
14172 of bug 21534; bugfix on 0.2.0.1-alpha. This issue is also tracked
14173 as TROVE-2017-012 and CVE-2017-8822.
14174 - When running as a relay, make sure that we never choose ourselves
14175 as a guard. Fixes part of bug 21534; bugfix on 0.3.0.1-alpha. This
14176 issue is also tracked as TROVE-2017-012 and CVE-2017-8822.
14178 o Major bugfixes (exit relays, DNS, backport from 0.3.2.4-alpha):
14179 - Fix an issue causing DNS to fail on high-bandwidth exit nodes,
14180 making them nearly unusable. Fixes bugs 21394 and 18580; bugfix on
14181 0.1.2.2-alpha, which introduced eventdns. Thanks to Dhalgren for
14182 identifying and finding a workaround to this bug and to Moritz,
14183 Arthur Edelstein, and Roger for helping to track it down and
14186 o Minor features (security, windows, backport from 0.3.1.1-alpha):
14187 - Enable a couple of pieces of Windows hardening: one
14188 (HeapEnableTerminationOnCorruption) that has been on-by-default
14189 since Windows 8, and unavailable before Windows 7; and one
14190 (PROCESS_DEP_DISABLE_ATL_THUNK_EMULATION) which we believe doesn't
14191 affect us, but shouldn't do any harm. Closes ticket 21953.
14193 o Minor features (bridge, backport from 0.3.1.9):
14194 - Bridges now include notice in their descriptors that they are
14195 bridges, and notice of their distribution status, based on their
14196 publication settings. Implements ticket 18329. For more fine-
14197 grained control of how a bridge is distributed, upgrade to 0.3.2.x
14200 o Minor features (directory authority, backport from 0.3.2.6-alpha):
14201 - Add an IPv6 address for the "bastet" directory authority. Closes
14204 o Minor features (geoip):
14205 - Update geoip and geoip6 to the November 6 2017 Maxmind GeoLite2
14208 o Minor bugfix (relay address resolution, backport from 0.3.2.1-alpha):
14209 - Avoid unnecessary calls to directory_fetches_from_authorities() on
14210 relays, to prevent spurious address resolutions and descriptor
14211 rebuilds. This is a mitigation for bug 21789. Fixes bug 23470;
14212 bugfix on in 0.2.8.1-alpha.
14214 o Minor bugfixes (compilation, backport from 0.3.2.1-alpha):
14215 - Fix unused variable warnings in donna's Curve25519 SSE2 code.
14216 Fixes bug 22895; bugfix on 0.2.7.2-alpha.
14218 o Minor bugfixes (logging, relay shutdown, annoyance, backport from 0.3.2.2-alpha):
14219 - When a circuit is marked for close, do not attempt to package any
14220 cells for channels on that circuit. Previously, we would detect
14221 this condition lower in the call stack, when we noticed that the
14222 circuit had no attached channel, and log an annoying message.
14223 Fixes bug 8185; bugfix on 0.2.5.4-alpha.
14225 o Minor bugfixes (relay, crash, backport from 0.3.2.4-alpha):
14226 - Avoid a crash when transitioning from client mode to bridge mode.
14227 Previously, we would launch the worker threads whenever our
14228 "public server" mode changed, but not when our "server" mode
14229 changed. Fixes bug 23693; bugfix on 0.2.6.3-alpha.
14231 o Minor bugfixes (testing, backport from 0.3.1.6-rc):
14232 - Fix an undersized buffer in test-memwipe.c. Fixes bug 23291;
14233 bugfix on 0.2.7.2-alpha. Found and patched by Ties Stuij.
14236 Changes in version 0.2.9.14 - 2017-12-01
14237 Tor 0.3.0.13 backports important security and stability bugfixes from
14238 later Tor releases. All Tor users should upgrade to this release, or
14239 to another of the releases coming out today.
14241 o Major bugfixes (exit relays, DNS, backport from 0.3.2.4-alpha):
14242 - Fix an issue causing DNS to fail on high-bandwidth exit nodes,
14243 making them nearly unusable. Fixes bugs 21394 and 18580; bugfix on
14244 0.1.2.2-alpha, which introduced eventdns. Thanks to Dhalgren for
14245 identifying and finding a workaround to this bug and to Moritz,
14246 Arthur Edelstein, and Roger for helping to track it down and
14249 o Major bugfixes (security, backport from 0.3.2.6-alpha):
14250 - Fix a denial of service bug where an attacker could use a
14251 malformed directory object to cause a Tor instance to pause while
14252 OpenSSL would try to read a passphrase from the terminal. (Tor
14253 instances run without a terminal, which is the case for most Tor
14254 packages, are not impacted.) Fixes bug 24246; bugfix on every
14255 version of Tor. Also tracked as TROVE-2017-011 and CVE-2017-8821.
14256 Found by OSS-Fuzz as testcase 6360145429790720.
14257 - Fix a denial of service issue where an attacker could crash a
14258 directory authority using a malformed router descriptor. Fixes bug
14259 24245; bugfix on 0.2.9.4-alpha. Also tracked as TROVE-2017-010
14261 - When checking for replays in the INTRODUCE1 cell data for a
14262 (legacy) onion service, correctly detect replays in the RSA-
14263 encrypted part of the cell. We were previously checking for
14264 replays on the entire cell, but those can be circumvented due to
14265 the malleability of Tor's legacy hybrid encryption. This fix helps
14266 prevent a traffic confirmation attack. Fixes bug 24244; bugfix on
14267 0.2.4.1-alpha. This issue is also tracked as TROVE-2017-009
14270 o Major bugfixes (security, onion service v2, backport from 0.3.2.6-alpha):
14271 - Fix a use-after-free error that could crash v2 Tor onion services
14272 when they failed to open circuits while expiring introduction
14273 points. Fixes bug 24313; bugfix on 0.2.7.2-alpha. This issue is
14274 also tracked as TROVE-2017-013 and CVE-2017-8823.
14276 o Major bugfixes (security, relay, backport from 0.3.2.6-alpha):
14277 - When running as a relay, make sure that we never build a path
14278 through ourselves, even in the case where we have somehow lost the
14279 version of our descriptor appearing in the consensus. Fixes part
14280 of bug 21534; bugfix on 0.2.0.1-alpha. This issue is also tracked
14281 as TROVE-2017-012 and CVE-2017-8822.
14283 o Minor features (bridge, backport from 0.3.1.9):
14284 - Bridges now include notice in their descriptors that they are
14285 bridges, and notice of their distribution status, based on their
14286 publication settings. Implements ticket 18329. For more fine-
14287 grained control of how a bridge is distributed, upgrade to 0.3.2.x
14290 o Minor features (directory authority, backport from 0.3.2.6-alpha):
14291 - Add an IPv6 address for the "bastet" directory authority. Closes
14294 o Minor features (geoip):
14295 - Update geoip and geoip6 to the November 6 2017 Maxmind GeoLite2
14298 o Minor features (security, windows, backport from 0.3.1.1-alpha):
14299 - Enable a couple of pieces of Windows hardening: one
14300 (HeapEnableTerminationOnCorruption) that has been on-by-default
14301 since Windows 8, and unavailable before Windows 7; and one
14302 (PROCESS_DEP_DISABLE_ATL_THUNK_EMULATION) which we believe doesn't
14303 affect us, but shouldn't do any harm. Closes ticket 21953.
14305 o Minor bugfix (relay address resolution, backport from 0.3.2.1-alpha):
14306 - Avoid unnecessary calls to directory_fetches_from_authorities() on
14307 relays, to prevent spurious address resolutions and descriptor
14308 rebuilds. This is a mitigation for bug 21789. Fixes bug 23470;
14309 bugfix on in 0.2.8.1-alpha.
14311 o Minor bugfixes (compilation, backport from 0.3.2.1-alpha):
14312 - Fix unused variable warnings in donna's Curve25519 SSE2 code.
14313 Fixes bug 22895; bugfix on 0.2.7.2-alpha.
14315 o Minor bugfixes (logging, relay shutdown, annoyance, backport from 0.3.2.2-alpha):
14316 - When a circuit is marked for close, do not attempt to package any
14317 cells for channels on that circuit. Previously, we would detect
14318 this condition lower in the call stack, when we noticed that the
14319 circuit had no attached channel, and log an annoying message.
14320 Fixes bug 8185; bugfix on 0.2.5.4-alpha.
14322 o Minor bugfixes (relay, crash, backport from 0.3.2.4-alpha):
14323 - Avoid a crash when transitioning from client mode to bridge mode.
14324 Previously, we would launch the worker threads whenever our
14325 "public server" mode changed, but not when our "server" mode
14326 changed. Fixes bug 23693; bugfix on 0.2.6.3-alpha.
14328 o Minor bugfixes (testing, backport from 0.3.1.6-rc):
14329 - Fix an undersized buffer in test-memwipe.c. Fixes bug 23291;
14330 bugfix on 0.2.7.2-alpha. Found and patched by Ties Stuij.
14333 Changes in version 0.2.8.17 - 2017-12-01
14334 Tor 0.2.8.17 backports important security and stability bugfixes from
14335 later Tor releases. All Tor users should upgrade to this release, or
14336 to another of the releases coming out today.
14338 Note: the Tor 0.2.8 series will no longer be supported after 1 Jan
14339 2018. If you need a release with long-term support, please upgrade with
14340 the 0.2.9 series. Otherwise, please upgrade to 0.3.1 or later.
14342 o Major bugfixes (security, backport from 0.3.2.6-alpha):
14343 - Fix a denial of service bug where an attacker could use a
14344 malformed directory object to cause a Tor instance to pause while
14345 OpenSSL would try to read a passphrase from the terminal. (Tor
14346 instances run without a terminal, which is the case for most Tor
14347 packages, are not impacted.) Fixes bug 24246; bugfix on every
14348 version of Tor. Also tracked as TROVE-2017-011 and CVE-2017-8821.
14349 Found by OSS-Fuzz as testcase 6360145429790720.
14350 - When checking for replays in the INTRODUCE1 cell data for a
14351 (legacy) onion service, correctly detect replays in the RSA-
14352 encrypted part of the cell. We were previously checking for
14353 replays on the entire cell, but those can be circumvented due to
14354 the malleability of Tor's legacy hybrid encryption. This fix helps
14355 prevent a traffic confirmation attack. Fixes bug 24244; bugfix on
14356 0.2.4.1-alpha. This issue is also tracked as TROVE-2017-009
14359 o Major bugfixes (security, onion service v2, backport from 0.3.2.6-alpha):
14360 - Fix a use-after-free error that could crash v2 Tor onion services
14361 when they failed to open circuits while expiring introduction
14362 points. Fixes bug 24313; bugfix on 0.2.7.2-alpha. This issue is
14363 also tracked as TROVE-2017-013 and CVE-2017-8823.
14365 o Major bugfixes (security, relay, backport from 0.3.2.6-alpha):
14366 - When running as a relay, make sure that we never build a path through
14367 ourselves, even in the case where we have somehow lost the version of
14368 our descriptor appearing in the consensus. Fixes part of bug 21534;
14369 bugfix on 0.2.0.1-alpha. This issue is also tracked as TROVE-2017-012
14372 o Minor features (bridge, backport from 0.3.1.9):
14373 - Bridges now include notice in their descriptors that they are
14374 bridges, and notice of their distribution status, based on their
14375 publication settings. Implements ticket 18329. For more fine-
14376 grained control of how a bridge is distributed, upgrade to 0.3.2.x
14379 o Minor features (directory authority, backport from 0.3.2.6-alpha):
14380 - Add an IPv6 address for the "bastet" directory authority. Closes
14383 o Minor features (geoip):
14384 - Update geoip and geoip6 to the November 6 2017 Maxmind GeoLite2
14387 o Minor bugfixes (testing, backport from 0.3.1.6-rc):
14388 - Fix an undersized buffer in test-memwipe.c. Fixes bug 23291;
14389 bugfix on 0.2.7.2-alpha. Found and patched by Ties Stuij.
14392 Changes in version 0.2.5.16 - 2017-12-01
14393 Tor 0.2.5.13 backports important security and stability bugfixes from
14394 later Tor releases. All Tor users should upgrade to this release, or
14395 to another of the releases coming out today.
14397 Note: the Tor 0.2.5 series will no longer be supported after 1 May
14398 2018. If you need a release with long-term support, please upgrade to
14399 the 0.2.9 series. Otherwise, please upgrade to 0.3.1 or later.
14401 o Major bugfixes (security, backport from 0.3.2.6-alpha):
14402 - Fix a denial of service bug where an attacker could use a
14403 malformed directory object to cause a Tor instance to pause while
14404 OpenSSL would try to read a passphrase from the terminal. (Tor
14405 instances run without a terminal, which is the case for most Tor
14406 packages, are not impacted.) Fixes bug 24246; bugfix on every
14407 version of Tor. Also tracked as TROVE-2017-011 and CVE-2017-8821.
14408 Found by OSS-Fuzz as testcase 6360145429790720.
14409 - When checking for replays in the INTRODUCE1 cell data for a
14410 (legacy) onion service, correctly detect replays in the RSA-
14411 encrypted part of the cell. We were previously checking for
14412 replays on the entire cell, but those can be circumvented due to
14413 the malleability of Tor's legacy hybrid encryption. This fix helps
14414 prevent a traffic confirmation attack. Fixes bug 24244; bugfix on
14415 0.2.4.1-alpha. This issue is also tracked as TROVE-2017-009
14418 o Major bugfixes (security, relay, backport from 0.3.2.6-alpha):
14419 - When running as a relay, make sure that we never build a path
14420 through ourselves, even in the case where we have somehow lost the
14421 version of our descriptor appearing in the consensus. Fixes part
14422 of bug 21534; bugfix on 0.2.0.1-alpha. This issue is also tracked
14423 as TROVE-2017-012 and CVE-2017-8822.
14425 o Minor features (bridge, backport from 0.3.1.9):
14426 - Bridges now include notice in their descriptors that they are
14427 bridges, and notice of their distribution status, based on their
14428 publication settings. Implements ticket 18329. For more fine-
14429 grained control of how a bridge is distributed, upgrade to 0.3.2.x
14432 o Minor features (geoip):
14433 - Update geoip and geoip6 to the November 6 2017 Maxmind GeoLite2
14437 Changes in version 0.3.2.5-alpha - 2017-11-22
14438 Tor 0.3.2.5-alpha is the fifth alpha release in the 0.3.2.x series. It
14439 fixes several stability and reliability bugs, including a fix for
14440 intermittent bootstrapping failures that some people have been seeing
14441 since the 0.3.0.x series.
14443 Please test this alpha out -- many of these fixes will soon be
14444 backported to stable Tor versions if no additional bugs are found
14447 o Major bugfixes (bootstrapping):
14448 - Fetch descriptors aggressively whenever we lack enough to build
14449 circuits, regardless of how many descriptors we are missing.
14450 Previously, we would delay launching the fetch when we had fewer
14451 than 15 missing descriptors, even if some of those descriptors
14452 were blocking circuits from building. Fixes bug 23985; bugfix on
14453 0.1.1.11-alpha. The effects of this bug became worse in
14454 0.3.0.3-alpha, when we began treating missing descriptors from our
14455 primary guards as a reason to delay circuits.
14456 - Don't try fetching microdescriptors from relays that have failed
14457 to deliver them in the past. Fixes bug 23817; bugfix
14460 o Minor features (directory authority):
14461 - Make the "Exit" flag assignment only depend on whether the exit
14462 policy allows connections to ports 80 and 443. Previously relays
14463 would get the Exit flag if they allowed connections to one of
14464 these ports and also port 6667. Resolves ticket 23637.
14466 o Minor features (geoip):
14467 - Update geoip and geoip6 to the November 6 2017 Maxmind GeoLite2
14470 o Minor features (linux seccomp2 sandbox):
14471 - Update the sandbox rules so that they should now work correctly
14472 with Glibc 2.26. Closes ticket 24315.
14474 o Minor features (logging):
14475 - Downgrade a pair of log messages that could occur when an exit's
14476 resolver gave us an unusual (but not forbidden) response. Closes
14478 - Improve the message we log when re-enabling circuit build timeouts
14479 after having received a consensus. Closes ticket 20963.
14481 o Minor bugfixes (compilation):
14482 - Fix a memory leak warning in one of the libevent-related
14483 configuration tests that could occur when manually specifying
14484 -fsanitize=address. Fixes bug 24279; bugfix on 0.3.0.2-alpha.
14485 Found and patched by Alex Xu.
14486 - When detecting OpenSSL on Windows from our configure script, make
14487 sure to try linking with the ws2_32 library. Fixes bug 23783;
14488 bugfix on 0.3.2.2-alpha.
14490 o Minor bugfixes (control port, linux seccomp2 sandbox):
14491 - Avoid a crash when attempting to use the seccomp2 sandbox together
14492 with the OwningControllerProcess feature. Fixes bug 24198; bugfix
14495 o Minor bugfixes (control port, onion services):
14496 - Report "FAILED" instead of "UPLOAD_FAILED" "FAILED" for the
14497 HS_DESC event when a service is not able to upload a descriptor.
14498 Fixes bug 24230; bugfix on 0.2.7.1-alpha.
14500 o Minor bugfixes (directory cache):
14501 - Recover better from empty or corrupt files in the consensus cache
14502 directory. Fixes bug 24099; bugfix on 0.3.1.1-alpha.
14503 - When a consensus diff calculation is only partially successful,
14504 only record the successful parts as having succeeded. Partial
14505 success can happen if (for example) one compression method fails
14506 but the others succeed. Previously we misrecorded all the
14507 calculations as having succeeded, which would later cause a
14508 nonfatal assertion failure. Fixes bug 24086; bugfix
14511 o Minor bugfixes (logging):
14512 - Only log once if we notice that KIST support is gone. Fixes bug
14513 24158; bugfix on 0.3.2.1-alpha.
14514 - Suppress a log notice when relay descriptors arrive. We already
14515 have a bootstrap progress for this so no need to log notice
14516 everytime tor receives relay descriptors. Microdescriptors behave
14517 the same. Fixes bug 23861; bugfix on 0.2.8.2-alpha.
14519 o Minor bugfixes (network layer):
14520 - When closing a connection via close_connection_immediately(), we
14521 mark it as "not blocked on bandwidth", to prevent later calls from
14522 trying to unblock it, and give it permission to read. This fixes a
14523 backtrace warning that can happen on relays under various
14524 circumstances. Fixes bug 24167; bugfix on 0.1.0.1-rc.
14526 o Minor bugfixes (onion services):
14527 - The introduction circuit was being timed out too quickly while
14528 waiting for the rendezvous circuit to complete. Keep the intro
14529 circuit around longer instead of timing out and reopening new ones
14530 constantly. Fixes bug 23681; bugfix on 0.2.4.8-alpha.
14531 - Rename the consensus parameter "hsdir-interval" to "hsdir_interval"
14532 so it matches dir-spec.txt. Fixes bug 24262; bugfix
14534 - Silence a warning about failed v3 onion descriptor uploads that
14535 can happen naturally under certain edge cases. Fixes part of bug
14536 23662; bugfix on 0.3.2.1-alpha.
14538 o Minor bugfixes (tests):
14539 - Fix a memory leak in one of the bridge-distribution test cases.
14540 Fixes bug 24345; bugfix on 0.3.2.3-alpha.
14541 - Fix a bug in our fuzzing mock replacement for crypto_pk_checksig(),
14542 to correctly handle cases where a caller gives it an RSA key of
14543 under 160 bits. (This is not actually a bug in Tor itself, but
14544 rather in our fuzzing code.) Fixes bug 24247; bugfix on
14545 0.3.0.3-alpha. Found by OSS-Fuzz as issue 4177.
14548 - Add notes in man page regarding OS support for the various
14549 scheduler types. Attempt to use less jargon in the scheduler
14550 section. Closes ticket 24254.
14553 Changes in version 0.3.2.4-alpha - 2017-11-08
14554 Tor 0.3.2.4-alpha is the fourth alpha release in the 0.3.2.x series.
14555 It fixes several stability and reliability bugs, especially including
14556 a major reliability issue that has been plaguing fast exit relays in
14559 o Major bugfixes (exit relays, DNS):
14560 - Fix an issue causing DNS to fail on high-bandwidth exit nodes,
14561 making them nearly unusable. Fixes bugs 21394 and 18580; bugfix on
14562 0.1.2.2-alpha, which introduced eventdns. Thanks to Dhalgren for
14563 identifying and finding a workaround to this bug and to Moritz,
14564 Arthur Edelstein, and Roger for helping to track it down and
14567 o Major bugfixes (scheduler, channel):
14568 - Stop processing scheduled channels if they closed while flushing
14569 cells. This can happen if the write on the connection fails
14570 leading to the channel being closed while in the scheduler loop.
14571 Fixes bug 23751; bugfix on 0.3.2.1-alpha.
14573 o Minor features (logging, scheduler):
14574 - Introduce a SCHED_BUG() function to log extra information about
14575 the scheduler state if we ever catch a bug in the scheduler.
14576 Closes ticket 23753.
14578 o Minor features (removed deprecations):
14579 - The ClientDNSRejectInternalAddresses flag can once again be set in
14580 non-testing Tor networks, so long as they do not use the default
14581 directory authorities. This change also removes the deprecation of
14582 this flag from 0.2.9.2-alpha. Closes ticket 21031.
14584 o Minor features (testing):
14585 - Our fuzzing tests now test the encrypted portions of v3 onion
14586 service descriptors. Implements more of 21509.
14588 o Minor bugfixes (directory client):
14589 - On failure to download directory information, delay retry attempts
14590 by a random amount based on the "decorrelated jitter" algorithm.
14591 Our previous delay algorithm tended to produce extra-long delays
14592 too easily. Fixes bug 23816; bugfix on 0.2.9.1-alpha.
14594 o Minor bugfixes (IPv6, v3 single onion services):
14595 - Remove buggy code for IPv6-only v3 single onion services, and
14596 reject attempts to configure them. This release supports IPv4,
14597 dual-stack, and IPv6-only v3 onion services; and IPv4 and dual-
14598 stack v3 single onion services. Fixes bug 23820; bugfix
14601 o Minor bugfixes (logging, relay):
14602 - Give only a protocol warning when the ed25519 key is not
14603 consistent between the descriptor and microdescriptor of a relay.
14604 This can happen, for instance, if the relay has been flagged
14605 NoEdConsensus. Fixes bug 24025; bugfix on 0.3.2.1-alpha.
14607 o Minor bugfixes (manpage, onion service):
14608 - Document that the HiddenServiceNumIntroductionPoints option is
14609 0-10 for v2 services and 0-20 for v3 services. Fixes bug 24115;
14610 bugfix on 0.3.2.1-alpha.
14612 o Minor bugfixes (memory leaks):
14613 - Fix a minor memory leak at exit in the KIST scheduler. This bug
14614 should have no user-visible impact. Fixes bug 23774; bugfix
14616 - Fix a memory leak when decrypting a badly formatted v3 onion
14617 service descriptor. Fixes bug 24150; bugfix on 0.3.2.1-alpha.
14618 Found by OSS-Fuzz; this is OSS-Fuzz issue 3994.
14620 o Minor bugfixes (onion services):
14621 - Cache some needed onion service client information instead of
14622 constantly computing it over and over again. Fixes bug 23623;
14623 bugfix on 0.3.2.1-alpha.
14624 - Properly retry HSv3 descriptor fetches when missing required
14625 directory information. Fixes bug 23762; bugfix on 0.3.2.1-alpha.
14627 o Minor bugfixes (path selection):
14628 - When selecting relays by bandwidth, avoid a rounding error that
14629 could sometimes cause load to be imbalanced incorrectly.
14630 Previously, we would always round upwards; now, we round towards
14631 the nearest integer. This had the biggest effect when a relay's
14632 weight adjustments should have given it weight 0, but it got
14633 weight 1 instead. Fixes bug 23318; bugfix on 0.2.4.3-alpha.
14634 - When calculating the fraction of nodes that have descriptors, and
14635 all nodes in the network have zero bandwidths, count the number of
14636 nodes instead. Fixes bug 23318; bugfix on 0.2.4.10-alpha.
14637 - Actually log the total bandwidth in compute_weighted_bandwidths().
14638 Fixes bug 24170; bugfix on 0.2.4.3-alpha.
14640 o Minor bugfixes (relay, crash):
14641 - Avoid a crash when transitioning from client mode to bridge mode.
14642 Previously, we would launch the worker threads whenever our
14643 "public server" mode changed, but not when our "server" mode
14644 changed. Fixes bug 23693; bugfix on 0.2.6.3-alpha.
14646 o Minor bugfixes (testing):
14647 - Fix a spurious fuzzing-only use of an uninitialized value. Found
14648 by Brian Carpenter. Fixes bug 24082; bugfix on 0.3.0.3-alpha.
14649 - Test that IPv6-only clients can use microdescriptors when running
14650 "make test-network-all". Requires chutney master 61c28b9 or later.
14651 Closes ticket 24109.
14654 Changes in version 0.3.2.3-alpha - 2017-10-27
14655 Tor 0.3.2.3-alpha is the third release in the 0.3.2 series. It fixes
14656 numerous small bugs in earlier versions of 0.3.2.x, and adds a new
14657 directory authority, Bastet.
14659 o Directory authority changes:
14660 - Add "Bastet" as a ninth directory authority to the default list.
14661 Closes ticket 23910.
14662 - The directory authority "Longclaw" has changed its IP address.
14663 Closes ticket 23592.
14665 o Minor features (bridge):
14666 - Bridge relays can now set the BridgeDistribution config option to
14667 add a "bridge-distribution-request" line to their bridge
14668 descriptor, which tells BridgeDB how they'd like their bridge
14669 address to be given out. (Note that as of Oct 2017, BridgeDB does
14670 not yet implement this feature.) As a side benefit, this feature
14671 provides a way to distinguish bridge descriptors from non-bridge
14672 descriptors. Implements tickets 18329.
14674 o Minor features (client, entry guards):
14675 - Improve log messages when missing descriptors for primary guards.
14676 Resolves ticket 23670.
14678 o Minor features (geoip):
14679 - Update geoip and geoip6 to the October 4 2017 Maxmind GeoLite2
14682 o Minor bugfixes (bridge):
14683 - Overwrite the bridge address earlier in the process of retrieving
14684 its descriptor, to make sure we reach it on the configured
14685 address. Fixes bug 20532; bugfix on 0.2.0.10-alpha.
14687 o Minor bugfixes (documentation):
14688 - Document better how to read gcov, and what our gcov postprocessing
14689 scripts do. Fixes bug 23739; bugfix on 0.2.9.1-alpha.
14691 o Minor bugfixes (entry guards):
14692 - Tor now updates its guard state when it reads a consensus
14693 regardless of whether it's missing descriptors. That makes tor use
14694 its primary guards to fetch descriptors in some edge cases where
14695 it would previously have used fallback directories. Fixes bug
14696 23862; bugfix on 0.3.0.1-alpha.
14698 o Minor bugfixes (hidden service client):
14699 - When handling multiple SOCKS request for the same .onion address,
14700 only fetch the service descriptor once.
14701 - When a descriptor fetch fails with a non-recoverable error, close
14702 all pending SOCKS requests for that .onion. Fixes bug 23653;
14703 bugfix on 0.3.2.1-alpha.
14705 o Minor bugfixes (hidden service):
14706 - Always regenerate missing hidden service public key files. Prior
14707 to this, if the public key was deleted from disk, it wouldn't get
14708 recreated. Fixes bug 23748; bugfix on 0.3.2.2-alpha. Patch
14710 - Make sure that we have a usable ed25519 key when the intro point
14711 relay supports ed25519 link authentication. Fixes bug 24002;
14712 bugfix on 0.3.2.1-alpha.
14714 o Minor bugfixes (hidden service, v2):
14715 - When reloading configured hidden services, copy all information
14716 from the old service object. Previously, some data was omitted,
14717 causing delays in descriptor upload, and other bugs. Fixes bug
14718 23790; bugfix on 0.2.1.9-alpha.
14720 o Minor bugfixes (memory safety, defensive programming):
14721 - Clear the target address when node_get_prim_orport() returns
14722 early. Fixes bug 23874; bugfix on 0.2.8.2-alpha.
14724 o Minor bugfixes (relay):
14725 - Avoid a BUG warning when receiving a dubious CREATE cell while an
14726 option transition is in progress. Fixes bug 23952; bugfix
14729 o Minor bugfixes (testing):
14730 - Adjust the GitLab CI configuration to more closely match that of
14731 Travis CI. Fixes bug 23757; bugfix on 0.3.2.2-alpha.
14732 - Prevent scripts/test/coverage from attempting to move gcov output
14733 to the root directory. Fixes bug 23741; bugfix on 0.2.5.1-alpha.
14734 - When running unit tests as root, skip a test that would fail
14735 because it expects a permissions error. This affects some
14736 continuous integration setups. Fixes bug 23758; bugfix
14738 - Stop unconditionally mirroring the tor repository in GitLab CI.
14739 This prevented developers from enabling GitLab CI on master. Fixes
14740 bug 23755; bugfix on 0.3.2.2-alpha.
14741 - Fix the hidden service v3 descriptor decoding fuzzing to use the
14742 latest decoding API correctly. Fixes bug 21509; bugfix
14745 o Minor bugfixes (warnings):
14746 - When we get an HTTP request on a SOCKS port, tell the user about
14747 the new HTTPTunnelPort option. Previously, we would give a "Tor is
14748 not an HTTP Proxy" message, which stopped being true when
14749 HTTPTunnelPort was introduced. Fixes bug 23678; bugfix
14753 Changes in version 0.2.5.15 - 2017-10-25
14754 Tor 0.2.5.15 backports a collection of bugfixes from later Tor release
14755 series. It also adds a new directory authority, Bastet.
14757 Note: the Tor 0.2.5 series will no longer be supported after 1 May
14758 2018. If you need a release with long-term support, please upgrade to
14759 the 0.2.9 series. Otherwise, please upgrade to 0.3.1 or later.
14761 o Directory authority changes:
14762 - Add "Bastet" as a ninth directory authority to the default list.
14763 Closes ticket 23910.
14764 - The directory authority "Longclaw" has changed its IP address.
14765 Closes ticket 23592.
14767 o Major bugfixes (openbsd, denial-of-service, backport from 0.3.1.5-alpha):
14768 - Avoid an assertion failure bug affecting our implementation of
14769 inet_pton(AF_INET6) on certain OpenBSD systems whose strtol()
14770 handling of "0xx" differs from what we had expected. Fixes bug
14771 22789; bugfix on 0.2.3.8-alpha. Also tracked as TROVE-2017-007.
14773 o Minor features (geoip):
14774 - Update geoip and geoip6 to the October 4 2017 Maxmind GeoLite2
14777 o Minor bugfixes (defensive programming, undefined behavior, backport from 0.3.1.4-alpha):
14778 - Fix a memset() off the end of an array when packing cells. This
14779 bug should be harmless in practice, since the corrupted bytes are
14780 still in the same structure, and are always padding bytes,
14781 ignored, or immediately overwritten, depending on compiler
14782 behavior. Nevertheless, because the memset()'s purpose is to make
14783 sure that any other cell-handling bugs can't expose bytes to the
14784 network, we need to fix it. Fixes bug 22737; bugfix on
14785 0.2.4.11-alpha. Fixes CID 1401591.
14787 o Build features (backport from 0.3.1.5-alpha):
14788 - Tor's repository now includes a Travis Continuous Integration (CI)
14789 configuration file (.travis.yml). This is meant to help new
14790 developers and contributors who fork Tor to a Github repository be
14791 better able to test their changes, and understand what we expect
14792 to pass. To use this new build feature, you must fork Tor to your
14793 Github account, then go into the "Integrations" menu in the
14794 repository settings for your fork and enable Travis, then push
14795 your changes. Closes ticket 22636.
14798 Changes in version 0.2.8.16 - 2017-10-25
14799 Tor 0.2.8.16 backports a collection of bugfixes from later Tor release
14800 series, including a bugfix for a crash issue that had affected relays
14801 under memory pressure. It also adds a new directory authority, Bastet.
14803 Note: the Tor 0.2.8 series will no longer be supported after 1 Jan
14804 2018. If you need a release with long-term support, please stick with
14805 the 0.2.9 series. Otherwise, please upgrade to 0.3.1 or later.
14807 o Directory authority changes:
14808 - Add "Bastet" as a ninth directory authority to the default list.
14809 Closes ticket 23910.
14810 - The directory authority "Longclaw" has changed its IP address.
14811 Closes ticket 23592.
14813 o Major bugfixes (relay, crash, assertion failure, backport from 0.3.2.2-alpha):
14814 - Fix a timing-based assertion failure that could occur when the
14815 circuit out-of-memory handler freed a connection's output buffer.
14816 Fixes bug 23690; bugfix on 0.2.6.1-alpha.
14818 o Minor features (directory authorities, backport from 0.3.2.2-alpha):
14819 - Remove longclaw's IPv6 address, as it will soon change. Authority
14820 IPv6 addresses were originally added in 0.2.8.1-alpha. This leaves
14821 3/8 directory authorities with IPv6 addresses, but there are also
14822 52 fallback directory mirrors with IPv6 addresses. Resolves 19760.
14824 o Minor features (geoip):
14825 - Update geoip and geoip6 to the October 4 2017 Maxmind GeoLite2
14829 Changes in version 0.2.9.13 - 2017-10-25
14830 Tor 0.2.9.13 backports a collection of bugfixes from later Tor release
14831 series, including a bugfix for a crash issue that had affected relays
14832 under memory pressure. It also adds a new directory authority, Bastet.
14834 o Directory authority changes:
14835 - Add "Bastet" as a ninth directory authority to the default list.
14836 Closes ticket 23910.
14837 - The directory authority "Longclaw" has changed its IP address.
14838 Closes ticket 23592.
14840 o Major bugfixes (relay, crash, assertion failure, backport from 0.3.2.2-alpha):
14841 - Fix a timing-based assertion failure that could occur when the
14842 circuit out-of-memory handler freed a connection's output buffer.
14843 Fixes bug 23690; bugfix on 0.2.6.1-alpha.
14845 o Minor features (directory authorities, backport from 0.3.2.2-alpha):
14846 - Remove longclaw's IPv6 address, as it will soon change. Authority
14847 IPv6 addresses were originally added in 0.2.8.1-alpha. This leaves
14848 3/8 directory authorities with IPv6 addresses, but there are also
14849 52 fallback directory mirrors with IPv6 addresses. Resolves 19760.
14851 o Minor features (geoip):
14852 - Update geoip and geoip6 to the October 4 2017 Maxmind GeoLite2
14855 o Minor bugfixes (directory authority, backport from 0.3.1.5-alpha):
14856 - When a directory authority rejects a descriptor or extrainfo with
14857 a given digest, mark that digest as undownloadable, so that we do
14858 not attempt to download it again over and over. We previously
14859 tried to avoid downloading such descriptors by other means, but we
14860 didn't notice if we accidentally downloaded one anyway. This
14861 behavior became problematic in 0.2.7.2-alpha, when authorities
14862 began pinning Ed25519 keys. Fixes bug 22349; bugfix
14865 o Minor bugfixes (memory safety, backport from 0.3.2.3-alpha):
14866 - Clear the address when node_get_prim_orport() returns early.
14867 Fixes bug 23874; bugfix on 0.2.8.2-alpha.
14869 o Minor bugfixes (Windows service, backport from 0.3.1.6-rc):
14870 - When running as a Windows service, set the ID of the main thread
14871 correctly. Failure to do so made us fail to send log messages to
14872 the controller in 0.2.1.16-rc, slowed down controller event
14873 delivery in 0.2.7.3-rc and later, and crash with an assertion
14874 failure in 0.3.1.1-alpha. Fixes bug 23081; bugfix on 0.2.1.6-alpha.
14875 Patch and diagnosis from "Vort".
14878 Changes in version 0.3.0.12 - 2017-10-25
14879 Tor 0.3.0.12 backports a collection of bugfixes from later Tor release
14880 series, including a bugfix for a crash issue that had affected relays
14881 under memory pressure. It also adds a new directory authority, Bastet.
14883 Note: the Tor 0.3.0 series will no longer be supported after 26 Jan
14884 2018. If you need a release with long-term support, please stick with
14885 the 0.2.9 series. Otherwise, please upgrade to 0.3.1 or later.
14887 o Directory authority changes:
14888 - Add "Bastet" as a ninth directory authority to the default list.
14889 Closes ticket 23910.
14890 - The directory authority "Longclaw" has changed its IP address.
14891 Closes ticket 23592.
14893 o Major bugfixes (relay, crash, assertion failure, backport from 0.3.2.2-alpha):
14894 - Fix a timing-based assertion failure that could occur when the
14895 circuit out-of-memory handler freed a connection's output buffer.
14896 Fixes bug 23690; bugfix on 0.2.6.1-alpha.
14898 o Minor features (directory authorities, backport from 0.3.2.2-alpha):
14899 - Remove longclaw's IPv6 address, as it will soon change. Authority
14900 IPv6 addresses were originally added in 0.2.8.1-alpha. This leaves
14901 3/8 directory authorities with IPv6 addresses, but there are also
14902 52 fallback directory mirrors with IPv6 addresses. Resolves 19760.
14904 o Minor features (geoip):
14905 - Update geoip and geoip6 to the October 4 2017 Maxmind GeoLite2
14908 o Minor bugfixes (directory authority, backport from 0.3.1.5-alpha):
14909 - When a directory authority rejects a descriptor or extrainfo with
14910 a given digest, mark that digest as undownloadable, so that we do
14911 not attempt to download it again over and over. We previously
14912 tried to avoid downloading such descriptors by other means, but we
14913 didn't notice if we accidentally downloaded one anyway. This
14914 behavior became problematic in 0.2.7.2-alpha, when authorities
14915 began pinning Ed25519 keys. Fixes bug 22349; bugfix
14918 o Minor bugfixes (hidden service, relay, backport from 0.3.2.2-alpha):
14919 - Avoid a possible double close of a circuit by the intro point on
14920 error of sending the INTRO_ESTABLISHED cell. Fixes bug 23610;
14921 bugfix on 0.3.0.1-alpha.
14923 o Minor bugfixes (memory safety, backport from 0.3.2.3-alpha):
14924 - Clear the address when node_get_prim_orport() returns early.
14925 Fixes bug 23874; bugfix on 0.2.8.2-alpha.
14927 o Minor bugfixes (Windows service, backport from 0.3.1.6-rc):
14928 - When running as a Windows service, set the ID of the main thread
14929 correctly. Failure to do so made us fail to send log messages to
14930 the controller in 0.2.1.16-rc, slowed down controller event
14931 delivery in 0.2.7.3-rc and later, and crash with an assertion
14932 failure in 0.3.1.1-alpha. Fixes bug 23081; bugfix on 0.2.1.6-alpha.
14933 Patch and diagnosis from "Vort".
14936 Changes in version 0.3.1.8 - 2017-10-25
14937 Tor 0.3.1.8 is the second stable release in the 0.3.1 series.
14938 It includes several bugfixes, including a bugfix for a crash issue
14939 that had affected relays under memory pressure. It also adds
14940 a new directory authority, Bastet.
14942 o Directory authority changes:
14943 - Add "Bastet" as a ninth directory authority to the default list.
14944 Closes ticket 23910.
14945 - The directory authority "Longclaw" has changed its IP address.
14946 Closes ticket 23592.
14948 o Major bugfixes (relay, crash, assertion failure, backport from 0.3.2.2-alpha):
14949 - Fix a timing-based assertion failure that could occur when the
14950 circuit out-of-memory handler freed a connection's output buffer.
14951 Fixes bug 23690; bugfix on 0.2.6.1-alpha.
14953 o Minor features (directory authorities, backport from 0.3.2.2-alpha):
14954 - Remove longclaw's IPv6 address, as it will soon change. Authority
14955 IPv6 addresses were originally added in 0.2.8.1-alpha. This leaves
14956 3/8 directory authorities with IPv6 addresses, but there are also
14957 52 fallback directory mirrors with IPv6 addresses. Resolves 19760.
14959 o Minor features (geoip):
14960 - Update geoip and geoip6 to the October 4 2017 Maxmind GeoLite2
14963 o Minor bugfixes (compilation, backport from 0.3.2.2-alpha):
14964 - Fix a compilation warning when building with zstd support on
14965 32-bit platforms. Fixes bug 23568; bugfix on 0.3.1.1-alpha. Found
14966 and fixed by Andreas Stieger.
14968 o Minor bugfixes (compression, backport from 0.3.2.2-alpha):
14969 - Handle a pathological case when decompressing Zstandard data when
14970 the output buffer size is zero. Fixes bug 23551; bugfix
14973 o Minor bugfixes (directory authority, backport from 0.3.2.1-alpha):
14974 - Remove the length limit on HTTP status lines that authorities can
14975 send in their replies. Fixes bug 23499; bugfix on 0.3.1.6-rc.
14977 o Minor bugfixes (hidden service, relay, backport from 0.3.2.2-alpha):
14978 - Avoid a possible double close of a circuit by the intro point on
14979 error of sending the INTRO_ESTABLISHED cell. Fixes bug 23610;
14980 bugfix on 0.3.0.1-alpha.
14982 o Minor bugfixes (memory safety, backport from 0.3.2.3-alpha):
14983 - Clear the address when node_get_prim_orport() returns early.
14984 Fixes bug 23874; bugfix on 0.2.8.2-alpha.
14986 o Minor bugfixes (unit tests, backport from 0.3.2.2-alpha):
14987 - Fix additional channelpadding unit test failures by using mocked
14988 time instead of actual time for all tests. Fixes bug 23608; bugfix
14992 Changes in version 0.3.2.2-alpha - 2017-09-29
14993 Tor 0.3.2.2-alpha is the second release in the 0.3.2 series. This
14994 release fixes several minor bugs in the new scheduler and next-
14995 generation onion services; both features were newly added in the 0.3.2
14996 series. Other fixes in this alpha include several fixes for non-fatal
14997 tracebacks which would appear in logs.
14999 With the aim to stabilise the 0.3.2 series by 15 December 2017, this
15000 alpha does not contain any substantial new features. Minor features
15001 include better testing and logging.
15003 The following comprises the complete list of changes included
15006 o Major bugfixes (relay, crash, assertion failure):
15007 - Fix a timing-based assertion failure that could occur when the
15008 circuit out-of-memory handler freed a connection's output buffer.
15009 Fixes bug 23690; bugfix on 0.2.6.1-alpha.
15011 o Major bugfixes (scheduler):
15012 - If a channel is put into the scheduler's pending list, then it
15013 starts closing, and then if the scheduler runs before it finishes
15014 closing, the scheduler will get stuck trying to flush its cells
15015 while the lower layers refuse to cooperate. Fix that race
15016 condition by giving the scheduler an escape method. Fixes bug
15017 23676; bugfix on 0.3.2.1-alpha.
15019 o Minor features (build, compilation):
15020 - The "check-changes" feature is now part of the "make check" tests;
15021 we'll use it to try to prevent misformed changes files from
15022 accumulating. Closes ticket 23564.
15023 - Tor builds should now fail if there are any mismatches between the
15024 C type representing a configuration variable and the C type the
15025 data-driven parser uses to store a value there. Previously, we
15026 needed to check these by hand, which sometimes led to mistakes.
15027 Closes ticket 23643.
15029 o Minor features (directory authorities):
15030 - Remove longclaw's IPv6 address, as it will soon change. Authority
15031 IPv6 addresses were originally added in 0.2.8.1-alpha. This leaves
15032 3/8 directory authorities with IPv6 addresses, but there are also
15033 52 fallback directory mirrors with IPv6 addresses. Resolves 19760.
15035 o Minor features (hidden service, circuit, logging):
15036 - Improve logging of many callsite in the circuit subsystem to print
15037 the circuit identifier(s).
15038 - Log when we cleanup an intro point from a service so we know when
15039 and for what reason it happened. Closes ticket 23604.
15041 o Minor features (logging):
15042 - Log more circuit information whenever we are about to try to
15043 package a relay cell on a circuit with a nonexistent n_chan.
15044 Attempt to diagnose ticket 8185.
15045 - Improve info-level log identification of particular circuits, to
15046 help with debugging. Closes ticket 23645.
15048 o Minor features (relay):
15049 - When choosing which circuits can be expired as unused, consider
15050 circuits from clients even if those clients used regular CREATE
15051 cells to make them; and do not consider circuits from relays even
15052 if they were made with CREATE_FAST. Part of ticket 22805.
15054 o Minor features (robustness):
15055 - Change several fatal assertions when flushing buffers into non-
15056 fatal assertions, to prevent any recurrence of 23690.
15058 o Minor features (spec conformance, bridge, diagnostic):
15059 - When handling the USERADDR command on an ExtOrPort, warn when the
15060 transports provides a USERADDR with no port. In a future version,
15061 USERADDR commands of this format may be rejected. Detects problems
15062 related to ticket 23080.
15064 o Minor features (testing):
15065 - Add a unit test to make sure that our own generated platform
15066 string will be accepted by directory authorities. Closes
15069 o Minor bugfixes (bootstrapping):
15070 - When warning about state file clock skew, report the correct
15071 direction for the detected skew. Fixes bug 23606; bugfix
15073 - Avoid an assertion failure when logging a state file clock skew
15074 very early in bootstrapping. Fixes bug 23607; bugfix
15077 o Minor bugfixes (build, compilation):
15078 - Fix a compilation warning when building with zstd support on
15079 32-bit platforms. Fixes bug 23568; bugfix on 0.3.1.1-alpha. Found
15080 and fixed by Andreas Stieger.
15081 - When searching for OpenSSL, don't accept any OpenSSL library that
15082 lacks TLSv1_1_method(): Tor doesn't build with those versions.
15083 Additionally, look in /usr/local/opt/openssl, if it's present.
15084 These changes together repair the default build on OSX systems
15085 with Homebrew installed. Fixes bug 23602; bugfix on 0.2.7.2-alpha.
15087 o Minor bugfixes (compression):
15088 - Handle a pathological case when decompressing Zstandard data when
15089 the output buffer size is zero. Fixes bug 23551; bugfix
15092 o Minor bugfixes (documentation):
15093 - Fix manpage to not refer to the obsolete (and misspelled)
15094 UseEntryGuardsAsDirectoryGuards parameter in the description of
15095 NumDirectoryGuards. Fixes bug 23611; bugfix on 0.2.4.8-alpha.
15097 o Minor bugfixes (hidden service v3):
15098 - Don't log an assertion failure when we can't find the right
15099 information to extend to an introduction point. In rare cases,
15100 this could happen, causing a warning, even though tor would
15101 recover gracefully. Fixes bug 23159; bugfix on 0.3.2.1-alpha.
15102 - Pad RENDEZVOUS cell up to the size of the legacy cell which is
15103 much bigger so the rendezvous point can't distinguish which hidden
15104 service protocol is being used. Fixes bug 23420; bugfix
15107 o Minor bugfixes (hidden service, relay):
15108 - Avoid a possible double close of a circuit by the intro point on
15109 error of sending the INTRO_ESTABLISHED cell. Fixes bug 23610;
15110 bugfix on 0.3.0.1-alpha.
15112 o Minor bugfixes (logging, relay shutdown, annoyance):
15113 - When a circuit is marked for close, do not attempt to package any
15114 cells for channels on that circuit. Previously, we would detect
15115 this condition lower in the call stack, when we noticed that the
15116 circuit had no attached channel, and log an annoying message.
15117 Fixes bug 8185; bugfix on 0.2.5.4-alpha.
15119 o Minor bugfixes (scheduler):
15120 - When switching schedulers due to a consensus change, we didn't
15121 give the new scheduler a chance to react to the consensus. Fix
15122 that. Fixes bug 23537; bugfix on 0.3.2.1-alpha.
15123 - Make the KISTSchedRunInterval option a non negative value. With
15124 this, the way to disable KIST through the consensus is to set it
15125 to 0. Fixes bug 23539; bugfix on 0.3.2.1-alpha.
15126 - Only notice log the selected scheduler when we switch scheduler
15127 types. Fixes bug 23552; bugfix on 0.3.2.1-alpha.
15128 - Avoid a compilation warning on macOS in scheduler_ev_add() caused
15129 by a different tv_usec data type. Fixes bug 23575; bugfix
15131 - Make a hard exit if tor is unable to pick a scheduler which can
15132 happen if the user specifies a scheduler type that is not
15133 supported and not other types in Schedulers. Fixes bug 23581;
15134 bugfix on 0.3.2.1-alpha.
15135 - Properly initialize the scheduler last run time counter so it is
15136 not 0 at the first tick. Fixes bug 23696; bugfix on 0.3.2.1-alpha.
15138 o Minor bugfixes (testing):
15139 - Capture and detect several "Result does not fit" warnings in unit
15140 tests on platforms with 32-bit time_t. Fixes bug 21800; bugfix
15142 - Fix additional channelpadding unit test failures by using mocked
15143 time instead of actual time for all tests. Fixes bug 23608; bugfix
15145 - The removal of some old scheduler options caused some tests to
15146 fail on BSD systems. Assume current behavior is correct and make
15147 the tests pass again. Fixes bug 23566; bugfix on 0.3.2.1-alpha.
15149 o Code simplification and refactoring:
15150 - Remove various ways of testing circuits and connections for
15151 "clientness"; instead, favor channel_is_client(). Part of
15154 o Deprecated features:
15155 - The ReachableDirAddresses and ClientPreferIPv6DirPort options are
15156 now deprecated; they do not apply to relays, and they have had no
15157 effect on clients since 0.2.8.x. Closes ticket 19704.
15160 - HiddenServiceVersion man page entry wasn't mentioning the now
15161 supported version 3. Fixes ticket 23580; bugfix on 0.3.2.1-alpha.
15162 - Clarify that the Address option is entirely about setting an
15163 advertised IPv4 address. Closes ticket 18891.
15164 - Clarify the manpage's use of the term "address" to clarify what
15165 kind of address is intended. Closes ticket 21405.
15166 - Document that onion service subdomains are allowed, and ignored.
15167 Closes ticket 18736.
15170 Changes in version 0.3.2.1-alpha - 2017-09-18
15171 Tor 0.3.2.1-alpha is the first release in the 0.3.2.x series. It
15172 includes support for our next-generation ("v3") onion service
15173 protocol, and adds a new circuit scheduler for more responsive
15174 forwarding decisions from relays. There are also numerous other small
15175 features and bugfixes here.
15177 Below are the changes since Tor 0.3.1.7.
15179 o Major feature (scheduler, channel):
15180 - Tor now uses new schedulers to decide which circuits should
15181 deliver cells first, in order to improve congestion at relays. The
15182 first type is called "KIST" ("Kernel Informed Socket Transport"),
15183 and is only available on Linux-like systems: it uses feedback from
15184 the kernel to prevent the kernel's TCP buffers from growing too
15185 full. The second new scheduler type is called "KISTLite": it
15186 behaves the same as KIST, but runs on systems without kernel
15187 support for inspecting TCP implementation details. The old
15188 scheduler is still available, under the name "Vanilla". To change
15189 the default scheduler preference order, use the new "Schedulers"
15190 option. (The default preference order is "KIST,KISTLite,Vanilla".)
15192 Matt Traudt implemented KIST, based on research by Rob Jansen,
15193 John Geddes, Christ Wacek, Micah Sherr, and Paul Syverson. For
15194 more information, see the design paper at
15195 http://www.robgjansen.com/publications/kist-sec2014.pdf and the
15196 followup implementation paper at https://arxiv.org/abs/1709.01044.
15197 Closes ticket 12541.
15199 o Major features (next-generation onion services):
15200 - Tor now supports the next-generation onion services protocol for
15201 clients and services! As part of this release, the core of
15202 proposal 224 has been implemented and is available for
15203 experimentation and testing by our users. This newer version of
15204 onion services ("v3") features many improvements over the legacy
15207 a) Better crypto (replaced SHA1/DH/RSA1024
15208 with SHA3/ed25519/curve25519)
15210 b) Improved directory protocol, leaking much less information to
15213 c) Improved directory protocol, with smaller surface for
15216 d) Better onion address security against impersonation.
15218 e) More extensible introduction/rendezvous protocol.
15220 f) A cleaner and more modular codebase.
15222 You can identify a next-generation onion address by its length:
15223 they are 56 characters long, as in
15224 "4acth47i6kxnvkewtm6q7ib2s3ufpo5sqbsnzjpbi7utijcltosqemad.onion".
15226 In the future, we will release more options and features for v3
15227 onion services, but we first need a testing period, so that the
15228 current codebase matures and becomes more robust. Planned features
15229 include: offline keys, advanced client authorization, improved
15230 guard algorithms, and statistics. For full details, see
15233 Legacy ("v2") onion services will still work for the foreseeable
15234 future, and will remain the default until this new codebase gets
15235 tested and hardened. Service operators who want to experiment with
15236 the new system can use the 'HiddenServiceVersion 3' torrc
15237 directive along with the regular onion service configuration
15238 options. We will publish a blog post about this new feature
15241 o Major bugfixes (usability, control port):
15242 - Report trusted clock skew indications as bootstrap errors, so
15243 controllers can more easily alert users when their clocks are
15244 wrong. Fixes bug 23506; bugfix on 0.1.2.6-alpha.
15246 o Minor features (bug detection):
15247 - Log a warning message with a stack trace for any attempt to call
15248 get_options() during option validation. This pattern has caused
15249 subtle bugs in the past. Closes ticket 22281.
15251 o Minor features (client):
15252 - You can now use Tor as a tunneled HTTP proxy: use the new
15253 HTTPTunnelPort option to open a port that accepts HTTP CONNECT
15254 requests. Closes ticket 22407.
15255 - Add an extra check to make sure that we always use the newer guard
15256 selection code for picking our guards. Closes ticket 22779.
15257 - When downloading (micro)descriptors, don't split the list into
15258 multiple requests unless we want at least 32 descriptors.
15259 Previously, we split at 4, not 32, which led to significant
15260 overhead in HTTP request size and degradation in compression
15261 performance. Closes ticket 23220.
15263 o Minor features (command line):
15264 - Add a new commandline option, --key-expiration, which prints when
15265 the current signing key is going to expire. Implements ticket
15266 17639; patch by Isis Lovecruft.
15268 o Minor features (control port):
15269 - If an application tries to use the control port as an HTTP proxy,
15270 respond with a meaningful "This is the Tor control port" message,
15271 and log the event. Closes ticket 1667. Patch from Ravi
15273 - Provide better error message for GETINFO desc/(id|name) when not
15274 fetching router descriptors. Closes ticket 5847. Patch by
15276 - Add GETINFO "{desc,md}/download-enabled", to inform the controller
15277 whether Tor will try to download router descriptors and
15278 microdescriptors respectively. Closes ticket 22684.
15279 - Added new GETINFO targets "ip-to-country/{ipv4,ipv6}-available",
15280 so controllers can tell whether the geoip databases are loaded.
15281 Closes ticket 23237.
15282 - Adds a timestamp field to the CIRC_BW and STREAM_BW bandwidth
15283 events. Closes ticket 19254. Patch by "DonnchaC".
15285 o Minor features (development support):
15286 - Developers can now generate a call-graph for Tor using the
15287 "calltool" python program, which post-processes object dumps. It
15288 should work okay on many Linux and OSX platforms, and might work
15289 elsewhere too. To run it, install calltool from
15290 https://gitweb.torproject.org/user/nickm/calltool.git and run
15291 "make callgraph". Closes ticket 19307.
15293 o Minor features (ed25519):
15294 - Add validation function to checks for torsion components in
15295 ed25519 public keys, used by prop224 client-side code. Closes
15296 ticket 22006. Math help by Ian Goldberg.
15298 o Minor features (exit relay, DNS):
15299 - Improve the clarity and safety of the log message from evdns when
15300 receiving an apparently spoofed DNS reply. Closes ticket 3056.
15302 o Minor features (integration, hardening):
15303 - Add a new NoExec option to prevent Tor from running other
15304 programs. When this option is set to 1, Tor will never try to run
15305 another program, regardless of the settings of
15306 PortForwardingHelper, ClientTransportPlugin, or
15307 ServerTransportPlugin. Once NoExec is set, it cannot be disabled
15308 without restarting Tor. Closes ticket 22976.
15310 o Minor features (logging):
15311 - Improve the warning message for specifying a relay by nickname.
15312 The previous message implied that nickname registration was still
15313 part of the Tor network design, which it isn't. Closes
15315 - If the sandbox filter fails to load, suggest to the user that
15316 their kernel might not support seccomp2. Closes ticket 23090.
15318 o Minor features (portability):
15319 - Check at configure time whether uint8_t is the same type as
15320 unsigned char. Lots of existing code already makes this
15321 assumption, and there could be strict aliasing issues if the
15322 assumption is violated. Closes ticket 22410.
15324 o Minor features (relay, configuration):
15325 - Reject attempts to use relative file paths when RunAsDaemon is
15326 set. Previously, Tor would accept these, but the directory-
15327 changing step of RunAsDaemon would give strange and/or confusing
15328 results. Closes ticket 22731.
15330 o Minor features (startup, safety):
15331 - When configured to write a PID file, Tor now exits if it is unable
15332 to do so. Previously, it would warn and continue. Closes
15335 o Minor features (static analysis):
15336 - The BUG() macro has been changed slightly so that Coverity no
15337 longer complains about dead code if the bug is impossible. Closes
15340 o Minor features (testing):
15341 - The default chutney network tests now include tests for the v3
15342 hidden service design. Make sure you have the latest version of
15343 chutney if you want to run these. Closes ticket 22437.
15344 - Add a unit test to verify that we can parse a hardcoded v2 hidden
15345 service descriptor. Closes ticket 15554.
15347 o Minor bugfixes (certificate handling):
15348 - Fix a time handling bug in Tor certificates set to expire after
15349 the year 2106. Fixes bug 23055; bugfix on 0.3.0.1-alpha. Found by
15350 Coverity as CID 1415728.
15352 o Minor bugfixes (client, usability):
15353 - Refrain from needlessly rejecting SOCKS5-with-hostnames and
15354 SOCKS4a requests that contain IP address strings, even when
15355 SafeSocks in enabled, as this prevents user from connecting to
15356 known IP addresses without relying on DNS for resolving. SafeSocks
15357 still rejects SOCKS connections that connect to IP addresses when
15358 those addresses are _not_ encoded as hostnames. Fixes bug 22461;
15359 bugfix on Tor 0.2.6.2-alpha.
15361 o Minor bugfixes (code correctness):
15362 - Call htons() in extend_cell_format() for encoding a 16-bit value.
15363 Previously we used ntohs(), which happens to behave the same on
15364 all the platforms we support, but which isn't really correct.
15365 Fixes bug 23106; bugfix on 0.2.4.8-alpha.
15366 - For defense-in-depth, make the controller's write_escaped_data()
15367 function robust to extremely long inputs. Fixes bug 19281; bugfix
15368 on 0.1.1.1-alpha. Reported by Guido Vranken.
15370 o Minor bugfixes (compilation):
15371 - Fix unused-variable warnings in donna's Curve25519 SSE2 code.
15372 Fixes bug 22895; bugfix on 0.2.7.2-alpha.
15374 o Minor bugfixes (consensus expiry):
15375 - Check for adequate directory information correctly. Previously, Tor
15376 would reconsider whether it had sufficient directory information
15377 every 2 minutes. Fixes bug 23091; bugfix on 0.2.0.19-alpha.
15379 o Minor bugfixes (directory protocol):
15380 - Directory servers now include a "Date:" http header for response
15381 codes other than 200. Clients starting with a skewed clock and a
15382 recent consensus were getting "304 Not modified" responses from
15383 directory authorities, so without the Date header, the client
15384 would never hear about a wrong clock. Fixes bug 23499; bugfix
15386 - Make clients wait for 6 seconds before trying to download a
15387 consensus from an authority. Fixes bug 17750; bugfix
15390 o Minor bugfixes (DoS-resistance):
15391 - If future code asks if there are any running bridges, without
15392 checking if bridges are enabled, log a BUG warning rather than
15393 crashing. Fixes bug 23524; bugfix on 0.3.0.1-alpha.
15395 o Minor bugfixes (format strictness):
15396 - Restrict several data formats to decimal. Previously, the
15397 BuildTimeHistogram entries in the state file, the "bw=" entries in
15398 the bandwidth authority file, and the process IDs passed to the
15399 __OwningControllerProcess option could all be specified in hex or
15400 octal as well as in decimal. This was not an intentional feature.
15401 Fixes bug 22802; bugfixes on 0.2.2.1-alpha, 0.2.2.2-alpha,
15404 o Minor bugfixes (heartbeat):
15405 - If we fail to write a heartbeat message, schedule a retry for the
15406 minimum heartbeat interval number of seconds in the future. Fixes
15407 bug 19476; bugfix on 0.2.3.1-alpha.
15409 o Minor bugfixes (linux seccomp2 sandbox, logging):
15410 - Fix some messages on unexpected errors from the seccomp2 library.
15411 Fixes bug 22750; bugfix on 0.2.5.1-alpha. Patch from "cypherpunks".
15413 o Minor bugfixes (logging):
15414 - Remove duplicate log messages regarding opening non-local
15415 SocksPorts upon parsing config and opening listeners at startup.
15416 Fixes bug 4019; bugfix on 0.2.3.3-alpha.
15417 - Use a more comprehensible log message when telling the user
15418 they've excluded every running exit node. Fixes bug 7890; bugfix
15420 - When logging the number of descriptors we intend to download per
15421 directory request, do not log a number higher than then the number
15422 of descriptors we're fetching in total. Fixes bug 19648; bugfix
15424 - When warning about a directory owned by the wrong user, log the
15425 actual name of the user owning the directory. Previously, we'd log
15426 the name of the process owner twice. Fixes bug 23487; bugfix
15428 - The tor specification says hop counts are 1-based, so fix two log
15429 messages that mistakenly logged 0-based hop counts. Fixes bug
15430 18982; bugfix on 0.2.6.2-alpha and 0.2.4.5-alpha. Patch by teor.
15431 Credit to Xiaofan Li for reporting this issue.
15433 o Minor bugfixes (portability):
15434 - Stop using the PATH_MAX variable, which is not defined on GNU
15435 Hurd. Fixes bug 23098; bugfix on 0.3.1.1-alpha.
15437 o Minor bugfixes (relay):
15438 - When uploading our descriptor for the first time after startup,
15439 report the reason for uploading as "Tor just started" rather than
15440 leaving it blank. Fixes bug 22885; bugfix on 0.2.3.4-alpha.
15441 - Avoid unnecessary calls to directory_fetches_from_authorities() on
15442 relays, to prevent spurious address resolutions and descriptor
15443 rebuilds. This is a mitigation for bug 21789. Fixes bug 23470;
15444 bugfix on in 0.2.8.1-alpha.
15446 o Minor bugfixes (tests):
15447 - Fix a broken unit test for the OutboundAddress option: the parsing
15448 function was never returning an error on failure. Fixes bug 23366;
15449 bugfix on 0.3.0.3-alpha.
15450 - Fix a signed-integer overflow in the unit tests for
15451 dir/download_status_random_backoff, which was untriggered until we
15452 fixed bug 17750. Fixes bug 22924; bugfix on 0.2.9.1-alpha.
15454 o Minor bugfixes (usability, control port):
15455 - Stop making an unnecessary routerlist check in NETINFO clock skew
15456 detection; this was preventing clients from reporting NETINFO clock
15457 skew to controllers. Fixes bug 23532; bugfix on 0.2.4.4-alpha.
15459 o Code simplification and refactoring:
15460 - Extract the code for handling newly-open channels into a separate
15461 function from the general code to handle channel state
15462 transitions. This change simplifies our callgraph, reducing the
15463 size of the largest strongly connected component by roughly a
15464 factor of two. Closes ticket 22608.
15465 - Remove dead code for largely unused statistics on the number of
15466 times we've attempted various public key operations. Fixes bug
15467 19871; bugfix on 0.1.2.4-alpha. Fix by Isis Lovecruft.
15468 - Remove several now-obsolete functions for asking about old
15469 variants directory authority status. Closes ticket 22311; patch
15471 - Remove some of the code that once supported "Named" and "Unnamed"
15472 routers. Authorities no longer vote for these flags. Closes
15474 - Rename the obsolete malleable hybrid_encrypt functions used in TAP
15475 and old hidden services, to indicate that they aren't suitable for
15476 new protocols or formats. Closes ticket 23026.
15477 - Replace our STRUCT_OFFSET() macro with offsetof(). Closes ticket
15478 22521. Patch from Neel Chauhan.
15479 - Split the enormous circuit_send_next_onion_skin() function into
15480 multiple subfunctions. Closes ticket 22804.
15481 - Split the portions of the buffer.c module that handle particular
15482 protocols into separate modules. Part of ticket 23149.
15483 - Use our test macros more consistently, to produce more useful
15484 error messages when our unit tests fail. Add coccinelle patches to
15485 allow us to re-check for test macro uses. Closes ticket 22497.
15487 o Deprecated features:
15488 - Deprecate HTTPProxy/HTTPProxyAuthenticator config options. They
15489 only applies to direct unencrypted HTTP connections to your
15490 directory server, which your Tor probably isn't using. Closes
15494 - Clarify in the manual that "Sandbox 1" is only supported on Linux
15495 kernels. Closes ticket 22677.
15496 - Document all values of PublishServerDescriptor in the manpage.
15497 Closes ticket 15645.
15498 - Improve the documentation for the directory port part of the
15499 DirAuthority line. Closes ticket 20152.
15500 - Restore documentation for the authorities' "approved-routers"
15501 file. Closes ticket 21148.
15503 o Removed features:
15504 - The AllowDotExit option has been removed as unsafe. It has been
15505 deprecated since 0.2.9.2-alpha. Closes ticket 23426.
15506 - The ClientDNSRejectInternalAddresses flag can no longer be set on
15507 non-testing networks. It has been deprecated since 0.2.9.2-alpha.
15508 Closes ticket 21031.
15509 - The controller API no longer includes an AUTHDIR_NEWDESCS event:
15510 nobody was using it any longer. Closes ticket 22377.
15513 Changes in version 0.2.8.15 - 2017-09-18
15514 Tor 0.2.8.15 backports a collection of bugfixes from later
15517 Most significantly, it includes a fix for TROVE-2017-008, a
15518 security bug that affects hidden services running with the
15519 SafeLogging option disabled. For more information, see
15520 https://trac.torproject.org/projects/tor/ticket/23490
15522 Note that Tor 0.2.8.x will no longer be supported after 1 Jan
15523 2018. We suggest that you upgrade to the latest stable release if
15524 possible. If you can't, we recommend that you upgrade at least to
15525 0.2.9, which will be supported until 2020.
15527 o Major bugfixes (openbsd, denial-of-service, backport from 0.3.1.5-alpha):
15528 - Avoid an assertion failure bug affecting our implementation of
15529 inet_pton(AF_INET6) on certain OpenBSD systems whose strtol()
15530 handling of "0xx" differs from what we had expected. Fixes bug
15531 22789; bugfix on 0.2.3.8-alpha. Also tracked as TROVE-2017-007.
15534 - Update geoip and geoip6 to the September 6 2017 Maxmind GeoLite2
15537 o Minor bugfixes (compilation, mingw, backport from 0.3.1.1-alpha):
15538 - Backport a fix for an "unused variable" warning that appeared
15539 in some versions of mingw. Fixes bug 22838; bugfix on
15542 o Minor bugfixes (defensive programming, undefined behavior, backport from 0.3.1.4-alpha):
15543 - Fix a memset() off the end of an array when packing cells. This
15544 bug should be harmless in practice, since the corrupted bytes are
15545 still in the same structure, and are always padding bytes,
15546 ignored, or immediately overwritten, depending on compiler
15547 behavior. Nevertheless, because the memset()'s purpose is to make
15548 sure that any other cell-handling bugs can't expose bytes to the
15549 network, we need to fix it. Fixes bug 22737; bugfix on
15550 0.2.4.11-alpha. Fixes CID 1401591.
15552 o Build features (backport from 0.3.1.5-alpha):
15553 - Tor's repository now includes a Travis Continuous Integration (CI)
15554 configuration file (.travis.yml). This is meant to help new
15555 developers and contributors who fork Tor to a Github repository be
15556 better able to test their changes, and understand what we expect
15557 to pass. To use this new build feature, you must fork Tor to your
15558 Github account, then go into the "Integrations" menu in the
15559 repository settings for your fork and enable Travis, then push
15560 your changes. Closes ticket 22636.
15563 Changes in version 0.2.9.12 - 2017-09-18
15564 Tor 0.2.9.12 backports a collection of bugfixes from later
15567 Most significantly, it includes a fix for TROVE-2017-008, a
15568 security bug that affects hidden services running with the
15569 SafeLogging option disabled. For more information, see
15570 https://trac.torproject.org/projects/tor/ticket/23490
15572 o Major features (security, backport from 0.3.0.2-alpha):
15573 - Change the algorithm used to decide DNS TTLs on client and server
15574 side, to better resist DNS-based correlation attacks like the
15575 DefecTor attack of Greschbach, Pulls, Roberts, Winter, and
15576 Feamster. Now relays only return one of two possible DNS TTL
15577 values, and clients are willing to believe DNS TTL values up to 3
15578 hours long. Closes ticket 19769.
15580 o Major bugfixes (crash, directory connections, backport from 0.3.0.5-rc):
15581 - Fix a rare crash when sending a begin cell on a circuit whose
15582 linked directory connection had already been closed. Fixes bug
15583 21576; bugfix on 0.2.9.3-alpha. Reported by Alec Muffett.
15585 o Major bugfixes (DNS, backport from 0.3.0.2-alpha):
15586 - Fix a bug that prevented exit nodes from caching DNS records for
15587 more than 60 seconds. Fixes bug 19025; bugfix on 0.2.4.7-alpha.
15589 o Major bugfixes (linux TPROXY support, backport from 0.3.1.1-alpha):
15590 - Fix a typo that had prevented TPROXY-based transparent proxying
15591 from working under Linux. Fixes bug 18100; bugfix on 0.2.6.3-alpha.
15592 Patch from "d4fq0fQAgoJ".
15594 o Major bugfixes (openbsd, denial-of-service, backport from 0.3.1.5-alpha):
15595 - Avoid an assertion failure bug affecting our implementation of
15596 inet_pton(AF_INET6) on certain OpenBSD systems whose strtol()
15597 handling of "0xx" differs from what we had expected. Fixes bug
15598 22789; bugfix on 0.2.3.8-alpha. Also tracked as TROVE-2017-007.
15600 o Minor features (code style, backport from 0.3.1.3-alpha):
15601 - Add "Falls through" comments to our codebase, in order to silence
15602 GCC 7's -Wimplicit-fallthrough warnings. Patch from Andreas
15603 Stieger. Closes ticket 22446.
15605 o Minor features (geoip):
15606 - Update geoip and geoip6 to the September 6 2017 Maxmind GeoLite2
15609 o Minor bugfixes (bandwidth accounting, backport from 0.3.1.1-alpha):
15610 - Roll over monthly accounting at the configured hour and minute,
15611 rather than always at 00:00. Fixes bug 22245; bugfix on 0.0.9rc1.
15612 Found by Andrey Karpov with PVS-Studio.
15614 o Minor bugfixes (compilation, backport from 0.3.1.5-alpha):
15615 - Suppress -Wdouble-promotion warnings with clang 4.0. Fixes bug 22915;
15616 bugfix on 0.2.8.1-alpha.
15617 - Fix warnings when building with libscrypt and openssl scrypt support
15618 on Clang. Fixes bug 22916; bugfix on 0.2.7.2-alpha.
15619 - When building with certain versions the mingw C header files, avoid
15620 float-conversion warnings when calling the C functions isfinite(),
15621 isnan(), and signbit(). Fixes bug 22801; bugfix on 0.2.8.1-alpha.
15623 o Minor bugfixes (compilation, backport from 0.3.1.7):
15624 - Avoid compiler warnings in the unit tests for running tor_sscanf()
15625 with wide string outputs. Fixes bug 15582; bugfix on 0.2.6.2-alpha.
15627 o Minor bugfixes (compilation, mingw, backport from 0.3.1.1-alpha):
15628 - Backport a fix for an "unused variable" warning that appeared
15629 in some versions of mingw. Fixes bug 22838; bugfix on
15632 o Minor bugfixes (controller, backport from 0.3.1.7):
15633 - Do not crash when receiving a HSPOST command with an empty body.
15634 Fixes part of bug 22644; bugfix on 0.2.7.1-alpha.
15635 - Do not crash when receiving a POSTDESCRIPTOR command with an
15636 empty body. Fixes part of bug 22644; bugfix on 0.2.0.1-alpha.
15638 o Minor bugfixes (coverity build support, backport from 0.3.1.5-alpha):
15639 - Avoid Coverity build warnings related to our BUG() macro. By
15640 default, Coverity treats BUG() as the Linux kernel does: an
15641 instant abort(). We need to override that so our BUG() macro
15642 doesn't prevent Coverity from analyzing functions that use it.
15643 Fixes bug 23030; bugfix on 0.2.9.1-alpha.
15645 o Minor bugfixes (defensive programming, undefined behavior, backport from 0.3.1.4-alpha):
15646 - Fix a memset() off the end of an array when packing cells. This
15647 bug should be harmless in practice, since the corrupted bytes are
15648 still in the same structure, and are always padding bytes,
15649 ignored, or immediately overwritten, depending on compiler
15650 behavior. Nevertheless, because the memset()'s purpose is to make
15651 sure that any other cell-handling bugs can't expose bytes to the
15652 network, we need to fix it. Fixes bug 22737; bugfix on
15653 0.2.4.11-alpha. Fixes CID 1401591.
15655 o Minor bugfixes (file limits, osx, backport from 0.3.1.5-alpha):
15656 - When setting the maximum number of connections allowed by the OS,
15657 always allow some extra file descriptors for other files. Fixes
15658 bug 22797; bugfix on 0.2.0.10-alpha.
15660 o Minor bugfixes (linux seccomp2 sandbox, backport from 0.3.1.5-alpha):
15661 - Avoid a sandbox failure when trying to re-bind to a socket and
15662 mark it as IPv6-only. Fixes bug 20247; bugfix on 0.2.5.1-alpha.
15664 o Minor bugfixes (linux seccomp2 sandbox, backport from 0.3.1.4-alpha):
15665 - Permit the fchmod system call, to avoid crashing on startup when
15666 starting with the seccomp2 sandbox and an unexpected set of
15667 permissions on the data directory or its contents. Fixes bug
15668 22516; bugfix on 0.2.5.4-alpha.
15670 o Minor bugfixes (relay, backport from 0.3.0.5-rc):
15671 - Avoid a double-marked-circuit warning that could happen when we
15672 receive DESTROY cells under heavy load. Fixes bug 20059; bugfix
15675 o Minor bugfixes (voting consistency, backport from 0.3.1.1-alpha):
15676 - Reject version numbers with non-numeric prefixes (such as +, -, or
15677 whitespace). Disallowing whitespace prevents differential version
15678 parsing between POSIX-based and Windows platforms. Fixes bug 21507
15679 and part of 21508; bugfix on 0.0.8pre1.
15681 o Build features (backport from 0.3.1.5-alpha):
15682 - Tor's repository now includes a Travis Continuous Integration (CI)
15683 configuration file (.travis.yml). This is meant to help new
15684 developers and contributors who fork Tor to a Github repository be
15685 better able to test their changes, and understand what we expect
15686 to pass. To use this new build feature, you must fork Tor to your
15687 Github account, then go into the "Integrations" menu in the
15688 repository settings for your fork and enable Travis, then push
15689 your changes. Closes ticket 22636.
15692 Changes in version 0.3.0.11 - 2017-09-18
15693 Tor 0.3.0.11 backports a collection of bugfixes from Tor the 0.3.1
15696 Most significantly, it includes a fix for TROVE-2017-008, a
15697 security bug that affects hidden services running with the
15698 SafeLogging option disabled. For more information, see
15699 https://trac.torproject.org/projects/tor/ticket/23490
15701 o Minor features (code style, backport from 0.3.1.7):
15702 - Add "Falls through" comments to our codebase, in order to silence
15703 GCC 7's -Wimplicit-fallthrough warnings. Patch from Andreas
15704 Stieger. Closes ticket 22446.
15707 - Update geoip and geoip6 to the September 6 2017 Maxmind GeoLite2
15710 o Minor bugfixes (compilation, backport from 0.3.1.7):
15711 - Avoid compiler warnings in the unit tests for calling tor_sscanf()
15712 with wide string outputs. Fixes bug 15582; bugfix on 0.2.6.2-alpha.
15714 o Minor bugfixes (controller, backport from 0.3.1.7):
15715 - Do not crash when receiving a HSPOST command with an empty body.
15716 Fixes part of bug 22644; bugfix on 0.2.7.1-alpha.
15717 - Do not crash when receiving a POSTDESCRIPTOR command with an empty
15718 body. Fixes part of bug 22644; bugfix on 0.2.0.1-alpha.
15720 o Minor bugfixes (file limits, osx, backport from 0.3.1.5-alpha):
15721 - When setting the maximum number of connections allowed by the OS,
15722 always allow some extra file descriptors for other files. Fixes
15723 bug 22797; bugfix on 0.2.0.10-alpha.
15725 o Minor bugfixes (logging, relay, backport from 0.3.1.6-rc):
15726 - Remove a forgotten debugging message when an introduction point
15727 successfully establishes a hidden service prop224 circuit with
15729 - Change three other log_warn() for an introduction point to
15730 protocol warnings, because they can be failure from the network
15731 and are not relevant to the operator. Fixes bug 23078; bugfix on
15732 0.3.0.1-alpha and 0.3.0.2-alpha.
15735 Changes in version 0.3.1.7 - 2017-09-18
15736 Tor 0.3.1.7 is the first stable release in the 0.3.1 series.
15738 With the 0.3.1 series, Tor now serves and downloads directory
15739 information in more compact formats, to save on bandwidth overhead. It
15740 also contains a new padding system to resist netflow-based traffic
15741 analysis, and experimental support for building parts of Tor in Rust
15742 (though no parts of Tor are in Rust yet). There are also numerous
15743 small features, bugfixes on earlier release series, and groundwork for
15744 the hidden services revamp of 0.3.2.
15746 This release also includes a fix for TROVE-2017-008, a security bug
15747 that affects hidden services running with the SafeLogging option
15748 disabled. For more information, see
15749 https://trac.torproject.org/projects/tor/ticket/23490
15751 Per our stable release policy, we plan to support each stable release
15752 series for at least the next nine months, or for three months after
15753 the first stable release of the next series: whichever is longer. If
15754 you need a release with long-term support, we recommend that you stay
15755 with the 0.2.9 series.
15757 Below is a list of the changes since 0.3.1.6-rc. For a list of all
15758 changes since 0.3.0, see the ReleaseNotes file.
15760 o Major bugfixes (security, hidden services, loggging):
15761 - Fix a bug where we could log uninitialized stack when a certain
15762 hidden service error occurred while SafeLogging was disabled.
15763 Fixes bug #23490; bugfix on 0.2.7.2-alpha. This is also tracked as
15764 TROVE-2017-008 and CVE-2017-0380.
15766 o Minor features (defensive programming):
15767 - Create a pair of consensus parameters, nf_pad_tor2web and
15768 nf_pad_single_onion, to disable netflow padding in the consensus
15769 for non-anonymous connections in case the overhead is high. Closes
15772 o Minor features (diagnostic):
15773 - Add a stack trace to the bug warnings that can be logged when
15774 trying to send an outgoing relay cell with n_chan == 0. Diagnostic
15775 attempt for bug 23105.
15777 o Minor features (geoip):
15778 - Update geoip and geoip6 to the September 6 2017 Maxmind GeoLite2
15781 o Minor bugfixes (compilation):
15782 - Avoid compiler warnings in the unit tests for calling tor_sscanf()
15783 with wide string outputs. Fixes bug 15582; bugfix on 0.2.6.2-alpha.
15785 o Minor bugfixes (controller):
15786 - Do not crash when receiving a HSPOST command with an empty body.
15787 Fixes part of bug 22644; bugfix on 0.2.7.1-alpha.
15788 - Do not crash when receiving a POSTDESCRIPTOR command with an empty
15789 body. Fixes part of bug 22644; bugfix on 0.2.0.1-alpha.
15791 o Minor bugfixes (relay):
15792 - Inform the geoip and rephist modules about all requests, even on
15793 relays that are only fetching microdescriptors. Fixes a bug
15794 related to 21585; bugfix on 0.3.0.1-alpha.
15796 o Minor bugfixes (unit tests):
15797 - Fix a channelpadding unit test failure on slow systems by using
15798 mocked time instead of actual time. Fixes bug 23077; bugfix
15802 Changes in version 0.3.1.6-rc - 2017-09-05
15803 Tor 0.3.1.6-rc fixes a few small bugs and annoyances in the 0.3.1
15804 release series, including a bug that produced weird behavior on
15805 Windows directory caches.
15807 This is the first release candidate in the Tor 0.3.1 series. If we
15808 find no new bugs or regressions here, the first stable 0.3.1 release
15809 will be nearly identical to it.
15811 o Major bugfixes (windows, directory cache):
15812 - On Windows, do not try to delete cached consensus documents and
15813 diffs before they are unmapped from memory--Windows won't allow
15814 that. Instead, allow the consensus cache directory to grow larger,
15815 to hold files that might need to stay around longer. Fixes bug
15816 22752; bugfix on 0.3.1.1-alpha.
15818 o Minor features (directory authority):
15819 - Improve the message that authorities report to relays that present
15820 RSA/Ed25519 keypairs that conflict with previously pinned keys.
15821 Closes ticket 22348.
15823 o Minor features (geoip):
15824 - Update geoip and geoip6 to the August 3 2017 Maxmind GeoLite2
15827 o Minor features (testing):
15828 - Add more tests for compression backend initialization. Closes
15831 o Minor bugfixes (directory cache):
15832 - Fix a memory leak when recovering space in the consensus cache.
15833 Fixes bug 23139; bugfix on 0.3.1.1-alpha.
15835 o Minor bugfixes (hidden service):
15836 - Increase the number of circuits that a service is allowed to
15837 open over a specific period of time. The value was lower than it
15838 should be (8 vs 12) in the normal case of 3 introduction points.
15839 Fixes bug 22159; bugfix on 0.3.0.5-rc.
15840 - Fix a BUG warning during HSv3 descriptor decoding that could be
15841 cause by a specially crafted descriptor. Fixes bug 23233; bugfix
15842 on 0.3.0.1-alpha. Bug found by "haxxpop".
15843 - Rate-limit the log messages if we exceed the maximum number of
15844 allowed intro circuits. Fixes bug 22159; bugfix on 0.3.1.1-alpha.
15846 o Minor bugfixes (logging, relay):
15847 - Remove a forgotten debugging message when an introduction point
15848 successfully establishes a hidden service prop224 circuit with
15850 - Change three other log_warn() for an introduction point to
15851 protocol warnings, because they can be failure from the network
15852 and are not relevant to the operator. Fixes bug 23078; bugfix on
15853 0.3.0.1-alpha and 0.3.0.2-alpha.
15855 o Minor bugfixes (relay):
15856 - When a relay is not running as a directory cache, it will no
15857 longer generate compressed consensuses and consensus diff
15858 information. Previously, this was a waste of disk and CPU. Fixes
15859 bug 23275; bugfix on 0.3.1.1-alpha.
15861 o Minor bugfixes (robustness, error handling):
15862 - Improve our handling of the cases where OpenSSL encounters a
15863 memory error while encoding keys and certificates. We haven't
15864 observed these errors in the wild, but if they do happen, we now
15865 detect and respond better. Fixes bug 19418; bugfix on all versions
15866 of Tor. Reported by Guido Vranken.
15868 o Minor bugfixes (stability):
15869 - Avoid crashing on a double-free when unable to load or process an
15870 included file. Fixes bug 23155; bugfix on 0.3.1.1-alpha. Found
15871 with the clang static analyzer.
15873 o Minor bugfixes (testing):
15874 - Fix an undersized buffer in test-memwipe.c. Fixes bug 23291;
15875 bugfix on 0.2.7.2-alpha. Found and patched by Ties Stuij.
15876 - Port the hs_ntor handshake test to work correctly with recent
15877 versions of the pysha3 module. Fixes bug 23071; bugfix
15880 o Minor bugfixes (Windows service):
15881 - When running as a Windows service, set the ID of the main thread
15882 correctly. Failure to do so made us fail to send log messages to
15883 the controller in 0.2.1.16-rc, slowed down controller event
15884 delivery in 0.2.7.3-rc and later, and crash with an assertion
15885 failure in 0.3.1.1-alpha. Fixes bug 23081; bugfix on 0.2.1.6-alpha.
15886 Patch and diagnosis from "Vort".
15889 Changes in version 0.3.0.10 - 2017-08-02
15890 Tor 0.3.0.10 backports a collection of small-to-medium bugfixes
15891 from the current Tor alpha series. OpenBSD users and TPROXY users
15892 should upgrade; others are probably okay sticking with 0.3.0.9.
15894 o Major features (build system, continuous integration, backport from 0.3.1.5-alpha):
15895 - Tor's repository now includes a Travis Continuous Integration (CI)
15896 configuration file (.travis.yml). This is meant to help new
15897 developers and contributors who fork Tor to a Github repository be
15898 better able to test their changes, and understand what we expect
15899 to pass. To use this new build feature, you must fork Tor to your
15900 Github account, then go into the "Integrations" menu in the
15901 repository settings for your fork and enable Travis, then push
15902 your changes. Closes ticket 22636.
15904 o Major bugfixes (linux TPROXY support, backport from 0.3.1.1-alpha):
15905 - Fix a typo that had prevented TPROXY-based transparent proxying
15906 from working under Linux. Fixes bug 18100; bugfix on 0.2.6.3-alpha.
15907 Patch from "d4fq0fQAgoJ".
15909 o Major bugfixes (openbsd, denial-of-service, backport from 0.3.1.5-alpha):
15910 - Avoid an assertion failure bug affecting our implementation of
15911 inet_pton(AF_INET6) on certain OpenBSD systems whose strtol()
15912 handling of "0xbar" differs from what we had expected. Fixes bug
15913 22789; bugfix on 0.2.3.8-alpha. Also tracked as TROVE-2017-007.
15915 o Minor features (backport from 0.3.1.5-alpha):
15916 - Update geoip and geoip6 to the July 4 2017 Maxmind GeoLite2
15919 o Minor bugfixes (bandwidth accounting, backport from 0.3.1.2-alpha):
15920 - Roll over monthly accounting at the configured hour and minute,
15921 rather than always at 00:00. Fixes bug 22245; bugfix on 0.0.9rc1.
15922 Found by Andrey Karpov with PVS-Studio.
15924 o Minor bugfixes (compilation warnings, backport from 0.3.1.5-alpha):
15925 - Suppress -Wdouble-promotion warnings with clang 4.0. Fixes bug 22915;
15926 bugfix on 0.2.8.1-alpha.
15927 - Fix warnings when building with libscrypt and openssl scrypt
15928 support on Clang. Fixes bug 22916; bugfix on 0.2.7.2-alpha.
15929 - When building with certain versions of the mingw C header files,
15930 avoid float-conversion warnings when calling the C functions
15931 isfinite(), isnan(), and signbit(). Fixes bug 22801; bugfix
15934 o Minor bugfixes (compilation, mingw, backport from 0.3.1.1-alpha):
15935 - Backport a fix for an "unused variable" warning that appeared
15936 in some versions of mingw. Fixes bug 22838; bugfix on
15939 o Minor bugfixes (coverity build support, backport from 0.3.1.5-alpha):
15940 - Avoid Coverity build warnings related to our BUG() macro. By
15941 default, Coverity treats BUG() as the Linux kernel does: an
15942 instant abort(). We need to override that so our BUG() macro
15943 doesn't prevent Coverity from analyzing functions that use it.
15944 Fixes bug 23030; bugfix on 0.2.9.1-alpha.
15946 o Minor bugfixes (directory authority, backport from 0.3.1.1-alpha):
15947 - When rejecting a router descriptor for running an obsolete version
15948 of Tor without ntor support, warn about the obsolete tor version,
15949 not the missing ntor key. Fixes bug 20270; bugfix on 0.2.9.3-alpha.
15951 o Minor bugfixes (linux seccomp2 sandbox, backport from 0.3.1.5-alpha):
15952 - Avoid a sandbox failure when trying to re-bind to a socket and
15953 mark it as IPv6-only. Fixes bug 20247; bugfix on 0.2.5.1-alpha.
15955 o Minor bugfixes (unit tests, backport from 0.3.1.5-alpha)
15956 - Fix a memory leak in the link-handshake/certs_ok_ed25519 test.
15957 Fixes bug 22803; bugfix on 0.3.0.1-alpha.
15960 Changes in version 0.3.1.5-alpha - 2017-08-01
15961 Tor 0.3.1.5-alpha improves the performance of consensus diff
15962 calculation, fixes a crash bug on older versions of OpenBSD, and fixes
15963 several other bugs. If no serious bugs are found in this version, the
15964 next version will be a release candidate.
15966 This release also marks the end of support for the Tor 0.2.4.x,
15967 0.2.6.x, and 0.2.7.x release series. Those releases will receive no
15968 further bug or security fixes. Anyone still running or distributing
15969 one of those versions should upgrade.
15971 o Major features (build system, continuous integration):
15972 - Tor's repository now includes a Travis Continuous Integration (CI)
15973 configuration file (.travis.yml). This is meant to help new
15974 developers and contributors who fork Tor to a Github repository be
15975 better able to test their changes, and understand what we expect
15976 to pass. To use this new build feature, you must fork Tor to your
15977 Github account, then go into the "Integrations" menu in the
15978 repository settings for your fork and enable Travis, then push
15979 your changes. Closes ticket 22636.
15981 o Major bugfixes (openbsd, denial-of-service):
15982 - Avoid an assertion failure bug affecting our implementation of
15983 inet_pton(AF_INET6) on certain OpenBSD systems whose strtol()
15984 handling of "0xbar" differs from what we had expected. Fixes bug
15985 22789; bugfix on 0.2.3.8-alpha. Also tracked as TROVE-2017-007.
15987 o Major bugfixes (relay, performance):
15988 - Perform circuit handshake operations at a higher priority than we
15989 use for consensus diff creation and compression. This should
15990 prevent circuits from starving when a relay or bridge receives a
15991 new consensus, especially on lower-powered machines. Fixes bug
15992 22883; bugfix on 0.3.1.1-alpha.
15994 o Minor features (bridge authority):
15995 - Add "fingerprint" lines to the networkstatus-bridges file produced
15996 by bridge authorities. Closes ticket 22207.
15998 o Minor features (directory cache, consensus diff):
15999 - Add a new MaxConsensusAgeForDiffs option to allow directory cache
16000 operators with low-resource environments to adjust the number of
16001 consensuses they'll store and generate diffs from. Most cache
16002 operators should leave it unchanged. Helps to work around
16005 o Minor features (geoip):
16006 - Update geoip and geoip6 to the July 4 2017 Maxmind GeoLite2
16009 o Minor features (relay, performance):
16010 - Always start relays with at least two worker threads, to prevent
16011 priority inversion on slow tasks. Part of the fix for bug 22883.
16012 - Allow background work to be queued with different priorities, so
16013 that a big pile of slow low-priority jobs will not starve out
16014 higher priority jobs. This lays the groundwork for a fix for
16017 o Minor bugfixes (build system, rust):
16018 - Fix a problem where Rust toolchains were not being found when
16019 building without --enable-cargo-online-mode, due to setting the
16020 $HOME environment variable instead of $CARGO_HOME. Fixes bug
16021 22830; bugfix on 0.3.1.1-alpha. Fix by Chelsea Komlo.
16023 o Minor bugfixes (compatibility, zstd):
16024 - Write zstd epilogues correctly when the epilogue requires
16025 reallocation of the output buffer, even with zstd 1.3.0.
16026 (Previously, we worked on 1.2.0 and failed with 1.3.0). Fixes bug
16027 22927; bugfix on 0.3.1.1-alpha.
16029 o Minor bugfixes (compilation warnings):
16030 - Suppress -Wdouble-promotion warnings with clang 4.0. Fixes bug
16031 22915; bugfix on 0.2.8.1-alpha.
16032 - Fix warnings when building with libscrypt and openssl scrypt
16033 support on Clang. Fixes bug 22916; bugfix on 0.2.7.2-alpha.
16034 - Compile correctly when both openssl 1.1.0 and libscrypt are
16035 detected. Previously this would cause an error. Fixes bug 22892;
16036 bugfix on 0.3.1.1-alpha.
16037 - When building with certain versions of the mingw C header files,
16038 avoid float-conversion warnings when calling the C functions
16039 isfinite(), isnan(), and signbit(). Fixes bug 22801; bugfix
16042 o Minor bugfixes (coverity build support):
16043 - Avoid Coverity build warnings related to our BUG() macro. By
16044 default, Coverity treats BUG() as the Linux kernel does: an
16045 instant abort(). We need to override that so our BUG() macro
16046 doesn't prevent Coverity from analyzing functions that use it.
16047 Fixes bug 23030; bugfix on 0.2.9.1-alpha.
16049 o Minor bugfixes (directory authority):
16050 - When a directory authority rejects a descriptor or extrainfo with
16051 a given digest, mark that digest as undownloadable, so that we do
16052 not attempt to download it again over and over. We previously
16053 tried to avoid downloading such descriptors by other means, but we
16054 didn't notice if we accidentally downloaded one anyway. This
16055 behavior became problematic in 0.2.7.2-alpha, when authorities
16056 began pinning Ed25519 keys. Fixes bug 22349; bugfix
16059 o Minor bugfixes (error reporting, windows):
16060 - When formatting Windows error messages, use the English format to
16061 avoid codepage issues. Fixes bug 22520; bugfix on 0.1.2.8-alpha.
16064 o Minor bugfixes (file limits, osx):
16065 - When setting the maximum number of connections allowed by the OS,
16066 always allow some extra file descriptors for other files. Fixes
16067 bug 22797; bugfix on 0.2.0.10-alpha.
16069 o Minor bugfixes (linux seccomp2 sandbox):
16070 - Avoid a sandbox failure when trying to re-bind to a socket and
16071 mark it as IPv6-only. Fixes bug 20247; bugfix on 0.2.5.1-alpha.
16073 o Minor bugfixes (memory leaks):
16074 - Fix a small memory leak when validating a configuration that uses
16075 two or more AF_UNIX sockets for the same port type. Fixes bug
16076 23053; bugfix on 0.2.6.3-alpha. This is CID 1415725.
16078 o Minor bugfixes (unit tests):
16079 - test_consdiff_base64cmp would fail on OS X because while OS X
16080 follows the standard of (less than zero/zero/greater than zero),
16081 it doesn't follow the convention of (-1/0/+1). Make the test
16082 comply with the standard. Fixes bug 22870; bugfix on 0.3.1.1-alpha.
16083 - Fix a memory leak in the link-handshake/certs_ok_ed25519 test.
16084 Fixes bug 22803; bugfix on 0.3.0.1-alpha.
16087 Changes in version 0.3.1.4-alpha - 2017-06-29
16088 Tor 0.3.1.4-alpha fixes a path selection bug that would allow a client
16089 to use a guard that was in the same network family as a chosen exit
16090 relay. This is a security regression; all clients running earlier
16091 versions of 0.3.0.x or 0.3.1.x should upgrade to 0.3.0.9
16094 This release also fixes several other bugs introduced in 0.3.0.x
16095 and 0.3.1.x, including others that can affect bandwidth usage
16098 o New dependencies:
16099 - To build with zstd and lzma support, Tor now requires the
16100 pkg-config tool at build time. (This requirement was new in
16101 0.3.1.1-alpha, but was not noted at the time. Noting it here to
16102 close ticket 22623.)
16104 o Major bugfixes (path selection, security):
16105 - When choosing which guard to use for a circuit, avoid the exit's
16106 family along with the exit itself. Previously, the new guard
16107 selection logic avoided the exit, but did not consider its family.
16108 Fixes bug 22753; bugfix on 0.3.0.1-alpha. Tracked as TROVE-2017-
16109 006 and CVE-2017-0377.
16111 o Major bugfixes (compression, zstd):
16112 - Correctly detect a full buffer when decompressing a large zstd-
16113 compressed input. Previously, we would sometimes treat a full
16114 buffer as an error. Fixes bug 22628; bugfix on 0.3.1.1-alpha.
16116 o Major bugfixes (directory protocol):
16117 - Ensure that we send "304 Not modified" as HTTP status code when a
16118 client is attempting to fetch a consensus or consensus diff, and
16119 the best one we can send them is one they already have. Fixes bug
16120 22702; bugfix on 0.3.1.1-alpha.
16122 o Major bugfixes (entry guards):
16123 - When starting with an old consensus, do not add new entry guards
16124 unless the consensus is "reasonably live" (under 1 day old). Fixes
16125 one root cause of bug 22400; bugfix on 0.3.0.1-alpha.
16127 o Minor features (bug mitigation, diagnostics, logging):
16128 - Avoid an assertion failure, and log a better error message, when
16129 unable to remove a file from the consensus cache on Windows.
16130 Attempts to mitigate and diagnose bug 22752.
16132 o Minor features (geoip):
16133 - Update geoip and geoip6 to the June 8 2017 Maxmind GeoLite2
16136 o Minor bugfixes (compression):
16137 - When compressing or decompressing a buffer, check for a failure to
16138 create a compression object. Fixes bug 22626; bugfix
16140 - When decompressing a buffer, check for extra data after the end of
16141 the compressed data. Fixes bug 22629; bugfix on 0.3.1.1-alpha.
16142 - When decompressing an object received over an anonymous directory
16143 connection, if we have already decompressed it using an acceptable
16144 compression method, do not reject it for looking like an
16145 unacceptable compression method. Fixes part of bug 22670; bugfix
16147 - When serving directory votes compressed with zlib, do not claim to
16148 have compressed them with zstd. Fixes bug 22669; bugfix
16150 - When spooling compressed data to an output buffer, don't try to
16151 spool more data when there is no more data to spool and we are not
16152 trying to flush the input. Previously, we would sometimes launch
16153 compression requests with nothing to do, which interferes with our
16154 22672 checks. Fixes bug 22719; bugfix on 0.2.0.16-alpha.
16156 o Minor bugfixes (defensive programming):
16157 - Detect and break out of infinite loops in our compression code. We
16158 don't think that any such loops exist now, but it's best to be
16159 safe. Closes ticket 22672.
16160 - Fix a memset() off the end of an array when packing cells. This
16161 bug should be harmless in practice, since the corrupted bytes are
16162 still in the same structure, and are always padding bytes,
16163 ignored, or immediately overwritten, depending on compiler
16164 behavior. Nevertheless, because the memset()'s purpose is to make
16165 sure that any other cell-handling bugs can't expose bytes to the
16166 network, we need to fix it. Fixes bug 22737; bugfix on
16167 0.2.4.11-alpha. Fixes CID 1401591.
16169 o Minor bugfixes (linux seccomp2 sandbox):
16170 - Permit the fchmod system call, to avoid crashing on startup when
16171 starting with the seccomp2 sandbox and an unexpected set of
16172 permissions on the data directory or its contents. Fixes bug
16173 22516; bugfix on 0.2.5.4-alpha.
16174 - Fix a crash in the LZMA module, when the sandbox was enabled, and
16175 liblzma would allocate more than 16 MB of memory. We solve this by
16176 bumping the mprotect() limit in the sandbox module from 16 MB to
16177 20 MB. Fixes bug 22751; bugfix on 0.3.1.1-alpha.
16179 o Minor bugfixes (logging):
16180 - When decompressing, do not warn if we fail to decompress using a
16181 compression method that we merely guessed. Fixes part of bug
16182 22670; bugfix on 0.1.1.14-alpha.
16183 - When decompressing, treat mismatch between content-encoding and
16184 actual compression type as a protocol warning. Fixes part of bug
16185 22670; bugfix on 0.1.1.9-alpha.
16186 - Downgrade "assigned_to_cpuworker failed" message to info-level
16187 severity. In every case that can reach it, either a better warning
16188 has already been logged, or no warning is warranted. Fixes bug
16189 22356; bugfix on 0.2.6.3-alpha.
16190 - Demote a warn that was caused by libevent delays to info if
16191 netflow padding is less than 4.5 seconds late, or to notice
16192 if it is more (4.5 seconds is the amount of time that a netflow
16193 record might be emitted after, if we chose the maximum timeout).
16194 Fixes bug 22212; bugfix on 0.3.1.1-alpha.
16196 o Minor bugfixes (process behavior):
16197 - When exiting because of an error, always exit with a nonzero exit
16198 status. Previously, we would fail to report an error in our exit
16199 status in cases related to __OwningControllerProcess failure,
16200 lockfile contention, and Ed25519 key initialization. Fixes bug
16201 22720; bugfix on versions 0.2.1.6-alpha, 0.2.2.28-beta, and
16202 0.2.7.2-alpha respectively. Reported by "f55jwk4f"; patch
16206 - Add a manpage description for the key-pinning-journal file. Closes
16208 - Correctly note that bandwidth accounting values are stored in the
16209 state file, and the bw_accounting file is now obsolete. Closes
16211 - Document more of the files in the Tor data directory, including
16212 cached-extrainfo, secret_onion_key{,_ntor}.old, hidserv-stats,
16213 approved-routers, sr-random, and diff-cache. Found while fixing
16217 Changes in version 0.3.0.9 - 2017-06-29
16218 Tor 0.3.0.9 fixes a path selection bug that would allow a client
16219 to use a guard that was in the same network family as a chosen exit
16220 relay. This is a security regression; all clients running earlier
16221 versions of 0.3.0.x or 0.3.1.x should upgrade to 0.3.0.9 or
16224 This release also backports several other bugfixes from the 0.3.1.x
16227 o Major bugfixes (path selection, security, backport from 0.3.1.4-alpha):
16228 - When choosing which guard to use for a circuit, avoid the exit's
16229 family along with the exit itself. Previously, the new guard
16230 selection logic avoided the exit, but did not consider its family.
16231 Fixes bug 22753; bugfix on 0.3.0.1-alpha. Tracked as TROVE-2017-
16232 006 and CVE-2017-0377.
16234 o Major bugfixes (entry guards, backport from 0.3.1.1-alpha):
16235 - Don't block bootstrapping when a primary bridge is offline and we
16236 can't get its descriptor. Fixes bug 22325; fixes one case of bug
16237 21969; bugfix on 0.3.0.3-alpha.
16239 o Major bugfixes (entry guards, backport from 0.3.1.4-alpha):
16240 - When starting with an old consensus, do not add new entry guards
16241 unless the consensus is "reasonably live" (under 1 day old). Fixes
16242 one root cause of bug 22400; bugfix on 0.3.0.1-alpha.
16244 o Minor features (geoip):
16245 - Update geoip and geoip6 to the June 8 2017 Maxmind GeoLite2
16248 o Minor bugfixes (voting consistency, backport from 0.3.1.1-alpha):
16249 - Reject version numbers with non-numeric prefixes (such as +, -, or
16250 whitespace). Disallowing whitespace prevents differential version
16251 parsing between POSIX-based and Windows platforms. Fixes bug 21507
16252 and part of 21508; bugfix on 0.0.8pre1.
16254 o Minor bugfixes (linux seccomp2 sandbox, backport from 0.3.1.4-alpha):
16255 - Permit the fchmod system call, to avoid crashing on startup when
16256 starting with the seccomp2 sandbox and an unexpected set of
16257 permissions on the data directory or its contents. Fixes bug
16258 22516; bugfix on 0.2.5.4-alpha.
16260 o Minor bugfixes (defensive programming, backport from 0.3.1.4-alpha):
16261 - Fix a memset() off the end of an array when packing cells. This
16262 bug should be harmless in practice, since the corrupted bytes are
16263 still in the same structure, and are always padding bytes,
16264 ignored, or immediately overwritten, depending on compiler
16265 behavior. Nevertheless, because the memset()'s purpose is to make
16266 sure that any other cell-handling bugs can't expose bytes to the
16267 network, we need to fix it. Fixes bug 22737; bugfix on
16268 0.2.4.11-alpha. Fixes CID 1401591.
16271 Changes in version 0.3.1.3-alpha - 2017-06-08
16272 Tor 0.3.1.3-alpha fixes a pair of bugs that would allow an attacker to
16273 remotely crash a hidden service with an assertion failure. Anyone
16274 running a hidden service should upgrade to this version, or to some
16275 other version with fixes for TROVE-2017-004 and TROVE-2017-005.
16277 Tor 0.3.1.3-alpha also includes fixes for several key management bugs
16278 that sometimes made relays unreliable, as well as several other
16279 bugfixes described below.
16281 o Major bugfixes (hidden service, relay, security):
16282 - Fix a remotely triggerable assertion failure when a hidden service
16283 handles a malformed BEGIN cell. Fixes bug 22493, tracked as
16284 TROVE-2017-004 and as CVE-2017-0375; bugfix on 0.3.0.1-alpha.
16285 - Fix a remotely triggerable assertion failure caused by receiving a
16286 BEGIN_DIR cell on a hidden service rendezvous circuit. Fixes bug
16287 22494, tracked as TROVE-2017-005 and CVE-2017-0376; bugfix
16290 o Major bugfixes (relay, link handshake):
16291 - When performing the v3 link handshake on a TLS connection, report
16292 that we have the x509 certificate that we actually used on that
16293 connection, even if we have changed certificates since that
16294 connection was first opened. Previously, we would claim to have
16295 used our most recent x509 link certificate, which would sometimes
16296 make the link handshake fail. Fixes one case of bug 22460; bugfix
16299 o Major bugfixes (relays, key management):
16300 - Regenerate link and authentication certificates whenever the key
16301 that signs them changes; also, regenerate link certificates
16302 whenever the signed key changes. Previously, these processes were
16303 only weakly coupled, and we relays could (for minutes to hours)
16304 wind up with an inconsistent set of keys and certificates, which
16305 other relays would not accept. Fixes two cases of bug 22460;
16306 bugfix on 0.3.0.1-alpha.
16307 - When sending an Ed25519 signing->link certificate in a CERTS cell,
16308 send the certificate that matches the x509 certificate that we
16309 used on the TLS connection. Previously, there was a race condition
16310 if the TLS context rotated after we began the TLS handshake but
16311 before we sent the CERTS cell. Fixes a case of bug 22460; bugfix
16314 o Major bugfixes (torrc, crash):
16315 - Fix a crash bug when using %include in torrc. Fixes bug 22417;
16316 bugfix on 0.3.1.1-alpha. Patch by Daniel Pinto.
16318 o Minor features (code style):
16319 - Add "Falls through" comments to our codebase, in order to silence
16320 GCC 7's -Wimplicit-fallthrough warnings. Patch from Andreas
16321 Stieger. Closes ticket 22446.
16323 o Minor features (diagnostic):
16324 - Add logging messages to try to diagnose a rare bug that seems to
16325 generate RSA->Ed25519 cross-certificates dated in the 1970s. We
16326 think this is happening because of incorrect system clocks, but
16327 we'd like to know for certain. Diagnostic for bug 22466.
16329 o Minor bugfixes (correctness):
16330 - Avoid undefined behavior when parsing IPv6 entries from the geoip6
16331 file. Fixes bug 22490; bugfix on 0.2.4.6-alpha.
16333 o Minor bugfixes (directory protocol):
16334 - Check for libzstd >= 1.1, because older versions lack the
16335 necessary streaming API. Fixes bug 22413; bugfix on 0.3.1.1-alpha.
16337 o Minor bugfixes (link handshake):
16338 - Lower the lifetime of the RSA->Ed25519 cross-certificate to six
16339 months, and regenerate it when it is within one month of expiring.
16340 Previously, we had generated this certificate at startup with a
16341 ten-year lifetime, but that could lead to weird behavior when Tor
16342 was started with a grossly inaccurate clock. Mitigates bug 22466;
16343 mitigation on 0.3.0.1-alpha.
16345 o Minor bugfixes (storage directories):
16346 - Always check for underflows in the cached storage directory usage.
16347 If the usage does underflow, re-calculate it. Also, avoid a
16348 separate underflow when the usage is not known. Fixes bug 22424;
16349 bugfix on 0.3.1.1-alpha.
16351 o Minor bugfixes (unit tests):
16352 - The unit tests now pass on systems where localhost is misconfigured
16353 to some IPv4 address other than 127.0.0.1. Fixes bug 6298; bugfix
16357 - Clarify the manpage for the (deprecated) torify script. Closes
16360 Changes in version 0.3.0.8 - 2017-06-08
16361 Tor 0.3.0.8 fixes a pair of bugs that would allow an attacker to
16362 remotely crash a hidden service with an assertion failure. Anyone
16363 running a hidden service should upgrade to this version, or to some
16364 other version with fixes for TROVE-2017-004 and TROVE-2017-005.
16366 Tor 0.3.0.8 also includes fixes for several key management bugs
16367 that sometimes made relays unreliable, as well as several other
16368 bugfixes described below.
16370 o Major bugfixes (hidden service, relay, security, backport
16371 from 0.3.1.3-alpha):
16372 - Fix a remotely triggerable assertion failure when a hidden service
16373 handles a malformed BEGIN cell. Fixes bug 22493, tracked as
16374 TROVE-2017-004 and as CVE-2017-0375; bugfix on 0.3.0.1-alpha.
16375 - Fix a remotely triggerable assertion failure caused by receiving a
16376 BEGIN_DIR cell on a hidden service rendezvous circuit. Fixes bug
16377 22494, tracked as TROVE-2017-005 and CVE-2017-0376; bugfix
16380 o Major bugfixes (relay, link handshake, backport from 0.3.1.3-alpha):
16381 - When performing the v3 link handshake on a TLS connection, report
16382 that we have the x509 certificate that we actually used on that
16383 connection, even if we have changed certificates since that
16384 connection was first opened. Previously, we would claim to have
16385 used our most recent x509 link certificate, which would sometimes
16386 make the link handshake fail. Fixes one case of bug 22460; bugfix
16389 o Major bugfixes (relays, key management, backport from 0.3.1.3-alpha):
16390 - Regenerate link and authentication certificates whenever the key
16391 that signs them changes; also, regenerate link certificates
16392 whenever the signed key changes. Previously, these processes were
16393 only weakly coupled, and we relays could (for minutes to hours)
16394 wind up with an inconsistent set of keys and certificates, which
16395 other relays would not accept. Fixes two cases of bug 22460;
16396 bugfix on 0.3.0.1-alpha.
16397 - When sending an Ed25519 signing->link certificate in a CERTS cell,
16398 send the certificate that matches the x509 certificate that we
16399 used on the TLS connection. Previously, there was a race condition
16400 if the TLS context rotated after we began the TLS handshake but
16401 before we sent the CERTS cell. Fixes a case of bug 22460; bugfix
16404 o Major bugfixes (hidden service v3, backport from 0.3.1.1-alpha):
16405 - Stop rejecting v3 hidden service descriptors because their size
16406 did not match an old padding rule. Fixes bug 22447; bugfix on
16409 o Minor features (fallback directory list, backport from 0.3.1.3-alpha):
16410 - Replace the 177 fallbacks originally introduced in Tor 0.2.9.8 in
16411 December 2016 (of which ~126 were still functional) with a list of
16412 151 fallbacks (32 new, 119 unchanged, 58 removed) generated in May
16413 2017. Resolves ticket 21564.
16415 o Minor bugfixes (configuration, backport from 0.3.1.1-alpha):
16416 - Do not crash when starting with LearnCircuitBuildTimeout 0. Fixes
16417 bug 22252; bugfix on 0.2.9.3-alpha.
16419 o Minor bugfixes (correctness, backport from 0.3.1.3-alpha):
16420 - Avoid undefined behavior when parsing IPv6 entries from the geoip6
16421 file. Fixes bug 22490; bugfix on 0.2.4.6-alpha.
16423 o Minor bugfixes (link handshake, backport from 0.3.1.3-alpha):
16424 - Lower the lifetime of the RSA->Ed25519 cross-certificate to six
16425 months, and regenerate it when it is within one month of expiring.
16426 Previously, we had generated this certificate at startup with a
16427 ten-year lifetime, but that could lead to weird behavior when Tor
16428 was started with a grossly inaccurate clock. Mitigates bug 22466;
16429 mitigation on 0.3.0.1-alpha.
16431 o Minor bugfixes (memory leak, directory authority, backport from
16433 - When directory authorities reject a router descriptor due to
16434 keypinning, free the router descriptor rather than leaking the
16435 memory. Fixes bug 22370; bugfix on 0.2.7.2-alpha.
16438 Changes in version 0.2.9.11 - 2017-06-08
16439 Tor 0.2.9.11 backports a fix for a bug that would allow an attacker to
16440 remotely crash a hidden service with an assertion failure. Anyone
16441 running a hidden service should upgrade to this version, or to some
16442 other version with fixes for TROVE-2017-005. (Versions before 0.3.0
16443 are not affected by TROVE-2017-004.)
16445 Tor 0.2.9.11 also backports fixes for several key management bugs
16446 that sometimes made relays unreliable, as well as several other
16447 bugfixes described below.
16449 o Major bugfixes (hidden service, relay, security, backport
16450 from 0.3.1.3-alpha):
16451 - Fix a remotely triggerable assertion failure caused by receiving a
16452 BEGIN_DIR cell on a hidden service rendezvous circuit. Fixes bug
16453 22494, tracked as TROVE-2017-005 and CVE-2017-0376; bugfix
16456 o Major bugfixes (relay, link handshake, backport from 0.3.1.3-alpha):
16457 - When performing the v3 link handshake on a TLS connection, report
16458 that we have the x509 certificate that we actually used on that
16459 connection, even if we have changed certificates since that
16460 connection was first opened. Previously, we would claim to have
16461 used our most recent x509 link certificate, which would sometimes
16462 make the link handshake fail. Fixes one case of bug 22460; bugfix
16465 o Minor features (fallback directory list, backport from 0.3.1.3-alpha):
16466 - Replace the 177 fallbacks originally introduced in Tor 0.2.9.8 in
16467 December 2016 (of which ~126 were still functional) with a list of
16468 151 fallbacks (32 new, 119 unchanged, 58 removed) generated in May
16469 2017. Resolves ticket 21564.
16471 o Minor features (future-proofing, backport from 0.3.0.7):
16472 - Tor no longer refuses to download microdescriptors or descriptors if
16473 they are listed as "published in the future". This change will
16474 eventually allow us to stop listing meaningful "published" dates
16475 in microdescriptor consensuses, and thereby allow us to reduce the
16476 resources required to download consensus diffs by over 50%.
16477 Implements part of ticket 21642; implements part of proposal 275.
16479 o Minor features (directory authorities, backport from 0.3.0.4-rc)
16480 - Directory authorities now reject relays running versions
16481 0.2.9.1-alpha through 0.2.9.4-alpha, because those relays
16482 suffer from bug 20499 and don't keep their consensus cache
16483 up-to-date. Resolves ticket 20509.
16485 o Minor features (geoip):
16486 - Update geoip and geoip6 to the May 2 2017 Maxmind GeoLite2
16489 o Minor bugfixes (control port, backport from 0.3.0.6):
16490 - The GETINFO extra-info/digest/<digest> command was broken because
16491 of a wrong base16 decode return value check, introduced when
16492 refactoring that API. Fixes bug 22034; bugfix on 0.2.9.1-alpha.
16494 o Minor bugfixes (correctness, backport from 0.3.1.3-alpha):
16495 - Avoid undefined behavior when parsing IPv6 entries from the geoip6
16496 file. Fixes bug 22490; bugfix on 0.2.4.6-alpha.
16498 o Minor bugfixes (Linux seccomp2 sandbox, backport from 0.3.0.7):
16499 - The getpid() system call is now permitted under the Linux seccomp2
16500 sandbox, to avoid crashing with versions of OpenSSL (and other
16501 libraries) that attempt to learn the process's PID by using the
16502 syscall rather than the VDSO code. Fixes bug 21943; bugfix
16505 o Minor bugfixes (memory leak, directory authority, backport
16506 from 0.3.1.2-alpha):
16507 - When directory authorities reject a router descriptor due to
16508 keypinning, free the router descriptor rather than leaking the
16509 memory. Fixes bug 22370; bugfix on 0.2.7.2-alpha.
16511 Changes in version 0.2.8.14 - 2017-06-08
16512 Tor 0.2.7.8 backports a fix for a bug that would allow an attacker to
16513 remotely crash a hidden service with an assertion failure. Anyone
16514 running a hidden service should upgrade to this version, or to some
16515 other version with fixes for TROVE-2017-005. (Versions before 0.3.0
16516 are not affected by TROVE-2017-004.)
16518 o Major bugfixes (hidden service, relay, security):
16519 - Fix a remotely triggerable assertion failure caused by receiving a
16520 BEGIN_DIR cell on a hidden service rendezvous circuit. Fixes bug
16521 22494, tracked as TROVE-2017-005 and CVE-2017-0376; bugfix
16524 o Minor features (geoip):
16525 - Update geoip and geoip6 to the May 2 2017 Maxmind GeoLite2
16528 o Minor features (fallback directory list, backport from 0.3.1.3-alpha):
16529 - Replace the 177 fallbacks originally introduced in Tor 0.2.9.8 in
16530 December 2016 (of which ~126 were still functional) with a list of
16531 151 fallbacks (32 new, 119 unchanged, 58 removed) generated in May
16532 2017. Resolves ticket 21564.
16534 o Minor bugfixes (correctness):
16535 - Avoid undefined behavior when parsing IPv6 entries from the geoip6
16536 file. Fixes bug 22490; bugfix on 0.2.4.6-alpha.
16538 Changes in version 0.2.7.8 - 2017-06-08
16539 Tor 0.2.7.8 backports a fix for a bug that would allow an attacker to
16540 remotely crash a hidden service with an assertion failure. Anyone
16541 running a hidden service should upgrade to this version, or to some
16542 other version with fixes for TROVE-2017-005. (Versions before 0.3.0
16543 are not affected by TROVE-2017-004.)
16545 o Major bugfixes (hidden service, relay, security):
16546 - Fix a remotely triggerable assertion failure caused by receiving a
16547 BEGIN_DIR cell on a hidden service rendezvous circuit. Fixes bug
16548 22494, tracked as TROVE-2017-005 and CVE-2017-0376; bugfix
16551 o Minor features (geoip):
16552 - Update geoip and geoip6 to the May 2 2017 Maxmind GeoLite2
16555 o Minor bugfixes (correctness):
16556 - Avoid undefined behavior when parsing IPv6 entries from the geoip6
16557 file. Fixes bug 22490; bugfix on 0.2.4.6-alpha.
16560 Changes in version 0.2.6.12 - 2017-06-08
16561 Tor 0.2.6.12 backports a fix for a bug that would allow an attacker to
16562 remotely crash a hidden service with an assertion failure. Anyone
16563 running a hidden service should upgrade to this version, or to some
16564 other version with fixes for TROVE-2017-005. (Versions before 0.3.0
16565 are not affected by TROVE-2017-004.)
16567 o Major bugfixes (hidden service, relay, security):
16568 - Fix a remotely triggerable assertion failure caused by receiving a
16569 BEGIN_DIR cell on a hidden service rendezvous circuit. Fixes bug
16570 22494, tracked as TROVE-2017-005 and CVE-2017-0376; bugfix
16573 o Minor features (geoip):
16574 - Update geoip and geoip6 to the May 2 2017 Maxmind GeoLite2
16577 o Minor bugfixes (correctness):
16578 - Avoid undefined behavior when parsing IPv6 entries from the geoip6
16579 file. Fixes bug 22490; bugfix on 0.2.4.6-alpha.
16581 Changes in version 0.2.5.14 - 2017-06-08
16582 Tor 0.2.5.14 backports a fix for a bug that would allow an attacker to
16583 remotely crash a hidden service with an assertion failure. Anyone
16584 running a hidden service should upgrade to this version, or to some
16585 other version with fixes for TROVE-2017-005. (Versions before 0.3.0
16586 are not affected by TROVE-2017-004.)
16588 o Major bugfixes (hidden service, relay, security):
16589 - Fix a remotely triggerable assertion failure caused by receiving a
16590 BEGIN_DIR cell on a hidden service rendezvous circuit. Fixes bug
16591 22494, tracked as TROVE-2017-005 and CVE-2017-0376; bugfix
16594 o Minor features (geoip):
16595 - Update geoip and geoip6 to the May 2 2017 Maxmind GeoLite2
16598 o Minor bugfixes (correctness):
16599 - Avoid undefined behavior when parsing IPv6 entries from the geoip6
16600 file. Fixes bug 22490; bugfix on 0.2.4.6-alpha.
16602 Changes in version 0.2.4.29 - 2017-06-08
16603 Tor 0.2.4.29 backports a fix for a bug that would allow an attacker to
16604 remotely crash a hidden service with an assertion failure. Anyone
16605 running a hidden service should upgrade to this version, or to some
16606 other version with fixes for TROVE-2017-005. (Versions before 0.3.0
16607 are not affected by TROVE-2017-004.)
16609 o Major bugfixes (hidden service, relay, security):
16610 - Fix a remotely triggerable assertion failure caused by receiving a
16611 BEGIN_DIR cell on a hidden service rendezvous circuit. Fixes bug
16612 22494, tracked as TROVE-2017-005 and CVE-2017-0376; bugfix
16615 o Minor features (geoip):
16616 - Update geoip and geoip6 to the May 2 2017 Maxmind GeoLite2
16619 o Minor bugfixes (correctness):
16620 - Avoid undefined behavior when parsing IPv6 entries from the geoip6
16621 file. Fixes bug 22490; bugfix on 0.2.4.6-alpha.
16624 Changes in version 0.3.1.2-alpha - 2017-05-26
16625 Tor 0.3.1.2-alpha is the second release in the 0.3.1.x series. It
16626 fixes a few bugs found while testing 0.3.1.1-alpha, including a
16627 memory corruption bug that affected relay stability.
16629 o Major bugfixes (crash, relay):
16630 - Fix a memory-corruption bug in relays that set MyFamily.
16631 Previously, they would double-free MyFamily elements when making
16632 the next descriptor or when changing their configuration. Fixes
16633 bug 22368; bugfix on 0.3.1.1-alpha.
16635 o Minor bugfixes (logging):
16636 - Log a better message when a directory authority replies to an
16637 upload with an unexpected status code. Fixes bug 11121; bugfix
16640 o Minor bugfixes (memory leak, directory authority):
16641 - When directory authorities reject a router descriptor due to
16642 keypinning, free the router descriptor rather than leaking the
16643 memory. Fixes bug 22370; bugfix on 0.2.7.2-alpha.
16646 Changes in version 0.3.1.1-alpha - 2017-05-22
16647 Tor 0.3.1.1-alpha is the first release in the 0.3.1.x series. It
16648 reduces the bandwidth usage for Tor's directory protocol, adds some
16649 basic padding to resist netflow-based traffic analysis and to serve as
16650 the basis of other padding in the future, and adds rust support to the
16653 It also contains numerous other small features and improvements to
16654 security, correctness, and performance.
16656 Below are the changes since 0.3.0.7.
16658 o Major features (directory protocol):
16659 - Tor relays and authorities can now serve clients an abbreviated
16660 version of the consensus document, containing only the changes
16661 since an older consensus document that the client holds. Clients
16662 now request these documents when available. When both client and
16663 server use this new protocol, they will use far less bandwidth (up
16664 to 94% less) to keep the client's consensus up-to-date. Implements
16665 proposal 140; closes ticket 13339. Based on work by Daniel Martí.
16666 - Tor can now compress directory traffic with lzma or with zstd
16667 compression algorithms, which can deliver better bandwidth
16668 performance. Because lzma is computationally expensive, it's only
16669 used for documents that can be compressed once and served many
16670 times. Support for these algorithms requires that tor is built
16671 with the libzstd and/or liblzma libraries available. Implements
16672 proposal 278; closes ticket 21662.
16673 - Relays now perform the more expensive compression operations, and
16674 consensus diff generation, in worker threads. This separation
16675 avoids delaying the main thread when a new consensus arrives.
16677 o Major features (experimental):
16678 - Tor can now build modules written in Rust. To turn this on, pass
16679 the "--enable-rust" flag to the configure script. It's not time to
16680 get excited yet: currently, there is no actual Rust functionality
16681 beyond some simple glue code, and a notice at startup to tell you
16682 that Rust is running. Still, we hope that programmers and
16683 packagers will try building Tor with Rust support, so that we can
16684 find issues and solve portability problems. Closes ticket 22106.
16686 o Major features (traffic analysis resistance):
16687 - Connections between clients and relays now send a padding cell in
16688 each direction every 1.5 to 9.5 seconds (tunable via consensus
16689 parameters). This padding will not resist specialized
16690 eavesdroppers, but it should be enough to make many ISPs' routine
16691 network flow logging less useful in traffic analysis against
16694 Padding is negotiated using Tor's link protocol, so both relays
16695 and clients must upgrade for this to take effect. Clients may
16696 still send padding despite the relay's version by setting
16697 ConnectionPadding 1 in torrc, and may disable padding by setting
16698 ConnectionPadding 0 in torrc. Padding may be minimized for mobile
16699 users with the torrc option ReducedConnectionPadding. Implements
16700 Proposal 251 and Section 2 of Proposal 254; closes ticket 16861.
16701 - Relays will publish 24 hour totals of padding and non-padding cell
16702 counts to their extra-info descriptors, unless PaddingStatistics 0
16703 is set in torrc. These 24 hour totals are also rounded to
16704 multiples of 10000.
16706 o Major bugfixes (connection usage):
16707 - We use NETINFO cells to try to determine if both relays involved
16708 in a connection will agree on the canonical status of that
16709 connection. We prefer the connections where this is the case for
16710 extend cells, and try to close connections where relays disagree
16711 on their canonical status early. Also, we now prefer the oldest
16712 valid connection for extend cells. These two changes should reduce
16713 the number of long-term connections that are kept open between
16714 relays. Fixes bug 17604; bugfix on 0.2.5.5-alpha.
16715 - Relays now log hourly statistics (look for
16716 "channel_check_for_duplicates" lines) on the total number of
16717 connections to other relays. If the number of connections per
16718 relay is unexpectedly large, this log message is at notice level.
16719 Otherwise it is at info.
16721 o Major bugfixes (entry guards):
16722 - Don't block bootstrapping when a primary bridge is offline and we
16723 can't get its descriptor. Fixes bug 22325; fixes one case of bug
16724 21969; bugfix on 0.3.0.3-alpha.
16726 o Major bugfixes (linux TPROXY support):
16727 - Fix a typo that had prevented TPROXY-based transparent proxying
16728 from working under Linux. Fixes bug 18100; bugfix on 0.2.6.3-alpha.
16729 Patch from "d4fq0fQAgoJ".
16731 o Minor features (security, windows):
16732 - Enable a couple of pieces of Windows hardening: one
16733 (HeapEnableTerminationOnCorruption) that has been on-by-default
16734 since Windows 8, and unavailable before Windows 7; and one
16735 (PROCESS_DEP_DISABLE_ATL_THUNK_EMULATION) which we believe doesn't
16736 affect us, but shouldn't do any harm. Closes ticket 21953.
16738 o Minor features (config options):
16739 - Allow "%include" directives in torrc configuration files. These
16740 directives import the settings from other files, or from all the
16741 files in a directory. Closes ticket 1922. Code by Daniel Pinto.
16742 - Make SAVECONF return an error when overwriting a torrc that has
16743 includes. Using SAVECONF with the FORCE option will allow it to
16744 overwrite torrc even if includes are used. Related to ticket 1922.
16745 - Add "GETINFO config-can-saveconf" to tell controllers if SAVECONF
16746 will work without the FORCE option. Related to ticket 1922.
16748 o Minor features (controller):
16749 - Warn the first time that a controller requests data in the long-
16750 deprecated 'GETINFO network-status' format. Closes ticket 21703.
16752 o Minor features (defaults):
16753 - The default value for UseCreateFast is now 0: clients which
16754 haven't yet received a consensus document will now use a proper
16755 ntor handshake to talk to their directory servers whenever they
16756 can. Closes ticket 21407.
16757 - Onion key rotation and expiry intervals are now defined as a
16758 network consensus parameter, per proposal 274. The default
16759 lifetime of an onion key is increased from 7 to 28 days. Old onion
16760 keys will expire after 7 days by default. This change will make
16761 consensus diffs much smaller, and save significant bandwidth.
16762 Closes ticket 21641.
16764 o Minor features (fallback directory list):
16765 - Update the fallback directory mirror whitelist and blacklist based
16766 on operator emails. Closes task 21121.
16767 - Replace the 177 fallbacks originally introduced in Tor 0.2.9.8 in
16768 December 2016 (of which ~126 were still functional) with a list of
16769 151 fallbacks (32 new, 119 unchanged, 58 removed) generated in May
16770 2017. Resolves ticket 21564.
16772 o Minor features (hidden services, logging):
16773 - Log a message when a hidden service descriptor has fewer
16774 introduction points than specified in
16775 HiddenServiceNumIntroductionPoints. Closes tickets 21598.
16776 - Log a message when a hidden service reaches its introduction point
16777 circuit limit, and when that limit is reset. Follow up to ticket
16778 21594; closes ticket 21622.
16779 - Warn user if multiple entries in EntryNodes and at least one
16780 HiddenService are used together. Pinning EntryNodes along with a
16781 hidden service can be possibly harmful; for instance see ticket
16782 14917 or 21155. Closes ticket 21155.
16784 o Minor features (linux seccomp2 sandbox):
16785 - We now have a document storage backend compatible with the Linux
16786 seccomp2 sandbox. This backend is used for consensus documents and
16787 diffs between them; in the long term, we'd like to use it for
16788 unparseable directory material too. Closes ticket 21645
16789 - Increase the maximum allowed size passed to mprotect(PROT_WRITE)
16790 from 1MB to 16MB. This was necessary with the glibc allocator in
16791 order to allow worker threads to allocate more memory -- which in
16792 turn is necessary because of our new use of worker threads for
16793 compression. Closes ticket 22096.
16795 o Minor features (logging):
16796 - Log files are no longer created world-readable by default.
16797 (Previously, most distributors would store the logs in a non-
16798 world-readable location to prevent inappropriate access. This
16799 change is an extra precaution.) Closes ticket 21729; patch
16802 o Minor features (performance):
16803 - Our Keccak (SHA-3) implementation now accesses memory more
16804 efficiently, especially on little-endian systems. Closes
16806 - Add an O(1) implementation of channel_find_by_global_id(), to
16807 speed some controller functions.
16809 o Minor features (relay, configuration):
16810 - The MyFamily option may now be repeated as many times as desired,
16811 for relays that want to configure large families. Closes ticket
16812 4998; patch by Daniel Pinto.
16814 o Minor features (safety):
16815 - Add an explicit check to extrainfo_parse_entry_from_string() for
16816 NULL inputs. We don't believe this can actually happen, but it may
16817 help silence a warning from the Clang analyzer. Closes
16820 o Minor features (testing):
16821 - Add a "--disable-memory-sentinels" feature to help with fuzzing.
16822 When Tor is compiled with this option, we disable a number of
16823 redundant memory-safety failsafes that are intended to stop bugs
16824 from becoming security issues. This makes it easier to hunt for
16825 bugs that would be security issues without the failsafes turned
16826 on. Closes ticket 21439.
16827 - Add a general event-tracing instrumentation support to Tor. This
16828 subsystem will enable developers and researchers to add fine-
16829 grained instrumentation to their Tor instances, for use when
16830 examining Tor network performance issues. There are no trace
16831 events yet, and event-tracing is off by default unless enabled at
16832 compile time. Implements ticket 13802.
16833 - Improve our version parsing tests: add tests for typical version
16834 components, add tests for invalid versions, including numeric
16835 range and non-numeric prefixes. Unit tests 21278, 21450, and
16836 21507. Partially implements 21470.
16838 o Minor bugfixes (bandwidth accounting):
16839 - Roll over monthly accounting at the configured hour and minute,
16840 rather than always at 00:00. Fixes bug 22245; bugfix on 0.0.9rc1.
16841 Found by Andrey Karpov with PVS-Studio.
16843 o Minor bugfixes (code correctness):
16844 - Accurately identify client connections by their lack of peer
16845 authentication. This means that we bail out earlier if asked to
16846 extend to a client. Follow-up to 21407. Fixes bug 21406; bugfix
16849 o Minor bugfixes (configuration):
16850 - Do not crash when starting with LearnCircuitBuildTimeout 0. Fixes
16851 bug 22252; bugfix on 0.2.9.3-alpha.
16853 o Minor bugfixes (connection lifespan):
16854 - Allow more control over how long TLS connections are kept open:
16855 unify CircuitIdleTimeout and PredictedPortsRelevanceTime into a
16856 single option called CircuitsAvailableTimeout. Also, allow the
16857 consensus to control the default values for both this preference
16858 and the lifespan of relay-to-relay connections. Fixes bug 17592;
16859 bugfix on 0.2.5.5-alpha.
16860 - Increase the initial circuit build timeout testing frequency, to
16861 help ensure that ReducedConnectionPadding clients finish learning
16862 a timeout before their orconn would expire. The initial testing
16863 rate was set back in the days of TAP and before the Tor Browser
16864 updater, when we had to be much more careful about new clients
16865 making lots of circuits. With this change, a circuit build timeout
16866 is learned in about 15-20 minutes, instead of 100-120 minutes.
16868 o Minor bugfixes (controller):
16869 - GETINFO onions/current and onions/detached no longer respond with
16870 551 on empty lists. Fixes bug 21329; bugfix on 0.2.7.1-alpha.
16871 - Trigger HS descriptor events on the control port when the client
16872 fails to pick a hidden service directory for a hidden service.
16873 This can happen if all the hidden service directories are in
16874 ExcludeNodes, or they have all been queried within the last 15
16875 minutes. Fixes bug 22042; bugfix on 0.2.5.2-alpha.
16877 o Minor bugfixes (directory authority):
16878 - When rejecting a router descriptor for running an obsolete version
16879 of Tor without ntor support, warn about the obsolete tor version,
16880 not the missing ntor key. Fixes bug 20270; bugfix on 0.2.9.3-alpha.
16881 - Prevent the shared randomness subsystem from asserting when
16882 initialized by a bridge authority with an incomplete configuration
16883 file. Fixes bug 21586; bugfix on 0.2.9.8.
16885 o Minor bugfixes (exit-side DNS):
16886 - Fix an untriggerable assertion that checked the output of a
16887 libevent DNS error, so that the assertion actually behaves as
16888 expected. Fixes bug 22244; bugfix on 0.2.0.20-rc. Found by Andrey
16889 Karpov using PVS-Studio.
16891 o Minor bugfixes (fallback directories):
16892 - Make the usage example in updateFallbackDirs.py actually work, and
16893 explain what it does. Fixes bug 22270; bugfix on 0.3.0.3-alpha.
16894 - Decrease the guard flag average required to be a fallback. This
16895 allows us to keep relays that have their guard flag removed when
16896 they restart. Fixes bug 20913; bugfix on 0.2.8.1-alpha.
16897 - Decrease the minimum number of fallbacks to 100. Fixes bug 20913;
16898 bugfix on 0.2.8.1-alpha.
16899 - Make sure fallback directory mirrors have the same address, port,
16900 and relay identity key for at least 30 days before they are
16901 selected. Fixes bug 20913; bugfix on 0.2.8.1-alpha.
16903 o Minor bugfixes (hidden services):
16904 - Stop printing a cryptic warning when a hidden service gets a
16905 request to connect to a virtual port that it hasn't configured.
16906 Fixes bug 16706; bugfix on 0.2.6.3-alpha.
16907 - Simplify hidden service descriptor creation by using an existing
16908 flag to check if an introduction point is established. Fixes bug
16909 21599; bugfix on 0.2.7.2-alpha.
16911 o Minor bugfixes (memory leak):
16912 - Fix a small memory leak at exit from the backtrace handler code.
16913 Fixes bug 21788; bugfix on 0.2.5.2-alpha. Patch from Daniel Pinto.
16915 o Minor bugfixes (protocol, logging):
16916 - Downgrade a log statement about unexpected relay cells from "bug"
16917 to "protocol warning", because there is at least one use case
16918 where it can be triggered by a buggy tor implementation. Fixes bug
16919 21293; bugfix on 0.1.1.14-alpha.
16921 o Minor bugfixes (testing):
16922 - Use unbuffered I/O for utility functions around the
16923 process_handle_t type. This fixes unit test failures reported on
16924 OpenBSD and FreeBSD. Fixes bug 21654; bugfix on 0.2.3.1-alpha.
16925 - Make display of captured unit test log messages consistent. Fixes
16926 bug 21510; bugfix on 0.2.9.3-alpha.
16927 - Make test-network.sh always call chutney's test-network.sh.
16928 Previously, this only worked on systems which had bash installed,
16929 due to some bash-specific code in the script. Fixes bug 19699;
16930 bugfix on 0.3.0.4-rc. Follow-up to ticket 21581.
16932 o Minor bugfixes (voting consistency):
16933 - Reject version numbers with non-numeric prefixes (such as +, -, or
16934 whitespace). Disallowing whitespace prevents differential version
16935 parsing between POSIX-based and Windows platforms. Fixes bug 21507
16936 and part of 21508; bugfix on 0.0.8pre1.
16938 o Minor bugfixes (windows, relay):
16939 - Resolve "Failure from drain_fd: No error" warnings on Windows
16940 relays. Fixes bug 21540; bugfix on 0.2.6.3-alpha.
16942 o Code simplification and refactoring:
16943 - Break up the 630-line function connection_dir_client_reached_eof()
16944 into a dozen smaller functions. This change should help
16945 maintainability and readability of the client directory code.
16946 - Isolate our use of the openssl headers so that they are only
16947 included from our crypto wrapper modules, and from tests that
16948 examine those modules' internals. Closes ticket 21841.
16949 - Simplify our API to launch directory requests, making it more
16950 extensible and less error-prone. Now it's easier to add extra
16951 headers to directory requests. Closes ticket 21646.
16952 - Our base64 decoding functions no longer overestimate the output
16953 space that they need when parsing unpadded inputs. Closes
16955 - Remove unused "ROUTER_ADDED_NOTIFY_GENERATOR" internal value.
16956 Resolves ticket 22213.
16957 - The logic that directory caches use to spool request to clients,
16958 serving them one part at a time so as not to allocate too much
16959 memory, has been refactored for consistency. Previously there was
16960 a separate spooling implementation per type of spoolable data. Now
16961 there is one common spooling implementation, with extensible data
16962 types. Closes ticket 21651.
16963 - Tor's compression module now supports multiple backends. Part of
16964 the implementation for proposal 278; closes ticket 21663.
16967 - Clarify the behavior of the KeepAliveIsolateSOCKSAuth sub-option.
16968 Closes ticket 21873.
16969 - Correct documentation about the default DataDirectory value.
16970 Closes ticket 21151.
16971 - Document the default behavior of NumEntryGuards and
16972 NumDirectoryGuards correctly. Fixes bug 21715; bugfix
16974 - Document key=value pluggable transport arguments for Bridge lines
16975 in torrc. Fixes bug 20341; bugfix on 0.2.5.1-alpha.
16976 - Note that bandwidth-limiting options don't affect TCP headers or
16977 DNS. Closes ticket 17170.
16979 o Removed features (configuration options, all in ticket 22060):
16980 - These configuration options are now marked Obsolete, and no longer
16981 have any effect: AllowInvalidNodes, AllowSingleHopCircuits,
16982 AllowSingleHopExits, ExcludeSingleHopRelays, FastFirstHopPK,
16983 TLSECGroup, WarnUnsafeSocks. They were first marked as deprecated
16984 in 0.2.9.2-alpha and have now been removed. The previous default
16985 behavior is now always chosen; the previous (less secure) non-
16986 default behavior is now unavailable.
16987 - CloseHSClientCircuitsImmediatelyOnTimeout and
16988 CloseHSServiceRendCircuitsImmediatelyOnTimeout were deprecated in
16989 0.2.9.2-alpha and now have been removed. HS circuits never close
16990 on circuit build timeout; they have a longer timeout period.
16991 - {Control,DNS,Dir,Socks,Trans,NATD,OR}ListenAddress were deprecated
16992 in 0.2.9.2-alpha and now have been removed. Use the ORPort option
16993 (and others) to configure listen-only and advertise-only addresses.
16995 o Removed features (tools):
16996 - We've removed the tor-checkkey tool from src/tools. Long ago, we
16997 used it to help people detect RSA keys that were generated by
16998 versions of Debian affected by CVE-2008-0166. But those keys have
16999 been out of circulation for ages, and this tool is no longer
17000 required. Closes ticket 21842.
17003 Changes in version 0.3.0.7 - 2017-05-15
17004 Tor 0.3.0.7 fixes a medium-severity security bug in earlier versions
17005 of Tor 0.3.0.x, where an attacker could cause a Tor relay process
17006 to exit. Relays running earlier versions of Tor 0.3.0.x should upgrade;
17007 clients are not affected.
17009 o Major bugfixes (hidden service directory, security):
17010 - Fix an assertion failure in the hidden service directory code, which
17011 could be used by an attacker to remotely cause a Tor relay process to
17012 exit. Relays running earlier versions of Tor 0.3.0.x should upgrade.
17013 should upgrade. This security issue is tracked as TROVE-2017-002.
17014 Fixes bug 22246; bugfix on 0.3.0.1-alpha.
17017 - Update geoip and geoip6 to the May 2 2017 Maxmind GeoLite2
17020 o Minor features (future-proofing):
17021 - Tor no longer refuses to download microdescriptors or descriptors
17022 if they are listed as "published in the future". This change will
17023 eventually allow us to stop listing meaningful "published" dates
17024 in microdescriptor consensuses, and thereby allow us to reduce the
17025 resources required to download consensus diffs by over 50%.
17026 Implements part of ticket 21642; implements part of proposal 275.
17028 o Minor bugfixes (Linux seccomp2 sandbox):
17029 - The getpid() system call is now permitted under the Linux seccomp2
17030 sandbox, to avoid crashing with versions of OpenSSL (and other
17031 libraries) that attempt to learn the process's PID by using the
17032 syscall rather than the VDSO code. Fixes bug 21943; bugfix
17036 Changes in version 0.3.0.6 - 2017-04-26
17037 Tor 0.3.0.6 is the first stable release of the Tor 0.3.0 series.
17039 With the 0.3.0 series, clients and relays now use Ed25519 keys to
17040 authenticate their link connections to relays, rather than the old
17041 RSA1024 keys that they used before. (Circuit crypto has been
17042 Curve25519-authenticated since 0.2.4.8-alpha.) We have also replaced
17043 the guard selection and replacement algorithm to behave more robustly
17044 in the presence of unreliable networks, and to resist guard-
17047 This series also includes numerous other small features and bugfixes,
17048 along with more groundwork for the upcoming hidden-services revamp.
17050 Per our stable release policy, we plan to support the Tor 0.3.0
17051 release series for at least the next nine months, or for three months
17052 after the first stable release of the 0.3.1 series: whichever is
17053 longer. If you need a release with long-term support, we recommend
17054 that you stay with the 0.2.9 series.
17056 Below are the changes since 0.3.0.5-rc. For a list of all changes
17057 since 0.2.9, see the ReleaseNotes file.
17059 o Minor features (geoip):
17060 - Update geoip and geoip6 to the April 4 2017 Maxmind GeoLite2
17063 o Minor bugfixes (control port):
17064 - The GETINFO extra-info/digest/<digest> command was broken because
17065 of a wrong base16 decode return value check, introduced when
17066 refactoring that API. Fixes bug 22034; bugfix on 0.2.9.1-alpha.
17068 o Minor bugfixes (crash prevention):
17069 - Fix a (currently untriggerable, but potentially dangerous) crash
17070 bug when base32-encoding inputs whose sizes are not a multiple of
17071 5. Fixes bug 21894; bugfix on 0.2.9.1-alpha.
17074 Changes in version 0.3.0.5-rc - 2017-04-05
17075 Tor 0.3.0.5-rc fixes a few remaining bugs, large and small, in the
17076 0.3.0 release series.
17078 This is the second release candidate in the Tor 0.3.0 series, and has
17079 much fewer changes than the first. If we find no new bugs or
17080 regressions here, the first stable 0.3.0 release will be nearly
17083 o Major bugfixes (crash, directory connections):
17084 - Fix a rare crash when sending a begin cell on a circuit whose
17085 linked directory connection had already been closed. Fixes bug
17086 21576; bugfix on 0.2.9.3-alpha. Reported by Alec Muffett.
17088 o Major bugfixes (guard selection):
17089 - Fix a guard selection bug where Tor would refuse to bootstrap in
17090 some cases if the user swapped a bridge for another bridge in
17091 their configuration file. Fixes bug 21771; bugfix on 0.3.0.1-alpha.
17092 Reported by "torvlnt33r".
17094 o Minor features (geoip):
17095 - Update geoip and geoip6 to the March 7 2017 Maxmind GeoLite2
17098 o Minor bugfix (compilation):
17099 - Fix a warning when compiling hs_service.c. Previously, it had no
17100 exported symbols when compiled for libor.a, resulting in a
17101 compilation warning from clang. Fixes bug 21825; bugfix
17104 o Minor bugfixes (hidden services):
17105 - Make hidden services check for failed intro point connections,
17106 even when they have exceeded their intro point creation limit.
17107 Fixes bug 21596; bugfix on 0.2.7.2-alpha. Reported by Alec Muffett.
17108 - Make hidden services with 8 to 10 introduction points check for
17109 failed circuits immediately after startup. Previously, they would
17110 wait for 5 minutes before performing their first checks. Fixes bug
17111 21594; bugfix on 0.2.3.9-alpha. Reported by Alec Muffett.
17113 o Minor bugfixes (memory leaks):
17114 - Fix a memory leak when using GETCONF on a port option. Fixes bug
17115 21682; bugfix on 0.3.0.3-alpha.
17117 o Minor bugfixes (relay):
17118 - Avoid a double-marked-circuit warning that could happen when we
17119 receive DESTROY cells under heavy load. Fixes bug 20059; bugfix
17122 o Minor bugfixes (tests):
17123 - Run the entry_guard_parse_from_state_full() test with the time set
17124 to a specific date. (The guard state that this test was parsing
17125 contained guards that had expired since the test was first
17126 written.) Fixes bug 21799; bugfix on 0.3.0.1-alpha.
17129 - Update the description of the directory server options in the
17130 manual page, to clarify that a relay no longer needs to set
17131 DirPort in order to be a directory cache. Closes ticket 21720.
17135 Changes in version 0.2.8.13 - 2017-03-03
17136 Tor 0.2.8.13 backports a security fix from later Tor
17137 releases. Anybody running Tor 0.2.8.12 or earlier should upgrade to this
17138 this release, if for some reason they cannot upgrade to a later
17139 release series, and if they build Tor with the --enable-expensive-hardening
17142 Note that support for Tor 0.2.8.x is ending next year: we will not issue
17143 any fixes for the Tor 0.2.8.x series after 1 Jan 2018. If you need
17144 a Tor release series with longer-term support, we recommend Tor 0.2.9.x.
17146 o Major bugfixes (parsing, backported from 0.3.0.4-rc):
17147 - Fix an integer underflow bug when comparing malformed Tor
17148 versions. This bug could crash Tor when built with
17149 --enable-expensive-hardening, or on Tor 0.2.9.1-alpha through Tor
17150 0.2.9.8, which were built with -ftrapv by default. In other cases
17151 it was harmless. Part of TROVE-2017-001. Fixes bug 21278; bugfix
17152 on 0.0.8pre1. Found by OSS-Fuzz.
17154 o Minor features (geoip):
17155 - Update geoip and geoip6 to the February 8 2017 Maxmind GeoLite2
17159 Changes in version 0.2.7.7 - 2017-03-03
17160 Tor 0.2.7.7 backports a number of security fixes from later Tor
17161 releases. Anybody running Tor 0.2.7.6 or earlier should upgrade to
17162 this release, if for some reason they cannot upgrade to a later
17165 Note that support for Tor 0.2.7.x is ending this year: we will not issue
17166 any fixes for the Tor 0.2.7.x series after 1 August 2017. If you need
17167 a Tor release series with longer-term support, we recommend Tor 0.2.9.x.
17169 o Directory authority changes (backport from 0.2.8.5-rc):
17170 - Urras is no longer a directory authority. Closes ticket 19271.
17172 o Directory authority changes (backport from 0.2.9.2-alpha):
17173 - The "Tonga" bridge authority has been retired; the new bridge
17174 authority is "Bifroest". Closes tickets 19728 and 19690.
17176 o Directory authority key updates (backport from 0.2.8.1-alpha):
17177 - Update the V3 identity key for the dannenberg directory authority:
17178 it was changed on 18 November 2015. Closes task 17906. Patch
17181 o Major bugfixes (parsing, security, backport from 0.2.9.8):
17182 - Fix a bug in parsing that could cause clients to read a single
17183 byte past the end of an allocated region. This bug could be used
17184 to cause hardened clients (built with --enable-expensive-hardening)
17185 to crash if they tried to visit a hostile hidden service. Non-
17186 hardened clients are only affected depending on the details of
17187 their platform's memory allocator. Fixes bug 21018; bugfix on
17188 0.2.0.8-alpha. Found by using libFuzzer. Also tracked as TROVE-
17189 2016-12-002 and as CVE-2016-1254.
17191 o Major bugfixes (security, client, DNS proxy, backport from 0.2.8.3-alpha):
17192 - Stop a crash that could occur when a client running with DNSPort
17193 received a query with multiple address types, and the first
17194 address type was not supported. Found and fixed by Scott Dial.
17195 Fixes bug 18710; bugfix on 0.2.5.4-alpha.
17196 - Prevent a class of security bugs caused by treating the contents
17197 of a buffer chunk as if they were a NUL-terminated string. At
17198 least one such bug seems to be present in all currently used
17199 versions of Tor, and would allow an attacker to remotely crash
17200 most Tor instances, especially those compiled with extra compiler
17201 hardening. With this defense in place, such bugs can't crash Tor,
17202 though we should still fix them as they occur. Closes ticket
17203 20384 (TROVE-2016-10-001).
17205 o Major bugfixes (security, pointers, backport from 0.2.8.2-alpha):
17206 - Avoid a difficult-to-trigger heap corruption attack when extending
17207 a smartlist to contain over 16GB of pointers. Fixes bug 18162;
17208 bugfix on 0.1.1.11-alpha, which fixed a related bug incompletely.
17209 Reported by Guido Vranken.
17211 o Major bugfixes (dns proxy mode, crash, backport from 0.2.8.2-alpha):
17212 - Avoid crashing when running as a DNS proxy. Fixes bug 16248;
17213 bugfix on 0.2.0.1-alpha. Patch from "cypherpunks".
17215 o Major bugfixes (key management, backport from 0.2.8.3-alpha):
17216 - If OpenSSL fails to generate an RSA key, do not retain a dangling
17217 pointer to the previous (uninitialized) key value. The impact here
17218 should be limited to a difficult-to-trigger crash, if OpenSSL is
17219 running an engine that makes key generation failures possible, or
17220 if OpenSSL runs out of memory. Fixes bug 19152; bugfix on
17221 0.2.1.10-alpha. Found by Yuan Jochen Kang, Suman Jana, and
17224 o Major bugfixes (parsing, backported from 0.3.0.4-rc):
17225 - Fix an integer underflow bug when comparing malformed Tor
17226 versions. This bug could crash Tor when built with
17227 --enable-expensive-hardening, or on Tor 0.2.9.1-alpha through Tor
17228 0.2.9.8, which were built with -ftrapv by default. In other cases
17229 it was harmless. Part of TROVE-2017-001. Fixes bug 21278; bugfix
17230 on 0.0.8pre1. Found by OSS-Fuzz.
17232 o Minor features (security, memory erasure, backport from 0.2.8.1-alpha):
17233 - Make memwipe() do nothing when passed a NULL pointer or buffer of
17234 zero size. Check size argument to memwipe() for underflow. Fixes
17235 bug 18089; bugfix on 0.2.3.25 and 0.2.4.6-alpha. Reported by "gk",
17238 o Minor features (bug-resistance, backport from 0.2.8.2-alpha):
17239 - Make Tor survive errors involving connections without a
17240 corresponding event object. Previously we'd fail with an
17241 assertion; now we produce a log message. Related to bug 16248.
17243 o Minor features (geoip):
17244 - Update geoip and geoip6 to the February 8 2017 Maxmind GeoLite2
17248 Changes in version 0.2.6.11 - 2017-03-03
17249 Tor 0.2.6.11 backports a number of security fixes from later Tor
17250 releases. Anybody running Tor 0.2.6.10 or earlier should upgrade to
17251 this release, if for some reason they cannot upgrade to a later
17254 Note that support for Tor 0.2.6.x is ending this year: we will not issue
17255 any fixes for the Tor 0.2.6.x series after 1 August 2017. If you need
17256 a Tor release series with longer-term support, we recommend Tor 0.2.9.x.
17258 o Directory authority changes (backport from 0.2.8.5-rc):
17259 - Urras is no longer a directory authority. Closes ticket 19271.
17261 o Directory authority changes (backport from 0.2.9.2-alpha):
17262 - The "Tonga" bridge authority has been retired; the new bridge
17263 authority is "Bifroest". Closes tickets 19728 and 19690.
17265 o Directory authority key updates (backport from 0.2.8.1-alpha):
17266 - Update the V3 identity key for the dannenberg directory authority:
17267 it was changed on 18 November 2015. Closes task 17906. Patch
17270 o Major features (security fixes, backport from 0.2.9.4-alpha):
17271 - Prevent a class of security bugs caused by treating the contents
17272 of a buffer chunk as if they were a NUL-terminated string. At
17273 least one such bug seems to be present in all currently used
17274 versions of Tor, and would allow an attacker to remotely crash
17275 most Tor instances, especially those compiled with extra compiler
17276 hardening. With this defense in place, such bugs can't crash Tor,
17277 though we should still fix them as they occur. Closes ticket
17278 20384 (TROVE-2016-10-001).
17280 o Major bugfixes (parsing, security, backport from 0.2.9.8):
17281 - Fix a bug in parsing that could cause clients to read a single
17282 byte past the end of an allocated region. This bug could be used
17283 to cause hardened clients (built with --enable-expensive-hardening)
17284 to crash if they tried to visit a hostile hidden service. Non-
17285 hardened clients are only affected depending on the details of
17286 their platform's memory allocator. Fixes bug 21018; bugfix on
17287 0.2.0.8-alpha. Found by using libFuzzer. Also tracked as TROVE-
17288 2016-12-002 and as CVE-2016-1254.
17290 o Major bugfixes (security, client, DNS proxy, backport from 0.2.8.3-alpha):
17291 - Stop a crash that could occur when a client running with DNSPort
17292 received a query with multiple address types, and the first
17293 address type was not supported. Found and fixed by Scott Dial.
17294 Fixes bug 18710; bugfix on 0.2.5.4-alpha.
17296 o Major bugfixes (security, correctness, backport from 0.2.7.4-rc):
17297 - Fix an error that could cause us to read 4 bytes before the
17298 beginning of an openssl string. This bug could be used to cause
17299 Tor to crash on systems with unusual malloc implementations, or
17300 systems with unusual hardening installed. Fixes bug 17404; bugfix
17303 o Major bugfixes (security, pointers, backport from 0.2.8.2-alpha):
17304 - Avoid a difficult-to-trigger heap corruption attack when extending
17305 a smartlist to contain over 16GB of pointers. Fixes bug 18162;
17306 bugfix on 0.1.1.11-alpha, which fixed a related bug incompletely.
17307 Reported by Guido Vranken.
17309 o Major bugfixes (dns proxy mode, crash, backport from 0.2.8.2-alpha):
17310 - Avoid crashing when running as a DNS proxy. Fixes bug 16248;
17311 bugfix on 0.2.0.1-alpha. Patch from "cypherpunks".
17313 o Major bugfixes (guard selection, backport from 0.2.7.6):
17314 - Actually look at the Guard flag when selecting a new directory
17315 guard. When we implemented the directory guard design, we
17316 accidentally started treating all relays as if they have the Guard
17317 flag during guard selection, leading to weaker anonymity and worse
17318 performance. Fixes bug 17772; bugfix on 0.2.4.8-alpha. Discovered
17321 o Major bugfixes (key management, backport from 0.2.8.3-alpha):
17322 - If OpenSSL fails to generate an RSA key, do not retain a dangling
17323 pointer to the previous (uninitialized) key value. The impact here
17324 should be limited to a difficult-to-trigger crash, if OpenSSL is
17325 running an engine that makes key generation failures possible, or
17326 if OpenSSL runs out of memory. Fixes bug 19152; bugfix on
17327 0.2.1.10-alpha. Found by Yuan Jochen Kang, Suman Jana, and
17330 o Major bugfixes (parsing, backported from 0.3.0.4-rc):
17331 - Fix an integer underflow bug when comparing malformed Tor
17332 versions. This bug could crash Tor when built with
17333 --enable-expensive-hardening, or on Tor 0.2.9.1-alpha through Tor
17334 0.2.9.8, which were built with -ftrapv by default. In other cases
17335 it was harmless. Part of TROVE-2017-001. Fixes bug 21278; bugfix
17336 on 0.0.8pre1. Found by OSS-Fuzz.
17338 o Minor features (security, memory erasure, backport from 0.2.8.1-alpha):
17339 - Make memwipe() do nothing when passed a NULL pointer or buffer of
17340 zero size. Check size argument to memwipe() for underflow. Fixes
17341 bug 18089; bugfix on 0.2.3.25 and 0.2.4.6-alpha. Reported by "gk",
17344 o Minor features (bug-resistance, backport from 0.2.8.2-alpha):
17345 - Make Tor survive errors involving connections without a
17346 corresponding event object. Previously we'd fail with an
17347 assertion; now we produce a log message. Related to bug 16248.
17349 o Minor features (geoip):
17350 - Update geoip and geoip6 to the February 8 2017 Maxmind GeoLite2
17353 o Minor bugfixes (compilation, backport from 0.2.7.6):
17354 - Fix a compilation warning with Clang 3.6: Do not check the
17355 presence of an address which can never be NULL. Fixes bug 17781.
17358 Changes in version 0.2.5.13 - 2017-03-03
17359 Tor 0.2.5.13 backports a number of security fixes from later Tor
17360 releases. Anybody running Tor 0.2.5.13 or earlier should upgrade to
17361 this release, if for some reason they cannot upgrade to a later
17364 Note that support for Tor 0.2.5.x is ending next year: we will not issue
17365 any fixes for the Tor 0.2.5.x series after 1 May 2018. If you need
17366 a Tor release series with longer-term support, we recommend Tor 0.2.9.x.
17368 o Directory authority changes (backport from 0.2.8.5-rc):
17369 - Urras is no longer a directory authority. Closes ticket 19271.
17371 o Directory authority changes (backport from 0.2.9.2-alpha):
17372 - The "Tonga" bridge authority has been retired; the new bridge
17373 authority is "Bifroest". Closes tickets 19728 and 19690.
17375 o Directory authority key updates (backport from 0.2.8.1-alpha):
17376 - Update the V3 identity key for the dannenberg directory authority:
17377 it was changed on 18 November 2015. Closes task 17906. Patch
17380 o Major features (security fixes, backport from 0.2.9.4-alpha):
17381 - Prevent a class of security bugs caused by treating the contents
17382 of a buffer chunk as if they were a NUL-terminated string. At
17383 least one such bug seems to be present in all currently used
17384 versions of Tor, and would allow an attacker to remotely crash
17385 most Tor instances, especially those compiled with extra compiler
17386 hardening. With this defense in place, such bugs can't crash Tor,
17387 though we should still fix them as they occur. Closes ticket
17388 20384 (TROVE-2016-10-001).
17390 o Major bugfixes (parsing, security, backport from 0.2.9.8):
17391 - Fix a bug in parsing that could cause clients to read a single
17392 byte past the end of an allocated region. This bug could be used
17393 to cause hardened clients (built with --enable-expensive-hardening)
17394 to crash if they tried to visit a hostile hidden service. Non-
17395 hardened clients are only affected depending on the details of
17396 their platform's memory allocator. Fixes bug 21018; bugfix on
17397 0.2.0.8-alpha. Found by using libFuzzer. Also tracked as TROVE-
17398 2016-12-002 and as CVE-2016-1254.
17400 o Major bugfixes (security, client, DNS proxy, backport from 0.2.8.3-alpha):
17401 - Stop a crash that could occur when a client running with DNSPort
17402 received a query with multiple address types, and the first
17403 address type was not supported. Found and fixed by Scott Dial.
17404 Fixes bug 18710; bugfix on 0.2.5.4-alpha.
17406 o Major bugfixes (security, correctness, backport from 0.2.7.4-rc):
17407 - Fix an error that could cause us to read 4 bytes before the
17408 beginning of an openssl string. This bug could be used to cause
17409 Tor to crash on systems with unusual malloc implementations, or
17410 systems with unusual hardening installed. Fixes bug 17404; bugfix
17413 o Major bugfixes (security, pointers, backport from 0.2.8.2-alpha):
17414 - Avoid a difficult-to-trigger heap corruption attack when extending
17415 a smartlist to contain over 16GB of pointers. Fixes bug 18162;
17416 bugfix on 0.1.1.11-alpha, which fixed a related bug incompletely.
17417 Reported by Guido Vranken.
17419 o Major bugfixes (dns proxy mode, crash, backport from 0.2.8.2-alpha):
17420 - Avoid crashing when running as a DNS proxy. Fixes bug 16248;
17421 bugfix on 0.2.0.1-alpha. Patch from "cypherpunks".
17423 o Major bugfixes (guard selection, backport from 0.2.7.6):
17424 - Actually look at the Guard flag when selecting a new directory
17425 guard. When we implemented the directory guard design, we
17426 accidentally started treating all relays as if they have the Guard
17427 flag during guard selection, leading to weaker anonymity and worse
17428 performance. Fixes bug 17772; bugfix on 0.2.4.8-alpha. Discovered
17431 o Major bugfixes (key management, backport from 0.2.8.3-alpha):
17432 - If OpenSSL fails to generate an RSA key, do not retain a dangling
17433 pointer to the previous (uninitialized) key value. The impact here
17434 should be limited to a difficult-to-trigger crash, if OpenSSL is
17435 running an engine that makes key generation failures possible, or
17436 if OpenSSL runs out of memory. Fixes bug 19152; bugfix on
17437 0.2.1.10-alpha. Found by Yuan Jochen Kang, Suman Jana, and
17440 o Major bugfixes (parsing, backported from 0.3.0.4-rc):
17441 - Fix an integer underflow bug when comparing malformed Tor
17442 versions. This bug could crash Tor when built with
17443 --enable-expensive-hardening, or on Tor 0.2.9.1-alpha through Tor
17444 0.2.9.8, which were built with -ftrapv by default. In other cases
17445 it was harmless. Part of TROVE-2017-001. Fixes bug 21278; bugfix
17446 on 0.0.8pre1. Found by OSS-Fuzz.
17448 o Minor features (security, memory erasure, backport from 0.2.8.1-alpha):
17449 - Make memwipe() do nothing when passed a NULL pointer or buffer of
17450 zero size. Check size argument to memwipe() for underflow. Fixes
17451 bug 18089; bugfix on 0.2.3.25 and 0.2.4.6-alpha. Reported by "gk",
17454 o Minor features (bug-resistance, backport from 0.2.8.2-alpha):
17455 - Make Tor survive errors involving connections without a
17456 corresponding event object. Previously we'd fail with an
17457 assertion; now we produce a log message. Related to bug 16248.
17459 o Minor features (geoip):
17460 - Update geoip and geoip6 to the February 8 2017 Maxmind GeoLite2
17463 o Minor bugfixes (compilation, backport from 0.2.7.6):
17464 - Fix a compilation warning with Clang 3.6: Do not check the
17465 presence of an address which can never be NULL. Fixes bug 17781.
17467 o Minor bugfixes (crypto error-handling, backport from 0.2.7.2-alpha):
17468 - Check for failures from crypto_early_init, and refuse to continue.
17469 A previous typo meant that we could keep going with an
17470 uninitialized crypto library, and would have OpenSSL initialize
17471 its own PRNG. Fixes bug 16360; bugfix on 0.2.5.2-alpha, introduced
17472 when implementing ticket 4900. Patch by "teor".
17474 o Minor bugfixes (hidden service, backport from 0.2.7.1-alpha):
17475 - Fix an out-of-bounds read when parsing invalid INTRODUCE2 cells on
17476 a client authorized hidden service. Fixes bug 15823; bugfix
17480 Changes in version 0.2.4.28 - 2017-03-03
17481 Tor 0.2.4.28 backports a number of security fixes from later Tor
17482 releases. Anybody running Tor 0.2.4.27 or earlier should upgrade to
17483 this release, if for some reason they cannot upgrade to a later
17486 Note that support for Tor 0.2.4.x is ending soon: we will not issue
17487 any fixes for the Tor 0.2.4.x series after 1 August 2017. If you need
17488 a Tor release series with long-term support, we recommend Tor 0.2.9.x.
17490 o Directory authority changes (backport from 0.2.8.5-rc):
17491 - Urras is no longer a directory authority. Closes ticket 19271.
17493 o Directory authority changes (backport from 0.2.9.2-alpha):
17494 - The "Tonga" bridge authority has been retired; the new bridge
17495 authority is "Bifroest". Closes tickets 19728 and 19690.
17497 o Directory authority key updates (backport from 0.2.8.1-alpha):
17498 - Update the V3 identity key for the dannenberg directory authority:
17499 it was changed on 18 November 2015. Closes task 17906. Patch
17502 o Major features (security fixes, backport from 0.2.9.4-alpha):
17503 - Prevent a class of security bugs caused by treating the contents
17504 of a buffer chunk as if they were a NUL-terminated string. At
17505 least one such bug seems to be present in all currently used
17506 versions of Tor, and would allow an attacker to remotely crash
17507 most Tor instances, especially those compiled with extra compiler
17508 hardening. With this defense in place, such bugs can't crash Tor,
17509 though we should still fix them as they occur. Closes ticket
17510 20384 (TROVE-2016-10-001).
17512 o Major bugfixes (parsing, security, backport from 0.2.9.8):
17513 - Fix a bug in parsing that could cause clients to read a single
17514 byte past the end of an allocated region. This bug could be used
17515 to cause hardened clients (built with --enable-expensive-hardening)
17516 to crash if they tried to visit a hostile hidden service. Non-
17517 hardened clients are only affected depending on the details of
17518 their platform's memory allocator. Fixes bug 21018; bugfix on
17519 0.2.0.8-alpha. Found by using libFuzzer. Also tracked as TROVE-
17520 2016-12-002 and as CVE-2016-1254.
17522 o Major bugfixes (security, correctness, backport from 0.2.7.4-rc):
17523 - Fix an error that could cause us to read 4 bytes before the
17524 beginning of an openssl string. This bug could be used to cause
17525 Tor to crash on systems with unusual malloc implementations, or
17526 systems with unusual hardening installed. Fixes bug 17404; bugfix
17529 o Major bugfixes (security, pointers, backport from 0.2.8.2-alpha):
17530 - Avoid a difficult-to-trigger heap corruption attack when extending
17531 a smartlist to contain over 16GB of pointers. Fixes bug 18162;
17532 bugfix on 0.1.1.11-alpha, which fixed a related bug incompletely.
17533 Reported by Guido Vranken.
17535 o Major bugfixes (dns proxy mode, crash, backport from 0.2.8.2-alpha):
17536 - Avoid crashing when running as a DNS proxy. Fixes bug 16248;
17537 bugfix on 0.2.0.1-alpha. Patch from "cypherpunks".
17539 o Major bugfixes (guard selection, backport from 0.2.7.6):
17540 - Actually look at the Guard flag when selecting a new directory
17541 guard. When we implemented the directory guard design, we
17542 accidentally started treating all relays as if they have the Guard
17543 flag during guard selection, leading to weaker anonymity and worse
17544 performance. Fixes bug 17772; bugfix on 0.2.4.8-alpha. Discovered
17547 o Major bugfixes (key management, backport from 0.2.8.3-alpha):
17548 - If OpenSSL fails to generate an RSA key, do not retain a dangling
17549 pointer to the previous (uninitialized) key value. The impact here
17550 should be limited to a difficult-to-trigger crash, if OpenSSL is
17551 running an engine that makes key generation failures possible, or
17552 if OpenSSL runs out of memory. Fixes bug 19152; bugfix on
17553 0.2.1.10-alpha. Found by Yuan Jochen Kang, Suman Jana, and
17556 o Major bugfixes (parsing, backported from 0.3.0.4-rc):
17557 - Fix an integer underflow bug when comparing malformed Tor
17558 versions. This bug could crash Tor when built with
17559 --enable-expensive-hardening, or on Tor 0.2.9.1-alpha through Tor
17560 0.2.9.8, which were built with -ftrapv by default. In other cases
17561 it was harmless. Part of TROVE-2017-001. Fixes bug 21278; bugfix
17562 on 0.0.8pre1. Found by OSS-Fuzz.
17564 o Minor features (security, memory erasure, backport from 0.2.8.1-alpha):
17565 - Make memwipe() do nothing when passed a NULL pointer or buffer of
17566 zero size. Check size argument to memwipe() for underflow. Fixes
17567 bug 18089; bugfix on 0.2.3.25 and 0.2.4.6-alpha. Reported by "gk",
17570 o Minor features (bug-resistance, backport from 0.2.8.2-alpha):
17571 - Make Tor survive errors involving connections without a
17572 corresponding event object. Previously we'd fail with an
17573 assertion; now we produce a log message. Related to bug 16248.
17575 o Minor features (DoS-resistance, backport from 0.2.7.1-alpha):
17576 - Make it harder for attackers to overload hidden services with
17577 introductions, by blocking multiple introduction requests on the
17578 same circuit. Resolves ticket 15515.
17580 o Minor features (geoip):
17581 - Update geoip and geoip6 to the February 8 2017 Maxmind GeoLite2
17584 o Minor bugfixes (compilation, backport from 0.2.7.6):
17585 - Fix a compilation warning with Clang 3.6: Do not check the
17586 presence of an address which can never be NULL. Fixes bug 17781.
17588 o Minor bugfixes (hidden service, backport from 0.2.7.1-alpha):
17589 - Fix an out-of-bounds read when parsing invalid INTRODUCE2 cells on
17590 a client authorized hidden service. Fixes bug 15823; bugfix
17594 Changes in version 0.3.0.4-rc - 2017-03-01
17595 Tor 0.3.0.4-rc fixes some remaining bugs, large and small, in the
17596 0.3.0 release series, and introduces a few reliability features to
17597 keep them from coming back.
17599 This is the first release candidate in the Tor 0.3.0 series. If we
17600 find no new bugs or regressions here, the first stable 0.3.0 release
17601 will be nearly identical to it.
17603 o Major bugfixes (bridges):
17604 - When the same bridge is configured multiple times with the same
17605 identity, but at different address:port combinations, treat those
17606 bridge instances as separate guards. This fix restores the ability
17607 of clients to configure the same bridge with multiple pluggable
17608 transports. Fixes bug 21027; bugfix on 0.3.0.1-alpha.
17610 o Major bugfixes (hidden service directory v3):
17611 - Stop crashing on a failed v3 hidden service descriptor lookup
17612 failure. Fixes bug 21471; bugfixes on 0.3.0.1-alpha.
17614 o Major bugfixes (parsing):
17615 - When parsing a malformed content-length field from an HTTP
17616 message, do not read off the end of the buffer. This bug was a
17617 potential remote denial-of-service attack against Tor clients and
17618 relays. A workaround was released in October 2016, to prevent this
17619 bug from crashing Tor. This is a fix for the underlying issue,
17620 which should no longer matter (if you applied the earlier patch).
17621 Fixes bug 20894; bugfix on 0.2.0.16-alpha. Bug found by fuzzing
17622 using AFL (http://lcamtuf.coredump.cx/afl/).
17623 - Fix an integer underflow bug when comparing malformed Tor
17624 versions. This bug could crash Tor when built with
17625 --enable-expensive-hardening, or on Tor 0.2.9.1-alpha through Tor
17626 0.2.9.8, which were built with -ftrapv by default. In other cases
17627 it was harmless. Part of TROVE-2017-001. Fixes bug 21278; bugfix
17628 on 0.0.8pre1. Found by OSS-Fuzz.
17630 o Minor feature (protocol versioning):
17631 - Add new protocol version for proposal 224. HSIntro now advertises
17632 version "3-4" and HSDir version "1-2". Fixes ticket 20656.
17634 o Minor features (directory authorities):
17635 - Directory authorities now reject descriptors that claim to be
17636 malformed versions of Tor. Helps prevent exploitation of
17638 - Reject version numbers with components that exceed INT32_MAX.
17639 Otherwise 32-bit and 64-bit platforms would behave inconsistently.
17640 Fixes bug 21450; bugfix on 0.0.8pre1.
17641 - Directory authorities now reject relays running versions
17642 0.2.9.1-alpha through 0.2.9.4-alpha, because those relays
17643 suffer from bug 20499 and don't keep their consensus cache
17644 up-to-date. Resolves ticket 20509.
17646 o Minor features (geoip):
17647 - Update geoip and geoip6 to the February 8 2017 Maxmind GeoLite2
17650 o Minor features (reliability, crash):
17651 - Try better to detect problems in buffers where they might grow (or
17652 think they have grown) over 2 GB in size. Diagnostic for
17655 o Minor features (testing):
17656 - During 'make test-network-all', if tor logs any warnings, ask
17657 chutney to output them. Requires a recent version of chutney with
17658 the 21572 patch. Implements 21570.
17660 o Minor bugfixes (certificate expiration time):
17661 - Avoid using link certificates that don't become valid till some
17662 time in the future. Fixes bug 21420; bugfix on 0.2.4.11-alpha
17664 o Minor bugfixes (code correctness):
17665 - Repair a couple of (unreachable or harmless) cases of the risky
17666 comparison-by-subtraction pattern that caused bug 21278.
17667 - Remove a redundant check for the UseEntryGuards option from the
17668 options_transition_affects_guards() function. Fixes bug 21492;
17669 bugfix on 0.3.0.1-alpha.
17671 o Minor bugfixes (directory mirrors):
17672 - Allow relays to use directory mirrors without a DirPort: these
17673 relays need to be contacted over their ORPorts using a begindir
17674 connection. Fixes one case of bug 20711; bugfix on 0.2.8.2-alpha.
17675 - Clarify the message logged when a remote relay is unexpectedly
17676 missing an ORPort or DirPort: users were confusing this with a
17677 local port. Fixes another case of bug 20711; bugfix
17680 o Minor bugfixes (guards):
17681 - Don't warn about a missing guard state on timeout-measurement
17682 circuits: they aren't supposed to be using guards. Fixes an
17683 instance of bug 21007; bugfix on 0.3.0.1-alpha.
17684 - Silence a BUG() warning when attempting to use a guard whose
17685 descriptor we don't know, and make this scenario less likely to
17686 happen. Fixes bug 21415; bugfix on 0.3.0.1-alpha.
17688 o Minor bugfixes (hidden service):
17689 - Pass correct buffer length when encoding legacy ESTABLISH_INTRO
17690 cells. Previously, we were using sizeof() on a pointer, instead of
17691 the real destination buffer. Fortunately, that value was only used
17692 to double-check that there was enough room--which was already
17693 enforced elsewhere. Fixes bug 21553; bugfix on 0.3.0.1-alpha.
17695 o Minor bugfixes (testing):
17696 - Fix Raspbian build issues related to missing socket errno in
17697 test_util.c. Fixes bug 21116; bugfix on 0.2.8.2. Patch
17699 - Rename "make fuzz" to "make test-fuzz-corpora", since it doesn't
17700 actually fuzz anything. Fixes bug 21447; bugfix on 0.3.0.3-alpha.
17701 - Use bash in src/test/test-network.sh. This ensures we reliably
17702 call chutney's newer tools/test-network.sh when available. Fixes
17703 bug 21562; bugfix on 0.2.9.1-alpha.
17706 - Small fixes to the fuzzing documentation. Closes ticket 21472.
17709 Changes in version 0.2.9.10 - 2017-03-01
17710 Tor 0.2.9.10 backports a security fix from later Tor release. It also
17711 includes fixes for some major issues affecting directory authorities,
17712 LibreSSL compatibility, and IPv6 correctness.
17714 The Tor 0.2.9.x release series is now marked as a long-term-support
17715 series. We intend to backport security fixes to 0.2.9.x until at
17716 least January of 2020.
17718 o Major bugfixes (directory authority, 0.3.0.3-alpha):
17719 - During voting, when marking a relay as a probable sybil, do not
17720 clear its BadExit flag: sybils can still be bad in other ways
17721 too. (We still clear the other flags.) Fixes bug 21108; bugfix
17724 o Major bugfixes (IPv6 Exits, backport from 0.3.0.3-alpha):
17725 - Stop rejecting all IPv6 traffic on Exits whose exit policy rejects
17726 any IPv6 addresses. Instead, only reject a port over IPv6 if the
17727 exit policy rejects that port on more than an IPv6 /16 of
17728 addresses. This bug was made worse by 17027 in 0.2.8.1-alpha,
17729 which rejected a relay's own IPv6 address by default. Fixes bug
17730 21357; bugfix on commit 004f3f4e53 in 0.2.4.7-alpha.
17732 o Major bugfixes (parsing, also in 0.3.0.4-rc):
17733 - Fix an integer underflow bug when comparing malformed Tor
17734 versions. This bug could crash Tor when built with
17735 --enable-expensive-hardening, or on Tor 0.2.9.1-alpha through Tor
17736 0.2.9.8, which were built with -ftrapv by default. In other cases
17737 it was harmless. Part of TROVE-2017-001. Fixes bug 21278; bugfix
17738 on 0.0.8pre1. Found by OSS-Fuzz.
17740 o Minor features (directory authorities, also in 0.3.0.4-rc):
17741 - Directory authorities now reject descriptors that claim to be
17742 malformed versions of Tor. Helps prevent exploitation of
17744 - Reject version numbers with components that exceed INT32_MAX.
17745 Otherwise 32-bit and 64-bit platforms would behave inconsistently.
17746 Fixes bug 21450; bugfix on 0.0.8pre1.
17748 o Minor features (geoip):
17749 - Update geoip and geoip6 to the February 8 2017 Maxmind GeoLite2
17752 o Minor features (portability, compilation, backport from 0.3.0.3-alpha):
17753 - Autoconf now checks to determine if OpenSSL structures are opaque,
17754 instead of explicitly checking for OpenSSL version numbers. Part
17756 - Support building with recent LibreSSL code that uses opaque
17757 structures. Closes ticket 21359.
17759 o Minor bugfixes (code correctness, also in 0.3.0.4-rc):
17760 - Repair a couple of (unreachable or harmless) cases of the risky
17761 comparison-by-subtraction pattern that caused bug 21278.
17763 o Minor bugfixes (tor-resolve, backport from 0.3.0.3-alpha):
17764 - The tor-resolve command line tool now rejects hostnames over 255
17765 characters in length. Previously, it would silently truncate them,
17766 which could lead to bugs. Fixes bug 21280; bugfix on 0.0.9pre5.
17767 Patch by "junglefowl".
17770 Changes in version 0.3.0.3-alpha - 2017-02-03
17771 Tor 0.3.0.3-alpha fixes a few significant bugs introduced over the
17772 0.3.0.x development series, including some that could cause
17773 authorities to behave badly. There is also a fix for a longstanding
17774 bug that could prevent IPv6 exits from working. Tor 0.3.0.3-alpha also
17775 includes some smaller features and bugfixes.
17777 The Tor 0.3.0.x release series is now in patch-freeze: no additional
17778 features will be considered for inclusion in 0.3.0.x. We suspect that
17779 some bugs will probably remain, however, and we encourage people to
17782 o Major bugfixes (directory authority):
17783 - During voting, when marking a relay as a probable sybil, do not
17784 clear its BadExit flag: sybils can still be bad in other ways
17785 too. (We still clear the other flags.) Fixes bug 21108; bugfix
17787 - When deciding whether we have just found a router to be reachable,
17788 do not penalize it for not having performed an Ed25519 link
17789 handshake if it does not claim to support an Ed25519 handshake.
17790 Previously, we would treat such relays as non-running. Fixes bug
17791 21107; bugfix on 0.3.0.1-alpha.
17793 o Major bugfixes (entry guards):
17794 - Stop trying to build circuits through entry guards for which we
17795 have no descriptor. Also, stop crashing in the case that we *do*
17796 accidentally try to build a circuit in such a state. Fixes bug
17797 21242; bugfix on 0.3.0.1-alpha.
17799 o Major bugfixes (IPv6 Exits):
17800 - Stop rejecting all IPv6 traffic on Exits whose exit policy rejects
17801 any IPv6 addresses. Instead, only reject a port over IPv6 if the
17802 exit policy rejects that port on more than an IPv6 /16 of
17803 addresses. This bug was made worse by 17027 in 0.2.8.1-alpha,
17804 which rejected a relay's own IPv6 address by default. Fixes bug
17805 21357; bugfix on commit 004f3f4e53 in 0.2.4.7-alpha.
17807 o Minor feature (client):
17808 - Enable IPv6 traffic on the SocksPort by default. To disable this,
17809 a user will have to specify "NoIPv6Traffic". Closes ticket 21269.
17811 o Minor feature (fallback scripts):
17812 - Add a check_existing mode to updateFallbackDirs.py, which checks
17813 if fallbacks in the hard-coded list are working. Closes ticket
17814 20174. Patch by haxxpop.
17816 o Minor features (ciphersuite selection):
17817 - Clients now advertise a list of ciphersuites closer to the ones
17818 preferred by Firefox. Closes part of ticket 15426.
17819 - Allow relays to accept a wider range of ciphersuites, including
17820 chacha20-poly1305 and AES-CCM. Closes the other part of 15426.
17822 o Minor features (controller, configuration):
17823 - Each of the *Port options, such as SocksPort, ORPort, ControlPort,
17824 and so on, now comes with a __*Port variant that will not be saved
17825 to the torrc file by the controller's SAVECONF command. This
17826 change allows TorBrowser to set up a single-use domain socket for
17827 each time it launches Tor. Closes ticket 20956.
17828 - The GETCONF command can now query options that may only be
17829 meaningful in context-sensitive lists. This allows the controller
17830 to query the mixed SocksPort/__SocksPort style options introduced
17831 in feature 20956. Implements ticket 21300.
17833 o Minor features (portability, compilation):
17834 - Autoconf now checks to determine if OpenSSL structures are opaque,
17835 instead of explicitly checking for OpenSSL version numbers. Part
17837 - Support building with recent LibreSSL code that uses opaque
17838 structures. Closes ticket 21359.
17840 o Minor features (relay):
17841 - We now allow separation of exit and relay traffic to different
17842 source IP addresses, using the OutboundBindAddressExit and
17843 OutboundBindAddressOR options respectively. Closes ticket 17975.
17844 Written by Michael Sonntag.
17846 o Minor bugfix (logging):
17847 - Don't recommend the use of Tor2web in non-anonymous mode.
17848 Recommending Tor2web is a bad idea because the client loses all
17849 anonymity. Tor2web should only be used in specific cases by users
17850 who *know* and understand the issues. Fixes bug 21294; bugfix
17853 o Minor bugfixes (client):
17854 - Always recover from failures in extend_info_from_node(), in an
17855 attempt to prevent any recurrence of bug 21242. Fixes bug 21372;
17856 bugfix on 0.2.3.1-alpha.
17858 o Minor bugfixes (client, entry guards):
17859 - Fix a bug warning (with backtrace) when we fail a channel that
17860 circuits to fallback directories on it. Fixes bug 21128; bugfix
17862 - Fix a spurious bug warning (with backtrace) when removing an
17863 expired entry guard. Fixes bug 21129; bugfix on 0.3.0.1-alpha.
17864 - Fix a bug of the new guard algorithm where tor could stall for up
17865 to 10 minutes before retrying a guard after a long period of no
17866 network. Fixes bug 21052; bugfix on 0.3.0.1-alpha.
17867 - Do not try to build circuits until we have descriptors for our
17868 primary entry guards. Related to fix for bug 21242.
17870 o Minor bugfixes (configure, autoconf):
17871 - Rename the configure option --enable-expensive-hardening to
17872 --enable-fragile-hardening. Expensive hardening makes the tor
17873 daemon abort when some kinds of issues are detected. Thus, it
17874 makes tor more at risk of remote crashes but safer against RCE or
17875 heartbleed bug category. We now try to explain this issue in a
17876 message from the configure script. Fixes bug 21290; bugfix
17879 o Minor bugfixes (controller):
17880 - Restore the (deprecated) DROPGUARDS controller command. Fixes bug
17881 20824; bugfix on 0.3.0.1-alpha.
17883 o Minor bugfixes (hidden service):
17884 - Clean up the code for expiring intro points with no associated
17885 circuits. It was causing, rarely, a service with some expiring
17886 introduction points to not open enough additional introduction
17887 points. Fixes part of bug 21302; bugfix on 0.2.7.2-alpha.
17888 - Stop setting the torrc option HiddenServiceStatistics to "0" just
17889 because we're not a bridge or relay. Instead, we preserve whatever
17890 value the user set (or didn't set). Fixes bug 21150; bugfix
17892 - Resolve two possible underflows which could lead to creating and
17893 closing a lot of introduction point circuits in a non-stop loop.
17894 Fixes bug 21302; bugfix on 0.2.7.2-alpha.
17896 o Minor bugfixes (portability):
17897 - Use "OpenBSD" compiler macro instead of "OPENBSD" or "__OpenBSD__".
17898 It is supported by OpenBSD itself, and also by most OpenBSD
17899 variants (such as Bitrig). Fixes bug 20980; bugfix
17901 - When mapping a file of length greater than SIZE_MAX, do not
17902 silently truncate its contents. This issue could occur on 32 bit
17903 systems with large file support and files which are larger than 4
17904 GB. Fixes bug 21134; bugfix on 0.3.0.1-alpha.
17906 o Minor bugfixes (tor-resolve):
17907 - The tor-resolve command line tool now rejects hostnames over 255
17908 characters in length. Previously, it would silently truncate them,
17909 which could lead to bugs. Fixes bug 21280; bugfix on 0.0.9pre5.
17910 Patch by "junglefowl".
17912 o Minor bugfixes (Windows services):
17913 - Be sure to initialize the monotonic time subsystem before using
17914 it, even when running as an NT service. Fixes bug 21356; bugfix
17918 Changes in version 0.3.0.2-alpha - 2017-01-23
17919 Tor 0.3.0.2-alpha fixes a denial-of-service bug where an attacker could
17920 cause relays and clients to crash, even if they were not built with
17921 the --enable-expensive-hardening option. This bug affects all 0.2.9.x
17922 versions, and also affects 0.3.0.1-alpha: all relays running an affected
17923 version should upgrade.
17925 Tor 0.3.0.2-alpha also improves how exit relays and clients handle DNS
17926 time-to-live values, makes directory authorities enforce the 1-to-1
17927 mapping of relay RSA identity keys to ED25519 identity keys, fixes a
17928 client-side onion service reachability bug, does better at selecting
17929 the set of fallback directories, and more.
17931 o Major bugfixes (security, also in 0.2.9.9):
17932 - Downgrade the "-ftrapv" option from "always on" to "only on when
17933 --enable-expensive-hardening is provided." This hardening option, like
17934 others, can turn survivable bugs into crashes--and having it on by
17935 default made a (relatively harmless) integer overflow bug into a
17936 denial-of-service bug. Fixes bug 21278 (TROVE-2017-001); bugfix on
17939 o Major features (security):
17940 - Change the algorithm used to decide DNS TTLs on client and server
17941 side, to better resist DNS-based correlation attacks like the
17942 DefecTor attack of Greschbach, Pulls, Roberts, Winter, and
17943 Feamster. Now relays only return one of two possible DNS TTL
17944 values, and clients are willing to believe DNS TTL values up to 3
17945 hours long. Closes ticket 19769.
17947 o Major features (directory authority, security):
17948 - The default for AuthDirPinKeys is now 1: directory authorities
17949 will reject relays where the RSA identity key matches a previously
17950 seen value, but the Ed25519 key has changed. Closes ticket 18319.
17952 o Major bugfixes (client, guard, crash):
17953 - In circuit_get_global_origin_list(), return the actual list of
17954 origin circuits. The previous version of this code returned the
17955 list of all the circuits, and could have caused strange bugs,
17956 including possible crashes. Fixes bug 21118; bugfix
17959 o Major bugfixes (client, onion service, also in 0.2.9.9):
17960 - Fix a client-side onion service reachability bug, where multiple
17961 socks requests to an onion service (or a single slow request)
17962 could cause us to mistakenly mark some of the service's
17963 introduction points as failed, and we cache that failure so
17964 eventually we run out and can't reach the service. Also resolves a
17965 mysterious "Remote server sent bogus reason code 65021" log
17966 warning. The bug was introduced in ticket 17218, where we tried to
17967 remember the circuit end reason as a uint16_t, which mangled
17968 negative values. Partially fixes bug 21056 and fixes bug 20307;
17969 bugfix on 0.2.8.1-alpha.
17971 o Major bugfixes (DNS):
17972 - Fix a bug that prevented exit nodes from caching DNS records for
17973 more than 60 seconds. Fixes bug 19025; bugfix on 0.2.4.7-alpha.
17975 o Minor features (controller):
17976 - Add "GETINFO sr/current" and "GETINFO sr/previous" keys, to expose
17977 shared-random values to the controller. Closes ticket 19925.
17979 o Minor features (entry guards):
17980 - Add UseEntryGuards to TEST_OPTIONS_DEFAULT_VALUES in order to not
17981 break regression tests.
17982 - Require UseEntryGuards when UseBridges is set, in order to make
17983 sure bridges aren't bypassed. Resolves ticket 20502.
17985 o Minor features (fallback directories):
17986 - Select 200 fallback directories for each release. Closes
17988 - Allow 3 fallback relays per operator, which is safe now that we
17989 are choosing 200 fallback relays. Closes ticket 20912.
17990 - Exclude relays affected by bug 20499 from the fallback list.
17991 Exclude relays from the fallback list if they are running versions
17992 known to be affected by bug 20499, or if in our tests they deliver
17993 a stale consensus (i.e. one that expired more than 24 hours ago).
17994 Closes ticket 20539.
17995 - Reduce the minimum fallback bandwidth to 1 MByte/s. Part of
17997 - Require fallback directories to have the same address and port for
17998 7 days (now that we have enough relays with this stability).
17999 Relays whose OnionOO stability timer is reset on restart by bug
18000 18050 should upgrade to Tor 0.2.8.7 or later, which has a fix for
18001 this issue. Closes ticket 20880; maintains short-term fix
18003 - Require fallbacks to have flags for 90% of the time (weighted
18004 decaying average), rather than 95%. This allows at least 73% of
18005 clients to bootstrap in the first 5 seconds without contacting an
18006 authority. Part of ticket 18828.
18007 - Annotate updateFallbackDirs.py with the bandwidth and consensus
18008 weight for each candidate fallback. Closes ticket 20878.
18009 - Make it easier to change the output sort order of fallbacks.
18010 Closes ticket 20822.
18011 - Display the relay fingerprint when downloading consensuses from
18012 fallbacks. Closes ticket 20908.
18014 o Minor features (geoip, also in 0.2.9.9):
18015 - Update geoip and geoip6 to the January 4 2017 Maxmind GeoLite2
18018 o Minor features (next-gen onion service directories):
18019 - Remove the "EnableOnionServicesV3" consensus parameter that we
18020 introduced in 0.3.0.1-alpha: relays are now always willing to act
18021 as v3 onion service directories. Resolves ticket 19899.
18023 o Minor features (linting):
18024 - Enhance the changes file linter to warn on Tor versions that are
18025 prefixed with "tor-". Closes ticket 21096.
18027 o Minor features (logging):
18028 - In several places, describe unset ed25519 keys as "<unset>",
18029 rather than the scary "AAAAAAAA...AAA". Closes ticket 21037.
18031 o Minor bugfix (control protocol):
18032 - The reply to a "GETINFO config/names" request via the control
18033 protocol now spells the type "Dependent" correctly. This is a
18034 breaking change in the control protocol. (The field seems to be
18035 ignored by the most common known controllers.) Fixes bug 18146;
18036 bugfix on 0.1.1.4-alpha.
18038 o Minor bugfixes (bug resilience):
18039 - Fix an unreachable size_t overflow in base64_decode(). Fixes bug
18040 19222; bugfix on 0.2.0.9-alpha. Found by Guido Vranken; fixed by
18041 Hans Jerry Illikainen.
18043 o Minor bugfixes (build):
18044 - Replace obsolete Autoconf macros with their modern equivalent and
18045 prevent similar issues in the future. Fixes bug 20990; bugfix
18048 o Minor bugfixes (client, guards):
18049 - Fix bug where Tor would think that there are circuits waiting for
18050 better guards even though those circuits have been freed. Fixes
18051 bug 21142; bugfix on 0.3.0.1-alpha.
18053 o Minor bugfixes (config):
18054 - Don't assert on startup when trying to get the options list and
18055 LearnCircuitBuildTimeout is set to 0: we are currently parsing the
18056 options so of course they aren't ready yet. Fixes bug 21062;
18057 bugfix on 0.2.9.3-alpha.
18059 o Minor bugfixes (controller):
18060 - Make the GETINFO interface for inquiring about entry guards
18061 support the new guards backend. Fixes bug 20823; bugfix
18064 o Minor bugfixes (dead code):
18065 - Remove a redundant check for PidFile changes at runtime in
18066 options_transition_allowed(): this check is already performed
18067 regardless of whether the sandbox is active. Fixes bug 21123;
18068 bugfix on 0.2.5.4-alpha.
18070 o Minor bugfixes (documentation):
18071 - Update the tor manual page to document every option that can not
18072 be changed while tor is running. Fixes bug 21122.
18074 o Minor bugfixes (fallback directories):
18075 - Stop failing when a relay has no uptime data in
18076 updateFallbackDirs.py. Fixes bug 20945; bugfix on 0.2.8.1-alpha.
18077 - Avoid checking fallback candidates' DirPorts if they are down in
18078 OnionOO. When a relay operator has multiple relays, this
18079 prioritizes relays that are up over relays that are down. Fixes
18080 bug 20926; bugfix on 0.2.8.3-alpha.
18081 - Stop failing when OUTPUT_COMMENTS is True in updateFallbackDirs.py.
18082 Fixes bug 20877; bugfix on 0.2.8.3-alpha.
18084 o Minor bugfixes (guards, bootstrapping):
18085 - When connecting to a directory guard during bootstrap, do not mark
18086 the guard as successful until we receive a good-looking directory
18087 response from it. Fixes bug 20974; bugfix on 0.3.0.1-alpha.
18089 o Minor bugfixes (onion services):
18090 - Fix the config reload pruning of old vs new services so it
18091 actually works when both ephemeral and non-ephemeral services are
18092 configured. Fixes bug 21054; bugfix on 0.3.0.1-alpha.
18093 - Allow the number of introduction points to be as low as 0, rather
18094 than as low as 3. Fixes bug 21033; bugfix on 0.2.7.2-alpha.
18096 o Minor bugfixes (IPv6):
18097 - Make IPv6-using clients try harder to find an IPv6 directory
18098 server. Fixes bug 20999; bugfix on 0.2.8.2-alpha.
18099 - When IPv6 addresses have not been downloaded yet (microdesc
18100 consensus documents don't list relay IPv6 addresses), use hard-
18101 coded addresses for authorities, fallbacks, and configured
18102 bridges. Now IPv6-only clients can use microdescriptors. Fixes bug
18103 20996; bugfix on b167e82 from 19608 in 0.2.8.5-alpha.
18105 o Minor bugfixes (memory leaks):
18106 - Fix a memory leak when configuring hidden services. Fixes bug
18107 20987; bugfix on 0.3.0.1-alpha.
18109 o Minor bugfixes (portability, also in 0.2.9.9):
18110 - Avoid crashing when Tor is built using headers that contain
18111 CLOCK_MONOTONIC_COARSE, but then tries to run on an older kernel
18112 without CLOCK_MONOTONIC_COARSE. Fixes bug 21035; bugfix
18114 - Fix Libevent detection on platforms without Libevent 1 headers
18115 installed. Fixes bug 21051; bugfix on 0.2.9.1-alpha.
18117 o Minor bugfixes (relay):
18118 - Honor DataDirectoryGroupReadable when tor is a relay. Previously,
18119 initializing the keys would reset the DataDirectory to 0700
18120 instead of 0750 even if DataDirectoryGroupReadable was set to 1.
18121 Fixes bug 19953; bugfix on 0.0.2pre16. Patch by "redfish".
18123 o Minor bugfixes (testing):
18124 - Remove undefined behavior from the backtrace generator by removing
18125 its signal handler. Fixes bug 21026; bugfix on 0.2.5.2-alpha.
18127 o Minor bugfixes (unit tests):
18128 - Allow the unit tests to pass even when DNS lookups of bogus
18129 addresses do not fail as expected. Fixes bug 20862 and 20863;
18130 bugfix on unit tests introduced in 0.2.8.1-alpha
18131 through 0.2.9.4-alpha.
18133 o Code simplification and refactoring:
18134 - Refactor code to manipulate global_origin_circuit_list into
18135 separate functions. Closes ticket 20921.
18137 o Documentation (formatting):
18138 - Clean up formatting of tor.1 man page and HTML doc, where <pre>
18139 blocks were incorrectly appearing. Closes ticket 20885.
18141 o Documentation (man page):
18142 - Clarify many options in tor.1 and add some min/max values for
18143 HiddenService options. Closes ticket 21058.
18146 Changes in version 0.2.9.9 - 2017-01-23
18147 Tor 0.2.9.9 fixes a denial-of-service bug where an attacker could
18148 cause relays and clients to crash, even if they were not built with
18149 the --enable-expensive-hardening option. This bug affects all 0.2.9.x
18150 versions, and also affects 0.3.0.1-alpha: all relays running an affected
18151 version should upgrade.
18153 This release also resolves a client-side onion service reachability
18154 bug, and resolves a pair of small portability issues.
18156 o Major bugfixes (security):
18157 - Downgrade the "-ftrapv" option from "always on" to "only on when
18158 --enable-expensive-hardening is provided." This hardening option,
18159 like others, can turn survivable bugs into crashes -- and having
18160 it on by default made a (relatively harmless) integer overflow bug
18161 into a denial-of-service bug. Fixes bug 21278 (TROVE-2017-001);
18162 bugfix on 0.2.9.1-alpha.
18164 o Major bugfixes (client, onion service):
18165 - Fix a client-side onion service reachability bug, where multiple
18166 socks requests to an onion service (or a single slow request)
18167 could cause us to mistakenly mark some of the service's
18168 introduction points as failed, and we cache that failure so
18169 eventually we run out and can't reach the service. Also resolves a
18170 mysterious "Remote server sent bogus reason code 65021" log
18171 warning. The bug was introduced in ticket 17218, where we tried to
18172 remember the circuit end reason as a uint16_t, which mangled
18173 negative values. Partially fixes bug 21056 and fixes bug 20307;
18174 bugfix on 0.2.8.1-alpha.
18176 o Minor features (geoip):
18177 - Update geoip and geoip6 to the January 4 2017 Maxmind GeoLite2
18180 o Minor bugfixes (portability):
18181 - Avoid crashing when Tor is built using headers that contain
18182 CLOCK_MONOTONIC_COARSE, but then tries to run on an older kernel
18183 without CLOCK_MONOTONIC_COARSE. Fixes bug 21035; bugfix
18185 - Fix Libevent detection on platforms without Libevent 1 headers
18186 installed. Fixes bug 21051; bugfix on 0.2.9.1-alpha.
18189 Changes in version 0.3.0.1-alpha - 2016-12-19
18190 Tor 0.3.0.1-alpha is the first alpha release in the 0.3.0 development
18191 series. It strengthens Tor's link and circuit handshakes by
18192 identifying relays by their Ed25519 keys, improves the algorithm that
18193 clients use to choose and maintain their list of guards, and includes
18194 additional backend support for the next-generation hidden service
18195 design. It also contains numerous other small features and
18196 improvements to security, correctness, and performance.
18198 Below are the changes since 0.2.9.8.
18200 o Major features (guard selection algorithm):
18201 - Tor's guard selection algorithm has been redesigned from the
18202 ground up, to better support unreliable networks and restrictive
18203 sets of entry nodes, and to better resist guard-capture attacks by
18204 hostile local networks. Implements proposal 271; closes
18207 o Major features (next-generation hidden services):
18208 - Relays can now handle v3 ESTABLISH_INTRO cells as specified by
18209 prop224 aka "Next Generation Hidden Services". Service and clients
18210 don't use this functionality yet. Closes ticket 19043. Based on
18211 initial code by Alec Heifetz.
18212 - Relays now support the HSDir version 3 protocol, so that they can
18213 can store and serve v3 descriptors. This is part of the next-
18214 generation onion service work detailed in proposal 224. Closes
18217 o Major features (protocol, ed25519 identity keys):
18218 - Relays now use Ed25519 to prove their Ed25519 identities and to
18219 one another, and to clients. This algorithm is faster and more
18220 secure than the RSA-based handshake we've been doing until now.
18221 Implements the second big part of proposal 220; Closes
18223 - Clients now support including Ed25519 identity keys in the EXTEND2
18224 cells they generate. By default, this is controlled by a consensus
18225 parameter, currently disabled. You can turn this feature on for
18226 testing by setting ExtendByEd25519ID in your configuration. This
18227 might make your traffic appear different than the traffic
18228 generated by other users, however. Implements part of ticket
18229 15056; part of proposal 220.
18230 - Relays now understand requests to extend to other relays by their
18231 Ed25519 identity keys. When an Ed25519 identity key is included in
18232 an EXTEND2 cell, the relay will only extend the circuit if the
18233 other relay can prove ownership of that identity. Implements part
18234 of ticket 15056; part of proposal 220.
18236 o Major bugfixes (scheduler):
18237 - Actually compare circuit policies in ewma_cmp_cmux(). This bug
18238 caused the channel scheduler to behave more or less randomly,
18239 rather than preferring channels with higher-priority circuits.
18240 Fixes bug 20459; bugfix on 0.2.6.2-alpha.
18242 o Minor features (controller):
18243 - When HSFETCH arguments cannot be parsed, say "Invalid argument"
18244 rather than "unrecognized." Closes ticket 20389; patch from
18247 o Minor features (diagnostic, directory client):
18248 - Warn when we find an unexpected inconsistency in directory
18249 download status objects. Prevents some negative consequences of
18252 o Minor features (directory authority):
18253 - Add a new authority-only AuthDirTestEd25519LinkKeys option (on by
18254 default) to control whether authorities should try to probe relays
18255 by their Ed25519 link keys. This option will go away in a few
18256 releases--unless we encounter major trouble in our ed25519 link
18257 protocol rollout, in which case it will serve as a safety option.
18259 o Minor features (directory cache):
18260 - Relays and bridges will now refuse to serve the consensus they
18261 have if they know it is too old for a client to use. Closes
18264 o Minor features (ed25519 link handshake):
18265 - Advertise support for the ed25519 link handshake using the
18266 subprotocol-versions mechanism, so that clients can tell which
18267 relays can identity themselves by Ed25519 ID. Closes ticket 20552.
18269 o Minor features (fingerprinting resistance, authentication):
18270 - Extend the length of RSA keys used for TLS link authentication to
18271 2048 bits. (These weren't used for forward secrecy; for forward
18272 secrecy, we used P256.) Closes ticket 13752.
18274 o Minor features (infrastructure):
18275 - Implement smartlist_add_strdup() function. Replaces the use of
18276 smartlist_add(sl, tor_strdup(str)). Closes ticket 20048.
18278 o Minor bugfixes (client):
18279 - When clients that use bridges start up with a cached consensus on
18280 disk, they were ignoring it and downloading a new one. Now they
18281 use the cached one. Fixes bug 20269; bugfix on 0.2.3.12-alpha.
18283 o Minor bugfixes (configuration):
18284 - Accept non-space whitespace characters after the severity level in
18285 the `Log` option. Fixes bug 19965; bugfix on 0.2.1.1-alpha.
18286 - Support "TByte" and "TBytes" units in options given in bytes.
18287 "TB", "terabyte(s)", "TBit(s)" and "terabit(s)" were already
18288 supported. Fixes bug 20622; bugfix on 0.2.0.14-alpha.
18290 o Minor bugfixes (consensus weight):
18291 - Add new consensus method that initializes bw weights to 1 instead
18292 of 0. This prevents a zero weight from making it all the way to
18293 the end (happens in small testing networks) and causing an error.
18294 Fixes bug 14881; bugfix on 0.2.2.17-alpha.
18296 o Minor bugfixes (descriptors):
18297 - Correctly recognise downloaded full descriptors as valid, even
18298 when using microdescriptors as circuits. This affects clients with
18299 FetchUselessDescriptors set, and may affect directory authorities.
18300 Fixes bug 20839; bugfix on 0.2.3.2-alpha.
18302 o Minor bugfixes (directory system):
18303 - Download all consensus flavors, descriptors, and authority
18304 certificates when FetchUselessDescriptors is set, regardless of
18305 whether tor is a directory cache or not. Fixes bug 20667; bugfix
18306 on all recent tor versions.
18307 - Bridges and relays now use microdescriptors (like clients do)
18308 rather than old-style router descriptors. Now bridges will blend
18309 in with clients in terms of the circuits they build. Fixes bug
18310 6769; bugfix on 0.2.3.2-alpha.
18312 o Minor bugfixes (ed25519 certificates):
18313 - Correctly interpret ed25519 certificates that would expire some
18314 time after 19 Jan 2038. Fixes bug 20027; bugfix on 0.2.7.2-alpha.
18316 o Minor bugfixes (hidden services):
18317 - Stop ignoring misconfigured hidden services. Instead, refuse to
18318 start tor until the misconfigurations have been corrected. Fixes
18319 bug 20559; bugfix on multiple commits in 0.2.7.1-alpha
18322 o Minor bugfixes (memory leak at exit):
18323 - Fix a small harmless memory leak at exit of the previously unused
18324 RSA->Ed identity cross-certificate. Fixes bug 17779; bugfix
18327 o Minor bugfixes (util):
18328 - When finishing writing a file to disk, if we were about to replace
18329 the file with the temporary file created before and we fail to
18330 replace it, remove the temporary file so it doesn't stay on disk.
18331 Fixes bug 20646; bugfix on 0.2.0.7-alpha. Patch by fk.
18333 o Minor bugfixes (Windows):
18334 - Check for getpagesize before using it to mmap files. This fixes
18335 compilation in some MinGW environments. Fixes bug 20530; bugfix on
18336 0.1.2.1-alpha. Reported by "ice".
18338 o Code simplification and refactoring:
18339 - Abolish all global guard context in entrynodes.c; replace with new
18340 guard_selection_t structure as preparation for proposal 271.
18341 Closes ticket 19858.
18342 - Introduce rend_service_is_ephemeral() that tells if given onion
18343 service is ephemeral. Replace unclear NULL-checkings for service
18344 directory with this function. Closes ticket 20526.
18345 - Extract magic numbers in circuituse.c into defined variables.
18346 - Refactor circuit_is_available_for_use to remove unnecessary check.
18347 - Refactor circuit_predict_and_launch_new for readability and
18348 testability. Closes ticket 18873.
18349 - Refactor large if statement in purpose_needs_anonymity to use
18350 switch statement instead. Closes part of ticket 20077.
18351 - Refactor the hashing API to return negative values for errors, as
18352 is done as throughout the codebase. Closes ticket 20717.
18353 - Remove data structures that were used to index or_connection
18354 objects by their RSA identity digests. These structures are fully
18355 redundant with the similar structures used in the
18356 channel abstraction.
18357 - Remove duplicate code in the channel_write_*cell() functions.
18358 Closes ticket 13827; patch from Pingl.
18359 - Remove redundant behavior of is_sensitive_dir_purpose, refactor to
18360 use only purpose_needs_anonymity. Closes part of ticket 20077.
18361 - The code to generate and parse EXTEND and EXTEND2 cells has been
18362 replaced with code automatically generated by the
18366 - Include the "TBits" unit in Tor's man page. Fixes part of bug
18367 20622; bugfix on 0.2.5.1-alpha.
18368 - Change '1' to 'weight_scale' in consensus bw weights calculation
18369 comments, as that is reality. Closes ticket 20273. Patch
18371 - Correct the value for AuthDirGuardBWGuarantee in the manpage, from
18372 250 KBytes to 2 MBytes. Fixes bug 20435; bugfix
18374 - Stop the man page from incorrectly stating that HiddenServiceDir
18375 must already exist. Fixes 20486.
18376 - Clarify that when ClientRejectInternalAddresses is enabled (which
18377 is the default), multicast DNS hostnames for machines on the local
18378 network (of the form *.local) are also rejected. Closes
18381 o Removed features:
18382 - The AuthDirMaxServersPerAuthAddr option no longer exists: The same
18383 limit for relays running on a single IP applies to authority IP
18384 addresses as well as to non-authority IP addresses. Closes
18386 - The UseDirectoryGuards torrc option no longer exists: all users
18387 that use entry guards will also use directory guards. Related to
18388 proposal 271; implements part of ticket 20831.
18391 - New unit tests for tor_htonll(). Closes ticket 19563. Patch
18392 from "overcaffeinated".
18393 - Perform the coding style checks when running the tests and fail
18394 when coding style violations are found. Closes ticket 5500.
18395 - Add tests for networkstatus_compute_bw_weights_v10.
18396 - Add unit tests circuit_predict_and_launch_new.
18397 - Extract dummy_origin_circuit_new so it can be used by other
18401 Changes in version 0.2.8.12 - 2016-12-19
18402 Tor 0.2.8.12 backports a fix for a medium-severity issue (bug 21018
18403 below) where Tor clients could crash when attempting to visit a
18404 hostile hidden service. Clients are recommended to upgrade as packages
18405 become available for their systems.
18407 It also includes an updated list of fallback directories, backported
18410 Now that the Tor 0.2.9 series is stable, only major bugfixes will be
18411 backported to 0.2.8 in the future.
18413 o Major bugfixes (parsing, security, backported from 0.2.9.8):
18414 - Fix a bug in parsing that could cause clients to read a single
18415 byte past the end of an allocated region. This bug could be used
18416 to cause hardened clients (built with --enable-expensive-hardening)
18417 to crash if they tried to visit a hostile hidden service. Non-
18418 hardened clients are only affected depending on the details of
18419 their platform's memory allocator. Fixes bug 21018; bugfix on
18420 0.2.0.8-alpha. Found by using libFuzzer. Also tracked as TROVE-
18421 2016-12-002 and as CVE-2016-1254.
18423 o Minor features (fallback directory list, backported from 0.2.9.8):
18424 - Replace the 81 remaining fallbacks of the 100 originally
18425 introduced in Tor 0.2.8.3-alpha in March 2016, with a list of 177
18426 fallbacks (123 new, 54 existing, 27 removed) generated in December
18427 2016. Resolves ticket 20170.
18429 o Minor features (geoip, backported from 0.2.9.7-rc):
18430 - Update geoip and geoip6 to the December 7 2016 Maxmind GeoLite2
18434 Changes in version 0.2.9.8 - 2016-12-19
18435 Tor 0.2.9.8 is the first stable release of the Tor 0.2.9 series.
18437 The Tor 0.2.9 series makes mandatory a number of security features
18438 that were formerly optional. It includes support for a new shared-
18439 randomness protocol that will form the basis for next generation
18440 hidden services, includes a single-hop hidden service mode for
18441 optimizing .onion services that don't actually want to be hidden,
18442 tries harder not to overload the directory authorities with excessive
18443 downloads, and supports a better protocol versioning scheme for
18444 improved compatibility with other implementations of the Tor protocol.
18446 And of course, there are numerous other bugfixes and improvements.
18448 This release also includes a fix for a medium-severity issue (bug
18449 21018 below) where Tor clients could crash when attempting to visit a
18450 hostile hidden service. Clients are recommended to upgrade as packages
18451 become available for their systems.
18453 Below are the changes since 0.2.9.7-rc. For a list of all changes
18454 since 0.2.8, see the ReleaseNotes file.
18456 o Major bugfixes (parsing, security):
18457 - Fix a bug in parsing that could cause clients to read a single
18458 byte past the end of an allocated region. This bug could be used
18459 to cause hardened clients (built with --enable-expensive-hardening)
18460 to crash if they tried to visit a hostile hidden service. Non-
18461 hardened clients are only affected depending on the details of
18462 their platform's memory allocator. Fixes bug 21018; bugfix on
18463 0.2.0.8-alpha. Found by using libFuzzer. Also tracked as TROVE-
18464 2016-12-002 and as CVE-2016-1254.
18466 o Minor features (fallback directory list):
18467 - Replace the 81 remaining fallbacks of the 100 originally
18468 introduced in Tor 0.2.8.3-alpha in March 2016, with a list of 177
18469 fallbacks (123 new, 54 existing, 27 removed) generated in December
18470 2016. Resolves ticket 20170.
18473 Changes in version 0.2.9.7-rc - 2016-12-12
18474 Tor 0.2.9.7-rc fixes a few small bugs remaining in Tor 0.2.9.6-rc,
18475 including a few that had prevented tests from passing on
18478 o Minor features (geoip):
18479 - Update geoip and geoip6 to the December 7 2016 Maxmind GeoLite2
18482 o Minor bugfix (build):
18483 - The current Git revision when building from a local repository is
18484 now detected correctly when using git worktrees. Fixes bug 20492;
18485 bugfix on 0.2.3.9-alpha.
18487 o Minor bugfixes (directory authority):
18488 - When computing old Tor protocol line version in protover, we were
18489 looking at 0.2.7.5 twice instead of a specific case for
18490 0.2.9.1-alpha. Fixes bug 20810; bugfix on 0.2.9.4-alpha.
18492 o Minor bugfixes (download scheduling):
18493 - Resolve a "bug" warning when considering a download schedule whose
18494 delay had approached INT_MAX. Fixes 20875; bugfix on 0.2.9.5-alpha.
18496 o Minor bugfixes (logging):
18497 - Downgrade a harmless log message about the
18498 pending_entry_connections list from "warn" to "info". Mitigates
18501 o Minor bugfixes (memory leak):
18502 - Fix a small memory leak when receiving AF_UNIX connections on a
18503 SocksPort. Fixes bug 20716; bugfix on 0.2.6.3-alpha.
18504 - When moving a signed descriptor object from a source to an
18505 existing destination, free the allocated memory inside that
18506 destination object. Fixes bug 20715; bugfix on 0.2.8.3-alpha.
18508 o Minor bugfixes (memory leak, use-after-free, linux seccomp2 sandbox):
18509 - Fix a memory leak and use-after-free error when removing entries
18510 from the sandbox's getaddrinfo() cache. Fixes bug 20710; bugfix on
18511 0.2.5.5-alpha. Patch from "cypherpunks".
18513 o Minor bugfixes (portability):
18514 - Use the correct spelling of MAC_OS_X_VERSION_10_12 on configure.ac
18515 Fixes bug 20935; bugfix on 0.2.9.6-rc.
18517 o Minor bugfixes (unit tests):
18518 - Stop expecting NetBSD unit tests to report success for ipfw. Part
18519 of a fix for bug 19960; bugfix on 0.2.9.5-alpha.
18520 - Fix tolerances in unit tests for monotonic time comparisons
18521 between nanoseconds and microseconds. Previously, we accepted a 10
18522 us difference only, which is not realistic on every platform's
18523 clock_gettime(). Fixes bug 19974; bugfix on 0.2.9.1-alpha.
18524 - Remove a double-free in the single onion service unit test. Stop
18525 ignoring a return value. Make future changes less error-prone.
18526 Fixes bug 20864; bugfix on 0.2.9.6-rc.
18529 Changes in version 0.2.8.11 - 2016-12-08
18530 Tor 0.2.8.11 backports fixes for additional portability issues that
18531 could prevent Tor from building correctly on OSX Sierra, or with
18532 OpenSSL 1.1. Affected users should upgrade; others can safely stay
18535 o Minor bugfixes (portability):
18536 - Avoid compilation errors when building on OSX Sierra. Sierra began
18537 to support the getentropy() and clock_gettime() APIs, but created
18538 a few problems in doing so. Tor 0.2.9 has a more thorough set of
18539 workarounds; in 0.2.8, we are just using the /dev/urandom and mach
18540 monotonic time interfaces. Fixes bug 20865. Bugfix
18543 o Minor bugfixes (portability, backport from 0.2.9.5-alpha):
18544 - Fix compilation with OpenSSL 1.1 and less commonly-used CPU
18545 architectures. Closes ticket 20588.
18548 Changes in version 0.2.8.10 - 2016-12-02
18549 Tor 0.2.8.10 backports a fix for a bug that would sometimes make clients
18550 unusable after they left standby mode. It also backports fixes for
18551 a few portability issues and a small but problematic memory leak.
18553 o Major bugfixes (client reliability, backport from 0.2.9.5-alpha):
18554 - When Tor leaves standby because of a new application request, open
18555 circuits as needed to serve that request. Previously, we would
18556 potentially wait a very long time. Fixes part of bug 19969; bugfix
18559 o Major bugfixes (client performance, backport from 0.2.9.5-alpha):
18560 - Clients now respond to new application stream requests immediately
18561 when they arrive, rather than waiting up to one second before
18562 starting to handle them. Fixes part of bug 19969; bugfix
18565 o Minor bugfixes (portability, backport from 0.2.9.6-rc):
18566 - Work around a bug in the OSX 10.12 SDK that would prevent us from
18567 successfully targeting earlier versions of OSX. Resolves
18570 o Minor bugfixes (portability, backport from 0.2.9.5-alpha):
18571 - Fix implicit conversion warnings under OpenSSL 1.1. Fixes bug
18572 20551; bugfix on 0.2.1.1-alpha.
18574 o Minor bugfixes (relay, backport from 0.2.9.5-alpha):
18575 - Work around a memory leak in OpenSSL 1.1 when encoding public
18576 keys. Fixes bug 20553; bugfix on 0.0.2pre8.
18578 o Minor features (geoip):
18579 - Update geoip and geoip6 to the November 3 2016 Maxmind GeoLite2
18582 Changes in version 0.2.9.6-rc - 2016-12-02
18583 Tor 0.2.9.6-rc fixes a few remaining bugs found in the previous alpha
18584 version. We hope that it will be ready to become stable soon, and we
18585 encourage everyone to test this release. If no showstopper bugs are
18586 found here, the next 0.2.9 release will be stable.
18588 o Major bugfixes (relay, resolver, logging):
18589 - For relays that don't know their own address, avoid attempting a
18590 local hostname resolve for each descriptor we download. This
18591 will cut down on the number of "Success: chose address 'x.x.x.x'"
18592 log lines, and also avoid confusing clock jumps if the resolver
18593 is slow. Fixes bugs 20423 and 20610; bugfix on 0.2.8.1-alpha.
18595 o Minor bugfixes (client, fascistfirewall):
18596 - Avoid spurious warnings when ReachableAddresses or FascistFirewall
18597 is set. Fixes bug 20306; bugfix on 0.2.8.2-alpha.
18599 o Minor bugfixes (hidden services):
18600 - Stop ignoring the anonymity status of saved keys for hidden
18601 services and single onion services when first starting tor.
18602 Instead, refuse to start tor if any hidden service key has been
18603 used in a different hidden service anonymity mode. Fixes bug
18604 20638; bugfix on 17178 in 0.2.9.3-alpha; reported by ahf.
18606 o Minor bugfixes (portability):
18607 - Work around a bug in the OSX 10.12 SDK that would prevent us from
18608 successfully targeting earlier versions of OSX. Resolves
18610 - Run correctly when built on Windows build environments that
18611 require _vcsprintf(). Fixes bug 20560; bugfix on 0.2.2.11-alpha.
18613 o Minor bugfixes (single onion services, Tor2web):
18614 - Stop complaining about long-term one-hop circuits deliberately
18615 created by single onion services and Tor2web. These log messages
18616 are intended to diagnose issue 8387, which relates to circuits
18617 hanging around forever for no reason. Fixes bug 20613; bugfix on
18618 0.2.9.1-alpha. Reported by "pastly".
18620 o Minor bugfixes (unit tests):
18621 - Stop spurious failures in the local interface address discovery
18622 unit tests. Fixes bug 20634; bugfix on 0.2.8.1-alpha; patch by
18626 - Correct the minimum bandwidth value in torrc.sample, and queue a
18627 corresponding change for torrc.minimal. Closes ticket 20085.
18630 Changes in version 0.2.9.5-alpha - 2016-11-08
18631 Tor 0.2.9.5-alpha fixes numerous bugs discovered in the previous alpha
18632 version. We believe one or two probably remain, and we encourage
18633 everyone to test this release.
18635 o Major bugfixes (client performance):
18636 - Clients now respond to new application stream requests immediately
18637 when they arrive, rather than waiting up to one second before
18638 starting to handle them. Fixes part of bug 19969; bugfix
18641 o Major bugfixes (client reliability):
18642 - When Tor leaves standby because of a new application request, open
18643 circuits as needed to serve that request. Previously, we would
18644 potentially wait a very long time. Fixes part of bug 19969; bugfix
18647 o Major bugfixes (download scheduling):
18648 - When using an exponential backoff schedule, do not give up on
18649 downloading just because we have failed a bunch of times. Since
18650 each delay is longer than the last, retrying indefinitely won't
18651 hurt. Fixes bug 20536; bugfix on 0.2.9.1-alpha.
18652 - If a consensus expires while we are waiting for certificates to
18653 download, stop waiting for certificates.
18654 - If we stop waiting for certificates less than a minute after we
18655 started downloading them, do not consider the certificate download
18656 failure a separate failure. Fixes bug 20533; bugfix
18658 - Remove the maximum delay on exponential-backoff scheduling. Since
18659 we now allow an infinite number of failures (see ticket 20536), we
18660 must now allow the time to grow longer on each failure. Fixes part
18661 of bug 20534; bugfix on 0.2.9.1-alpha.
18662 - Make our initial download delays closer to those from 0.2.8. Fixes
18663 another part of bug 20534; bugfix on 0.2.9.1-alpha.
18664 - When determining when to download a directory object, handle times
18665 after 2038 if the operating system supports them. (Someday this
18666 will be important!) Fixes bug 20587; bugfix on 0.2.8.1-alpha.
18667 - When using exponential backoff in test networks, use a lower
18668 exponent, so the delays do not vary as much. This helps test
18669 networks bootstrap consistently. Fixes bug 20597; bugfix on 20499.
18671 o Minor features (geoip):
18672 - Update geoip and geoip6 to the November 3 2016 Maxmind GeoLite2
18675 o Minor bugfixes (client directory scheduling):
18676 - Treat "relay too busy to answer request" as a failed request and a
18677 reason to back off on our retry frequency. This is safe now that
18678 exponential backoffs retry indefinitely, and avoids a bug where we
18679 would reset our download schedule erroneously. Fixes bug 20593;
18680 bugfix on 0.2.9.1-alpha.
18682 o Minor bugfixes (client, logging):
18683 - Remove a BUG warning in circuit_pick_extend_handshake(). Instead,
18684 assume all nodes support EXTEND2. Use ntor whenever a key is
18685 available. Fixes bug 20472; bugfix on 0.2.9.3-alpha.
18686 - On DNSPort, stop logging a BUG warning on a failed hostname
18687 lookup. Fixes bug 19869; bugfix on 0.2.9.1-alpha.
18689 o Minor bugfixes (hidden services):
18690 - When configuring hidden services, check every hidden service
18691 directory's permissions. Previously, we only checked the last
18692 hidden service. Fixes bug 20529; bugfix the work to fix 13942
18695 o Minor bugfixes (portability):
18696 - Fix compilation with OpenSSL 1.1 and less commonly-used CPU
18697 architectures. Closes ticket 20588.
18698 - Use ECDHE ciphers instead of ECDH in tortls tests. LibreSSL has
18699 removed the ECDH ciphers which caused the tests to fail on
18700 platforms which use it. Fixes bug 20460; bugfix on 0.2.8.1-alpha.
18701 - Fix implicit conversion warnings under OpenSSL 1.1. Fixes bug
18702 20551; bugfix on 0.2.1.1-alpha.
18704 o Minor bugfixes (relay bootstrap):
18705 - Ensure relays don't make multiple connections during bootstrap.
18706 Fixes bug 20591; bugfix on 0.2.8.1-alpha.
18708 o Minor bugfixes (relay):
18709 - Work around a memory leak in OpenSSL 1.1 when encoding public
18710 keys. Fixes bug 20553; bugfix on 0.0.2pre8.
18711 - Avoid a small memory leak when informing worker threads about
18712 rotated onion keys. Fixes bug 20401; bugfix on 0.2.6.3-alpha.
18713 - Do not try to parallelize workers more than 16x without the user
18714 explicitly configuring us to do so, even if we do detect more than
18715 16 CPU cores. Fixes bug 19968; bugfix on 0.2.3.1-alpha.
18717 o Minor bugfixes (single onion services):
18718 - Start correctly when creating a single onion service in a
18719 directory that did not previously exist. Fixes bug 20484; bugfix
18722 o Minor bugfixes (testing):
18723 - Avoid a unit test failure on systems with over 16 detectable CPU
18724 cores. Fixes bug 19968; bugfix on 0.2.3.1-alpha.
18727 - Clarify that setting HiddenServiceNonAnonymousMode requires you to
18728 also set "SOCKSPort 0". Fixes bug 20487; bugfix on 0.2.9.3-alpha.
18729 - Module-level documentation for several more modules. Closes
18730 tickets 19287 and 19290.
18733 Changes in version 0.2.8.9 - 2016-10-17
18734 Tor 0.2.8.9 backports a fix for a security hole in previous versions
18735 of Tor that would allow a remote attacker to crash a Tor client,
18736 hidden service, relay, or authority. All Tor users should upgrade to
18737 this version, or to 0.2.9.4-alpha. Patches will be released for older
18740 o Major features (security fixes, also in 0.2.9.4-alpha):
18741 - Prevent a class of security bugs caused by treating the contents
18742 of a buffer chunk as if they were a NUL-terminated string. At
18743 least one such bug seems to be present in all currently used
18744 versions of Tor, and would allow an attacker to remotely crash
18745 most Tor instances, especially those compiled with extra compiler
18746 hardening. With this defense in place, such bugs can't crash Tor,
18747 though we should still fix them as they occur. Closes ticket
18748 20384 (TROVE-2016-10-001).
18750 o Minor features (geoip):
18751 - Update geoip and geoip6 to the October 4 2016 Maxmind GeoLite2
18755 Changes in version 0.2.9.4-alpha - 2016-10-17
18756 Tor 0.2.9.4-alpha fixes a security hole in previous versions of Tor
18757 that would allow a remote attacker to crash a Tor client, hidden
18758 service, relay, or authority. All Tor users should upgrade to this
18759 version, or to 0.2.8.9. Patches will be released for older versions
18762 Tor 0.2.9.4-alpha also adds numerous small features and fix-ups to
18763 previous versions of Tor, including the implementation of a feature to
18764 future- proof the Tor ecosystem against protocol changes, some bug
18765 fixes necessary for Tor Browser to use unix domain sockets correctly,
18766 and several portability improvements. We anticipate that this will be
18767 the last alpha in the Tor 0.2.9 series, and that the next release will
18768 be a release candidate.
18770 o Major features (security fixes):
18771 - Prevent a class of security bugs caused by treating the contents
18772 of a buffer chunk as if they were a NUL-terminated string. At
18773 least one such bug seems to be present in all currently used
18774 versions of Tor, and would allow an attacker to remotely crash
18775 most Tor instances, especially those compiled with extra compiler
18776 hardening. With this defense in place, such bugs can't crash Tor,
18777 though we should still fix them as they occur. Closes ticket
18778 20384 (TROVE-2016-10-001).
18780 o Major features (subprotocol versions):
18781 - Tor directory authorities now vote on a set of recommended
18782 subprotocol versions, and on a set of required subprotocol
18783 versions. Clients and relays that lack support for a _required_
18784 subprotocol version will not start; those that lack support for a
18785 _recommended_ subprotocol version will warn the user to upgrade.
18786 Closes ticket 19958; implements part of proposal 264.
18787 - Tor now uses "subprotocol versions" to indicate compatibility.
18788 Previously, versions of Tor looked at the declared Tor version of
18789 a relay to tell whether they could use a given feature. Now, they
18790 should be able to rely on its declared subprotocol versions. This
18791 change allows compatible implementations of the Tor protocol(s) to
18792 exist without pretending to be 100% bug-compatible with particular
18793 releases of Tor itself. Closes ticket 19958; implements part of
18796 o Minor feature (fallback directories):
18797 - Remove broken fallbacks from the hard-coded fallback directory
18798 list. Closes ticket 20190; patch by teor.
18800 o Minor features (client, directory):
18801 - Since authorities now omit all routers that lack the Running and
18802 Valid flags, we assume that any relay listed in the consensus must
18803 have those flags. Closes ticket 20001; implements part of
18806 o Minor features (compilation, portability):
18807 - Compile correctly on MacOS 10.12 (aka "Sierra"). Closes
18810 o Minor features (development tools, etags):
18811 - Teach the "make tags" Makefile target how to correctly find
18812 "MOCK_IMPL" function definitions. Patch from nherring; closes
18815 o Minor features (geoip):
18816 - Update geoip and geoip6 to the October 4 2016 Maxmind GeoLite2
18819 o Minor features (unix domain sockets):
18820 - When configuring a unix domain socket for a SocksPort,
18821 ControlPort, or Hidden service, you can now wrap the address in
18822 quotes, using C-style escapes inside the quotes. This allows unix
18823 domain socket paths to contain spaces.
18825 o Minor features (virtual addresses):
18826 - Increase the maximum number of bits for the IPv6 virtual network
18827 prefix from 16 to 104. In this way, the condition for address
18828 allocation is less restrictive. Closes ticket 20151; feature
18831 o Minor bugfixes (address discovery):
18832 - Stop reordering IP addresses returned by the OS. This makes it
18833 more likely that Tor will guess the same relay IP address every
18834 time. Fixes issue 20163; bugfix on 0.2.7.1-alpha, ticket 17027.
18835 Reported by René Mayrhofer, patch by "cypherpunks".
18837 o Minor bugfixes (client, unix domain sockets):
18838 - Disable IsolateClientAddr when using AF_UNIX backed SocksPorts as
18839 the client address is meaningless. Fixes bug 20261; bugfix
18842 o Minor bugfixes (compilation, OpenBSD):
18843 - Detect Libevent2 functions correctly on systems that provide
18844 libevent2, but where libevent1 is linked with -levent. Fixes bug
18845 19904; bugfix on 0.2.2.24-alpha. Patch from Rubiate.
18847 o Minor bugfixes (configuration):
18848 - When parsing quoted configuration values from the torrc file,
18849 handle windows line endings correctly. Fixes bug 19167; bugfix on
18850 0.2.0.16-alpha. Patch from "Pingl".
18852 o Minor bugfixes (getpass):
18853 - Defensively fix a non-triggerable heap corruption at do_getpass()
18854 to protect ourselves from mistakes in the future. Fixes bug
18855 19223; bugfix on 0.2.7.3-rc. Bug found by Guido Vranken, patch
18858 o Minor bugfixes (hidden service):
18859 - Allow hidden services to run on IPv6 addresses even when the
18860 IPv6Exit option is not set. Fixes bug 18357; bugfix
18864 - Add module-level internal documentation for 36 C files that
18865 previously didn't have a high-level overview. Closes ticket #20385.
18867 o Required libraries:
18868 - When building with OpenSSL, Tor now requires version 1.0.1 or
18869 later. OpenSSL 1.0.0 and earlier are no longer supported by the
18870 OpenSSL team, and should not be used. Closes ticket 20303.
18873 Changes in version 0.2.9.3-alpha - 2016-09-23
18874 Tor 0.2.9.3-alpha adds improved support for entities that want to make
18875 high-performance services available through the Tor .onion mechanism
18876 without themselves receiving anonymity as they host those services. It
18877 also tries harder to ensure that all steps on a circuit are using the
18878 strongest crypto possible, strengthens some TLS properties, and
18879 resolves several bugs -- including a pair of crash bugs from the 0.2.8
18880 series. Anybody running an earlier version of 0.2.9.x should upgrade.
18882 o Major bugfixes (crash, also in 0.2.8.8):
18883 - Fix a complicated crash bug that could affect Tor clients
18884 configured to use bridges when replacing a networkstatus consensus
18885 in which one of their bridges was mentioned. OpenBSD users saw
18886 more crashes here, but all platforms were potentially affected.
18887 Fixes bug 20103; bugfix on 0.2.8.2-alpha.
18889 o Major bugfixes (relay, OOM handler, also in 0.2.8.8):
18890 - Fix a timing-dependent assertion failure that could occur when we
18891 tried to flush from a circuit after having freed its cells because
18892 of an out-of-memory condition. Fixes bug 20203; bugfix on
18893 0.2.8.1-alpha. Thanks to "cypherpunks" for help diagnosing
18896 o Major features (circuit building, security):
18897 - Authorities, relays and clients now require ntor keys in all
18898 descriptors, for all hops (except for rare hidden service protocol
18899 cases), for all circuits, and for all other roles. Part of
18901 - Tor authorities, relays, and clients only use ntor, except for
18902 rare cases in the hidden service protocol. Part of ticket 19163.
18904 o Major features (single-hop "hidden" services):
18905 - Add experimental HiddenServiceSingleHopMode and
18906 HiddenServiceNonAnonymousMode options. When both are set to 1,
18907 every hidden service on a Tor instance becomes a non-anonymous
18908 Single Onion Service. Single Onions make one-hop (direct)
18909 connections to their introduction and rendezvous points. One-hop
18910 circuits make Single Onion servers easily locatable, but clients
18911 remain location-anonymous. This is compatible with the existing
18912 hidden service implementation, and works on the current tor
18913 network without any changes to older relays or clients. Implements
18914 proposal 260, completes ticket 17178. Patch by teor and asn.
18916 o Major features (resource management):
18917 - Tor can now notice it is about to run out of sockets, and
18918 preemptively close connections of lower priority. (This feature is
18919 off by default for now, since the current prioritizing method is
18920 yet not mature enough. You can enable it by setting
18921 "DisableOOSCheck 0", but watch out: it might close some sockets
18922 you would rather have it keep.) Closes ticket 18640.
18924 o Major bugfixes (circuit building):
18925 - Hidden service client-to-intro-point and service-to-rendezvous-
18926 point circuits use the TAP key supplied by the protocol, to avoid
18927 epistemic attacks. Fixes bug 19163; bugfix on 0.2.4.18-rc.
18929 o Major bugfixes (compilation, OpenBSD):
18930 - Fix a Libevent-detection bug in our autoconf script that would
18931 prevent Tor from linking successfully on OpenBSD. Patch from
18932 rubiate. Fixes bug 19902; bugfix on 0.2.9.1-alpha.
18934 o Major bugfixes (hidden services):
18935 - Clients now require hidden services to include the TAP keys for
18936 their intro points in the hidden service descriptor. This prevents
18937 an inadvertent upgrade to ntor, which a malicious hidden service
18938 could use to distinguish clients by consensus version. Fixes bug
18939 20012; bugfix on 0.2.4.8-alpha. Patch by teor.
18941 o Minor features (security, TLS):
18942 - Servers no longer support clients that without AES ciphersuites.
18943 (3DES is no longer considered an acceptable cipher.) We believe
18944 that no such Tor clients currently exist, since Tor has required
18945 OpenSSL 0.9.7 or later since 2009. Closes ticket 19998.
18947 o Minor feature (fallback directories):
18948 - Remove 8 fallbacks that are no longer suitable, leaving 81 of the
18949 100 fallbacks originally introduced in Tor 0.2.8.2-alpha in March
18950 2016. Closes ticket 20190; patch by teor.
18952 o Minor features (geoip, also in 0.2.8.8):
18953 - Update geoip and geoip6 to the September 6 2016 Maxmind GeoLite2
18956 o Minor feature (port flags):
18957 - Add new flags to the *Port options to finer control over which
18958 requests are allowed. The flags are NoDNSRequest, NoOnionTraffic,
18959 and the synthetic flag OnionTrafficOnly, which is equivalent to
18960 NoDNSRequest, NoIPv4Traffic, and NoIPv6Traffic. Closes enhancement
18961 18693; patch by "teor".
18963 o Minor features (directory authority):
18964 - After voting, if the authorities decide that a relay is not
18965 "Valid", they no longer include it in the consensus at all. Closes
18966 ticket 20002; implements part of proposal 272.
18968 o Minor features (testing):
18969 - Disable memory protections on OpenBSD when performing our unit
18970 tests for memwipe(). The test deliberately invokes undefined
18971 behavior, and the OpenBSD protections interfere with this. Patch
18972 from "rubiate". Closes ticket 20066.
18974 o Minor features (testing, ipv6):
18975 - Add the single-onion and single-onion-ipv6 chutney targets to
18976 "make test-network-all". This requires a recent chutney version
18977 with the single onion network flavours (git c72a652 or later).
18978 Closes ticket 20072; patch by teor.
18979 - Add the hs-ipv6 chutney target to make test-network-all's IPv6
18980 tests. Remove bridges+hs, as it's somewhat redundant. This
18981 requires a recent chutney version that supports IPv6 clients,
18982 relays, and authorities. Closes ticket 20069; patch by teor.
18984 o Minor features (Tor2web):
18985 - Make Tor2web clients respect ReachableAddresses. This feature was
18986 inadvertently enabled in 0.2.8.6, then removed by bugfix 19973 on
18987 0.2.8.7. Implements feature 20034. Patch by teor.
18989 o Minor features (unit tests):
18990 - We've done significant work to make the unit tests run faster.
18991 - Our link-handshake unit tests now check that when invalid
18992 handshakes fail, they fail with the error messages we expected.
18993 - Our unit testing code that captures log messages no longer
18994 prevents them from being written out if the user asked for them
18995 (by passing --debug or --info or or --notice --warn to the "test"
18996 binary). This change prevents us from missing unexpected log
18997 messages simply because we were looking for others. Related to
18999 - The unit tests now log all warning messages with the "BUG" flag.
19000 Previously, they only logged errors by default. This change will
19001 help us make our testing code more correct, and make sure that we
19002 only hit this code when we mean to. In the meantime, however,
19003 there will be more warnings in the unit test logs than before.
19004 This is preparatory work for ticket 19999.
19005 - The unit tests now treat any failure of a "tor_assert_nonfatal()"
19006 assertion as a test failure.
19008 o Minor bug fixes (circuits):
19009 - Use the CircuitBuildTimeout option whenever
19010 LearnCircuitBuildTimeout is disabled. Previously, we would respect
19011 the option when a user disabled it, but not when it was disabled
19012 because some other option was set. Fixes bug 20073; bugfix on
19013 0.2.4.12-alpha. Patch by teor.
19015 o Minor bugfixes (allocation):
19016 - Change how we allocate memory for large chunks on buffers, to
19017 avoid a (currently impossible) integer overflow, and to waste less
19018 space when allocating unusually large chunks. Fixes bug 20081;
19019 bugfix on 0.2.0.16-alpha. Issue identified by Guido Vranken.
19020 - Always include orconfig.h before including any other C headers.
19021 Sometimes, it includes macros that affect the behavior of the
19022 standard headers. Fixes bug 19767; bugfix on 0.2.9.1-alpha (the
19023 first version to use AC_USE_SYSTEM_EXTENSIONS).
19024 - Fix a syntax error in the IF_BUG_ONCE__() macro in non-GCC-
19025 compatible compilers. Fixes bug 20141; bugfix on 0.2.9.1-alpha.
19026 Patch from Gisle Vanem.
19027 - Stop trying to build with Clang 4.0's -Wthread-safety warnings.
19028 They apparently require a set of annotations that we aren't
19029 currently using, and they create false positives in our pthreads
19030 wrappers. Fixes bug 20110; bugfix on 0.2.9.1-alpha.
19032 o Minor bugfixes (directory authority):
19033 - Die with a more useful error when the operator forgets to place
19034 the authority_signing_key file into the keys directory. This
19035 avoids an uninformative assert & traceback about having an invalid
19036 key. Fixes bug 20065; bugfix on 0.2.0.1-alpha.
19037 - When allowing private addresses, mark Exits that only exit to
19038 private locations as such. Fixes bug 20064; bugfix
19041 o Minor bugfixes (documentation):
19042 - Document the default PathsNeededToBuildCircuits value that's used
19043 by clients when the directory authorities don't set
19044 min_paths_for_circs_pct. Fixes bug 20117; bugfix on 02c320916e02
19045 in 0.2.4.10-alpha. Patch by teor, reported by Jesse V.
19046 - Fix manual for the User option: it takes a username, not a UID.
19047 Fixes bug 19122; bugfix on 0.0.2pre16 (the first version to have
19050 o Minor bugfixes (hidden services):
19051 - Stop logging intro point details to the client log on certain
19052 error conditions. Fixed as part of bug 20012; bugfix on
19053 0.2.4.8-alpha. Patch by teor.
19055 o Minor bugfixes (IPv6, testing):
19056 - Check for IPv6 correctly on Linux when running test networks.
19057 Fixes bug 19905; bugfix on 0.2.7.3-rc; patch by teor.
19059 o Minor bugfixes (Linux seccomp2 sandbox):
19060 - Add permission to run the sched_yield() and sigaltstack() system
19061 calls, in order to support versions of Tor compiled with asan or
19062 ubsan code that use these calls. Now "sandbox 1" and
19063 "--enable-expensive-hardening" should be compatible on more
19064 systems. Fixes bug 20063; bugfix on 0.2.5.1-alpha.
19066 o Minor bugfixes (logging):
19067 - When logging a message from the BUG() macro, be explicit about
19068 what we were asserting. Previously we were confusing what we were
19069 asserting with what the bug was. Fixes bug 20093; bugfix
19071 - When we are unable to remove the bw_accounting file, do not warn
19072 if the reason we couldn't remove it was that it didn't exist.
19073 Fixes bug 19964; bugfix on 0.2.5.4-alpha. Patch from 'pastly'.
19075 o Minor bugfixes (option parsing):
19076 - Count unix sockets when counting client listeners (SOCKS, Trans,
19077 NATD, and DNS). This has no user-visible behaviour changes: these
19078 options are set once, and never read. Required for correct
19079 behaviour in ticket 17178. Fixes bug 19677; bugfix on
19080 0.2.6.3-alpha. Patch by teor.
19082 o Minor bugfixes (options):
19083 - Check the consistency of UseEntryGuards and EntryNodes more
19084 reliably. Fixes bug 20074; bugfix on 0.2.4.12-alpha. Patch
19086 - Stop changing the configured value of UseEntryGuards on
19087 authorities and Tor2web clients. Fixes bug 20074; bugfix on
19088 commits 51fc6799 in 0.1.1.16-rc and acda1735 in 0.2.4.3-alpha.
19091 o Minor bugfixes (Tor2web):
19092 - Prevent Tor2web clients running hidden services, these services
19093 are not anonymous due to the one-hop client paths. Fixes bug
19094 19678. Patch by teor.
19096 o Minor bugfixes (unit tests):
19097 - Fix a shared-random unit test that was failing on big endian
19098 architectures due to internal representation of a integer copied
19099 to a buffer. The test is changed to take a full 32 bytes of data
19100 and use the output of a python script that make the COMMIT and
19101 REVEAL calculation according to the spec. Fixes bug 19977; bugfix
19103 - The tor_tls_server_info_callback unit test no longer crashes when
19104 debug-level logging is turned on. Fixes bug 20041; bugfix
19108 Changes in version 0.2.8.8 - 2016-09-23
19109 Tor 0.2.8.8 fixes two crash bugs present in previous versions of the
19110 0.2.8.x series. Relays running 0.2.8.x should upgrade, as should users
19111 who select public relays as their bridges.
19113 o Major bugfixes (crash):
19114 - Fix a complicated crash bug that could affect Tor clients
19115 configured to use bridges when replacing a networkstatus consensus
19116 in which one of their bridges was mentioned. OpenBSD users saw
19117 more crashes here, but all platforms were potentially affected.
19118 Fixes bug 20103; bugfix on 0.2.8.2-alpha.
19120 o Major bugfixes (relay, OOM handler):
19121 - Fix a timing-dependent assertion failure that could occur when we
19122 tried to flush from a circuit after having freed its cells because
19123 of an out-of-memory condition. Fixes bug 20203; bugfix on
19124 0.2.8.1-alpha. Thanks to "cypherpunks" for help diagnosing
19127 o Minor feature (fallback directories):
19128 - Remove 8 fallbacks that are no longer suitable, leaving 81 of the
19129 100 fallbacks originally introduced in Tor 0.2.8.2-alpha in March
19130 2016. Closes ticket 20190; patch by teor.
19132 o Minor features (geoip):
19133 - Update geoip and geoip6 to the September 6 2016 Maxmind GeoLite2
19137 Changes in version 0.2.9.2-alpha - 2016-08-24
19138 Tor 0.2.9.2-alpha continues development of the 0.2.9 series with
19139 several new features and bugfixes. It also includes an important
19140 authority update and an important bugfix from 0.2.8.7. Everyone who
19141 sets the ReachableAddresses option, and all bridges, are strongly
19142 encouraged to upgrade to 0.2.8.7, or to 0.2.9.2-alpha.
19144 o Directory authority changes (also in 0.2.8.7):
19145 - The "Tonga" bridge authority has been retired; the new bridge
19146 authority is "Bifroest". Closes tickets 19728 and 19690.
19148 o Major bugfixes (client, security, also in 0.2.8.7):
19149 - Only use the ReachableAddresses option to restrict the first hop
19150 in a path. In earlier versions of 0.2.8.x, it would apply to
19151 every hop in the path, with a possible degradation in anonymity
19152 for anyone using an uncommon ReachableAddress setting. Fixes bug
19153 19973; bugfix on 0.2.8.2-alpha.
19155 o Major features (user interface):
19156 - Tor now supports the ability to declare options deprecated, so
19157 that we can recommend that people stop using them. Previously,
19158 this was done in an ad-hoc way. Closes ticket 19820.
19160 o Major bugfixes (directory downloads):
19161 - Avoid resetting download status for consensuses hourly, since we
19162 already have another, smarter retry mechanism. Fixes bug 8625;
19163 bugfix on 0.2.0.9-alpha.
19165 o Minor features (config):
19166 - Warn users when descriptor and port addresses are inconsistent.
19167 Mitigates bug 13953; patch by teor.
19169 o Minor features (geoip):
19170 - Update geoip and geoip6 to the August 2 2016 Maxmind GeoLite2
19173 o Minor features (user interface):
19174 - There is a new --list-deprecated-options command-line option to
19175 list all of the deprecated options. Implemented as part of
19178 o Minor bugfixes (code style):
19179 - Fix an integer signedness conversion issue in the case conversion
19180 tables. Fixes bug 19168; bugfix on 0.2.1.11-alpha.
19182 o Minor bugfixes (compilation):
19183 - Build correctly on versions of libevent2 without support for
19184 evutil_secure_rng_add_bytes(). Fixes bug 19904; bugfix
19186 - Fix a compilation warning on GCC versions before 4.6. Our
19187 ENABLE_GCC_WARNING macro used the word "warning" as an argument,
19188 when it is also required as an argument to the compiler pragma.
19189 Fixes bug 19901; bugfix on 0.2.9.1-alpha.
19191 o Minor bugfixes (compilation, also in 0.2.8.7):
19192 - Remove an inappropriate "inline" in tortls.c that was causing
19193 warnings on older versions of GCC. Fixes bug 19903; bugfix
19196 o Minor bugfixes (fallback directories, also in 0.2.8.7):
19197 - Avoid logging a NULL string pointer when loading fallback
19198 directory information. Fixes bug 19947; bugfix on 0.2.4.7-alpha
19199 and 0.2.8.1-alpha. Report and patch by "rubiate".
19201 o Minor bugfixes (logging):
19202 - Log a more accurate message when we fail to dump a microdescriptor.
19203 Fixes bug 17758; bugfix on 0.2.2.8-alpha. Patch from Daniel Pinto.
19205 o Minor bugfixes (memory leak):
19206 - Fix a series of slow memory leaks related to parsing torrc files
19207 and options. Fixes bug 19466; bugfix on 0.2.1.6-alpha.
19209 o Deprecated features:
19210 - A number of DNS-cache-related sub-options for client ports are now
19211 deprecated for security reasons, and may be removed in a future
19212 version of Tor. (We believe that client-side DNS caching is a bad
19213 idea for anonymity, and you should not turn it on.) The options
19214 are: CacheDNS, CacheIPv4DNS, CacheIPv6DNS, UseDNSCache,
19215 UseIPv4Cache, and UseIPv6Cache.
19216 - A number of options are deprecated for security reasons, and may
19217 be removed in a future version of Tor. The options are:
19218 AllowDotExit, AllowInvalidNodes, AllowSingleHopCircuits,
19219 AllowSingleHopExits, ClientDNSRejectInternalAddresses,
19220 CloseHSClientCircuitsImmediatelyOnTimeout,
19221 CloseHSServiceRendCircuitsImmediatelyOnTimeout,
19222 ExcludeSingleHopRelays, FastFirstHopPK, TLSECGroup,
19223 UseNTorHandshake, and WarnUnsafeSocks.
19224 - The *ListenAddress options are now deprecated as unnecessary: the
19225 corresponding *Port options should be used instead. These options
19226 may someday be removed. The affected options are:
19227 ControlListenAddress, DNSListenAddress, DirListenAddress,
19228 NATDListenAddress, ORListenAddress, SocksListenAddress,
19229 and TransListenAddress.
19232 - Correct the IPv6 syntax in our documentation for the
19233 VirtualAddrNetworkIPv6 torrc option. Closes ticket 19743.
19236 - We no longer include the (dead, deprecated) bufferevent code in
19237 Tor. Closes ticket 19450. Based on a patch from U+039b.
19240 Changes in version 0.2.8.7 - 2016-08-24
19241 Tor 0.2.8.7 fixes an important bug related to the ReachableAddresses
19242 option in 0.2.8.6, and replaces a retiring bridge authority. Everyone
19243 who sets the ReachableAddresses option, and all bridges, are strongly
19244 encouraged to upgrade.
19246 o Directory authority changes:
19247 - The "Tonga" bridge authority has been retired; the new bridge
19248 authority is "Bifroest". Closes tickets 19728 and 19690.
19250 o Major bugfixes (client, security):
19251 - Only use the ReachableAddresses option to restrict the first hop
19252 in a path. In earlier versions of 0.2.8.x, it would apply to
19253 every hop in the path, with a possible degradation in anonymity
19254 for anyone using an uncommon ReachableAddress setting. Fixes bug
19255 19973; bugfix on 0.2.8.2-alpha.
19257 o Minor features (geoip):
19258 - Update geoip and geoip6 to the August 2 2016 Maxmind GeoLite2
19261 o Minor bugfixes (compilation):
19262 - Remove an inappropriate "inline" in tortls.c that was causing
19263 warnings on older versions of GCC. Fixes bug 19903; bugfix
19266 o Minor bugfixes (fallback directories):
19267 - Avoid logging a NULL string pointer when loading fallback
19268 directory information. Fixes bug 19947; bugfix on 0.2.4.7-alpha
19269 and 0.2.8.1-alpha. Report and patch by "rubiate".
19272 Changes in version 0.2.9.1-alpha - 2016-08-08
19273 Tor 0.2.9.1-alpha is the first alpha release in the 0.2.9 development
19274 series. It improves our support for hardened builds and compiler
19275 warnings, deploys some critical infrastructure for improvements to
19276 hidden services, includes a new timing backend that we hope to use for
19277 better support for traffic padding, makes it easier for programmers to
19278 log unexpected events, and contains other small improvements to
19279 security, correctness, and performance.
19281 Below are the changes since 0.2.8.6.
19283 o New system requirements:
19284 - Tor now requires Libevent version 2.0.10-stable or later. Older
19285 versions of Libevent have less efficient backends for several
19286 platforms, and lack the DNS code that we use for our server-side
19287 DNS support. This implements ticket 19554.
19288 - Tor now requires zlib version 1.2 or later, for security,
19289 efficiency, and (eventually) gzip support. (Back when we started,
19290 zlib 1.1 and zlib 1.0 were still found in the wild. 1.2 was
19291 released in 2003. We recommend the latest version.)
19293 o Major features (build, hardening):
19294 - Tor now builds with -ftrapv by default on compilers that support
19295 it. This option detects signed integer overflow (which C forbids),
19296 and turns it into a hard-failure. We do not apply this option to
19297 code that needs to run in constant time to avoid side-channels;
19298 instead, we use -fwrapv in that code. Closes ticket 17983.
19299 - When --enable-expensive-hardening is selected, stop applying the
19300 clang/gcc sanitizers to code that needs to run in constant time.
19301 Although we are aware of no introduced side-channels, we are not
19302 able to prove that there are none. Related to ticket 17983.
19304 o Major features (compilation):
19305 - Our big list of extra GCC warnings is now enabled by default when
19306 building with GCC (or with anything like Clang that claims to be
19307 GCC-compatible). To make all warnings into fatal compilation
19308 errors, pass --enable-fatal-warnings to configure. Closes
19310 - Use the Autoconf macro AC_USE_SYSTEM_EXTENSIONS to automatically
19311 turn on C and POSIX extensions. (Previously, we attempted to do
19312 this on an ad hoc basis.) Closes ticket 19139.
19314 o Major features (directory authorities, hidden services):
19315 - Directory authorities can now perform the shared randomness
19316 protocol specified by proposal 250. Using this protocol, directory
19317 authorities generate a global fresh random value every day. In the
19318 future, this value will be used by hidden services to select
19319 HSDirs. This release implements the directory authority feature;
19320 the hidden service side will be implemented in the future as part
19321 of proposal 224. Resolves ticket 16943; implements proposal 250.
19323 o Major features (downloading, random exponential backoff):
19324 - When we fail to download an object from a directory service, wait
19325 for an (exponentially increasing) randomized amount of time before
19326 retrying, rather than a fixed interval as we did before. This
19327 prevents a group of Tor instances from becoming too synchronized,
19328 or a single Tor instance from becoming too predictable, in its
19329 download schedule. Closes ticket 15942.
19331 o Major bugfixes (exit policies):
19332 - Avoid disclosing exit outbound bind addresses, configured port
19333 bind addresses, and local interface addresses in relay descriptors
19334 by default under ExitPolicyRejectPrivate. Instead, only reject
19335 these (otherwise unlisted) addresses if
19336 ExitPolicyRejectLocalInterfaces is set. Fixes bug 18456; bugfix on
19337 0.2.7.2-alpha. Patch by teor.
19339 o Major bugfixes (hidden service client):
19340 - Allow Tor clients with appropriate controllers to work with
19341 FetchHidServDescriptors set to 0. Previously, this option also
19342 disabled descriptor cache lookup, thus breaking hidden services
19343 entirely. Fixes bug 18704; bugfix on 0.2.0.20-rc. Patch by "twim".
19345 o Minor features (build, hardening):
19346 - Detect and work around a libclang_rt problem that would prevent
19347 clang from finding __mulodi4() on some 32-bit platforms, and thus
19348 keep -ftrapv from linking on those systems. Closes ticket 19079.
19349 - When building on a system without runtime support for the runtime
19350 hardening options, try to log a useful warning at configuration
19351 time, rather than an incomprehensible warning at link time. If
19352 expensive hardening was requested, this warning becomes an error.
19353 Closes ticket 18895.
19355 o Minor features (code safety):
19356 - In our integer-parsing functions, ensure that maxiumum value we
19357 give is no smaller than the minimum value. Closes ticket 19063;
19360 o Minor features (controller):
19361 - Implement new GETINFO queries for all downloads that use
19362 download_status_t to schedule retries. This allows controllers to
19363 examine the schedule for pending downloads. Closes ticket 19323.
19364 - Allow controllers to configure basic client authorization on
19365 hidden services when they create them with the ADD_ONION control
19366 command. Implements ticket 15588. Patch by "special".
19367 - Fire a STATUS_SERVER controller event whenever the hibernation
19368 status changes between "awake"/"soft"/"hard". Closes ticket 18685.
19370 o Minor features (directory authority):
19371 - Directory authorities now only give the Guard flag to a relay if
19372 they are also giving it the Stable flag. This change allows us to
19373 simplify path selection for clients. It should have minimal effect
19374 in practice, since >99% of Guards already have the Stable flag.
19375 Implements ticket 18624.
19376 - Directory authorities now write their v3-status-votes file out to
19377 disk earlier in the consensus process, so we have a record of the
19378 votes even if we abort the consensus process. Resolves
19381 o Minor features (hidden service):
19382 - Stop being so strict about the payload length of "rendezvous1"
19383 cells. We used to be locked in to the "TAP" handshake length, and
19384 now we can handle better handshakes like "ntor". Resolves
19387 o Minor features (infrastructure, time):
19388 - Tor now uses the operating system's monotonic timers (where
19389 available) for internal fine-grained timing. Previously we would
19390 look at the system clock, and then attempt to compensate for the
19391 clock running backwards. Closes ticket 18908.
19392 - Tor now includes an improved timer backend, so that we can
19393 efficiently support tens or hundreds of thousands of concurrent
19394 timers, as will be needed for some of our planned anti-traffic-
19395 analysis work. This code is based on William Ahern's "timeout.c"
19396 project, which implements a "tickless hierarchical timing wheel".
19397 Closes ticket 18365.
19399 o Minor features (logging):
19400 - Provide a more useful warning message when configured with an
19401 invalid Nickname. Closes ticket 18300; patch from "icanhasaccount".
19402 - When dumping unparseable router descriptors, optionally store them
19403 in separate files, named by digest, up to a configurable size
19404 limit. You can change the size limit by setting the
19405 MaxUnparseableDescSizeToLog option, and disable this feature by
19406 setting that option to 0. Closes ticket 18322.
19407 - Add a set of macros to check nonfatal assertions, for internal
19408 use. Migrating more of our checks to these should help us avoid
19409 needless crash bugs. Closes ticket 18613.
19411 o Minor features (performance):
19412 - Change the "optimistic data" extension from "off by default" to
19413 "on by default". The default was ordinarily overridden by a
19414 consensus option, but when clients were bootstrapping for the
19415 first time, they would not have a consensus to get the option
19416 from. Changing this default saves a round-trip during startup.
19417 Closes ticket 18815.
19419 o Minor features (relay, usability):
19420 - When the directory authorities refuse a bad relay's descriptor,
19421 encourage the relay operator to contact us. Many relay operators
19422 won't notice this line in their logs, but it's a win if even a few
19423 learn why we don't like what their relay was doing. Resolves
19426 o Minor features (testing):
19427 - Let backtrace tests work correctly under AddressSanitizer. Fixes
19428 part of bug 18934; bugfix on 0.2.5.2-alpha.
19429 - Move the test-network.sh script to chutney, and modify tor's test-
19430 network.sh to call the (newer) chutney version when available.
19431 Resolves ticket 19116. Patch by teor.
19432 - Use the lcov convention for marking lines as unreachable, so that
19433 we don't count them when we're generating test coverage data.
19434 Update our coverage tools to understand this convention. Closes
19437 o Minor bugfixes (bootstrap):
19438 - Remember the directory we fetched the consensus or previous
19439 certificates from, and use it to fetch future authority
19440 certificates. This change improves bootstrapping performance.
19441 Fixes bug 18963; bugfix on 0.2.8.1-alpha.
19443 o Minor bugfixes (build):
19444 - The test-stem and test-network makefile targets now depend only on
19445 the tor binary that they are testing. Previously, they depended on
19446 "make all". Fixes bug 18240; bugfix on 0.2.8.2-alpha. Based on a
19447 patch from "cypherpunks".
19449 o Minor bugfixes (circuits):
19450 - Make sure extend_info_from_router() is only called on servers.
19451 Fixes bug 19639; bugfix on 0.2.8.1-alpha.
19453 o Minor bugfixes (compilation):
19454 - When building with Clang, use a full set of GCC warnings.
19455 (Previously, we included only a subset, because of the way we
19456 detected them.) Fixes bug 19216; bugfix on 0.2.0.1-alpha.
19458 o Minor bugfixes (directory authority):
19459 - Authorities now sort the "package" lines in their votes, for ease
19460 of debugging. (They are already sorted in consensus documents.)
19461 Fixes bug 18840; bugfix on 0.2.6.3-alpha.
19462 - When parsing a detached signature, make sure we use the length of
19463 the digest algorithm instead of an hardcoded DIGEST256_LEN in
19464 order to avoid comparing bytes out-of-bounds with a smaller digest
19465 length such as SHA1. Fixes bug 19066; bugfix on 0.2.2.6-alpha.
19467 o Minor bugfixes (documentation):
19468 - Document the --passphrase-fd option in the tor manpage. Fixes bug
19469 19504; bugfix on 0.2.7.3-rc.
19470 - Fix the description of the --passphrase-fd option in the
19471 tor-gencert manpage. The option is used to pass the number of a
19472 file descriptor to read the passphrase from, not to read the file
19473 descriptor from. Fixes bug 19505; bugfix on 0.2.0.20-alpha.
19475 o Minor bugfixes (ephemeral hidden service):
19476 - When deleting an ephemeral hidden service, close its intro points
19477 even if they are not completely open. Fixes bug 18604; bugfix
19480 o Minor bugfixes (guard selection):
19481 - Use a single entry guard even if the NumEntryGuards consensus
19482 parameter is not provided. Fixes bug 17688; bugfix
19484 - Don't mark guards as unreachable if connection_connect() fails.
19485 That function fails for local reasons, so it shouldn't reveal
19486 anything about the status of the guard. Fixes bug 14334; bugfix
19489 o Minor bugfixes (hidden service client):
19490 - Increase the minimum number of internal circuits we preemptively
19491 build from 2 to 3, so a circuit is available when a client
19492 connects to another onion service. Fixes bug 13239; bugfix
19495 o Minor bugfixes (logging):
19496 - When logging a directory ownership mismatch, log the owning
19497 username correctly. Fixes bug 19578; bugfix on 0.2.2.29-beta.
19499 o Minor bugfixes (memory leaks):
19500 - Fix a small, uncommon memory leak that could occur when reading a
19501 truncated ed25519 key file. Fixes bug 18956; bugfix
19504 o Minor bugfixes (testing):
19505 - Allow clients to retry HSDirs much faster in test networks. Fixes
19506 bug 19702; bugfix on 0.2.7.1-alpha. Patch by teor.
19507 - Disable ASAN's detection of segmentation faults while running
19508 test_bt.sh, so that we can make sure that our own backtrace
19509 generation code works. Fixes another aspect of bug 18934; bugfix
19510 on 0.2.5.2-alpha. Patch from "cypherpunks".
19511 - Fix the test-network-all target on out-of-tree builds by using the
19512 correct path to the test driver script. Fixes bug 19421; bugfix
19515 o Minor bugfixes (time):
19516 - Improve overflow checks in tv_udiff and tv_mdiff. Fixes bug 19483;
19517 bugfix on all released tor versions.
19518 - When computing the difference between two times in milliseconds,
19519 we now round to the nearest millisecond correctly. Previously, we
19520 could sometimes round in the wrong direction. Fixes bug 19428;
19521 bugfix on 0.2.2.2-alpha.
19523 o Minor bugfixes (user interface):
19524 - Display a more accurate number of suppressed messages in the log
19525 rate-limiter. Previously, there was a potential integer overflow
19526 in the counter. Now, if the number of messages hits a maximum, the
19527 rate-limiter doesn't count any further. Fixes bug 19435; bugfix
19529 - Fix a typo in the passphrase prompt for the ed25519 identity key.
19530 Fixes bug 19503; bugfix on 0.2.7.2-alpha.
19532 o Code simplification and refactoring:
19533 - Remove redundant declarations of the MIN macro. Closes
19535 - Rename tor_dup_addr() to tor_addr_to_str_dup() to avoid confusion.
19536 Closes ticket 18462; patch from "icanhasaccount".
19537 - Split the 600-line directory_handle_command_get function into
19538 separate functions for different URL types. Closes ticket 16698.
19541 - Fix spelling of "--enable-tor2web-mode" in the manpage. Closes
19542 ticket 19153. Patch from "U+039b".
19544 o Removed features:
19545 - Remove support for "GET /tor/bytes.txt" DirPort request, and
19546 "GETINFO dir-usage" controller request, which were only available
19547 via a compile-time option in Tor anyway. Feature was added in
19548 0.2.2.1-alpha. Resolves ticket 19035.
19549 - There is no longer a compile-time option to disable support for
19550 TransPort. (If you don't want TransPort; just don't use it.) Patch
19551 from "U+039b". Closes ticket 19449.
19554 - Run more workqueue tests as part of "make check". These had
19555 previously been implemented, but you needed to know special
19556 command-line options to enable them.
19557 - We now have unit tests for our code to reject zlib "compression
19558 bombs". (Fortunately, the code works fine.)
19561 Changes in version 0.2.8.6 - 2016-08-02
19563 Tor 0.2.8.6 is the first stable version of the Tor 0.2.8 series.
19565 The Tor 0.2.8 series improves client bootstrapping performance,
19566 completes the authority-side implementation of improved identity
19567 keys for relays, and includes numerous bugfixes and performance
19568 improvements throughout the program. This release continues to
19569 improve the coverage of Tor's test suite. For a full list of
19570 changes since Tor 0.2.7, see the ReleaseNotes file.
19572 Changes since 0.2.8.5-rc:
19574 o Minor features (geoip):
19575 - Update geoip and geoip6 to the July 6 2016 Maxmind GeoLite2
19578 o Minor bugfixes (compilation):
19579 - Fix a compilation warning in the unit tests on systems where char
19580 is signed. Fixes bug 19682; bugfix on 0.2.8.1-alpha.
19582 o Minor bugfixes (fallback directories):
19583 - Remove 1 fallback that was on the hardcoded list, then opted-out,
19584 leaving 89 of the 100 fallbacks originally introduced in Tor
19585 0.2.8.2-alpha in March 2016. Closes ticket 19782; patch by teor.
19587 o Minor bugfixes (Linux seccomp2 sandbox):
19588 - Allow more syscalls when running with "Sandbox 1" enabled:
19589 sysinfo, getsockopt(SO_SNDBUF), and setsockopt(SO_SNDBUFFORCE). On
19590 some systems, these are required for Tor to start. Fixes bug
19591 18397; bugfix on 0.2.5.1-alpha. Patch from Daniel Pinto.
19592 - Allow IPPROTO_UDP datagram sockets when running with "Sandbox 1",
19593 so that get_interface_address6_via_udp_socket_hack() can work.
19594 Fixes bug 19660; bugfix on 0.2.5.1-alpha.
19597 Changes in version 0.2.8.5-rc - 2016-07-07
19598 Tor 0.2.8.5-rc is the second release candidate in the Tor 0.2.8
19599 series. If we find no new bugs or regressions here, the first stable
19600 0.2.8 release will be identical to it. It has a few small bugfixes
19601 against previous versions.
19603 o Directory authority changes:
19604 - Urras is no longer a directory authority. Closes ticket 19271.
19606 o Major bugfixes (heartbeat):
19607 - Fix a regression that would crash Tor when the periodic
19608 "heartbeat" log messages were disabled. Fixes bug 19454; bugfix on
19609 0.2.8.1-alpha. Reported by "kubaku".
19611 o Minor features (build):
19612 - Tor now again builds with the recent OpenSSL 1.1 development
19613 branch (tested against 1.1.0-pre6-dev). Closes ticket 19499.
19614 - When building manual pages, set the timezone to "UTC", so that the
19615 output is reproducible. Fixes bug 19558; bugfix on 0.2.2.9-alpha.
19616 Patch from intrigeri.
19618 o Minor bugfixes (fallback directory selection):
19619 - Avoid errors during fallback selection if there are no eligible
19620 fallbacks. Fixes bug 19480; bugfix on 0.2.8.3-alpha. Patch
19623 o Minor bugfixes (IPv6, microdescriptors):
19624 - Don't check node addresses when we only have a routerstatus. This
19625 allows IPv6-only clients to bootstrap by fetching microdescriptors
19626 from fallback directory mirrors. (The microdescriptor consensus
19627 has no IPv6 addresses in it.) Fixes bug 19608; bugfix
19630 o Minor bugfixes (logging):
19631 - Reduce pointlessly verbose log messages when directory servers
19632 can't be found. Fixes bug 18849; bugfix on 0.2.8.3-alpha and
19633 0.2.8.1-alpha. Patch by teor.
19634 - When a fallback directory changes its fingerprint from the hard-
19635 coded fingerprint, log a less severe, more explanatory log
19636 message. Fixes bug 18812; bugfix on 0.2.8.1-alpha. Patch by teor.
19638 o Minor bugfixes (Linux seccomp2 sandboxing):
19639 - Allow statistics to be written to disk when "Sandbox 1" is
19640 enabled. Fixes bugs 19556 and 19957; bugfix on 0.2.5.1-alpha and
19641 0.2.6.1-alpha respectively.
19643 o Minor bugfixes (user interface):
19644 - Remove a warning message "Service [scrubbed] not found after
19645 descriptor upload". This message appears when one uses HSPOST
19646 control command to upload a service descriptor. Since there is
19647 only a descriptor and no service, showing this message is
19648 pointless and confusing. Fixes bug 19464; bugfix on 0.2.7.2-alpha.
19650 o Fallback directory list:
19651 - Add a comment to the generated fallback directory list that
19652 explains how to comment out unsuitable fallbacks in a way that's
19653 compatible with the stem fallback parser.
19654 - Update fallback whitelist and blacklist based on relay operator
19655 emails. Blacklist unsuitable (non-working, over-volatile)
19656 fallbacks. Resolves ticket 19071. Patch by teor.
19657 - Remove 10 unsuitable fallbacks, leaving 90 of the 100 fallbacks
19658 originally introduced in Tor 0.2.8.2-alpha in March 2016. Closes
19659 ticket 19071; patch by teor.
19662 Changes in version 0.2.8.4-rc - 2016-06-15
19663 Tor 0.2.8.4-rc is the first release candidate in the Tor 0.2.8 series.
19664 If we find no new bugs or regressions here, the first stable 0.2.8
19665 release will be identical to it. It has a few small bugfixes against
19668 o Major bugfixes (user interface):
19669 - Correctly give a warning in the cases where a relay is specified
19670 by nickname, and one such relay is found, but it is not officially
19671 Named. Fixes bug 19203; bugfix on 0.2.3.1-alpha.
19673 o Minor features (build):
19674 - Tor now builds once again with the recent OpenSSL 1.1 development
19675 branch (tested against 1.1.0-pre5 and 1.1.0-pre6-dev).
19677 o Minor features (geoip):
19678 - Update geoip and geoip6 to the June 7 2016 Maxmind GeoLite2
19681 o Minor bugfixes (compilation):
19682 - Cause the unit tests to compile correctly on mingw64 versions that
19683 lack sscanf. Fixes bug 19213; bugfix on 0.2.7.1-alpha.
19685 o Minor bugfixes (downloading):
19686 - Predict more correctly whether we'll be downloading over HTTP when
19687 we determine the maximum length of a URL. This should avoid a
19688 "BUG" warning about the Squid HTTP proxy and its URL limits. Fixes
19692 Changes in version 0.2.8.3-alpha - 2016-05-26
19693 Tor 0.2.8.3-alpha resolves several bugs, most of them introduced over
19694 the course of the 0.2.8 development cycle. It improves the behavior of
19695 directory clients, fixes several crash bugs, fixes a gap in compiler
19696 hardening, and allows the full integration test suite to run on
19699 o Major bugfixes (security, client, DNS proxy):
19700 - Stop a crash that could occur when a client running with DNSPort
19701 received a query with multiple address types, and the first
19702 address type was not supported. Found and fixed by Scott Dial.
19703 Fixes bug 18710; bugfix on 0.2.5.4-alpha.
19705 o Major bugfixes (security, compilation):
19706 - Correctly detect compiler flags on systems where _FORTIFY_SOURCE
19707 is predefined. Previously, our use of -D_FORTIFY_SOURCE would
19708 cause a compiler warning, thereby making other checks fail, and
19709 needlessly disabling compiler-hardening support. Fixes one case of
19710 bug 18841; bugfix on 0.2.3.17-beta. Patch from "trudokal".
19712 o Major bugfixes (security, directory authorities):
19713 - Fix a crash and out-of-bounds write during authority voting, when
19714 the list of relays includes duplicate ed25519 identity keys. Fixes
19715 bug 19032; bugfix on 0.2.8.2-alpha.
19717 o Major bugfixes (client, bootstrapping):
19718 - Check if bootstrap consensus downloads are still needed when the
19719 linked connection attaches. This prevents tor making unnecessary
19720 begindir-style connections, which are the only directory
19721 connections tor clients make since the fix for 18483 was merged.
19722 - Fix some edge cases where consensus download connections may not
19723 have been closed, even though they were not needed. Related to fix
19725 - Make relays retry consensus downloads the correct number of times,
19726 rather than the more aggressive client retry count. Fixes part of
19728 - Stop downloading consensuses when we have a consensus, even if we
19729 don't have all the certificates for it yet. Fixes bug 18809;
19730 bugfix on 0.2.8.1-alpha. Patches by arma and teor.
19732 o Major bugfixes (directory mirrors):
19733 - Decide whether to advertise begindir support in the the same way
19734 we decide whether to advertise our DirPort. Allowing these
19735 decisions to become out-of-sync led to surprising behavior like
19736 advertising begindir support when hibernation made us not
19737 advertise a DirPort. Resolves bug 18616; bugfix on 0.2.8.1-alpha.
19740 o Major bugfixes (IPv6 bridges, client):
19741 - Actually use IPv6 addresses when selecting directory addresses for
19742 IPv6 bridges. Fixes bug 18921; bugfix on 0.2.8.1-alpha. Patch
19745 o Major bugfixes (key management):
19746 - If OpenSSL fails to generate an RSA key, do not retain a dangling
19747 pointer to the previous (uninitialized) key value. The impact here
19748 should be limited to a difficult-to-trigger crash, if OpenSSL is
19749 running an engine that makes key generation failures possible, or
19750 if OpenSSL runs out of memory. Fixes bug 19152; bugfix on
19751 0.2.1.10-alpha. Found by Yuan Jochen Kang, Suman Jana, and
19754 o Major bugfixes (testing):
19755 - Fix a bug that would block 'make test-network-all' on systems where
19756 IPv6 packets were lost. Fixes bug 19008; bugfix on 0.2.7.3-rc.
19757 - Avoid "WSANOTINITIALISED" warnings in the unit tests. Fixes bug 18668;
19758 bugfix on 0.2.8.1-alpha.
19760 o Minor features (clients):
19761 - Make clients, onion services, and bridge relays always use an
19762 encrypted begindir connection for directory requests. Resolves
19763 ticket 18483. Patch by "teor".
19765 o Minor features (fallback directory mirrors):
19766 - Give each fallback the same weight for client selection; restrict
19767 fallbacks to one per operator; report fallback directory detail
19768 changes when rebuilding list; add new fallback directory mirrors
19769 to the whitelist; and many other minor simplifications and fixes.
19770 Closes tasks 17905, 18749, bug 18689, and fixes part of bug 18812 on
19771 0.2.8.1-alpha; patch by "teor".
19772 - Replace the 21 fallbacks generated in January 2016 and included in
19773 Tor 0.2.8.1-alpha, with a list of 100 fallbacks generated in March
19774 2016. Closes task 17158; patch by "teor".
19776 o Minor features (geoip):
19777 - Update geoip and geoip6 to the May 4 2016 Maxmind GeoLite2
19780 o Minor bugfixes (assert, portability):
19781 - Fix an assertion failure in memarea.c on systems where "long" is
19782 shorter than the size of a pointer. Fixes bug 18716; bugfix
19785 o Minor bugfixes (bootstrap):
19786 - Consistently use the consensus download schedule for authority
19787 certificates. Fixes bug 18816; bugfix on 0.2.4.13-alpha.
19789 o Minor bugfixes (build):
19790 - Remove a pair of redundant AM_CONDITIONAL declarations from
19791 configure.ac. Fixes one final case of bug 17744; bugfix
19793 - Resolve warnings when building on systems that are concerned with
19794 signed char. Fixes bug 18728; bugfix on 0.2.7.2-alpha
19796 - When libscrypt.h is found, but no libscrypt library can be linked,
19797 treat libscrypt as absent. Fixes bug 19161; bugfix
19800 o Minor bugfixes (client):
19801 - Turn all TestingClientBootstrap* into non-testing torrc options.
19802 This changes simply renames them by removing "Testing" in front of
19803 them and they do not require TestingTorNetwork to be enabled
19804 anymore. Fixes bug 18481; bugfix on 0.2.8.1-alpha.
19805 - Make directory node selection more reliable, mainly for IPv6-only
19806 clients and clients with few reachable addresses. Fixes bug 18929;
19807 bugfix on 0.2.8.1-alpha. Patch by "teor".
19809 o Minor bugfixes (controller, microdescriptors):
19810 - Make GETINFO dir/status-vote/current/consensus conform to the
19811 control specification by returning "551 Could not open cached
19812 consensus..." when not caching consensuses. Fixes bug 18920;
19813 bugfix on 0.2.2.6-alpha.
19815 o Minor bugfixes (crypto, portability):
19816 - The SHA3 and SHAKE routines now produce the correct output on Big
19817 Endian systems. No code calls either algorithm yet, so this is
19818 primarily a build fix. Fixes bug 18943; bugfix on 0.2.8.1-alpha.
19819 - Tor now builds again with the recent OpenSSL 1.1 development
19820 branch (tested against 1.1.0-pre4 and 1.1.0-pre5-dev). Closes
19823 o Minor bugfixes (directories):
19824 - When fetching extrainfo documents, compare their SHA256 digests
19825 and Ed25519 signing key certificates with the routerinfo that led
19826 us to fetch them, rather than with the most recent routerinfo.
19827 Otherwise we generate many spurious warnings about mismatches.
19828 Fixes bug 17150; bugfix on 0.2.7.2-alpha.
19830 o Minor bugfixes (logging):
19831 - When we can't generate a signing key because OfflineMasterKey is
19832 set, do not imply that we should have been able to load it. Fixes
19833 bug 18133; bugfix on 0.2.7.2-alpha.
19834 - Stop periodic_event_dispatch() from blasting twelve lines per
19835 second at loglevel debug. Fixes bug 18729; fix on 0.2.8.1-alpha.
19836 - When rejecting a misformed INTRODUCE2 cell, only log at
19837 PROTOCOL_WARN severity. Fixes bug 18761; bugfix on 0.2.8.2-alpha.
19839 o Minor bugfixes (pluggable transports):
19840 - Avoid reporting a spurious error when we decide that we don't need
19841 to terminate a pluggable transport because it has already exited.
19842 Fixes bug 18686; bugfix on 0.2.5.5-alpha.
19844 o Minor bugfixes (pointer arithmetic):
19845 - Fix a bug in memarea_alloc() that could have resulted in remote
19846 heap write access, if Tor had ever passed an unchecked size to
19847 memarea_alloc(). Fortunately, all the sizes we pass to
19848 memarea_alloc() are pre-checked to be less than 128 kilobytes.
19849 Fixes bug 19150; bugfix on 0.2.1.1-alpha. Bug found by
19852 o Minor bugfixes (relays):
19853 - Consider more config options when relays decide whether to
19854 regenerate their descriptor. Fixes more of bug 12538; bugfix
19856 - Resolve some edge cases where we might launch an ORPort
19857 reachability check even when DisableNetwork is set. Noticed while
19858 fixing bug 18616; bugfix on 0.2.3.9-alpha.
19860 o Minor bugfixes (statistics):
19861 - We now include consensus downloads via IPv6 in our directory-
19862 request statistics. Fixes bug 18460; bugfix on 0.2.3.14-alpha.
19864 o Minor bugfixes (testing):
19865 - Allow directories in small networks to bootstrap by skipping
19866 DirPort checks when the consensus has no exits. Fixes bug 19003;
19867 bugfix on 0.2.8.1-alpha. Patch by teor.
19868 - Fix a small memory leak that would occur when the
19869 TestingEnableCellStatsEvent option was turned on. Fixes bug 18673;
19870 bugfix on 0.2.5.2-alpha.
19872 o Minor bugfixes (time handling):
19873 - When correcting a corrupt 'struct tm' value, fill in the tm_wday
19874 field. Otherwise, our unit tests crash on Windows. Fixes bug
19875 18977; bugfix on 0.2.2.25-alpha.
19878 - Document the contents of the 'datadir/keys' subdirectory in the
19879 manual page. Closes ticket 17621.
19880 - Stop recommending use of nicknames to identify relays in our
19881 MapAddress documentation. Closes ticket 18312.
19884 Changes in version 0.2.8.2-alpha - 2016-03-28
19885 Tor 0.2.8.2-alpha is the second alpha in its series. It fixes numerous
19886 bugs in earlier versions of Tor, including some that prevented
19887 authorities using Tor 0.2.7.x from running correctly. IPv6 and
19888 directory support should also be much improved.
19890 o New system requirements:
19891 - Tor no longer supports versions of OpenSSL with a broken
19892 implementation of counter mode. (This bug was present in OpenSSL
19893 1.0.0, and was fixed in OpenSSL 1.0.0a.) Tor still detects, but no
19894 longer runs with, these versions.
19895 - Tor no longer attempts to support platforms where the "time_t"
19896 type is unsigned. (To the best of our knowledge, only OpenVMS does
19897 this, and Tor has never actually built on OpenVMS.) Closes
19899 - Tor now uses Autoconf version 2.63 or later, and Automake 1.11 or
19900 later (released in 2008 and 2009 respectively). If you are
19901 building Tor from the git repository instead of from the source
19902 distribution, and your tools are older than this, you will need to
19903 upgrade. Closes ticket 17732.
19905 o Major bugfixes (security, pointers):
19906 - Avoid a difficult-to-trigger heap corruption attack when extending
19907 a smartlist to contain over 16GB of pointers. Fixes bug 18162;
19908 bugfix on 0.1.1.11-alpha, which fixed a related bug incompletely.
19909 Reported by Guido Vranken.
19911 o Major bugfixes (bridges, pluggable transports):
19912 - Modify the check for OR connections to private addresses. Allow
19913 bridges on private addresses, including pluggable transports that
19914 ignore the (potentially private) address in the bridge line. Fixes
19915 bug 18517; bugfix on 0.2.8.1-alpha. Reported by gk, patch by teor.
19917 o Major bugfixes (compilation):
19918 - Repair hardened builds under the clang compiler. Previously, our
19919 use of _FORTIFY_SOURCE would conflict with clang's address
19920 sanitizer. Fixes bug 14821; bugfix on 0.2.5.4-alpha.
19922 o Major bugfixes (crash on shutdown):
19923 - Correctly handle detaching circuits from muxes when shutting down.
19924 Fixes bug 18116; bugfix on 0.2.8.1-alpha.
19925 - Fix an assert-on-exit bug related to counting memory usage in
19926 rephist.c. Fixes bug 18651; bugfix on 0.2.8.1-alpha.
19928 o Major bugfixes (crash on startup):
19929 - Fix a segfault during startup: If a Unix domain socket was
19930 configured as listener (such as a ControlSocket or a SocksPort
19931 "unix:" socket), and tor was started as root but not configured to
19932 switch to another user, tor would segfault while trying to string
19933 compare a NULL value. Fixes bug 18261; bugfix on 0.2.8.1-alpha.
19936 o Major bugfixes (dns proxy mode, crash):
19937 - Avoid crashing when running as a DNS proxy. Fixes bug 16248;
19938 bugfix on 0.2.0.1-alpha. Patch from "cypherpunks".
19940 o Major bugfixes (relays, bridge clients):
19941 - Ensure relays always allow IPv4 OR and Dir connections. Ensure
19942 bridge clients use the address configured in the bridge line.
19943 Fixes bug 18348; bugfix on 0.2.8.1-alpha. Reported by sysrqb,
19946 o Major bugfixes (voting):
19947 - Actually enable support for authorities to match routers by their
19948 Ed25519 identities. Previously, the code had been written, but
19949 some debugging code that had accidentally been left in the
19950 codebase made it stay turned off. Fixes bug 17702; bugfix
19952 - When collating votes by Ed25519 identities, authorities now
19953 include a "NoEdConsensus" flag if the ed25519 value (or lack
19954 thereof) for a server does not reflect the majority consensus.
19955 Related to bug 17668; bugfix on 0.2.7.2-alpha.
19956 - When generating a vote with keypinning disabled, never include two
19957 entries for the same ed25519 identity. This bug was causing
19958 authorities to generate votes that they could not parse when a
19959 router violated key pinning by changing its RSA identity but
19960 keeping its Ed25519 identity. Fixes bug 17668; fixes part of bug
19961 18318. Bugfix on 0.2.7.2-alpha.
19963 o Minor features (security, win32):
19964 - Set SO_EXCLUSIVEADDRUSE on Win32 to avoid a local port-stealing
19965 attack. Fixes bug 18123; bugfix on all tor versions. Patch
19968 o Minor features (bug-resistance):
19969 - Make Tor survive errors involving connections without a
19970 corresponding event object. Previously we'd fail with an
19971 assertion; now we produce a log message. Related to bug 16248.
19973 o Minor features (build):
19974 - Detect systems with FreeBSD-derived kernels (such as GNU/kFreeBSD)
19975 as having possible IPFW support. Closes ticket 18448. Patch from
19976 Steven Chamberlain.
19978 o Minor features (code hardening):
19979 - Use tor_snprintf() and tor_vsnprintf() even in external and low-
19980 level code, to harden against accidental failures to NUL-
19981 terminate. Part of ticket 17852. Patch from jsturgix. Found
19984 o Minor features (crypto):
19985 - Validate the hard-coded Diffie-Hellman parameters and ensure that
19986 p is a safe prime, and g is a suitable generator. Closes
19989 o Minor features (geoip):
19990 - Update geoip and geoip6 to the March 3 2016 Maxmind GeoLite2
19993 o Minor features (hidden service directory):
19994 - Streamline relay-side hsdir handling: when relays consider whether
19995 to accept an uploaded hidden service descriptor, they no longer
19996 check whether they are one of the relays in the network that is
19997 "supposed" to handle that descriptor. Implements ticket 18332.
19999 o Minor features (IPv6):
20000 - Add ClientPreferIPv6DirPort, which is set to 0 by default. If set
20001 to 1, tor prefers IPv6 directory addresses.
20002 - Add ClientUseIPv4, which is set to 1 by default. If set to 0, tor
20003 avoids using IPv4 for client OR and directory connections.
20004 - Try harder to obey the IP version restrictions "ClientUseIPv4 0",
20005 "ClientUseIPv6 0", "ClientPreferIPv6ORPort", and
20006 "ClientPreferIPv6DirPort". Closes ticket 17840; patch by teor.
20008 o Minor features (linux seccomp2 sandbox):
20009 - Reject attempts to change our Address with "Sandbox 1" enabled.
20010 Changing Address with Sandbox turned on would never actually work,
20011 but previously it would fail in strange and confusing ways. Found
20012 while fixing 18548.
20014 o Minor features (robustness):
20015 - Exit immediately with an error message if the code attempts to use
20016 Libevent without having initialized it. This should resolve some
20017 frequently-made mistakes in our unit tests. Closes ticket 18241.
20019 o Minor features (unix domain sockets):
20020 - Add a new per-socket option, RelaxDirModeCheck, to allow creating
20021 Unix domain sockets without checking the permissions on the parent
20022 directory. (Tor checks permissions by default because some
20023 operating systems only check permissions on the parent directory.
20024 However, some operating systems do look at permissions on the
20025 socket, and tor's default check is unneeded.) Closes ticket 18458.
20028 o Minor bugfixes (exit policies, security):
20029 - Refresh an exit relay's exit policy when interface addresses
20030 change. Previously, tor only refreshed the exit policy when the
20031 configured external address changed. Fixes bug 18208; bugfix on
20032 0.2.7.3-rc. Patch by teor.
20034 o Minor bugfixes (security, hidden services):
20035 - Prevent hidden services connecting to client-supplied rendezvous
20036 addresses that are reserved as internal or multicast. Fixes bug
20037 8976; bugfix on 0.2.3.21-rc. Patch by dgoulet and teor.
20039 o Minor bugfixes (build):
20040 - Do not link the unit tests against both the testing and non-
20041 testing versions of the static libraries. Fixes bug 18490; bugfix
20043 - Avoid spurious failures from configure files related to calling
20044 exit(0) in TOR_SEARCH_LIBRARY. Fixes bug 18626; bugfix on
20045 0.2.0.1-alpha. Patch from "cypherpunks".
20046 - Silence spurious clang-scan warnings in the ed25519_donna code by
20047 explicitly initializing some objects. Fixes bug 18384; bugfix on
20048 0.2.7.2-alpha. Patch by teor.
20050 o Minor bugfixes (client, bootstrap):
20051 - Count receipt of new microdescriptors as progress towards
20052 bootstrapping. Previously, with EntryNodes set, Tor might not
20053 successfully repopulate the guard set on bootstrapping. Fixes bug
20054 16825; bugfix on 0.2.3.1-alpha.
20056 o Minor bugfixes (code correctness):
20057 - Update to the latest version of Trunnel, which tries harder to
20058 avoid generating code that can invoke memcpy(p,NULL,0). Bug found
20059 by clang address sanitizer. Fixes bug 18373; bugfix
20062 o Minor bugfixes (configuration):
20063 - Fix a tiny memory leak when parsing a port configuration ending in
20064 ":auto". Fixes bug 18374; bugfix on 0.2.3.3-alpha.
20066 o Minor bugfixes (containers):
20067 - If we somehow attempt to construct a heap with more than
20068 1073741822 elements, avoid an integer overflow when maintaining
20069 the heap property. Fixes bug 18296; bugfix on 0.1.2.1-alpha.
20071 o Minor bugfixes (correctness):
20072 - Fix a bad memory handling bug that would occur if we had queued a
20073 cell on a channel's incoming queue. Fortunately, we can't actually
20074 queue a cell like that as our code is constructed today, but it's
20075 best to avoid this kind of error, even if there isn't any code
20076 that triggers it today. Fixes bug 18570; bugfix on 0.2.4.4-alpha.
20078 o Minor bugfixes (directory):
20079 - When generating a URL for a directory server on an IPv6 address,
20080 wrap the IPv6 address in square brackets. Fixes bug 18051; bugfix
20081 on 0.2.3.9-alpha. Patch from Malek.
20083 o Minor bugfixes (fallback directory mirrors):
20084 - When requesting extrainfo descriptors from a trusted directory
20085 server, check whether it is an authority or a fallback directory
20086 which supports extrainfo descriptors. Fixes bug 18489; bugfix on
20087 0.2.4.7-alpha. Reported by atagar, patch by teor.
20089 o Minor bugfixes (hidden service, client):
20090 - Handle the case where the user makes several fast consecutive
20091 requests to the same .onion address. Previously, the first six
20092 requests would each trigger a descriptor fetch, each picking a
20093 directory (there are 6 overall) and the seventh one would fail
20094 because no directories were left, thereby triggering a close on
20095 all current directory connections asking for the hidden service.
20096 The solution here is to not close the connections if we have
20097 pending directory fetches. Fixes bug 15937; bugfix
20100 o Minor bugfixes (hidden service, control port):
20101 - Add the onion address to the HS_DESC event for the UPLOADED action
20102 both on success or failure. It was previously hardcoded with
20103 UNKNOWN. Fixes bug 16023; bugfix on 0.2.7.2-alpha.
20105 o Minor bugfixes (hidden service, directory):
20106 - Bridges now refuse "rendezvous2" (hidden service descriptor)
20107 publish attempts. Suggested by ticket 18332.
20109 o Minor bugfixes (linux seccomp2 sandbox):
20110 - Allow the setrlimit syscall, and the prlimit and prlimit64
20111 syscalls, which some libc implementations use under the hood.
20112 Fixes bug 15221; bugfix on 0.2.5.1-alpha.
20113 - Avoid a 10-second delay when starting as a client with "Sandbox 1"
20114 enabled and no DNS resolvers configured. This should help TAILS
20115 start up faster. Fixes bug 18548; bugfix on 0.2.5.1-alpha.
20116 - Fix the sandbox's interoperability with unix domain sockets under
20117 setuid. Fixes bug 18253; bugfix on 0.2.8.1-alpha.
20119 o Minor bugfixes (logging):
20120 - When logging information about an unparsable networkstatus vote or
20121 consensus, do not say "vote" when we mean consensus. Fixes bug
20122 18368; bugfix on 0.2.0.8-alpha.
20123 - Scrub service name in "unrecognized service ID" log messages.
20124 Fixes bug 18600; bugfix on 0.2.4.11-alpha.
20125 - Downgrade logs and backtraces about IP versions to info-level.
20126 Only log backtraces once each time tor runs. Assists in diagnosing
20127 bug 18351; bugfix on 0.2.8.1-alpha. Reported by sysrqb and
20128 Christian, patch by teor.
20130 o Minor bugfixes (memory safety):
20131 - Avoid freeing an uninitialized pointer when opening a socket fails
20132 in get_interface_addresses_ioctl(). Fixes bug 18454; bugfix on
20133 0.2.3.11-alpha. Reported by toralf and "cypherpunks", patch
20135 - Correctly duplicate addresses in get_interface_address6_list().
20136 Fixes bug 18454; bugfix on 0.2.8.1-alpha. Reported by toralf,
20137 patch by "cypherpunks".
20138 - Fix a memory leak in tor-gencert. Fixes part of bug 18672; bugfix
20140 - Fix a memory leak in "tor --list-fingerprint". Fixes part of bug
20141 18672; bugfix on 0.2.5.1-alpha.
20143 o Minor bugfixes (private directory):
20144 - Prevent a race condition when creating private directories. Fixes
20145 part of bug 17852; bugfix on 0.0.2pre13. Part of ticket 17852.
20146 Patch from jsturgix. Found with Flawfinder.
20148 o Minor bugfixes (test networks, IPv6):
20149 - Allow internal IPv6 addresses in descriptors in test networks.
20150 Fixes bug 17153; bugfix on 0.2.3.16-alpha. Patch by teor, reported
20153 o Minor bugfixes (testing):
20154 - We no longer disable assertions in the unit tests when coverage is
20155 enabled. Instead, we require you to say --disable-asserts-in-tests
20156 to the configure script if you need assertions disabled in the
20157 unit tests (for example, if you want to perform branch coverage).
20158 Fixes bug 18242; bugfix on 0.2.7.1-alpha.
20160 o Minor bugfixes (time parsing):
20161 - Avoid overflow in tor_timegm when parsing dates in and after 2038
20162 on platforms with 32-bit time_t. Fixes bug 18479; bugfix on
20163 0.0.2pre14. Patch by teor.
20165 o Minor bugfixes (tor-gencert):
20166 - Correctly handle the case where an authority operator enters a
20167 passphrase but sends an EOF before sending a newline. Fixes bug
20168 17443; bugfix on 0.2.0.20-rc. Found by junglefowl.
20170 o Code simplification and refactoring:
20171 - Quote all the string interpolations in configure.ac -- even those
20172 which we are pretty sure can't contain spaces. Closes ticket
20173 17744. Patch from zerosion.
20174 - Remove specialized code for non-inplace AES_CTR. 99% of our AES is
20175 inplace, so there's no need to have a separate implementation for
20176 the non-inplace code. Closes ticket 18258. Patch from Malek.
20177 - Simplify return types for some crypto functions that can't
20178 actually fail. Patch from Hassan Alsibyani. Closes ticket 18259.
20181 - Change build messages to refer to "Fedora" instead of "Fedora
20182 Core", and "dnf" instead of "yum". Closes tickets 18459 and 18426.
20183 Patches from "icanhasaccount" and "cypherpunks".
20185 o Removed features:
20186 - We no longer maintain an internal freelist in memarea.c.
20187 Allocators should be good enough to make this code unnecessary,
20188 and it's doubtful that it ever had any performance benefit.
20191 - Fix several warnings from clang's address sanitizer produced in
20193 - Treat backtrace test failures as expected on FreeBSD until we
20194 solve bug 17808. Closes ticket 18204.
20197 Changes in version 0.2.8.1-alpha - 2016-02-04
20198 Tor 0.2.8.1-alpha is the first alpha release in its series. It
20199 includes numerous small features and bugfixes against previous Tor
20200 versions, and numerous small infrastructure improvements. The most
20201 notable features are a set of improvements to the directory subsystem.
20203 o Major features (security, Linux):
20204 - When Tor starts as root on Linux and is told to switch user ID, it
20205 can now retain the capability to bind to low ports. By default,
20206 Tor will do this only when it's switching user ID and some low
20207 ports have been configured. You can change this behavior with the
20208 new option KeepBindCapabilities. Closes ticket 8195.
20210 o Major features (directory system):
20211 - When bootstrapping multiple consensus downloads at a time, use the
20212 first one that starts downloading, and close the rest. This
20213 reduces failures when authorities or fallback directories are slow
20214 or down. Together with the code for feature 15775, this feature
20215 should reduces failures due to fallback churn. Implements ticket
20216 4483. Patch by "teor". Implements IPv4 portions of proposal 210 by
20217 "mikeperry" and "teor".
20218 - Include a trial list of 21 default fallback directories, generated
20219 in January 2016, based on an opt-in survey of suitable relays.
20220 Doing this should make clients bootstrap more quickly and reliably,
20221 and reduce the load on the directory authorities. Closes ticket
20222 15775. Patch by "teor".
20223 Candidates identified using an OnionOO script by "weasel", "teor",
20224 "gsathya", and "karsten".
20225 - Previously only relays that explicitly opened a directory port
20226 (DirPort) accepted directory requests from clients. Now all
20227 relays, with and without a DirPort, accept and serve tunneled
20228 directory requests that they receive through their ORPort. You can
20229 disable this behavior using the new DirCache option. Closes
20232 o Major key updates:
20233 - Update the V3 identity key for the dannenberg directory authority:
20234 it was changed on 18 November 2015. Closes task 17906. Patch
20237 o Minor features (security, clock):
20238 - Warn when the system clock appears to move back in time (when the
20239 state file was last written in the future). Tor doesn't know that
20240 consensuses have expired if the clock is in the past. Patch by
20241 "teor". Implements ticket 17188.
20243 o Minor features (security, exit policies):
20244 - ExitPolicyRejectPrivate now rejects more private addresses by
20245 default. Specifically, it now rejects the relay's outbound bind
20246 addresses (if configured), and the relay's configured port
20247 addresses (such as ORPort and DirPort). Fixes bug 17027; bugfix on
20248 0.2.0.11-alpha. Patch by "teor".
20250 o Minor features (security, memory erasure):
20251 - Set the unused entries in a smartlist to NULL. This helped catch
20252 a (harmless) bug, and shouldn't affect performance too much.
20253 Implements ticket 17026.
20254 - Use SecureMemoryWipe() function to securely clean memory on
20255 Windows. Previously we'd use OpenSSL's OPENSSL_cleanse() function.
20256 Implements feature 17986.
20257 - Use explicit_bzero or memset_s when present. Previously, we'd use
20258 OpenSSL's OPENSSL_cleanse() function. Closes ticket 7419; patches
20259 from <logan@hackers.mu> and <selven@hackers.mu>.
20260 - Make memwipe() do nothing when passed a NULL pointer or buffer of
20261 zero size. Check size argument to memwipe() for underflow. Fixes
20262 bug 18089; bugfix on 0.2.3.25 and 0.2.4.6-alpha. Reported by "gk",
20265 o Minor features (security, RNG):
20266 - Adjust Tor's use of OpenSSL's RNG APIs so that they absolutely,
20267 positively are not allowed to fail. Previously we depended on
20268 internal details of OpenSSL's behavior. Closes ticket 17686.
20269 - Never use the system entropy output directly for anything besides
20270 seeding the PRNG. When we want to generate important keys, instead
20271 of using system entropy directly, we now hash it with the PRNG
20272 stream. This may help resist certain attacks based on broken OS
20273 entropy implementations. Closes part of ticket 17694.
20274 - Use modern system calls (like getentropy() or getrandom()) to
20275 generate strong entropy on platforms that have them. Closes
20278 o Minor features (accounting):
20279 - Added two modes to the AccountingRule option: One for limiting
20280 only the number of bytes sent ("AccountingRule out"), and one for
20281 limiting only the number of bytes received ("AccountingRule in").
20282 Closes ticket 15989; patch from "unixninja92".
20284 o Minor features (build):
20285 - Since our build process now uses "make distcheck", we no longer
20286 force "make dist" to depend on "make check". Closes ticket 17893;
20287 patch from "cypherpunks."
20288 - Tor now builds successfully with the recent OpenSSL 1.1
20289 development branch, and with the latest LibreSSL. Closes tickets
20290 17549, 17921, and 17984.
20292 o Minor features (controller):
20293 - Adds the FallbackDir entries to 'GETINFO config/defaults'. Closes
20294 tickets 16774 and 17817. Patch by George Tankersley.
20295 - New 'GETINFO hs/service/desc/id/' command to retrieve a hidden
20296 service descriptor from a service's local hidden service
20297 descriptor cache. Closes ticket 14846.
20298 - Add 'GETINFO exit-policy/reject-private/[default,relay]', so
20299 controllers can examine the the reject rules added by
20300 ExitPolicyRejectPrivate. This makes it easier for stem to display
20303 o Minor features (crypto):
20304 - Add SHA512 support to crypto.c. Closes ticket 17663; patch from
20306 - Add SHA3 and SHAKE support to crypto.c. Closes ticket 17783.
20307 - When allocating a digest state object, allocate no more space than
20308 we actually need. Previously, we would allocate as much space as
20309 the state for the largest algorithm would need. This change saves
20310 up to 672 bytes per circuit. Closes ticket 17796.
20311 - Improve performance when hashing non-multiple of 8 sized buffers,
20312 based on Andrew Moon's public domain SipHash-2-4 implementation.
20313 Fixes bug 17544; bugfix on 0.2.5.3-alpha.
20315 o Minor features (directory downloads):
20316 - Wait for busy authorities and fallback directories to become non-
20317 busy when bootstrapping. (A similar change was made in 6c443e987d
20318 for directory caches chosen from the consensus.) Closes ticket
20319 17864; patch by "teor".
20320 - Add UseDefaultFallbackDirs, which enables any hard-coded fallback
20321 directory mirrors. The default is 1; set it to 0 to disable
20322 fallbacks. Implements ticket 17576. Patch by "teor".
20324 o Minor features (geoip):
20325 - Update geoip and geoip6 to the January 5 2016 Maxmind GeoLite2
20328 o Minor features (IPv6):
20329 - Add an argument 'ipv6=address:orport' to the DirAuthority and
20330 FallbackDir torrc options, to specify an IPv6 address for an
20331 authority or fallback directory. Add hard-coded ipv6 addresses for
20332 directory authorities that have them. Closes ticket 17327; patch
20333 from Nick Mathewson and "teor".
20334 - Add address policy assume_action support for IPv6 addresses.
20335 - Limit IPv6 mask bits to 128.
20336 - Warn when comparing against an AF_UNSPEC address in a policy, it's
20337 almost always a bug. Closes ticket 17863; patch by "teor".
20338 - Allow users to configure directory authorities and fallback
20339 directory servers with IPv6 addresses and ORPorts. Resolves
20341 - routerset_parse now accepts IPv6 literal addresses. Fixes bug
20342 17060; bugfix on 0.2.1.3-alpha. Patch by "teor".
20343 - Make tor_ersatz_socketpair work on IPv6-only systems. Fixes bug
20344 17638; bugfix on 0.0.2pre8. Patch by "teor".
20346 o Minor features (logging):
20347 - When logging to syslog, allow a tag to be added to the syslog
20348 identity (the string prepended to every log message). The tag can
20349 be configured with SyslogIdentityTag and defaults to none. Setting
20350 it to "foo" will cause logs to be tagged as "Tor-foo". Closes
20353 o Minor features (portability):
20354 - Use timingsafe_memcmp() where available. Closes ticket 17944;
20355 patch from <logan@hackers.mu>.
20357 o Minor features (relay, address discovery):
20358 - Add a family argument to get_interface_addresses_raw() and
20359 subfunctions to make network interface address interogation more
20360 efficient. Now Tor can specifically ask for IPv4, IPv6 or both
20361 types of interfaces from the operating system. Resolves
20363 - When get_interface_address6_list(.,AF_UNSPEC,.) is called and
20364 fails to enumerate interface addresses using the platform-specific
20365 API, have it rely on the UDP socket fallback technique to try and
20366 find out what IP addresses (both IPv4 and IPv6) our machine has.
20367 Resolves ticket 17951.
20369 o Minor features (replay cache):
20370 - The replay cache now uses SHA256 instead of SHA1. Implements
20371 feature 8961. Patch by "teor", issue reported by "rransom".
20373 o Minor features (unix file permissions):
20374 - Defer creation of Unix sockets until after setuid. This avoids
20375 needing CAP_CHOWN and CAP_FOWNER when using systemd's
20376 CapabilityBoundingSet, or chown and fowner when using SELinux.
20377 Implements part of ticket 17562. Patch from Jamie Nguyen.
20378 - If any directory created by Tor is marked as group readable, the
20379 filesystem group is allowed to be either the default GID or the
20380 root user. Allowing root to read the DataDirectory prevents the
20381 need for CAP_READ_SEARCH when using systemd's
20382 CapabilityBoundingSet, or dac_read_search when using SELinux.
20383 Implements part of ticket 17562. Patch from Jamie Nguyen.
20384 - Introduce a new DataDirectoryGroupReadable option. If it is set to
20385 1, the DataDirectory will be made readable by the default GID.
20386 Implements part of ticket 17562. Patch from Jamie Nguyen.
20388 o Minor bugfixes (accounting):
20389 - The max bandwidth when using 'AccountRule sum' is now correctly
20390 logged. Fixes bug 18024; bugfix on 0.2.6.1-alpha. Patch
20391 from "unixninja92".
20393 o Minor bugfixes (code correctness):
20394 - When closing an entry connection, generate a warning if we should
20395 have sent an end cell for it but we haven't. Fixes bug 17876;
20396 bugfix on 0.2.3.2-alpha.
20397 - Assert that allocated memory held by the reputation code is freed
20398 according to its internal counters. Fixes bug 17753; bugfix
20400 - Assert when the TLS contexts fail to initialize. Fixes bug 17683;
20403 o Minor bugfixes (compilation):
20404 - Mark all object files that include micro-revision.i as depending
20405 on it, so as to make parallel builds more reliable. Fixes bug
20406 17826; bugfix on 0.2.5.1-alpha.
20407 - Don't try to use the pthread_condattr_setclock() function unless
20408 it actually exists. Fixes compilation on NetBSD-6.x. Fixes bug
20409 17819; bugfix on 0.2.6.3-alpha.
20410 - Fix backtrace compilation on FreeBSD. Fixes bug 17827; bugfix
20412 - Fix compilation of sandbox.c with musl-libc. Fixes bug 17347;
20413 bugfix on 0.2.5.1-alpha. Patch from 'jamestk'.
20414 - Fix search for libevent libraries on OpenBSD (and other systems
20415 that install libevent 1 and libevent 2 in parallel). Fixes bug
20416 16651; bugfix on 0.1.0.7-rc. Patch from "rubiate".
20417 - Isolate environment variables meant for tests from the rest of the
20418 build system. Fixes bug 17818; bugfix on 0.2.7.3-rc.
20419 - Replace usage of 'INLINE' with 'inline'. Fixes bug 17804; bugfix
20421 - Remove config.log only from make distclean, not from make clean.
20422 Fixes bug 17924; bugfix on 0.2.4.1-alpha.
20424 o Minor bugfixes (crypto):
20425 - Check the return value of HMAC() and assert on failure. Fixes bug
20426 17658; bugfix on 0.2.3.6-alpha. Patch by "teor".
20428 o Minor bugfixes (fallback directories):
20429 - Mark fallbacks as "too busy" when they return a 503 response,
20430 rather than just marking authorities. Fixes bug 17572; bugfix on
20431 0.2.4.7-alpha. Patch by "teor".
20433 o Minor bugfixes (IPv6):
20434 - Update the limits in max_dl_per_request for IPv6 address length.
20435 Fixes bug 17573; bugfix on 0.2.1.5-alpha.
20437 o Minor bugfixes (linux seccomp2 sandbox):
20438 - Fix a crash when using offline master ed25519 keys with the Linux
20439 seccomp2 sandbox enabled. Fixes bug 17675; bugfix on 0.2.7.3-rc.
20441 o Minor bugfixes (logging):
20442 - In log messages that include a function name, use __FUNCTION__
20443 instead of __PRETTY_FUNCTION__. In GCC, these are synonymous, but
20444 with clang __PRETTY_FUNCTION__ has extra information we don't
20445 need. Fixes bug 16563; bugfix on 0.0.2pre8. Fix by Tom van
20447 - Remove needless quotes from a log message about unparseable
20448 addresses. Fixes bug 17843; bugfix on 0.2.3.3-alpha.
20450 o Minor bugfixes (portability):
20451 - Remove an #endif from configure.ac so that we correctly detect the
20452 presence of in6_addr.s6_addr32. Fixes bug 17923; bugfix
20455 o Minor bugfixes (relays):
20456 - Check that both the ORPort and DirPort (if present) are reachable
20457 before publishing a relay descriptor. Otherwise, relays publish a
20458 descriptor with DirPort 0 when the DirPort reachability test takes
20459 longer than the ORPort reachability test. Fixes bug 18050; bugfix
20460 on 0.1.0.1-rc. Reported by "starlight", patch by "teor".
20462 o Minor bugfixes (relays, hidden services):
20463 - Refuse connection requests to private OR addresses unless
20464 ExtendAllowPrivateAddresses is set. Previously, tor would connect,
20465 then refuse to send any cells to a private address. Fixes bugs
20466 17674 and 8976; bugfix on 0.2.3.21-rc. Patch by "teor".
20468 o Minor bugfixes (safe logging):
20469 - When logging a malformed hostname received through socks4, scrub
20470 it if SafeLogging says we should. Fixes bug 17419; bugfix
20473 o Minor bugfixes (statistics code):
20474 - Consistently check for overflow in round_*_to_next_multiple_of
20475 functions, and add unit tests with additional and maximal values.
20476 Fixes part of bug 13192; bugfix on 0.2.2.1-alpha.
20477 - Handle edge cases in the laplace functions: avoid division by
20478 zero, avoid taking the log of zero, and silence clang type
20479 conversion warnings using round and trunc. Add unit tests for edge
20480 cases with maximal values. Fixes part of bug 13192; bugfix
20483 o Minor bugfixes (testing):
20484 - The test for log_heartbeat was incorrectly failing in timezones
20485 with non-integer offsets. Instead of comparing the end of the time
20486 string against a constant, compare it to the output of
20487 format_local_iso_time when given the correct input. Fixes bug
20488 18039; bugfix on 0.2.5.4-alpha.
20489 - Make unit tests pass on IPv6-only systems, and systems without
20490 localhost addresses (like some FreeBSD jails). Fixes bug 17632;
20491 bugfix on 0.2.7.3-rc. Patch by "teor".
20492 - Fix a memory leak in the ntor test. Fixes bug 17778; bugfix
20494 - Check the full results of SHA256 and SHA512 digests in the unit
20495 tests. Bugfix on 0.2.2.4-alpha. Patch by "teor".
20497 o Code simplification and refactoring:
20498 - Move logging of redundant policy entries in
20499 policies_parse_exit_policy_internal into its own function. Closes
20500 ticket 17608; patch from "juce".
20501 - Extract the more complicated parts of circuit_mark_for_close()
20502 into a new function that we run periodically before circuits are
20503 freed. This change removes more than half of the functions
20504 currently in the "blob". Closes ticket 17218.
20505 - Clean up a little duplicated code in
20506 crypto_expand_key_material_TAP(). Closes ticket 17587; patch
20508 - Decouple the list of streams waiting to be attached to circuits
20509 from the overall connection list. This change makes it possible to
20510 attach streams quickly while simplifying Tor's callgraph and
20511 avoiding O(N) scans of the entire connection list. Closes
20513 - When a direct directory request fails immediately on launch,
20514 instead of relaunching that request from inside the code that
20515 launches it, instead mark the connection for teardown. This change
20516 simplifies Tor's callback and prevents the directory-request
20517 launching code from invoking itself recursively. Closes
20519 - Remove code for configuring OpenSSL dynamic locks; OpenSSL doesn't
20520 use them. Closes ticket 17926.
20523 - Add a description of the correct use of the '--keygen' command-
20524 line option. Closes ticket 17583; based on text by 's7r'.
20525 - Document the minimum HeartbeatPeriod value. Closes ticket 15638.
20526 - Explain actual minima for BandwidthRate. Closes ticket 16382.
20527 - Fix a minor formatting typo in the manpage. Closes ticket 17791.
20528 - Mention torspec URL in the manpage and point the reader to it
20529 whenever we mention a document that belongs in torspce. Fixes
20532 o Removed features:
20533 - Remove client-side support for connecting to Tor relays running
20534 versions of Tor before 0.2.3.6-alpha. These relays didn't support
20535 the v3 TLS handshake protocol, and are no longer allowed on the
20536 Tor network. Implements the client side of ticket 11150. Based on
20537 patches by Tom van der Woerdt.
20540 - Add unit tests to check for common RNG failure modes, such as
20541 returning all zeroes, identical values, or incrementing values
20542 (OpenSSL's rand_predictable feature). Patch by "teor".
20543 - Log more information when the backtrace tests fail. Closes ticket
20544 17892. Patch from "cypherpunks."
20545 - Always test both ed25519 backends, so that we can be sure that our
20546 batch-open replacement code works. Part of ticket 16794.
20547 - Cover dns_resolve_impl() in dns.c with unit tests. Implements a
20548 portion of ticket 16831.
20549 - More unit tests for compat_libevent.c, procmon.c, tortls.c,
20550 util_format.c, directory.c, and options_validate.c. Closes tickets
20551 17075, 17082, 17084, 17003, and 17076 respectively. Patches from
20553 - Unit tests for directory_handle_command_get. Closes ticket 17004.
20554 Patch from Reinaldo de Souza Jr.
20557 Changes in version 0.2.7.6 - 2015-12-10
20558 Tor version 0.2.7.6 fixes a major bug in entry guard selection, as
20559 well as a minor bug in hidden service reliability.
20561 o Major bugfixes (guard selection):
20562 - Actually look at the Guard flag when selecting a new directory
20563 guard. When we implemented the directory guard design, we
20564 accidentally started treating all relays as if they have the Guard
20565 flag during guard selection, leading to weaker anonymity and worse
20566 performance. Fixes bug 17772; bugfix on 0.2.4.8-alpha. Discovered
20569 o Minor features (geoip):
20570 - Update geoip and geoip6 to the December 1 2015 Maxmind GeoLite2
20573 o Minor bugfixes (compilation):
20574 - When checking for net/pfvar.h, include netinet/in.h if possible.
20575 This fixes transparent proxy detection on OpenBSD. Fixes bug
20576 17551; bugfix on 0.1.2.1-alpha. Patch from "rubiate".
20577 - Fix a compilation warning with Clang 3.6: Do not check the
20578 presence of an address which can never be NULL. Fixes bug 17781.
20580 o Minor bugfixes (correctness):
20581 - When displaying an IPv6 exit policy, include the mask bits
20582 correctly even when the number is greater than 31. Fixes bug
20583 16056; bugfix on 0.2.4.7-alpha. Patch from "gturner".
20584 - The wrong list was used when looking up expired intro points in a
20585 rend service object, causing what we think could be reachability
20586 issues for hidden services, and triggering a BUG log. Fixes bug
20587 16702; bugfix on 0.2.7.2-alpha.
20588 - Fix undefined behavior in the tor_cert_checksig function. Fixes
20589 bug 17722; bugfix on 0.2.7.2-alpha.
20592 Changes in version 0.2.7.5 - 2015-11-20
20593 The Tor 0.2.7 release series is dedicated to the memory of Tor user
20594 and privacy advocate Caspar Bowden (1961-2015). Caspar worked
20595 tirelessly to advocate human rights regardless of national borders,
20596 and oppose the encroachments of mass surveillance. He opposed national
20597 exceptionalism, he brought clarity to legal and policy debates, he
20598 understood and predicted the impact of mass surveillance on the world,
20599 and he laid the groundwork for resisting it. While serving on the Tor
20600 Project's board of directors, he brought us his uncompromising focus
20601 on technical excellence in the service of humankind. Caspar was an
20602 inimitable force for good and a wonderful friend. He was kind,
20603 humorous, generous, gallant, and believed we should protect one
20604 another without exception. We honor him here for his ideals, his
20605 efforts, and his accomplishments. Please honor his memory with works
20606 that would make him proud.
20608 Tor 0.2.7.5 is the first stable release in the Tor 0.2.7 series.
20610 The 0.2.7 series adds a more secure identity key type for relays,
20611 improves cryptography performance, resolves several longstanding
20612 hidden-service performance issues, improves controller support for
20613 hidden services, and includes small bugfixes and performance
20614 improvements throughout the program. This release series also includes
20615 more tests than before, and significant simplifications to which parts
20616 of Tor invoke which others.
20618 (This release contains no code changes since 0.2.7.4-rc.)
20621 Changes in version 0.2.7.4-rc - 2015-10-21
20622 Tor 0.2.7.4-rc is the second release candidate in the 0.2.7 series. It
20623 fixes some important memory leaks, and a scary-looking (but mostly
20624 harmless in practice) invalid-read bug. It also has a few small
20625 bugfixes, notably fixes for compilation and portability on different
20626 platforms. If no further significant bounds are found, the next
20627 release will the the official stable release.
20629 o Major bugfixes (security, correctness):
20630 - Fix an error that could cause us to read 4 bytes before the
20631 beginning of an openssl string. This bug could be used to cause
20632 Tor to crash on systems with unusual malloc implementations, or
20633 systems with unusual hardening installed. Fixes bug 17404; bugfix
20636 o Major bugfixes (correctness):
20637 - Fix a use-after-free bug in validate_intro_point_failure(). Fixes
20638 bug 17401; bugfix on 0.2.7.3-rc.
20640 o Major bugfixes (memory leaks):
20641 - Fix a memory leak in ed25519 batch signature checking. Fixes bug
20642 17398; bugfix on 0.2.6.1-alpha.
20643 - Fix a memory leak in rend_cache_failure_entry_free(). Fixes bug
20644 17402; bugfix on 0.2.7.3-rc.
20645 - Fix a memory leak when reading an expired signing key from disk.
20646 Fixes bug 17403; bugfix on 0.2.7.2-rc.
20648 o Minor features (geoIP):
20649 - Update geoip and geoip6 to the October 9 2015 Maxmind GeoLite2
20652 o Minor bugfixes (compilation):
20653 - Repair compilation with the most recent (unreleased, alpha)
20654 vesions of OpenSSL 1.1. Fixes part of ticket 17237.
20655 - Fix an integer overflow warning in test_crypto_slow.c. Fixes bug
20656 17251; bugfix on 0.2.7.2-alpha.
20657 - Fix compilation of sandbox.c with musl-libc. Fixes bug 17347;
20658 bugfix on 0.2.5.1-alpha. Patch from 'jamestk'.
20660 o Minor bugfixes (portability):
20661 - Use libexecinfo on FreeBSD to enable backtrace support. Fixes
20662 part of bug 17151; bugfix on 0.2.5.2-alpha. Patch from
20665 o Minor bugfixes (sandbox):
20666 - Add the "hidserv-stats" filename to our sandbox filter for the
20667 HiddenServiceStatistics option to work properly. Fixes bug 17354;
20668 bugfix on 0.2.6.2-alpha. Patch from David Goulet.
20670 o Minor bugfixes (testing):
20671 - Add unit tests for get_interface_address* failure cases. Fixes bug
20672 17173; bugfix on 0.2.7.3-rc. Patch by fk/teor.
20673 - Fix breakage when running 'make check' with BSD make. Fixes bug
20674 17154; bugfix on 0.2.7.3-rc. Patch by Marcin Cieślak.
20675 - Make the get_ifaddrs_* unit tests more tolerant of different
20676 network configurations. (Don't assume every test box has an IPv4
20677 address, and don't assume every test box has a non-localhost
20678 address.) Fixes bug 17255; bugfix on 0.2.7.3-rc. Patch by "teor".
20679 - Skip backtrace tests when backtrace support is not compiled in.
20680 Fixes part of bug 17151; bugfix on 0.2.7.1-alpha. Patch from
20684 - Fix capitalization of SOCKS in sample torrc. Closes ticket 15609.
20685 - Note that HiddenServicePorts can take a unix domain socket. Closes
20689 Changes in version 0.2.7.3-rc - 2015-09-25
20690 Tor 0.2.7.3-rc is the first release candidate in the 0.2.7 series. It
20691 contains numerous usability fixes for Ed25519 keys, safeguards against
20692 several misconfiguration problems, significant simplifications to
20693 Tor's callgraph, and numerous bugfixes and small features.
20695 This is the most tested release of Tor to date. The unit tests cover
20696 39.40% of the code, and the integration tests (accessible with "make
20697 test-full-online", requiring stem and chutney and a network
20698 connection) raise the coverage to 64.49%.
20700 o Major features (security, hidden services):
20701 - Hidden services, if using the EntryNodes option, are required to
20702 use more than one EntryNode, in order to avoid a guard discovery
20703 attack. (This would only affect people who had configured hidden
20704 services and manually specified the EntryNodes option with a
20705 single entry-node. The impact was that it would be easy to
20706 remotely identify the guard node used by such a hidden service.
20707 See ticket for more information.) Fixes ticket 14917.
20709 o Major features (Ed25519 keys, keypinning):
20710 - The key-pinning option on directory authorities is now advisory-
20711 only by default. In a future version, or when the AuthDirPinKeys
20712 option is set, pins are enforced again. Disabling key-pinning
20713 seemed like a good idea so that we can survive the fallout of any
20714 usability problems associated with Ed25519 keys. Closes
20717 o Major features (Ed25519 performance):
20718 - Improve the speed of Ed25519 operations and Curve25519 keypair
20719 generation when built targeting 32 bit x86 platforms with SSE2
20720 available. Implements ticket 16535.
20721 - Improve the runtime speed of Ed25519 signature verification by
20722 using Ed25519-donna's batch verification support. Implements
20725 o Major features (performance testing):
20726 - The test-network.sh script now supports performance testing.
20727 Requires corresponding chutney performance testing changes. Patch
20728 by "teor". Closes ticket 14175.
20730 o Major features (relay, Ed25519):
20731 - Significant usability improvements for Ed25519 key management. Log
20732 messages are better, and the code can recover from far more
20733 failure conditions. Thanks to "s7r" for reporting and diagnosing
20735 - Add a new OfflineMasterKey option to tell Tor never to try loading
20736 or generating a secret Ed25519 identity key. You can use this in
20737 combination with tor --keygen to manage offline and/or encrypted
20738 Ed25519 keys. Implements ticket 16944.
20739 - Add a --newpass option to allow changing or removing the
20740 passphrase of an encrypted key with tor --keygen. Implements part
20742 - On receiving a HUP signal, check to see whether the Ed25519
20743 signing key has changed, and reload it if so. Closes ticket 16790.
20745 o Major bugfixes (relay, Ed25519):
20746 - Avoid crashing on 'tor --keygen'. Fixes bug 16679; bugfix on
20747 0.2.7.2-alpha. Reported by "s7r".
20748 - Improve handling of expired signing keys with offline master keys.
20749 Fixes bug 16685; bugfix on 0.2.7.2-alpha. Reported by "s7r".
20751 o Minor features (client-side privacy):
20752 - New KeepAliveIsolateSOCKSAuth option to indefinitely extend circuit
20753 lifespan when IsolateSOCKSAuth and streams with SOCKS
20754 authentication are attached to the circuit. This allows
20755 applications like TorBrowser to manage circuit lifetime on their
20756 own. Implements feature 15482.
20757 - When logging malformed hostnames from SOCKS5 requests, respect
20758 SafeLogging configuration. Fixes bug 16891; bugfix on 0.1.1.16-rc.
20760 o Minor features (compilation):
20761 - Give a warning as early as possible when trying to build with an
20762 unsupported OpenSSL version. Closes ticket 16901.
20763 - Fail during configure if we're trying to build against an OpenSSL
20764 built without ECC support. Fixes bug 17109, bugfix on 0.2.7.1-alpha
20765 which started requiring ECC.
20767 o Minor features (geoip):
20768 - Update geoip and geoip6 to the September 3 2015 Maxmind GeoLite2
20771 o Minor features (hidden services):
20772 - Relays need to have the Fast flag to get the HSDir flag. As this
20773 is being written, we'll go from 2745 HSDirs down to 2342, a ~14%
20774 drop. This change should make some attacks against the hidden
20775 service directory system harder. Fixes ticket 15963.
20776 - Turn on hidden service statistics collection by setting the torrc
20777 option HiddenServiceStatistics to "1" by default. (This keeps
20778 track only of the fraction of traffic used by hidden services, and
20779 the total number of hidden services in existence.) Closes
20781 - Client now uses an introduction point failure cache to know when
20782 to fetch or keep a descriptor in their cache. Previously, failures
20783 were recorded implicitly, but not explicitly remembered. Closes
20786 o Minor features (testing, authorities, documentation):
20787 - New TestingDirAuthVote{Exit,Guard,HSDir}IsStrict flags to
20788 explicitly manage consensus flags in testing networks. Patch by
20789 "robgjansen", modified by "teor". Implements part of ticket 14882.
20791 o Minor bugfixes (security, exit policies):
20792 - ExitPolicyRejectPrivate now also rejects the relay's published
20793 IPv6 address (if any), and any publicly routable IPv4 or IPv6
20794 addresses on any local interfaces. ticket 17027. Patch by "teor".
20795 Fixes bug 17027; bugfix on 0.2.0.11-alpha.
20797 o Minor bug fixes (torrc exit policies):
20798 - In torrc, "accept6 *" and "reject6 *" ExitPolicy lines now only
20799 produce IPv6 wildcard addresses. Previously they would produce
20800 both IPv4 and IPv6 wildcard addresses. Patch by "teor". Fixes part
20801 of bug 16069; bugfix on 0.2.4.7-alpha.
20802 - When parsing torrc ExitPolicies, we now warn for a number of cases
20803 where the user's intent is likely to differ from Tor's actual
20804 behavior. These include: using an IPv4 address with an accept6 or
20805 reject6 line; using "private" on an accept6 or reject6 line; and
20806 including any ExitPolicy lines after accept *:* or reject *:*.
20807 Related to ticket 16069.
20808 - When parsing torrc ExitPolicies, we now issue an info-level
20809 message when expanding an "accept/reject *" line to include both
20810 IPv4 and IPv6 wildcard addresses. Related to ticket 16069.
20811 - In each instance above, usage advice is provided to avoid the
20812 message. Resolves ticket 16069. Patch by "teor". Fixes part of bug
20813 16069; bugfix on 0.2.4.7-alpha.
20815 o Minor bugfixes (authority):
20816 - Don't assign "HSDir" to a router if it isn't Valid and Running.
20817 Fixes bug 16524; bugfix on 0.2.7.2-alpha.
20818 - Downgrade log messages about Ed25519 key issues if they are in old
20819 cached router descriptors. Fixes part of bug 16286; bugfix
20821 - When we find an Ed25519 key issue in a cached descriptor, stop
20822 saying the descriptor was just "uploaded". Fixes another part of
20823 bug 16286; bugfix on 0.2.7.2-alpha.
20825 o Minor bugfixes (control port):
20826 - Repair a warning and a spurious result when getting the maximum
20827 number of file descriptors from the controller. Fixes bug 16697;
20828 bugfix on 0.2.7.2-alpha.
20830 o Minor bugfixes (correctness):
20831 - When calling channel_free_list(), avoid calling smartlist_remove()
20832 while inside a FOREACH loop. This partially reverts commit
20833 17356fe7fd96af where the correct SMARTLIST_DEL_CURRENT was
20834 incorrectly removed. Fixes bug 16924; bugfix on 0.2.4.4-alpha.
20836 o Minor bugfixes (documentation):
20837 - Advise users on how to configure separate IPv4 and IPv6 exit
20838 policies in the manpage and sample torrcs. Related to ticket 16069.
20839 - Fix the usage message of tor-resolve(1) so that it no longer lists
20840 the removed -F option. Fixes bug 16913; bugfix on 0.2.2.28-beta.
20841 - Fix an error in the manual page and comments for
20842 TestingDirAuthVoteHSDir[IsStrict], which suggested that a HSDir
20843 required "ORPort connectivity". While this is true, it is in no
20844 way unique to the HSDir flag. Of all the flags, only HSDirs need a
20845 DirPort configured in order for the authorities to assign that
20846 particular flag. Patch by "teor". Fixed as part of 14882; bugfix
20849 o Minor bugfixes (Ed25519):
20850 - Fix a memory leak when reading router descriptors with expired
20851 Ed25519 certificates. Fixes bug 16539; bugfix on 0.2.7.2-alpha.
20853 o Minor bugfixes (linux seccomp2 sandbox):
20854 - Allow bridge authorities to run correctly under the seccomp2
20855 sandbox. Fixes bug 16964; bugfix on 0.2.5.1-alpha.
20856 - Allow routers with ed25519 keys to run correctly under the
20857 seccomp2 sandbox. Fixes bug 16965; bugfix on 0.2.7.2-alpha.
20859 o Minor bugfixes (open file limit):
20860 - Fix set_max_file_descriptors() to set by default the max open file
20861 limit to the current limit when setrlimit() fails. Fixes bug
20862 16274; bugfix on 0.2.0.10-alpha. Patch by dgoulet.
20864 o Minor bugfixes (portability):
20865 - Try harder to normalize the exit status of the Tor process to the
20866 standard-provided range. Fixes bug 16975; bugfix on every version
20868 - Check correctly for Windows socket errors in the workqueue
20869 backend. Fixes bug 16741; bugfix on 0.2.6.3-alpha.
20870 - Fix the behavior of crypto_rand_time_range() when told to consider
20871 times before 1970. (These times were possible when running in a
20872 simulated network environment where time()'s output starts at
20873 zero.) Fixes bug 16980; bugfix on 0.2.7.1-alpha.
20874 - Restore correct operation of TLS client-cipher detection on
20875 OpenSSL 1.1. Fixes bug 14047; bugfix on 0.2.7.2-alpha.
20877 o Minor bugfixes (relay):
20878 - Ensure that worker threads actually exit when a fatal error or
20879 shutdown is indicated. This fix doesn't currently affect the
20880 behavior of Tor, because Tor workers never indicates fatal error
20881 or shutdown except in the unit tests. Fixes bug 16868; bugfix
20883 - Unblock threads before releasing the work queue mutex to ensure
20884 predictable scheduling behavior. Fixes bug 16644; bugfix
20887 o Code simplification and refactoring:
20888 - Change the function that's called when we need to retry all
20889 downloads so that it only reschedules the downloads to happen
20890 immediately, rather than launching them all at once itself. This
20891 further simplifies Tor's callgraph.
20892 - Move some format-parsing functions out of crypto.c and
20893 crypto_curve25519.c into crypto_format.c and/or util_format.c.
20894 - Move the client-only parts of init_keys() into a separate
20895 function. Closes ticket 16763.
20896 - Simplify the microdesc_free() implementation so that it no longer
20897 appears (to code analysis tools) to potentially invoke a huge
20898 suite of other microdesc functions.
20899 - Simply the control graph further by deferring the inner body of
20900 directory_all_unreachable() into a callback. Closes ticket 16762.
20901 - Treat the loss of an owning controller as equivalent to a SIGTERM
20902 signal. This removes a tiny amount of duplicated code, and
20903 simplifies our callgraph. Closes ticket 16788.
20904 - When generating an event to send to the controller, we no longer
20905 put the event over the network immediately. Instead, we queue
20906 these events, and use a Libevent callback to deliver them. This
20907 change simplifies Tor's callgraph by reducing the number of
20908 functions from which all other Tor functions are reachable. Closes
20910 - Wrap Windows-only C files inside '#ifdef _WIN32' so that tools
20911 that try to scan or compile every file on Unix won't decide that
20913 - Remove the unused "nulterminate" argument from buf_pullup().
20916 - Recommend a 40 GB example AccountingMax in torrc.sample rather
20917 than a 4 GB max. Closes ticket 16742.
20918 - Include the TUNING document in our source tarball. It is referred
20919 to in the ChangeLog and an error message. Fixes bug 16929; bugfix
20923 - The internal pure-C tor-fw-helper tool is now removed from the Tor
20924 distribution, in favor of the pure-Go clone available from
20925 https://gitweb.torproject.org/tor-fw-helper.git/ . The libraries
20926 used by the C tor-fw-helper are not, in our opinion, very
20927 confidence- inspiring in their secure-programming techniques.
20928 Closes ticket 13338.
20929 - Remove the code that would try to aggressively flush controller
20930 connections while writing to them. This code was introduced in
20931 0.1.2.7-alpha, in order to keep output buffers from exceeding
20932 their limits. But there is no longer a maximum output buffer size,
20933 and flushing data in this way caused some undesirable recursions
20934 in our call graph. Closes ticket 16480.
20937 - Make "bridges+hs" the default test network. This tests almost all
20938 tor functionality during make test-network, while allowing tests
20939 to succeed on non-IPv6 systems. Requires chutney commit 396da92 in
20940 test-network-bridges-hs. Closes tickets 16945 (tor) and 16946
20941 (chutney). Patches by "teor".
20942 - Autodetect CHUTNEY_PATH if the chutney and Tor sources are side-
20943 by-side in the same parent directory. Closes ticket 16903. Patch
20945 - Use environment variables rather than autoconf substitutions to
20946 send variables from the build system to the test scripts. This
20947 change should be easier to maintain, and cause 'make distcheck' to
20948 work better than before. Fixes bug 17148.
20949 - Add a new set of callgraph analysis scripts that use clang to
20950 produce a list of which Tor functions are reachable from which
20951 other Tor functions. We're planning to use these to help simplify
20952 our code structure by identifying illogical dependencies.
20953 - Add new 'test-full' and 'test-full-online' targets to run all
20954 tests, including integration tests with stem and chutney.
20955 - Make the test-workqueue test work on Windows by initializing the
20956 network before we begin.
20957 - New make target (make test-network-all) to run multiple applicable
20958 chutney test cases. Patch from Teor; closes 16953.
20959 - Unit test dns_resolve(), dns_clip_ttl() and dns_get_expiry_ttl()
20960 functions in dns.c. Implements a portion of ticket 16831.
20961 - When building Tor with testing coverage enabled, run Chutney tests
20962 (if any) using the 'tor-cov' coverage binary.
20963 - When running test-network or test-stem, check for the absence of
20964 stem/chutney before doing any build operations.
20967 Changes in version 0.2.7.2-alpha - 2015-07-27
20968 This, the second alpha in the Tor 0.2.7 series, has a number of new
20969 features, including a way to manually pick the number of introduction
20970 points for hidden services, and the much stronger Ed25519 signing key
20971 algorithm for regular Tor relays (including support for encrypted
20972 offline identity keys in the new algorithm).
20974 Support for Ed25519 on relays is currently limited to signing router
20975 descriptors; later alphas in this series will extend Ed25519 key
20976 support to more parts of the Tor protocol.
20978 o Major features (Ed25519 identity keys, Proposal 220):
20979 - All relays now maintain a stronger identity key, using the Ed25519
20980 elliptic curve signature format. This master key is designed so
20981 that it can be kept offline. Relays also generate an online
20982 signing key, and a set of other Ed25519 keys and certificates.
20983 These are all automatically regenerated and rotated as needed.
20984 Implements part of ticket 12498.
20985 - Directory authorities now vote on Ed25519 identity keys along with
20986 RSA1024 keys. Implements part of ticket 12498.
20987 - Directory authorities track which Ed25519 identity keys have been
20988 used with which RSA1024 identity keys, and do not allow them to
20989 vary freely. Implements part of ticket 12498.
20990 - Microdescriptors now include Ed25519 identity keys. Implements
20991 part of ticket 12498.
20992 - Add support for offline encrypted Ed25519 master keys. To use this
20993 feature on your tor relay, run "tor --keygen" to make a new master
20994 key (or to make a new signing key if you already have a master
20995 key). Closes ticket 13642.
20997 o Major features (Hidden services):
20998 - Add the torrc option HiddenServiceNumIntroductionPoints, to
20999 specify a fixed number of introduction points. Its maximum value
21000 is 10 and default is 3. Using this option can increase a hidden
21001 service's reliability under load, at the cost of making it more
21002 visible that the hidden service is facing extra load. Closes
21004 - Remove the adaptive algorithm for choosing the number of
21005 introduction points, which used to change the number of
21006 introduction points (poorly) depending on the number of
21007 connections the HS sees. Closes ticket 4862.
21009 o Major features (onion key cross-certification):
21010 - Relay descriptors now include signatures of their own identity
21011 keys, made using the TAP and ntor onion keys. These signatures
21012 allow relays to prove ownership of their own onion keys. Because
21013 of this change, microdescriptors will no longer need to include
21014 RSA identity keys. Implements proposal 228; closes ticket 12499.
21016 o Major features (performance):
21017 - Improve the runtime speed of Ed25519 operations by using the
21018 public-domain Ed25519-donna by Andrew M. ("floodyberry").
21019 Implements ticket 16467.
21020 - Improve the runtime speed of the ntor handshake by using an
21021 optimized curve25519 basepoint scalarmult implementation from the
21022 public-domain Ed25519-donna by Andrew M. ("floodyberry"), based on
21023 ideas by Adam Langley. Implements ticket 9663.
21025 o Major bugfixes (client-side privacy, also in 0.2.6.9):
21026 - Properly separate out each SOCKSPort when applying stream
21027 isolation. The error occurred because each port's session group
21028 was being overwritten by a default value when the listener
21029 connection was initialized. Fixes bug 16247; bugfix on
21030 0.2.6.3-alpha. Patch by "jojelino".
21032 o Major bugfixes (hidden service clients, stability, also in 0.2.6.10):
21033 - Stop refusing to store updated hidden service descriptors on a
21034 client. This reverts commit 9407040c59218 (which indeed fixed bug
21035 14219, but introduced a major hidden service reachability
21036 regression detailed in bug 16381). This is a temporary fix since
21037 we can live with the minor issue in bug 14219 (it just results in
21038 some load on the network) but the regression of 16381 is too much
21039 of a setback. First-round fix for bug 16381; bugfix
21042 o Major bugfixes (hidden services):
21043 - When cannibalizing a circuit for an introduction point, always
21044 extend to the chosen exit node (creating a 4 hop circuit).
21045 Previously Tor would use the current circuit exit node, which
21046 changed the original choice of introduction point, and could cause
21047 the hidden service to skip excluded introduction points or
21048 reconnect to a skipped introduction point. Fixes bug 16260; bugfix
21051 o Major bugfixes (open file limit):
21052 - The open file limit wasn't checked before calling
21053 tor_accept_socket_nonblocking(), which would make Tor exceed the
21054 limit. Now, before opening a new socket, Tor validates the open
21055 file limit just before, and if the max has been reached, return an
21056 error. Fixes bug 16288; bugfix on 0.1.1.1-alpha.
21058 o Major bugfixes (stability, also in 0.2.6.10):
21059 - Stop crashing with an assertion failure when parsing certain kinds
21060 of malformed or truncated microdescriptors. Fixes bug 16400;
21061 bugfix on 0.2.6.1-alpha. Found by "torkeln"; fix based on a patch
21062 by "cypherpunks_backup".
21063 - Stop random client-side assertion failures that could occur when
21064 connecting to a busy hidden service, or connecting to a hidden
21065 service while a NEWNYM is in progress. Fixes bug 16013; bugfix
21068 o Minor features (directory authorities, security, also in 0.2.6.9):
21069 - The HSDir flag given by authorities now requires the Stable flag.
21070 For the current network, this results in going from 2887 to 2806
21071 HSDirs. Also, it makes it harder for an attacker to launch a sybil
21072 attack by raising the effort for a relay to become Stable to
21073 require at the very least 7 days, while maintaining the 96 hours
21074 uptime requirement for HSDir. Implements ticket 8243.
21076 o Minor features (client):
21077 - Relax the validation of hostnames in SOCKS5 requests, allowing the
21078 character '_' to appear, in order to cope with domains observed in
21079 the wild that are serving non-RFC compliant records. Resolves
21081 - Relax the validation done to hostnames in SOCKS5 requests, and
21082 allow a single trailing '.' to cope with clients that pass FQDNs
21083 using that syntax to explicitly indicate that the domain name is
21084 fully-qualified. Fixes bug 16674; bugfix on 0.2.6.2-alpha.
21085 - Add GroupWritable and WorldWritable options to unix-socket based
21086 SocksPort and ControlPort options. These options apply to a single
21087 socket, and override {Control,Socks}SocketsGroupWritable. Closes
21090 o Minor features (control protocol):
21091 - Support network-liveness GETINFO key and NETWORK_LIVENESS event in
21092 the control protocol. Resolves ticket 15358.
21094 o Minor features (directory authorities):
21095 - Directory authorities no longer vote against the "Fast", "Stable",
21096 and "HSDir" flags just because they were going to vote against
21097 "Running": if the consensus turns out to be that the router was
21098 running, then the authority's vote should count. Patch from Peter
21099 Retzlaff; closes issue 8712.
21101 o Minor features (geoip, also in 0.2.6.10):
21102 - Update geoip to the June 3 2015 Maxmind GeoLite2 Country database.
21103 - Update geoip6 to the June 3 2015 Maxmind GeoLite2 Country database.
21105 o Minor features (hidden services):
21106 - Add the new options "HiddenServiceMaxStreams" and
21107 "HiddenServiceMaxStreamsCloseCircuit" to allow hidden services to
21108 limit the maximum number of simultaneous streams per circuit, and
21109 optionally tear down the circuit when the limit is exceeded. Part
21112 o Minor features (portability):
21113 - Use C99 variadic macros when the compiler is not GCC. This avoids
21114 failing compilations on MSVC, and fixes a log-file-based race
21115 condition in our old workarounds. Original patch from Gisle Vanem.
21117 o Minor bugfixes (compilation, also in 0.2.6.9):
21118 - Build with --enable-systemd correctly when libsystemd is
21119 installed, but systemd is not. Fixes bug 16164; bugfix on
21120 0.2.6.3-alpha. Patch from Peter Palfrader.
21122 o Minor bugfixes (controller):
21123 - Add the descriptor ID in each HS_DESC control event. It was
21124 missing, but specified in control-spec.txt. Fixes bug 15881;
21125 bugfix on 0.2.5.2-alpha.
21127 o Minor bugfixes (crypto error-handling, also in 0.2.6.10):
21128 - Check for failures from crypto_early_init, and refuse to continue.
21129 A previous typo meant that we could keep going with an
21130 uninitialized crypto library, and would have OpenSSL initialize
21131 its own PRNG. Fixes bug 16360; bugfix on 0.2.5.2-alpha, introduced
21132 when implementing ticket 4900. Patch by "teor".
21134 o Minor bugfixes (hidden services):
21135 - Fix a crash when reloading configuration while at least one
21136 configured and one ephemeral hidden service exists. Fixes bug
21137 16060; bugfix on 0.2.7.1-alpha.
21138 - Avoid crashing with a double-free bug when we create an ephemeral
21139 hidden service but adding it fails for some reason. Fixes bug
21140 16228; bugfix on 0.2.7.1-alpha.
21142 o Minor bugfixes (Linux seccomp2 sandbox):
21143 - Use the sandbox in tor_open_cloexec whether or not O_CLOEXEC is
21144 defined. Patch by "teor". Fixes bug 16515; bugfix on 0.2.3.1-alpha.
21146 o Minor bugfixes (Linux seccomp2 sandbox, also in 0.2.6.10):
21147 - Allow pipe() and pipe2() syscalls in the seccomp2 sandbox: we need
21148 these when eventfd2() support is missing. Fixes bug 16363; bugfix
21149 on 0.2.6.3-alpha. Patch from "teor".
21151 o Minor bugfixes (Linux seccomp2 sandbox, also in 0.2.6.9):
21152 - Fix sandboxing to work when running as a relay, by allowing the
21153 renaming of secret_id_key, and allowing the eventfd2 and futex
21154 syscalls. Fixes bug 16244; bugfix on 0.2.6.1-alpha. Patch by
21156 - Allow systemd connections to work with the Linux seccomp2 sandbox
21157 code. Fixes bug 16212; bugfix on 0.2.6.2-alpha. Patch by
21160 o Minor bugfixes (relay):
21161 - Fix a rarely-encountered memory leak when failing to initialize
21162 the thread pool. Fixes bug 16631; bugfix on 0.2.6.3-alpha. Patch
21163 from "cypherpunks".
21165 o Minor bugfixes (systemd):
21166 - Fix an accidental formatting error that broke the systemd
21167 configuration file. Fixes bug 16152; bugfix on 0.2.7.1-alpha.
21168 - Tor's systemd unit file no longer contains extraneous spaces.
21169 These spaces would sometimes confuse tools like deb-systemd-
21170 helper. Fixes bug 16162; bugfix on 0.2.5.5-alpha.
21172 o Minor bugfixes (tests):
21173 - Use the configured Python executable when running test-stem-full.
21174 Fixes bug 16470; bugfix on 0.2.7.1-alpha.
21176 o Minor bugfixes (tests, also in 0.2.6.9):
21177 - Fix a crash in the unit tests when built with MSVC2013. Fixes bug
21178 16030; bugfix on 0.2.6.2-alpha. Patch from "NewEraCracker".
21180 o Minor bugfixes (threads, comments):
21181 - Always initialize return value in compute_desc_id in rendcommon.c
21182 Patch by "teor". Fixes part of bug 16115; bugfix on 0.2.7.1-alpha.
21183 - Check for NULL values in getinfo_helper_onions(). Patch by "teor".
21184 Fixes part of bug 16115; bugfix on 0.2.7.1-alpha.
21185 - Remove undefined directive-in-macro in test_util_writepid clang
21186 3.7 complains that using a preprocessor directive inside a macro
21187 invocation in test_util_writepid in test_util.c is undefined.
21188 Patch by "teor". Fixes part of bug 16115; bugfix on 0.2.7.1-alpha.
21190 o Code simplification and refactoring:
21191 - Define WINVER and _WIN32_WINNT centrally, in orconfig.h, in order
21192 to ensure they remain consistent and visible everywhere.
21193 - Remove some vestigial workarounds for the MSVC6 compiler. We
21194 haven't supported that in ages.
21195 - The link authentication code has been refactored for better
21196 testability and reliability. It now uses code generated with the
21197 "trunnel" binary encoding generator, to reduce the risk of bugs
21198 due to programmer error. Done as part of ticket 12498.
21201 - Include a specific and (hopefully) accurate documentation of the
21202 torrc file's meta-format in doc/torrc_format.txt. This is mainly
21203 of interest to people writing programs to parse or generate torrc
21204 files. This document is not a commitment to long-term
21205 compatibility; some aspects of the current format are a bit
21206 ridiculous. Closes ticket 2325.
21208 o Removed features:
21209 - Tor no longer supports copies of OpenSSL that are missing support
21210 for Elliptic Curve Cryptography. (We began using ECC when
21211 available in 0.2.4.8-alpha, for more safe and efficient key
21212 negotiation.) In particular, support for at least one of P256 or
21213 P224 is now required, with manual configuration needed if only
21214 P224 is available. Resolves ticket 16140.
21215 - Tor no longer supports versions of OpenSSL before 1.0. (If you are
21216 on an operating system that has not upgraded to OpenSSL 1.0 or
21217 later, and you compile Tor from source, you will need to install a
21218 more recent OpenSSL to link Tor against.) These versions of
21219 OpenSSL are still supported by the OpenSSL, but the numerous
21220 cryptographic improvements in later OpenSSL releases makes them a
21221 clear choice. Resolves ticket 16034.
21222 - Remove the HidServDirectoryV2 option. Now all relays offer to
21223 store hidden service descriptors. Related to 16543.
21224 - Remove the VoteOnHidServDirectoriesV2 option, since all
21225 authorities have long set it to 1. Closes ticket 16543.
21228 - Document use of coverity, clang static analyzer, and clang dynamic
21229 undefined behavior and address sanitizers in doc/HACKING. Include
21230 detailed usage instructions in the blacklist. Patch by "teor".
21231 Closes ticket 15817.
21232 - The link authentication protocol code now has extensive tests.
21233 - The relay descriptor signature testing code now has
21235 - The test_workqueue program now runs faster, and is enabled by
21236 default as a part of "make check".
21237 - Now that OpenSSL has its own scrypt implementation, add an unit
21238 test that checks for interoperability between libscrypt_scrypt()
21239 and OpenSSL's EVP_PBE_scrypt() so that we could not use libscrypt
21240 and rely on EVP_PBE_scrypt() whenever possible. Resolves
21244 Changes in version 0.2.6.10 - 2015-07-12
21245 Tor version 0.2.6.10 fixes some significant stability and hidden
21246 service client bugs, bulletproofs the cryptography init process, and
21247 fixes a bug when using the sandbox code with some older versions of
21248 Linux. Everyone running an older version, especially an older version
21249 of 0.2.6, should upgrade.
21251 o Major bugfixes (hidden service clients, stability):
21252 - Stop refusing to store updated hidden service descriptors on a
21253 client. This reverts commit 9407040c59218 (which indeed fixed bug
21254 14219, but introduced a major hidden service reachability
21255 regression detailed in bug 16381). This is a temporary fix since
21256 we can live with the minor issue in bug 14219 (it just results in
21257 some load on the network) but the regression of 16381 is too much
21258 of a setback. First-round fix for bug 16381; bugfix
21261 o Major bugfixes (stability):
21262 - Stop crashing with an assertion failure when parsing certain kinds
21263 of malformed or truncated microdescriptors. Fixes bug 16400;
21264 bugfix on 0.2.6.1-alpha. Found by "torkeln"; fix based on a patch
21265 by "cypherpunks_backup".
21266 - Stop random client-side assertion failures that could occur when
21267 connecting to a busy hidden service, or connecting to a hidden
21268 service while a NEWNYM is in progress. Fixes bug 16013; bugfix
21271 o Minor features (geoip):
21272 - Update geoip to the June 3 2015 Maxmind GeoLite2 Country database.
21273 - Update geoip6 to the June 3 2015 Maxmind GeoLite2 Country database.
21275 o Minor bugfixes (crypto error-handling):
21276 - Check for failures from crypto_early_init, and refuse to continue.
21277 A previous typo meant that we could keep going with an
21278 uninitialized crypto library, and would have OpenSSL initialize
21279 its own PRNG. Fixes bug 16360; bugfix on 0.2.5.2-alpha, introduced
21280 when implementing ticket 4900. Patch by "teor".
21282 o Minor bugfixes (Linux seccomp2 sandbox):
21283 - Allow pipe() and pipe2() syscalls in the seccomp2 sandbox: we need
21284 these when eventfd2() support is missing. Fixes bug 16363; bugfix
21285 on 0.2.6.3-alpha. Patch from "teor".
21288 Changes in version 0.2.6.9 - 2015-06-11
21289 Tor 0.2.6.9 fixes a regression in the circuit isolation code, increases the
21290 requirements for receiving an HSDir flag, and addresses some other small
21291 bugs in the systemd and sandbox code. Clients using circuit isolation
21292 should upgrade; all directory authorities should upgrade.
21294 o Major bugfixes (client-side privacy):
21295 - Properly separate out each SOCKSPort when applying stream
21296 isolation. The error occurred because each port's session group was
21297 being overwritten by a default value when the listener connection
21298 was initialized. Fixes bug 16247; bugfix on 0.2.6.3-alpha. Patch
21301 o Minor feature (directory authorities, security):
21302 - The HSDir flag given by authorities now requires the Stable flag.
21303 For the current network, this results in going from 2887 to 2806
21304 HSDirs. Also, it makes it harder for an attacker to launch a sybil
21305 attack by raising the effort for a relay to become Stable which
21306 takes at the very least 7 days to do so and by keeping the 96
21307 hours uptime requirement for HSDir. Implements ticket 8243.
21309 o Minor bugfixes (compilation):
21310 - Build with --enable-systemd correctly when libsystemd is
21311 installed, but systemd is not. Fixes bug 16164; bugfix on
21312 0.2.6.3-alpha. Patch from Peter Palfrader.
21314 o Minor bugfixes (Linux seccomp2 sandbox):
21315 - Fix sandboxing to work when running as a relaymby renaming of
21316 secret_id_key, and allowing the eventfd2 and futex syscalls. Fixes
21317 bug 16244; bugfix on 0.2.6.1-alpha. Patch by Peter Palfrader.
21318 - Allow systemd connections to work with the Linux seccomp2 sandbox
21319 code. Fixes bug 16212; bugfix on 0.2.6.2-alpha. Patch by
21322 o Minor bugfixes (tests):
21323 - Fix a crash in the unit tests when built with MSVC2013. Fixes bug
21324 16030; bugfix on 0.2.6.2-alpha. Patch from "NewEraCracker".
21327 Changes in version 0.2.6.8 - 2015-05-21
21328 Tor 0.2.6.8 fixes a bit of dodgy code in parsing INTRODUCE2 cells, and
21329 fixes an authority-side bug in assigning the HSDir flag. All directory
21330 authorities should upgrade.
21332 o Major bugfixes (hidden services, backport from 0.2.7.1-alpha):
21333 - Revert commit that made directory authorities assign the HSDir
21334 flag to relays without a DirPort; this was bad because such relays
21335 can't handle BEGIN_DIR cells. Fixes bug 15850; bugfix
21338 o Minor bugfixes (hidden service, backport from 0.2.7.1-alpha):
21339 - Fix an out-of-bounds read when parsing invalid INTRODUCE2 cells on
21340 a client authorized hidden service. Fixes bug 15823; bugfix
21343 o Minor features (geoip):
21344 - Update geoip to the April 8 2015 Maxmind GeoLite2 Country database.
21345 - Update geoip6 to the April 8 2015 Maxmind GeoLite2
21349 Changes in version 0.2.7.1-alpha - 2015-05-12
21350 Tor 0.2.7.1-alpha is the first alpha release in its series. It
21351 includes numerous small features and bugfixes against previous Tor
21352 versions, and numerous small infrastructure improvements. The most
21353 notable features are several new ways for controllers to interact with
21354 the hidden services subsystem.
21356 o New system requirements:
21357 - Tor no longer includes workarounds to support Libevent versions
21358 before 1.3e. Libevent 2.0 or later is recommended. Closes
21361 o Major features (controller):
21362 - Add the ADD_ONION and DEL_ONION commands that allow the creation
21363 and management of hidden services via the controller. Closes
21365 - New "GETINFO onions/current" and "GETINFO onions/detached"
21366 commands to get information about hidden services created via the
21367 controller. Part of ticket 6411.
21368 - New HSFETCH command to launch a request for a hidden service
21369 descriptor. Closes ticket 14847.
21370 - New HSPOST command to upload a hidden service descriptor. Closes
21371 ticket 3523. Patch by "DonnchaC".
21373 o Major bugfixes (hidden services):
21374 - Revert commit that made directory authorities assign the HSDir
21375 flag to relays without a DirPort; this was bad because such relays
21376 can't handle BEGIN_DIR cells. Fixes bug 15850; bugfix
21379 o Minor features (clock-jump tolerance):
21380 - Recover better when our clock jumps back many hours, like might
21381 happen for Tails or Whonix users who start with a very wrong
21382 hardware clock, use Tor to discover a more accurate time, and then
21383 fix their clock. Resolves part of ticket 8766.
21385 o Minor features (command-line interface):
21386 - Make --hash-password imply --hush to prevent unnecessary noise.
21387 Closes ticket 15542. Patch from "cypherpunks".
21388 - Print a warning whenever we find a relative file path being used
21389 as torrc option. Resolves issue 14018.
21391 o Minor features (controller):
21392 - Add DirAuthority lines for default directory authorities to the
21393 output of the "GETINFO config/defaults" command if not already
21394 present. Implements ticket 14840.
21395 - Controllers can now use "GETINFO hs/client/desc/id/..." to
21396 retrieve items from the client's hidden service descriptor cache.
21397 Closes ticket 14845.
21398 - Implement a new controller command "GETINFO status/fresh-relay-
21399 descs" to fetch a descriptor/extrainfo pair that was generated on
21400 demand just for the controller's use. Implements ticket 14784.
21402 o Minor features (DoS-resistance):
21403 - Make it harder for attackers to overload hidden services with
21404 introductions, by blocking multiple introduction requests on the
21405 same circuit. Resolves ticket 15515.
21407 o Minor features (geoip):
21408 - Update geoip to the April 8 2015 Maxmind GeoLite2 Country database.
21409 - Update geoip6 to the April 8 2015 Maxmind GeoLite2
21412 o Minor features (HS popularity countermeasure):
21413 - To avoid leaking HS popularity, don't cycle the introduction point
21414 when we've handled a fixed number of INTRODUCE2 cells but instead
21415 cycle it when a random number of introductions is reached, thus
21416 making it more difficult for an attacker to find out the amount of
21417 clients that have used the introduction point for a specific HS.
21418 Closes ticket 15745.
21420 o Minor features (logging):
21421 - Include the Tor version in all LD_BUG log messages, since people
21422 tend to cut and paste those into the bugtracker. Implements
21425 o Minor features (pluggable transports):
21426 - When launching managed pluggable transports on Linux systems,
21427 attempt to have the kernel deliver a SIGTERM on tor exit if the
21428 pluggable transport process is still running. Resolves
21430 - When launching managed pluggable transports, setup a valid open
21431 stdin in the child process that can be used to detect if tor has
21432 terminated. The "TOR_PT_EXIT_ON_STDIN_CLOSE" environment variable
21433 can be used by implementations to detect this new behavior.
21434 Resolves ticket 15435.
21436 o Minor features (testing):
21437 - Add a test to verify that the compiler does not eliminate our
21438 memwipe() implementation. Closes ticket 15377.
21439 - Add make rule `check-changes` to verify the format of changes
21440 files. Closes ticket 15180.
21441 - Add unit tests for control_event_is_interesting(). Add a compile-
21442 time check that the number of events doesn't exceed the capacity
21443 of control_event_t.event_mask. Closes ticket 15431, checks for
21444 bugs similar to 13085. Patch by "teor".
21445 - Command-line argument tests moved to Stem. Resolves ticket 14806.
21446 - Integrate the ntor, backtrace, and zero-length keys tests into the
21447 automake test suite. Closes ticket 15344.
21448 - Remove assertions during builds to determine Tor's test coverage.
21449 We don't want to trigger these even in assertions, so including
21450 them artificially makes our branch coverage look worse than it is.
21451 This patch provides the new test-stem-full and coverage-html-full
21452 configure options. Implements ticket 15400.
21454 o Minor bugfixes (build):
21455 - Improve out-of-tree builds by making non-standard rules work and
21456 clean up additional files and directories. Fixes bug 15053; bugfix
21459 o Minor bugfixes (command-line interface):
21460 - When "--quiet" is provided along with "--validate-config", do not
21461 write anything to stdout on success. Fixes bug 14994; bugfix
21463 - When complaining about bad arguments to "--dump-config", use
21464 stderr, not stdout.
21466 o Minor bugfixes (configuration, unit tests):
21467 - Only add the default fallback directories when the DirAuthorities,
21468 AlternateDirAuthority, and FallbackDir directory config options
21469 are set to their defaults. The default fallback directory list is
21470 currently empty, this fix will only change tor's behavior when it
21471 has default fallback directories. Includes unit tests for
21472 consider_adding_dir_servers(). Fixes bug 15642; bugfix on
21473 90f6071d8dc0 in 0.2.4.7-alpha. Patch by "teor".
21475 o Minor bugfixes (correctness):
21476 - For correctness, avoid modifying a constant string in
21477 handle_control_postdescriptor. Fixes bug 15546; bugfix
21479 - Remove side-effects from tor_assert() calls. This was harmless,
21480 because we never disable assertions, but it is bad style and
21481 unnecessary. Fixes bug 15211; bugfix on 0.2.5.5, 0.2.2.36,
21484 o Minor bugfixes (hidden service):
21485 - Fix an out-of-bounds read when parsing invalid INTRODUCE2 cells on
21486 a client authorized hidden service. Fixes bug 15823; bugfix
21488 - Remove an extraneous newline character from the end of hidden
21489 service descriptors. Fixes bug 15296; bugfix on 0.2.0.10-alpha.
21491 o Minor bugfixes (interface):
21492 - Print usage information for --dump-config when it is used without
21493 an argument. Also, fix the error message to use different wording
21494 and add newline at the end. Fixes bug 15541; bugfix
21497 o Minor bugfixes (logs):
21498 - When building Tor under Clang, do not include an extra set of
21499 parentheses in log messages that include function names. Fixes bug
21500 15269; bugfix on every released version of Tor when compiled with
21501 recent enough Clang.
21503 o Minor bugfixes (network):
21504 - When attempting to use fallback technique for network interface
21505 lookup, disregard loopback and multicast addresses since they are
21506 unsuitable for public communications.
21508 o Minor bugfixes (statistics):
21509 - Disregard the ConnDirectionStatistics torrc options when Tor is
21510 not a relay since in that mode of operation no sensible data is
21511 being collected and because Tor might run into measurement hiccups
21512 when running as a client for some time, then becoming a relay.
21513 Fixes bug 15604; bugfix on 0.2.2.35.
21515 o Minor bugfixes (test networks):
21516 - When self-testing reachability, use ExtendAllowPrivateAddresses to
21517 determine if local/private addresses imply reachability. The
21518 previous fix used TestingTorNetwork, which implies
21519 ExtendAllowPrivateAddresses, but this excluded rare configurations
21520 where ExtendAllowPrivateAddresses is set but TestingTorNetwork is
21521 not. Fixes bug 15771; bugfix on 0.2.6.1-alpha. Patch by "teor",
21522 issue discovered by CJ Ess.
21524 o Minor bugfixes (testing):
21525 - Check for matching value in server response in ntor_ref.py. Fixes
21526 bug 15591; bugfix on 0.2.4.8-alpha. Reported and fixed
21528 - Set the severity correctly when testing
21529 get_interface_addresses_ifaddrs() and
21530 get_interface_addresses_win32(), so that the tests fail gracefully
21531 instead of triggering an assertion. Fixes bug 15759; bugfix on
21532 0.2.6.3-alpha. Reported by Nicolas Derive.
21534 o Code simplification and refactoring:
21535 - Move the hacky fallback code out of get_interface_address6() into
21536 separate function and get it covered with unit-tests. Resolves
21538 - Refactor hidden service client-side cache lookup to intelligently
21539 report its various failure cases, and disentangle failure cases
21540 involving a lack of introduction points. Closes ticket 14391.
21541 - Use our own Base64 encoder instead of OpenSSL's, to allow more
21542 control over the output. Part of ticket 15652.
21545 - Improve the descriptions of statistics-related torrc options in
21546 the manpage to describe rationale and possible uses cases. Fixes
21548 - Improve the layout and formatting of ./configure --help messages.
21549 Closes ticket 15024. Patch from "cypherpunks".
21550 - Standardize on the term "server descriptor" in the manual page.
21551 Previously, we had used "router descriptor", "server descriptor",
21552 and "relay descriptor" interchangeably. Part of ticket 14987.
21555 - Remove `USE_OPENSSL_BASE64` and the corresponding fallback code
21556 and always use the internal Base64 decoder. The internal decoder
21557 has been part of tor since 0.2.0.10-alpha, and no one should
21558 be using the OpenSSL one. Part of ticket 15652.
21559 - Remove the 'tor_strclear()' function; use memwipe() instead.
21560 Closes ticket 14922.
21562 o Removed features:
21563 - Remove the (seldom-used) DynamicDHGroups feature. For anti-
21564 fingerprinting we now recommend pluggable transports; for forward-
21565 secrecy in TLS, we now use the P-256 group. Closes ticket 13736.
21566 - Remove the undocumented "--digests" command-line option. It
21567 complicated our build process, caused subtle build issues on
21568 multiple platforms, and is now redundant since we started
21569 including git version identifiers. Closes ticket 14742.
21570 - Tor no longer contains checks for ancient directory cache versions
21571 that didn't know about microdescriptors.
21572 - Tor no longer contains workarounds for stat files generated by
21573 super-old versions of Tor that didn't choose guards sensibly.
21576 Changes in version 0.2.4.27 - 2015-04-06
21577 Tor 0.2.4.27 backports two fixes from 0.2.6.7 for security issues that
21578 could be used by an attacker to crash hidden services, or crash clients
21579 visiting hidden services. Hidden services should upgrade as soon as
21580 possible; clients should upgrade whenever packages become available.
21582 This release also backports a simple improvement to make hidden
21583 services a bit less vulnerable to denial-of-service attacks.
21585 o Major bugfixes (security, hidden service):
21586 - Fix an issue that would allow a malicious client to trigger an
21587 assertion failure and halt a hidden service. Fixes bug 15600;
21588 bugfix on 0.2.1.6-alpha. Reported by "disgleirio".
21589 - Fix a bug that could cause a client to crash with an assertion
21590 failure when parsing a malformed hidden service descriptor. Fixes
21591 bug 15601; bugfix on 0.2.1.5-alpha. Found by "DonnchaC".
21593 o Minor features (DoS-resistance, hidden service):
21594 - Introduction points no longer allow multiple INTRODUCE1 cells to
21595 arrive on the same circuit. This should make it more expensive for
21596 attackers to overwhelm hidden services with introductions.
21597 Resolves ticket 15515.
21600 Changes in version 0.2.5.12 - 2015-04-06
21601 Tor 0.2.5.12 backports two fixes from 0.2.6.7 for security issues that
21602 could be used by an attacker to crash hidden services, or crash clients
21603 visiting hidden services. Hidden services should upgrade as soon as
21604 possible; clients should upgrade whenever packages become available.
21606 This release also backports a simple improvement to make hidden
21607 services a bit less vulnerable to denial-of-service attacks.
21609 o Major bugfixes (security, hidden service):
21610 - Fix an issue that would allow a malicious client to trigger an
21611 assertion failure and halt a hidden service. Fixes bug 15600;
21612 bugfix on 0.2.1.6-alpha. Reported by "disgleirio".
21613 - Fix a bug that could cause a client to crash with an assertion
21614 failure when parsing a malformed hidden service descriptor. Fixes
21615 bug 15601; bugfix on 0.2.1.5-alpha. Found by "DonnchaC".
21617 o Minor features (DoS-resistance, hidden service):
21618 - Introduction points no longer allow multiple INTRODUCE1 cells to
21619 arrive on the same circuit. This should make it more expensive for
21620 attackers to overwhelm hidden services with introductions.
21621 Resolves ticket 15515.
21624 Changes in version 0.2.6.7 - 2015-04-06
21625 Tor 0.2.6.7 fixes two security issues that could be used by an
21626 attacker to crash hidden services, or crash clients visiting hidden
21627 services. Hidden services should upgrade as soon as possible; clients
21628 should upgrade whenever packages become available.
21630 This release also contains two simple improvements to make hidden
21631 services a bit less vulnerable to denial-of-service attacks.
21633 o Major bugfixes (security, hidden service):
21634 - Fix an issue that would allow a malicious client to trigger an
21635 assertion failure and halt a hidden service. Fixes bug 15600;
21636 bugfix on 0.2.1.6-alpha. Reported by "disgleirio".
21637 - Fix a bug that could cause a client to crash with an assertion
21638 failure when parsing a malformed hidden service descriptor. Fixes
21639 bug 15601; bugfix on 0.2.1.5-alpha. Found by "DonnchaC".
21641 o Minor features (DoS-resistance, hidden service):
21642 - Introduction points no longer allow multiple INTRODUCE1 cells to
21643 arrive on the same circuit. This should make it more expensive for
21644 attackers to overwhelm hidden services with introductions.
21645 Resolves ticket 15515.
21646 - Decrease the amount of reattempts that a hidden service performs
21647 when its rendezvous circuits fail. This reduces the computational
21648 cost for running a hidden service under heavy load. Resolves
21652 Changes in version 0.2.6.6 - 2015-03-24
21653 Tor 0.2.6.6 is the first stable release in the 0.2.6 series.
21655 It adds numerous safety, security, correctness, and performance
21656 improvements. Client programs can be configured to use more kinds of
21657 sockets, AutomapHosts works better, the multithreading backend is
21658 improved, cell transmission is refactored, test coverage is much
21659 higher, more denial-of-service attacks are handled, guard selection is
21660 improved to handle long-term guards better, pluggable transports
21661 should work a bit better, and some annoying hidden service performance
21662 bugs should be addressed.
21664 o Minor bugfixes (portability):
21665 - Use the correct datatype in the SipHash-2-4 function to prevent
21666 compilers from assuming any sort of alignment. Fixes bug 15436;
21667 bugfix on 0.2.5.3-alpha.
21669 Changes in version 0.2.6.5-rc - 2015-03-18
21670 Tor 0.2.6.5-rc is the second and (hopefully) last release candidate in
21671 the 0.2.6. It fixes a small number of bugs found in 0.2.6.4-rc.
21673 o Major bugfixes (client):
21674 - Avoid crashing when making certain configuration option changes on
21675 clients. Fixes bug 15245; bugfix on 0.2.6.3-alpha. Reported
21678 o Major bugfixes (pluggable transports):
21679 - Initialize the extended OR Port authentication cookie before
21680 launching pluggable transports. This prevents a race condition
21681 that occurred when server-side pluggable transports would cache the
21682 authentication cookie before it has been (re)generated. Fixes bug
21683 15240; bugfix on 0.2.5.1-alpha.
21685 o Major bugfixes (portability):
21686 - Do not crash on startup when running on Solaris. Fixes a bug
21687 related to our fix for 9495; bugfix on 0.2.6.1-alpha. Reported
21690 o Minor features (heartbeat):
21691 - On relays, report how many connections we negotiated using each
21692 version of the Tor link protocols. This information will let us
21693 know if removing support for very old versions of the Tor
21694 protocols is harming the network. Closes ticket 15212.
21696 o Code simplification and refactoring:
21697 - Refactor main loop to extract the 'loop' part. This makes it
21698 easier to run Tor under Shadow. Closes ticket 15176.
21701 Changes in version 0.2.5.11 - 2015-03-17
21702 Tor 0.2.5.11 is the second stable release in the 0.2.5 series.
21704 It backports several bugfixes from the 0.2.6 branch, including a
21705 couple of medium-level security fixes for relays and exit nodes.
21706 It also updates the list of directory authorities.
21708 o Directory authority changes:
21709 - Remove turtles as a directory authority.
21710 - Add longclaw as a new (v3) directory authority. This implements
21711 ticket 13296. This keeps the directory authority count at 9.
21712 - The directory authority Faravahar has a new IP address. This
21713 closes ticket 14487.
21715 o Major bugfixes (crash, OSX, security):
21716 - Fix a remote denial-of-service opportunity caused by a bug in
21717 OSX's _strlcat_chk() function. Fixes bug 15205; bug first appeared
21720 o Major bugfixes (relay, stability, possible security):
21721 - Fix a bug that could lead to a relay crashing with an assertion
21722 failure if a buffer of exactly the wrong layout was passed to
21723 buf_pullup() at exactly the wrong time. Fixes bug 15083; bugfix on
21724 0.2.0.10-alpha. Patch from 'cypherpunks'.
21725 - Do not assert if the 'data' pointer on a buffer is advanced to the
21726 very end of the buffer; log a BUG message instead. Only assert if
21727 it is past that point. Fixes bug 15083; bugfix on 0.2.0.10-alpha.
21729 o Major bugfixes (exit node stability):
21730 - Fix an assertion failure that could occur under high DNS load.
21731 Fixes bug 14129; bugfix on Tor 0.0.7rc1. Found by "jowr";
21732 diagnosed and fixed by "cypherpunks".
21734 o Major bugfixes (Linux seccomp2 sandbox):
21735 - Upon receiving sighup with the seccomp2 sandbox enabled, do not
21736 crash during attempts to call wait4. Fixes bug 15088; bugfix on
21737 0.2.5.1-alpha. Patch from "sanic".
21739 o Minor features (controller):
21740 - New "GETINFO bw-event-cache" to get information about recent
21741 bandwidth events. Closes ticket 14128. Useful for controllers to
21742 get recent bandwidth history after the fix for ticket 13988.
21744 o Minor features (geoip):
21745 - Update geoip to the March 3 2015 Maxmind GeoLite2 Country database.
21746 - Update geoip6 to the March 3 2015 Maxmind GeoLite2
21749 o Minor bugfixes (client, automapping):
21750 - Avoid crashing on torrc lines for VirtualAddrNetworkIPv[4|6] when
21751 no value follows the option. Fixes bug 14142; bugfix on
21752 0.2.4.7-alpha. Patch by "teor".
21753 - Fix a memory leak when using AutomapHostsOnResolve. Fixes bug
21754 14195; bugfix on 0.1.0.1-rc.
21756 o Minor bugfixes (compilation):
21757 - Build without warnings with the stock OpenSSL srtp.h header, which
21758 has a duplicate declaration of SSL_get_selected_srtp_profile().
21759 Fixes bug 14220; this is OpenSSL's bug, not ours.
21761 o Minor bugfixes (directory authority):
21762 - Allow directory authorities to fetch more data from one another if
21763 they find themselves missing lots of votes. Previously, they had
21764 been bumping against the 10 MB queued data limit. Fixes bug 14261;
21765 bugfix on 0.1.2.5-alpha.
21766 - Enlarge the buffer to read bwauth generated files to avoid an
21767 issue when parsing the file in dirserv_read_measured_bandwidths().
21768 Fixes bug 14125; bugfix on 0.2.2.1-alpha.
21770 o Minor bugfixes (statistics):
21771 - Increase period over which bandwidth observations are aggregated
21772 from 15 minutes to 4 hours. Fixes bug 13988; bugfix on 0.0.8pre1.
21774 o Minor bugfixes (preventative security, C safety):
21775 - When reading a hexadecimal, base-32, or base-64 encoded value from
21776 a string, always overwrite the whole output buffer. This prevents
21777 some bugs where we would look at (but fortunately, not reveal)
21778 uninitialized memory on the stack. Fixes bug 14013; bugfix on all
21782 Changes in version 0.2.4.26 - 2015-03-17
21783 Tor 0.2.4.26 includes an updated list of directory authorities. It
21784 also backports a couple of stability and security bugfixes from 0.2.5
21787 o Directory authority changes:
21788 - Remove turtles as a directory authority.
21789 - Add longclaw as a new (v3) directory authority. This implements
21790 ticket 13296. This keeps the directory authority count at 9.
21791 - The directory authority Faravahar has a new IP address. This
21792 closes ticket 14487.
21794 o Major bugfixes (exit node stability, also in 0.2.6.3-alpha):
21795 - Fix an assertion failure that could occur under high DNS load.
21796 Fixes bug 14129; bugfix on Tor 0.0.7rc1. Found by "jowr";
21797 diagnosed and fixed by "cypherpunks".
21799 o Major bugfixes (relay, stability, possible security, also in 0.2.6.4-rc):
21800 - Fix a bug that could lead to a relay crashing with an assertion
21801 failure if a buffer of exactly the wrong layout was passed to
21802 buf_pullup() at exactly the wrong time. Fixes bug 15083; bugfix on
21803 0.2.0.10-alpha. Patch from 'cypherpunks'.
21804 - Do not assert if the 'data' pointer on a buffer is advanced to the
21805 very end of the buffer; log a BUG message instead. Only assert if
21806 it is past that point. Fixes bug 15083; bugfix on 0.2.0.10-alpha.
21808 o Minor features (geoip):
21809 - Update geoip to the March 3 2015 Maxmind GeoLite2 Country database.
21810 - Update geoip6 to the March 3 2015 Maxmind GeoLite2
21813 Changes in version 0.2.6.4-rc - 2015-03-09
21814 Tor 0.2.6.4-alpha fixes an issue in the directory code that an
21815 attacker might be able to use in order to crash certain Tor
21816 directories. It also resolves some minor issues left over from, or
21817 introduced in, Tor 0.2.6.3-alpha or earlier.
21819 o Major bugfixes (crash, OSX, security):
21820 - Fix a remote denial-of-service opportunity caused by a bug in
21821 OSX's _strlcat_chk() function. Fixes bug 15205; bug first appeared
21824 o Major bugfixes (relay, stability, possible security):
21825 - Fix a bug that could lead to a relay crashing with an assertion
21826 failure if a buffer of exactly the wrong layout is passed to
21827 buf_pullup() at exactly the wrong time. Fixes bug 15083; bugfix on
21828 0.2.0.10-alpha. Patch from "cypherpunks".
21829 - Do not assert if the 'data' pointer on a buffer is advanced to the
21830 very end of the buffer; log a BUG message instead. Only assert if
21831 it is past that point. Fixes bug 15083; bugfix on 0.2.0.10-alpha.
21833 o Major bugfixes (FreeBSD IPFW transparent proxy):
21834 - Fix address detection with FreeBSD transparent proxies, when
21835 "TransProxyType ipfw" is in use. Fixes bug 15064; bugfix
21838 o Major bugfixes (Linux seccomp2 sandbox):
21839 - Pass IPPROTO_TCP rather than 0 to socket(), so that the Linux
21840 seccomp2 sandbox doesn't fail. Fixes bug 14989; bugfix
21842 - Allow AF_UNIX hidden services to be used with the seccomp2
21843 sandbox. Fixes bug 15003; bugfix on 0.2.6.3-alpha.
21844 - Upon receiving sighup with the seccomp2 sandbox enabled, do not
21845 crash during attempts to call wait4. Fixes bug 15088; bugfix on
21846 0.2.5.1-alpha. Patch from "sanic".
21848 o Minor features (controller):
21849 - Messages about problems in the bootstrap process now include
21850 information about the server we were trying to connect to when we
21851 noticed the problem. Closes ticket 15006.
21853 o Minor features (geoip):
21854 - Update geoip to the March 3 2015 Maxmind GeoLite2 Country database.
21855 - Update geoip6 to the March 3 2015 Maxmind GeoLite2
21858 o Minor features (logs):
21859 - Quiet some log messages in the heartbeat and at startup. Closes
21862 o Minor bugfixes (certificate handling):
21863 - If an authority operator accidentally makes a signing certificate
21864 with a future publication time, do not discard its real signing
21865 certificates. Fixes bug 11457; bugfix on 0.2.0.3-alpha.
21866 - Remove any old authority certificates that have been superseded
21867 for at least two days. Previously, we would keep superseded
21868 certificates until they expired, if they were published close in
21869 time to the certificate that superseded them. Fixes bug 11454;
21870 bugfix on 0.2.1.8-alpha.
21872 o Minor bugfixes (compilation):
21873 - Fix a compilation warning on s390. Fixes bug 14988; bugfix
21875 - Fix a compilation warning on FreeBSD. Fixes bug 15151; bugfix
21878 o Minor bugfixes (testing):
21879 - Fix endianness issues in unit test for resolve_my_address() to
21880 have it pass on big endian systems. Fixes bug 14980; bugfix on
21882 - Avoid a side-effect in a tor_assert() in the unit tests. Fixes bug
21883 15188; bugfix on 0.1.2.3-alpha. Patch from Tom van der Woerdt.
21884 - When running the new 'make test-stem' target, use the configured
21885 python binary. Fixes bug 15037; bugfix on 0.2.6.3-alpha. Patch
21886 from "cypherpunks".
21887 - When running the zero-length-keys tests, do not use the default
21888 torrc file. Fixes bug 15033; bugfix on 0.2.6.3-alpha. Reported
21891 o Directory authority IP change:
21892 - The directory authority Faravahar has a new IP address. This
21893 closes ticket 14487.
21896 - Remove some lingering dead code that once supported mempools.
21897 Mempools were disabled by default in 0.2.5, and removed entirely
21898 in 0.2.6.3-alpha. Closes more of ticket 14848; patch
21902 Changes in version 0.2.6.3-alpha - 2015-02-19
21903 Tor 0.2.6.3-alpha is the third (and hopefully final) alpha release in
21904 the 0.2.6.x series. It introduces support for more kinds of sockets,
21905 makes it harder to accidentally run an exit, improves our
21906 multithreading backend, incorporates several fixes for the
21907 AutomapHostsOnResolve option, and fixes numerous other bugs besides.
21909 If no major regressions or security holes are found in this version,
21910 the next version will be a release candidate.
21912 o Deprecated versions:
21913 - Tor relays older than 0.2.4.18-rc are no longer allowed to
21914 advertise themselves on the network. Closes ticket 13555.
21916 o Major features (security, unix domain sockets):
21917 - Allow SocksPort to be an AF_UNIX Unix Domain Socket. Now high risk
21918 applications can reach Tor without having to create AF_INET or
21919 AF_INET6 sockets, meaning they can completely disable their
21920 ability to make non-Tor network connections. To create a socket of
21921 this type, use "SocksPort unix:/path/to/socket". Implements
21923 - Support mapping hidden service virtual ports to AF_UNIX sockets.
21924 The syntax is "HiddenServicePort 80 unix:/path/to/socket".
21925 Implements ticket 11485.
21927 o Major features (changed defaults):
21928 - Prevent relay operators from unintentionally running exits: When a
21929 relay is configured as an exit node, we now warn the user unless
21930 the "ExitRelay" option is set to 1. We warn even more loudly if
21931 the relay is configured with the default exit policy, since this
21932 can indicate accidental misconfiguration. Setting "ExitRelay 0"
21933 stops Tor from running as an exit relay. Closes ticket 10067.
21935 o Major features (directory system):
21936 - When downloading server- or microdescriptors from a directory
21937 server, we no longer launch multiple simultaneous requests to the
21938 same server. This reduces load on the directory servers,
21939 especially when directory guards are in use. Closes ticket 9969.
21940 - When downloading server- or microdescriptors over a tunneled
21941 connection, do not limit the length of our requests to what the
21942 Squid proxy is willing to handle. Part of ticket 9969.
21943 - Authorities can now vote on the correct digests and latest
21944 versions for different software packages. This allows packages
21945 that include Tor to use the Tor authority system as a way to get
21946 notified of updates and their correct digests. Implements proposal
21947 227. Closes ticket 10395.
21949 o Major features (guards):
21950 - Introduce the Guardfraction feature to improves load balancing on
21951 guard nodes. Specifically, it aims to reduce the traffic gap that
21952 guard nodes experience when they first get the Guard flag. This is
21953 a required step if we want to increase the guard lifetime to 9
21954 months or greater. Closes ticket 9321.
21956 o Major features (performance):
21957 - Make the CPU worker implementation more efficient by avoiding the
21958 kernel and lengthening pipelines. The original implementation used
21959 sockets to transfer data from the main thread to the workers, and
21960 didn't allow any thread to be assigned more than a single piece of
21961 work at once. The new implementation avoids communications
21962 overhead by making requests in shared memory, avoiding kernel IO
21963 where possible, and keeping more requests in flight at once.
21964 Implements ticket 9682.
21966 o Major features (relay):
21967 - Raise the minimum acceptable configured bandwidth rate for bridges
21968 to 50 KiB/sec and for relays to 75 KiB/sec. (The old values were
21969 20 KiB/sec.) Closes ticket 13822.
21971 o Major bugfixes (exit node stability):
21972 - Fix an assertion failure that could occur under high DNS load.
21973 Fixes bug 14129; bugfix on Tor 0.0.7rc1. Found by "jowr";
21974 diagnosed and fixed by "cypherpunks".
21976 o Major bugfixes (mixed relay-client operation):
21977 - When running as a relay and client at the same time (not
21978 recommended), if we decide not to use a new guard because we want
21979 to retry older guards, only close the locally-originating circuits
21980 passing through that guard. Previously we would close all the
21981 circuits through that guard. Fixes bug 9819; bugfix on
21982 0.2.1.1-alpha. Reported by "skruffy".
21984 o Minor features (build):
21985 - New --disable-system-torrc compile-time option to prevent Tor from
21986 looking for the system-wide torrc or torrc-defaults files.
21987 Resolves ticket 13037.
21989 o Minor features (controller):
21990 - Include SOCKS_USERNAME and SOCKS_PASSWORD values in controller
21991 events so controllers can observe circuit isolation inputs. Closes
21993 - ControlPort now supports the unix:/path/to/socket syntax as an
21994 alternative to the ControlSocket option, for consistency with
21995 SocksPort and HiddenServicePort. Closes ticket 14451.
21996 - New "GETINFO bw-event-cache" to get information about recent
21997 bandwidth events. Closes ticket 14128. Useful for controllers to
21998 get recent bandwidth history after the fix for ticket 13988.
22000 o Minor features (Denial of service resistance):
22001 - Count the total number of bytes used storing hidden service
22002 descriptors against the value of MaxMemInQueues. If we're low on
22003 memory, and more than 20% of our memory is used holding hidden
22004 service descriptors, free them until no more than 10% of our
22005 memory holds hidden service descriptors. Free the least recently
22006 fetched descriptors first. Resolves ticket 13806.
22007 - When we have recently been under memory pressure (over 3/4 of
22008 MaxMemInQueues is allocated), then allocate smaller zlib objects
22009 for small requests. Closes ticket 11791.
22011 o Minor features (geoip):
22012 - Update geoip and geoip6 files to the January 7 2015 Maxmind
22013 GeoLite2 Country database.
22015 o Minor features (guard nodes):
22016 - Reduce the time delay before saving guard status to disk from 10
22017 minutes to 30 seconds (or from one hour to 10 minutes if
22018 AvoidDiskWrites is set). Closes ticket 12485.
22020 o Minor features (hidden service):
22021 - Make Sybil attacks against hidden services harder by changing the
22022 minimum time required to get the HSDir flag from 25 hours up to 96
22023 hours. Addresses ticket 14149.
22024 - New option "HiddenServiceAllowUnknownPorts" to allow hidden
22025 services to disable the anti-scanning feature introduced in
22026 0.2.6.2-alpha. With this option not set, a connection to an
22027 unlisted port closes the circuit. With this option set, only a
22028 RELAY_DONE cell is sent. Closes ticket 14084.
22030 o Minor features (interface):
22031 - Implement "-f -" command-line option to read torrc configuration
22032 from standard input, if you don't want to store the torrc file in
22033 the file system. Implements feature 13865.
22035 o Minor features (logging):
22036 - Add a count of unique clients to the bridge heartbeat message.
22037 Resolves ticket 6852.
22038 - Suppress "router info incompatible with extra info" message when
22039 reading extrainfo documents from cache. (This message got loud
22040 around when we closed bug 9812 in 0.2.6.2-alpha.) Closes
22042 - Elevate hidden service authorized-client message from DEBUG to
22043 INFO. Closes ticket 14015.
22045 o Minor features (stability):
22046 - Add assertions in our hash-table iteration code to check for
22047 corrupted values that could cause infinite loops. Closes
22050 o Minor features (systemd):
22051 - Various improvements and modernizations in systemd hardening
22052 support. Closes ticket 13805. Patch from Craig Andrews.
22054 o Minor features (testing networks):
22055 - Drop the minimum RendPostPeriod on a testing network to 5 seconds,
22056 and the default on a testing network to 2 minutes. Drop the
22057 MIN_REND_INITIAL_POST_DELAY on a testing network to 5 seconds, but
22058 keep the default on a testing network at 30 seconds. This reduces
22059 HS bootstrap time to around 25 seconds. Also, change the default
22060 time in test-network.sh to match. Closes ticket 13401. Patch
22062 - Create TestingDirAuthVoteHSDir to correspond to
22063 TestingDirAuthVoteExit/Guard. Ensures that authorities vote the
22064 HSDir flag for the listed relays regardless of uptime or ORPort
22065 connectivity. Respects the value of VoteOnHidServDirectoriesV2.
22066 Partial implementation for ticket 14067. Patch by "teor".
22068 o Minor features (tor2web mode):
22069 - Introduce the config option Tor2webRendezvousPoints, which allows
22070 clients in Tor2webMode to select a specific Rendezvous Point to be
22071 used in HS circuits. This might allow better performance for
22072 Tor2Web nodes. Implements ticket 12844.
22074 o Minor bugfixes (client DNS):
22075 - Report the correct cached DNS expiration times on SOCKS port or in
22076 DNS replies. Previously, we would report everything as "never
22077 expires." Fixes bug 14193; bugfix on 0.2.3.17-beta.
22078 - Avoid a small memory leak when we find a cached answer for a
22079 reverse DNS lookup in a client-side DNS cache. (Remember, client-
22080 side DNS caching is off by default, and is not recommended.) Fixes
22081 bug 14259; bugfix on 0.2.0.1-alpha.
22083 o Minor bugfixes (client, automapping):
22084 - Avoid crashing on torrc lines for VirtualAddrNetworkIPv[4|6] when
22085 no value follows the option. Fixes bug 14142; bugfix on
22086 0.2.4.7-alpha. Patch by "teor".
22087 - Fix a memory leak when using AutomapHostsOnResolve. Fixes bug
22088 14195; bugfix on 0.1.0.1-rc.
22089 - Prevent changes to other options from removing the wildcard value
22090 "." from "AutomapHostsSuffixes". Fixes bug 12509; bugfix
22092 - Allow MapAddress and AutomapHostsOnResolve to work together when
22093 an address is mapped into another address type (like .onion) that
22094 must be automapped at resolve time. Fixes bug 7555; bugfix
22097 o Minor bugfixes (client, bridges):
22098 - When we are using bridges and we had a network connectivity
22099 problem, only retry connecting to our currently configured
22100 bridges, not all bridges we know about and remember using. Fixes
22101 bug 14216; bugfix on 0.2.2.17-alpha.
22103 o Minor bugfixes (client, IPv6):
22104 - Reject socks requests to literal IPv6 addresses when IPv6Traffic
22105 flag is not set; and not because the NoIPv4Traffic flag was set.
22106 Previously we'd looked at the NoIPv4Traffic flag for both types of
22107 literal addresses. Fixes bug 14280; bugfix on 0.2.4.7-alpha.
22109 o Minor bugfixes (compilation):
22110 - The address of an array in the middle of a structure will always
22111 be non-NULL. clang recognises this and complains. Disable the
22112 tautologous and redundant check to silence this warning. Fixes bug
22113 14001; bugfix on 0.2.1.2-alpha.
22114 - Avoid warnings when building with systemd 209 or later. Fixes bug
22115 14072; bugfix on 0.2.6.2-alpha. Patch from "h.venev".
22116 - Compile correctly with (unreleased) OpenSSL 1.1.0 headers.
22117 Addresses ticket 14188.
22118 - Build without warnings with the stock OpenSSL srtp.h header, which
22119 has a duplicate declaration of SSL_get_selected_srtp_profile().
22120 Fixes bug 14220; this is OpenSSL's bug, not ours.
22121 - Do not compile any code related to Tor2Web mode when Tor2Web mode
22122 is not enabled at compile time. Previously, this code was included
22123 in a disabled state. See discussion on ticket 12844.
22124 - Remove the --disable-threads configure option again. It was
22125 accidentally partially reintroduced in 29ac883606d6d. Fixes bug
22126 14819; bugfix on 0.2.6.2-alpha.
22128 o Minor bugfixes (controller):
22129 - Report "down" in response to the "GETINFO entry-guards" command
22130 when relays are down with an unreachable_since value. Previously,
22131 we would report "up". Fixes bug 14184; bugfix on 0.1.2.2-alpha.
22132 - Avoid crashing on a malformed EXTENDCIRCUIT command. Fixes bug
22133 14116; bugfix on 0.2.2.9-alpha.
22134 - Add a code for the END_CIRC_REASON_IP_NOW_REDUNDANT circuit close
22135 reason. Fixes bug 14207; bugfix on 0.2.6.2-alpha.
22137 o Minor bugfixes (directory authority):
22138 - Allow directory authorities to fetch more data from one another if
22139 they find themselves missing lots of votes. Previously, they had
22140 been bumping against the 10 MB queued data limit. Fixes bug 14261;
22141 bugfix on 0.1.2.5-alpha.
22142 - Do not attempt to download extrainfo documents which we will be
22143 unable to validate with a matching server descriptor. Fixes bug
22144 13762; bugfix on 0.2.0.1-alpha.
22145 - Fix a bug that was truncating AUTHDIR_NEWDESC events sent to the
22146 control port. Fixes bug 14953; bugfix on 0.2.0.1-alpha.
22147 - Enlarge the buffer to read bwauth generated files to avoid an
22148 issue when parsing the file in dirserv_read_measured_bandwidths().
22149 Fixes bug 14125; bugfix on 0.2.2.1-alpha.
22151 o Minor bugfixes (file handling):
22152 - Stop failing when key files are zero-length. Instead, generate new
22153 keys, and overwrite the empty key files. Fixes bug 13111; bugfix
22154 on all versions of Tor. Patch by "teor".
22155 - Stop generating a fresh .old RSA onion key file when the .old file
22156 is missing. Fixes part of 13111; bugfix on 0.0.6rc1.
22157 - Avoid overwriting .old key files with empty key files.
22158 - Skip loading zero-length extrainfo store, router store, stats,
22159 state, and key files.
22160 - Avoid crashing when trying to reload a torrc specified as a
22161 relative path with RunAsDaemon turned on. Fixes bug 13397; bugfix
22164 o Minor bugfixes (hidden services):
22165 - Close the introduction circuit when we have no more usable intro
22166 points, instead of waiting for it to time out. This also ensures
22167 that no follow-up HS descriptor fetch is triggered when the
22168 circuit eventually times out. Fixes bug 14224; bugfix on 0.0.6.
22169 - When fetching a hidden service descriptor for a down service that
22170 was recently up, do not keep refetching until we try the same
22171 replica twice in a row. Fixes bug 14219; bugfix on 0.2.0.10-alpha.
22172 - Successfully launch Tor with a nonexistent hidden service
22173 directory. Our fix for bug 13942 didn't catch this case. Fixes bug
22174 14106; bugfix on 0.2.6.2-alpha.
22176 o Minor bugfixes (logging):
22177 - Avoid crashing when there are more log domains than entries in
22178 domain_list. Bugfix on 0.2.3.1-alpha.
22179 - Add a string representation for LD_SCHED. Fixes bug 14740; bugfix
22181 - Don't log messages to stdout twice when starting up. Fixes bug
22182 13993; bugfix on 0.2.6.1-alpha.
22184 o Minor bugfixes (parsing):
22185 - Stop accepting milliseconds (or other junk) at the end of
22186 descriptor publication times. Fixes bug 9286; bugfix on 0.0.2pre25.
22187 - Support two-number and three-number version numbers correctly, in
22188 case we change the Tor versioning system in the future. Fixes bug
22189 13661; bugfix on 0.0.8pre1.
22191 o Minor bugfixes (path counting):
22192 - When deciding whether the consensus lists any exit nodes, count
22193 the number listed in the consensus, not the number we have
22194 descriptors for. Fixes part of bug 14918; bugfix on 0.2.6.2-alpha.
22195 - When deciding whether we have any exit nodes, only examine
22196 ExitNodes when the ExitNodes option is actually set. Fixes part of
22197 bug 14918; bugfix on 0.2.6.2-alpha.
22198 - Get rid of redundant and possibly scary warnings that we are
22199 missing directory information while we bootstrap. Fixes part of
22200 bug 14918; bugfix on 0.2.6.2-alpha.
22202 o Minor bugfixes (portability):
22203 - Fix the ioctl()-based network interface lookup code so that it
22204 will work on systems that have variable-length struct ifreq, for
22206 - Fix scheduler compilation on targets where char is unsigned. Fixes
22207 bug 14764; bugfix on 0.2.6.2-alpha. Reported by Christian Kujau.
22209 o Minor bugfixes (sandbox):
22210 - Allow glibc fatal errors to be sent to stderr before Tor exits.
22211 Previously, glibc would try to write them to /dev/tty, and the
22212 sandbox would trap the call and make Tor exit prematurely. Fixes
22213 bug 14759; bugfix on 0.2.5.1-alpha.
22215 o Minor bugfixes (shutdown):
22216 - When shutting down, always call event_del() on lingering read or
22217 write events before freeing them. Otherwise, we risk double-frees
22218 or read-after-frees in event_base_free(). Fixes bug 12985; bugfix
22221 o Minor bugfixes (small memory leaks):
22222 - Avoid leaking memory when using IPv6 virtual address mappings.
22223 Fixes bug 14123; bugfix on 0.2.4.7-alpha. Patch by Tom van
22226 o Minor bugfixes (statistics):
22227 - Increase period over which bandwidth observations are aggregated
22228 from 15 minutes to 4 hours. Fixes bug 13988; bugfix on 0.0.8pre1.
22230 o Minor bugfixes (systemd support):
22231 - Fix detection and operation of systemd watchdog. Fixes part of bug
22232 14141; bugfix on 0.2.6.2-alpha. Patch from Tomasz Torcz.
22233 - Run correctly under systemd with the RunAsDaemon option set. Fixes
22234 part of bug 14141; bugfix on 0.2.5.7-rc. Patch from Tomasz Torcz.
22235 - Inform the systemd supervisor about more changes in the Tor
22236 process status. Implements part of ticket 14141. Patch from
22238 - Cause the "--disable-systemd" option to actually disable systemd
22239 support. Fixes bug 14350; bugfix on 0.2.6.2-alpha. Patch
22242 o Minor bugfixes (TLS):
22243 - Check more thoroughly throughout the TLS code for possible
22244 unlogged TLS errors. Possible diagnostic or fix for bug 13319.
22246 o Minor bugfixes (transparent proxy):
22247 - Use getsockname, not getsockopt, to retrieve the address for a
22248 TPROXY-redirected connection. Fixes bug 13796; bugfix
22251 o Code simplification and refactoring:
22252 - Move fields related to isolating and configuring client ports into
22253 a shared structure. Previously, they were duplicated across
22254 port_cfg_t, listener_connection_t, and edge_connection_t. Failure
22255 to copy them correctly had been the cause of at least one bug in
22256 the past. Closes ticket 8546.
22257 - Refactor the get_interface_addresses_raw() doom-function into
22258 multiple smaller and simpler subfunctions. Cover the resulting
22259 subfunctions with unit-tests. Fixes a significant portion of
22261 - Remove workaround in dirserv_thinks_router_is_hs_dir() that was
22262 only for version <= 0.2.2.24 which is now deprecated. Closes
22264 - Remove a test for a long-defunct broken version-one
22268 - Adding section on OpenBSD to our TUNING document. Thanks to mmcc
22269 for writing the OpenBSD-specific tips. Resolves ticket 13702.
22270 - Make the tor-resolve documentation match its help string and its
22271 options. Resolves part of ticket 14325.
22272 - Log a more useful error message from tor-resolve when failing to
22273 look up a hidden service address. Resolves part of ticket 14325.
22275 o Downgraded warnings:
22276 - Don't warn when we've attempted to contact a relay using the wrong
22277 ntor onion key. Closes ticket 9635.
22279 o Removed features:
22280 - To avoid confusion with the "ExitRelay" option, "ExitNode" is no
22281 longer silently accepted as an alias for "ExitNodes".
22282 - The --enable-mempool and --enable-buf-freelists options, which
22283 were originally created to work around bad malloc implementations,
22284 no longer exist. They were off-by-default in 0.2.5. Closes
22288 - Make the checkdir/perms test complete successfully even if the
22289 global umask is not 022. Fixes bug 14215; bugfix on 0.2.6.2-alpha.
22290 - Test that tor does not fail when key files are zero-length. Check
22291 that tor generates new keys, and overwrites the empty key files.
22292 - Test that tor generates new keys when keys are missing
22293 (existing behavior).
22294 - Test that tor does not overwrite key files that already contain
22295 data (existing behavior). Tests bug 13111. Patch by "teor".
22296 - New "make test-stem" target to run stem integration tests.
22297 Requires that the "STEM_SOURCE_DIR" environment variable be set.
22298 Closes ticket 14107.
22299 - Make the test_cmdline_args.py script work correctly on Windows.
22300 Patch from Gisle Vanem.
22301 - Move the slower unit tests into a new "./src/test/test-slow"
22302 binary that can be run independently of the other tests. Closes
22304 - Avoid undefined behavior when sampling huge values from the
22305 Laplace distribution. This made unittests fail on Raspberry Pi.
22306 Bug found by Device. Fixes bug 14090; bugfix on 0.2.6.2-alpha.
22309 Changes in version 0.2.6.2-alpha - 2014-12-31
22310 Tor 0.2.6.2-alpha is the second alpha release in the 0.2.6.x series.
22311 It introduces a major new backend for deciding when to send cells on
22312 channels, which should lead down the road to big performance
22313 increases. It contains security and statistics features for better
22314 work on hidden services, and numerous bugfixes.
22316 This release contains many new unit tests, along with major
22317 performance improvements for running testing networks using Chutney.
22318 Thanks to a series of patches contributed by "teor", testing networks
22319 should now bootstrap in seconds, rather than minutes.
22321 o Major features (relay, infrastructure):
22322 - Complete revision of the code that relays use to decide which cell
22323 to send next. Formerly, we selected the best circuit to write on
22324 each channel, but we didn't select among channels in any
22325 sophisticated way. Now, we choose the best circuits globally from
22326 among those whose channels are ready to deliver traffic.
22328 This patch implements a new inter-cmux comparison API, a global
22329 high/low watermark mechanism and a global scheduler loop for
22330 transmission prioritization across all channels as well as among
22331 circuits on one channel. This schedule is currently tuned to
22332 (tolerantly) avoid making changes in network performance, but it
22333 should form the basis for major circuit performance increases in
22334 the future. Code by Andrea; tuning by Rob Jansen; implements
22337 o Major features (hidden services):
22338 - Make HS port scanning more difficult by immediately closing the
22339 circuit when a user attempts to connect to a nonexistent port.
22340 Closes ticket 13667.
22341 - Add a HiddenServiceStatistics option that allows Tor relays to
22342 gather and publish statistics about the overall size and volume of
22343 hidden service usage. Specifically, when this option is turned on,
22344 an HSDir will publish an approximate number of hidden services
22345 that have published descriptors to it the past 24 hours. Also, if
22346 a relay has acted as a hidden service rendezvous point, it will
22347 publish the approximate amount of rendezvous cells it has relayed
22348 the past 24 hours. The statistics themselves are obfuscated so
22349 that the exact values cannot be derived. For more details see
22350 proposal 238, "Better hidden service stats from Tor relays". This
22351 feature is currently disabled by default. Implements feature 13192.
22353 o Major bugfixes (client, automap):
22354 - Repair automapping with IPv6 addresses. This automapping should
22355 have worked previously, but one piece of debugging code that we
22356 inserted to detect a regression actually caused the regression to
22357 manifest itself again. Fixes bug 13811 and bug 12831; bugfix on
22358 0.2.4.7-alpha. Diagnosed and fixed by Francisco Blas
22361 o Major bugfixes (hidden services):
22362 - When closing an introduction circuit that was opened in parallel
22363 with others, don't mark the introduction point as unreachable.
22364 Previously, the first successful connection to an introduction
22365 point would make the other introduction points get marked as
22366 having timed out. Fixes bug 13698; bugfix on 0.0.6rc2.
22368 o Directory authority changes:
22369 - Remove turtles as a directory authority.
22370 - Add longclaw as a new (v3) directory authority. This implements
22371 ticket 13296. This keeps the directory authority count at 9.
22373 o Major removed features:
22374 - Tor clients no longer support connecting to hidden services
22375 running on Tor 0.2.2.x and earlier; the Support022HiddenServices
22376 option has been removed. (There shouldn't be any hidden services
22377 running these versions on the network.) Closes ticket 7803.
22379 o Minor features (client):
22380 - Validate hostnames in SOCKS5 requests more strictly. If SafeSocks
22381 is enabled, reject requests with IP addresses as hostnames.
22382 Resolves ticket 13315.
22384 o Minor features (controller):
22385 - Add a "SIGNAL HEARTBEAT" controller command that tells Tor to
22386 write an unscheduled heartbeat message to the log. Implements
22389 o Minor features (geoip):
22390 - Update geoip and geoip6 to the November 15 2014 Maxmind GeoLite2
22393 o Minor features (hidden services):
22394 - When re-enabling the network, don't try to build introduction
22395 circuits until we have successfully built a circuit. This makes
22396 hidden services come up faster when the network is re-enabled.
22397 Patch from "akwizgran". Closes ticket 13447.
22398 - When we fail to retrieve a hidden service descriptor, send the
22399 controller an "HS_DESC FAILED" controller event. Implements
22401 - New HiddenServiceDirGroupReadable option to cause hidden service
22402 directories and hostname files to be created group-readable. Patch
22403 from "anon", David Stainton, and "meejah". Closes ticket 11291.
22405 o Minor features (systemd):
22406 - Where supported, when running with systemd, report successful
22407 startup to systemd. Part of ticket 11016. Patch by Michael Scherer.
22408 - When running with systemd, support systemd watchdog messages. Part
22409 of ticket 11016. Patch by Michael Scherer.
22411 o Minor features (transparent proxy):
22412 - Update the transparent proxy option checks to allow for both ipfw
22413 and pf on OS X. Closes ticket 14002.
22414 - Use the correct option when using IPv6 with transparent proxy
22415 support on Linux. Resolves 13808. Patch by Francisco Blas
22418 o Minor bugfixes (preventative security, C safety):
22419 - When reading a hexadecimal, base-32, or base-64 encoded value from
22420 a string, always overwrite the whole output buffer. This prevents
22421 some bugs where we would look at (but fortunately, not reveal)
22422 uninitialized memory on the stack. Fixes bug 14013; bugfix on all
22424 - Clear all memory targeted by tor_addr_{to,from}_sockaddr(), not
22425 just the part that's used. This makes it harder for data leak bugs
22426 to occur in the event of other programming failures. Resolves
22429 o Minor bugfixes (client, microdescriptors):
22430 - Use a full 256 bits of the SHA256 digest of a microdescriptor when
22431 computing which microdescriptors to download. This keeps us from
22432 erroneous download behavior if two microdescriptor digests ever
22433 have the same first 160 bits. Fixes part of bug 13399; bugfix
22435 - Reset a router's status if its microdescriptor digest changes,
22436 even if the first 160 bits remain the same. Fixes part of bug
22437 13399; bugfix on 0.2.3.1-alpha.
22439 o Minor bugfixes (compilation):
22440 - Silence clang warnings under --enable-expensive-hardening,
22441 including implicit truncation of 64 bit values to 32 bit, const
22442 char assignment to self, tautological compare, and additional
22443 parentheses around equality tests. Fixes bug 13577; bugfix
22445 - Fix a clang warning about checking whether an address in the
22446 middle of a structure is NULL. Fixes bug 14001; bugfix
22449 o Minor bugfixes (hidden services):
22450 - Correctly send a controller event when we find that a rendezvous
22451 circuit has finished. Fixes bug 13936; bugfix on 0.1.1.5-alpha.
22452 - Pre-check directory permissions for new hidden-services to avoid
22453 at least one case of "Bug: Acting on config options left us in a
22454 broken state. Dying." Fixes bug 13942; bugfix on 0.0.6pre1.
22455 - When adding a new hidden service (for example, via SETCONF), Tor
22456 no longer congratulates the user for running a relay. Fixes bug
22457 13941; bugfix on 0.2.6.1-alpha.
22458 - When fetching hidden service descriptors, we now check not only
22459 for whether we got the hidden service we had in mind, but also
22460 whether we got the particular descriptors we wanted. This prevents
22461 a class of inefficient but annoying DoS attacks by hidden service
22462 directories. Fixes bug 13214; bugfix on 0.2.1.6-alpha. Reported
22465 o Minor bugfixes (Linux seccomp2 sandbox):
22466 - Make transparent proxy support work along with the seccomp2
22467 sandbox. Fixes part of bug 13808; bugfix on 0.2.5.1-alpha. Patch
22468 by Francisco Blas Izquierdo Riera.
22469 - Fix a memory leak in tor-resolve when running with the sandbox
22470 enabled. Fixes bug 14050; bugfix on 0.2.5.9-rc.
22472 o Minor bugfixes (logging):
22473 - Downgrade warnings about RSA signature failures to info log level.
22474 Emit a warning when an extra info document is found incompatible
22475 with a corresponding router descriptor. Fixes bug 9812; bugfix
22477 - Make connection_ap_handshake_attach_circuit() log the circuit ID
22478 correctly. Fixes bug 13701; bugfix on 0.0.6.
22480 o Minor bugfixes (misc):
22481 - Stop allowing invalid address patterns like "*/24" that contain
22482 both a wildcard address and a bit prefix length. This affects all
22483 our address-range parsing code. Fixes bug 7484; bugfix
22486 o Minor bugfixes (testing networks, fast startup):
22487 - Allow Tor to build circuits using a consensus with no exits. If
22488 the consensus has no exits (typical of a bootstrapping test
22489 network), allow Tor to build circuits once enough descriptors have
22490 been downloaded. This assists in bootstrapping a testing Tor
22491 network. Fixes bug 13718; bugfix on 0.2.4.10-alpha. Patch
22493 - When V3AuthVotingInterval is low, give a lower If-Modified-Since
22494 header to directory servers. This allows us to obtain consensuses
22495 promptly when the consensus interval is very short. This assists
22496 in bootstrapping a testing Tor network. Fixes parts of bugs 13718
22497 and 13963; bugfix on 0.2.0.3-alpha. Patch by "teor".
22498 - Stop assuming that private addresses are local when checking
22499 reachability in a TestingTorNetwork. Instead, when testing, assume
22500 all OR connections are remote. (This is necessary due to many test
22501 scenarios running all relays on localhost.) This assists in
22502 bootstrapping a testing Tor network. Fixes bug 13924; bugfix on
22503 0.1.0.1-rc. Patch by "teor".
22504 - Avoid building exit circuits from a consensus with no exits. Now
22505 thanks to our fix for 13718, we accept a no-exit network as not
22506 wholly lost, but we need to remember not to try to build exit
22507 circuits on it. Closes ticket 13814; patch by "teor".
22508 - Stop requiring exits to have non-zero bandwithcapacity in a
22509 TestingTorNetwork. Instead, when TestingMinExitFlagThreshold is 0,
22510 ignore exit bandwidthcapacity. This assists in bootstrapping a
22511 testing Tor network. Fixes parts of bugs 13718 and 13839; bugfix
22512 on 0.2.0.3-alpha. Patch by "teor".
22513 - Add "internal" to some bootstrap statuses when no exits are
22514 available. If the consensus does not contain Exits, Tor will only
22515 build internal circuits. In this case, relevant statuses will
22516 contain the word "internal" as indicated in the Tor control-
22517 spec.txt. When bootstrap completes, Tor will be ready to build
22518 internal circuits. If a future consensus contains Exits, exit
22519 circuits may become available. Fixes part of bug 13718; bugfix on
22520 0.2.4.10-alpha. Patch by "teor".
22521 - Decrease minimum consensus interval to 10 seconds when
22522 TestingTorNetwork is set, or 5 seconds for the first consensus.
22523 Fix assumptions throughout the code that assume larger intervals.
22524 Fixes bugs 13718 and 13823; bugfix on 0.2.0.3-alpha. Patch
22526 - Avoid excluding guards from path building in minimal test
22527 networks, when we're in a test network and excluding guards would
22528 exclude all relays. This typically occurs in incredibly small tor
22529 networks, and those using "TestingAuthVoteGuard *". Fixes part of
22530 bug 13718; bugfix on 0.1.1.11-alpha. Patch by "teor".
22532 o Code simplification and refactoring:
22533 - Stop using can_complete_circuits as a global variable; access it
22534 with a function instead.
22535 - Avoid using operators directly as macro arguments: this lets us
22536 apply coccinelle transformations to our codebase more directly.
22537 Closes ticket 13172.
22538 - Combine the functions used to parse ClientTransportPlugin and
22539 ServerTransportPlugin into a single function. Closes ticket 6456.
22540 - Add inline functions and convenience macros for inspecting channel
22541 state. Refactor the code to use convenience macros instead of
22542 checking channel state directly. Fixes issue 7356.
22543 - Document all members of was_router_added_t and rename
22544 ROUTER_WAS_NOT_NEW to ROUTER_IS_ALREADY_KNOWN to make it less
22545 confusable with ROUTER_WAS_TOO_OLD. Fixes issue 13644.
22546 - In connection_exit_begin_conn(), use END_CIRC_REASON_TORPROTOCOL
22547 constant instead of hardcoded value. Fixes issue 13840.
22548 - Refactor our generic strmap and digestmap types into a single
22549 implementation, so that we can add a new digest256map
22553 - Document the bridge-authority-only 'networkstatus-bridges' file.
22554 Closes ticket 13713; patch from "tom".
22555 - Fix typo in PredictedPortsRelevanceTime option description in
22556 manpage. Resolves issue 13707.
22557 - Stop suggesting that users specify relays by nickname: it isn't a
22558 good idea. Also, properly cross-reference how to specify relays in
22559 all parts of manual documenting options that take a list of
22560 relays. Closes ticket 13381.
22561 - Clarify the HiddenServiceDir option description in manpage to make
22562 it clear that relative paths are taken with respect to the current
22563 working directory. Also clarify that this behavior is not
22564 guaranteed to remain indefinitely. Fixes issue 13913.
22567 - New tests for many parts of channel, relay, and circuitmux
22568 functionality. Code by Andrea; part of 9262.
22569 - New tests for parse_transport_line(). Part of ticket 6456.
22570 - In the unit tests, use chgrp() to change the group of the unit
22571 test temporary directory to the current user, so that the sticky
22572 bit doesn't interfere with tests that check directory groups.
22574 - Add unit tests for resolve_my_addr(). Part of ticket 12376; patch
22578 Changes in version 0.2.6.1-alpha - 2014-10-30
22579 Tor 0.2.6.1-alpha is the first release in the Tor 0.2.6.x series. It
22580 includes numerous code cleanups and new tests, and fixes a large
22581 number of annoying bugs. Out-of-memory conditions are handled better
22582 than in 0.2.5, pluggable transports have improved proxy support, and
22583 clients now use optimistic data for contacting hidden services. Also,
22584 we are now more robust to changes in what we consider a parseable
22585 directory object, so that tightening restrictions does not have a risk
22586 of introducing infinite download loops.
22588 This is the first alpha release in a new series, so expect there to be
22589 bugs. Users who would rather test out a more stable branch should stay
22590 with 0.2.5.x for now.
22592 o New compiler and system requirements:
22593 - Tor 0.2.6.x requires that your compiler support more of the C99
22594 language standard than before. The 'configure' script now detects
22595 whether your compiler supports C99 mid-block declarations and
22596 designated initializers. If it does not, Tor will not compile.
22598 We may revisit this requirement if it turns out that a significant
22599 number of people need to build Tor with compilers that don't
22600 bother implementing a 15-year-old standard. Closes ticket 13233.
22601 - Tor no longer supports systems without threading support. When we
22602 began working on Tor, there were several systems that didn't have
22603 threads, or where the thread support wasn't able to run the
22604 threads of a single process on multiple CPUs. That no longer
22605 holds: every system where Tor needs to run well now has threading
22606 support. Resolves ticket 12439.
22608 o Removed platform support:
22609 - We no longer include special code to build on Windows CE; as far
22610 as we know, nobody has used Tor on Windows CE in a very long time.
22611 Closes ticket 11446.
22613 o Major features (bridges):
22614 - Expose the outgoing upstream HTTP/SOCKS proxy to pluggable
22615 transports if they are configured via the "TOR_PT_PROXY"
22616 environment variable. Implements proposal 232. Resolves
22619 o Major features (client performance, hidden services):
22620 - Allow clients to use optimistic data when connecting to a hidden
22621 service, which should remove a round-trip from hidden service
22622 initialization. See proposal 181 for details. Implements
22625 o Major features (directory system):
22626 - Upon receiving an unparseable directory object, if its digest
22627 matches what we expected, then don't try to download it again.
22628 Previously, when we got a descriptor we didn't like, we would keep
22629 trying to download it over and over. Closes ticket 11243.
22631 o Major features (sample torrc):
22632 - Add a new, infrequently-changed "torrc.minimal". This file is
22633 similar to torrc.sample, but it will change as infrequently as
22634 possible, for the benefit of users whose systems prompt them for
22635 intervention whenever a default configuration file is changed.
22636 Making this change allows us to update torrc.sample to be a more
22637 generally useful "sample torrc".
22639 o Major bugfixes (directory authorities):
22640 - Do not assign the HSDir flag to relays if they are not Valid, or
22641 currently hibernating. Fixes 12573; bugfix on 0.2.0.10-alpha.
22643 o Major bugfixes (directory bandwidth performance):
22644 - Don't flush the zlib buffer aggressively when compressing
22645 directory information for clients. This should save about 7% of
22646 the bandwidth currently used for compressed descriptors and
22647 microdescriptors. Fixes bug 11787; bugfix on 0.1.1.23.
22649 o Minor features (security, memory wiping):
22650 - Ensure we securely wipe keys from memory after
22651 crypto_digest_get_digest and init_curve25519_keypair_from_file
22652 have finished using them. Resolves ticket 13477.
22654 o Minor features (security, out-of-memory handling):
22655 - When handling an out-of-memory condition, allocate less memory for
22656 temporary data structures. Fixes issue 10115.
22657 - When handling an out-of-memory condition, consider more types of
22658 buffers, including those on directory connections, and zlib
22659 buffers. Resolves ticket 11792.
22662 - When identity keypair is generated for first time, log a
22663 congratulatory message that links to the new relay lifecycle
22664 document. Implements feature 10427.
22666 o Minor features (client):
22667 - Clients are now willing to send optimistic data (before they
22668 receive a 'connected' cell) to relays of any version. (Relays
22669 without support for optimistic data are no longer supported on the
22670 Tor network.) Resolves ticket 13153.
22672 o Minor features (directory authorities):
22673 - Don't list relays with a bandwidth estimate of 0 in the consensus.
22674 Implements a feature proposed during discussion of bug 13000.
22675 - In tor-gencert, report an error if the user provides the same
22676 argument more than once.
22677 - If a directory authority can't find a best consensus method in the
22678 votes that it holds, it now falls back to its favorite consensus
22679 method. Previously, it fell back to method 1. Neither of these is
22680 likely to get enough signatures, but "fall back to favorite"
22681 doesn't require us to maintain support an obsolete consensus
22682 method. Implements part of proposal 215.
22684 o Minor features (logging):
22685 - On Unix-like systems, you can now use named pipes as the target of
22686 the Log option, and other options that try to append to files.
22687 Closes ticket 12061. Patch from "carlo von lynX".
22688 - When opening a log file at startup, send it every log message that
22689 we generated between startup and opening it. Previously, log
22690 messages that were generated before opening the log file were only
22691 logged to stdout. Closes ticket 6938.
22692 - Add a TruncateLogFile option to overwrite logs instead of
22693 appending to them. Closes ticket 5583.
22695 o Minor features (portability, Solaris):
22696 - Threads are no longer disabled by default on Solaris; we believe
22697 that the versions of Solaris with broken threading support are all
22698 obsolete by now. Resolves ticket 9495.
22700 o Minor features (relay):
22701 - Re-check our address after we detect a changed IP address from
22702 getsockname(). This ensures that the controller command "GETINFO
22703 address" will report the correct value. Resolves ticket 11582.
22705 - A new AccountingRule option lets Relays set whether they'd like
22706 AccountingMax to be applied separately to inbound and outbound
22707 traffic, or applied to the sum of inbound and outbound traffic.
22708 Resolves ticket 961. Patch by "chobe".
22710 o Minor features (testing networks):
22711 - Add the TestingDirAuthVoteExit option, which lists nodes to assign
22712 the "Exit" flag regardless of their uptime, bandwidth, or exit
22713 policy. TestingTorNetwork must be set for this option to have any
22714 effect. Previously, authorities would take up to 35 minutes to
22715 give nodes the Exit flag in a test network. Partially implements
22718 o Minor features (validation):
22719 - Check all date/time values passed to tor_timegm and
22720 parse_rfc1123_time for validity, taking leap years into account.
22721 Improves HTTP header validation. Implemented with bug 13476.
22722 - In correct_tm(), limit the range of values returned by system
22723 localtime(_r) and gmtime(_r) to be between the years 1 and 8099.
22724 This means we don't have to deal with negative or too large dates,
22725 even if a clock is wrong. Otherwise we might fail to read a file
22726 written by us which includes such a date. Fixes bug 13476.
22728 o Minor bugfixes (bridge clients):
22729 - When configured to use a bridge without an identity digest (not
22730 recommended), avoid launching an extra channel to it when
22731 bootstrapping. Fixes bug 7733; bugfix on 0.2.4.4-alpha.
22733 o Minor bugfixes (bridges):
22734 - When DisableNetwork is set, do not launch pluggable transport
22735 plugins, and if any are running, terminate them. Fixes bug 13213;
22736 bugfix on 0.2.3.6-alpha.
22738 o Minor bugfixes (C correctness):
22739 - Fix several instances of possible integer overflow/underflow/NaN.
22740 Fixes bug 13104; bugfix on 0.2.3.1-alpha and later. Patches
22742 - In circuit_build_times_calculate_timeout() in circuitstats.c,
22743 avoid dividing by zero in the pareto calculations. This traps
22744 under clang's "undefined-trap" sanitizer. Fixes bug 13290; bugfix
22746 - Fix an integer overflow in format_time_interval(). Fixes bug
22747 13393; bugfix on 0.2.0.10-alpha.
22748 - Set the correct day of year value when the system's localtime(_r)
22749 or gmtime(_r) functions fail to set struct tm. Not externally
22750 visible. Fixes bug 13476; bugfix on 0.0.2pre14.
22751 - Avoid unlikely signed integer overflow in tor_timegm on systems
22752 with 32-bit time_t. Fixes bug 13476; bugfix on 0.0.2pre14.
22754 o Minor bugfixes (client):
22755 - Fix smartlist_choose_node_by_bandwidth() so that relays with the
22756 BadExit flag are not considered worthy candidates. Fixes bug
22757 13066; bugfix on 0.1.2.3-alpha.
22758 - Use the consensus schedule for downloading consensuses, and not
22759 the generic schedule. Fixes bug 11679; bugfix on 0.2.2.6-alpha.
22760 - Handle unsupported or malformed SOCKS5 requests properly by
22761 responding with the appropriate error message before closing the
22762 connection. Fixes bugs 12971 and 13314; bugfix on 0.0.2pre13.
22764 o Minor bugfixes (client, torrc):
22765 - Stop modifying the value of our DirReqStatistics torrc option just
22766 because we're not a bridge or relay. This bug was causing Tor
22767 Browser users to write "DirReqStatistics 0" in their torrc files
22768 as if they had chosen to change the config. Fixes bug 4244; bugfix
22770 - When GeoIPExcludeUnknown is enabled, do not incorrectly decide
22771 that our options have changed every time we SIGHUP. Fixes bug
22772 9801; bugfix on 0.2.4.10-alpha. Patch from "qwerty1".
22774 o Minor bugfixes (controller):
22775 - Return an error when the second or later arguments of the
22776 "setevents" controller command are invalid events. Previously we
22777 would return success while silently skipping invalid events. Fixes
22778 bug 13205; bugfix on 0.2.3.2-alpha. Reported by "fpxnns".
22780 o Minor bugfixes (directory system):
22781 - Always believe that v3 directory authorities serve extra-info
22782 documents, whether they advertise "caches-extra-info" or not.
22783 Fixes part of bug 11683; bugfix on 0.2.0.1-alpha.
22784 - When running as a v3 directory authority, advertise that you serve
22785 extra-info documents so that clients who want them can find them
22786 from you too. Fixes part of bug 11683; bugfix on 0.2.0.1-alpha.
22787 - Check the BRIDGE_DIRINFO flag bitwise rather than using equality.
22788 Previously, directories offering BRIDGE_DIRINFO and some other
22789 flag (i.e. microdescriptors or extrainfo) would be ignored when
22790 looking for bridges. Partially fixes bug 13163; bugfix
22793 o Minor bugfixes (networking):
22794 - Check for orconns and use connection_or_close_for_error() rather
22795 than connection_mark_for_close() directly in the getsockopt()
22796 failure case of connection_handle_write_impl(). Fixes bug 11302;
22797 bugfix on 0.2.4.4-alpha.
22799 o Minor bugfixes (relay):
22800 - When generating our family list, remove spaces from around the
22801 entries. Fixes bug 12728; bugfix on 0.2.1.7-alpha.
22802 - If our previous bandwidth estimate was 0 bytes, allow publishing a
22803 new relay descriptor immediately. Fixes bug 13000; bugfix
22806 o Minor bugfixes (testing networks):
22807 - Fix TestingDirAuthVoteGuard to properly give out Guard flags in a
22808 testing network. Fixes bug 13064; bugfix on 0.2.5.2-alpha.
22809 - Stop using the default authorities in networks which provide both
22810 AlternateDirAuthority and AlternateBridgeAuthority. Partially
22811 fixes bug 13163; bugfix on 0.2.0.13-alpha.
22813 o Minor bugfixes (testing):
22814 - Stop spawn test failures due to a race condition between the
22815 SIGCHLD handler updating the process status, and the test reading
22816 it. Fixes bug 13291; bugfix on 0.2.3.3-alpha.
22818 o Minor bugfixes (testing, Windows):
22819 - Avoid passing an extra backslash when creating a temporary
22820 directory for running the unit tests on Windows. Fixes bug 12392;
22821 bugfix on 0.2.2.25-alpha. Patch from Gisle Vanem.
22823 o Minor bugfixes (windows):
22824 - Remove code to special-case handling of NTE_BAD_KEYSET when
22825 acquiring windows CryptoAPI context. This error can't actually
22826 occur for the parameters we're providing. Fixes bug 10816; bugfix
22829 o Minor bugfixes (zlib):
22830 - Avoid truncating a zlib stream when trying to finalize it with an
22831 empty output buffer. Fixes bug 11824; bugfix on 0.1.1.23.
22834 - Allow our configure script to build correctly with autoconf 2.62
22835 again. Fixes bug 12693; bugfix on 0.2.5.2-alpha.
22836 - Improve the error message from ./configure to make it clear that
22837 when asciidoc has not been found, the user will have to either add
22838 --disable-asciidoc argument or install asciidoc. Resolves
22841 o Code simplification and refactoring:
22842 - Change the entry_is_live() function to take named bitfield
22843 elements instead of an unnamed list of booleans. Closes
22845 - Refactor and unit-test entry_is_time_to_retry() in entrynodes.c.
22846 Resolves ticket 12205.
22847 - Use calloc and reallocarray functions instead of multiply-
22848 then-malloc. This makes it less likely for us to fall victim to an
22849 integer overflow attack when allocating. Resolves ticket 12855.
22850 - Use the standard macro name SIZE_MAX, instead of our
22852 - Document usage of the NO_DIRINFO and ALL_DIRINFO flags clearly in
22853 functions which take them as arguments. Replace 0 with NO_DIRINFO
22854 in a function call for clarity. Seeks to prevent future issues
22856 - Avoid 4 null pointer errors under clang static analysis by using
22857 tor_assert() to prove that the pointers aren't null. Fixes
22859 - Rework the API of policies_parse_exit_policy() to use a bitmask to
22860 represent parsing options, instead of a confusing mess of
22861 booleans. Resolves ticket 8197.
22862 - Introduce a helper function to parse ExitPolicy in
22863 or_options_t structure.
22866 - Add a doc/TUNING document with tips for handling large numbers of
22867 TCP connections when running busy Tor relay. Update the warning
22868 message to point to this file when running out of sockets
22869 operating system is allowing to use simultaneously. Resolves
22872 o Removed features:
22873 - We no longer remind the user about configuration options that have
22874 been obsolete since 0.2.3.x or earlier. Patch by Adrien Bak.
22875 - Remove our old, non-weighted bandwidth-based node selection code.
22876 Previously, we used it as a fallback when we couldn't perform
22877 weighted bandwidth-based node selection. But that would only
22878 happen in the cases where we had no consensus, or when we had a
22879 consensus generated by buggy or ancient directory authorities. In
22880 either case, it's better to use the more modern, better maintained
22881 algorithm, with reasonable defaults for the weights. Closes
22883 - Remove the --disable-curve25519 configure option. Relays and
22884 clients now are required to support curve25519 and the
22886 - The old "StrictEntryNodes" and "StrictExitNodes" options, which
22887 used to be deprecated synonyms for "StrictNodes", are now marked
22888 obsolete. Resolves ticket 12226.
22889 - Clients don't understand the BadDirectory flag in the consensus
22890 anymore, and ignore it.
22893 - Refactor the function that chooses guard nodes so that it can more
22894 easily be tested; write some tests for it.
22895 - Fix and re-enable the fgets_eagain unit test. Fixes bug 12503;
22896 bugfix on 0.2.3.1-alpha. Patch from "cypherpunks."
22897 - Create unit tests for format_time_interval(). With bug 13393.
22898 - Add unit tests for tor_timegm signed overflow, tor_timegm and
22899 parse_rfc1123_time validity checks, correct_tm year clamping. Unit
22900 tests (visible) fixes in bug 13476.
22901 - Add a "coverage-html" make target to generate HTML-visualized
22902 coverage results when building with --enable-coverage. (Requires
22903 lcov.) Patch from Kevin Murray.
22904 - Enable the backtrace handler (where supported) when running the
22906 - Revise all unit tests that used the legacy test_* macros to
22907 instead use the recommended tt_* macros. This patch was generated
22908 with coccinelle, to avoid manual errors. Closes ticket 13119.
22910 o Distribution (systemd):
22911 - systemd unit file: only allow tor to write to /var/lib/tor and
22912 /var/log/tor. The rest of the filesystem is accessible for reading
22913 only. Patch by intrigeri; resolves ticket 12751.
22914 - systemd unit file: ensure that the process and all its children
22915 can never gain new privileges. Patch by intrigeri; resolves
22917 - systemd unit file: set up /var/run/tor as writable for the Tor
22918 service. Patch by intrigeri; resolves ticket 13196.
22920 o Removed features (directory authorities):
22921 - Remove code that prevented authorities from listing Tor relays
22922 affected by CVE-2011-2769 as guards. These relays are already
22923 rejected altogether due to the minimum version requirement of
22924 0.2.3.16-alpha. Closes ticket 13152.
22925 - The "AuthDirRejectUnlisted" option no longer has any effect, as
22926 the fingerprints file (approved-routers) has been deprecated.
22927 - Directory authorities do not support being Naming dirauths anymore.
22928 The "NamingAuthoritativeDir" config option is now obsolete.
22929 - Directory authorities do not support giving out the BadDirectory
22931 - Directory authorities no longer advertise or support consensus
22932 methods 1 through 12 inclusive. These consensus methods were
22933 obsolete and/or insecure: maintaining the ability to support them
22934 served no good purpose. Implements part of proposal 215; closes
22937 o Testing (test-network.sh):
22938 - Stop using "echo -n", as some shells' built-in echo doesn't
22939 support "-n". Instead, use "/bin/echo -n". Partially fixes
22941 - Stop an apparent test-network hang when used with make -j2. Fixes
22943 - Add a --delay option to test-network.sh, which configures the
22944 delay before the chutney network tests for data transmission.
22945 Partially implements ticket 13161.
22948 Changes in version 0.2.5.10 - 2014-10-24
22949 Tor 0.2.5.10 is the first stable release in the 0.2.5 series.
22951 It adds several new security features, including improved
22952 denial-of-service resistance for relays, new compiler hardening
22953 options, and a system-call sandbox for hardened installations on Linux
22954 (requires seccomp2). The controller protocol has several new features,
22955 resolving IPv6 addresses should work better than before, and relays
22956 should be a little more CPU-efficient. We've added support for more
22957 OpenBSD and FreeBSD transparent proxy types. We've improved the build
22958 system and testing infrastructure to allow unit testing of more parts
22959 of the Tor codebase. Finally, we've addressed several nagging pluggable
22960 transport usability issues, and included numerous other small bugfixes
22961 and features mentioned below.
22963 This release marks end-of-life for Tor 0.2.3.x; those Tor versions
22964 have accumulated many known flaws; everyone should upgrade.
22966 o Deprecated versions:
22967 - Tor 0.2.3.x has reached end-of-life; it has received no patches or
22968 attention for some while.
22971 Changes in version 0.2.5.9-rc - 2014-10-20
22972 Tor 0.2.5.9-rc is the third release candidate for the Tor 0.2.5.x
22973 series. It disables SSL3 in response to the recent "POODLE" attack
22974 (even though POODLE does not affect Tor). It also works around a crash
22975 bug caused by some operating systems' response to the "POODLE" attack
22976 (which does affect Tor). It also contains a few miscellaneous fixes.
22978 o Major security fixes:
22979 - Disable support for SSLv3. All versions of OpenSSL in use with Tor
22980 today support TLS 1.0 or later, so we can safely turn off support
22981 for this old (and insecure) protocol. Fixes bug 13426.
22983 o Major bugfixes (openssl bug workaround):
22984 - Avoid crashing when using OpenSSL version 0.9.8zc, 1.0.0o, or
22985 1.0.1j, built with the 'no-ssl3' configuration option. Fixes bug
22986 13471. This is a workaround for an OpenSSL bug.
22989 - Disable the sandbox name resolver cache when running tor-resolve:
22990 tor-resolve doesn't use the sandbox code, and turning it on was
22991 breaking attempts to do tor-resolve on a non-default server on
22992 Linux. Fixes bug 13295; bugfix on 0.2.5.3-alpha.
22994 o Compilation fixes:
22995 - Build and run correctly on systems like OpenBSD-current that have
22996 patched OpenSSL to remove get_cipher_by_char and/or its
22997 implementations. Fixes issue 13325.
22999 o Downgraded warnings:
23000 - Downgrade the severity of the 'unexpected sendme cell from client'
23001 from 'warn' to 'protocol warning'. Closes ticket 8093.
23004 Changes in version 0.2.4.25 - 2014-10-20
23005 Tor 0.2.4.25 disables SSL3 in response to the recent "POODLE" attack
23006 (even though POODLE does not affect Tor). It also works around a crash
23007 bug caused by some operating systems' response to the "POODLE" attack
23008 (which does affect Tor).
23010 o Major security fixes (also in 0.2.5.9-rc):
23011 - Disable support for SSLv3. All versions of OpenSSL in use with Tor
23012 today support TLS 1.0 or later, so we can safely turn off support
23013 for this old (and insecure) protocol. Fixes bug 13426.
23015 o Major bugfixes (openssl bug workaround, also in 0.2.5.9-rc):
23016 - Avoid crashing when using OpenSSL version 0.9.8zc, 1.0.0o, or
23017 1.0.1j, built with the 'no-ssl3' configuration option. Fixes bug
23018 13471. This is a workaround for an OpenSSL bug.
23021 Changes in version 0.2.5.8-rc - 2014-09-22
23022 Tor 0.2.5.8-rc is the second release candidate for the Tor 0.2.5.x
23023 series. It fixes a bug that affects consistency and speed when
23024 connecting to hidden services, and it updates the location of one of
23025 the directory authorities.
23028 - Clients now send the correct address for their chosen rendezvous
23029 point when trying to access a hidden service. They used to send
23030 the wrong address, which would still work some of the time because
23031 they also sent the identity digest of the rendezvous point, and if
23032 the hidden service happened to try connecting to the rendezvous
23033 point from a relay that already had a connection open to it,
23034 the relay would reuse that connection. Now connections to hidden
23035 services should be more robust and faster. Also, this bug meant
23036 that clients were leaking to the hidden service whether they were
23037 on a little-endian (common) or big-endian (rare) system, which for
23038 some users might have reduced their anonymity. Fixes bug 13151;
23039 bugfix on 0.2.1.5-alpha.
23041 o Directory authority changes:
23042 - Change IP address for gabelmoo (v3 directory authority).
23045 Changes in version 0.2.4.24 - 2014-09-22
23046 Tor 0.2.4.24 fixes a bug that affects consistency and speed when
23047 connecting to hidden services, and it updates the location of one of
23048 the directory authorities.
23051 - Clients now send the correct address for their chosen rendezvous
23052 point when trying to access a hidden service. They used to send
23053 the wrong address, which would still work some of the time because
23054 they also sent the identity digest of the rendezvous point, and if
23055 the hidden service happened to try connecting to the rendezvous
23056 point from a relay that already had a connection open to it,
23057 the relay would reuse that connection. Now connections to hidden
23058 services should be more robust and faster. Also, this bug meant
23059 that clients were leaking to the hidden service whether they were
23060 on a little-endian (common) or big-endian (rare) system, which for
23061 some users might have reduced their anonymity. Fixes bug 13151;
23062 bugfix on 0.2.1.5-alpha.
23064 o Directory authority changes:
23065 - Change IP address for gabelmoo (v3 directory authority).
23067 o Minor features (geoip):
23068 - Update geoip and geoip6 to the August 7 2014 Maxmind GeoLite2
23072 Changes in version 0.2.5.7-rc - 2014-09-11
23073 Tor 0.2.5.7-rc fixes several regressions from earlier in the 0.2.5.x
23074 release series, and some long-standing bugs related to ORPort reachability
23075 testing and failure to send CREATE cells. It is the first release
23076 candidate for the Tor 0.2.5.x series.
23078 o Major bugfixes (client, startup):
23079 - Start making circuits as soon as DisabledNetwork is turned off.
23080 When Tor started with DisabledNetwork set, it would correctly
23081 conclude that it shouldn't build circuits, but it would mistakenly
23082 cache this conclusion, and continue believing it even when
23083 DisableNetwork is set to 0. Fixes the bug introduced by the fix
23084 for bug 11200; bugfix on 0.2.5.4-alpha.
23085 - Resume expanding abbreviations for command-line options. The fix
23086 for bug 4647 accidentally removed our hack from bug 586 that
23087 rewrote HashedControlPassword to __HashedControlSessionPassword
23088 when it appears on the commandline (which allowed the user to set
23089 her own HashedControlPassword in the torrc file while the
23090 controller generates a fresh session password for each run). Fixes
23091 bug 12948; bugfix on 0.2.5.1-alpha.
23092 - Warn about attempts to run hidden services and relays in the same
23093 process: that's probably not a good idea. Closes ticket 12908.
23095 o Major bugfixes (relay):
23096 - Avoid queuing or sending destroy cells for circuit ID zero when we
23097 fail to send a CREATE cell. Fixes bug 12848; bugfix on 0.0.8pre1.
23098 Found and fixed by "cypherpunks".
23099 - Fix ORPort reachability detection on relays running behind a
23100 proxy, by correctly updating the "local" mark on the controlling
23101 channel when changing the address of an or_connection_t after the
23102 handshake. Fixes bug 12160; bugfix on 0.2.4.4-alpha.
23104 o Minor features (bridge):
23105 - Add an ExtORPortCookieAuthFileGroupReadable option to make the
23106 cookie file for the ExtORPort g+r by default.
23108 o Minor features (geoip):
23109 - Update geoip and geoip6 to the August 7 2014 Maxmind GeoLite2
23112 o Minor bugfixes (logging):
23113 - Reduce the log severity of the "Pluggable transport proxy does not
23114 provide any needed transports and will not be launched." message,
23115 since Tor Browser includes several ClientTransportPlugin lines in
23116 its torrc-defaults file, leading every Tor Browser user who looks
23117 at her logs to see these notices and wonder if they're dangerous.
23118 Resolves bug 13124; bugfix on 0.2.5.3-alpha.
23119 - Downgrade "Unexpected onionskin length after decryption" warning
23120 to a protocol-warn, since there's nothing relay operators can do
23121 about a client that sends them a malformed create cell. Resolves
23122 bug 12996; bugfix on 0.0.6rc1.
23123 - Log more specific warnings when we get an ESTABLISH_RENDEZVOUS
23124 cell on a cannibalized or non-OR circuit. Resolves ticket 12997.
23125 - When logging information about an EXTEND2 or EXTENDED2 cell, log
23126 their names correctly. Fixes part of bug 12700; bugfix
23128 - When logging information about a relay cell whose command we don't
23129 recognize, log its command as an integer. Fixes part of bug 12700;
23130 bugfix on 0.2.1.10-alpha.
23131 - Escape all strings from the directory connection before logging
23132 them. Fixes bug 13071; bugfix on 0.1.1.15. Patch from "teor".
23134 o Minor bugfixes (controller):
23135 - Restore the functionality of CookieAuthFileGroupReadable. Fixes
23136 bug 12864; bugfix on 0.2.5.1-alpha.
23137 - Actually send TRANSPORT_LAUNCHED and HS_DESC events to
23138 controllers. Fixes bug 13085; bugfix on 0.2.5.1-alpha. Patch
23141 o Minor bugfixes (compilation):
23142 - Fix compilation of test.h with MSVC. Patch from Gisle Vanem;
23143 bugfix on 0.2.5.5-alpha.
23144 - Make the nmake make files work again. Fixes bug 13081. Bugfix on
23145 0.2.5.1-alpha. Patch from "NewEraCracker".
23146 - In routerlist_assert_ok(), don't take the address of a
23147 routerinfo's cache_info member unless that routerinfo is non-NULL.
23148 Fixes bug 13096; bugfix on 0.1.1.9-alpha. Patch by "teor".
23149 - Fix a large number of false positive warnings from the clang
23150 analyzer static analysis tool. This should make real warnings
23151 easier for clang analyzer to find. Patch from "teor". Closes
23154 o Distribution (systemd):
23155 - Verify configuration file via ExecStartPre in the systemd unit
23156 file. Patch from intrigeri; resolves ticket 12730.
23157 - Explicitly disable RunAsDaemon in the systemd unit file. Our
23158 current systemd unit uses "Type = simple", so systemd does not
23159 expect tor to fork. If the user has "RunAsDaemon 1" in their
23160 torrc, then things won't work as expected. This is e.g. the case
23161 on Debian (and derivatives), since there we pass "--defaults-torrc
23162 /usr/share/tor/tor-service-defaults-torrc" (that contains
23163 "RunAsDaemon 1") by default. Patch by intrigeri; resolves
23167 - Adjust the URLs in the README to refer to the new locations of
23168 several documents on the website. Fixes bug 12830. Patch from
23170 - Document 'reject6' and 'accept6' ExitPolicy entries. Resolves
23174 Changes in version 0.2.5.6-alpha - 2014-07-28
23175 Tor 0.2.5.6-alpha brings us a big step closer to slowing down the
23176 risk from guard rotation, and fixes a variety of other issues to get
23177 us closer to a release candidate.
23179 o Major features (also in 0.2.4.23):
23180 - Make the number of entry guards configurable via a new
23181 NumEntryGuards consensus parameter, and the number of directory
23182 guards configurable via a new NumDirectoryGuards consensus
23183 parameter. Implements ticket 12688.
23185 o Major bugfixes (also in 0.2.4.23):
23186 - Fix a bug in the bounds-checking in the 32-bit curve25519-donna
23187 implementation that caused incorrect results on 32-bit
23188 implementations when certain malformed inputs were used along with
23189 a small class of private ntor keys. This bug does not currently
23190 appear to allow an attacker to learn private keys or impersonate a
23191 Tor server, but it could provide a means to distinguish 32-bit Tor
23192 implementations from 64-bit Tor implementations. Fixes bug 12694;
23193 bugfix on 0.2.4.8-alpha. Bug found by Robert Ransom; fix from
23197 - Perform circuit cleanup operations even when circuit
23198 construction operations are disabled (because the network is
23199 disabled, or because there isn't enough directory information).
23200 Previously, when we were not building predictive circuits, we
23201 were not closing expired circuits either. Fixes bug 8387; bugfix on
23202 0.1.1.11-alpha. This bug became visible in 0.2.4.10-alpha when we
23203 became more strict about when we have "enough directory information
23204 to build circuits".
23207 - Authorities now assign the Guard flag to the fastest 25% of the
23208 network (it used to be the fastest 50%). Also raise the consensus
23209 weight that guarantees the Guard flag from 250 to 2000. For the
23210 current network, this results in about 1100 guards, down from 2500.
23211 This step paves the way for moving the number of entry guards
23212 down to 1 (proposal 236) while still providing reasonable expected
23213 performance for most users. Implements ticket 12690.
23214 - Update geoip and geoip6 to the July 10 2014 Maxmind GeoLite2
23216 - Slightly enhance the diagnostic message for bug 12184.
23218 o Minor bugfixes (also in 0.2.4.23):
23219 - Warn and drop the circuit if we receive an inbound 'relay early'
23220 cell. Those used to be normal to receive on hidden service circuits
23221 due to bug 1038, but the buggy Tor versions are long gone from
23222 the network so we can afford to resume watching for them. Resolves
23223 the rest of bug 1038; bugfix on 0.2.1.19.
23224 - Correct a confusing error message when trying to extend a circuit
23225 via the control protocol but we don't know a descriptor or
23226 microdescriptor for one of the specified relays. Fixes bug 12718;
23227 bugfix on 0.2.3.1-alpha.
23230 - Fix compilation when building with bufferevents enabled. (This
23231 configuration is still not expected to work, however.)
23232 Fixes bugs 12438, 12474, 11578; bugfixes on 0.2.5.1-alpha and
23233 0.2.5.3-alpha. Patches from Anthony G. Basile and Sathyanarayanan
23235 - Compile correctly with builds and forks of OpenSSL (such as
23236 LibreSSL) that disable compression. Fixes bug 12602; bugfix on
23237 0.2.1.1-alpha. Patch from "dhill".
23240 Changes in version 0.2.4.23 - 2014-07-28
23241 Tor 0.2.4.23 brings us a big step closer to slowing down the risk from
23242 guard rotation, and also backports several important fixes from the
23243 Tor 0.2.5 alpha release series.
23246 - Clients now look at the "usecreatefast" consensus parameter to
23247 decide whether to use CREATE_FAST or CREATE cells for the first hop
23248 of their circuit. This approach can improve security on connections
23249 where Tor's circuit handshake is stronger than the available TLS
23250 connection security levels, but the tradeoff is more computational
23251 load on guard relays. Implements proposal 221. Resolves ticket 9386.
23252 - Make the number of entry guards configurable via a new
23253 NumEntryGuards consensus parameter, and the number of directory
23254 guards configurable via a new NumDirectoryGuards consensus
23255 parameter. Implements ticket 12688.
23258 - Fix a bug in the bounds-checking in the 32-bit curve25519-donna
23259 implementation that caused incorrect results on 32-bit
23260 implementations when certain malformed inputs were used along with
23261 a small class of private ntor keys. This bug does not currently
23262 appear to allow an attacker to learn private keys or impersonate a
23263 Tor server, but it could provide a means to distinguish 32-bit Tor
23264 implementations from 64-bit Tor implementations. Fixes bug 12694;
23265 bugfix on 0.2.4.8-alpha. Bug found by Robert Ransom; fix from
23269 - Warn and drop the circuit if we receive an inbound 'relay early'
23270 cell. Those used to be normal to receive on hidden service circuits
23271 due to bug 1038, but the buggy Tor versions are long gone from
23272 the network so we can afford to resume watching for them. Resolves
23273 the rest of bug 1038; bugfix on 0.2.1.19.
23274 - Correct a confusing error message when trying to extend a circuit
23275 via the control protocol but we don't know a descriptor or
23276 microdescriptor for one of the specified relays. Fixes bug 12718;
23277 bugfix on 0.2.3.1-alpha.
23278 - Avoid an illegal read from stack when initializing the TLS
23279 module using a version of OpenSSL without all of the ciphers
23280 used by the v2 link handshake. Fixes bug 12227; bugfix on
23281 0.2.4.8-alpha. Found by "starlight".
23284 - Update geoip and geoip6 to the July 10 2014 Maxmind GeoLite2
23288 Changes in version 0.2.5.5-alpha - 2014-06-18
23289 Tor 0.2.5.5-alpha fixes a wide variety of remaining issues in the Tor
23290 0.2.5.x release series, including a couple of DoS issues, some
23291 performance regressions, a large number of bugs affecting the Linux
23292 seccomp2 sandbox code, and various other bugfixes. It also adds
23293 diagnostic bugfixes for a few tricky issues that we're trying to
23296 o Major features (security, traffic analysis resistance):
23297 - Several major improvements to the algorithm used to decide when to
23298 close TLS connections. Previous versions of Tor closed connections
23299 at a fixed interval after the last time a non-padding cell was
23300 sent over the connection, regardless of the target of the
23301 connection. Now, we randomize the intervals by adding up to 50% of
23302 their base value, we measure the length of time since connection
23303 last had at least one circuit, and we allow connections to known
23304 ORs to remain open a little longer (15 minutes instead of 3
23305 minutes minimum). These changes should improve Tor's resistance
23306 against some kinds of traffic analysis, and lower some overhead
23307 from needlessly closed connections. Fixes ticket 6799.
23308 Incidentally fixes ticket 12023; bugfix on 0.2.5.1-alpha.
23310 o Major bugfixes (security, OOM, new since 0.2.5.4-alpha, also in 0.2.4.22):
23311 - Fix a memory leak that could occur if a microdescriptor parse
23312 fails during the tokenizing step. This bug could enable a memory
23313 exhaustion attack by directory servers. Fixes bug 11649; bugfix
23316 o Major bugfixes (security, directory authorities):
23317 - Directory authorities now include a digest of each relay's
23318 identity key as a part of its microdescriptor.
23320 This is a workaround for bug 11743 (reported by "cypherpunks"),
23321 where Tor clients do not support receiving multiple
23322 microdescriptors with the same SHA256 digest in the same
23323 consensus. When clients receive a consensus like this, they only
23324 use one of the relays. Without this fix, a hostile relay could
23325 selectively disable some client use of target relays by
23326 constructing a router descriptor with a different identity and the
23327 same microdescriptor parameters and getting the authorities to
23328 list it in a microdescriptor consensus. This fix prevents an
23329 attacker from causing a microdescriptor collision, because the
23330 router's identity is not forgeable.
23332 o Major bugfixes (relay):
23333 - Use a direct dirport connection when uploading non-anonymous
23334 descriptors to the directory authorities. Previously, relays would
23335 incorrectly use tunnel connections under a fairly wide variety of
23336 circumstances. Fixes bug 11469; bugfix on 0.2.4.3-alpha.
23337 - When a circuit accidentally has the same circuit ID for its
23338 forward and reverse direction, correctly detect the direction of
23339 cells using that circuit. Previously, this bug made roughly one
23340 circuit in a million non-functional. Fixes bug 12195; this is a
23341 bugfix on every version of Tor.
23343 o Major bugfixes (client, pluggable transports):
23344 - When managing pluggable transports, use OS notification facilities
23345 to learn if they have crashed, and don't attempt to kill any
23346 process that has already exited. Fixes bug 8746; bugfix
23349 o Minor features (diagnostic):
23350 - When logging a warning because of bug 7164, additionally check the
23351 hash table for consistency (as proposed on ticket 11737). This may
23352 help diagnose bug 7164.
23353 - When we log a heartbeat, log how many one-hop circuits we have
23354 that are at least 30 minutes old, and log status information about
23355 a few of them. This is an attempt to track down bug 8387.
23356 - When encountering an unexpected CR while writing text to a file on
23357 Windows, log the name of the file. Should help diagnosing
23359 - Give more specific warnings when a client notices that an onion
23360 handshake has failed. Fixes ticket 9635.
23361 - Add significant new logging code to attempt to diagnose bug 12184,
23362 where relays seem to run out of available circuit IDs.
23363 - Improve the diagnostic log message for bug 8387 even further to
23364 try to improve our odds of figuring out why one-hop directory
23365 circuits sometimes do not get closed.
23367 o Minor features (security, memory management):
23368 - Memory allocation tricks (mempools and buffer freelists) are now
23369 disabled by default. You can turn them back on with
23370 --enable-mempools and --enable-buf-freelists respectively. We're
23371 disabling these features because malloc performance is good enough
23372 on most platforms, and a similar feature in OpenSSL exacerbated
23373 exploitation of the Heartbleed attack. Resolves ticket 11476.
23375 o Minor features (security):
23376 - Apply the secure SipHash-2-4 function to the hash table mapping
23377 circuit IDs and channels to circuits. We missed this one when we
23378 were converting all the other hash functions to use SipHash back
23379 in 0.2.5.3-alpha. Resolves ticket 11750.
23381 o Minor features (build):
23382 - The configure script has a --disable-seccomp option to turn off
23383 support for libseccomp on systems that have it, in case it (or
23384 Tor's use of it) is broken. Resolves ticket 11628.
23386 o Minor features (other):
23387 - Update geoip and geoip6 to the June 4 2014 Maxmind GeoLite2
23390 o Minor bugfixes (security, new since 0.2.5.4-alpha, also in 0.2.4.22):
23391 - When running a hidden service, do not allow TunneledDirConns 0;
23392 this will keep the hidden service from running, and also
23393 make it publish its descriptors directly over HTTP. Fixes bug 10849;
23394 bugfix on 0.2.1.1-alpha.
23396 o Minor bugfixes (performance):
23397 - Avoid a bug where every successful connection made us recompute
23398 the flag telling us whether we have sufficient information to
23399 build circuits. Previously, we would forget our cached value
23400 whenever we successfully opened a channel (or marked a router as
23401 running or not running for any other reason), regardless of
23402 whether we had previously believed the router to be running. This
23403 forced us to run an expensive update operation far too often.
23404 Fixes bug 12170; bugfix on 0.1.2.1-alpha.
23405 - Avoid using tor_memeq() for checking relay cell integrity. This
23406 removes a possible performance bottleneck. Fixes part of bug
23407 12169; bugfix on 0.2.1.31.
23409 o Minor bugfixes (compilation):
23410 - Fix compilation of test_status.c when building with MVSC. Bugfix
23411 on 0.2.5.4-alpha. Patch from Gisle Vanem.
23412 - Resolve GCC complaints on OpenBSD about discarding constness in
23413 TO_{ORIGIN,OR}_CIRCUIT functions. Fixes part of bug 11633; bugfix
23414 on 0.1.1.23. Patch from Dana Koch.
23415 - Resolve clang complaints on OpenBSD with -Wshorten-64-to-32 due to
23416 treatment of long and time_t as comparable types. Fixes part of
23417 bug 11633. Patch from Dana Koch.
23418 - Make Tor compile correctly with --disable-buf-freelists. Fixes bug
23419 11623; bugfix on 0.2.5.3-alpha.
23420 - When deciding whether to build the 64-bit curve25519
23421 implementation, detect platforms where we can compile 128-bit
23422 arithmetic but cannot link it. Fixes bug 11729; bugfix on
23423 0.2.4.8-alpha. Patch from "conradev".
23424 - Fix compilation when DNS_CACHE_DEBUG is enabled. Fixes bug 11761;
23425 bugfix on 0.2.3.13-alpha. Found by "cypherpunks".
23426 - Fix compilation with dmalloc. Fixes bug 11605; bugfix
23429 o Minor bugfixes (Directory server):
23430 - When sending a compressed set of descriptors or microdescriptors,
23431 make sure to finalize the zlib stream. Previously, we would write
23432 all the compressed data, but if the last descriptor we wanted to
23433 send was missing or too old, we would not mark the stream as
23434 finished. This caused problems for decompression tools. Fixes bug
23435 11648; bugfix on 0.1.1.23.
23437 o Minor bugfixes (Linux seccomp sandbox):
23438 - Make the seccomp sandbox code compile under ARM Linux. Fixes bug
23439 11622; bugfix on 0.2.5.1-alpha.
23440 - Avoid crashing when re-opening listener ports with the seccomp
23441 sandbox active. Fixes bug 12115; bugfix on 0.2.5.1-alpha.
23442 - Avoid crashing with the seccomp sandbox enabled along with
23443 ConstrainedSockets. Fixes bug 12139; bugfix on 0.2.5.1-alpha.
23444 - When we receive a SIGHUP with the sandbox enabled, correctly
23445 support rotating our log files. Fixes bug 12032; bugfix
23447 - Avoid crash when running with sandboxing enabled and
23448 DirReqStatistics not disabled. Fixes bug 12035; bugfix
23450 - Fix a "BUG" warning when trying to write bridge-stats files with
23451 the Linux syscall sandbox filter enabled. Fixes bug 12041; bugfix
23453 - Prevent the sandbox from crashing on startup when run with the
23454 --enable-expensive-hardening configuration option. Fixes bug
23455 11477; bugfix on 0.2.5.4-alpha.
23456 - When running with DirPortFrontPage and sandboxing both enabled,
23457 reload the DirPortFrontPage correctly when restarting. Fixes bug
23458 12028; bugfix on 0.2.5.1-alpha.
23459 - Don't try to enable the sandbox when using the Tor binary to check
23460 its configuration, hash a passphrase, or so on. Doing so was
23461 crashing on startup for some users. Fixes bug 11609; bugfix
23463 - Avoid warnings when running with sandboxing and node statistics
23464 enabled at the same time. Fixes part of 12064; bugfix on
23465 0.2.5.1-alpha. Patch from Michael Wolf.
23466 - Avoid warnings when running with sandboxing enabled at the same
23467 time as cookie authentication, hidden services, or directory
23468 authority voting. Fixes part of 12064; bugfix on 0.2.5.1-alpha.
23469 - Do not allow options that require calls to exec to be enabled
23470 alongside the seccomp2 sandbox: they will inevitably crash. Fixes
23471 bug 12043; bugfix on 0.2.5.1-alpha.
23472 - Handle failures in getpwnam()/getpwuid() when running with the
23473 User option set and the Linux syscall sandbox enabled. Fixes bug
23474 11946; bugfix on 0.2.5.1-alpha.
23475 - Refactor the getaddrinfo workaround that the seccomp sandbox uses
23476 to avoid calling getaddrinfo() after installing the sandbox
23477 filters. Previously, it preloaded a cache with the IPv4 address
23478 for our hostname, and nothing else. Now, it loads the cache with
23479 every address that it used to initialize the Tor process. Fixes
23480 bug 11970; bugfix on 0.2.5.1-alpha.
23482 o Minor bugfixes (pluggable transports):
23483 - Enable the ExtORPortCookieAuthFile option, to allow changing the
23484 default location of the authentication token for the extended OR
23485 Port as used by sever-side pluggable transports. We had
23486 implemented this option before, but the code to make it settable
23487 had been omitted. Fixes bug 11635; bugfix on 0.2.5.1-alpha.
23488 - Avoid another 60-second delay when starting Tor in a pluggable-
23489 transport-using configuration when we already have cached
23490 descriptors for our bridges. Fixes bug 11965; bugfix
23493 o Minor bugfixes (client):
23494 - Avoid "Tried to open a socket with DisableNetwork set" warnings
23495 when starting a client with bridges configured and DisableNetwork
23496 set. (Tor launcher starts Tor with DisableNetwork set the first
23497 time it runs.) Fixes bug 10405; bugfix on 0.2.3.9-alpha.
23499 o Minor bugfixes (testing):
23500 - The Python parts of the test scripts now work on Python 3 as well
23501 as Python 2, so systems where '/usr/bin/python' is Python 3 will
23502 no longer have the tests break. Fixes bug 11608; bugfix
23504 - When looking for versions of python that we could run the tests
23505 with, check for "python2.7" and "python3.3"; previously we were
23506 only looking for "python", "python2", and "python3". Patch from
23507 Dana Koch. Fixes bug 11632; bugfix on 0.2.5.2-alpha.
23508 - Fix all valgrind warnings produced by the unit tests. There were
23509 over a thousand memory leak warnings previously, mostly produced
23510 by forgetting to free things in the unit test code. Fixes bug
23511 11618, bugfixes on many versions of Tor.
23513 o Minor bugfixes (tor-fw-helper):
23514 - Give a correct log message when tor-fw-helper fails to launch.
23515 (Previously, we would say something like "tor-fw-helper sent us a
23516 string we could not parse".) Fixes bug 9781; bugfix
23519 o Minor bugfixes (relay, threading):
23520 - Check return code on spawn_func() in cpuworker code, so that we
23521 don't think we've spawned a nonworking cpuworker and write junk to
23522 it forever. Fix related to bug 4345; bugfix on all released Tor
23523 versions. Found by "skruffy".
23524 - Use a pthread_attr to make sure that spawn_func() cannot return an
23525 error while at the same time launching a thread. Fix related to
23526 bug 4345; bugfix on all released Tor versions. Reported
23529 o Minor bugfixes (relay, oom prevention):
23530 - Correctly detect the total available system memory. We tried to do
23531 this in 0.2.5.4-alpha, but the code was set up to always return an
23532 error value, even on success. Fixes bug 11805; bugfix
23535 o Minor bugfixes (relay, other):
23536 - We now drop CREATE cells for already-existent circuit IDs and for
23537 zero-valued circuit IDs, regardless of other factors that might
23538 otherwise have called for DESTROY cells. Fixes bug 12191; bugfix
23540 - Avoid an illegal read from stack when initializing the TLS module
23541 using a version of OpenSSL without all of the ciphers used by the
23542 v2 link handshake. Fixes bug 12227; bugfix on 0.2.4.8-alpha. Found
23544 - When rejecting DATA cells for stream_id zero, still count them
23545 against the circuit's deliver window so that we don't fail to send
23546 a SENDME. Fixes bug 11246; bugfix on 0.2.4.10-alpha.
23548 o Minor bugfixes (logging):
23549 - Fix a misformatted log message about delayed directory fetches.
23550 Fixes bug 11654; bugfix on 0.2.5.3-alpha.
23551 - Squelch a spurious LD_BUG message "No origin circuit for
23552 successful SOCKS stream" in certain hidden service failure cases;
23556 - Include a tor.service file in contrib/dist for use with systemd.
23557 Some distributions will be able to use this file unmodified;
23558 others will need to tweak it, or write their own. Patch from Jamie
23559 Nguyen; resolves ticket 8368.
23562 - Clean up several option names in the manpage to match their real
23563 names, add the missing documentation for a couple of testing and
23564 directory authority options, remove the documentation for a
23565 V2-directory fetching option that no longer exists. Resolves
23567 - Correct the documentation so that it lists the correct directory
23568 for the stats files. (They are in a subdirectory called "stats",
23570 - In the manpage, move more authority-only options into the
23571 directory authority section so that operators of regular directory
23572 caches don't get confused.
23575 - The contrib directory has been sorted and tidied. Before, it was
23576 an unsorted dumping ground for useful and not-so-useful things.
23577 Now, it is divided based on functionality, and the items which
23578 seemed to be nonfunctional or useless have been removed. Resolves
23579 ticket 8966; based on patches from "rl1987".
23582 - Remove /tor/dbg-stability.txt URL that was meant to help debug WFU
23583 and MTBF calculations, but that nobody was using. Fixes ticket 11742.
23584 - The TunnelDirConns and PreferTunnelledDirConns options no longer
23585 exist; tunneled directory connections have been available since
23586 0.1.2.5-alpha, and turning them off is not a good idea. This is a
23587 brute-force fix for 10849, where "TunnelDirConns 0" would break
23591 Changes in version 0.2.4.22 - 2014-05-16
23592 Tor 0.2.4.22 backports numerous high-priority fixes from the Tor 0.2.5
23593 alpha release series. These include blocking all authority signing
23594 keys that may have been affected by the OpenSSL "heartbleed" bug,
23595 choosing a far more secure set of TLS ciphersuites by default, closing
23596 a couple of memory leaks that could be used to run a target relay out
23597 of RAM, and several others.
23599 o Major features (security, backport from 0.2.5.4-alpha):
23600 - Block authority signing keys that were used on authorities
23601 vulnerable to the "heartbleed" bug in OpenSSL (CVE-2014-0160). (We
23602 don't have any evidence that these keys _were_ compromised; we're
23603 doing this to be prudent.) Resolves ticket 11464.
23605 o Major bugfixes (security, OOM):
23606 - Fix a memory leak that could occur if a microdescriptor parse
23607 fails during the tokenizing step. This bug could enable a memory
23608 exhaustion attack by directory servers. Fixes bug 11649; bugfix
23611 o Major bugfixes (TLS cipher selection, backport from 0.2.5.4-alpha):
23612 - The relay ciphersuite list is now generated automatically based on
23613 uniform criteria, and includes all OpenSSL ciphersuites with
23614 acceptable strength and forward secrecy. Previously, we had left
23615 some perfectly fine ciphersuites unsupported due to omission or
23616 typo. Resolves bugs 11513, 11492, 11498, 11499. Bugs reported by
23617 'cypherpunks'. Bugfix on 0.2.4.8-alpha.
23618 - Relays now trust themselves to have a better view than clients of
23619 which TLS ciphersuites are better than others. (Thanks to bug
23620 11513, the relay list is now well-considered, whereas the client
23621 list has been chosen mainly for anti-fingerprinting purposes.)
23622 Relays prefer: AES over 3DES; then ECDHE over DHE; then GCM over
23623 CBC; then SHA384 over SHA256 over SHA1; and last, AES256 over
23624 AES128. Resolves ticket 11528.
23625 - Clients now try to advertise the same list of ciphersuites as
23626 Firefox 28. This change enables selection of (fast) GCM
23627 ciphersuites, disables some strange old ciphers, and stops
23628 advertising the ECDH (not to be confused with ECDHE) ciphersuites.
23629 Resolves ticket 11438.
23631 o Minor bugfixes (configuration, security):
23632 - When running a hidden service, do not allow TunneledDirConns 0:
23633 trying to set that option together with a hidden service would
23634 otherwise prevent the hidden service from running, and also make
23635 it publish its descriptors directly over HTTP. Fixes bug 10849;
23636 bugfix on 0.2.1.1-alpha.
23638 o Minor bugfixes (controller, backport from 0.2.5.4-alpha):
23639 - Avoid sending a garbage value to the controller when a circuit is
23640 cannibalized. Fixes bug 11519; bugfix on 0.2.3.11-alpha.
23642 o Minor bugfixes (exit relay, backport from 0.2.5.4-alpha):
23643 - Stop leaking memory when we successfully resolve a PTR record.
23644 Fixes bug 11437; bugfix on 0.2.4.7-alpha.
23646 o Minor bugfixes (bridge client, backport from 0.2.5.4-alpha):
23647 - Avoid 60-second delays in the bootstrapping process when Tor is
23648 launching for a second time while using bridges. Fixes bug 9229;
23649 bugfix on 0.2.0.3-alpha.
23651 o Minor bugfixes (relays and bridges, backport from 0.2.5.4-alpha):
23652 - Give the correct URL in the warning message when trying to run a
23653 relay on an ancient version of Windows. Fixes bug 9393.
23655 o Minor bugfixes (compilation):
23656 - Fix a compilation error when compiling with --disable-curve25519.
23657 Fixes bug 9700; bugfix on 0.2.4.17-rc.
23660 - Downgrade the warning severity for the the "md was still
23661 referenced 1 node(s)" warning. Tor 0.2.5.4-alpha has better code
23662 for trying to diagnose this bug, and the current warning in
23663 earlier versions of tor achieves nothing useful. Addresses warning
23666 o Minor features (log verbosity, backport from 0.2.5.4-alpha):
23667 - When we run out of usable circuit IDs on a channel, log only one
23668 warning for the whole channel, and describe how many circuits
23669 there were on the channel. Fixes part of ticket 11553.
23671 o Minor features (security, backport from 0.2.5.4-alpha):
23672 - Decrease the lower limit of MaxMemInCellQueues to 256 MBytes (but
23673 leave the default at 8GBytes), to better support Raspberry Pi
23674 users. Fixes bug 9686; bugfix on 0.2.4.14-alpha.
23676 o Documentation (backport from 0.2.5.4-alpha):
23677 - Correctly document that we search for a system torrc file before
23678 looking in ~/.torrc. Fixes documentation side of 9213; bugfix on
23682 Changes in version 0.2.5.4-alpha - 2014-04-25
23683 Tor 0.2.5.4-alpha includes several security and performance
23684 improvements for clients and relays, including blacklisting authority
23685 signing keys that were used while susceptible to the OpenSSL
23686 "heartbleed" bug, fixing two expensive functions on busy relays,
23687 improved TLS ciphersuite preference lists, support for run-time
23688 hardening on compilers that support AddressSanitizer, and more work on
23689 the Linux sandbox code.
23691 There are also several usability fixes for clients (especially clients
23692 that use bridges), two new TransPort protocols supported (one on
23693 OpenBSD, one on FreeBSD), and various other bugfixes.
23695 This release marks end-of-life for Tor 0.2.2.x; those Tor versions
23696 have accumulated many known flaws; everyone should upgrade.
23698 o Major features (security):
23699 - If you don't specify MaxMemInQueues yourself, Tor now tries to
23700 pick a good value based on your total system memory. Previously,
23701 the default was always 8 GB. You can still override the default by
23702 setting MaxMemInQueues yourself. Resolves ticket 11396.
23703 - Block authority signing keys that were used on authorities
23704 vulnerable to the "heartbleed" bug in OpenSSL (CVE-2014-0160). (We
23705 don't have any evidence that these keys _were_ compromised; we're
23706 doing this to be prudent.) Resolves ticket 11464.
23708 o Major features (relay performance):
23709 - Speed up server-side lookups of rendezvous and introduction point
23710 circuits by using hashtables instead of linear searches. These
23711 functions previously accounted between 3 and 7% of CPU usage on
23712 some busy relays. Resolves ticket 9841.
23713 - Avoid wasting CPU when extending a circuit over a channel that is
23714 nearly out of circuit IDs. Previously, we would do a linear scan
23715 over possible circuit IDs before finding one or deciding that we
23716 had exhausted our possibilities. Now, we try at most 64 random
23717 circuit IDs before deciding that we probably won't succeed. Fixes
23718 a possible root cause of ticket 11553.
23720 o Major features (seccomp2 sandbox, Linux only):
23721 - The seccomp2 sandbox can now run a test network for multiple hours
23722 without crashing. The sandbox is still experimental, and more bugs
23723 will probably turn up. To try it, enable "Sandbox 1" on a Linux
23724 host. Resolves ticket 11351.
23725 - Strengthen sandbox code: the sandbox can now test the arguments
23726 for rename(), and blocks _sysctl() entirely. Resolves another part
23728 - When the sandbox blocks a system call, it now tries to log a stack
23729 trace before exiting. Resolves ticket 11465.
23731 o Major bugfixes (TLS cipher selection):
23732 - The relay ciphersuite list is now generated automatically based on
23733 uniform criteria, and includes all OpenSSL ciphersuites with
23734 acceptable strength and forward secrecy. Previously, we had left
23735 some perfectly fine ciphersuites unsupported due to omission or
23736 typo. Resolves bugs 11513, 11492, 11498, 11499. Bugs reported by
23737 'cypherpunks'. Bugfix on 0.2.4.8-alpha.
23738 - Relays now trust themselves to have a better view than clients of
23739 which TLS ciphersuites are better than others. (Thanks to bug
23740 11513, the relay list is now well-considered, whereas the client
23741 list has been chosen mainly for anti-fingerprinting purposes.)
23742 Relays prefer: AES over 3DES; then ECDHE over DHE; then GCM over
23743 CBC; then SHA384 over SHA256 over SHA1; and last, AES256 over
23744 AES128. Resolves ticket 11528.
23745 - Clients now try to advertise the same list of ciphersuites as
23746 Firefox 28. This change enables selection of (fast) GCM
23747 ciphersuites, disables some strange old ciphers, and stops
23748 advertising the ECDH (not to be confused with ECDHE) ciphersuites.
23749 Resolves ticket 11438.
23751 o Major bugfixes (bridge client):
23752 - Avoid 60-second delays in the bootstrapping process when Tor is
23753 launching for a second time while using bridges. Fixes bug 9229;
23754 bugfix on 0.2.0.3-alpha.
23756 o Minor features (transparent proxy, *BSD):
23757 - Support FreeBSD's ipfw firewall interface for TransPort ports on
23758 FreeBSD. To enable it, set "TransProxyType ipfw". Resolves ticket
23759 10267; patch from "yurivict".
23760 - Support OpenBSD's divert-to rules with the pf firewall for
23761 transparent proxy ports. To enable it, set "TransProxyType
23762 pf-divert". This allows Tor to run a TransPort transparent proxy
23763 port on OpenBSD 4.4 or later without root privileges. See the
23764 pf.conf(5) manual page for information on configuring pf to use
23765 divert-to rules. Closes ticket 10896; patch from Dana Koch.
23767 o Minor features (security):
23768 - New --enable-expensive-hardening option to enable security
23769 hardening options that consume nontrivial amounts of CPU and
23770 memory. Right now, this includes AddressSanitizer and UbSan, which
23771 are supported in newer versions of GCC and Clang. Closes ticket
23774 o Minor features (log verbosity):
23775 - Demote the message that we give when a flushing connection times
23776 out for too long from NOTICE to INFO. It was usually meaningless.
23777 Resolves ticket 5286.
23778 - Don't log so many notice-level bootstrapping messages at startup
23779 about downloading descriptors. Previously, we'd log a notice
23780 whenever we learned about more routers. Now, we only log a notice
23781 at every 5% of progress. Fixes bug 9963.
23782 - Warn less verbosely when receiving a malformed
23783 ESTABLISH_RENDEZVOUS cell. Fixes ticket 11279.
23784 - When we run out of usable circuit IDs on a channel, log only one
23785 warning for the whole channel, and describe how many circuits
23786 there were on the channel. Fixes part of ticket 11553.
23788 o Minor features (relay):
23789 - If a circuit timed out for at least 3 minutes, check if we have a
23790 new external IP address, and publish a new descriptor with the new
23791 IP address if it changed. Resolves ticket 2454.
23793 o Minor features (controller):
23794 - Make the entire exit policy available from the control port via
23795 GETINFO exit-policy/*. Implements enhancement 7952. Patch from
23797 - Because of the fix for ticket 11396, the real limit for memory
23798 usage may no longer match the configured MaxMemInQueues value. The
23799 real limit is now exposed via GETINFO limits/max-mem-in-queues.
23801 o Minor features (bridge client):
23802 - Report a more useful failure message when we can't connect to a
23803 bridge because we don't have the right pluggable transport
23804 configured. Resolves ticket 9665. Patch from Fábio J. Bertinatto.
23806 o Minor features (diagnostic):
23807 - Add more log messages to diagnose bug 7164, which causes
23808 intermittent "microdesc_free() called but md was still referenced"
23809 warnings. We now include more information, to figure out why we
23810 might be cleaning a microdescriptor for being too old if it's
23811 still referenced by a live node_t object.
23813 o Minor bugfixes (client, DNSPort):
23814 - When using DNSPort, try to respond to AAAA requests with AAAA
23815 answers. Previously, we hadn't looked at the request type when
23816 deciding which answer type to prefer. Fixes bug 10468; bugfix on
23818 - When receiving a DNS query for an unsupported record type, reply
23819 with no answer rather than with a NOTIMPL error. This behavior
23820 isn't correct either, but it will break fewer client programs, we
23821 hope. Fixes bug 10268; bugfix on 0.2.0.1-alpha. Original patch
23824 o Minor bugfixes (exit relay):
23825 - Stop leaking memory when we successfully resolve a PTR record.
23826 Fixes bug 11437; bugfix on 0.2.4.7-alpha.
23828 o Minor bugfixes (bridge client):
23829 - Stop accepting bridge lines containing hostnames. Doing so would
23830 cause clients to perform DNS requests on the hostnames, which was
23831 not sensible behavior. Fixes bug 10801; bugfix on 0.2.0.1-alpha.
23832 - Avoid a 60-second delay in the bootstrapping process when a Tor
23833 client with pluggable transports re-reads its configuration at
23834 just the wrong time. Re-fixes bug 11156; bugfix on 0.2.5.3-alpha.
23836 o Minor bugfixes (client, logging during bootstrap):
23837 - Warn only once if we start logging in an unsafe way. Previously,
23838 we complain as many times as we had problems. Fixes bug 9870;
23839 bugfix on 0.2.5.1-alpha.
23840 - Only report the first fatal bootstrap error on a given OR
23841 connection. This stops us from telling the controller bogus error
23842 messages like "DONE". Fixes bug 10431; bugfix on 0.2.1.1-alpha.
23843 - Be more helpful when trying to run sandboxed on Linux without
23844 libseccomp. Instead of saying "Sandbox is not implemented on this
23845 platform", we now explain that we need to be built with
23846 libseccomp. Fixes bug 11543; bugfix on 0.2.5.1-alpha.
23847 - Avoid generating spurious warnings when starting with
23848 DisableNetwork enabled. Fixes bug 11200 and bug 10405; bugfix on
23851 o Minor bugfixes (closing OR connections):
23852 - If write_to_buf() in connection_write_to_buf_impl_() ever fails,
23853 check if it's an or_connection_t and correctly call
23854 connection_or_close_for_error() rather than
23855 connection_mark_for_close() directly. Fixes bug 11304; bugfix on
23857 - When closing all connections on setting DisableNetwork to 1, use
23858 connection_or_close_normally() rather than closing OR connections
23859 out from under the channel layer. Fixes bug 11306; bugfix on
23862 o Minor bugfixes (controller):
23863 - Avoid sending a garbage value to the controller when a circuit is
23864 cannibalized. Fixes bug 11519; bugfix on 0.2.3.11-alpha.
23866 o Minor bugfixes (tor-fw-helper):
23867 - Allow tor-fw-helper to build again by adding src/ext to its
23868 CPPFLAGS. Fixes bug 11296; bugfix on 0.2.5.3-alpha.
23870 o Minor bugfixes (bridges):
23871 - Avoid potential crashes or bad behavior when launching a
23872 server-side managed proxy with ORPort or ExtORPort temporarily
23873 disabled. Fixes bug 9650; bugfix on 0.2.3.16-alpha.
23875 o Minor bugfixes (platform-specific):
23876 - Fix compilation on Solaris, which does not have <endian.h>. Fixes
23877 bug 11426; bugfix on 0.2.5.3-alpha.
23878 - When dumping a malformed directory object to disk, save it in
23879 binary mode on Windows, not text mode. Fixes bug 11342; bugfix on
23881 - Don't report failures from make_socket_reuseable() on incoming
23882 sockets on OSX: this can happen when incoming connections close
23883 early. Fixes bug 10081.
23885 o Minor bugfixes (trivial memory leaks):
23886 - Fix a small memory leak when signing a directory object. Fixes bug
23887 11275; bugfix on 0.2.4.13-alpha.
23888 - Free placeholder entries in our circuit table at exit; fixes a
23889 harmless memory leak. Fixes bug 11278; bugfix on 0.2.5.1-alpha.
23890 - Don't re-initialize a second set of OpenSSL mutexes when starting
23891 up. Previously, we'd make one set of mutexes, and then immediately
23892 replace them with another. Fixes bug 11726; bugfix on
23894 - Resolve some memory leaks found by coverity in the unit tests, on
23895 exit in tor-gencert, and on a failure to compute digests for our
23896 own keys when generating a v3 networkstatus vote. These leaks
23897 should never have affected anyone in practice.
23899 o Minor bugfixes (hidden service):
23900 - Only retry attempts to connect to a chosen rendezvous point 8
23901 times, not 30. Fixes bug 4241; bugfix on 0.1.0.1-rc.
23903 o Minor bugfixes (misc code correctness):
23904 - Fix various instances of undefined behavior in channeltls.c,
23905 tor_memmem(), and eventdns.c that would cause us to construct
23906 pointers to memory outside an allocated object. (These invalid
23907 pointers were not accessed, but C does not even allow them to
23908 exist.) Fixes bug 10363; bugfixes on 0.1.1.1-alpha, 0.1.2.1-alpha,
23909 0.2.0.10-alpha, and 0.2.3.6-alpha. Reported by "bobnomnom".
23910 - Use the AddressSanitizer and Ubsan sanitizers (in clang-3.4) to
23911 fix some miscellaneous errors in our tests and codebase. Fixes bug
23912 11232. Bugfixes on versions back as far as 0.2.1.11-alpha.
23913 - Always check return values for unlink, munmap, UnmapViewOfFile;
23914 check strftime return values more often. In some cases all we can
23915 do is report a warning, but this may help prevent deeper bugs from
23916 going unnoticed. Closes ticket 8787; bugfixes on many, many tor
23918 - Fix numerous warnings from the clang "scan-build" static analyzer.
23919 Some of these are programming style issues; some of them are false
23920 positives that indicated awkward code; some are undefined behavior
23921 cases related to constructing (but not using) invalid pointers;
23922 some are assumptions about API behavior; some are (harmlessly)
23923 logging sizeof(ptr) bytes from a token when sizeof(*ptr) would be
23924 correct; and one or two are genuine bugs that weren't reachable
23925 from the rest of the program. Fixes bug 8793; bugfixes on many,
23929 - Build the torify.1 manpage again. Previously, we were only trying
23930 to build it when also building tor-fw-helper. That's why we didn't
23931 notice that we'd broken the ability to build it. Fixes bug 11321;
23932 bugfix on 0.2.5.1-alpha.
23933 - Fix the layout of the SOCKSPort flags in the manpage. Fixes bug
23934 11061; bugfix on 0.2.4.7-alpha.
23935 - Correctly document that we search for a system torrc file before
23936 looking in ~/.torrc. Fixes documentation side of 9213; bugfix on
23938 - Resolve warnings from Doxygen.
23940 o Code simplifications and refactoring:
23941 - Remove is_internal_IP() function. Resolves ticket 4645.
23942 - Remove unused function circuit_dump_by_chan from circuitlist.c.
23943 Closes issue 9107; patch from "marek".
23944 - Change our use of the ENUM_BF macro to avoid declarations that
23947 o Deprecated versions:
23948 - Tor 0.2.2.x has reached end-of-life; it has received no patches or
23949 attention for some while. Directory authorities no longer accept
23950 descriptors from relays running any version of Tor prior to Tor
23951 0.2.3.16-alpha. Resolves ticket 11149.
23954 - New macros in test.h to simplify writing mock-functions for unit
23955 tests. Part of ticket 11507. Patch from Dana Koch.
23956 - Complete tests for the status.c module. Resolves ticket 11507.
23957 Patch from Dana Koch.
23960 - Remove all code for the long unused v1 directory protocol.
23961 Resolves ticket 11070.
23964 Changes in version 0.2.5.3-alpha - 2014-03-22
23965 Tor 0.2.5.3-alpha includes all the fixes from 0.2.4.21. It contains
23966 two new anti-DoS features for Tor relays, resolves a bug that kept
23967 SOCKS5 support for IPv6 from working, fixes several annoying usability
23968 issues for bridge users, and removes more old code for unused
23971 The Tor 0.2.5.x release series is now in patch-freeze: no feature
23972 patches not already written will be considered for inclusion in 0.2.5.x.
23974 o Major features (relay security, DoS-resistance):
23975 - When deciding whether we have run out of memory and we need to
23976 close circuits, also consider memory allocated in buffers for
23977 streams attached to each circuit.
23979 This change, which extends an anti-DoS feature introduced in
23980 0.2.4.13-alpha and improved in 0.2.4.14-alpha, lets Tor exit relays
23981 better resist more memory-based DoS attacks than before. Since the
23982 MaxMemInCellQueues option now applies to all queues, it is renamed
23983 to MaxMemInQueues. This feature fixes bug 10169.
23984 - Avoid hash-flooding denial-of-service attacks by using the secure
23985 SipHash-2-4 hash function for our hashtables. Without this
23986 feature, an attacker could degrade performance of a targeted
23987 client or server by flooding their data structures with a large
23988 number of entries to be stored at the same hash table position,
23989 thereby slowing down the Tor instance. With this feature, hash
23990 table positions are derived from a randomized cryptographic key,
23991 and an attacker cannot predict which entries will collide. Closes
23993 - Decrease the lower limit of MaxMemInQueues to 256 MBytes (but leave
23994 the default at 8GBytes), to better support Raspberry Pi users. Fixes
23995 bug 9686; bugfix on 0.2.4.14-alpha.
23997 o Minor features (bridges, pluggable transports):
23998 - Bridges now write the SHA1 digest of their identity key
23999 fingerprint (that is, a hash of a hash of their public key) to
24000 notice-level logs, and to a new hashed-fingerprint file. This
24001 information will help bridge operators look up their bridge in
24002 Globe and similar tools. Resolves ticket 10884.
24003 - Improve the message that Tor displays when running as a bridge
24004 using pluggable transports without an Extended ORPort listener.
24005 Also, log the message in the log file too. Resolves ticket 11043.
24007 o Minor features (other):
24008 - Add a new option, PredictedPortsRelevanceTime, to control how long
24009 after having received a request to connect to a given port Tor
24010 will try to keep circuits ready in anticipation of future requests
24011 for that port. Patch from "unixninja92"; implements ticket 9176.
24012 - Generate a warning if any ports are listed in the SocksPolicy,
24013 DirPolicy, AuthDirReject, AuthDirInvalid, AuthDirBadDir, or
24014 AuthDirBadExit options. (These options only support address
24015 ranges.) Fixes part of ticket 11108.
24016 - Update geoip and geoip6 to the February 7 2014 Maxmind GeoLite2
24019 o Minor bugfixes (new since 0.2.5.2-alpha, also in 0.2.4.21):
24020 - Build without warnings under clang 3.4. (We have some macros that
24021 define static functions only some of which will get used later in
24022 the module. Starting with clang 3.4, these give a warning unless the
24023 unused attribute is set on them.) Resolves ticket 10904.
24024 - Fix build warnings about missing "a2x" comment when building the
24025 manpages from scratch on OpenBSD; OpenBSD calls it "a2x.py".
24026 Fixes bug 10929; bugfix on 0.2.2.9-alpha. Patch from Dana Koch.
24028 o Minor bugfixes (client):
24029 - Improve the log message when we can't connect to a hidden service
24030 because all of the hidden service directory nodes hosting its
24031 descriptor are excluded. Improves on our fix for bug 10722, which
24032 was a bugfix on 0.2.0.10-alpha.
24033 - Raise a control port warning when we fail to connect to all of
24034 our bridges. Previously, we didn't inform the controller, and
24035 the bootstrap process would stall. Fixes bug 11069; bugfix on
24037 - Exit immediately when a process-owning controller exits.
24038 Previously, tor relays would wait for a little while after their
24039 controller exited, as if they had gotten an INT signal -- but this
24040 was problematic, since there was no feedback for the user. To do a
24041 clean shutdown, controllers should send an INT signal and give Tor
24042 a chance to clean up. Fixes bug 10449; bugfix on 0.2.2.28-beta.
24043 - Stop attempting to connect to bridges before our pluggable
24044 transports are configured (harmless but resulted in some erroneous
24045 log messages). Fixes bug 11156; bugfix on 0.2.3.2-alpha.
24046 - Fix connections to IPv6 addresses over SOCKS5. Previously, we were
24047 generating incorrect SOCKS5 responses, and confusing client
24048 applications. Fixes bug 10987; bugfix on 0.2.4.7-alpha.
24050 o Minor bugfixes (relays and bridges):
24051 - Avoid crashing on a malformed resolv.conf file when running a
24052 relay using Libevent 1. Fixes bug 8788; bugfix on 0.1.1.23.
24053 - Non-exit relays no longer launch mock DNS requests to check for
24054 DNS hijacking. This has been unnecessary since 0.2.1.7-alpha, when
24055 non-exit relays stopped servicing DNS requests. Fixes bug 965;
24056 bugfix on 0.2.1.7-alpha. Patch from Matt Pagan.
24057 - Bridges now report complete directory request statistics. Related
24058 to bug 5824; bugfix on 0.2.2.1-alpha.
24059 - Bridges now never collect statistics that were designed for
24060 relays. Fixes bug 5824; bugfix on 0.2.3.8-alpha.
24061 - Stop giving annoying warning messages when we decide not to launch
24062 a pluggable transport proxy that we don't need (because there are
24063 no bridges configured to use it). Resolves ticket 5018; bugfix
24065 - Give the correct URL in the warning message when trying to run a
24066 relay on an ancient version of Windows. Fixes bug 9393.
24068 o Minor bugfixes (backtrace support):
24069 - Support automatic backtraces on more platforms by using the
24070 "-fasynchronous-unwind-tables" compiler option. This option is
24071 needed for platforms like 32-bit Intel where "-fomit-frame-pointer"
24072 is on by default and table generation is not. This doesn't yet
24073 add Windows support; only Linux, OSX, and some BSDs are affected.
24074 Reported by 'cypherpunks'; fixes bug 11047; bugfix on 0.2.5.2-alpha.
24075 - Avoid strange behavior if two threads hit failed assertions at the
24076 same time and both try to log backtraces at once. (Previously, if
24077 this had happened, both threads would have stored their intermediate
24078 results in the same buffer, and generated junk outputs.) Reported by
24079 "cypherpunks". Fixes bug 11048; bugfix on 0.2.5.2-alpha.
24080 - Fix a compiler warning in format_number_sigsafe(). Bugfix on
24081 0.2.5.2-alpha; patch from Nick Hopper.
24083 o Minor bugfixes (unit tests):
24084 - Fix a small bug in the unit tests that might have made the tests
24085 call 'chmod' with an uninitialized bitmask. Fixes bug 10928;
24086 bugfix on 0.2.5.1-alpha. Patch from Dana Koch.
24089 - Remove all remaining code related to version-0 hidden service
24090 descriptors: they have not been in use since 0.2.2.1-alpha. Fixes
24091 the rest of bug 10841.
24094 - Document in the manpage that "KBytes" may also be written as
24095 "kilobytes" or "KB", that "Kbits" may also be written as
24096 "kilobits", and so forth. Closes ticket 9222.
24097 - Document that the ClientOnly config option overrides ORPort.
24098 Our old explanation made ClientOnly sound as though it did
24099 nothing at all. Resolves bug 9059.
24100 - Explain that SocksPolicy, DirPolicy, and similar options don't
24101 take port arguments. Fixes the other part of ticket 11108.
24102 - Fix a comment about the rend_server_descriptor_t.protocols field
24103 to more accurately describe its range. Also, make that field
24104 unsigned, to more accurately reflect its usage. Fixes bug 9099;
24105 bugfix on 0.2.1.5-alpha.
24106 - Fix the manpage's description of HiddenServiceAuthorizeClient:
24107 the maximum client name length is 16, not 19. Fixes bug 11118;
24108 bugfix on 0.2.1.6-alpha.
24110 o Code simplifications and refactoring:
24111 - Get rid of router->address, since in all cases it was just the
24112 string representation of router->addr. Resolves ticket 5528.
24114 o Test infrastructure:
24115 - Update to the latest version of tinytest.
24116 - Improve the tinytest implementation of string operation tests so
24117 that comparisons with NULL strings no longer crash the tests; they
24118 now just fail, normally. Fixes bug 9004; bugfix on 0.2.2.4-alpha.
24121 Changes in version 0.2.4.21 - 2014-02-28
24122 Tor 0.2.4.21 further improves security against potential adversaries who
24123 find breaking 1024-bit crypto doable, and backports several stability
24124 and robustness patches from the 0.2.5 branch.
24126 o Major features (client security):
24127 - When we choose a path for a 3-hop circuit, make sure it contains
24128 at least one relay that supports the NTor circuit extension
24129 handshake. Otherwise, there is a chance that we're building
24130 a circuit that's worth attacking by an adversary who finds
24131 breaking 1024-bit crypto doable, and that chance changes the game
24132 theory. Implements ticket 9777.
24135 - Do not treat streams that fail with reason
24136 END_STREAM_REASON_INTERNAL as indicating a definite circuit failure,
24137 since it could also indicate an ENETUNREACH connection error. Fixes
24138 part of bug 10777; bugfix on 0.2.4.8-alpha.
24140 o Code simplification and refactoring:
24141 - Remove data structures which were introduced to implement the
24142 CellStatistics option: they are now redundant with the new timestamp
24143 field in the regular packed_cell_t data structure, which we did
24144 in 0.2.4.18-rc in order to resolve bug 9093. Resolves ticket 10870.
24147 - Always clear OpenSSL bignums before freeing them -- even bignums
24148 that don't contain secrets. Resolves ticket 10793. Patch by
24150 - Build without warnings under clang 3.4. (We have some macros that
24151 define static functions only some of which will get used later in
24152 the module. Starting with clang 3.4, these give a warning unless the
24153 unused attribute is set on them.) Resolves ticket 10904.
24154 - Update geoip and geoip6 files to the February 7 2014 Maxmind
24155 GeoLite2 Country database.
24158 - Set the listen() backlog limit to the largest actually supported
24159 on the system, not to the value in a header file. Fixes bug 9716;
24160 bugfix on every released Tor.
24161 - Treat ENETUNREACH, EACCES, and EPERM connection failures at an
24162 exit node as a NOROUTE error, not an INTERNAL error, since they
24163 can apparently happen when trying to connect to the wrong sort
24164 of netblocks. Fixes part of bug 10777; bugfix on 0.1.0.1-rc.
24165 - Fix build warnings about missing "a2x" comment when building the
24166 manpages from scratch on OpenBSD; OpenBSD calls it "a2x.py".
24167 Fixes bug 10929; bugfix on 0.2.2.9-alpha. Patch from Dana Koch.
24168 - Avoid a segfault on SIGUSR1, where we had freed a connection but did
24169 not entirely remove it from the connection lists. Fixes bug 9602;
24170 bugfix on 0.2.4.4-alpha.
24171 - Fix a segmentation fault in our benchmark code when running with
24172 Fedora's OpenSSL package, or any other OpenSSL that provides
24173 ECDH but not P224. Fixes bug 10835; bugfix on 0.2.4.8-alpha.
24174 - Turn "circuit handshake stats since last time" log messages into a
24175 heartbeat message. Fixes bug 10485; bugfix on 0.2.4.17-rc.
24177 o Documentation fixes:
24178 - Document that all but one DirPort entry must have the NoAdvertise
24179 flag set. Fixes bug 10470; bugfix on 0.2.3.3-alpha / 0.2.3.16-alpha.
24182 Changes in version 0.2.5.2-alpha - 2014-02-13
24183 Tor 0.2.5.2-alpha includes all the fixes from 0.2.4.18-rc and 0.2.4.20,
24184 like the "poor random number generation" fix and the "building too many
24185 circuits" fix. It also further improves security against potential
24186 adversaries who find breaking 1024-bit crypto doable, and launches
24187 pluggable transports on demand (which gets us closer to integrating
24188 pluggable transport support by default -- not to be confused with Tor
24189 bundles enabling pluggable transports and bridges by default).
24191 o Major features (client security):
24192 - When we choose a path for a 3-hop circuit, make sure it contains
24193 at least one relay that supports the NTor circuit extension
24194 handshake. Otherwise, there is a chance that we're building
24195 a circuit that's worth attacking by an adversary who finds
24196 breaking 1024-bit crypto doable, and that chance changes the game
24197 theory. Implements ticket 9777.
24198 - Clients now look at the "usecreatefast" consensus parameter to
24199 decide whether to use CREATE_FAST or CREATE cells for the first hop
24200 of their circuit. This approach can improve security on connections
24201 where Tor's circuit handshake is stronger than the available TLS
24202 connection security levels, but the tradeoff is more computational
24203 load on guard relays. Implements proposal 221. Resolves ticket 9386.
24205 o Major features (bridges):
24206 - Don't launch pluggable transport proxies if we don't have any
24207 bridges configured that would use them. Now we can list many
24208 pluggable transports, and Tor will dynamically start one when it
24209 hears a bridge address that needs it. Resolves ticket 5018.
24210 - The bridge directory authority now assigns status flags (Stable,
24211 Guard, etc) to bridges based on thresholds calculated over all
24212 Running bridges. Now bridgedb can finally make use of its features
24213 to e.g. include at least one Stable bridge in its answers. Fixes
24216 o Major features (other):
24217 - Extend ORCONN controller event to include an "ID" parameter,
24218 and add four new controller event types CONN_BW, CIRC_BW,
24219 CELL_STATS, and TB_EMPTY that show connection and circuit usage.
24220 The new events are emitted in private Tor networks only, with the
24221 goal of being able to better track performance and load during
24222 full-network simulations. Implements proposal 218 and ticket 7359.
24223 - On some platforms (currently: recent OSX versions, glibc-based
24224 platforms that support the ELF format, and a few other
24225 Unix-like operating systems), Tor can now dump stack traces
24226 when a crash occurs or an assertion fails. By default, traces
24227 are dumped to stderr (if possible) and to any logs that are
24228 reporting errors. Implements ticket 9299.
24231 - Avoid a segfault on SIGUSR1, where we had freed a connection but did
24232 not entirely remove it from the connection lists. Fixes bug 9602;
24233 bugfix on 0.2.4.4-alpha.
24234 - Do not treat streams that fail with reason
24235 END_STREAM_REASON_INTERNAL as indicating a definite circuit failure,
24236 since it could also indicate an ENETUNREACH connection error. Fixes
24237 part of bug 10777; bugfix on 0.2.4.8-alpha.
24239 o Major bugfixes (new since 0.2.5.1-alpha, also in 0.2.4.20):
24240 - Do not allow OpenSSL engines to replace the PRNG, even when
24241 HardwareAccel is set. The only default builtin PRNG engine uses
24242 the Intel RDRAND instruction to replace the entire PRNG, and
24243 ignores all attempts to seed it with more entropy. That's
24244 cryptographically stupid: the right response to a new alleged
24245 entropy source is never to discard all previously used entropy
24246 sources. Fixes bug 10402; works around behavior introduced in
24247 OpenSSL 1.0.0. Diagnosis and investigation thanks to "coderman"
24249 - Fix assertion failure when AutomapHostsOnResolve yields an IPv6
24250 address. Fixes bug 10465; bugfix on 0.2.4.7-alpha.
24251 - Avoid launching spurious extra circuits when a stream is pending.
24252 This fixes a bug where any circuit that _wasn't_ unusable for new
24253 streams would be treated as if it were, causing extra circuits to
24254 be launched. Fixes bug 10456; bugfix on 0.2.4.12-alpha.
24256 o Major bugfixes (new since 0.2.5.1-alpha, also in 0.2.4.18-rc):
24257 - No longer stop reading or writing on cpuworker connections when
24258 our rate limiting buckets go empty. Now we should handle circuit
24259 handshake requests more promptly. Resolves bug 9731.
24260 - Stop trying to bootstrap all our directory information from
24261 only our first guard. Discovered while fixing bug 9946; bugfix
24264 o Minor features (bridges, pluggable transports):
24265 - Add threshold cutoffs to the networkstatus document created by
24266 the Bridge Authority. Fixes bug 1117.
24267 - On Windows, spawn background processes using the CREATE_NO_WINDOW
24268 flag. Now Tor Browser Bundle 3.5 with pluggable transports enabled
24269 doesn't pop up a blank console window. (In Tor Browser Bundle 2.x,
24270 Vidalia set this option for us.) Implements ticket 10297.
24272 o Minor features (security):
24273 - Always clear OpenSSL bignums before freeing them -- even bignums
24274 that don't contain secrets. Resolves ticket 10793. Patch by
24277 o Minor features (config options and command line):
24278 - Add an --allow-missing-torrc commandline option that tells Tor to
24279 run even if the configuration file specified by -f is not available.
24280 Implements ticket 10060.
24281 - Add support for the TPROXY transparent proxying facility on Linux.
24282 See documentation for the new TransProxyType option for more
24283 details. Implementation by "thomo". Closes ticket 10582.
24285 o Minor features (controller):
24286 - Add a new "HS_DESC" controller event that reports activities
24287 related to hidden service descriptors. Resolves ticket 8510.
24288 - New "DROPGUARDS" controller command to forget all current entry
24289 guards. Not recommended for ordinary use, since replacing guards
24290 too frequently makes several attacks easier. Resolves ticket 9934;
24293 o Minor features (build):
24294 - Assume that a user using ./configure --host wants to cross-compile,
24295 and give an error if we cannot find a properly named
24296 tool-chain. Add a --disable-tool-name-check option to proceed
24297 nevertheless. Addresses ticket 9869. Patch by Benedikt Gollatz.
24298 - If we run ./configure and the compiler recognizes -fstack-protector
24299 but the linker rejects it, warn the user about a potentially missing
24300 libssp package. Addresses ticket 9948. Patch from Benedikt Gollatz.
24302 o Minor features (testing):
24303 - If Python is installed, "make check" now runs extra tests beyond
24304 the unit test scripts.
24305 - When bootstrapping a test network, sometimes very few relays get
24306 the Guard flag. Now a new option "TestingDirAuthVoteGuard" can
24307 specify a set of relays which should be voted Guard regardless of
24308 their uptime or bandwidth. Addresses ticket 9206.
24310 o Minor features (log messages):
24311 - When ServerTransportPlugin is set on a bridge, Tor can write more
24312 useful statistics about bridge use in its extrainfo descriptors,
24313 but only if the Extended ORPort ("ExtORPort") is set too. Add a
24314 log message to inform the user in this case. Resolves ticket 9651.
24315 - When receiving a new controller connection, log the origin address.
24316 Resolves ticket 9698; patch from "sigpipe".
24317 - When logging OpenSSL engine status at startup, log the status of
24318 more engines. Fixes ticket 10043; patch from Joshua Datko.
24319 - Turn "circuit handshake stats since last time" log messages into a
24320 heartbeat message. Fixes bug 10485; bugfix on 0.2.4.17-rc.
24322 o Minor features (new since 0.2.5.1-alpha, also in 0.2.4.18-rc):
24323 - Improve the circuit queue out-of-memory handler. Previously, when
24324 we ran low on memory, we'd close whichever circuits had the most
24325 queued cells. Now, we close those that have the *oldest* queued
24326 cells, on the theory that those are most responsible for us
24327 running low on memory. Based on analysis from a forthcoming paper
24328 by Jansen, Tschorsch, Johnson, and Scheuermann. Fixes bug 9093.
24329 - Generate bootstrapping status update events correctly when fetching
24330 microdescriptors. Fixes bug 9927.
24331 - Update to the October 2 2013 Maxmind GeoLite Country database.
24333 o Minor bugfixes (clients):
24334 - When closing a channel that has already been open, do not close
24335 pending circuits that were waiting to connect to the same relay.
24336 Fixes bug 9880; bugfix on 0.2.5.1-alpha. Thanks to skruffy for
24339 o Minor bugfixes (relays):
24340 - Treat ENETUNREACH, EACCES, and EPERM connection failures at an
24341 exit node as a NOROUTE error, not an INTERNAL error, since they
24342 can apparently happen when trying to connect to the wrong sort
24343 of netblocks. Fixes part of bug 10777; bugfix on 0.1.0.1-rc.
24345 o Minor bugfixes (bridges):
24346 - Fix a bug where the first connection works to a bridge that uses a
24347 pluggable transport with client-side parameters, but we don't send
24348 the client-side parameters on subsequent connections. (We don't
24349 use any pluggable transports with client-side parameters yet,
24350 but ScrambleSuit will soon become the first one.) Fixes bug 9162;
24351 bugfix on 0.2.0.3-alpha. Based on a patch from "rl1987".
24353 o Minor bugfixes (node selection):
24354 - If ExcludeNodes is set, consider non-excluded hidden service
24355 directory servers before excluded ones. Do not consider excluded
24356 hidden service directory servers at all if StrictNodes is
24357 set. (Previously, we would sometimes decide to connect to those
24358 servers, and then realize before we initiated a connection that
24359 we had excluded them.) Fixes bug 10722; bugfix on 0.2.0.10-alpha.
24360 Reported by "mr-4".
24361 - If we set the ExitNodes option but it doesn't include any nodes
24362 that have the Exit flag, we would choose not to bootstrap. Now we
24363 bootstrap so long as ExitNodes includes nodes which can exit to
24364 some port. Fixes bug 10543; bugfix on 0.2.4.10-alpha.
24366 o Minor bugfixes (controller and command-line):
24367 - If changing a config option via "setconf" fails in a recoverable
24368 way, we used to nonetheless write our new control ports to the
24369 file described by the "ControlPortWriteToFile" option. Now we only
24370 write out that file if we successfully switch to the new config
24371 option. Fixes bug 5605; bugfix on 0.2.2.26-beta. Patch from "Ryman".
24372 - When a command-line option such as --version or --help that
24373 ordinarily implies --hush appears on the command line along with
24374 --quiet, then actually obey --quiet. Previously, we obeyed --quiet
24375 only if it appeared later on the command line. Fixes bug 9578;
24376 bugfix on 0.2.5.1-alpha.
24378 o Minor bugfixes (code correctness):
24379 - Previously we used two temporary files when writing descriptors to
24380 disk; now we only use one. Fixes bug 1376.
24381 - Remove an erroneous (but impossible and thus harmless) pointer
24382 comparison that would have allowed compilers to skip a bounds
24383 check in channeltls.c. Fixes bugs 10313 and 9980; bugfix on
24384 0.2.0.10-alpha. Noticed by Jared L Wong and David Fifield.
24385 - Fix an always-true assertion in pluggable transports code so it
24386 actually checks what it was trying to check. Fixes bug 10046;
24387 bugfix on 0.2.3.9-alpha. Found by "dcb".
24389 o Minor bugfixes (protocol correctness):
24390 - When receiving a VERSIONS cell with an odd number of bytes, close
24391 the connection immediately since the cell is malformed. Fixes bug
24392 10365; bugfix on 0.2.0.10-alpha. Spotted by "bobnomnom"; fix by
24395 o Minor bugfixes (build):
24396 - Restore the ability to compile Tor with V2_HANDSHAKE_SERVER
24397 turned off (that is, without support for v2 link handshakes). Fixes
24398 bug 4677; bugfix on 0.2.3.2-alpha. Patch from "piet".
24399 - Fix compilation warnings and startup issues when running with
24400 "Sandbox 1" and libseccomp-2.1.0. Fixes bug 10563; bugfix on
24402 - Fix compilation on Solaris 9, which didn't like us having an
24403 identifier named "sun". Fixes bug 10565; bugfix in 0.2.5.1-alpha.
24405 o Minor bugfixes (testing):
24406 - Fix a segmentation fault in our benchmark code when running with
24407 Fedora's OpenSSL package, or any other OpenSSL that provides
24408 ECDH but not P224. Fixes bug 10835; bugfix on 0.2.4.8-alpha.
24410 o Minor bugfixes (log messages):
24411 - Fix a bug where clients using bridges would report themselves
24412 as 50% bootstrapped even without a live consensus document.
24413 Fixes bug 9922; bugfix on 0.2.1.1-alpha.
24414 - Suppress a warning where, if there's only one directory authority
24415 in the network, we would complain that votes and signatures cannot
24416 be uploaded to other directory authorities. Fixes bug 10842;
24417 bugfix on 0.2.2.26-beta.
24418 - Report bootstrapping progress correctly when we're downloading
24419 microdescriptors. We had updated our "do we have enough microdescs
24420 to begin building circuits?" logic most recently in 0.2.4.10-alpha
24421 (see bug 5956), but we left the bootstrap status event logic at
24422 "how far through getting 1/4 of them are we?" Fixes bug 9958;
24423 bugfix on 0.2.2.36, which is where they diverged (see bug 5343).
24425 o Minor bugfixes (new since 0.2.5.1-alpha, also in 0.2.4.20):
24426 - Avoid a crash bug when starting with a corrupted microdescriptor
24427 cache file. Fixes bug 10406; bugfix on 0.2.2.6-alpha.
24428 - If we fail to dump a previously cached microdescriptor to disk, avoid
24429 freeing duplicate data later on. Fixes bug 10423; bugfix on
24430 0.2.4.13-alpha. Spotted by "bobnomnom".
24432 o Minor bugfixes on 0.2.4.x (new since 0.2.5.1-alpha, also in 0.2.4.18-rc):
24433 - Correctly log long IPv6 exit policies, instead of truncating them
24434 or reporting an error. Fixes bug 9596; bugfix on 0.2.4.7-alpha.
24435 - Our default TLS ecdhe groups were backwards: we meant to be using
24436 P224 for relays (for performance win) and P256 for bridges (since
24437 it is more common in the wild). Instead we had it backwards. After
24438 reconsideration, we decided that the default should be P256 on all
24439 hosts, since its security is probably better, and since P224 is
24440 reportedly used quite little in the wild. Found by "skruffy" on
24441 IRC. Fix for bug 9780; bugfix on 0.2.4.8-alpha.
24442 - Free directory authority certificate download statuses on exit
24443 rather than leaking them. Fixes bug 9644; bugfix on 0.2.4.13-alpha.
24445 o Minor bugfixes on 0.2.3.x (new since 0.2.5.1-alpha, also in 0.2.4.18-rc):
24446 - If the guard we choose first doesn't answer, we would try the
24447 second guard, but once we connected to the second guard we would
24448 abandon it and retry the first one, slowing down bootstrapping.
24449 The fix is to treat all our initially chosen guards as acceptable
24450 to use. Fixes bug 9946; bugfix on 0.1.1.11-alpha.
24451 - Fix an assertion failure that would occur when disabling the
24452 ORPort setting on a running Tor process while accounting was
24453 enabled. Fixes bug 6979; bugfix on 0.2.2.18-alpha.
24454 - When examining the list of network interfaces to find our address,
24455 do not consider non-running or disabled network interfaces. Fixes
24456 bug 9904; bugfix on 0.2.3.11-alpha. Patch from "hantwister".
24457 - Avoid an off-by-one error when checking buffer boundaries when
24458 formatting the exit status of a pluggable transport helper.
24459 This is probably not an exploitable bug, but better safe than
24460 sorry. Fixes bug 9928; bugfix on 0.2.3.18-rc. Bug found by
24463 o Removed code and features:
24464 - Clients now reject any directory authority certificates lacking
24465 a dir-key-crosscert element. These have been included since
24466 0.2.1.9-alpha, so there's no real reason for them to be optional
24467 any longer. Completes proposal 157. Resolves ticket 10162.
24468 - Remove all code that existed to support the v2 directory system,
24469 since there are no longer any v2 directory authorities. Resolves
24471 - Remove the HSAuthoritativeDir and AlternateHSAuthority torrc
24472 options, which were used for designating authorities as "Hidden
24473 service authorities". There has been no use of hidden service
24474 authorities since 0.2.2.1-alpha, when we stopped uploading or
24475 downloading v0 hidden service descriptors. Fixes bug 10881; also
24476 part of a fix for bug 10841.
24478 o Code simplification and refactoring:
24479 - Remove some old fallback code designed to keep Tor clients working
24480 in a network with only two working relays. Elsewhere in the code we
24481 have long since stopped supporting such networks, so there wasn't
24482 much point in keeping it around. Addresses ticket 9926.
24483 - Reject 0-length EXTEND2 cells more explicitly. Fixes bug 10536;
24484 bugfix on 0.2.4.8-alpha. Reported by "cypherpunks".
24485 - Remove data structures which were introduced to implement the
24486 CellStatistics option: they are now redundant with the addition
24487 of a timestamp to the regular packed_cell_t data structure, which
24488 we did in 0.2.4.18-rc in order to resolve ticket 9093. Implements
24491 o Documentation (man page) fixes:
24492 - Update manpage to describe some of the files you can expect to
24493 find in Tor's DataDirectory. Addresses ticket 9839.
24494 - Document that all but one DirPort entry must have the NoAdvertise
24495 flag set. Fixes bug 10470; bugfix on 0.2.3.3-alpha / 0.2.3.16-alpha.
24497 o Documentation fixes (new since 0.2.5.1-alpha, also in 0.2.4.18-rc):
24498 - Clarify the usage and risks of setting the ContactInfo torrc line
24499 for your relay or bridge. Resolves ticket 9854.
24500 - Add anchors to the manpage so we can link to the html version of
24501 the documentation for specific options. Resolves ticket 9866.
24502 - Replace remaining references to DirServer in man page and
24503 log entries. Resolves ticket 10124.
24506 - Make the "tor-gencert" tool used by directory authority operators
24507 create 2048-bit signing keys by default (rather than 1024-bit, since
24508 1024-bit is uncomfortably small these days). Addresses ticket 10324.
24511 Changes in version 0.2.4.20 - 2013-12-22
24512 Tor 0.2.4.20 fixes potentially poor random number generation for users
24513 who 1) use OpenSSL 1.0.0 or later, 2) set "HardwareAccel 1" in their
24514 torrc file, 3) have "Sandy Bridge" or "Ivy Bridge" Intel processors,
24515 and 4) have no state file in their DataDirectory (as would happen on
24516 first start). Users who generated relay or hidden service identity
24517 keys in such a situation should discard them and generate new ones.
24519 This release also fixes a logic error that caused Tor clients to build
24520 many more preemptive circuits than they actually need.
24523 - Do not allow OpenSSL engines to replace the PRNG, even when
24524 HardwareAccel is set. The only default builtin PRNG engine uses
24525 the Intel RDRAND instruction to replace the entire PRNG, and
24526 ignores all attempts to seed it with more entropy. That's
24527 cryptographically stupid: the right response to a new alleged
24528 entropy source is never to discard all previously used entropy
24529 sources. Fixes bug 10402; works around behavior introduced in
24530 OpenSSL 1.0.0. Diagnosis and investigation thanks to "coderman"
24532 - Fix assertion failure when AutomapHostsOnResolve yields an IPv6
24533 address. Fixes bug 10465; bugfix on 0.2.4.7-alpha.
24534 - Avoid launching spurious extra circuits when a stream is pending.
24535 This fixes a bug where any circuit that _wasn't_ unusable for new
24536 streams would be treated as if it were, causing extra circuits to
24537 be launched. Fixes bug 10456; bugfix on 0.2.4.12-alpha.
24540 - Avoid a crash bug when starting with a corrupted microdescriptor
24541 cache file. Fixes bug 10406; bugfix on 0.2.2.6-alpha.
24542 - If we fail to dump a previously cached microdescriptor to disk, avoid
24543 freeing duplicate data later on. Fixes bug 10423; bugfix on
24544 0.2.4.13-alpha. Spotted by "bobnomnom".
24547 Changes in version 0.2.4.19 - 2013-12-11
24548 The Tor 0.2.4 release series is dedicated to the memory of Aaron Swartz
24549 (1986-2013). Aaron worked on diverse projects including helping to guide
24550 Creative Commons, playing a key role in stopping SOPA/PIPA, bringing
24551 transparency to the U.S government's PACER documents, and contributing
24552 design and development for Tor and Tor2Web. Aaron was one of the latest
24553 martyrs in our collective fight for civil liberties and human rights,
24554 and his death is all the more painful because he was one of us.
24556 Tor 0.2.4.19, the first stable release in the 0.2.4 branch, features
24557 a new circuit handshake and link encryption that use ECC to provide
24558 better security and efficiency; makes relays better manage circuit
24559 creation requests; uses "directory guards" to reduce client enumeration
24560 risks; makes bridges collect and report statistics about the pluggable
24561 transports they support; cleans up and improves our geoip database;
24562 gets much closer to IPv6 support for clients, bridges, and relays; makes
24563 directory authorities use measured bandwidths rather than advertised
24564 ones when computing flags and thresholds; disables client-side DNS
24565 caching to reduce tracking risks; and fixes a big bug in bridge
24566 reachability testing. This release introduces two new design
24567 abstractions in the code: a new "channel" abstraction between circuits
24568 and or_connections to allow for implementing alternate relay-to-relay
24569 transports, and a new "circuitmux" abstraction storing the queue of
24570 circuits for a channel. The release also includes many stability,
24571 security, and privacy fixes.
24574 Changes in version 0.2.4.18-rc - 2013-11-16
24575 Tor 0.2.4.18-rc is the fourth release candidate for the Tor 0.2.4.x
24576 series. It takes a variety of fixes from the 0.2.5.x branch to improve
24577 stability, performance, and better handling of edge cases.
24580 - Re-enable TLS 1.1 and 1.2 when built with OpenSSL 1.0.1e or later.
24581 Resolves ticket 6055. (OpenSSL before 1.0.1 didn't have TLS 1.1 or
24582 1.2, and OpenSSL from 1.0.1 through 1.0.1d had bugs that prevented
24583 renegotiation from working with TLS 1.1 or 1.2, so we had disabled
24584 them to solve bug 6033.)
24587 - No longer stop reading or writing on cpuworker connections when
24588 our rate limiting buckets go empty. Now we should handle circuit
24589 handshake requests more promptly. Resolves bug 9731.
24590 - If we are unable to save a microdescriptor to the journal, do not
24591 drop it from memory and then reattempt downloading it. Fixes bug
24592 9645; bugfix on 0.2.2.6-alpha.
24593 - Stop trying to bootstrap all our directory information from
24594 only our first guard. Discovered while fixing bug 9946; bugfix
24596 - The new channel code sometimes lost track of in-progress circuits,
24597 causing long-running clients to stop building new circuits. The
24598 fix is to always call circuit_n_chan_done(chan, 0) from
24599 channel_closed(). Fixes bug 9776; bugfix on 0.2.4.17-rc.
24601 o Minor bugfixes (on 0.2.4.x):
24602 - Correctly log long IPv6 exit policies, instead of truncating them
24603 or reporting an error. Fixes bug 9596; bugfix on 0.2.4.7-alpha.
24604 - Our default TLS ecdhe groups were backwards: we meant to be using
24605 P224 for relays (for performance win) and P256 for bridges (since
24606 it is more common in the wild). Instead we had it backwards. After
24607 reconsideration, we decided that the default should be P256 on all
24608 hosts, since its security is probably better, and since P224 is
24609 reportedly used quite little in the wild. Found by "skruffy" on
24610 IRC. Fix for bug 9780; bugfix on 0.2.4.8-alpha.
24611 - Free directory authority certificate download statuses on exit
24612 rather than leaking them. Fixes bug 9644; bugfix on 0.2.4.13-alpha.
24614 o Minor bugfixes (on 0.2.3.x and earlier):
24615 - If the guard we choose first doesn't answer, we would try the
24616 second guard, but once we connected to the second guard we would
24617 abandon it and retry the first one, slowing down bootstrapping.
24618 The fix is to treat all our initially chosen guards as acceptable
24619 to use. Fixes bug 9946; bugfix on 0.1.1.11-alpha.
24620 - Fix an assertion failure that would occur when disabling the
24621 ORPort setting on a running Tor process while accounting was
24622 enabled. Fixes bug 6979; bugfix on 0.2.2.18-alpha.
24623 - When examining the list of network interfaces to find our address,
24624 do not consider non-running or disabled network interfaces. Fixes
24625 bug 9904; bugfix on 0.2.3.11-alpha. Patch from "hantwister".
24626 - Avoid an off-by-one error when checking buffer boundaries when
24627 formatting the exit status of a pluggable transport helper.
24628 This is probably not an exploitable bug, but better safe than
24629 sorry. Fixes bug 9928; bugfix on 0.2.3.18-rc. Bug found by
24632 o Minor features (protecting client timestamps):
24633 - Clients no longer send timestamps in their NETINFO cells. These were
24634 not used for anything, and they provided one small way for clients
24635 to be distinguished from each other as they moved from network to
24636 network or behind NAT. Implements part of proposal 222.
24637 - Clients now round timestamps in INTRODUCE cells down to the nearest
24638 10 minutes. If a new Support022HiddenServices option is set to 0, or
24639 if it's set to "auto" and the feature is disabled in the consensus,
24640 the timestamp is sent as 0 instead. Implements part of proposal 222.
24641 - Stop sending timestamps in AUTHENTICATE cells. This is not such
24642 a big deal from a security point of view, but it achieves no actual
24643 good purpose, and isn't needed. Implements part of proposal 222.
24644 - Reduce down accuracy of timestamps in hidden service descriptors.
24645 Implements part of proposal 222.
24647 o Minor features (other):
24648 - Improve the circuit queue out-of-memory handler. Previously, when
24649 we ran low on memory, we'd close whichever circuits had the most
24650 queued cells. Now, we close those that have the *oldest* queued
24651 cells, on the theory that those are most responsible for us
24652 running low on memory. Based on analysis from a forthcoming paper
24653 by Jansen, Tschorsch, Johnson, and Scheuermann. Fixes bug 9093.
24654 - Generate bootstrapping status update events correctly when fetching
24655 microdescriptors. Fixes bug 9927.
24656 - Update to the October 2 2013 Maxmind GeoLite Country database.
24658 o Documentation fixes:
24659 - Clarify the usage and risks of setting the ContactInfo torrc line
24660 for your relay or bridge. Resolves ticket 9854.
24661 - Add anchors to the manpage so we can link to the html version of
24662 the documentation for specific options. Resolves ticket 9866.
24663 - Replace remaining references to DirServer in man page and
24664 log entries. Resolves ticket 10124.
24667 Changes in version 0.2.5.1-alpha - 2013-10-02
24668 Tor 0.2.5.1-alpha introduces experimental support for syscall sandboxing
24669 on Linux, allows bridges that offer pluggable transports to report usage
24670 statistics, fixes many issues to make testing easier, and provides
24671 a pile of minor features and bugfixes that have been waiting for a
24672 release of the new branch.
24674 This is the first alpha release in a new series, so expect there to
24675 be bugs. Users who would rather test out a more stable branch should
24676 stay with 0.2.4.x for now.
24678 o Major features (security):
24679 - Use the seccomp2 syscall filtering facility on Linux to limit
24680 which system calls Tor can invoke. This is an experimental,
24681 Linux-only feature to provide defense-in-depth against unknown
24682 attacks. To try turning it on, set "Sandbox 1" in your torrc
24683 file. Please be ready to report bugs. We hope to add support
24684 for better sandboxing in the future, including more fine-grained
24685 filters, better division of responsibility, and support for more
24686 platforms. This work has been done by Cristian-Matei Toader for
24687 Google Summer of Code.
24688 - Re-enable TLS 1.1 and 1.2 when built with OpenSSL 1.0.1e or later.
24689 Resolves ticket 6055. (OpenSSL before 1.0.1 didn't have TLS 1.1 or
24690 1.2, and OpenSSL from 1.0.1 through 1.0.1d had bugs that prevented
24691 renegotiation from working with TLS 1.1 or 1.2, so we had disabled
24692 them to solve bug 6033.)
24694 o Major features (other):
24695 - Add support for passing arguments to managed pluggable transport
24696 proxies. Implements ticket 3594.
24697 - Bridges now track GeoIP information and the number of their users
24698 even when pluggable transports are in use, and report usage
24699 statistics in their extra-info descriptors. Resolves tickets 4773
24701 - Make testing Tor networks bootstrap better: lower directory fetch
24702 retry schedules and maximum interval without directory requests,
24703 and raise maximum download tries. Implements ticket 6752.
24704 - Add make target 'test-network' to run tests on a Chutney network.
24705 Implements ticket 8530.
24706 - The ntor handshake is now on-by-default, no matter what the
24707 directory authorities recommend. Implements ticket 8561.
24710 - Instead of writing destroy cells directly to outgoing connection
24711 buffers, queue them and intersperse them with other outgoing cells.
24712 This can prevent a set of resource starvation conditions where too
24713 many pending destroy cells prevent data cells from actually getting
24714 delivered. Reported by "oftc_must_be_destroyed". Fixes bug 7912;
24715 bugfix on 0.2.0.1-alpha.
24716 - If we are unable to save a microdescriptor to the journal, do not
24717 drop it from memory and then reattempt downloading it. Fixes bug
24718 9645; bugfix on 0.2.2.6-alpha.
24719 - The new channel code sometimes lost track of in-progress circuits,
24720 causing long-running clients to stop building new circuits. The
24721 fix is to always call circuit_n_chan_done(chan, 0) from
24722 channel_closed(). Fixes bug 9776; bugfix on 0.2.4.17-rc.
24725 - Tor now builds each source file in two modes: a mode that avoids
24726 exposing identifiers needlessly, and another mode that exposes
24727 more identifiers for testing. This lets the compiler do better at
24728 optimizing the production code, while enabling us to take more
24729 radical measures to let the unit tests test things.
24730 - The production builds no longer include functions used only in
24731 the unit tests; all functions exposed from a module only for
24732 unit-testing are now static in production builds.
24733 - Add an --enable-coverage configuration option to make the unit
24734 tests (and a new src/or/tor-cov target) to build with gcov test
24738 - We now have rudimentary function mocking support that our unit
24739 tests can use to test functions in isolation. Function mocking
24740 lets the tests temporarily replace a function's dependencies with
24741 stub functions, so that the tests can check the function without
24742 invoking the other functions it calls.
24743 - Add more unit tests for the <circid,channel>->circuit map, and
24744 the destroy-cell-tracking code to fix bug 7912.
24745 - Unit tests for failing cases of the TAP onion handshake.
24746 - More unit tests for address-manipulation functions.
24748 o Minor features (protecting client timestamps):
24749 - Clients no longer send timestamps in their NETINFO cells. These were
24750 not used for anything, and they provided one small way for clients
24751 to be distinguished from each other as they moved from network to
24752 network or behind NAT. Implements part of proposal 222.
24753 - Clients now round timestamps in INTRODUCE cells down to the nearest
24754 10 minutes. If a new Support022HiddenServices option is set to 0, or
24755 if it's set to "auto" and the feature is disabled in the consensus,
24756 the timestamp is sent as 0 instead. Implements part of proposal 222.
24757 - Stop sending timestamps in AUTHENTICATE cells. This is not such
24758 a big deal from a security point of view, but it achieves no actual
24759 good purpose, and isn't needed. Implements part of proposal 222.
24760 - Reduce down accuracy of timestamps in hidden service descriptors.
24761 Implements part of proposal 222.
24763 o Minor features (config options):
24764 - Config (torrc) lines now handle fingerprints which are missing
24765 their initial '$'. Resolves ticket 4341; improvement over 0.0.9pre5.
24766 - Support a --dump-config option to print some or all of the
24767 configured options. Mainly useful for debugging the command-line
24768 option parsing code. Helps resolve ticket 4647.
24769 - Raise awareness of safer logging: notify user of potentially
24770 unsafe config options, like logging more verbosely than severity
24771 "notice" or setting SafeLogging to 0. Resolves ticket 5584.
24772 - Add a new configuration option TestingV3AuthVotingStartOffset
24773 that bootstraps a network faster by changing the timing for
24774 consensus votes. Addresses ticket 8532.
24775 - Add a new torrc option "ServerTransportOptions" that allows
24776 bridge operators to pass configuration parameters to their
24777 pluggable transports. Resolves ticket 8929.
24778 - The config (torrc) file now accepts bandwidth and space limits in
24779 bits as well as bytes. (Anywhere that you can say "2 Kilobytes",
24780 you can now say "16 kilobits", and so on.) Resolves ticket 9214.
24783 o Minor features (build):
24784 - Add support for `--library-versions` flag. Implements ticket 6384.
24785 - Return the "unexpected sendme" warnings to a warn severity, but make
24786 them rate limited, to help diagnose ticket 8093.
24787 - Detect a missing asciidoc, and warn the user about it, during
24788 configure rather than at build time. Fixes issue 6506. Patch from
24791 o Minor features (other):
24792 - Use the SOCK_NONBLOCK socket type, if supported, to open nonblocking
24793 sockets in a single system call. Implements ticket 5129.
24794 - Log current accounting state (bytes sent and received + remaining
24795 time for the current accounting period) in the relay's heartbeat
24796 message. Implements ticket 5526; patch from Peter Retzlaff.
24797 - Implement the TRANSPORT_LAUNCHED control port event that
24798 notifies controllers about new launched pluggable
24799 transports. Resolves ticket 5609.
24800 - If we're using the pure-C 32-bit curve25519_donna implementation
24801 of curve25519, build it with the -fomit-frame-pointer option to
24802 make it go faster on register-starved hosts. This improves our
24803 handshake performance by about 6% on i386 hosts without nacl.
24804 Closes ticket 8109.
24805 - Update to the September 4 2013 Maxmind GeoLite Country database.
24808 - Set the listen() backlog limit to the largest actually supported
24809 on the system, not to the value in a header file. Fixes bug 9716;
24810 bugfix on every released Tor.
24811 - No longer accept malformed http headers when parsing urls from
24812 headers. Now we reply with Bad Request ("400"). Fixes bug 2767;
24813 bugfix on 0.0.6pre1.
24814 - In munge_extrainfo_into_routerinfo(), check the return value of
24815 memchr(). This would have been a serious issue if we ever passed
24816 it a non-extrainfo. Fixes bug 8791; bugfix on 0.2.0.6-alpha. Patch
24818 - On the chance that somebody manages to build Tor on a
24819 platform where time_t is unsigned, correct the way that
24820 microdesc_add_to_cache() handles negative time arguments.
24821 Fixes bug 8042; bugfix on 0.2.3.1-alpha.
24822 - Reject relative control socket paths and emit a warning. Previously,
24823 single-component control socket paths would be rejected, but Tor
24824 would not log why it could not validate the config. Fixes bug 9258;
24825 bugfix on 0.2.3.16-alpha.
24827 o Minor bugfixes (command line):
24828 - Use a single command-line parser for parsing torrc options on the
24829 command line and for finding special command-line options to avoid
24830 inconsistent behavior for torrc option arguments that have the same
24831 names as command-line options. Fixes bugs 4647 and 9578; bugfix on
24833 - No longer allow 'tor --hash-password' with no arguments. Fixes bug
24834 9573; bugfix on 0.0.9pre5.
24836 o Minor fixes (build, auxiliary programs):
24837 - Stop preprocessing the "torify" script with autoconf, since
24838 it no longer refers to LOCALSTATEDIR. Fixes bug 5505; patch
24840 - The tor-fw-helper program now follows the standard convention and
24841 exits with status code "0" on success. Fixes bug 9030; bugfix on
24842 0.2.3.1-alpha. Patch by Arlo Breault.
24843 - Corrected ./configure advice for what openssl dev package you should
24844 install on Debian. Fixes bug 9207; bugfix on 0.2.0.1-alpha.
24846 o Minor code improvements:
24847 - Remove constants and tests for PKCS1 padding; it's insecure and
24848 shouldn't be used for anything new. Fixes bug 8792; patch
24850 - Remove instances of strcpy() from the unit tests. They weren't
24851 hurting anything, since they were only in the unit tests, but it's
24852 embarrassing to have strcpy() in the code at all, and some analysis
24853 tools don't like it. Fixes bug 8790; bugfix on 0.2.3.6-alpha and
24854 0.2.3.8-alpha. Patch from Arlo Breault.
24856 o Removed features:
24857 - Remove migration code from when we renamed the "cached-routers"
24858 file to "cached-descriptors" back in 0.2.0.8-alpha. This
24859 incidentally resolves ticket 6502 by cleaning up the related code
24860 a bit. Patch from Akshay Hebbar.
24862 o Code simplification and refactoring:
24863 - Extract the common duplicated code for creating a subdirectory
24864 of the data directory and writing to a file in it. Fixes ticket
24865 4282; patch from Peter Retzlaff.
24866 - Since OpenSSL 0.9.7, the i2d_*() functions support allocating output
24867 buffer. Avoid calling twice: i2d_RSAPublicKey(), i2d_DHparams(),
24868 i2d_X509(), and i2d_PublicKey(). Resolves ticket 5170.
24869 - Add a set of accessor functions for the circuit timeout data
24870 structure. Fixes ticket 6153; patch from "piet".
24871 - Clean up exit paths from connection_listener_new(). Closes ticket
24872 8789. Patch from Arlo Breault.
24873 - Since we rely on OpenSSL 0.9.8 now, we can use EVP_PKEY_cmp()
24874 and drop our own custom pkey_eq() implementation. Fixes bug 9043.
24875 - Use a doubly-linked list to implement the global circuit list.
24876 Resolves ticket 9108. Patch from Marek Majkowski.
24877 - Remove contrib/id_to_fp.c since it wasn't used anywhere.
24880 Changes in version 0.2.4.17-rc - 2013-09-05
24881 Tor 0.2.4.17-rc is the third release candidate for the Tor 0.2.4.x
24882 series. It adds an emergency step to help us tolerate the massive
24883 influx of users: 0.2.4 clients using the new (faster and safer) "NTor"
24884 circuit-level handshakes now effectively jump the queue compared to
24885 the 0.2.3 clients using "TAP" handshakes. This release also fixes a
24886 big bug hindering bridge reachability tests.
24889 - Relays now process the new "NTor" circuit-level handshake requests
24890 with higher priority than the old "TAP" circuit-level handshake
24891 requests. We still process some TAP requests to not totally starve
24892 0.2.3 clients when NTor becomes popular. A new consensus parameter
24893 "NumNTorsPerTAP" lets us tune the balance later if we need to.
24894 Implements ticket 9574.
24897 - If the circuit build timeout logic is disabled (via the consensus,
24898 or because we are an authority), then don't build testing circuits.
24899 Fixes bug 9657; bugfix on 0.2.2.14-alpha.
24900 - Bridges now send AUTH_CHALLENGE cells during their v3 handshakes;
24901 previously they did not, which prevented them from receiving
24902 successful connections from relays for self-test or bandwidth
24903 testing. Also, when a relay is extending a circuit to a bridge,
24904 it needs to send a NETINFO cell, even when the bridge hasn't sent
24905 an AUTH_CHALLENGE cell. Fixes bug 9546; bugfix on 0.2.3.6-alpha.
24906 - If the time to download the next old-style networkstatus is in
24907 the future, do not decline to consider whether to download the
24908 next microdescriptor networkstatus. Fixes bug 9564; bugfix on
24912 - Avoid double-closing the listener socket in our socketpair()
24913 replacement (used on Windows) in the case where the addresses on
24914 our opened sockets don't match what we expected. Fixes bug 9400;
24915 bugfix on 0.0.2pre7. Found by Coverity.
24917 o Minor fixes (config options):
24918 - Avoid overflows when the user sets MaxCircuitDirtiness to a
24919 ridiculously high value, by imposing a (ridiculously high) 30-day
24920 maximum on MaxCircuitDirtiness.
24921 - Fix the documentation of HeartbeatPeriod to say that the heartbeat
24922 message is logged at notice, not at info.
24923 - Warn and fail if a server is configured not to advertise any
24924 ORPorts at all. (We need *something* to put in our descriptor,
24925 or we just won't work.)
24928 - Track how many "TAP" and "NTor" circuit handshake requests we get,
24929 and how many we complete, and log it every hour to help relay
24930 operators follow trends in network load. Addresses ticket 9658.
24931 - Update to the August 7 2013 Maxmind GeoLite Country database.
24934 Changes in version 0.2.4.16-rc - 2013-08-10
24935 Tor 0.2.4.16-rc is the second release candidate for the Tor 0.2.4.x
24936 series. It fixes several crash bugs in the 0.2.4 branch.
24939 - Fix a bug in the voting algorithm that could yield incorrect results
24940 when a non-naming authority declared too many flags. Fixes bug 9200;
24941 bugfix on 0.2.0.3-alpha.
24942 - Fix an uninitialized read that could in some cases lead to a remote
24943 crash while parsing INTRODUCE2 cells. Bugfix on 0.2.4.1-alpha.
24944 Anybody running a hidden service on the experimental 0.2.4.x
24945 branch should upgrade. (This is, so far as we know, unrelated to
24947 - Avoid an assertion failure when processing DNS replies without the
24948 answer types we expected. Fixes bug 9337; bugfix on 0.2.4.7-alpha.
24949 - Avoid a crash when using --hash-password. Fixes bug 9295; bugfix on
24950 0.2.4.15-rc. Found by stem integration tests.
24953 - Fix an invalid memory read that occurred when a pluggable
24954 transport proxy failed its configuration protocol.
24955 Fixes bug 9288; bugfix on 0.2.4.1-alpha.
24956 - When evaluating whether to use a connection that we haven't
24957 decided is canonical using a recent link protocol version,
24958 decide that it's canonical only if it used address _does_
24959 match the desired address. Fixes bug 9309; bugfix on
24960 0.2.4.4-alpha. Reported by skruffy.
24961 - Make the default behavior of NumDirectoryGuards be to track
24962 NumEntryGuards. Now a user who changes only NumEntryGuards will get
24963 the behavior she expects. Fixes bug 9354; bugfix on 0.2.4.8-alpha.
24964 - Fix a spurious compilation warning with some older versions of
24965 GCC on FreeBSD. Fixes bug 9254; bugfix on 0.2.4.14-alpha.
24968 - Update to the July 3 2013 Maxmind GeoLite Country database.
24971 Changes in version 0.2.4.15-rc - 2013-07-01
24972 Tor 0.2.4.15-rc is the first release candidate for the Tor 0.2.4.x
24973 series. It fixes a few smaller bugs, but generally appears stable.
24974 Please test it and let us know whether it is!
24977 - When receiving a new configuration file via the control port's
24978 LOADCONF command, do not treat the defaults file as absent.
24979 Fixes bug 9122; bugfix on 0.2.3.9-alpha.
24982 - Issue a warning when running with the bufferevents backend enabled.
24983 It's still not stable, and people should know that they're likely
24984 to hit unexpected problems. Closes ticket 9147.
24987 Changes in version 0.2.4.14-alpha - 2013-06-18
24988 Tor 0.2.4.14-alpha fixes a pair of client guard enumeration problems
24989 present in 0.2.4.13-alpha.
24992 - When we have too much memory queued in circuits (according to a new
24993 MaxMemInCellQueues option), close the circuits consuming the most
24994 memory. This prevents us from running out of memory as a relay if
24995 circuits fill up faster than they can be drained. Fixes bug 9063;
24996 bugfix on the 54th commit of Tor. This bug is a further fix beyond
24997 bug 6252, whose fix was merged into 0.2.3.21-rc.
24999 This change also fixes an earlier approach taken in 0.2.4.13-alpha,
25000 where we tried to solve this issue simply by imposing an upper limit
25001 on the number of queued cells for a single circuit. That approach
25002 proved to be problematic, since there are ways to provoke clients to
25003 send a number of cells in excess of any such reasonable limit. Fixes
25004 bug 9072; bugfix on 0.2.4.13-alpha.
25006 - Limit hidden service descriptors to at most ten introduction
25007 points, to slow one kind of guard enumeration. Fixes bug 9002;
25008 bugfix on 0.1.1.11-alpha.
25011 Changes in version 0.2.4.13-alpha - 2013-06-14
25012 Tor 0.2.4.13-alpha fixes a variety of potential remote crash
25013 vulnerabilities, makes socks5 username/password circuit isolation
25014 actually actually work (this time for sure!), and cleans up a bunch
25015 of other issues in preparation for a release candidate.
25017 o Major bugfixes (robustness):
25018 - Close any circuit that has too many cells queued on it. Fixes
25019 bug 9063; bugfix on the 54th commit of Tor. This bug is a further
25020 fix beyond bug 6252, whose fix was merged into 0.2.3.21-rc.
25021 - Prevent the get_freelists() function from running off the end of
25022 the list of freelists if it somehow gets an unrecognized
25023 allocation. Fixes bug 8844; bugfix on 0.2.0.16-alpha. Reported by
25025 - Avoid an assertion failure on OpenBSD (and perhaps other BSDs)
25026 when an exit connection with optimistic data succeeds immediately
25027 rather than returning EINPROGRESS. Fixes bug 9017; bugfix on
25029 - Fix a directory authority crash bug when building a consensus
25030 using an older consensus as its basis. Fixes bug 8833. Bugfix
25034 - Avoid a memory leak where we would leak a consensus body when we
25035 find that a consensus which we couldn't previously verify due to
25036 missing certificates is now verifiable. Fixes bug 8719; bugfix
25038 - We used to always request authority certificates by identity digest,
25039 meaning we'd get the newest one even when we wanted one with a
25040 different signing key. Then we would complain about being given
25041 a certificate we already had, and never get the one we really
25042 wanted. Now we use the "fp-sk/" resource as well as the "fp/"
25043 resource to request the one we want. Fixes bug 5595; bugfix on
25045 - Follow the socks5 protocol when offering username/password
25046 authentication. The fix for bug 8117 exposed this bug, and it
25047 turns out real-world applications like Pidgin do care. Bugfix on
25048 0.2.3.2-alpha; fixes bug 8879.
25049 - Prevent failures on Windows Vista and later when rebuilding the
25050 microdescriptor cache. Diagnosed by Robert Ransom. Fixes bug 8822;
25051 bugfix on 0.2.4.12-alpha.
25054 - Fix an impossible buffer overrun in the AES unit tests. Fixes
25055 bug 8845; bugfix on 0.2.0.7-alpha. Found by eugenis.
25056 - If for some reason we fail to write a microdescriptor while
25057 rebuilding the cache, do not let the annotations from that
25058 microdescriptor linger in the cache file, and do not let the
25059 microdescriptor stay recorded as present in its old location.
25060 Fixes bug 9047; bugfix on 0.2.2.6-alpha.
25061 - Fix a memory leak that would occur whenever a configuration
25062 option changed. Fixes bug 8718; bugfix on 0.2.3.3-alpha.
25063 - Paste the description for PathBias parameters from the man
25064 page into or.h, so the code documents them too. Fixes bug 7982;
25065 bugfix on 0.2.3.17-beta and 0.2.4.8-alpha.
25066 - Relays now treat a changed IPv6 ORPort as sufficient reason to
25067 publish an updated descriptor. Fixes bug 6026; bugfix on
25069 - When launching a resolve request on behalf of an AF_UNIX control
25070 socket, omit the address field of the new entry connection, used in
25071 subsequent controller events, rather than letting tor_dup_addr()
25072 set it to "<unknown address type>". Fixes bug 8639; bugfix on
25075 o Minor bugfixes (log messages):
25076 - Fix a scaling issue in the path bias accounting code that
25077 resulted in "Bug:" log messages from either
25078 pathbias_scale_close_rates() or pathbias_count_build_success().
25079 This represents a bugfix on a previous bugfix: the original fix
25080 attempted in 0.2.4.10-alpha was incomplete. Fixes bug 8235; bugfix
25082 - Give a less useless error message when the user asks for an IPv4
25083 address on an IPv6-only port, or vice versa. Fixes bug 8846; bugfix
25087 - Downgrade "unexpected SENDME" warnings to protocol-warn for 0.2.4.x,
25088 to tolerate bug 8093 for now.
25089 - Add an "ignoring-advertised-bws" boolean to the flag-threshold lines
25090 in directory authority votes to describe whether they have enough
25091 measured bandwidths to ignore advertised (relay descriptor)
25092 bandwidth claims. Resolves ticket 8711.
25093 - Update to the June 5 2013 Maxmind GeoLite Country database.
25095 o Removed documentation:
25096 - Remove some of the older contents of doc/ as obsolete; move others
25097 to torspec.git. Fixes bug 8965.
25099 o Code simplification and refactoring:
25100 - Avoid using character buffers when constructing most directory
25101 objects: this approach was unwieldy and error-prone. Instead,
25102 build smartlists of strings, and concatenate them when done.
25105 Changes in version 0.2.4.12-alpha - 2013-04-18
25106 Tor 0.2.4.12-alpha moves Tor forward on several fronts: it starts the
25107 process for lengthening the guard rotation period, makes directory
25108 authority opinions in the consensus a bit less gameable, makes socks5
25109 username/password circuit isolation actually work, and fixes a wide
25110 variety of other issues.
25113 - Raise the default time that a client keeps an entry guard from
25114 "1-2 months" to "2-3 months", as suggested by Tariq Elahi's WPES
25115 2012 paper. (We would make it even longer, but we need better client
25116 load balancing first.) Also, make the guard lifetime controllable
25117 via a new GuardLifetime torrc option and a GuardLifetime consensus
25118 parameter. Start of a fix for bug 8240; bugfix on 0.1.1.11-alpha.
25119 - Directory authorities now prefer using measured bandwidths to
25120 advertised ones when computing flags and thresholds. Resolves
25122 - Directory authorities that have more than a threshold number
25123 of relays with measured bandwidths now treat relays with unmeasured
25124 bandwidths as having bandwidth 0. Resolves ticket 8435.
25126 o Major bugfixes (assert / resource use):
25127 - Avoid a bug where our response to TLS renegotiation under certain
25128 network conditions could lead to a busy-loop, with 100% CPU
25129 consumption. Fixes bug 5650; bugfix on 0.2.0.16-alpha.
25130 - Avoid an assertion when we discover that we'd like to write a cell
25131 onto a closing connection: just discard the cell. Fixes another
25132 case of bug 7350; bugfix on 0.2.4.4-alpha.
25134 o Major bugfixes (client-side privacy):
25135 - When we mark a circuit as unusable for new circuits, have it
25136 continue to be unusable for new circuits even if MaxCircuitDirtiness
25137 is increased too much at the wrong time, or the system clock jumps
25138 backwards. Fixes bug 6174; bugfix on 0.0.2pre26.
25139 - If ClientDNSRejectInternalAddresses ("do not believe DNS queries
25140 which have resolved to internal addresses") is set, apply that
25141 rule to IPv6 as well. Fixes bug 8475; bugfix on 0.2.0.7-alpha.
25142 - When an exit relay rejects a stream with reason "exit policy", but
25143 we only know an exit policy summary (e.g. from the microdesc
25144 consensus) for it, do not mark the relay as useless for all exiting.
25145 Instead, mark just the circuit as unsuitable for that particular
25146 address. Fixes part of bug 7582; bugfix on 0.2.3.2-alpha.
25147 - Allow applications to get proper stream isolation with
25148 IsolateSOCKSAuth. Many SOCKS5 clients that want to offer
25149 username/password authentication also offer "no authentication". Tor
25150 had previously preferred "no authentication", so the applications
25151 never actually sent Tor their auth details. Now Tor selects
25152 username/password authentication if it's offered. You can disable
25153 this behavior on a per-SOCKSPort basis via PreferSOCKSNoAuth. Fixes
25154 bug 8117; bugfix on 0.2.3.3-alpha.
25156 o Major bugfixes (other):
25157 - When unable to find any working directory nodes to use as a
25158 directory guard, give up rather than adding the same non-working
25159 nodes to the directory guard list over and over. Fixes bug 8231;
25160 bugfix on 0.2.4.8-alpha.
25163 - Reject as invalid most directory objects containing a NUL.
25164 Belt-and-suspender fix for bug 8037.
25165 - In our testsuite, create temporary directories with a bit more
25166 entropy in their name to make name collisions less likely. Fixes
25168 - Add CACHED keyword to ADDRMAP events in the control protocol
25169 to indicate whether a DNS result will be cached or not. Resolves
25171 - Update to the April 3 2013 Maxmind GeoLite Country database.
25173 o Minor features (build):
25174 - Detect and reject attempts to build Tor with threading support
25175 when OpenSSL has been compiled without threading support.
25177 - Clarify that when autoconf is checking for nacl, it is checking
25178 specifically for nacl with a fast curve25519 implementation.
25180 - Warn if building on a platform with an unsigned time_t: there
25181 are too many places where Tor currently assumes that time_t can
25182 hold negative values. We'd like to fix them all, but probably
25185 o Minor bugfixes (build):
25186 - Fix some bugs in tor-fw-helper-natpmp when trying to build and
25187 run it on Windows. More bugs likely remain. Patch from Gisle Vanem.
25188 Fixes bug 7280; bugfix on 0.2.3.1-alpha.
25189 - Add the old src/or/micro-revision.i filename to CLEANFILES.
25190 On the off chance that somebody has one, it will go away as soon
25191 as they run "make clean". Fix for bug 7143; bugfix on 0.2.4.1-alpha.
25192 - Build Tor correctly on 32-bit platforms where the compiler can build
25193 but not run code using the "uint128_t" construction. Fixes bug 8587;
25194 bugfix on 0.2.4.8-alpha.
25195 - Fix compilation warning with some versions of clang that would
25196 prefer the -Wswitch-enum compiler flag to warn about switch
25197 statements with missing enum values, even if those switch
25198 statements have a "default:" statement. Fixes bug 8598; bugfix
25201 o Minor bugfixes (protocol):
25202 - Fix the handling of a TRUNCATE cell when it arrives while the
25203 circuit extension is in progress. Fixes bug 7947; bugfix on 0.0.7.1.
25204 - Fix a misframing issue when reading the version numbers in a
25205 VERSIONS cell. Previously we would recognize [00 01 00 02] as
25206 'version 1, version 2, and version 0x100', when it should have
25207 only included versions 1 and 2. Fixes bug 8059; bugfix on
25208 0.2.0.10-alpha. Reported pseudonymously.
25209 - Make the format and order of STREAM events for DNS lookups
25210 consistent among the various ways to launch DNS lookups. Fixes
25211 bug 8203; bugfix on 0.2.0.24-rc. Patch by "Desoxy".
25212 - Correct our check for which versions of Tor support the EXTEND2
25213 cell. We had been willing to send it to Tor 0.2.4.7-alpha and
25214 later, when support was really added in version 0.2.4.8-alpha.
25215 Fixes bug 8464; bugfix on 0.2.4.8-alpha.
25217 o Minor bugfixes (other):
25218 - Correctly store microdescriptors and extrainfo descriptors with
25219 an internal NUL byte. Fixes bug 8037; bugfix on 0.2.0.1-alpha.
25220 Bug reported by "cypherpunks".
25221 - Increase the width of the field used to remember a connection's
25222 link protocol version to two bytes. Harmless for now, since the
25223 only currently recognized versions are one byte long. Reported
25224 pseudonymously. Fixes bug 8062; bugfix on 0.2.0.10-alpha.
25225 - If the state file's path bias counts are invalid (presumably from a
25226 buggy Tor prior to 0.2.4.10-alpha), make them correct. Also add
25227 additional checks and log messages to the scaling of Path Bias
25228 counts, in case there still are remaining issues with scaling.
25229 Should help resolve bug 8235.
25230 - Eliminate several instances where we use "Nickname=ID" to refer to
25231 nodes in logs. Use "Nickname (ID)" instead. (Elsewhere, we still use
25232 "$ID=Nickname", which is also acceptable.) Fixes bug 7065. Bugfix
25233 on 0.2.3.21-rc, 0.2.4.5-alpha, 0.2.4.8-alpha, and 0.2.4.10-alpha.
25235 o Minor bugfixes (syscalls):
25236 - Always check the return values of functions fcntl() and
25237 setsockopt(). We don't believe these are ever actually failing in
25238 practice, but better safe than sorry. Also, checking these return
25239 values should please analysis tools like Coverity. Patch from
25240 'flupzor'. Fixes bug 8206; bugfix on all versions of Tor.
25241 - Use direct writes rather than stdio when building microdescriptor
25242 caches, in an attempt to mitigate bug 8031, or at least make it
25245 o Minor bugfixes (config):
25246 - When rejecting a configuration because we were unable to parse a
25247 quoted string, log an actual error message. Fixes bug 7950; bugfix
25249 - Behave correctly when the user disables LearnCircuitBuildTimeout
25250 but doesn't tell us what they would like the timeout to be. Fixes
25251 bug 6304; bugfix on 0.2.2.14-alpha.
25252 - When autodetecting the number of CPUs, use the number of available
25253 CPUs in preference to the number of configured CPUs. Inform the
25254 user if this reduces the number of available CPUs. Fixes bug 8002;
25255 bugfix on 0.2.3.1-alpha.
25256 - Make it an error when you set EntryNodes but disable UseGuardNodes,
25257 since it will (surprisingly to some users) ignore EntryNodes. Fixes
25258 bug 8180; bugfix on 0.2.3.11-alpha.
25259 - Allow TestingTorNetworks to override the 4096-byte minimum for
25260 the Fast threshold. Otherwise they can't bootstrap until they've
25261 observed more traffic. Fixes bug 8508; bugfix on 0.2.4.10-alpha.
25262 - Fix some logic errors when the user manually overrides the
25263 PathsNeededToBuildCircuits option in torrc. Fixes bug 8599; bugfix
25266 o Minor bugfixes (log messages to help diagnose bugs):
25267 - If we fail to free a microdescriptor because of bug 7164, log
25268 the filename and line number from which we tried to free it.
25269 - Add another diagnostic to the heartbeat message: track and log
25270 overhead that TLS is adding to the data we write. If this is
25271 high, we are sending too little data to SSL_write at a time.
25272 Diagnostic for bug 7707.
25273 - Add more detail to a log message about relaxed timeouts, to help
25275 - Warn more aggressively when flushing microdescriptors to a
25276 microdescriptor cache fails, in an attempt to mitigate bug 8031,
25277 or at least make it more diagnosable.
25278 - Improve debugging output to help track down bug 8185 ("Bug:
25279 outgoing relay cell has n_chan==NULL. Dropping.")
25280 - Log the purpose of a path-bias testing circuit correctly.
25281 Improves a log message from bug 8477; bugfix on 0.2.4.8-alpha.
25283 o Minor bugfixes (0.2.4.x log messages that were too noisy):
25284 - Don't attempt to relax the timeout of already opened 1-hop circuits.
25285 They might never timeout. This should eliminate some/all cases of
25286 the relaxed timeout log message.
25287 - Use circuit creation time for network liveness evaluation. This
25288 should eliminate warning log messages about liveness caused
25289 by changes in timeout evaluation. Fixes bug 6572; bugfix on
25291 - Reduce a path bias length check from notice to info. The message
25292 is triggered when creating controller circuits. Fixes bug 8196;
25293 bugfix on 0.2.4.8-alpha.
25294 - Fix a path state issue that triggered a notice during relay startup.
25295 Fixes bug 8320; bugfix on 0.2.4.10-alpha.
25296 - Reduce occurrences of warns about circuit purpose in
25297 connection_ap_expire_building(). Fixes bug 8477; bugfix on
25300 o Minor bugfixes (pre-0.2.4.x log messages that were too noisy):
25301 - If we encounter a write failure on a SOCKS connection before we
25302 finish our SOCKS handshake, don't warn that we closed the
25303 connection before we could send a SOCKS reply. Fixes bug 8427;
25304 bugfix on 0.1.0.1-rc.
25305 - Correctly recognize that [::1] is a loopback address. Fixes
25306 bug 8377; bugfix on 0.2.1.3-alpha.
25307 - Fix a directory authority warn caused when we have a large amount
25308 of badexit bandwidth. Fixes bug 8419; bugfix on 0.2.2.10-alpha.
25309 - Don't log inappropriate heartbeat messages when hibernating: a
25310 hibernating node is _expected_ to drop out of the consensus,
25311 decide it isn't bootstrapped, and so forth. Fixes bug 7302;
25312 bugfix on 0.2.3.1-alpha.
25313 - Don't complain about bootstrapping problems while hibernating.
25314 These complaints reflect a general code problem, but not one
25315 with any problematic effects (no connections are actually
25316 opened). Fixes part of bug 7302; bugfix on 0.2.3.2-alpha.
25318 o Documentation fixes:
25319 - Update tor-fw-helper.1.txt and tor-fw-helper.c to make option
25320 names match. Fixes bug 7768.
25321 - Make the torify manpage no longer refer to tsocks; torify hasn't
25322 supported tsocks since 0.2.3.14-alpha.
25323 - Make the tor manpage no longer reference tsocks.
25324 - Fix the GeoIPExcludeUnknown documentation to refer to
25325 ExcludeExitNodes rather than the currently nonexistent
25326 ExcludeEntryNodes. Spotted by "hamahangi" on tor-talk.
25329 - The tor-tsocks.conf is no longer distributed or installed. We
25330 recommend that tsocks users use torsocks instead. Resolves
25334 Changes in version 0.2.4.11-alpha - 2013-03-11
25335 Tor 0.2.4.11-alpha makes relay measurement by directory authorities
25336 more robust, makes hidden service authentication work again, and
25337 resolves a DPI fingerprint for Tor's SSL transport.
25339 o Major features (directory authorities):
25340 - Directory authorities now support a new consensus method (17)
25341 where they cap the published bandwidth of servers for which
25342 insufficient bandwidth measurements exist. Fixes part of bug 2286.
25343 - Directory authorities that set "DisableV2DirectoryInfo_ 1" no longer
25344 serve any v2 directory information. Now we can test disabling the
25345 old deprecated v2 directory format, and see whether doing so has
25346 any effect on network load. Begins to fix bug 6783.
25347 - Directory authorities now include inside each vote a statement of
25348 the performance thresholds they used when assigning flags.
25349 Implements ticket 8151.
25351 o Major bugfixes (directory authorities):
25352 - Stop marking every relay as having been down for one hour every
25353 time we restart a directory authority. These artificial downtimes
25354 were messing with our Stable and Guard flag calculations. Fixes
25355 bug 8218 (introduced by the fix for 1035). Bugfix on 0.2.2.23-alpha.
25357 o Major bugfixes (hidden services):
25358 - Allow hidden service authentication to succeed again. When we
25359 refactored the hidden service introduction code back
25360 in 0.2.4.1-alpha, we didn't update the code that checks
25361 whether authentication information is present, causing all
25362 authentication checks to return "false". Fix for bug 8207; bugfix
25363 on 0.2.4.1-alpha. Found by Coverity; this is CID 718615.
25365 o Minor features (relays, bridges):
25366 - Make bridge relays check once a minute for whether their IP
25367 address has changed, rather than only every 15 minutes. Resolves
25368 bugs 1913 and 1992.
25369 - Refactor resolve_my_address() so it returns the method by which we
25370 decided our public IP address (explicitly configured, resolved from
25371 explicit hostname, guessed from interfaces, learned by gethostname).
25372 Now we can provide more helpful log messages when a relay guesses
25373 its IP address incorrectly (e.g. due to unexpected lines in
25374 /etc/hosts). Resolves ticket 2267.
25375 - Teach bridge-using clients to avoid 0.2.2 bridges when making
25376 microdescriptor-related dir requests, and only fall back to normal
25377 descriptors if none of their bridges can handle microdescriptors
25378 (as opposed to the fix in ticket 4013, which caused them to fall
25379 back to normal descriptors if *any* of their bridges preferred
25380 them). Resolves ticket 4994.
25381 - Randomize the lifetime of our SSL link certificate, so censors can't
25382 use the static value for filtering Tor flows. Resolves ticket 8443;
25383 related to ticket 4014 which was included in 0.2.2.33.
25384 - Support a new version of the link protocol that allows 4-byte circuit
25385 IDs. Previously, circuit IDs were limited to 2 bytes, which presented
25386 a possible resource exhaustion issue. Closes ticket 7351; implements
25389 o Minor features (portability):
25390 - Tweak the curve25519-donna*.c implementations to tolerate systems
25391 that lack stdint.h. Fixes bug 3894; bugfix on 0.2.4.8-alpha.
25392 - Use Ville Laurikari's implementation of AX_CHECK_SIGN() to determine
25393 the signs of types during autoconf. This is better than our old
25394 approach, which didn't work when cross-compiling.
25395 - Detect the sign of enum values, rather than assuming that MSC is the
25396 only compiler where enum types are all signed. Fixes bug 7727;
25397 bugfix on 0.2.4.10-alpha.
25399 o Minor features (other):
25400 - Say "KBytes" rather than "KB" in the man page (for various values
25401 of K), to further reduce confusion about whether Tor counts in
25402 units of memory or fractions of units of memory. Resolves ticket 7054.
25403 - Clear the high bit on curve25519 public keys before passing them to
25404 our backend, in case we ever wind up using a backend that doesn't do
25405 so itself. If we used such a backend, and *didn't* clear the high bit,
25406 we could wind up in a situation where users with such backends would
25407 be distinguishable from users without. Fixes bug 8121; bugfix on
25409 - Update to the March 6 2013 Maxmind GeoLite Country database.
25411 o Minor bugfixes (clients):
25412 - When we receive a RELAY_END cell with the reason DONE, or with no
25413 reason, before receiving a RELAY_CONNECTED cell, report the SOCKS
25414 status as "connection refused". Previously we reported these cases
25415 as success but then immediately closed the connection. Fixes bug
25416 7902; bugfix on 0.1.0.1-rc. Reported by "oftc_must_be_destroyed".
25417 - Downgrade an assertion in connection_ap_expire_beginning to an
25418 LD_BUG message. The fix for bug 8024 should prevent this message
25419 from displaying, but just in case, a warn that we can diagnose
25420 is better than more assert crashes. Fixes bug 8065; bugfix on
25422 - Lower path use bias thresholds to .80 for notice and .60 for warn.
25423 Also make the rate limiting flags for the path use bias log messages
25424 independent from the original path bias flags. Fixes bug 8161;
25425 bugfix on 0.2.4.10-alpha.
25427 o Minor bugfixes (relays):
25428 - Stop trying to resolve our hostname so often (e.g. every time we
25429 think about doing a directory fetch). Now we reuse the cached
25430 answer in some cases. Fixes bugs 1992 (bugfix on 0.2.0.20-rc)
25431 and 2410 (bugfix on 0.1.2.2-alpha).
25432 - Stop sending a stray "(null)" in some cases for the server status
25433 "EXTERNAL_ADDRESS" controller event. Resolves bug 8200; bugfix
25435 - When choosing which stream on a formerly stalled circuit to wake
25436 first, make better use of the platform's weak RNG. Previously,
25437 we had been using the % ("modulo") operator to try to generate a
25438 1/N chance of picking each stream, but this behaves badly with
25439 many platforms' choice of weak RNG. Fixes bug 7801; bugfix on
25441 - Use our own weak RNG when we need a weak RNG. Windows's rand() and
25442 Irix's random() only return 15 bits; Solaris's random() returns more
25443 bits but its RAND_MAX says it only returns 15, and so on. Motivated
25444 by the fix for bug 7801; bugfix on 0.2.2.20-alpha.
25446 o Minor bugfixes (directory authorities):
25447 - Directory authorities now use less space when formatting identical
25448 microdescriptor lines in directory votes. Fixes bug 8158; bugfix
25451 o Minor bugfixes (memory leaks spotted by Coverity -- bug 7816):
25452 - Avoid leaking memory if we fail to compute a consensus signature
25453 or we generate a consensus we can't parse. Bugfix on 0.2.0.5-alpha.
25454 - Fix a memory leak when receiving headers from an HTTPS proxy. Bugfix
25456 - Fix a memory leak during safe-cookie controller authentication.
25457 Bugfix on 0.2.3.13-alpha.
25458 - Avoid memory leak of IPv6 policy content if we fail to format it into
25459 a router descriptor. Bugfix on 0.2.4.7-alpha.
25461 o Minor bugfixes (other code correctness issues):
25462 - Avoid a crash if we fail to generate an extrainfo descriptor.
25463 Fixes bug 8208; bugfix on 0.2.3.16-alpha. Found by Coverity;
25464 this is CID 718634.
25465 - When detecting the largest possible file descriptor (in order to
25466 close all file descriptors when launching a new program), actually
25467 use _SC_OPEN_MAX. The old code for doing this was very, very broken.
25468 Fixes bug 8209; bugfix on 0.2.3.1-alpha. Found by Coverity; this
25470 - Fix a copy-and-paste error when adding a missing A1 to a routerset
25471 because of GeoIPExcludeUnknown. Fix for Coverity CID 980650.
25472 Bugfix on 0.2.4.10-alpha.
25473 - Fix an impossible-to-trigger integer overflow when estimating how
25474 long our onionskin queue would take. (This overflow would require us
25475 to accept 4 million onionskins before processing 100 of them.) Fixes
25476 bug 8210; bugfix on 0.2.4.10-alpha.
25478 o Code simplification and refactoring:
25479 - Add a wrapper function for the common "log a message with a
25483 Changes in version 0.2.4.10-alpha - 2013-02-04
25484 Tor 0.2.4.10-alpha adds defenses at the directory authority level from
25485 certain attacks that flood the network with relays; changes the queue
25486 for circuit create requests from a sized-based limit to a time-based
25487 limit; resumes building with MSVC on Windows; and fixes a wide variety
25490 o Major bugfixes (directory authority):
25491 - When computing directory thresholds, ignore any rejected-as-sybil
25492 nodes during the computation so that they can't influence Fast,
25493 Guard, etc. (We should have done this for proposal 109.) Fixes
25495 - When marking a node as a likely sybil, reset its uptime metrics
25496 to zero, so that it cannot time towards getting marked as Guard,
25497 Stable, or HSDir. (We should have done this for proposal 109.) Fixes
25501 - When a TLS write is partially successful but incomplete, remember
25502 that the flushed part has been flushed, and notice that bytes were
25503 actually written. Reported and fixed pseudonymously. Fixes bug
25504 7708; bugfix on Tor 0.1.0.5-rc.
25505 - Reject bogus create and relay cells with 0 circuit ID or 0 stream
25506 ID: these could be used to create unexpected streams and circuits
25507 which would count as "present" to some parts of Tor but "absent"
25508 to others, leading to zombie circuits and streams or to a bandwidth
25509 denial-of-service. Fixes bug 7889; bugfix on every released version
25510 of Tor. Reported by "oftc_must_be_destroyed".
25511 - Rename all macros in our local copy of queue.h to begin with "TOR_".
25512 This change seems the only good way to permanently prevent conflicts
25513 with queue.h on various operating systems. Fixes bug 8107; bugfix
25516 o Major features (relay):
25517 - Instead of limiting the number of queued onionskins (aka circuit
25518 create requests) to a fixed, hard-to-configure number, we limit
25519 the size of the queue based on how many we expect to be able to
25520 process in a given amount of time. We estimate the time it will
25521 take to process an onionskin based on average processing time
25522 of previous onionskins. Closes ticket 7291. You'll never have to
25523 configure MaxOnionsPending again.
25525 o Major features (portability):
25526 - Resume building correctly with MSVC and Makefile.nmake. This patch
25527 resolves numerous bugs and fixes reported by ultramage, including
25528 7305, 7308, 7309, 7310, 7312, 7313, 7315, 7316, and 7669.
25529 - Make the ntor and curve25519 code build correctly with MSVC.
25530 Fix on 0.2.4.8-alpha.
25533 - When directory authorities are computing thresholds for flags,
25534 never let the threshold for the Fast flag fall below 4096
25535 bytes. Also, do not consider nodes with extremely low bandwidths
25536 when deciding thresholds for various directory flags. This change
25537 should raise our threshold for Fast relays, possibly in turn
25538 improving overall network performance; see ticket 1854. Resolves
25540 - The Tor client now ignores sub-domain components of a .onion
25541 address. This change makes HTTP "virtual" hosting
25542 possible: http://foo.aaaaaaaaaaaaaaaa.onion/ and
25543 http://bar.aaaaaaaaaaaaaaaa.onion/ can be two different websites
25544 hosted on the same hidden service. Implements proposal 204.
25545 - We compute the overhead from passing onionskins back and forth to
25546 cpuworkers, and report it when dumping statistics in response to
25547 SIGUSR1. Supports ticket 7291.
25549 o Minor features (path selection):
25550 - When deciding whether we have enough descriptors to build circuits,
25551 instead of looking at raw relay counts, look at which fraction
25552 of (bandwidth-weighted) paths we're able to build. This approach
25553 keeps clients from building circuits if their paths are likely to
25554 stand out statistically. The default fraction of paths needed is
25555 taken from the consensus directory; you can override it with the
25556 new PathsNeededToBuildCircuits option. Fixes ticket 5956.
25557 - When any country code is listed in ExcludeNodes or ExcludeExitNodes,
25558 and we have GeoIP information, also exclude all nodes with unknown
25559 countries "??" and "A1". This behavior is controlled by the
25560 new GeoIPExcludeUnknown option: you can make such nodes always
25561 excluded with "GeoIPExcludeUnknown 1", and disable the feature
25562 with "GeoIPExcludeUnknown 0". Setting "GeoIPExcludeUnknown auto"
25563 gets you the default behavior. Implements feature 7706.
25564 - Path Use Bias: Perform separate accounting for successful circuit
25565 use. Keep separate statistics on stream attempt rates versus stream
25566 success rates for each guard. Provide configurable thresholds to
25567 determine when to emit log messages or disable use of guards that
25568 fail too many stream attempts. Resolves ticket 7802.
25570 o Minor features (log messages):
25571 - When learning a fingerprint for a bridge, log its corresponding
25572 transport type. Implements ticket 7896.
25573 - Improve the log message when "Bug/attack: unexpected sendme cell
25574 from client" occurs, to help us track bug 8093.
25577 - Remove a couple of extraneous semicolons that were upsetting the
25578 cparser library. Patch by Christian Grothoff. Fixes bug 7115;
25579 bugfix on 0.2.2.1-alpha.
25580 - Remove a source of rounding error during path bias count scaling;
25581 don't count cannibalized circuits as used for path bias until we
25582 actually try to use them; and fix a circuit_package_relay_cell()
25583 warning message about n_chan==NULL. Fixes bug 7802.
25584 - Detect nacl when its headers are in a nacl/ subdirectory. Also,
25585 actually link against nacl when we're configured to use it. Fixes
25586 bug 7972; bugfix on 0.2.4.8-alpha.
25587 - Compile correctly with the --disable-curve25519 option. Fixes
25588 bug 8153; bugfix on 0.2.4.8-alpha.
25590 o Build improvements:
25591 - Do not report status verbosely from autogen.sh unless the -v flag
25592 is specified. Fixes issue 4664. Patch from Onizuka.
25593 - Replace all calls to snprintf() outside of src/ext with
25594 tor_snprintf(). Also remove the #define to replace snprintf with
25595 _snprintf on Windows; they have different semantics, and all of
25596 our callers should be using tor_snprintf() anyway. Fixes bug 7304.
25597 - Try to detect if we are ever building on a platform where
25598 memset(...,0,...) does not set the value of a double to 0.0. Such
25599 platforms are permitted by the C standard, though in practice
25600 they're pretty rare (since IEEE 754 is nigh-ubiquitous). We don't
25601 currently support them, but it's better to detect them and fail
25602 than to perform erroneously.
25604 o Removed features:
25605 - Stop exporting estimates of v2 and v3 directory traffic shares
25606 in extrainfo documents. They were unneeded and sometimes inaccurate.
25607 Also stop exporting any v2 directory request statistics. Resolves
25609 - Drop support for detecting and warning about versions of Libevent
25610 before 1.3e. Nothing reasonable ships with them any longer;
25611 warning the user about them shouldn't be needed. Resolves ticket
25614 o Code simplifications and refactoring:
25615 - Rename "isin" functions to "contains", for grammar. Resolves
25617 - Rename Tor's logging function log() to tor_log(), to avoid conflicts
25618 with the natural logarithm function from the system libm. Resolves
25622 Changes in version 0.2.4.9-alpha - 2013-01-15
25623 Tor 0.2.4.9-alpha provides a quick fix to make the new ntor handshake
25624 work more robustly.
25627 - Fix backward compatibility logic when receiving an embedded ntor
25628 handshake tunneled in a CREATE cell. This clears up the "Bug:
25629 couldn't format CREATED cell" warning. Fixes bug 7959; bugfix
25633 Changes in version 0.2.4.8-alpha - 2013-01-14
25634 Tor 0.2.4.8-alpha introduces directory guards to reduce user enumeration
25635 risks, adds a new stronger and faster circuit handshake, and offers
25636 stronger and faster link encryption when both sides support it.
25639 - Preliminary support for directory guards (proposal 207): when
25640 possible, clients now use their entry guards for non-anonymous
25641 directory requests. This can help prevent client enumeration. Note
25642 that this behavior only works when we have a usable consensus
25643 directory, and when options about what to download are more or less
25644 standard. In the future we should re-bootstrap from our guards,
25645 rather than re-bootstrapping from the preconfigured list of
25646 directory sources that ships with Tor. Resolves ticket 6526.
25647 - Tor relays and clients now support a better CREATE/EXTEND cell
25648 format, allowing the sender to specify multiple address, identity,
25649 and handshake types. Implements Robert Ransom's proposal 200;
25650 closes ticket 7199.
25652 o Major features (new circuit handshake):
25653 - Tor now supports a new circuit extension handshake designed by Ian
25654 Goldberg, Douglas Stebila, and Berkant Ustaoglu. Our original
25655 circuit extension handshake, later called "TAP", was a bit slow
25656 (especially on the relay side), had a fragile security proof, and
25657 used weaker keys than we'd now prefer. The new circuit handshake
25658 uses Dan Bernstein's "curve25519" elliptic-curve Diffie-Hellman
25659 function, making it significantly more secure than the older
25660 handshake, and significantly faster. Tor can use one of two built-in
25661 pure-C curve25519-donna implementations by Adam Langley, or it
25662 can link against the "nacl" library for a tuned version if present.
25664 The built-in version is very fast for 64-bit systems when building
25665 with GCC. The built-in 32-bit version is still faster than the
25666 old TAP protocol, but using libnacl is better on most such hosts.
25668 Clients don't currently use this protocol by default, since
25669 comparatively few clients support it so far. To try it, set
25670 UseNTorHandshake to 1.
25672 Implements proposal 216; closes ticket 7202.
25674 o Major features (better link encryption):
25675 - Relays can now enable the ECDHE TLS ciphersuites when available
25676 and appropriate. These ciphersuites let us negotiate forward-secure
25677 TLS secret keys more safely and more efficiently than with our
25678 previous use of Diffie-Hellman modulo a 1024-bit prime. By default,
25679 public relays prefer the (faster) P224 group, and bridges prefer
25680 the (more common) P256 group; you can override this with the
25683 Enabling these ciphers was a little tricky, since for a long time,
25684 clients had been claiming to support them without actually doing
25685 so, in order to foil fingerprinting. But with the client-side
25686 implementation of proposal 198 in 0.2.3.17-beta, clients can now
25687 match the ciphers from recent Firefox versions *and* list the
25688 ciphers they actually mean, so relays can believe such clients
25689 when they advertise ECDHE support in their TLS ClientHello messages.
25691 This feature requires clients running 0.2.3.17-beta or later,
25692 and requires both sides to be running OpenSSL 1.0.0 or later
25693 with ECC support. OpenSSL 1.0.1, with the compile-time option
25694 "enable-ec_nistp_64_gcc_128", is highly recommended.
25696 Implements the relay side of proposal 198; closes ticket 7200.
25699 - Avoid crashing when, as a relay without IPv6-exit support, a
25700 client insists on getting an IPv6 address or nothing. Fixes bug
25701 7814; bugfix on 0.2.4.7-alpha.
25704 - Improve circuit build timeout handling for hidden services.
25705 In particular: adjust build timeouts more accurately depending
25706 upon the number of hop-RTTs that a particular circuit type
25707 undergoes. Additionally, launch intro circuits in parallel
25708 if they timeout, and take the first one to reply as valid.
25709 - Work correctly on Unix systems where EAGAIN and EWOULDBLOCK are
25710 separate error codes; or at least, don't break for that reason.
25711 Fixes bug 7935. Reported by "oftc_must_be_destroyed".
25712 - Update to the January 2 2013 Maxmind GeoLite Country database.
25714 o Minor features (testing):
25715 - Add benchmarks for DH (1024-bit multiplicative group) and ECDH
25716 (P-256) Diffie-Hellman handshakes to src/or/bench.
25717 - Add benchmark functions to test onion handshake performance.
25719 o Minor features (path bias detection):
25720 - Alter the Path Bias log messages to be more descriptive in terms
25721 of reporting timeouts and other statistics.
25722 - Create three levels of Path Bias log messages, as opposed to just
25723 two. These are configurable via consensus as well as via the torrc
25724 options PathBiasNoticeRate, PathBiasWarnRate, PathBiasExtremeRate.
25725 The default values are 0.70, 0.50, and 0.30 respectively.
25726 - Separate the log message levels from the decision to drop guards,
25727 which also is available via torrc option PathBiasDropGuards.
25728 PathBiasDropGuards still defaults to 0 (off).
25729 - Deprecate PathBiasDisableRate in favor of PathBiasDropGuards
25730 in combination with PathBiasExtremeRate.
25731 - Increase the default values for PathBiasScaleThreshold and
25732 PathBiasCircThreshold from (200, 20) to (300, 150).
25733 - Add in circuit usage accounting to path bias. If we try to use a
25734 built circuit but fail for any reason, it counts as path bias.
25735 Certain classes of circuits where the adversary gets to pick your
25736 destination node are exempt from this accounting. Usage accounting
25737 can be specifically disabled via consensus parameter or torrc.
25738 - Convert all internal path bias state to double-precision floating
25739 point, to avoid roundoff error and other issues.
25740 - Only record path bias information for circuits that have completed
25741 *two* hops. Assuming end-to-end tagging is the attack vector, this
25742 makes us more resilient to ambient circuit failure without any
25743 detection capability loss.
25745 o Minor bugfixes (log messages):
25746 - Rate-limit the "No circuits are opened. Relaxed timeout for a
25747 circuit with channel state open..." message to once per hour to
25748 keep it from filling the notice logs. Mitigates bug 7799 but does
25749 not fix the underlying cause. Bugfix on 0.2.4.7-alpha.
25750 - Avoid spurious warnings when configuring multiple client ports of
25751 which only some are nonlocal. Previously, we had claimed that some
25752 were nonlocal when in fact they weren't. Fixes bug 7836; bugfix on
25755 o Code simplifications and refactoring:
25756 - Get rid of a couple of harmless clang warnings, where we compared
25757 enums to ints. These warnings are newly introduced in clang 3.2.
25758 - Split the onion.c file into separate modules for the onion queue
25759 and the different handshakes it supports.
25760 - Remove the marshalling/unmarshalling code for sending requests to
25761 cpuworkers over a socket, and instead just send structs. The
25762 recipient will always be the same Tor binary as the sender, so
25763 any encoding is overkill.
25766 Changes in version 0.2.4.7-alpha - 2012-12-24
25767 Tor 0.2.4.7-alpha introduces a new approach to providing fallback
25768 directory mirrors for more robust bootstrapping; fixes more issues where
25769 clients with changing network conditions refuse to make any circuits;
25770 adds initial support for exiting to IPv6 addresses; resumes being able
25771 to update our GeoIP database, and includes the geoip6 file this time;
25772 turns off the client-side DNS cache by default due to privacy risks;
25773 and fixes a variety of other issues.
25775 o Major features (client resilience):
25776 - Add a new "FallbackDir" torrc option to use when we can't use
25777 a directory mirror from the consensus (either because we lack a
25778 consensus, or because they're all down). Currently, all authorities
25779 are fallbacks by default, and there are no other default fallbacks,
25780 but that will change. This option will allow us to give clients a
25781 longer list of servers to try to get a consensus from when first
25782 connecting to the Tor network, and thereby reduce load on the
25783 directory authorities. Implements proposal 206, "Preconfigured
25784 directory sources for bootstrapping". We also removed the old
25785 "FallbackNetworkstatus" option, since we never got it working well
25786 enough to use it. Closes bug 572.
25787 - If we have no circuits open, use a relaxed timeout (the
25788 95-percentile cutoff) until a circuit succeeds. This heuristic
25789 should allow Tor to succeed at building circuits even when the
25790 network connection drastically changes. Should help with bug 3443.
25792 o Major features (IPv6):
25793 - Relays can now exit to IPv6 addresses: make sure that you have IPv6
25794 connectivity, then set the IPv6Exit flag to 1. Also make sure your
25795 exit policy reads as you would like: the address * applies to all
25796 address families, whereas *4 is IPv4 address only, and *6 is IPv6
25797 addresses only. On the client side, you'll need to wait until the
25798 authorities have upgraded, wait for enough exits to support IPv6,
25799 apply the "IPv6Traffic" flag to a SocksPort, and use Socks5. Closes
25800 ticket 5547, implements proposal 117 as revised in proposal 208.
25802 We DO NOT recommend that clients with actual anonymity needs start
25803 using IPv6 over Tor yet, since not enough exits support it yet.
25805 o Major features (geoip database):
25806 - Maxmind began labelling Tor relays as being in country "A1",
25807 which breaks by-country node selection inside Tor. Now we use a
25808 script to replace "A1" ("Anonymous Proxy") entries in our geoip
25809 file with real country codes. This script fixes about 90% of "A1"
25810 entries automatically and uses manual country code assignments to
25811 fix the remaining 10%. See src/config/README.geoip for details.
25812 Fixes bug 6266. Also update to the December 5 2012 Maxmind GeoLite
25813 Country database, as modified above.
25815 o Major bugfixes (client-side DNS):
25816 - Turn off the client-side DNS cache by default. Updating and using
25817 the DNS cache is now configurable on a per-client-port
25818 level. SOCKSPort, DNSPort, etc lines may now contain
25819 {No,}Cache{IPv4,IPv6,}DNS lines to indicate that we shouldn't
25820 cache these types of DNS answers when we receive them from an
25821 exit node in response to an application request on this port, and
25822 {No,}UseCached{IPv4,IPv6,DNS} lines to indicate that if we have
25823 cached DNS answers of these types, we shouldn't use them. It's
25824 potentially risky to use cached DNS answers at the client, since
25825 doing so can indicate to one exit what answers we've gotten
25826 for DNS lookups in the past. With IPv6, this becomes especially
25827 problematic. Using cached DNS answers for requests on the same
25828 circuit would present less linkability risk, since all traffic
25829 on a circuit is already linkable, but it would also provide
25830 little performance benefit: the exit node caches DNS replies
25831 too. Implements a simplified version of Proposal 205. Implements
25834 o Major bugfixes (other):
25835 - Alter circuit build timeout measurement to start at the point
25836 where we begin the CREATE/CREATE_FAST step (as opposed to circuit
25837 initialization). This should make our timeout measurements more
25838 uniform. Previously, we were sometimes including ORconn setup time
25839 in our circuit build time measurements. Should resolve bug 3443.
25840 - Fix an assertion that could trigger in hibernate_go_dormant() when
25841 closing an or_connection_t: call channel_mark_for_close() rather
25842 than connection_mark_for_close(). Fixes bug 7267. Bugfix on
25844 - Include the geoip6 IPv6 GeoIP database in the tarball. Fixes bug
25845 7655; bugfix on 0.2.4.6-alpha.
25848 - Add a new torrc option "ServerTransportListenAddr" to let bridge
25849 operators select the address where their pluggable transports will
25850 listen for connections. Resolves ticket 7013.
25851 - Allow an optional $ before the node identity digest in the
25852 controller command GETINFO ns/id/<identity>, for consistency with
25853 md/id/<identity> and desc/id/<identity>. Resolves ticket 7059.
25854 - Log packaged cell fullness as part of the heartbeat message.
25855 Diagnosis to try to determine the extent of bug 7743.
25857 o Minor features (IPv6):
25858 - AutomapHostsOnResolve now supports IPv6 addresses. By default, we
25859 prefer to hand out virtual IPv6 addresses, since there are more of
25860 them and we can't run out. To override this behavior and make IPv4
25861 addresses preferred, set NoPreferIPv6Automap on whatever SOCKSPort
25862 or DNSPort you're using for resolving. Implements ticket 7571.
25863 - AutomapHostsOnResolve responses are now randomized, to avoid
25864 annoying situations where Tor is restarted and applications
25865 connect to the wrong addresses.
25866 - Never try more than 1000 times to pick a new virtual address when
25867 AutomapHostsOnResolve is set. That's good enough so long as we
25868 aren't close to handing out our entire virtual address space;
25869 if you're getting there, it's best to switch to IPv6 virtual
25873 - The ADDRMAP command can no longer generate an ill-formed error
25874 code on a failed MAPADDRESS. It now says "internal" rather than
25875 an English sentence fragment with spaces in the middle. Bugfix on
25876 Tor 0.2.0.19-alpha.
25877 - Fix log messages and comments to avoid saying "GMT" when we mean
25878 "UTC". Fixes bug 6113.
25879 - Compile on win64 using mingw64. Fixes bug 7260; patches from
25881 - Fix a crash when debugging unit tests on Windows: deallocate a
25882 shared library with FreeLibrary, not CloseHandle. Fixes bug 7306;
25883 bugfix on 0.2.2.17-alpha. Reported by "ultramage".
25886 - The DirServer option is now DirAuthority, for consistency with
25887 current naming patterns. You can still use the old DirServer form.
25889 o Code simplification and refactoring:
25890 - Move the client-side address-map/virtual-address/DNS-cache code
25891 out of connection_edge.c into a new addressmap.c module.
25892 - Remove unused code for parsing v1 directories and "running routers"
25893 documents. Fixes bug 6887.
25896 Changes in version 0.2.3.25 - 2012-11-19
25897 The Tor 0.2.3 release series is dedicated to the memory of Len "rabbi"
25898 Sassaman (1980-2011), a long-time cypherpunk, anonymity researcher,
25899 Mixmaster maintainer, Pynchon Gate co-designer, CodeCon organizer,
25900 programmer, and friend. Unstinting in his dedication to the cause of
25901 freedom, he inspired and helped many of us as we began our work on
25902 anonymity, and inspires us still. Please honor his memory by writing
25903 software to protect people's freedoms, and by helping others to do so.
25905 Tor 0.2.3.25, the first stable release in the 0.2.3 branch, features
25906 significantly reduced directory overhead (via microdescriptors),
25907 enormous crypto performance improvements for fast relays on new
25908 enough hardware, a new v3 TLS handshake protocol that can better
25909 resist fingerprinting, support for protocol obfuscation plugins (aka
25910 pluggable transports), better scalability for hidden services, IPv6
25911 support for bridges, performance improvements like allowing clients
25912 to skip the first round-trip on the circuit ("optimistic data") and
25913 refilling token buckets more often, a new "stream isolation" design
25914 to isolate different applications on different circuits, and many
25915 stability, security, and privacy fixes.
25918 - Tor tries to wipe potentially sensitive data after using it, so
25919 that if some subsequent security failure exposes Tor's memory,
25920 the damage will be limited. But we had a bug where the compiler
25921 was eliminating these wipe operations when it decided that the
25922 memory was no longer visible to a (correctly running) program,
25923 hence defeating our attempt at defense in depth. We fix that
25924 by using OpenSSL's OPENSSL_cleanse() operation, which a compiler
25925 is unlikely to optimize away. Future versions of Tor may use
25926 a less ridiculously heavy approach for this. Fixes bug 7352.
25927 Reported in an article by Andrey Karpov.
25930 - Fix a harmless bug when opting against publishing a relay descriptor
25931 because DisableNetwork is set. Fixes bug 7464; bugfix on
25935 Changes in version 0.2.4.6-alpha - 2012-11-13
25936 Tor 0.2.4.6-alpha fixes an assert bug that has been plaguing relays,
25937 makes our defense-in-depth memory wiping more reliable, and begins to
25938 count IPv6 addresses in bridge statistics,
25941 - Fix an assertion failure that could occur when closing a connection
25942 with a spliced rendezvous circuit. Fix for bug 7212; bugfix on
25944 - Tor tries to wipe potentially sensitive data after using it, so
25945 that if some subsequent security failure exposes Tor's memory,
25946 the damage will be limited. But we had a bug where the compiler
25947 was eliminating these wipe operations when it decided that the
25948 memory was no longer visible to a (correctly running) program,
25949 hence defeating our attempt at defense in depth. We fix that
25950 by using OpenSSL's OPENSSL_cleanse() operation, which a compiler
25951 is unlikely to optimize away. Future versions of Tor may use
25952 a less ridiculously heavy approach for this. Fixes bug 7352.
25953 Reported in an article by Andrey Karpov.
25956 - Add GeoIP database for IPv6 addresses. The new config option
25958 - Bridge statistics now count bridge clients connecting over IPv6:
25959 bridge statistics files now list "bridge-ip-versions" and
25960 extra-info documents list "geoip6-db-digest". The control protocol
25961 "CLIENTS_SEEN" and "ip-to-country" queries now support IPv6. Initial
25962 implementation by "shkoo", addressing ticket 5055.
25965 - Warn when we are binding low ports when hibernation is enabled;
25966 previously we had warned when we were _advertising_ low ports with
25967 hibernation enabled. Fixes bug 7285; bugfix on 0.2.3.9-alpha.
25968 - Fix a harmless bug when opting against publishing a relay descriptor
25969 because DisableNetwork is set. Fixes bug 7464; bugfix on
25971 - Add warning message when a managed proxy dies during configuration.
25972 Fixes bug 7195; bugfix on 0.2.4.2-alpha.
25973 - Fix a linking error when building tor-fw-helper without miniupnp.
25974 Fixes bug 7235; bugfix on 0.2.4.2-alpha. Fix by Anthony G. Basile.
25975 - Check for closing an or_connection_t without going through correct
25976 channel functions; emit a warning and then call
25977 connection_or_close_for_error() so we don't assert as in bugs 7212
25979 - Compile correctly on compilers without C99 designated initializer
25980 support. Fixes bug 7286; bugfix on 0.2.4.4-alpha.
25981 - Avoid a possible assert that can occur when channel_send_destroy() is
25982 called on a channel in CHANNEL_STATE_CLOSING, CHANNEL_STATE_CLOSED,
25983 or CHANNEL_STATE_ERROR when the Tor process is resumed after being
25984 blocked for a long interval. Fixes bug 7350; bugfix on 0.2.4.4-alpha.
25985 - Fix a memory leak on failing cases of channel_tls_process_certs_cell.
25986 Fixes bug 7422; bugfix on 0.2.4.4-alpha.
25988 o Code simplification and refactoring:
25989 - Start using OpenBSD's implementation of queue.h, so that we don't
25990 need to hand-roll our own pointer and list structures whenever we
25991 need them. (We can't rely on a sys/queue.h, since some operating
25992 systems don't have them, and the ones that do have them don't all
25993 present the same extensions.)
25996 Changes in version 0.2.4.5-alpha - 2012-10-25
25997 Tor 0.2.4.5-alpha comes hard at the heels of 0.2.4.4-alpha, to fix
25998 two important security vulnerabilities that could lead to remotely
25999 triggerable relay crashes, fix a major bug that was preventing clients
26000 from choosing suitable exit nodes, and refactor some of our code.
26002 o Major bugfixes (security, also in 0.2.3.24-rc):
26003 - Fix a group of remotely triggerable assertion failures related to
26004 incorrect link protocol negotiation. Found, diagnosed, and fixed
26005 by "some guy from France". Fix for CVE-2012-2250; bugfix on
26007 - Fix a denial of service attack by which any directory authority
26008 could crash all the others, or by which a single v2 directory
26009 authority could crash everybody downloading v2 directory
26010 information. Fixes bug 7191; bugfix on 0.2.0.10-alpha.
26012 o Major bugfixes (also in 0.2.3.24-rc):
26013 - When parsing exit policy summaries from microdescriptors, we had
26014 previously been ignoring the last character in each one, so that
26015 "accept 80,443,8080" would be treated by clients as indicating
26016 a node that allows access to ports 80, 443, and 808. That would
26017 lead to clients attempting connections that could never work,
26018 and ignoring exit nodes that would support their connections. Now
26019 clients parse these exit policy summaries correctly. Fixes bug 7192;
26020 bugfix on 0.2.3.1-alpha.
26022 o Minor bugfixes (also in 0.2.3.24-rc):
26023 - Clients now consider the ClientRejectInternalAddresses config option
26024 when using a microdescriptor consensus stanza to decide whether
26025 an exit relay would allow exiting to an internal address. Fixes
26026 bug 7190; bugfix on 0.2.3.1-alpha.
26029 - Only disable TLS session ticket support when running as a TLS
26030 server. Now clients will blend better with regular Firefox
26031 connections. Fixes bug 7189; bugfix on Tor 0.2.3.23-rc.
26033 o Code simplification and refactoring:
26034 - Start using OpenBSD's implementation of queue.h (originally by
26036 - Move the entry node code from circuitbuild.c to its own file.
26037 - Move the circuit build timeout tracking code from circuitbuild.c
26041 Changes in version 0.2.3.24-rc - 2012-10-25
26042 Tor 0.2.3.24-rc fixes two important security vulnerabilities that
26043 could lead to remotely triggerable relay crashes, and fixes
26044 a major bug that was preventing clients from choosing suitable exit
26047 o Major bugfixes (security):
26048 - Fix a group of remotely triggerable assertion failures related to
26049 incorrect link protocol negotiation. Found, diagnosed, and fixed
26050 by "some guy from France". Fix for CVE-2012-2250; bugfix on
26052 - Fix a denial of service attack by which any directory authority
26053 could crash all the others, or by which a single v2 directory
26054 authority could crash everybody downloading v2 directory
26055 information. Fixes bug 7191; bugfix on 0.2.0.10-alpha.
26058 - When parsing exit policy summaries from microdescriptors, we had
26059 previously been ignoring the last character in each one, so that
26060 "accept 80,443,8080" would be treated by clients as indicating
26061 a node that allows access to ports 80, 443, and 808. That would
26062 lead to clients attempting connections that could never work,
26063 and ignoring exit nodes that would support their connections. Now
26064 clients parse these exit policy summaries correctly. Fixes bug 7192;
26065 bugfix on 0.2.3.1-alpha.
26068 - Clients now consider the ClientRejectInternalAddresses config option
26069 when using a microdescriptor consensus stanza to decide whether
26070 an exit relay would allow exiting to an internal address. Fixes
26071 bug 7190; bugfix on 0.2.3.1-alpha.
26074 Changes in version 0.2.4.4-alpha - 2012-10-20
26075 Tor 0.2.4.4-alpha adds a new v3 directory authority, fixes a privacy
26076 vulnerability introduced by a change in OpenSSL, fixes a remotely
26077 triggerable assert, and adds new channel_t and circuitmux_t abstractions
26078 that will make it easier to test new connection transport and cell
26079 scheduling algorithms.
26081 o New directory authorities (also in 0.2.3.23-rc):
26082 - Add Faravahar (run by Sina Rabbani) as the ninth v3 directory
26083 authority. Closes ticket 5749.
26085 o Major bugfixes (security/privacy, also in 0.2.3.23-rc):
26086 - Disable TLS session tickets. OpenSSL's implementation was giving
26087 our TLS session keys the lifetime of our TLS context objects, when
26088 perfect forward secrecy would want us to discard anything that
26089 could decrypt a link connection as soon as the link connection
26090 was closed. Fixes bug 7139; bugfix on all versions of Tor linked
26091 against OpenSSL 1.0.0 or later. Found by Florent Daignière.
26092 - Discard extraneous renegotiation attempts once the V3 link
26093 protocol has been initiated. Failure to do so left us open to
26094 a remotely triggerable assertion failure. Fixes CVE-2012-2249;
26095 bugfix on 0.2.3.6-alpha. Reported by "some guy from France".
26097 o Internal abstraction features:
26098 - Introduce new channel_t abstraction between circuits and
26099 or_connection_t to allow for implementing alternate OR-to-OR
26100 transports. A channel_t is an abstract object which can either be a
26101 cell-bearing channel, which is responsible for authenticating and
26102 handshaking with the remote OR and transmitting cells to and from
26103 it, or a listening channel, which spawns new cell-bearing channels
26104 at the request of remote ORs. Implements part of ticket 6465.
26105 - Also new is the channel_tls_t subclass of channel_t, adapting it
26106 to the existing or_connection_t code. The V2/V3 protocol handshaking
26107 code which formerly resided in command.c has been moved below the
26108 channel_t abstraction layer and may be found in channeltls.c now.
26109 Implements the rest of ticket 6465.
26110 - Introduce new circuitmux_t storing the queue of circuits for
26111 a channel; this encapsulates and abstracts the queue logic and
26112 circuit selection policy, and allows the latter to be overridden
26113 easily by switching out a policy object. The existing EWMA behavior
26114 is now implemented as a circuitmux_policy_t. Resolves ticket 6816.
26116 o Required libraries:
26117 - Tor now requires OpenSSL 0.9.8 or later. OpenSSL 1.0.0 or later is
26118 strongly recommended.
26121 - Warn users who run hidden services on a Tor client with
26122 UseEntryGuards disabled that their hidden services will be
26123 vulnerable to http://freehaven.net/anonbib/#hs-attack06 (the
26124 attack which motivated Tor to support entry guards in the first
26125 place). Resolves ticket 6889.
26126 - Tor now builds correctly on Bitrig, an OpenBSD fork. Patch from
26127 dhill. Resolves ticket 6982.
26128 - Option OutboundBindAddress can be specified multiple times and
26129 accepts IPv6 addresses. Resolves ticket 6876.
26131 o Minor bugfixes (also in 0.2.3.23-rc):
26132 - Don't serve or accept v2 hidden service descriptors over a
26133 relay's DirPort. It's never correct to do so, and disabling it
26134 might make it more annoying to exploit any bugs that turn up in the
26135 descriptor-parsing code. Fixes bug 7149.
26136 - Fix two cases in src/or/transports.c where we were calling
26137 fmt_addr() twice in a parameter list. Bug found by David
26138 Fifield. Fixes bug 7014; bugfix on 0.2.3.9-alpha.
26139 - Fix memory leaks whenever we logged any message about the "path
26140 bias" detection. Fixes bug 7022; bugfix on 0.2.3.21-rc.
26141 - When relays refuse a "create" cell because their queue of pending
26142 create cells is too big (typically because their cpu can't keep up
26143 with the arrival rate), send back reason "resource limit" rather
26144 than reason "internal", so network measurement scripts can get a
26145 more accurate picture. Fixes bug 7037; bugfix on 0.1.1.11-alpha.
26148 - Command-line option "--version" implies "--quiet". Fixes bug 6997.
26149 - Free some more still-in-use memory at exit, to make hunting for
26150 memory leaks easier. Resolves bug 7029.
26151 - When a Tor client gets a "truncated" relay cell, the first byte of
26152 its payload specifies why the circuit was truncated. We were
26153 ignoring this 'reason' byte when tearing down the circuit, resulting
26154 in the controller not being told why the circuit closed. Now we
26155 pass the reason from the truncated cell to the controller. Bugfix
26156 on 0.1.2.3-alpha; fixes bug 7039.
26157 - Downgrade "Failed to hand off onionskin" messages to "debug"
26158 severity, since they're typically redundant with the "Your computer
26159 is too slow" messages. Fixes bug 7038; bugfix on 0.2.2.16-alpha.
26160 - Make clients running with IPv6 bridges connect over IPv6 again,
26161 even without setting new config options ClientUseIPv6 and
26162 ClientPreferIPv6ORPort. Fixes bug 6757; bugfix on 0.2.4.1-alpha.
26163 - Use square brackets around IPv6 addresses in numerous places
26164 that needed them, including log messages, HTTPS CONNECT proxy
26165 requests, TransportProxy statefile entries, and pluggable transport
26166 extra-info lines. Fixes bug 7011; patch by David Fifield.
26168 o Code refactoring and cleanup:
26169 - Source files taken from other packages now reside in src/ext;
26170 previously they were scattered around the rest of Tor.
26171 - Avoid use of reserved identifiers in our C code. The C standard
26172 doesn't like us declaring anything that starts with an
26173 underscore, so let's knock it off before we get in trouble. Fix
26174 for bug 1031; bugfix on the first Tor commit.
26177 Changes in version 0.2.3.23-rc - 2012-10-20
26178 Tor 0.2.3.23-rc adds a new v3 directory authority, fixes a privacy
26179 vulnerability introduced by a change in OpenSSL, and fixes a variety
26180 of smaller bugs in preparation for the release.
26182 o New directory authorities:
26183 - Add Faravahar (run by Sina Rabbani) as the ninth v3 directory
26184 authority. Closes ticket 5749.
26186 o Major bugfixes (security/privacy):
26187 - Disable TLS session tickets. OpenSSL's implementation was giving
26188 our TLS session keys the lifetime of our TLS context objects, when
26189 perfect forward secrecy would want us to discard anything that
26190 could decrypt a link connection as soon as the link connection
26191 was closed. Fixes bug 7139; bugfix on all versions of Tor linked
26192 against OpenSSL 1.0.0 or later. Found by Florent Daignière.
26193 - Discard extraneous renegotiation attempts once the V3 link
26194 protocol has been initiated. Failure to do so left us open to
26195 a remotely triggerable assertion failure. Fixes CVE-2012-2249;
26196 bugfix on 0.2.3.6-alpha. Reported by "some guy from France".
26199 - Fix a possible crash bug when checking for deactivated circuits
26200 in connection_or_flush_from_first_active_circuit(). Fixes bug 6341;
26201 bugfix on 0.2.2.7-alpha. Bug report and fix received pseudonymously.
26203 o Minor bugfixes (on 0.2.3.x):
26204 - Fix two cases in src/or/transports.c where we were calling
26205 fmt_addr() twice in a parameter list. Bug found by David
26206 Fifield. Fixes bug 7014; bugfix on 0.2.3.9-alpha.
26207 - Convert an assert in the pathbias code to a log message. The assert
26208 appears to only be triggerable by Tor2Web mode. Fixes bug 6866;
26209 bugfix on 0.2.3.17-beta.
26210 - Fix memory leaks whenever we logged any message about the "path
26211 bias" detection. Fixes bug 7022; bugfix on 0.2.3.21-rc.
26213 o Minor bugfixes (on 0.2.2.x and earlier):
26214 - Don't serve or accept v2 hidden service descriptors over a relay's
26215 DirPort. It's never correct to do so, and disabling it might
26216 make it more annoying to exploit any bugs that turn up in the
26217 descriptor-parsing code. Fixes bug 7149.
26218 - When relays refuse a "create" cell because their queue of pending
26219 create cells is too big (typically because their cpu can't keep up
26220 with the arrival rate), send back reason "resource limit" rather
26221 than reason "internal", so network measurement scripts can get a
26222 more accurate picture. Bugfix on 0.1.1.11-alpha; fixes bug 7037.
26223 - Correct file sizes when reading binary files on Cygwin, to avoid
26224 a bug where Tor would fail to read its state file. Fixes bug 6844;
26225 bugfix on 0.1.2.7-alpha.
26226 - Avoid undefined behavior when parsing the list of supported
26227 rendezvous/introduction protocols in a hidden service descriptor.
26228 Previously, Tor would have confused (as-yet-unused) protocol version
26229 numbers greater than 32 with lower ones on many platforms. Fixes
26230 bug 6827; bugfix on 0.2.0.10-alpha. Found by George Kadianakis.
26232 o Documentation fixes:
26233 - Clarify that hidden services are TCP only. Fixes bug 6024.
26236 Changes in version 0.2.4.3-alpha - 2012-09-22
26237 Tor 0.2.4.3-alpha fixes another opportunity for a remotely triggerable
26238 assertion, resumes letting relays test reachability of their DirPort,
26239 and cleans up a bunch of smaller bugs.
26242 - Fix an assertion failure in tor_timegm() that could be triggered
26243 by a badly formatted directory object. Bug found by fuzzing with
26244 Radamsa. Fixes bug 6811; bugfix on 0.2.0.20-rc.
26247 - Fix a possible crash bug when checking for deactivated circuits
26248 in connection_or_flush_from_first_active_circuit(). Fixes bug 6341;
26249 bugfix on 0.2.2.7-alpha. Bug report and fix received pseudonymously.
26250 - Allow routers to detect that their own DirPorts are running. When
26251 we removed support for versions_supports_begindir, we also
26252 accidentally removed the mechanism we used to self-test our
26253 DirPort. Diagnosed with help from kargig. Fixes bugs 6814 and 6815;
26254 bugfix on 0.2.4.2-alpha.
26256 o Security features:
26257 - Switch to a completely time-invariant approach for picking nodes
26258 weighted by bandwidth. Our old approach would run through the
26259 part of the loop after it had made its choice slightly slower
26260 than it ran through the part of the loop before it had made its
26261 choice. Addresses ticket 6538.
26262 - Disable the use of Guard nodes when in Tor2WebMode. Guard usage
26263 by tor2web clients allows hidden services to identify tor2web
26264 clients through their repeated selection of the same rendezvous
26265 and introduction point circuit endpoints (their guards). Resolves
26269 - Enable Tor to read configuration, state, and key information from
26270 a FIFO. Previously Tor would only read from files with a positive
26271 stat.st_size. Code from meejah; fixes bug 6044.
26274 - Correct file sizes when reading binary files on Cygwin, to avoid
26275 a bug where Tor would fail to read its state file. Fixes bug 6844;
26276 bugfix on 0.1.2.7-alpha.
26277 - Correctly handle votes with more than 31 flags. Fixes bug 6853;
26278 bugfix on 0.2.0.3-alpha.
26279 - When complaining about a client port on a public address, log
26280 which address we're complaining about. Fixes bug 4020; bugfix on
26281 0.2.3.3-alpha. Patch by Tom Fitzhenry.
26282 - Convert an assert in the pathbias code to a log message. The assert
26283 appears to only be triggerable by Tor2Web mode. Fixes bug 6866;
26284 bugfix on 0.2.3.17-beta.
26285 - Our new buildsystem was overzealous about rebuilding manpages: it
26286 would rebuild them all whenever any one of them changed. Now our
26287 dependency checking should be correct. Fixes bug 6843; bugfix on
26289 - Don't do reachability testing over IPv6 unless AuthDirPublishIPv6
26290 is set. Fixes bug 6880. Bugfix on 0.2.4.1-alpha.
26291 - Correct log printout about which address family is preferred
26292 when connecting to a bridge with both an IPv4 and IPv6 OR port.
26293 Fixes bug 6884; bugfix on 0.2.4.1-alpha.
26295 o Minor bugfixes (code cleanliness):
26296 - Fix round_to_power_of_2() so it doesn't invoke undefined behavior
26297 with large values. This situation was untriggered, but nevertheless
26298 incorrect. Fixes bug 6831; bugfix on 0.2.0.1-alpha.
26299 - Reject consensus votes with more than 64 known-flags. We aren't even
26300 close to that limit yet, and our code doesn't handle it correctly.
26301 Fixes bug 6833; bugfix on 0.2.0.1-alpha.
26302 - Avoid undefined behavior when parsing the list of supported
26303 rendezvous/introduction protocols in a hidden service descriptor.
26304 Previously, Tor would have confused (as-yet-unused) protocol version
26305 numbers greater than 32 with lower ones on many platforms. Fixes
26306 bug 6827; bugfix on 0.2.0.10-alpha. Found by George Kadianakis.
26307 - Fix handling of rendezvous client authorization types over 8.
26308 Fixes bug 6861; bugfix on 0.2.1.5-alpha.
26309 - Fix building with older versions of GCC (2.95, for one) that don't
26310 like preprocessor directives inside macro arguments. Found by
26311 grarpamp. Fixes bug 6842; bugfix on 0.2.4.2-alpha.
26312 - Switch weighted node selection rule from using a list of doubles
26313 to using a list of int64_t. This change should make the process
26314 slightly easier to debug and maintain. Needed to finish ticket 6538.
26316 o Code simplification and refactoring:
26317 - Move the generic "config" code into a new file, and have "config.c"
26318 hold only torrc- and state-related code. Resolves ticket 6823.
26319 - Move the core of our "choose a weighted element at random" logic
26320 into its own function, and give it unit tests. Now the logic is
26321 testable, and a little less fragile too.
26322 - Removed the testing_since field of node_t, which hasn't been used
26323 for anything since 0.2.0.9-alpha.
26325 o Documentation fixes:
26326 - Clarify that hidden services are TCP only. Fixes bug 6024.
26327 - Resolve a typo in torrc.sample.in. Fixes bug 6819; bugfix on
26331 Changes in version 0.2.3.22-rc - 2012-09-11
26332 Tor 0.2.3.22-rc fixes another opportunity for a remotely triggerable
26336 - Fix an assertion failure in tor_timegm() that could be triggered
26337 by a badly formatted directory object. Bug found by fuzzing with
26338 Radamsa. Fixes bug 6811; bugfix on 0.2.0.20-rc.
26341 - Avoid segfault when starting up having run with an extremely old
26342 version of Tor and parsing its state file. Fixes bug 6801; bugfix
26346 Changes in version 0.2.2.39 - 2012-09-11
26347 Tor 0.2.2.39 fixes two more opportunities for remotely triggerable
26351 - Fix an assertion failure in tor_timegm() that could be triggered
26352 by a badly formatted directory object. Bug found by fuzzing with
26353 Radamsa. Fixes bug 6811; bugfix on 0.2.0.20-rc.
26354 - Do not crash when comparing an address with port value 0 to an
26355 address policy. This bug could have been used to cause a remote
26356 assertion failure by or against directory authorities, or to
26357 allow some applications to crash clients. Fixes bug 6690; bugfix
26361 Changes in version 0.2.4.2-alpha - 2012-09-10
26362 Tor 0.2.4.2-alpha enables port forwarding for pluggable transports,
26363 raises the default rate limiting even more, and makes the bootstrapping
26364 log messages less noisy.
26367 - Automatically forward the TCP ports of pluggable transport
26368 proxies using tor-fw-helper if PortForwarding is enabled. Implements
26372 - Raise the default BandwidthRate/BandwidthBurst values from 5MB/10MB
26373 to 1GB/1GB. The previous defaults were intended to be "basically
26374 infinite", but it turns out they're now limiting our 100mbit+
26375 relays and bridges. Fixes bug 6605; bugfix on 0.2.0.10-alpha (the
26376 last time we raised it).
26379 - Detect when we're running with a version of OpenSSL other than the
26380 one we compiled with. This has occasionally given people hard-to-
26382 - Log fewer lines at level "notice" about our OpenSSL and Libevent
26383 versions and capabilities when everything is going right. Resolves
26384 part of ticket 6736.
26385 - Directory authorities no long accept descriptors for any version of
26386 Tor before 0.2.2.35, or for any 0.2.3 release before 0.2.3.10-alpha.
26387 These versions are insecure, unsupported, or both. Implements
26391 - Rename the (internal-use-only) UsingTestingNetworkDefaults option
26392 to start with a triple-underscore so the controller won't touch it.
26393 Patch by Meejah. Fixes bug 3155. Bugfix on 0.2.2.23-alpha.
26394 - Avoid segfault when starting up having run with an extremely old
26395 version of Tor and parsing its state file. Fixes bug 6801; bugfix
26397 - Rename the (testing-use-only) _UseFilteringSSLBufferevents option
26398 so it doesn't start with _. Fixes bug 3155. Bugfix on 0.2.3.1-alpha.
26399 - Don't follow the NULL pointer if microdescriptor generation fails.
26400 (This does not appear to be triggerable, but it's best to be safe.)
26401 Found by "f. tp.". Fixes bug 6797; bugfix on 0.2.4.1-alpha.
26402 - Fix mis-declared dependencies on src/common/crypto.c and
26403 src/or/tor_main.c that could break out-of-tree builds under some
26404 circumstances. Fixes bug 6778; bugfix on 0.2.4.1-alpha.
26405 - Avoid a warning when building common_sha1.i out of tree. Fixes bug
26406 6778; bugfix on 0.2.4.1-alpha.
26407 - Fix a harmless (in this case) build warning for implicitly
26408 converting a strlen() to an int. Bugfix on 0.2.4.1-alpha.
26410 o Removed features:
26411 - Now that all versions before 0.2.2.x are disallowed, we no longer
26412 need to work around their missing features. Thus we can remove a
26413 bunch of compatibility code.
26415 o Code refactoring:
26416 - Tweak tor-fw-helper to accept an arbitrary amount of arbitrary
26417 TCP ports to forward. In the past it only accepted two ports:
26418 the ORPort and the DirPort.
26421 Changes in version 0.2.4.1-alpha - 2012-09-05
26422 Tor 0.2.4.1-alpha lets bridges publish their pluggable transports to
26423 bridgedb; lets relays use IPv6 addresses and directory authorities
26424 advertise them; and switches to a cleaner build interface.
26426 This is the first alpha release in a new series, so expect there to
26427 be bugs. Users who would rather test out a more stable branch should
26428 stay with 0.2.3.x for now.
26430 o Major features (bridges):
26431 - Bridges now report the pluggable transports they support to the
26432 bridge authority, so it can pass the supported transports on to
26433 bridgedb and/or eventually do reachability testing. Implements
26436 o Major features (IPv6):
26437 - Bridge authorities now accept IPv6 bridge addresses and include
26438 them in network status documents. Implements ticket 5534.
26439 - Clients who set "ClientUseIPv6 1" may connect to entry nodes over
26440 IPv6. Set "ClientPreferIPv6ORPort 1" to make this even more likely
26441 to happen. Implements ticket 5535.
26442 - All kind of relays, not just bridges, can now advertise an IPv6
26443 OR port. Implements ticket 6362.
26444 - Directory authorities vote on IPv6 OR ports using the new consensus
26445 method 14. Implements ticket 6363.
26447 o Major features (build):
26448 - Switch to a nonrecursive Makefile structure. Now instead of each
26449 Makefile.am invoking other Makefile.am's, there is a master
26450 Makefile.am that includes the others. This change makes our build
26451 process slightly more maintainable, and improves parallelism for
26452 building with make -j. Original patch by Stewart Smith; various
26453 fixes by Jim Meyering.
26454 - Where available, we now use automake's "silent" make rules by
26455 default, so that warnings are easier to spot. You can get the old
26456 behavior with "make V=1". Patch by Stewart Smith for ticket 6522.
26458 o Minor features (code security and spec conformance):
26459 - Clear keys and key-derived material left on the stack in
26460 rendservice.c and rendclient.c. Check return value of
26461 crypto_pk_write_private_key_to_string() in rend_service_load_keys().
26462 These fixes should make us more forward-secure against cold-boot
26463 attacks and the like. Fixes bug 2385.
26464 - Reject EXTEND cells sent to nonexistent streams. According to the
26465 spec, an EXTEND cell sent to _any_ nonzero stream ID is invalid, but
26466 we were only checking for stream IDs that were currently in use.
26467 Found while hunting for more instances of bug 6271. Bugfix on
26468 0.0.2pre8, which introduced incremental circuit construction.
26470 o Minor features (streamlining);
26471 - No longer include the "opt" prefix when generating routerinfos
26472 or v2 directories: it has been needless since Tor 0.1.2. Closes
26474 - Remove some now-needless code that tried to aggressively flush
26475 OR connections as data was added to them. Since 0.2.0.1-alpha, our
26476 cell queue logic has saved us from the failure mode that this code
26477 was supposed to prevent. Removing this code will limit the number
26478 of baroque control flow paths through Tor's network logic. Reported
26479 pseudonymously on IRC. Fixes bug 6468; bugfix on 0.2.0.1-alpha.
26481 o Minor features (controller):
26482 - Add a "GETINFO signal/names" control port command. Implements
26484 - Provide default values for all options via "GETINFO config/defaults".
26485 Implements ticket 4971.
26487 o Minor features (IPv6):
26488 - New config option "AuthDirHasIPv6Connectivity 1" that directory
26489 authorities should set if they have IPv6 connectivity and want to
26490 do reachability tests for IPv6 relays. Implements feature 5974.
26491 - A relay with an IPv6 OR port now sends that address in NETINFO
26492 cells (in addition to its other address). Implements ticket 6364.
26494 o Minor features (log messages):
26495 - Omit the first heartbeat log message, because it never has anything
26496 useful to say, and it clutters up the bootstrapping messages.
26497 Resolves ticket 6758.
26498 - Don't log about reloading the microdescriptor cache at startup. Our
26499 bootstrap warnings are supposed to tell the user when there's a
26500 problem, and our bootstrap notices say when there isn't. Resolves
26501 ticket 6759; bugfix on 0.2.2.6-alpha.
26502 - Don't log "I learned some more directory information" when we're
26503 reading cached directory information. Reserve it for when new
26504 directory information arrives in response to a fetch. Resolves
26506 - Prevent rounding error in path bias counts when scaling
26507 them down, and use the correct scale factor default. Also demote
26508 some path bias related log messages down a level and make others
26509 less scary sounding. Fixes bug 6647. Bugfix against 0.2.3.17-beta.
26510 - We no longer warn so much when generating manpages from their
26513 o Code simplifications and refactoring:
26514 - Enhance our internal sscanf replacement so that we can eliminate
26515 the last remaining uses of the system sscanf. (Though those uses
26516 of sscanf were safe, sscanf itself is generally error prone, so
26517 we want to eliminate when we can.) Fixes ticket 4195 and Coverity
26519 - Move ipv6_preferred from routerinfo_t to node_t. Addresses bug 4620.
26520 - Move last_reachable and testing_since from routerinfo_t to node_t.
26521 Implements ticket 5529.
26522 - Add replaycache_t structure, functions and unit tests, then refactor
26523 rend_service_introduce() to be more clear to read, improve, debug,
26524 and test. Resolves bug 6177.
26525 - Finally remove support for malloc_good_size and malloc_usable_size.
26526 We had hoped that these functions would let us eke a little more
26527 memory out of our malloc implementation. Unfortunately, the only
26528 implementations that provided these functions are also ones that
26529 are already efficient about not overallocation: they never got us
26530 more than 7 or so bytes per allocation. Removing them saves us a
26531 little code complexity and a nontrivial amount of build complexity.
26533 o New requirements:
26534 - Tor maintainers now require Automake version 1.9 or later to build
26535 Tor from the Git repository. (Automake is not required when building
26536 from a source distribution.)
26539 Changes in version 0.2.3.21-rc - 2012-09-05
26540 Tor 0.2.3.21-rc is the fourth release candidate for the Tor 0.2.3.x
26541 series. It fixes a trio of potential security bugs, fixes a bug where
26542 we were leaving some of the fast relays out of the microdescriptor
26543 consensus, resumes interpreting "ORPort 0" and "DirPort 0" correctly,
26544 and cleans up other smaller issues.
26546 o Major bugfixes (security):
26547 - Tear down the circuit if we get an unexpected SENDME cell. Clients
26548 could use this trick to make their circuits receive cells faster
26549 than our flow control would have allowed, or to gum up the network,
26550 or possibly to do targeted memory denial-of-service attacks on
26551 entry nodes. Fixes bug 6252. Bugfix on the 54th commit on Tor --
26552 from July 2002, before the release of Tor 0.0.0. We had committed
26553 this patch previously, but we had to revert it because of bug 6271.
26554 Now that 6271 is fixed, this patch appears to work.
26555 - Reject any attempt to extend to an internal address. Without
26556 this fix, a router could be used to probe addresses on an internal
26557 network to see whether they were accepting connections. Fixes bug
26558 6710; bugfix on 0.0.8pre1.
26559 - Do not crash when comparing an address with port value 0 to an
26560 address policy. This bug could have been used to cause a remote
26561 assertion failure by or against directory authorities, or to
26562 allow some applications to crash clients. Fixes bug 6690; bugfix
26566 - Remove the upper bound on microdescriptor length. We were hitting
26567 the limit for routers with complex exit policies or family
26568 declarations, causing clients to not use them. Fixes the first
26569 piece of bug 6404; fix on 0.2.2.6-alpha.
26570 - Detect "ORPort 0" as meaning, uniformly, that we're not running
26571 as a relay. Previously, some of our code would treat the presence
26572 of any ORPort line as meaning that we should act like a relay,
26573 even though our new listener code would correctly not open any
26574 ORPorts for ORPort 0. Similar bugs in other Port options are also
26575 fixed. Fixes the first half of bug 6507; bugfix on 0.2.3.3-alpha.
26578 - Avoid a pair of double-free and use-after-mark bugs that can
26579 occur with certain timings in canceled and re-received DNS
26580 requests. Fixes bug 6472; bugfix on 0.0.7rc1.
26581 - Fix build and 64-bit compile warnings from --enable-openbsd-malloc.
26582 Fixes bug 6379. Bugfix on 0.2.0.20-rc.
26583 - Allow one-hop directory fetching circuits the full "circuit build
26584 timeout" period, rather than just half of it, before failing them
26585 and marking the relay down. This fix should help reduce cases where
26586 clients declare relays (or worse, bridges) unreachable because
26587 the TLS handshake takes a few seconds to complete. Fixes bug 6743;
26588 bugfix on 0.2.2.2-alpha, where we changed the timeout from a static
26590 - Authorities no longer include any router in their microdescriptor
26591 consensuses for which they couldn't generate or agree on a
26592 microdescriptor. Fixes the second piece of bug 6404; fix on
26594 - Detect and reject attempts to specify both "FooPort" and
26595 "FooPort 0" in the same configuration domain. (It's still okay
26596 to have a FooPort in your configuration file, and use "FooPort 0"
26597 on the command line to disable it.) Fixes the second half of bug
26598 6507; bugfix on 0.2.3.3-alpha.
26599 - Make wildcarded addresses (that is, ones beginning with "*.") work
26600 when provided via the controller's MapAddress command. Previously,
26601 they were accepted, but we never actually noticed that they were
26602 wildcards. Fixes bug 6244; bugfix on 0.2.3.9-alpha.
26603 - Avoid crashing on a malformed state file where EntryGuardPathBias
26604 precedes EntryGuard. Fix for bug 6774; bugfix on 0.2.3.17-beta.
26605 - Add a (probably redundant) memory clear between iterations of
26606 the router status voting loop, to prevent future coding errors
26607 where data might leak between iterations of the loop. Resolves
26610 o Minor bugfixes (log messages):
26611 - Downgrade "set buildtimeout to low value" messages to "info"
26612 severity; they were never an actual problem, there was never
26613 anything reasonable to do about them, and they tended to spam logs
26614 from time to time. Fixes bug 6251; bugfix on 0.2.2.2-alpha.
26615 - Downgrade path-bias warning messages to "info". We'll try to get
26616 them working better in 0.2.4. Add internal circuit construction
26617 state to protect against the noisy warn message "Unexpectedly high
26618 circuit_successes". Also add some additional rate-limited notice
26619 messages to help determine the root cause of the warn. Fixes bug
26620 6475. Bugfix against 0.2.3.17-beta.
26621 - Move log message when unable to find a microdesc in a routerstatus
26622 entry to parse time. Previously we'd spam this warning every time
26623 we tried to figure out which microdescriptors to download. Fixes
26624 the third piece of bug 6404; fix on 0.2.3.18-rc.
26627 - Consider new, removed or changed IPv6 OR ports a non-cosmetic
26628 change when the authority is deciding whether to accept a newly
26629 uploaded descriptor. Implements ticket 6423.
26630 - Add missing documentation for consensus and microdesc files.
26631 Resolves ticket 6732.
26634 Changes in version 0.2.2.38 - 2012-08-12
26635 Tor 0.2.2.38 fixes a remotely triggerable crash bug, and fixes a timing
26636 attack that could in theory leak path information.
26639 - Avoid an uninitialized memory read when reading a vote or consensus
26640 document that has an unrecognized flavor name. This read could
26641 lead to a remote crash bug. Fixes bug 6530; bugfix on 0.2.2.6-alpha.
26642 - Try to leak less information about what relays a client is
26643 choosing to a side-channel attacker. Previously, a Tor client would
26644 stop iterating through the list of available relays as soon as it
26645 had chosen one, thus finishing a little earlier when it picked
26646 a router earlier in the list. If an attacker can recover this
26647 timing information (nontrivial but not proven to be impossible),
26648 they could learn some coarse-grained information about which relays
26649 a client was picking (middle nodes in particular are likelier to
26650 be affected than exits). The timing attack might be mitigated by
26651 other factors (see bug 6537 for some discussion), but it's best
26652 not to take chances. Fixes bug 6537; bugfix on 0.0.8rc1.
26655 Changes in version 0.2.3.20-rc - 2012-08-05
26656 Tor 0.2.3.20-rc is the third release candidate for the Tor 0.2.3.x
26657 series. It fixes a pair of code security bugs and a potential anonymity
26658 issue, updates our RPM spec files, and cleans up other smaller issues.
26661 - Avoid read-from-freed-memory and double-free bugs that could occur
26662 when a DNS request fails while launching it. Fixes bug 6480;
26663 bugfix on 0.2.0.1-alpha.
26664 - Avoid an uninitialized memory read when reading a vote or consensus
26665 document that has an unrecognized flavor name. This read could
26666 lead to a remote crash bug. Fixes bug 6530; bugfix on 0.2.2.6-alpha.
26667 - Try to leak less information about what relays a client is
26668 choosing to a side-channel attacker. Previously, a Tor client would
26669 stop iterating through the list of available relays as soon as it
26670 had chosen one, thus finishing a little earlier when it picked
26671 a router earlier in the list. If an attacker can recover this
26672 timing information (nontrivial but not proven to be impossible),
26673 they could learn some coarse-grained information about which relays
26674 a client was picking (middle nodes in particular are likelier to
26675 be affected than exits). The timing attack might be mitigated by
26676 other factors (see bug 6537 for some discussion), but it's best
26677 not to take chances. Fixes bug 6537; bugfix on 0.0.8rc1.
26680 - Try to make the warning when giving an obsolete SOCKSListenAddress
26681 a little more useful.
26682 - Terminate active server managed proxies if Tor stops being a
26683 relay. Addresses parts of bug 6274; bugfix on 0.2.3.6-alpha.
26684 - Provide a better error message about possible OSX Asciidoc failure
26685 reasons. Fixes bug 6436.
26686 - Warn when Tor is configured to use accounting in a way that can
26687 link a hidden service to some other hidden service or public
26688 address. Resolves ticket 6490.
26691 - Check return value of fputs() when writing authority certificate
26692 file. Fixes Coverity issue 709056; bugfix on 0.2.0.1-alpha.
26693 - Ignore ServerTransportPlugin lines when Tor is not configured as
26694 a relay. Fixes bug 6274; bugfix on 0.2.3.6-alpha.
26695 - When disabling guards for having too high a proportion of failed
26696 circuits, make sure to look at each guard. Fixes bug 6397; bugfix
26700 - Update our default RPM spec files to work with mock and rpmbuild
26701 on RHEL/Fedora. They have an updated set of dependencies and
26702 conflicts, a fix for an ancient typo when creating the "_tor"
26703 user, and better instructions. Thanks to Ondrej Mikle for the
26704 patch series. Fixes bug 6043.
26707 - Make it possible to set the TestingTorNetwork configuration
26708 option using AlternateDirAuthority and AlternateBridgeAuthority
26709 as an alternative to setting DirServer. Addresses ticket 6377.
26712 - Clarify the documentation for the Alternate*Authority options.
26714 - Fix some typos in the manpages. Patch from A. Costa. Fixes bug 6500.
26716 o Code simplification and refactoring:
26717 - Do not use SMARTLIST_FOREACH for any loop whose body exceeds
26718 10 lines. Also, don't nest them. Doing so in the past has
26719 led to hard-to-debug code. The new style is to use the
26720 SMARTLIST_FOREACH_{BEGIN,END} pair. Addresses issue 6400.
26723 Changes in version 0.2.3.19-rc - 2012-07-06
26724 Tor 0.2.3.19-rc is the second release candidate for the Tor 0.2.3.x
26725 series. It fixes the compile on Windows, reverts to a GeoIP database
26726 that isn't as broken, and fixes a flow control bug that has been around
26727 since the beginning of Tor.
26730 - Fix a bug handling SENDME cells on nonexistent streams that could
26731 result in bizarre window values. Report and patch contributed
26732 pseudonymously. Fixes part of bug 6271. This bug was introduced
26733 before the first Tor release, in svn commit r152.
26734 - Revert to the May 1 2012 Maxmind GeoLite Country database. In the
26735 June 2012 database, Maxmind marked many Tor relays as country "A1",
26736 which will cause risky behavior for clients that set EntryNodes
26737 or ExitNodes. Addresses bug 6334; bugfix on 0.2.3.17-beta.
26738 - Instead of ENOBUFS on Windows, say WSAENOBUFS. Fixes compilation
26739 on Windows. Fixes bug 6296; bugfix on 0.2.3.18-rc.
26742 - Fix wrong TCP port range in parse_port_range(). Fixes bug 6218;
26743 bugfix on 0.2.1.10-alpha.
26746 Changes in version 0.2.3.18-rc - 2012-06-28
26747 Tor 0.2.3.18-rc is the first release candidate for the Tor 0.2.3.x
26748 series. It fixes a few smaller bugs, but generally appears stable.
26749 Please test it and let us know whether it is!
26752 - Allow wildcarded mapaddress targets to be specified on the
26753 controlport. Partially fixes bug 6244; bugfix on 0.2.3.9-alpha.
26754 - Make our linker option detection code more robust against linkers
26755 such as on FreeBSD 8, where a bad combination of options completes
26756 successfully but makes an unrunnable binary. Fixes bug 6173;
26757 bugfix on 0.2.3.17-beta.
26759 o Minor bugfixes (on 0.2.2.x and earlier):
26760 - Avoid a false positive in the util/threads unit test by increasing
26761 the maximum timeout time. Fixes bug 6227; bugfix on 0.2.0.4-alpha.
26762 - Replace "Sending publish request" log messages with "Launching
26763 upload", so that they no longer confusingly imply that we're
26764 sending something to a directory we might not even be connected
26765 to yet. Fixes bug 3311; bugfix on 0.2.0.10-alpha.
26766 - Make sure to set *socket_error in all error cases in
26767 connection_connect(), so it can't produce a warning about
26768 errno being zero from errno_to_orconn_end_reason(). Bugfix on
26769 0.2.1.1-alpha; resolves ticket 6028.
26770 - Downgrade "Got a certificate, but we already have it" log messages
26771 from warning to info, except when we're a dirauth. Fixes bug 5238;
26772 bugfix on 0.2.1.7-alpha.
26773 - When checking for requested signatures on the latest consensus
26774 before serving it to a client, make sure to check the right
26775 consensus flavor. Bugfix on 0.2.2.6-alpha.
26776 - Downgrade "eventdns rejected address" message to LOG_PROTOCOL_WARN.
26777 Fixes bug 5932; bugfix on 0.2.2.7-alpha.
26779 o Minor bugfixes (on 0.2.3.x):
26780 - Make format_helper_exit_status() avoid unnecessary space padding
26781 and stop confusing log_from_pipe(). Fixes ticket 5557; bugfix
26783 - Downgrade a message about cleaning the microdescriptor cache to
26784 "info" from "notice". Fixes bug 6238; bugfix on 0.2.3.1-alpha.
26785 - Log a BUG message at severity INFO if we have a networkstatus with
26786 a missing entry for some microdescriptor. Continues on a patch
26788 - Improve the log message when a managed proxy fails to launch. Fixes
26789 bug 5099; bugfix on 0.2.3.6-alpha.
26790 - Don't do DNS lookups when parsing corrupted managed proxy protocol
26791 messages. Fixes bug 6226; bugfix on 0.2.3.6-alpha.
26792 - When formatting wildcarded address mappings for the controller,
26793 be sure to include "*." as appropriate. Partially fixes bug 6244;
26794 bugfix on 0.2.3.9-alpha.
26795 - Avoid a warning caused by using strcspn() from glibc with clang 3.0.
26796 Bugfix on 0.2.3.13-alpha.
26797 - Stop logging messages about running with circuit timeout learning
26798 enabled at severity LD_BUG. Fixes bug 6169; bugfix on 0.2.3.17-beta.
26799 - Disable a spurious warning about reading on a marked and flushing
26800 connection. We shouldn't be doing that, but apparently we
26801 sometimes do. Fixes bug 6203; bugfix on 0.2.3.17-beta.
26802 - Fix a bug that stopped AllowDotExit from working on addresses
26803 that had an entry in the DNS cache. Fixes bug 6211; bugfix on
26806 o Code simplification, refactoring, unit tests:
26807 - Move tor_gettimeofday_cached() into compat_libevent.c, and use
26808 Libevent's notion of cached time when possible.
26809 - Remove duplicate code for invoking getrlimit() from control.c.
26810 - Add a unit test for the environment_variable_names_equal function.
26813 - Document the --defaults-torrc option, and the new (in 0.2.3)
26814 semantics for overriding, extending, and clearing lists of
26815 options. Closes bug 4748.
26818 Changes in version 0.2.3.17-beta - 2012-06-15
26819 Tor 0.2.3.17-beta enables compiler and linker hardening by default,
26820 gets our TLS handshake back on track for being able to blend in with
26821 Firefox, fixes a big bug in 0.2.3.16-alpha that broke Tor's interaction
26822 with Vidalia, and otherwise continues to get us closer to a release
26826 - Enable gcc and ld hardening by default. Resolves ticket 5210.
26827 - Update TLS cipher list to match Firefox 8 and later. Resolves
26829 - Implement the client side of proposal 198: remove support for
26830 clients falsely claiming to support standard ciphersuites that
26831 they can actually provide. As of modern OpenSSL versions, it's not
26832 necessary to fake any standard ciphersuite, and doing so prevents
26833 us from using better ciphersuites in the future, since servers
26834 can't know whether an advertised ciphersuite is really supported or
26835 not. Some hosts -- notably, ones with very old versions of OpenSSL
26836 or where OpenSSL has been built with ECC disabled -- will stand
26837 out because of this change; TBB users should not be affected.
26840 - Change the default value for DynamicDHGroups (introduced in
26841 0.2.3.9-alpha) to 0. This feature can make Tor relays less
26842 identifiable by their use of the mod_ssl DH group, but at
26843 the cost of some usability (#4721) and bridge tracing (#6087)
26844 regressions. Resolves ticket 5598.
26845 - Send a CRLF at the end of each STATUS_* control protocol event. This
26846 bug tickled a bug in Vidalia which would make it freeze. Fixes
26847 bug 6094; bugfix on 0.2.3.16-alpha.
26850 - Disable writing on marked-for-close connections when they are
26851 blocked on bandwidth, to prevent busy-looping in Libevent. Fixes
26852 bug 5263; bugfix on 0.0.2pre13, where we first added a special
26853 case for flushing marked connections.
26854 - Detect SSL handshake even when the initial attempt to write the
26855 server hello fails. Fixes bug 4592; bugfix on 0.2.0.13-alpha.
26856 - Change the AllowDotExit rules so they should actually work.
26857 We now enforce AllowDotExit only immediately after receiving an
26858 address via SOCKS or DNSPort: other sources are free to provide
26859 .exit addresses after the resolution occurs. Fixes bug 3940;
26860 bugfix on 0.2.2.1-alpha.
26861 - Fix a (harmless) integer overflow in cell statistics reported by
26862 some fast relays. Fixes bug 5849; bugfix on 0.2.2.1-alpha.
26863 - Make sure circuitbuild.c checks LearnCircuitBuildTimeout in all the
26864 right places and never depends on the consensus parameters or
26865 computes adaptive timeouts when it is disabled. Fixes bug 5049;
26866 bugfix on 0.2.2.14-alpha.
26867 - When building Tor on Windows with -DUNICODE (not default), ensure
26868 that error messages, filenames, and DNS server names are always
26869 NUL-terminated when we convert them to a single-byte encoding.
26870 Fixes bug 5909; bugfix on 0.2.2.16-alpha.
26871 - Make Tor build correctly again with -DUNICODE -D_UNICODE defined.
26872 Fixes bug 6097; bugfix on 0.2.2.16-alpha.
26873 - Fix an edge case where TestingTorNetwork is set but the authorities
26874 and relays all have an uptime of zero, where the private Tor network
26875 could briefly lack support for hidden services. Fixes bug 3886;
26876 bugfix on 0.2.2.18-alpha.
26877 - Correct the manpage's descriptions for the default values of
26878 DirReqStatistics and ExtraInfoStatistics. Fixes bug 2865; bugfix
26880 - Fix the documentation for the --hush and --quiet command line
26881 options, which changed their behavior back in 0.2.3.3-alpha.
26882 - Fix compilation warning with clang 3.1. Fixes bug 6141; bugfix on
26886 - Rate-limit the "Weighted bandwidth is 0.000000" message, and add
26887 more information to it, so that we can track it down in case it
26888 returns again. Mitigates bug 5235.
26889 - Check CircuitBuildTimeout and LearnCircuitBuildTimeout in
26890 options_validate(); warn if LearnCircuitBuildTimeout is disabled and
26891 CircuitBuildTimeout is set unreasonably low. Resolves ticket 5452.
26892 - Warn the user when HTTPProxy, but no other proxy type, is
26893 configured. This can cause surprising behavior: it doesn't send
26894 all of Tor's traffic over the HTTPProxy -- it sends unencrypted
26895 directory traffic only. Resolves ticket 4663.
26896 - Issue a notice if a guard completes less than 40% of your circuits.
26897 Threshold is configurable by torrc option PathBiasNoticeRate and
26898 consensus parameter pb_noticepct. There is additional, off-by-
26899 default code to disable guards which fail too many circuits.
26900 Addresses ticket 5458.
26901 - Update to the June 6 2012 Maxmind GeoLite Country database.
26903 o Code simplifications and refactoring:
26904 - Remove validate_pluggable_transports_config(): its warning
26905 message is now handled by connection_or_connect().
26908 Changes in version 0.2.2.37 - 2012-06-06
26909 Tor 0.2.2.37 introduces a workaround for a critical renegotiation
26910 bug in OpenSSL 1.0.1 (where 20% of the Tor network can't talk to itself
26914 - Work around a bug in OpenSSL that broke renegotiation with TLS
26915 1.1 and TLS 1.2. Without this workaround, all attempts to speak
26916 the v2 Tor connection protocol when both sides were using OpenSSL
26917 1.0.1 would fail. Resolves ticket 6033.
26918 - When waiting for a client to renegotiate, don't allow it to add
26919 any bytes to the input buffer. This fixes a potential DoS issue.
26920 Fixes bugs 5934 and 6007; bugfix on 0.2.0.20-rc.
26921 - Fix an edge case where if we fetch or publish a hidden service
26922 descriptor, we might build a 4-hop circuit and then use that circuit
26923 for exiting afterwards -- even if the new last hop doesn't obey our
26924 ExitNodes config option. Fixes bug 5283; bugfix on 0.2.0.10-alpha.
26927 - Fix a build warning with Clang 3.1 related to our use of vasprintf.
26928 Fixes bug 5969. Bugfix on 0.2.2.11-alpha.
26931 - Tell GCC and Clang to check for any errors in format strings passed
26932 to the tor_v*(print|scan)f functions.
26935 Changes in version 0.2.3.16-alpha - 2012-06-05
26936 Tor 0.2.3.16-alpha introduces a workaround for a critical renegotiation
26937 bug in OpenSSL 1.0.1 (where 20% of the Tor network can't talk to itself
26938 currently). It also fixes a variety of smaller bugs and other cleanups
26939 that get us closer to a release candidate.
26941 o Major bugfixes (general):
26942 - Work around a bug in OpenSSL that broke renegotiation with TLS
26943 1.1 and TLS 1.2. Without this workaround, all attempts to speak
26944 the v2 Tor connection protocol when both sides were using OpenSSL
26945 1.0.1 would fail. Resolves ticket 6033.
26946 - When waiting for a client to renegotiate, don't allow it to add
26947 any bytes to the input buffer. This fixes a potential DoS issue.
26948 Fixes bugs 5934 and 6007; bugfix on 0.2.0.20-rc.
26949 - Pass correct OR address to managed proxies (like obfsproxy),
26950 even when ORListenAddress is used. Fixes bug 4865; bugfix on
26952 - The advertised platform of a router now includes only its operating
26953 system's name (e.g., "Linux", "Darwin", "Windows 7"), and not its
26954 service pack level (for Windows) or its CPU architecture (for Unix).
26955 We also no longer include the "git-XYZ" tag in the version. Resolves
26958 o Major bugfixes (clients):
26959 - If we are unable to find any exit that supports our predicted ports,
26960 stop calling them predicted, so that we don't loop and build
26961 hopeless circuits indefinitely. Fixes bug 3296; bugfix on 0.0.9pre6,
26962 which introduced predicted ports.
26963 - Fix an edge case where if we fetch or publish a hidden service
26964 descriptor, we might build a 4-hop circuit and then use that circuit
26965 for exiting afterwards -- even if the new last hop doesn't obey our
26966 ExitNodes config option. Fixes bug 5283; bugfix on 0.2.0.10-alpha.
26967 - Check at each new consensus whether our entry guards were picked
26968 long enough ago that we should rotate them. Previously, we only
26969 did this check at startup, which could lead to us holding a guard
26970 indefinitely. Fixes bug 5380; bugfix on 0.2.1.14-rc.
26971 - When fetching a bridge descriptor from a bridge authority,
26972 always do so anonymously, whether we have been able to open
26973 circuits or not. Partial fix for bug 1938; bugfix on 0.2.0.7-alpha.
26974 This behavior makes it *safer* to use UpdateBridgesFromAuthority,
26975 but we'll need to wait for bug 6010 before it's actually usable.
26977 o Major bugfixes (directory authorities):
26978 - When computing weight parameters, behave more robustly in the
26979 presence of a bad bwweightscale value. Previously, the authorities
26980 would crash if they agreed on a sufficiently broken weight_scale
26981 value: now, they use a reasonable default and carry on. Partial
26982 fix for 5786; bugfix on 0.2.2.17-alpha.
26983 - Check more thoroughly to prevent a rogue authority from
26984 double-voting on any consensus directory parameter. Previously,
26985 authorities would crash in this case if the total number of
26986 votes for any parameter exceeded the number of active voters,
26987 but would let it pass otherwise. Partial fix for bug 5786; bugfix
26991 - Rate-limit log messages when asked to connect anonymously to
26992 a private address. When these hit, they tended to hit fast and
26993 often. Also, don't bother trying to connect to addresses that we
26994 are sure will resolve to 127.0.0.1: getting 127.0.0.1 in a directory
26995 reply makes us think we have been lied to, even when the address the
26996 client tried to connect to was "localhost." Resolves ticket 2822.
26997 - Allow packagers to insert an extra string in server descriptor
26998 platform lines by setting the preprocessor variable TOR_BUILD_TAG.
26999 Resolves the rest of ticket 2988.
27000 - Raise the threshold of server descriptors needed (75%) and exit
27001 server descriptors needed (50%) before we will declare ourselves
27002 bootstrapped. This will make clients start building circuits a
27003 little later, but makes the initially constructed circuits less
27004 skewed and less in conflict with further directory fetches. Fixes
27006 - Close any connection that sends unrecognized junk before the
27007 handshake. Solves an issue noted in bug 4369.
27008 - Improve log messages about managed transports. Resolves ticket 5070.
27009 - Tag a bridge's descriptor as "never to be sent unencrypted".
27010 This shouldn't matter, since bridges don't open non-anonymous
27011 connections to the bridge authority and don't allow unencrypted
27012 directory connections from clients, but we might as well make
27013 sure. Closes bug 5139.
27014 - Expose our view of whether we have gone dormant to the controller,
27015 via a new "GETINFO dormant" value. Torbutton and other controllers
27016 can use this to avoid doing periodic requests through Tor while
27017 it's dormant (bug 4718). Fixes bug 5954.
27018 - Tell GCC and Clang to check for any errors in format strings passed
27019 to the tor_v*(print|scan)f functions.
27020 - Update to the May 1 2012 Maxmind GeoLite Country database.
27022 o Minor bugfixes (already included in 0.2.2.36):
27023 - Reject out-of-range times like 23:59:61 in parse_rfc1123_time().
27024 Fixes bug 5346; bugfix on 0.0.8pre3.
27025 - Correct parsing of certain date types in parse_http_time().
27026 Without this patch, If-Modified-Since would behave
27027 incorrectly. Fixes bug 5346; bugfix on 0.2.0.2-alpha. Patch from
27028 Esteban Manchado Velázques.
27029 - Make our number-parsing functions always treat too-large values
27030 as an error, even when those values exceed the width of the
27031 underlying type. Previously, if the caller provided these
27032 functions with minima or maxima set to the extreme values of the
27033 underlying integer type, these functions would return those
27034 values on overflow rather than treating overflow as an error.
27035 Fixes part of bug 5786; bugfix on 0.0.9.
27036 - If we hit the error case where routerlist_insert() replaces an
27037 existing (old) server descriptor, make sure to remove that
27038 server descriptor from the old_routers list. Fix related to bug
27039 1776. Bugfix on 0.2.2.18-alpha.
27040 - Clarify the behavior of MaxCircuitDirtiness with hidden service
27041 circuits. Fixes issue 5259.
27043 o Minor bugfixes (coding cleanup, on 0.2.2.x and earlier):
27044 - Prevent a null-pointer dereference when receiving a data cell
27045 for a nonexistent stream when the circuit in question has an
27046 empty deliver window. We don't believe this is triggerable,
27047 since we don't currently allow deliver windows to become empty,
27048 but the logic is tricky enough that it's better to make the code
27049 robust. Fixes bug 5541; bugfix on 0.0.2pre14.
27050 - Fix a memory leak when trying to launch a DNS request when the
27051 network is disabled or the nameservers are unconfigurable. Fixes
27052 bug 5916; bugfix on Tor 0.1.2.1-alpha (for the unconfigurable
27053 nameserver case) and on 0.2.3.9-alpha (for the DisableNetwork case).
27054 - Don't hold a Windows file handle open for every file mapping;
27055 the file mapping handle is sufficient. Fixes bug 5951; bugfix on
27057 - Avoid O(n^2) performance characteristics when parsing a large
27058 extrainfo cache. Fixes bug 5828; bugfix on 0.2.0.1-alpha.
27059 - Format more doubles with %f, not %lf. Patch from grarpamp to make
27060 Tor build correctly on older BSDs again. Fixes bug 3894; bugfix on
27062 - Make our replacement implementation of strtok_r() compatible with
27063 the standard behavior of strtok_r(). Patch by nils. Fixes bug 5091;
27064 bugfix on 0.2.2.1-alpha.
27065 - Fix a NULL-pointer dereference on a badly formed
27066 SETCIRCUITPURPOSE command. Found by mikeyc. Fixes bug 5796;
27067 bugfix on 0.2.2.9-alpha.
27068 - Fix a build warning with Clang 3.1 related to our use of vasprintf.
27069 Fixes bug 5969. Bugfix on 0.2.2.11-alpha.
27070 - Defensively refactor rend_mid_rendezvous() so that protocol
27071 violations and length checks happen in the beginning. Fixes
27073 - Set _WIN32_WINNT to 0x0501 consistently throughout the code, so
27074 that IPv6 stuff will compile on MSVC, and compilation issues
27075 will be easier to track down. Fixes bug 5861.
27077 o Minor bugfixes (correctness, on 0.2.2.x and earlier):
27078 - Exit nodes now correctly report EADDRINUSE and EADDRNOTAVAIL as
27079 resource exhaustion, so that clients can adjust their load to
27080 try other exits. Fixes bug 4710; bugfix on 0.1.0.1-rc, which
27081 started using END_STREAM_REASON_RESOURCELIMIT.
27082 - Don't check for whether the address we're using for outbound
27083 connections has changed until after the outbound connection has
27084 completed. On Windows, getsockname() doesn't succeed until the
27085 connection is finished. Fixes bug 5374; bugfix on 0.1.1.14-alpha.
27086 - If the configuration tries to set MyFamily on a bridge, refuse to
27087 do so, and warn about the security implications. Fixes bug 4657;
27088 bugfix on 0.2.0.3-alpha.
27089 - If the client fails to set a reasonable set of ciphersuites
27090 during its v2 handshake renegotiation, allow the renegotiation to
27091 continue nevertheless (i.e. send all the required certificates).
27092 Fixes bug 4591; bugfix on 0.2.0.20-rc.
27093 - When we receive a SIGHUP and the controller __ReloadTorrcOnSIGHUP
27094 option is set to 0 (which Vidalia version 0.2.16 now does when
27095 a SAVECONF attempt fails), perform other actions that SIGHUP
27096 usually causes (like reopening the logs). Fixes bug 5095; bugfix
27098 - If we fail to write a microdescriptor to the disk cache, do not
27099 continue replacing the old microdescriptor file. Fixes bug 2954;
27100 bugfix on 0.2.2.6-alpha.
27101 - Exit nodes don't need to fetch certificates for authorities that
27102 they don't recognize; only directory authorities, bridges,
27103 and caches need to do that. Fixes part of bug 2297; bugfix on
27105 - Correctly handle checking the permissions on the parent
27106 directory of a control socket in the root directory. Bug found
27107 by Esteban Manchado Velázquez. Fixes bug 5089; bugfix on Tor
27109 - When told to add a bridge with the same digest as a preexisting
27110 bridge but a different addr:port, change the addr:port as
27111 requested. Previously we would not notice the change. Fixes half
27112 of bug 5603; fix on 0.2.2.26-beta.
27113 - End AUTHCHALLENGE error messages (in the control protocol) with
27114 a CRLF. Fixes bug 5760; bugfix on 0.2.2.36 and 0.2.3.13-alpha.
27116 o Minor bugfixes (on 0.2.3.x):
27117 - Turn an assertion (that the number of handshakes received as a
27118 server is not < 1) into a warning. Fixes bug 4873; bugfix on
27120 - Format IPv4 addresses correctly in ADDRMAP events. (Previously,
27121 we had reversed them when the answer was cached.) Fixes bug
27122 5723; bugfix on 0.2.3.1-alpha.
27123 - Work correctly on Linux systems with accept4 support advertised in
27124 their headers, but without accept4 support in the kernel. Fix
27125 by murb. Fixes bug 5762; bugfix on 0.2.3.1-alpha.
27126 - When told to add a bridge with the same addr:port as a preexisting
27127 bridge but a different transport, change the transport as
27128 requested. Previously we would not notice the change. Fixes half
27129 of bug 5603; fix on 0.2.3.2-alpha.
27130 - Avoid a "double-reply" warning when replying to a SOCKS request
27131 with a parse error. Patch from Fabian Keil. Fixes bug 4108;
27132 bugfix on 0.2.3.4-alpha.
27133 - Fix a bug where a bridge authority crashes if it has seen no
27134 directory requests when it's time to write statistics to disk.
27135 Fixes bug 5891; bugfix on 0.2.3.6-alpha. Also fixes bug 5508 in
27137 - Don't try to open non-control listeners when DisableNetwork is set.
27138 Previously, we'd open all listeners, then immediately close them.
27139 Fixes bug 5604; bugfix on 0.2.3.9-alpha.
27140 - Don't abort the managed proxy protocol if the managed proxy
27141 sends us an unrecognized line; ignore it instead. Fixes bug
27142 5910; bugfix on 0.2.3.9-alpha.
27143 - Fix a compile warning in crypto.c when compiling with clang 3.1.
27144 Fixes bug 5969, bugfix on 0.2.3.9-alpha.
27145 - Fix a compilation issue on GNU Hurd, which doesn't have PATH_MAX.
27146 Fixes bug 5355; bugfix on 0.2.3.11-alpha.
27147 - Remove bogus definition of "_WIN32" from src/win32/orconfig.h, to
27148 unbreak the MSVC build. Fixes bug 5858; bugfix on 0.2.3.12-alpha.
27149 - Resolve numerous small warnings and build issues with MSVC. Resolves
27152 o Documentation fixes:
27153 - Improve the manual's documentation for the NT Service command-line
27154 options. Addresses ticket 3964.
27155 - Clarify SessionGroup documentation slightly; resolves ticket 5437.
27156 - Document the changes to the ORPort and DirPort options, and the
27157 fact that {OR/Dir}ListenAddress is now unnecessary (and
27158 therefore deprecated). Resolves ticket 5597.
27161 - Remove the torrc.bridge file: we don't use it for anything, and
27162 it had become badly desynchronized from torrc.sample. Resolves
27166 Changes in version 0.2.2.36 - 2012-05-24
27167 Tor 0.2.2.36 updates the addresses for two of the eight directory
27168 authorities, fixes some potential anonymity and security issues,
27169 and fixes several crash bugs.
27171 Tor 0.2.1.x has reached its end-of-life. Those Tor versions have many
27172 known flaws, and nobody should be using them. You should upgrade. If
27173 you're using a Linux or BSD and its packages are obsolete, stop using
27174 those packages and upgrade anyway.
27176 o Directory authority changes:
27177 - Change IP address for maatuska (v3 directory authority).
27178 - Change IP address for ides (v3 directory authority), and rename
27182 - When building or running with any version of OpenSSL earlier
27183 than 0.9.8s or 1.0.0f, disable SSLv3 support. These OpenSSL
27184 versions have a bug (CVE-2011-4576) in which their block cipher
27185 padding includes uninitialized data, potentially leaking sensitive
27186 information to any peer with whom they make a SSLv3 connection. Tor
27187 does not use SSL v3 by default, but a hostile client or server
27188 could force an SSLv3 connection in order to gain information that
27189 they shouldn't have been able to get. The best solution here is to
27190 upgrade to OpenSSL 0.9.8s or 1.0.0f (or later). But when building
27191 or running with a non-upgraded OpenSSL, we disable SSLv3 entirely
27192 to make sure that the bug can't happen.
27193 - Never use a bridge or a controller-supplied node as an exit, even
27194 if its exit policy allows it. Found by wanoskarnet. Fixes bug
27195 5342. Bugfix on 0.1.1.15-rc (for controller-purpose descriptors)
27196 and 0.2.0.3-alpha (for bridge-purpose descriptors).
27197 - Only build circuits if we have a sufficient threshold of the total
27198 descriptors that are marked in the consensus with the "Exit"
27199 flag. This mitigates an attack proposed by wanoskarnet, in which
27200 all of a client's bridges collude to restrict the exit nodes that
27201 the client knows about. Fixes bug 5343.
27202 - Provide controllers with a safer way to implement the cookie
27203 authentication mechanism. With the old method, if another locally
27204 running program could convince a controller that it was the Tor
27205 process, then that program could trick the controller into telling
27206 it the contents of an arbitrary 32-byte file. The new "SAFECOOKIE"
27207 authentication method uses a challenge-response approach to prevent
27208 this attack. Fixes bug 5185; implements proposal 193.
27211 - Avoid logging uninitialized data when unable to decode a hidden
27212 service descriptor cookie. Fixes bug 5647; bugfix on 0.2.1.5-alpha.
27213 - Avoid a client-side assertion failure when receiving an INTRODUCE2
27214 cell on a general purpose circuit. Fixes bug 5644; bugfix on
27216 - Fix builds when the path to sed, openssl, or sha1sum contains
27217 spaces, which is pretty common on Windows. Fixes bug 5065; bugfix
27219 - Correct our replacements for the timeradd() and timersub() functions
27220 on platforms that lack them (for example, Windows). The timersub()
27221 function is used when expiring circuits, while timeradd() is
27222 currently unused. Bug report and patch by Vektor. Fixes bug 4778;
27223 bugfix on 0.2.2.24-alpha.
27224 - Fix the SOCKET_OK test that we use to tell when socket
27225 creation fails so that it works on Win64. Fixes part of bug 4533;
27226 bugfix on 0.2.2.29-beta. Bug found by wanoskarnet.
27229 - Reject out-of-range times like 23:59:61 in parse_rfc1123_time().
27230 Fixes bug 5346; bugfix on 0.0.8pre3.
27231 - Make our number-parsing functions always treat too-large values
27232 as an error, even when those values exceed the width of the
27233 underlying type. Previously, if the caller provided these
27234 functions with minima or maxima set to the extreme values of the
27235 underlying integer type, these functions would return those
27236 values on overflow rather than treating overflow as an error.
27237 Fixes part of bug 5786; bugfix on 0.0.9.
27238 - Older Linux kernels erroneously respond to strange nmap behavior
27239 by having accept() return successfully with a zero-length
27240 socket. When this happens, just close the connection. Previously,
27241 we would try harder to learn the remote address: but there was
27242 no such remote address to learn, and our method for trying to
27243 learn it was incorrect. Fixes bugs 1240, 4745, and 4747. Bugfix
27244 on 0.1.0.3-rc. Reported and diagnosed by "r1eo".
27245 - Correct parsing of certain date types in parse_http_time().
27246 Without this patch, If-Modified-Since would behave
27247 incorrectly. Fixes bug 5346; bugfix on 0.2.0.2-alpha. Patch from
27248 Esteban Manchado Velázques.
27249 - Change the BridgePassword feature (part of the "bridge community"
27250 design, which is not yet implemented) to use a time-independent
27251 comparison. The old behavior might have allowed an adversary
27252 to use timing to guess the BridgePassword value. Fixes bug 5543;
27253 bugfix on 0.2.0.14-alpha.
27254 - Detect and reject certain misformed escape sequences in
27255 configuration values. Previously, these values would cause us
27256 to crash if received in a torrc file or over an authenticated
27257 control port. Bug found by Esteban Manchado Velázquez, and
27258 independently by Robert Connolly from Matta Consulting who further
27259 noted that it allows a post-authentication heap overflow. Patch
27260 by Alexander Schrijver. Fixes bugs 5090 and 5402 (CVE 2012-1668);
27261 bugfix on 0.2.0.16-alpha.
27262 - Fix a compile warning when using the --enable-openbsd-malloc
27263 configure option. Fixes bug 5340; bugfix on 0.2.0.20-rc.
27264 - During configure, detect when we're building with clang version
27265 3.0 or lower and disable the -Wnormalized=id and -Woverride-init
27266 CFLAGS. clang doesn't support them yet.
27267 - When sending an HTTP/1.1 proxy request, include a Host header.
27268 Fixes bug 5593; bugfix on 0.2.2.1-alpha.
27269 - Fix a NULL-pointer dereference on a badly formed SETCIRCUITPURPOSE
27270 command. Found by mikeyc. Fixes bug 5796; bugfix on 0.2.2.9-alpha.
27271 - If we hit the error case where routerlist_insert() replaces an
27272 existing (old) server descriptor, make sure to remove that
27273 server descriptor from the old_routers list. Fix related to bug
27274 1776. Bugfix on 0.2.2.18-alpha.
27276 o Minor bugfixes (documentation and log messages):
27277 - Fix a typo in a log message in rend_service_rendezvous_has_opened().
27278 Fixes bug 4856; bugfix on Tor 0.0.6.
27279 - Update "ClientOnly" man page entry to explain that there isn't
27280 really any point to messing with it. Resolves ticket 5005.
27281 - Document the GiveGuardFlagTo_CVE_2011_2768_VulnerableRelays
27282 directory authority option (introduced in Tor 0.2.2.34).
27283 - Downgrade the "We're missing a certificate" message from notice
27284 to info: people kept mistaking it for a real problem, whereas it
27285 is seldom the problem even when we are failing to bootstrap. Fixes
27286 bug 5067; bugfix on 0.2.0.10-alpha.
27287 - Correctly spell "connect" in a log message on failure to create a
27288 controlsocket. Fixes bug 4803; bugfix on 0.2.2.26-beta.
27289 - Clarify the behavior of MaxCircuitDirtiness with hidden service
27290 circuits. Fixes issue 5259.
27293 - Directory authorities now reject versions of Tor older than
27294 0.2.1.30, and Tor versions between 0.2.2.1-alpha and 0.2.2.20-alpha
27295 inclusive. These versions accounted for only a small fraction of
27296 the Tor network, and have numerous known security issues. Resolves
27298 - Update to the May 1 2012 Maxmind GeoLite Country database.
27301 - When sending or relaying a RELAY_EARLY cell, we used to convert
27302 it to a RELAY cell if the connection was using the v1 link
27303 protocol. This was a workaround for older versions of Tor, which
27304 didn't handle RELAY_EARLY cells properly. Now that all supported
27305 versions can handle RELAY_EARLY cells, and now that we're enforcing
27306 the "no RELAY_EXTEND commands except in RELAY_EARLY cells" rule,
27307 remove this workaround. Addresses bug 4786.
27310 Changes in version 0.2.3.15-alpha - 2012-04-30
27311 Tor 0.2.3.15-alpha fixes a variety of smaller bugs, including making
27312 the development branch build on Windows again.
27314 o Minor bugfixes (on 0.2.2.x and earlier):
27315 - Make sure that there are no unhandled pending TLS errors before
27316 reading from a TLS stream. We had checks in 0.1.0.3-rc, but
27317 lost them in 0.1.0.5-rc when we refactored read_to_buf_tls().
27318 Bugfix on 0.1.0.5-rc; fixes bug 4528.
27319 - Fix an assert that directory authorities could trigger on sighup
27320 during some configuration state transitions. We now don't treat
27321 it as a fatal error when the new descriptor we just generated in
27322 init_keys() isn't accepted. Fixes bug 4438; bugfix on 0.2.1.9-alpha.
27323 - After we pick a directory mirror, we would refuse to use it if
27324 it's in our ExcludeExitNodes list, resulting in mysterious failures
27325 to bootstrap for people who just wanted to avoid exiting from
27326 certain locations. Fixes bug 5623; bugfix on 0.2.2.25-alpha.
27327 - When building with --enable-static-tor on OpenBSD, do not
27328 erroneously attempt to link -lrt. Fixes bug 5103.
27330 o Minor bugfixes (on 0.2.3.x):
27331 - When Tor is built with kernel headers from a recent (last few
27332 years) Linux kernel, do not fail to run on older (pre-2.6.28
27333 Linux kernels). Fixes bug 5112; bugfix on 0.2.3.1-alpha.
27334 - Fix cross-compilation issues with mingw. Bugfixes on 0.2.3.6-alpha
27335 and 0.2.3.12-alpha.
27336 - Fix compilation with miniupnpc version 1.6; patch from
27337 Anthony G. Basile. Fixes bug 5434; bugfix on 0.2.3.12-alpha.
27338 - Fix compilation with MSVC, which had defined MS_WINDOWS. Bugfix
27339 on 0.2.3.13-alpha; found and fixed by Gisle Vanem.
27340 - Fix compilation on platforms without unistd.h, or where environ
27341 is defined in stdlib.h. Fixes bug 5704; bugfix on 0.2.3.13-alpha.
27344 - Directory authorities are now a little more lenient at accepting
27345 older router descriptors, or newer router descriptors that don't
27346 make big changes. This should help ameliorate past and future
27347 issues where routers think they have uploaded valid descriptors,
27348 but the authorities don't think so. Fix for ticket 2479.
27349 - Make the code that clients use to detect an address change be
27350 IPv6-aware, so that it won't fill clients' logs with error
27351 messages when trying to get the IPv4 address of an IPv6
27352 connection. Implements ticket 5537.
27354 o Removed features:
27355 - Remove the GiveGuardFlagTo_CVE_2011_2768_VulnerableRelays option;
27356 authorities needed to use it for a while to keep the network working
27357 as people upgraded to 0.2.1.31, 0.2.2.34, or 0.2.3.6-alpha, but
27358 that was six months ago. As of now, it should no longer be needed
27362 Changes in version 0.2.3.14-alpha - 2012-04-23
27363 Tor 0.2.3.14-alpha fixes yet more bugs to get us closer to a release
27364 candidate. It also dramatically speeds up AES: fast relays should
27365 consider switching to the newer OpenSSL library.
27367 o Directory authority changes:
27368 - Change IP address for ides (v3 directory authority), and rename
27372 - Avoid logging uninitialized data when unable to decode a hidden
27373 service descriptor cookie. Fixes bug 5647; bugfix on 0.2.1.5-alpha.
27374 - Avoid a client-side assertion failure when receiving an INTRODUCE2
27375 cell on a general purpose circuit. Fixes bug 5644; bugfix on
27377 - If authorities are unable to get a v2 consensus document from other
27378 directory authorities, they no longer fall back to fetching
27379 them from regular directory caches. Fixes bug 5635; bugfix on
27380 0.2.2.26-beta, where routers stopped downloading v2 consensus
27381 documents entirely.
27382 - When we start a Tor client with a normal consensus already cached,
27383 be willing to download a microdescriptor consensus. Fixes bug 4011;
27384 fix on 0.2.3.1-alpha.
27386 o Major features (performance):
27387 - When built to use OpenSSL 1.0.1, and built for an x86 or x86_64
27388 instruction set, take advantage of OpenSSL's AESNI, bitsliced, or
27389 vectorized AES implementations as appropriate. These can be much,
27390 much faster than other AES implementations.
27392 o Minor bugfixes (0.2.2.x and earlier):
27393 - Don't launch more than 10 service-side introduction-point circuits
27394 for a hidden service in five minutes. Previously, we would consider
27395 launching more introduction-point circuits if at least one second
27396 had passed without any introduction-point circuits failing. Fixes
27397 bug 4607; bugfix on 0.0.7pre1.
27398 - Change the BridgePassword feature (part of the "bridge community"
27399 design, which is not yet implemented) to use a time-independent
27400 comparison. The old behavior might have allowed an adversary
27401 to use timing to guess the BridgePassword value. Fixes bug 5543;
27402 bugfix on 0.2.0.14-alpha.
27403 - Enforce correct return behavior of tor_vsscanf() when the '%%'
27404 pattern is used. Fixes bug 5558. Bugfix on 0.2.1.13.
27405 - When sending an HTTP/1.1 proxy request, include a Host header.
27406 Fixes bug 5593; bugfix on 0.2.2.1-alpha.
27407 - Don't log that we have "decided to publish new relay descriptor"
27408 unless we are actually publishing a descriptor. Fixes bug 3942;
27409 bugfix on 0.2.2.28-beta.
27411 o Minor bugfixes (0.2.3.x):
27412 - Fix a bug where a bridge authority crashes (on a failed assert)
27413 if it has seen no directory requests when it's time to write
27414 statistics to disk. Fixes bug 5508. Bugfix on 0.2.3.6-alpha.
27415 - Fix bug stomping on ORPort option NoListen and ignoring option
27416 NoAdvertise. Fixes bug 5151; bugfix on 0.2.3.9-alpha.
27417 - In the testsuite, provide a large enough buffer in the tor_sscanf
27418 unit test. Otherwise we'd overrun that buffer and crash during
27419 the unit tests. Found by weasel. Fixes bug 5449; bugfix on
27421 - Make sure we create the keys directory if it doesn't exist and we're
27422 about to store the dynamic Diffie-Hellman parameters. Fixes bug
27423 5572; bugfix on 0.2.3.13-alpha.
27424 - Fix a small memory leak when trying to decode incorrect base16
27425 authenticator during SAFECOOKIE authentication. Found by
27426 Coverity Scan. Fixes CID 507. Bugfix on 0.2.3.13-alpha.
27429 - Add more information to a log statement that might help track down
27430 bug 4091. If you're seeing "Bug: tor_addr_is_internal() called with a
27431 non-IP address" messages (or any Bug messages, for that matter!),
27432 please let us know about it.
27433 - Relays now understand an IPv6 address when they get one from a
27434 directory server. Resolves ticket 4875.
27435 - Resolve IPv6 addresses in bridge and entry statistics to country
27436 code "??" which means we at least count them. Resolves ticket 5053;
27437 improves on 0.2.3.9-alpha.
27438 - Update to the April 3 2012 Maxmind GeoLite Country database.
27439 - Begin a doc/state-contents.txt file to explain the contents of
27440 the Tor state file. Fixes bug 2987.
27442 o Default torrc changes:
27443 - Stop listing "socksport 9050" in torrc.sample. We open a socks
27444 port on 9050 by default anyway, so this should not change anything
27446 - Stop mentioning the deprecated *ListenAddress options in
27447 torrc.sample. Fixes bug 5438.
27448 - Document unit of bandwidth related options in sample torrc.
27451 o Removed features:
27452 - The "torify" script no longer supports the "tsocks" socksifier
27453 tool, since tsocks doesn't support DNS and UDP right for Tor.
27454 Everyone should be using torsocks instead. Fixes bugs 3530 and
27455 5180. Based on a patch by "ugh".
27457 o Code refactoring:
27458 - Change the symmetric cipher interface so that creating and
27459 initializing a stream cipher are no longer separate functions.
27460 - Remove all internal support for unpadded RSA. We never used it, and
27461 it would be a bad idea to start.
27464 Changes in version 0.2.3.13-alpha - 2012-03-26
27465 Tor 0.2.3.13-alpha fixes a variety of stability and correctness bugs
27466 in managed pluggable transports, as well as providing other cleanups
27467 that get us closer to a release candidate.
27469 o Directory authority changes:
27470 - Change IP address for maatuska (v3 directory authority).
27473 - Provide controllers with a safer way to implement the cookie
27474 authentication mechanism. With the old method, if another locally
27475 running program could convince a controller that it was the Tor
27476 process, then that program could trick the controller into telling
27477 it the contents of an arbitrary 32-byte file. The new "SAFECOOKIE"
27478 authentication method uses a challenge-response approach to prevent
27479 this attack. Fixes bug 5185, implements proposal 193.
27480 - Never use a bridge or a controller-supplied node as an exit, even
27481 if its exit policy allows it. Found by wanoskarnet. Fixes bug
27482 5342. Bugfix on 0.1.1.15-rc (for controller-purpose descriptors)
27483 and 0.2.0.3-alpha (for bridge-purpose descriptors).
27484 - Only build circuits if we have a sufficient threshold of the total
27485 descriptors that are marked in the consensus with the "Exit"
27486 flag. This mitigates an attack proposed by wanoskarnet, in which
27487 all of a client's bridges collude to restrict the exit nodes that
27488 the client knows about. Fixes bug 5343.
27490 o Major bugfixes (on Tor 0.2.3.x):
27491 - Avoid an assert when managed proxies like obfsproxy are configured,
27492 and we receive HUP signals or setconf attempts too rapidly. This
27493 situation happens most commonly when Vidalia tries to attach to
27494 Tor or tries to configure the Tor it's attached to. Fixes bug 5084;
27495 bugfix on 0.2.3.6-alpha.
27496 - Fix a relay-side pluggable transports bug where managed proxies were
27497 unreachable from the Internet, because Tor asked them to bind on
27498 localhost. Fixes bug 4725; bugfix on 0.2.3.9-alpha.
27499 - Stop discarding command-line arguments when TestingTorNetwork
27500 is set. Discovered by Kevin Bauer. Fixes bug 5373; bugfix on
27501 0.2.3.9-alpha, where task 4552 added support for two layers of
27503 - Resume allowing the unit tests to run in gdb. This was accidentally
27504 made impossible when the DisableDebuggerAttachment option was
27505 introduced. Fixes bug 5448; bugfix on 0.2.3.9-alpha.
27506 - Resume building with nat-pmp support. Fixes bug 4955; bugfix on
27507 0.2.3.11-alpha. Reported by Anthony G. Basile.
27509 o Minor bugfixes (on 0.2.2.x and earlier):
27510 - Ensure we don't cannibalize circuits that are longer than three hops
27511 already, so we don't end up making circuits with 5 or more
27512 hops. Patch contributed by wanoskarnet. Fixes bug 5231; bugfix on
27513 0.1.0.1-rc which introduced cannibalization.
27514 - Detect and reject certain misformed escape sequences in
27515 configuration values. Previously, these values would cause us
27516 to crash if received in a torrc file or over an authenticated
27517 control port. Bug found by Esteban Manchado Velázquez, and
27518 independently by Robert Connolly from Matta Consulting who further
27519 noted that it allows a post-authentication heap overflow. Patch
27520 by Alexander Schrijver. Fixes bugs 5090 and 5402 (CVE 2012-1668);
27521 bugfix on 0.2.0.16-alpha.
27522 - Fix a compile warning when using the --enable-openbsd-malloc
27523 configure option. Fixes bug 5340; bugfix on 0.2.0.20-rc.
27524 - Directory caches no longer refuse to clean out descriptors because
27525 of missing v2 networkstatus documents, unless they're configured
27526 to retrieve v2 networkstatus documents. Fixes bug 4838; bugfix on
27527 0.2.2.26-beta. Patch by Daniel Bryg.
27528 - Update to the latest version of the tinytest unit testing framework.
27529 This includes a couple of bugfixes that can be relevant for
27530 running forked unit tests on Windows, and removes all reserved
27533 o Minor bugfixes (on 0.2.3.x):
27534 - On a failed pipe() call, don't leak file descriptors. Fixes bug
27535 4296; bugfix on 0.2.3.1-alpha.
27536 - Spec conformance: on a v3 handshake, do not send a NETINFO cell
27537 until after we have received a CERTS cell. Fixes bug 4361; bugfix
27538 on 0.2.3.6-alpha. Patch by "frosty".
27539 - When binding to an IPv6 address, set the IPV6_V6ONLY socket
27540 option, so that the IP stack doesn't decide to use it for IPv4
27541 too. Fixes bug 4760; bugfix on 0.2.3.9-alpha.
27542 - Ensure that variables set in Tor's environment cannot override
27543 environment variables that Tor passes to a managed
27544 pluggable-transport proxy. Previously, Tor would pass every
27545 variable in its environment to managed proxies along with the new
27546 ones, in such a way that on many operating systems, the inherited
27547 environment variables would override those which Tor tried to
27548 explicitly set. Bugfix on 0.2.3.12-alpha for most Unixoid systems;
27549 bugfix on 0.2.3.9-alpha for Windows.
27552 - A wide variety of new unit tests by Esteban Manchado Velázquez.
27553 - Shorten links in the tor-exit-notice file. Patch by Christian Kujau.
27554 - Update to the March 6 2012 Maxmind GeoLite Country database.
27557 Changes in version 0.2.3.12-alpha - 2012-02-13
27558 Tor 0.2.3.12-alpha lets fast exit relays scale better, allows clients
27559 to use bridges that run Tor 0.2.2.x, and resolves several big bugs
27560 when Tor is configured to use a pluggable transport like obfsproxy.
27563 - Fix builds when the path to sed, openssl, or sha1sum contains
27564 spaces, which is pretty common on Windows. Fixes bug 5065; bugfix
27566 - Set the SO_REUSEADDR socket option before we call bind() on outgoing
27567 connections. This change should allow busy exit relays to stop
27568 running out of available sockets as quickly. Fixes bug 4950;
27569 bugfix on 0.2.2.26-beta.
27570 - Allow 0.2.3.x clients to use 0.2.2.x bridges. Previously the client
27571 would ask the bridge for microdescriptors, which are only supported
27572 in 0.2.3.x, and then fail to bootstrap when it didn't get the
27573 answers it wanted. Fixes bug 4013; bugfix on 0.2.3.2-alpha.
27574 - Properly set up obfsproxy's environment when in managed mode. The
27575 Tor Browser Bundle needs LD_LIBRARY_PATH to be passed to obfsproxy,
27576 and when you run your Tor as a daemon, there's no HOME. Fixes bugs
27577 5076 and 5082; bugfix on 0.2.3.6-alpha.
27580 - Use the dead_strip option when building Tor on OS X. This reduces
27581 binary size by almost 19% when linking openssl and libevent
27582 statically, which we do for Tor Browser Bundle.
27583 - Fix broken URLs in the sample torrc file, and tell readers about
27584 the OutboundBindAddress, ExitPolicyRejectPrivate, and
27585 PublishServerDescriptor options. Addresses bug 4652.
27586 - Update to the February 7 2012 Maxmind GeoLite Country database.
27589 - Downgrade the "We're missing a certificate" message from notice
27590 to info: people kept mistaking it for a real problem, whereas it
27591 is seldom the problem even when we are failing to bootstrap. Fixes
27592 bug 5067; bugfix on 0.2.0.10-alpha.
27593 - Don't put "TOR_PT_EXTENDED_SERVER_PORT=127.0.0.1:4200" in a
27594 managed pluggable transport server proxy's environment.
27595 Previously, we would put it there, even though Tor doesn't
27596 implement an 'extended server port' yet, and even though Tor
27597 almost certainly isn't listening at that address. For now, we set
27598 it to an empty string to avoid crashing older obfsproxies. Bugfix
27600 - Log the heartbeat message every HeartbeatPeriod seconds, not every
27601 HeartbeatPeriod + 1 seconds. Fixes bug 4942; bugfix on
27602 0.2.3.1-alpha. Bug reported by Scott Bennett.
27603 - Calculate absolute paths correctly on Windows. Fixes bug 4973;
27604 bugfix on 0.2.3.11-alpha.
27605 - Update "ClientOnly" man page entry to explain that there isn't
27606 really any point to messing with it. Resolves ticket 5005.
27607 - Use the correct CVE number for CVE-2011-4576 in our comments and
27608 log messages. Found by "fermenthor". Resolves bug 5066; bugfix on
27611 o Code simplifications and refactoring:
27612 - Use the _WIN32 macro throughout our code to detect Windows.
27613 (Previously we had used the obsolete 'WIN32' and the idiosyncratic
27617 Changes in version 0.2.3.11-alpha - 2012-01-22
27618 Tor 0.2.3.11-alpha marks feature-freeze for the 0.2.3 tree. It deploys
27619 the last step of the plan to limit maximum circuit length, includes
27620 a wide variety of hidden service performance and correctness fixes,
27621 works around an OpenSSL security flaw if your distro is too stubborn
27622 to upgrade, and fixes a bunch of smaller issues.
27625 - Now that Tor 0.2.0.x is completely deprecated, enable the final
27626 part of "Proposal 110: Avoiding infinite length circuits" by
27627 refusing all circuit-extend requests that do not use a relay_early
27628 cell. This change helps Tor resist a class of denial-of-service
27629 attacks by limiting the maximum circuit length.
27630 - Adjust the number of introduction points that a hidden service
27631 will try to maintain based on how long its introduction points
27632 remain in use and how many introductions they handle. Fixes
27634 - Try to use system facilities for enumerating local interface
27635 addresses, before falling back to our old approach (which was
27636 binding a UDP socket, and calling getsockname() on it). That
27637 approach was scaring OS X users whose draconian firewall
27638 software warned about binding to UDP sockets, regardless of
27639 whether packets were sent. Now we try to use getifaddrs(),
27640 SIOCGIFCONF, or GetAdaptersAddresses(), depending on what the
27641 system supports. Resolves ticket 1827.
27643 o Major security workaround:
27644 - When building or running with any version of OpenSSL earlier
27645 than 0.9.8s or 1.0.0f, disable SSLv3 support. These OpenSSL
27646 versions have a bug (CVE-2011-4576) in which their block cipher
27647 padding includes uninitialized data, potentially leaking sensitive
27648 information to any peer with whom they make a SSLv3 connection. Tor
27649 does not use SSL v3 by default, but a hostile client or server
27650 could force an SSLv3 connection in order to gain information that
27651 they shouldn't have been able to get. The best solution here is to
27652 upgrade to OpenSSL 0.9.8s or 1.0.0f (or later). But when building
27653 or running with a non-upgraded OpenSSL, we disable SSLv3 entirely
27654 to make sure that the bug can't happen.
27657 - Fix the SOCKET_OK test that we use to tell when socket
27658 creation fails so that it works on Win64. Fixes part of bug 4533;
27659 bugfix on 0.2.2.29-beta. Bug found by wanoskarnet.
27660 - Correct our replacements for the timeradd() and timersub() functions
27661 on platforms that lack them (for example, Windows). The timersub()
27662 function is used when expiring circuits, while timeradd() is
27663 currently unused. Bug report and patch by Vektor. Fixes bug 4778;
27664 bugfix on 0.2.2.24-alpha and 0.2.3.1-alpha.
27665 - Do not use OpenSSL 1.0.0's counter mode: it has a critical bug
27666 that was fixed in OpenSSL 1.0.0a. We test for the counter mode
27667 bug at runtime, not compile time, because some distributions hack
27668 their OpenSSL to mis-report its version. Fixes bug 4779; bugfix
27669 on 0.2.3.9-alpha. Found by Pascal.
27671 o Minor features (controller):
27672 - Use absolute path names when reporting the torrc filename in the
27673 control protocol, so a controller can more easily find the torrc
27674 file. Resolves bug 1101.
27675 - Extend the control protocol to report flags that control a circuit's
27676 path selection in CIRC events and in replies to 'GETINFO
27677 circuit-status'. Implements part of ticket 2411.
27678 - Extend the control protocol to report the hidden service address
27679 and current state of a hidden-service-related circuit in CIRC
27680 events and in replies to 'GETINFO circuit-status'. Implements part
27682 - When reporting the path to the cookie file to the controller,
27683 give an absolute path. Resolves ticket 4881.
27684 - Allow controllers to request an event notification whenever a
27685 circuit is cannibalized or its purpose is changed. Implements
27686 part of ticket 3457.
27687 - Include the creation time of a circuit in CIRC and CIRC2
27688 control-port events and the list produced by the 'GETINFO
27689 circuit-status' control-port command.
27691 o Minor features (directory authorities):
27692 - Directory authorities now reject versions of Tor older than
27693 0.2.1.30, and Tor versions between 0.2.2.1-alpha and 0.2.2.20-alpha
27694 inclusive. These versions accounted for only a small fraction of
27695 the Tor network, and have numerous known security issues. Resolves
27697 - Authority operators can now vote for all relays in a given
27698 set of countries to be BadDir/BadExit/Invalid/Rejected.
27699 - Provide two consensus parameters (FastFlagMinThreshold and
27700 FastFlagMaxThreshold) to control the range of allowable bandwidths
27701 for the Fast directory flag. These allow authorities to run
27702 experiments on appropriate requirements for being a "Fast" node.
27703 The AuthDirFastGuarantee config value still applies. Implements
27705 - Document the GiveGuardFlagTo_CVE_2011_2768_VulnerableRelays
27706 directory authority option (introduced in Tor 0.2.2.34).
27708 o Minor features (other):
27709 - Don't disable the DirPort when we cannot exceed our AccountingMax
27710 limit during this interval because the effective bandwidthrate is
27711 low enough. This is useful in a situation where AccountMax is only
27712 used as an additional safeguard or to provide statistics.
27713 - Prepend an informative header to generated dynamic_dh_params files.
27714 - If EntryNodes are given, but UseEntryGuards is set to 0, warn that
27715 EntryNodes will have no effect. Resolves issue 2571.
27716 - Log more useful messages when we fail to disable debugger
27718 - Log which authority we're missing votes from when we go to fetch
27719 them from the other auths.
27720 - Log (at debug level) whenever a circuit's purpose is changed.
27721 - Add missing documentation for the MaxClientCircuitsPending,
27722 UseMicrodescriptors, UserspaceIOCPBuffers, and
27723 _UseFilteringSSLBufferevents options, all introduced during
27724 the 0.2.3.x series.
27725 - Update to the January 3 2012 Maxmind GeoLite Country database.
27727 o Minor bugfixes (hidden services):
27728 - Don't close hidden service client circuits which have almost
27729 finished connecting to their destination when they reach
27730 the normal circuit-build timeout. Previously, we would close
27731 introduction circuits which are waiting for an acknowledgement
27732 from the introduction point, and rendezvous circuits which have
27733 been specified in an INTRODUCE1 cell sent to a hidden service,
27734 after the normal CBT. Now, we mark them as 'timed out', and launch
27735 another rendezvous attempt in parallel. This behavior change can
27736 be disabled using the new CloseHSClientCircuitsImmediatelyOnTimeout
27737 option. Fixes part of bug 1297; bugfix on 0.2.2.2-alpha.
27738 - Don't close hidden-service-side rendezvous circuits when they
27739 reach the normal circuit-build timeout. This behavior change can
27740 be disabled using the new
27741 CloseHSServiceRendCircuitsImmediatelyOnTimeout option. Fixes the
27742 remaining part of bug 1297; bugfix on 0.2.2.2-alpha.
27743 - Make sure we never mark the wrong rendezvous circuit as having
27744 had its introduction cell acknowledged by the introduction-point
27745 relay. Previously, when we received an INTRODUCE_ACK cell on a
27746 client-side hidden-service introduction circuit, we might have
27747 marked a rendezvous circuit other than the one we specified in
27748 the INTRODUCE1 cell as INTRO_ACKED, which would have produced
27749 a warning message and interfered with the hidden service
27750 connection-establishment process. Fixes bug 4759; bugfix on
27751 0.2.3.3-alpha, when we added the stream-isolation feature which
27752 might cause Tor to open multiple rendezvous circuits for the same
27754 - Don't trigger an assertion failure when we mark a new client-side
27755 hidden-service introduction circuit for close during the process
27756 of creating it. Fixes bug 4796; bugfix on 0.2.3.6-alpha. Reported
27759 o Minor bugfixes (log messages):
27760 - Correctly spell "connect" in a log message on failure to create a
27761 controlsocket. Fixes bug 4803; bugfix on 0.2.2.26-beta and
27763 - Fix a typo in a log message in rend_service_rendezvous_has_opened().
27764 Fixes bug 4856; bugfix on Tor 0.0.6.
27765 - Fix the log message describing how we work around discovering
27766 that our version is the ill-fated OpenSSL 0.9.8l. Fixes bug
27767 4837; bugfix on 0.2.2.9-alpha.
27768 - When logging about a disallowed .exit name, do not also call it
27769 an "invalid onion address". Fixes bug 3325; bugfix on 0.2.2.9-alpha.
27771 o Minor bugfixes (build fixes):
27772 - During configure, detect when we're building with clang version
27773 3.0 or lower and disable the -Wnormalized=id and -Woverride-init
27774 CFLAGS. clang doesn't support them yet.
27775 - During configure, search for library containing cos function as
27776 libm lives in libcore on some platforms (BeOS/Haiku). Linking
27777 against libm was hard-coded before. Fixes the first part of bug
27778 4727; bugfix on 0.2.2.2-alpha. Patch and analysis by Martin Hebnes
27780 - Detect attempts to build Tor on (as yet hypothetical) versions
27781 of Windows where sizeof(intptr_t) != sizeof(SOCKET). Partial
27782 fix for bug 4533. Bugfix on 0.2.2.28-beta.
27783 - Preprocessor directives should not be put inside the arguments
27784 of a macro. This would break compilation with GCC releases prior
27785 to version 3.3. We would never recommend such an old GCC version,
27786 but it is apparently required for binary compatibility on some
27787 platforms (namely, certain builds of Haiku). Fixes the other part
27788 of bug 4727; bugfix on 0.2.3.3-alpha. Patch and analysis by Martin
27791 o Minor bugfixes (other):
27792 - Older Linux kernels erroneously respond to strange nmap behavior
27793 by having accept() return successfully with a zero-length
27794 socket. When this happens, just close the connection. Previously,
27795 we would try harder to learn the remote address: but there was
27796 no such remote address to learn, and our method for trying to
27797 learn it was incorrect. Fixes bugs 1240, 4745, and 4747. Bugfix
27798 on 0.1.0.3-rc. Reported and diagnosed by "r1eo".
27799 - Fix null-pointer access that could occur if TLS allocation failed.
27800 Fixes bug 4531; bugfix on 0.2.0.20-rc. Found by "troll_un". This was
27801 erroneously listed as fixed in 0.2.3.9-alpha, but the fix had
27802 accidentally been reverted.
27803 - Fix our implementation of crypto_random_hostname() so it can't
27804 overflow on ridiculously large inputs. (No Tor version has ever
27805 provided this kind of bad inputs, but let's be correct in depth.)
27806 Fixes bug 4413; bugfix on 0.2.2.9-alpha. Fix by Stephen Palmateer.
27807 - Find more places in the code that should have been testing for
27808 invalid sockets using the SOCKET_OK macro. Required for a fix
27809 for bug 4533. Bugfix on 0.2.2.28-beta.
27810 - Fix an assertion failure when, while running with bufferevents, a
27811 connection finishes connecting after it is marked for close, but
27812 before it is closed. Fixes bug 4697; bugfix on 0.2.3.1-alpha.
27813 - test_util_spawn_background_ok() hardcoded the expected value
27814 for ENOENT to 2. This isn't portable as error numbers are
27815 platform specific, and particularly the hurd has ENOENT at
27816 0x40000002. Construct expected string at runtime, using the correct
27817 value for ENOENT. Fixes bug 4733; bugfix on 0.2.3.1-alpha.
27818 - Reject attempts to disable DisableDebuggerAttachment while Tor is
27819 running. Fixes bug 4650; bugfix on 0.2.3.9-alpha.
27820 - Use an appropriate-width type for sockets in tor-fw-helper on
27821 win64. Fixes bug 1983 at last. Bugfix on 0.2.3.9-alpha.
27824 - When sending or relaying a RELAY_EARLY cell, we used to convert
27825 it to a RELAY cell if the connection was using the v1 link
27826 protocol. This was a workaround for older versions of Tor, which
27827 didn't handle RELAY_EARLY cells properly. Now that all supported
27828 versions can handle RELAY_EARLY cells, and now that we're enforcing
27829 the "no RELAY_EXTEND commands except in RELAY_EARLY cells" rule,
27830 remove this workaround. Addresses bug 4786.
27832 o Code simplifications and refactoring:
27833 - Use OpenSSL's built-in SSL_state_string_long() instead of our
27834 own homebrewed ssl_state_to_string() replacement. Patch from
27835 Emile Snyder. Fixes bug 4653.
27836 - Use macros to indicate OpenSSL versions, so we don't need to worry
27837 about accidental hexadecimal bit shifts.
27838 - Remove some workaround code for OpenSSL 0.9.6 (which is no longer
27840 - Convert more instances of tor_snprintf+tor_strdup into tor_asprintf.
27841 - Use the smartlist_add_asprintf() alias more consistently.
27842 - Use a TOR_INVALID_SOCKET macro when initializing a socket to an
27843 invalid value, rather than just -1.
27844 - Rename a handful of old identifiers, mostly related to crypto
27845 structures and crypto functions. By convention, our "create an
27846 object" functions are called "type_new()", our "free an object"
27847 functions are called "type_free()", and our types indicate that
27848 they are types only with a final "_t". But a handful of older
27849 types and functions broke these rules, with function names like
27850 "type_create" or "subsystem_op_type", or with type names like
27854 Changes in version 0.2.3.10-alpha - 2011-12-16
27855 Tor 0.2.3.10-alpha fixes a critical heap-overflow security issue in
27856 Tor's buffers code. Absolutely everybody should upgrade.
27858 The bug relied on an incorrect calculation when making data continuous
27859 in one of our IO buffers, if the first chunk of the buffer was
27860 misaligned by just the wrong amount. The miscalculation would allow an
27861 attacker to overflow a piece of heap-allocated memory. To mount this
27862 attack, the attacker would need to either open a SOCKS connection to
27863 Tor's SocksPort (usually restricted to localhost), or target a Tor
27864 instance configured to make its connections through a SOCKS proxy
27865 (which Tor does not do by default).
27867 Good security practice requires that all heap-overflow bugs should be
27868 presumed to be exploitable until proven otherwise, so we are treating
27869 this as a potential code execution attack. Please upgrade immediately!
27870 This bug does not affect bufferevents-based builds of Tor. Special
27871 thanks to "Vektor" for reporting this issue to us!
27873 This release also contains a few minor bugfixes for issues discovered
27877 - Fix a heap overflow bug that could occur when trying to pull
27878 data into the first chunk of a buffer, when that chunk had
27879 already had some data drained from it. Fixes CVE-2011-2778;
27880 bugfix on 0.2.0.16-alpha. Reported by "Vektor".
27883 - If we can't attach streams to a rendezvous circuit when we
27884 finish connecting to a hidden service, clear the rendezvous
27885 circuit's stream-isolation state and try to attach streams
27886 again. Previously, we cleared rendezvous circuits' isolation
27887 state either too early (if they were freshly built) or not at all
27888 (if they had been built earlier and were cannibalized). Bugfix on
27889 0.2.3.3-alpha; fixes bug 4655.
27890 - Fix compilation of the libnatpmp helper on non-Windows. Bugfix on
27891 0.2.3.9-alpha; fixes bug 4691. Reported by Anthony G. Basile.
27892 - Fix an assertion failure when a relay with accounting enabled
27893 starts up while dormant. Fixes bug 4702; bugfix on 0.2.3.9-alpha.
27896 - Update to the December 6 2011 Maxmind GeoLite Country database.
27899 Changes in version 0.2.2.35 - 2011-12-16
27900 Tor 0.2.2.35 fixes a critical heap-overflow security issue in Tor's
27901 buffers code. Absolutely everybody should upgrade.
27903 The bug relied on an incorrect calculation when making data continuous
27904 in one of our IO buffers, if the first chunk of the buffer was
27905 misaligned by just the wrong amount. The miscalculation would allow an
27906 attacker to overflow a piece of heap-allocated memory. To mount this
27907 attack, the attacker would need to either open a SOCKS connection to
27908 Tor's SocksPort (usually restricted to localhost), or target a Tor
27909 instance configured to make its connections through a SOCKS proxy
27910 (which Tor does not do by default).
27912 Good security practice requires that all heap-overflow bugs should be
27913 presumed to be exploitable until proven otherwise, so we are treating
27914 this as a potential code execution attack. Please upgrade immediately!
27915 This bug does not affect bufferevents-based builds of Tor. Special
27916 thanks to "Vektor" for reporting this issue to us!
27918 Tor 0.2.2.35 also fixes several bugs in previous versions, including
27919 crash bugs for unusual configurations, and a long-term bug that
27920 would prevent Tor from starting on Windows machines with draconian
27923 With this release, we remind everyone that 0.2.0.x has reached its
27924 formal end-of-life. Those Tor versions have many known flaws, and
27925 nobody should be using them. You should upgrade -- ideally to the
27926 0.2.2.x series. If you're using a Linux or BSD and its packages are
27927 obsolete, stop using those packages and upgrade anyway.
27929 The Tor 0.2.1.x series is also approaching its end-of-life: it will no
27930 longer receive support after some time in early 2012.
27933 - Fix a heap overflow bug that could occur when trying to pull
27934 data into the first chunk of a buffer, when that chunk had
27935 already had some data drained from it. Fixes CVE-2011-2778;
27936 bugfix on 0.2.0.16-alpha. Reported by "Vektor".
27937 - Initialize Libevent with the EVENT_BASE_FLAG_NOLOCK flag enabled, so
27938 that it doesn't attempt to allocate a socketpair. This could cause
27939 some problems on Windows systems with overzealous firewalls. Fix for
27940 bug 4457; workaround for Libevent versions 2.0.1-alpha through
27942 - If we mark an OR connection for close based on a cell we process,
27943 don't process any further cells on it. We already avoid further
27944 reads on marked-for-close connections, but now we also discard the
27945 cells we'd already read. Fixes bug 4299; bugfix on 0.2.0.10-alpha,
27946 which was the first version where we might mark a connection for
27947 close based on processing a cell on it.
27948 - Correctly sanity-check that we don't underflow on a memory
27949 allocation (and then assert) for hidden service introduction
27950 point decryption. Bug discovered by Dan Rosenberg. Fixes bug 4410;
27951 bugfix on 0.2.1.5-alpha.
27952 - Fix a memory leak when we check whether a hidden service
27953 descriptor has any usable introduction points left. Fixes bug
27954 4424. Bugfix on 0.2.2.25-alpha.
27955 - Don't crash when we're running as a relay and don't have a GeoIP
27956 file. Bugfix on 0.2.2.34; fixes bug 4340. This backports a fix
27957 we've had in the 0.2.3.x branch already.
27958 - When running as a client, do not print a misleading (and plain
27959 wrong) log message that we're collecting "directory request"
27960 statistics: clients don't collect statistics. Also don't create a
27961 useless (because empty) stats file in the stats/ directory. Fixes
27962 bug 4353; bugfix on 0.2.2.34.
27965 - Detect failure to initialize Libevent. This fix provides better
27966 detection for future instances of bug 4457.
27967 - Avoid frequent calls to the fairly expensive cull_wedged_cpuworkers
27968 function. This was eating up hideously large amounts of time on some
27969 busy servers. Fixes bug 4518; bugfix on 0.0.9.8.
27970 - Resolve an integer overflow bug in smartlist_ensure_capacity().
27971 Fixes bug 4230; bugfix on Tor 0.1.0.1-rc. Based on a patch by
27973 - Don't warn about unused log_mutex in log.c when building with
27974 --disable-threads using a recent GCC. Fixes bug 4437; bugfix on
27975 0.1.0.6-rc which introduced --disable-threads.
27976 - When configuring, starting, or stopping an NT service, stop
27977 immediately after the service configuration attempt has succeeded
27978 or failed. Fixes bug 3963; bugfix on 0.2.0.7-alpha.
27979 - When sending a NETINFO cell, include the original address
27980 received for the other side, not its canonical address. Found
27981 by "troll_un"; fixes bug 4349; bugfix on 0.2.0.10-alpha.
27982 - Fix a typo in a hibernation-related log message. Fixes bug 4331;
27983 bugfix on 0.2.2.23-alpha; found by "tmpname0901".
27984 - Fix a memory leak in launch_direct_bridge_descriptor_fetch() that
27985 occurred when a client tried to fetch a descriptor for a bridge
27986 in ExcludeNodes. Fixes bug 4383; bugfix on 0.2.2.25-alpha.
27987 - Backport fixes for a pair of compilation warnings on Windows.
27988 Fixes bug 4521; bugfix on 0.2.2.28-beta and on 0.2.2.29-beta.
27989 - If we had ever tried to call tor_addr_to_str on an address of
27990 unknown type, we would have done a strdup on an uninitialized
27991 buffer. Now we won't. Fixes bug 4529; bugfix on 0.2.1.3-alpha.
27992 Reported by "troll_un".
27993 - Correctly detect and handle transient lookup failures from
27994 tor_addr_lookup. Fixes bug 4530; bugfix on 0.2.1.5-alpha.
27995 Reported by "troll_un".
27996 - Fix null-pointer access that could occur if TLS allocation failed.
27997 Fixes bug 4531; bugfix on 0.2.0.20-rc. Found by "troll_un".
27998 - Use tor_socket_t type for listener argument to accept(). Fixes bug
27999 4535; bugfix on 0.2.2.28-beta. Found by "troll_un".
28002 - Add two new config options for directory authorities:
28003 AuthDirFastGuarantee sets a bandwidth threshold for guaranteeing the
28004 Fast flag, and AuthDirGuardBWGuarantee sets a bandwidth threshold
28005 that is always sufficient to satisfy the bandwidth requirement for
28006 the Guard flag. Now it will be easier for researchers to simulate
28007 Tor networks with different values. Resolves ticket 4484.
28008 - When Tor ignores a hidden service specified in its configuration,
28009 include the hidden service's directory in the warning message.
28010 Previously, we would only tell the user that some hidden service
28011 was ignored. Bugfix on 0.0.6; fixes bug 4426.
28012 - Update to the December 6 2011 Maxmind GeoLite Country database.
28014 o Packaging changes:
28015 - Make it easier to automate expert package builds on Windows,
28016 by removing an absolute path from makensis.exe command.
28019 Changes in version 0.2.1.32 - 2011-12-16
28020 Tor 0.2.1.32 backports important security and privacy fixes for
28021 oldstable. This release is intended only for package maintainers and
28022 others who cannot use the 0.2.2 stable series. All others should be
28023 using Tor 0.2.2.x or newer.
28025 The Tor 0.2.1.x series will reach formal end-of-life some time in
28026 early 2012; we will stop releasing patches for it then.
28028 o Major bugfixes (also included in 0.2.2.x):
28029 - Correctly sanity-check that we don't underflow on a memory
28030 allocation (and then assert) for hidden service introduction
28031 point decryption. Bug discovered by Dan Rosenberg. Fixes bug 4410;
28032 bugfix on 0.2.1.5-alpha.
28033 - Fix a heap overflow bug that could occur when trying to pull
28034 data into the first chunk of a buffer, when that chunk had
28035 already had some data drained from it. Fixes CVE-2011-2778;
28036 bugfix on 0.2.0.16-alpha. Reported by "Vektor".
28039 - Update to the December 6 2011 Maxmind GeoLite Country database.
28042 Changes in version 0.2.3.9-alpha - 2011-12-08
28043 Tor 0.2.3.9-alpha introduces initial IPv6 support for bridges, adds
28044 a "DisableNetwork" security feature that bundles can use to avoid
28045 touching the network until bridges are configured, moves forward on
28046 the pluggable transport design, fixes a flaw in the hidden service
28047 design that unnecessarily prevented clients with wrong clocks from
28048 reaching hidden services, and fixes a wide variety of other issues.
28051 - Clients can now connect to private bridges over IPv6. Bridges
28052 still need at least one IPv4 address in order to connect to
28053 other relays. Note that we don't yet handle the case where the
28054 user has two bridge lines for the same bridge (one IPv4, one
28055 IPv6). Implements parts of proposal 186.
28056 - New "DisableNetwork" config option to prevent Tor from launching any
28057 connections or accepting any connections except on a control port.
28058 Bundles and controllers can set this option before letting Tor talk
28059 to the rest of the network, for example to prevent any connections
28060 to a non-bridge address. Packages like Orbot can also use this
28061 option to instruct Tor to save power when the network is off.
28062 - Clients and bridges can now be configured to use a separate
28063 "transport" proxy. This approach makes the censorship arms race
28064 easier by allowing bridges to use protocol obfuscation plugins. It
28065 implements the "managed proxy" part of proposal 180 (ticket 3472).
28066 - When using OpenSSL 1.0.0 or later, use OpenSSL's counter mode
28067 implementation. It makes AES_CTR about 7% faster than our old one
28068 (which was about 10% faster than the one OpenSSL used to provide).
28069 Resolves ticket 4526.
28070 - Add a "tor2web mode" for clients that want to connect to hidden
28071 services non-anonymously (and possibly more quickly). As a safety
28072 measure to try to keep users from turning this on without knowing
28073 what they are doing, tor2web mode must be explicitly enabled at
28074 compile time, and a copy of Tor compiled to run in tor2web mode
28075 cannot be used as a normal Tor client. Implements feature 2553.
28076 - Add experimental support for running on Windows with IOCP and no
28077 kernel-space socket buffers. This feature is controlled by a new
28078 "UserspaceIOCPBuffers" config option (off by default), which has
28079 no effect unless Tor has been built with support for bufferevents,
28080 is running on Windows, and has enabled IOCP. This may, in the long
28081 run, help solve or mitigate bug 98.
28082 - Use a more secure consensus parameter voting algorithm. Now at
28083 least three directory authorities or a majority of them must
28084 vote on a given parameter before it will be included in the
28085 consensus. Implements proposal 178.
28088 - Hidden services now ignore the timestamps on INTRODUCE2 cells.
28089 They used to check that the timestamp was within 30 minutes
28090 of their system clock, so they could cap the size of their
28091 replay-detection cache, but that approach unnecessarily refused
28092 service to clients with wrong clocks. Bugfix on 0.2.1.6-alpha, when
28093 the v3 intro-point protocol (the first one which sent a timestamp
28094 field in the INTRODUCE2 cell) was introduced; fixes bug 3460.
28095 - Only use the EVP interface when AES acceleration is enabled,
28096 to avoid a 5-7% performance regression. Resolves issue 4525;
28097 bugfix on 0.2.3.8-alpha.
28099 o Privacy/anonymity features (bridge detection):
28100 - Make bridge SSL certificates a bit more stealthy by using random
28101 serial numbers, in the same fashion as OpenSSL when generating
28102 self-signed certificates. Implements ticket 4584.
28103 - Introduce a new config option "DynamicDHGroups", enabled by
28104 default, which provides each bridge with a unique prime DH modulus
28105 to be used during SSL handshakes. This option attempts to help
28106 against censors who might use the Apache DH modulus as a static
28107 identifier for bridges. Addresses ticket 4548.
28109 o Minor features (new/different config options):
28110 - New configuration option "DisableDebuggerAttachment" (on by default)
28111 to prevent basic debugging attachment attempts by other processes.
28112 Supports Mac OS X and Gnu/Linux. Resolves ticket 3313.
28113 - Allow MapAddress directives to specify matches against super-domains,
28114 as in "MapAddress *.torproject.org *.torproject.org.torserver.exit".
28115 Implements issue 933.
28116 - Slightly change behavior of "list" options (that is, config
28117 options that can appear more than once) when they appear both in
28118 torrc and on the command line. Previously, the command-line options
28119 would be appended to the ones from torrc. Now, the command-line
28120 options override the torrc options entirely. This new behavior
28121 allows the user to override list options (like exit policies and
28122 ports to listen on) from the command line, rather than simply
28123 appending to the list.
28124 - You can get the old (appending) command-line behavior for "list"
28125 options by prefixing the option name with a "+".
28126 - You can remove all the values for a "list" option from the command
28127 line without adding any new ones by prefixing the option name
28129 - Add experimental support for a "defaults" torrc file to be parsed
28130 before the regular torrc. Torrc options override the defaults file's
28131 options in the same way that the command line overrides the torrc.
28132 The SAVECONF controller command saves only those options which
28133 differ between the current configuration and the defaults file. HUP
28134 reloads both files. (Note: This is an experimental feature; its
28135 behavior will probably be refined in future 0.2.3.x-alpha versions
28136 to better meet packagers' needs.) Implements task 4552.
28139 - Try to make the introductory warning message that Tor prints on
28140 startup more useful for actually finding help and information.
28141 Resolves ticket 2474.
28142 - Running "make version" now displays the version of Tor that
28143 we're about to build. Idea from katmagic; resolves issue 4400.
28144 - Expire old or over-used hidden service introduction points.
28145 Required by fix for bug 3460.
28146 - Move the replay-detection cache for the RSA-encrypted parts of
28147 INTRODUCE2 cells to the introduction point data structures.
28148 Previously, we would use one replay-detection cache per hidden
28149 service. Required by fix for bug 3460.
28150 - Reduce the lifetime of elements of hidden services' Diffie-Hellman
28151 public key replay-detection cache from 60 minutes to 5 minutes. This
28152 replay-detection cache is now used only to detect multiple
28153 INTRODUCE2 cells specifying the same rendezvous point, so we can
28154 avoid launching multiple simultaneous attempts to connect to it.
28156 o Minor bugfixes (on Tor 0.2.2.x and earlier):
28157 - Resolve an integer overflow bug in smartlist_ensure_capacity().
28158 Fixes bug 4230; bugfix on Tor 0.1.0.1-rc. Based on a patch by
28160 - Fix a minor formatting issue in one of tor-gencert's error messages.
28162 - Prevent a false positive from the check-spaces script, by disabling
28163 the "whitespace between function name and (" check for functions
28165 - Fix a log message suggesting that people contact a non-existent
28166 email address. Fixes bug 3448.
28167 - Fix null-pointer access that could occur if TLS allocation failed.
28168 Fixes bug 4531; bugfix on 0.2.0.20-rc. Found by "troll_un".
28169 - Report a real bootstrap problem to the controller on router
28170 identity mismatch. Previously we just said "foo", which probably
28171 made a lot of sense at the time. Fixes bug 4169; bugfix on
28173 - If we had ever tried to call tor_addr_to_str() on an address of
28174 unknown type, we would have done a strdup() on an uninitialized
28175 buffer. Now we won't. Fixes bug 4529; bugfix on 0.2.1.3-alpha.
28176 Reported by "troll_un".
28177 - Correctly detect and handle transient lookup failures from
28178 tor_addr_lookup(). Fixes bug 4530; bugfix on 0.2.1.5-alpha.
28179 Reported by "troll_un".
28180 - Use tor_socket_t type for listener argument to accept(). Fixes bug
28181 4535; bugfix on 0.2.2.28-beta. Found by "troll_un".
28182 - Initialize conn->addr to a valid state in spawn_cpuworker(). Fixes
28183 bug 4532; found by "troll_un".
28185 o Minor bugfixes (on Tor 0.2.3.x):
28186 - Fix a compile warning in tor_inet_pton(). Bugfix on 0.2.3.8-alpha;
28188 - Don't send two ESTABLISH_RENDEZVOUS cells when opening a new
28189 circuit for use as a hidden service client's rendezvous point.
28190 Fixes bugs 4641 and 4171; bugfix on 0.2.3.3-alpha. Diagnosed
28191 with help from wanoskarnet.
28192 - Restore behavior of overriding SocksPort, ORPort, and similar
28193 options from the command line. Bugfix on 0.2.3.3-alpha.
28196 - Properly handle the case where the build-tree is not the same
28197 as the source tree when generating src/common/common_sha1.i,
28198 src/or/micro-revision.i, and src/or/or_sha1.i. Fixes bug 3953;
28199 bugfix on 0.2.0.1-alpha.
28201 o Code simplifications, cleanups, and refactorings:
28202 - Remove the pure attribute from all functions that used it
28203 previously. In many cases we assigned it incorrectly, because the
28204 functions might assert or call impure functions, and we don't have
28205 evidence that keeping the pure attribute is worthwhile. Implements
28206 changes suggested in ticket 4421.
28207 - Remove some dead code spotted by coverity. Fixes cid 432.
28208 Bugfix on 0.2.3.1-alpha, closes bug 4637.
28211 Changes in version 0.2.3.8-alpha - 2011-11-22
28212 Tor 0.2.3.8-alpha fixes some crash and assert bugs, including a
28213 socketpair-related bug that has been bothering Windows users. It adds
28214 support to serve microdescriptors to controllers, so Vidalia's network
28215 map can resume listing relays (once Vidalia implements its side),
28216 and adds better support for hardware AES acceleration. Finally, it
28217 starts the process of adjusting the bandwidth cutoff for getting the
28218 "Fast" flag from 20KB to (currently) 32KB -- preliminary results show
28219 that tiny relays harm performance more than they help network capacity.
28222 - Initialize Libevent with the EVENT_BASE_FLAG_NOLOCK flag enabled, so
28223 that it doesn't attempt to allocate a socketpair. This could cause
28224 some problems on Windows systems with overzealous firewalls. Fix for
28225 bug 4457; workaround for Libevent versions 2.0.1-alpha through
28227 - Correctly sanity-check that we don't underflow on a memory
28228 allocation (and then assert) for hidden service introduction
28229 point decryption. Bug discovered by Dan Rosenberg. Fixes bug 4410;
28230 bugfix on 0.2.1.5-alpha.
28231 - Remove the artificially low cutoff of 20KB to guarantee the Fast
28232 flag. In the past few years the average relay speed has picked
28233 up, and while the "top 7/8 of the network get the Fast flag" and
28234 "all relays with 20KB or more of capacity get the Fast flag" rules
28235 used to have the same result, now the top 7/8 of the network has
28236 a capacity more like 32KB. Bugfix on 0.2.1.14-rc. Fixes bug 4489.
28237 - Fix a rare assertion failure when checking whether a v0 hidden
28238 service descriptor has any usable introduction points left, and
28239 we don't have enough information to build a circuit to the first
28240 intro point named in the descriptor. The HS client code in
28241 0.2.3.x no longer uses v0 HS descriptors, but this assertion can
28242 trigger on (and crash) v0 HS authorities. Fixes bug 4411.
28243 Bugfix on 0.2.3.1-alpha; diagnosed by frosty_un.
28244 - Make bridge authorities not crash when they are asked for their own
28245 descriptor. Bugfix on 0.2.3.7-alpha, reported by Lucky Green.
28246 - When running as a client, do not print a misleading (and plain
28247 wrong) log message that we're collecting "directory request"
28248 statistics: clients don't collect statistics. Also don't create a
28249 useless (because empty) stats file in the stats/ directory. Fixes
28250 bug 4353; bugfix on 0.2.2.34 and 0.2.3.7-alpha.
28253 - Allow Tor controllers like Vidalia to obtain the microdescriptor
28254 for a relay by identity digest or nickname. Previously,
28255 microdescriptors were only available by their own digests, so a
28256 controller would have to ask for and parse the whole microdescriptor
28257 consensus in order to look up a single relay's microdesc. Fixes
28258 bug 3832; bugfix on 0.2.3.1-alpha.
28259 - Use OpenSSL's EVP interface for AES encryption, so that all AES
28260 operations can use hardware acceleration (if present). Resolves
28263 o Minor bugfixes (on 0.2.2.x and earlier):
28264 - Detect failure to initialize Libevent. This fix provides better
28265 detection for future instances of bug 4457.
28266 - Avoid frequent calls to the fairly expensive cull_wedged_cpuworkers
28267 function. This was eating up hideously large amounts of time on some
28268 busy servers. Fixes bug 4518; bugfix on 0.0.9.8.
28269 - Don't warn about unused log_mutex in log.c when building with
28270 --disable-threads using a recent GCC. Fixes bug 4437; bugfix on
28271 0.1.0.6-rc which introduced --disable-threads.
28272 - Allow manual 'authenticate' commands to the controller interface
28273 from netcat (nc) as well as telnet. We were rejecting them because
28274 they didn't come with the expected whitespace at the end of the
28275 command. Bugfix on 0.1.1.1-alpha; fixes bug 2893.
28276 - Fix some (not actually triggerable) buffer size checks in usage of
28277 tor_inet_ntop. Fixes bug 4434; bugfix on Tor 0.2.0.1-alpha. Patch
28279 - Fix parsing of some corner-cases with tor_inet_pton(). Fixes
28280 bug 4515; bugfix on 0.2.0.1-alpha; fix by Anders Sundman.
28281 - When configuring, starting, or stopping an NT service, stop
28282 immediately after the service configuration attempt has succeeded
28283 or failed. Fixes bug 3963; bugfix on 0.2.0.7-alpha.
28284 - When sending a NETINFO cell, include the original address
28285 received for the other side, not its canonical address. Found
28286 by "troll_un"; fixes bug 4349; bugfix on 0.2.0.10-alpha.
28287 - Rename the bench_{aes,dmap} functions to test_*, so that tinytest
28288 can pick them up when the tests aren't disabled. Bugfix on
28289 0.2.2.4-alpha which introduced tinytest.
28290 - Fix a memory leak when we check whether a hidden service
28291 descriptor has any usable introduction points left. Fixes bug
28292 4424. Bugfix on 0.2.2.25-alpha.
28293 - Fix a memory leak in launch_direct_bridge_descriptor_fetch() that
28294 occurred when a client tried to fetch a descriptor for a bridge
28295 in ExcludeNodes. Fixes bug 4383; bugfix on 0.2.2.25-alpha.
28297 o Minor bugfixes (on 0.2.3.x):
28298 - Make util unit tests build correctly with MSVC. Bugfix on
28299 0.2.3.3-alpha. Patch by Gisle Vanem.
28300 - Successfully detect AUTH_CHALLENGE cells with no recognized
28301 authentication type listed. Fixes bug 4367; bugfix on 0.2.3.6-alpha.
28302 Found by frosty_un.
28303 - If a relay receives an AUTH_CHALLENGE cell it can't answer,
28304 it should still send a NETINFO cell to allow the connection to
28305 become open. Fixes bug 4368; fix on 0.2.3.6-alpha; bug found by
28307 - Log less loudly when we get an invalid authentication certificate
28308 from a source other than a directory authority: it's not unusual
28309 to see invalid certs because of clock skew. Fixes bug 4370; bugfix
28311 - Tolerate servers with more clock skew in their authentication
28312 certificates than previously. Fixes bug 4371; bugfix on
28314 - Fix a couple of compile warnings on Windows. Fixes bug 4469; bugfix
28315 on 0.2.3.4-alpha and 0.2.3.6-alpha.
28318 - Add two new config options for directory authorities:
28319 AuthDirFastGuarantee sets a bandwidth threshold for guaranteeing the
28320 Fast flag, and AuthDirGuardBWGuarantee sets a bandwidth threshold
28321 that is always sufficient to satisfy the bandwidth requirement for
28322 the Guard flag. Now it will be easier for researchers to simulate
28323 Tor networks with different values. Resolves ticket 4484.
28324 - When Tor ignores a hidden service specified in its configuration,
28325 include the hidden service's directory in the warning message.
28326 Previously, we would only tell the user that some hidden service
28327 was ignored. Bugfix on 0.0.6; fixes bug 4426.
28328 - When we fail to initialize Libevent, retry with IOCP disabled so we
28329 don't need to turn on multi-threading support in Libevent, which in
28330 turn requires a working socketpair(). This is a workaround for bug
28331 4457, which affects Libevent versions from 2.0.1-alpha through
28333 - Detect when we try to build on a platform that doesn't define
28334 AF_UNSPEC to 0. We don't work there, so refuse to compile.
28335 - Update to the November 1 2011 Maxmind GeoLite Country database.
28337 o Packaging changes:
28338 - Make it easier to automate expert package builds on Windows,
28339 by removing an absolute path from makensis.exe command.
28341 o Code simplifications and refactoring:
28342 - Remove some redundant #include directives throughout the code.
28343 Patch from Andrea Gelmini.
28344 - Unconditionally use OpenSSL's AES implementation instead of our
28345 old built-in one. OpenSSL's AES has been better for a while, and
28346 relatively few servers should still be on any version of OpenSSL
28347 that doesn't have good optimized assembly AES.
28348 - Use the name "CERTS" consistently to refer to the new cell type;
28349 we were calling it CERT in some places and CERTS in others.
28352 - Numerous new unit tests for functions in util.c and address.c by
28354 - The long-disabled benchmark tests are now split into their own
28355 ./src/test/bench binary.
28356 - The benchmark tests can now use more accurate timers than
28357 gettimeofday() when such timers are available.
28360 Changes in version 0.2.3.7-alpha - 2011-10-30
28361 Tor 0.2.3.7-alpha fixes a crash bug in 0.2.3.6-alpha introduced by
28362 the new v3 handshake. It also resolves yet another bridge address
28366 - If we mark an OR connection for close based on a cell we process,
28367 don't process any further cells on it. We already avoid further
28368 reads on marked-for-close connections, but now we also discard the
28369 cells we'd already read. Fixes bug 4299; bugfix on 0.2.0.10-alpha,
28370 which was the first version where we might mark a connection for
28371 close based on processing a cell on it.
28372 - Fix a double-free bug that would occur when we received an invalid
28373 certificate in a CERT cell in the new v3 handshake. Fixes bug 4343;
28374 bugfix on 0.2.3.6-alpha.
28375 - Bridges no longer include their address in NETINFO cells on outgoing
28376 OR connections, to allow them to blend in better with clients.
28377 Removes another avenue for enumerating bridges. Reported by
28378 "troll_un". Fixes bug 4348; bugfix on 0.2.0.10-alpha, when NETINFO
28379 cells were introduced.
28382 - Fixed a typo in a hibernation-related log message. Fixes bug 4331;
28383 bugfix on 0.2.2.23-alpha; found by "tmpname0901".
28386 Changes in version 0.2.3.6-alpha - 2011-10-26
28387 Tor 0.2.3.6-alpha includes the fix from 0.2.2.34 for a critical
28388 anonymity vulnerability where an attacker can deanonymize Tor
28389 users. Everybody should upgrade.
28391 This release also features support for a new v3 connection handshake
28392 protocol, and fixes to make hidden service connections more robust.
28395 - Implement a new handshake protocol (v3) for authenticating Tors to
28396 each other over TLS. It should be more resistant to fingerprinting
28397 than previous protocols, and should require less TLS hacking for
28398 future Tor implementations. Implements proposal 176.
28399 - Allow variable-length padding cells to disguise the length of
28400 Tor's TLS records. Implements part of proposal 184.
28402 o Privacy/anonymity fixes (clients):
28403 - Clients and bridges no longer send TLS certificate chains on
28404 outgoing OR connections. Previously, each client or bridge would
28405 use the same cert chain for all outgoing OR connections until
28406 its IP address changes, which allowed any relay that the client
28407 or bridge contacted to determine which entry guards it is using.
28408 Fixes CVE-2011-2768. Bugfix on 0.0.9pre5; found by "frosty_un".
28409 - If a relay receives a CREATE_FAST cell on a TLS connection, it
28410 no longer considers that connection as suitable for satisfying a
28411 circuit EXTEND request. Now relays can protect clients from the
28412 CVE-2011-2768 issue even if the clients haven't upgraded yet.
28413 - Directory authorities no longer assign the Guard flag to relays
28414 that haven't upgraded to the above "refuse EXTEND requests
28415 to client connections" fix. Now directory authorities can
28416 protect clients from the CVE-2011-2768 issue even if neither
28417 the clients nor the relays have upgraded yet. There's a new
28418 "GiveGuardFlagTo_CVE_2011_2768_VulnerableRelays" config option
28419 to let us transition smoothly, else tomorrow there would be no
28422 o Major bugfixes (hidden services):
28423 - Improve hidden service robustness: when an attempt to connect to
28424 a hidden service ends, be willing to refetch its hidden service
28425 descriptors from each of the HSDir relays responsible for them
28426 immediately. Previously, we would not consider refetching the
28427 service's descriptors from each HSDir for 15 minutes after the last
28428 fetch, which was inconvenient if the hidden service was not running
28429 during the first attempt. Bugfix on 0.2.0.18-alpha; fixes bug 3335.
28430 - When one of a hidden service's introduction points appears to be
28431 unreachable, stop trying it. Previously, we would keep trying
28432 to build circuits to the introduction point until we lost the
28433 descriptor, usually because the user gave up and restarted Tor.
28434 Partly fixes bug 3825.
28435 - Don't launch a useless circuit after failing to use one of a
28436 hidden service's introduction points. Previously, we would
28437 launch a new introduction circuit, but not set the hidden service
28438 which that circuit was intended to connect to, so it would never
28439 actually be used. A different piece of code would then create a
28440 new introduction circuit correctly. Bug reported by katmagic and
28441 found by Sebastian Hahn. Bugfix on 0.2.1.13-alpha; fixes bug 4212.
28443 o Major bugfixes (other):
28444 - Bridges now refuse CREATE or CREATE_FAST cells on OR connections
28445 that they initiated. Relays could distinguish incoming bridge
28446 connections from client connections, creating another avenue for
28447 enumerating bridges. Fixes CVE-2011-2769. Bugfix on 0.2.0.3-alpha.
28448 Found by "frosty_un".
28449 - Don't update the AccountingSoftLimitHitAt state file entry whenever
28450 tor gets started. This prevents a wrong average bandwidth
28451 estimate, which would cause relays to always start a new accounting
28452 interval at the earliest possible moment. Fixes bug 2003; bugfix
28453 on 0.2.2.7-alpha. Reported by BryonEldridge, who also helped
28454 immensely in tracking this bug down.
28455 - Fix a crash bug when changing node restrictions while a DNS lookup
28456 is in-progress. Fixes bug 4259; bugfix on 0.2.2.25-alpha. Bugfix
28459 o Minor bugfixes (on 0.2.2.x and earlier):
28460 - When a hidden service turns an extra service-side introduction
28461 circuit into a general-purpose circuit, free the rend_data and
28462 intro_key fields first, so we won't leak memory if the circuit
28463 is cannibalized for use as another service-side introduction
28464 circuit. Bugfix on 0.2.1.7-alpha; fixes bug 4251.
28465 - Rephrase the log message emitted if the TestSocks check is
28466 successful. Patch from Fabian Keil; fixes bug 4094.
28467 - Bridges now skip DNS self-tests, to act a little more stealthily.
28468 Fixes bug 4201; bugfix on 0.2.0.3-alpha, which first introduced
28469 bridges. Patch by "warms0x".
28470 - Remove a confusing dollar sign from the example fingerprint in the
28471 man page, and also make the example fingerprint a valid one. Fixes
28472 bug 4309; bugfix on 0.2.1.3-alpha.
28473 - Fix internal bug-checking logic that was supposed to catch
28474 failures in digest generation so that it will fail more robustly
28475 if we ask for a nonexistent algorithm. Found by Coverity Scan.
28476 Bugfix on 0.2.2.1-alpha; fixes Coverity CID 479.
28477 - Report any failure in init_keys() calls launched because our
28478 IP address has changed. Spotted by Coverity Scan. Bugfix on
28479 0.1.1.4-alpha; fixes CID 484.
28481 o Minor bugfixes (on 0.2.3.x):
28482 - Fix a bug in configure.in that kept it from building a configure
28483 script with autoconf versions earlier than 2.61. Fixes bug 2430;
28484 bugfix on 0.2.3.1-alpha.
28485 - Don't warn users that they are exposing a client port to the
28486 Internet if they have specified an RFC1918 address. Previously,
28487 we would warn if the user had specified any non-loopback
28488 address. Bugfix on 0.2.3.3-alpha. Fixes bug 4018; reported by Tas.
28489 - Fix memory leaks in the failing cases of the new SocksPort and
28490 ControlPort code. Found by Coverity Scan. Bugfix on 0.2.3.3-alpha;
28491 fixes coverity CIDs 485, 486, and 487.
28494 - When a hidden service's introduction point times out, consider
28495 trying it again during the next attempt to connect to the
28496 HS. Previously, we would not try it again unless a newly fetched
28497 descriptor contained it. Required by fixes for bugs 1297 and 3825.
28498 - The next version of Windows will be called Windows 8, and it has
28499 a major version of 6, minor version of 2. Correctly identify that
28500 version instead of calling it "Very recent version". Resolves
28501 ticket 4153; reported by funkstar.
28502 - The Bridge Authority now writes statistics on how many bridge
28503 descriptors it gave out in total, and how many unique descriptors
28504 it gave out. It also lists how often the most and least commonly
28505 fetched descriptors were given out, as well as the median and
28506 25th/75th percentile. Implements tickets 4200 and 4294.
28507 - Update to the October 4 2011 Maxmind GeoLite Country database.
28509 o Code simplifications and refactoring:
28510 - Remove some old code to remember statistics about which descriptors
28511 we've served as a directory mirror. The feature wasn't used and
28512 is outdated now that microdescriptors are around.
28513 - Rename Tor functions that turn strings into addresses, so that
28514 "parse" indicates that no hostname resolution occurs, and
28515 "lookup" indicates that hostname resolution may occur. This
28516 should help prevent mistakes in the future. Fixes bug 3512.
28519 Changes in version 0.2.2.34 - 2011-10-26
28520 Tor 0.2.2.34 fixes a critical anonymity vulnerability where an attacker
28521 can deanonymize Tor users. Everybody should upgrade.
28523 The attack relies on four components: 1) Clients reuse their TLS cert
28524 when talking to different relays, so relays can recognize a user by
28525 the identity key in her cert. 2) An attacker who knows the client's
28526 identity key can probe each guard relay to see if that identity key
28527 is connected to that guard relay right now. 3) A variety of active
28528 attacks in the literature (starting from "Low-Cost Traffic Analysis
28529 of Tor" by Murdoch and Danezis in 2005) allow a malicious website to
28530 discover the guard relays that a Tor user visiting the website is using.
28531 4) Clients typically pick three guards at random, so the set of guards
28532 for a given user could well be a unique fingerprint for her. This
28533 release fixes components #1 and #2, which is enough to block the attack;
28534 the other two remain as open research problems. Special thanks to
28535 "frosty_un" for reporting the issue to us!
28537 Clients should upgrade so they are no longer recognizable by the TLS
28538 certs they present. Relays should upgrade so they no longer allow a
28539 remote attacker to probe them to test whether unpatched clients are
28540 currently connected to them.
28542 This release also fixes several vulnerabilities that allow an attacker
28543 to enumerate bridge relays. Some bridge enumeration attacks still
28544 remain; see for example proposal 188.
28546 o Privacy/anonymity fixes (clients):
28547 - Clients and bridges no longer send TLS certificate chains on
28548 outgoing OR connections. Previously, each client or bridge would
28549 use the same cert chain for all outgoing OR connections until
28550 its IP address changes, which allowed any relay that the client
28551 or bridge contacted to determine which entry guards it is using.
28552 Fixes CVE-2011-2768. Bugfix on 0.0.9pre5; found by "frosty_un".
28553 - If a relay receives a CREATE_FAST cell on a TLS connection, it
28554 no longer considers that connection as suitable for satisfying a
28555 circuit EXTEND request. Now relays can protect clients from the
28556 CVE-2011-2768 issue even if the clients haven't upgraded yet.
28557 - Directory authorities no longer assign the Guard flag to relays
28558 that haven't upgraded to the above "refuse EXTEND requests
28559 to client connections" fix. Now directory authorities can
28560 protect clients from the CVE-2011-2768 issue even if neither
28561 the clients nor the relays have upgraded yet. There's a new
28562 "GiveGuardFlagTo_CVE_2011_2768_VulnerableRelays" config option
28563 to let us transition smoothly, else tomorrow there would be no
28566 o Privacy/anonymity fixes (bridge enumeration):
28567 - Bridge relays now do their directory fetches inside Tor TLS
28568 connections, like all the other clients do, rather than connecting
28569 directly to the DirPort like public relays do. Removes another
28570 avenue for enumerating bridges. Fixes bug 4115; bugfix on 0.2.0.35.
28571 - Bridges relays now build circuits for themselves in a more similar
28572 way to how clients build them. Removes another avenue for
28573 enumerating bridges. Fixes bug 4124; bugfix on 0.2.0.3-alpha,
28574 when bridges were introduced.
28575 - Bridges now refuse CREATE or CREATE_FAST cells on OR connections
28576 that they initiated. Relays could distinguish incoming bridge
28577 connections from client connections, creating another avenue for
28578 enumerating bridges. Fixes CVE-2011-2769. Bugfix on 0.2.0.3-alpha.
28579 Found by "frosty_un".
28582 - Fix a crash bug when changing node restrictions while a DNS lookup
28583 is in-progress. Fixes bug 4259; bugfix on 0.2.2.25-alpha. Bugfix
28585 - Don't launch a useless circuit after failing to use one of a
28586 hidden service's introduction points. Previously, we would
28587 launch a new introduction circuit, but not set the hidden service
28588 which that circuit was intended to connect to, so it would never
28589 actually be used. A different piece of code would then create a
28590 new introduction circuit correctly. Bug reported by katmagic and
28591 found by Sebastian Hahn. Bugfix on 0.2.1.13-alpha; fixes bug 4212.
28594 - Change an integer overflow check in the OpenBSD_Malloc code so
28595 that GCC is less likely to eliminate it as impossible. Patch
28596 from Mansour Moufid. Fixes bug 4059.
28597 - When a hidden service turns an extra service-side introduction
28598 circuit into a general-purpose circuit, free the rend_data and
28599 intro_key fields first, so we won't leak memory if the circuit
28600 is cannibalized for use as another service-side introduction
28601 circuit. Bugfix on 0.2.1.7-alpha; fixes bug 4251.
28602 - Bridges now skip DNS self-tests, to act a little more stealthily.
28603 Fixes bug 4201; bugfix on 0.2.0.3-alpha, which first introduced
28604 bridges. Patch by "warms0x".
28605 - Fix internal bug-checking logic that was supposed to catch
28606 failures in digest generation so that it will fail more robustly
28607 if we ask for a nonexistent algorithm. Found by Coverity Scan.
28608 Bugfix on 0.2.2.1-alpha; fixes Coverity CID 479.
28609 - Report any failure in init_keys() calls launched because our
28610 IP address has changed. Spotted by Coverity Scan. Bugfix on
28611 0.1.1.4-alpha; fixes CID 484.
28613 o Minor bugfixes (log messages and documentation):
28614 - Remove a confusing dollar sign from the example fingerprint in the
28615 man page, and also make the example fingerprint a valid one. Fixes
28616 bug 4309; bugfix on 0.2.1.3-alpha.
28617 - The next version of Windows will be called Windows 8, and it has
28618 a major version of 6, minor version of 2. Correctly identify that
28619 version instead of calling it "Very recent version". Resolves
28620 ticket 4153; reported by funkstar.
28621 - Downgrade log messages about circuit timeout calibration from
28622 "notice" to "info": they don't require or suggest any human
28623 intervention. Patch from Tom Lowenthal. Fixes bug 4063;
28624 bugfix on 0.2.2.14-alpha.
28627 - Turn on directory request statistics by default and include them in
28628 extra-info descriptors. Don't break if we have no GeoIP database.
28629 Backported from 0.2.3.1-alpha; implements ticket 3951.
28630 - Update to the October 4 2011 Maxmind GeoLite Country database.
28633 Changes in version 0.2.1.31 - 2011-10-26
28634 Tor 0.2.1.31 backports important security and privacy fixes for
28635 oldstable. This release is intended only for package maintainers and
28636 others who cannot use the 0.2.2 stable series. All others should be
28637 using Tor 0.2.2.x or newer.
28639 o Security fixes (also included in 0.2.2.x):
28640 - Replace all potentially sensitive memory comparison operations
28641 with versions whose runtime does not depend on the data being
28642 compared. This will help resist a class of attacks where an
28643 adversary can use variations in timing information to learn
28644 sensitive data. Fix for one case of bug 3122. (Safe memcmp
28645 implementation by Robert Ransom based partially on code by DJB.)
28646 - Fix an assert in parsing router descriptors containing IPv6
28647 addresses. This one took down the directory authorities when
28648 somebody tried some experimental code. Bugfix on 0.2.1.3-alpha.
28650 o Privacy/anonymity fixes (also included in 0.2.2.x):
28651 - Clients and bridges no longer send TLS certificate chains on
28652 outgoing OR connections. Previously, each client or bridge would
28653 use the same cert chain for all outgoing OR connections until
28654 its IP address changes, which allowed any relay that the client
28655 or bridge contacted to determine which entry guards it is using.
28656 Fixes CVE-2011-2768. Bugfix on 0.0.9pre5; found by "frosty_un".
28657 - If a relay receives a CREATE_FAST cell on a TLS connection, it
28658 no longer considers that connection as suitable for satisfying a
28659 circuit EXTEND request. Now relays can protect clients from the
28660 CVE-2011-2768 issue even if the clients haven't upgraded yet.
28661 - Bridges now refuse CREATE or CREATE_FAST cells on OR connections
28662 that they initiated. Relays could distinguish incoming bridge
28663 connections from client connections, creating another avenue for
28664 enumerating bridges. Fixes CVE-2011-2769. Bugfix on 0.2.0.3-alpha.
28665 Found by "frosty_un".
28666 - When receiving a hidden service descriptor, check that it is for
28667 the hidden service we wanted. Previously, Tor would store any
28668 hidden service descriptors that a directory gave it, whether it
28669 wanted them or not. This wouldn't have let an attacker impersonate
28670 a hidden service, but it did let directories pre-seed a client
28671 with descriptors that it didn't want. Bugfix on 0.0.6.
28672 - Avoid linkability based on cached hidden service descriptors: forget
28673 all hidden service descriptors cached as a client when processing a
28674 SIGNAL NEWNYM command. Fixes bug 3000; bugfix on 0.0.6.
28675 - Make the bridge directory authority refuse to answer directory
28676 requests for "all" descriptors. It used to include bridge
28677 descriptors in its answer, which was a major information leak.
28678 Found by "piebeer". Bugfix on 0.2.0.3-alpha.
28679 - Don't attach new streams to old rendezvous circuits after SIGNAL
28680 NEWNYM. Previously, we would keep using an existing rendezvous
28681 circuit if it remained open (i.e. if it were kept open by a
28682 long-lived stream, or if a new stream were attached to it before
28683 Tor could notice that it was old and no longer in use). Bugfix on
28684 0.1.1.15-rc; fixes bug 3375.
28686 o Minor bugfixes (also included in 0.2.2.x):
28687 - When we restart our relay, we might get a successful connection
28688 from the outside before we've started our reachability tests,
28689 triggering a warning: "ORPort found reachable, but I have no
28690 routerinfo yet. Failing to inform controller of success." This
28691 bug was harmless unless Tor is running under a controller
28692 like Vidalia, in which case the controller would never get a
28693 REACHABILITY_SUCCEEDED status event. Bugfix on 0.1.2.6-alpha;
28695 - Build correctly on OSX with zlib 1.2.4 and higher with all warnings
28696 enabled. Fixes bug 1526.
28697 - Remove undocumented option "-F" from tor-resolve: it hasn't done
28698 anything since 0.2.1.16-rc.
28699 - Avoid signed/unsigned comparisons by making SIZE_T_CEILING unsigned.
28700 None of the cases where we did this before were wrong, but by making
28701 this change we avoid warnings. Fixes bug 2475; bugfix on 0.2.1.28.
28702 - Fix a rare crash bug that could occur when a client was configured
28703 with a large number of bridges. Fixes bug 2629; bugfix on
28704 0.2.1.2-alpha. Bugfix by trac user "shitlei".
28705 - Correct the warning displayed when a rendezvous descriptor exceeds
28706 the maximum size. Fixes bug 2750; bugfix on 0.2.1.5-alpha. Found by
28708 - Fix an uncommon assertion failure when running with DNSPort under
28709 heavy load. Fixes bug 2933; bugfix on 0.2.0.1-alpha.
28710 - When warning about missing zlib development packages during compile,
28711 give the correct package names. Bugfix on 0.2.0.1-alpha.
28712 - Require that introduction point keys and onion keys have public
28713 exponent 65537. Bugfix on 0.2.0.10-alpha.
28714 - Do not crash when our configuration file becomes unreadable, for
28715 example due to a permissions change, between when we start up
28716 and when a controller calls SAVECONF. Fixes bug 3135; bugfix
28718 - Fix warnings from GCC 4.6's "-Wunused-but-set-variable" option.
28720 - Always NUL-terminate the sun_path field of a sockaddr_un before
28721 passing it to the kernel. (Not a security issue: kernels are
28722 smart enough to reject bad sockaddr_uns.) Found by Coverity;
28723 CID #428. Bugfix on Tor 0.2.0.3-alpha.
28724 - Don't stack-allocate the list of supplementary GIDs when we're
28725 about to log them. Stack-allocating NGROUPS_MAX gid_t elements
28726 could take up to 256K, which is way too much stack. Found by
28727 Coverity; CID #450. Bugfix on 0.2.1.7-alpha.
28729 o Minor bugfixes (only in 0.2.1.x):
28730 - Resume using micro-version numbers in 0.2.1.x: our Debian packages
28731 rely on them. Bugfix on 0.2.1.30.
28732 - Use git revisions instead of svn revisions when generating our
28733 micro-version numbers. Bugfix on 0.2.1.15-rc; fixes bug 2402.
28735 o Minor features (also included in 0.2.2.x):
28736 - Adjust the expiration time on our SSL session certificates to
28737 better match SSL certs seen in the wild. Resolves ticket 4014.
28738 - Allow nameservers with IPv6 address. Resolves bug 2574.
28739 - Update to the October 4 2011 Maxmind GeoLite Country database.
28742 Changes in version 0.2.3.5-alpha - 2011-09-28
28743 Tor 0.2.3.5-alpha fixes two bugs that make it possible to enumerate
28744 bridge relays; fixes an assertion error that many users started hitting
28745 today; and adds the ability to refill token buckets more often than
28746 once per second, allowing significant performance improvements.
28749 - Bridge relays now do their directory fetches inside Tor TLS
28750 connections, like all the other clients do, rather than connecting
28751 directly to the DirPort like public relays do. Removes another
28752 avenue for enumerating bridges. Fixes bug 4115; bugfix on 0.2.0.35.
28753 - Bridges relays now build circuits for themselves in a more similar
28754 way to how clients build them. Removes another avenue for
28755 enumerating bridges. Fixes bug 4124; bugfix on 0.2.0.3-alpha,
28756 when bridges were introduced.
28759 - Fix an "Assertion md->held_by_node == 1 failed" error that could
28760 occur when the same microdescriptor was referenced by two node_t
28761 objects at once. Fix for bug 4118; bugfix on Tor 0.2.3.1-alpha.
28763 o Major features (networking):
28764 - Add a new TokenBucketRefillInterval option to refill token buckets
28765 more frequently than once per second. This should improve network
28766 performance, alleviate queueing problems, and make traffic less
28767 bursty. Implements proposal 183; closes ticket 3630. Design by
28768 Florian Tschorsch and Björn Scheuermann; implementation by
28772 - Change an integer overflow check in the OpenBSD_Malloc code so
28773 that GCC is less likely to eliminate it as impossible. Patch
28774 from Mansour Moufid. Fixes bug 4059.
28776 o Minor bugfixes (usability):
28777 - Downgrade log messages about circuit timeout calibration from
28778 "notice" to "info": they don't require or suggest any human
28779 intervention. Patch from Tom Lowenthal. Fixes bug 4063;
28780 bugfix on 0.2.2.14-alpha.
28782 o Minor features (diagnostics):
28783 - When the system call to create a listener socket fails, log the
28784 error message explaining why. This may help diagnose bug 4027.
28787 Changes in version 0.2.3.4-alpha - 2011-09-13
28788 Tor 0.2.3.4-alpha includes the fixes from 0.2.2.33, including a slight
28789 tweak to Tor's TLS handshake that makes relays and bridges that run
28790 this new version reachable from Iran again. It also fixes a few new
28791 bugs in 0.2.3.x, and teaches relays to recognize when they're not
28792 listed in the network consensus and republish.
28794 o Major bugfixes (also part of 0.2.2.33):
28795 - Avoid an assertion failure when reloading a configuration with
28796 TrackExitHosts changes. Found and fixed by 'laruldan'. Fixes bug
28797 3923; bugfix on 0.2.2.25-alpha.
28799 o Minor features (security, also part of 0.2.2.33):
28800 - Check for replays of the public-key encrypted portion of an
28801 INTRODUCE1 cell, in addition to the current check for replays of
28802 the g^x value. This prevents a possible class of active attacks
28803 by an attacker who controls both an introduction point and a
28804 rendezvous point, and who uses the malleability of AES-CTR to
28805 alter the encrypted g^x portion of the INTRODUCE1 cell. We think
28806 that these attacks are infeasible (requiring the attacker to send
28807 on the order of zettabytes of altered cells in a short interval),
28808 but we'd rather block them off in case there are any classes of
28809 this attack that we missed. Reported by Willem Pinckaers.
28811 o Minor features (also part of 0.2.2.33):
28812 - Adjust the expiration time on our SSL session certificates to
28813 better match SSL certs seen in the wild. Resolves ticket 4014.
28814 - Change the default required uptime for a relay to be accepted as
28815 a HSDir (hidden service directory) from 24 hours to 25 hours.
28816 Improves on 0.2.0.10-alpha; resolves ticket 2649.
28817 - Add a VoteOnHidServDirectoriesV2 config option to allow directory
28818 authorities to abstain from voting on assignment of the HSDir
28819 consensus flag. Related to bug 2649.
28820 - Update to the September 6 2011 Maxmind GeoLite Country database.
28822 o Minor bugfixes (also part of 0.2.2.33):
28823 - Demote the 'replay detected' log message emitted when a hidden
28824 service receives the same Diffie-Hellman public key in two different
28825 INTRODUCE2 cells to info level. A normal Tor client can cause that
28826 log message during its normal operation. Bugfix on 0.2.1.6-alpha;
28827 fixes part of bug 2442.
28828 - Demote the 'INTRODUCE2 cell is too {old,new}' log message to info
28829 level. There is nothing that a hidden service's operator can do
28830 to fix its clients' clocks. Bugfix on 0.2.1.6-alpha; fixes part
28832 - Clarify a log message specifying the characters permitted in
28833 HiddenServiceAuthorizeClient client names. Previously, the log
28834 message said that "[A-Za-z0-9+-_]" were permitted; that could have
28835 given the impression that every ASCII character between "+" and "_"
28836 was permitted. Now we say "[A-Za-z0-9+_-]". Bugfix on 0.2.1.5-alpha.
28838 o Build fixes (also part of 0.2.2.33):
28839 - Clean up some code issues that prevented Tor from building on older
28840 BSDs. Fixes bug 3894; reported by "grarpamp".
28841 - Search for a platform-specific version of "ar" when cross-compiling.
28842 Should fix builds on iOS. Resolves bug 3909, found by Marco Bonetti.
28845 - Fix a bug where the SocksPort option (for example) would get
28846 ignored and replaced by the default if a SocksListenAddress
28847 option was set. Bugfix on 0.2.3.3-alpha; fixes bug 3936. Fix by
28851 - Relays now try regenerating and uploading their descriptor more
28852 frequently if they are not listed in the consensus, or if the
28853 version of their descriptor listed in the consensus is too
28854 old. This fix should prevent situations where a server declines
28855 to re-publish itself because it has done so too recently, even
28856 though the authorities decided not to list its recent-enough
28857 descriptor. Fix for bug 3327.
28860 - Relays now include a reason for regenerating their descriptors
28861 in an HTTP header when uploading to the authorities. This will
28862 make it easier to debug descriptor-upload issues in the future.
28863 - When starting as root and then changing our UID via the User
28864 control option, and we have a ControlSocket configured, make sure
28865 that the ControlSocket is owned by the same account that Tor will
28866 run under. Implements ticket 3421; fix by Jérémy Bobbio.
28869 - Abort if tor_vasprintf fails in connection_printf_to_buf (a
28870 utility function used in the control-port code). This shouldn't
28871 ever happen unless Tor is completely out of memory, but if it did
28872 happen and Tor somehow recovered from it, Tor could have sent a log
28873 message to a control port in the middle of a reply to a controller
28874 command. Fixes part of bug 3428; bugfix on 0.1.2.3-alpha.
28875 - Make 'FetchUselessDescriptors' cause all descriptor types and
28876 all consensus types (including microdescriptors) to get fetched.
28877 Fixes bug 3851; bugfix on 0.2.3.1-alpha.
28879 o Code refactoring:
28880 - Make a new "entry connection" struct as an internal subtype of "edge
28881 connection", to simplify the code and make exit connections smaller.
28884 Changes in version 0.2.2.33 - 2011-09-13
28885 Tor 0.2.2.33 fixes several bugs, and includes a slight tweak to Tor's
28886 TLS handshake that makes relays and bridges that run this new version
28887 reachable from Iran again.
28890 - Avoid an assertion failure when reloading a configuration with
28891 TrackExitHosts changes. Found and fixed by 'laruldan'. Fixes bug
28892 3923; bugfix on 0.2.2.25-alpha.
28894 o Minor features (security):
28895 - Check for replays of the public-key encrypted portion of an
28896 INTRODUCE1 cell, in addition to the current check for replays of
28897 the g^x value. This prevents a possible class of active attacks
28898 by an attacker who controls both an introduction point and a
28899 rendezvous point, and who uses the malleability of AES-CTR to
28900 alter the encrypted g^x portion of the INTRODUCE1 cell. We think
28901 that these attacks are infeasible (requiring the attacker to send
28902 on the order of zettabytes of altered cells in a short interval),
28903 but we'd rather block them off in case there are any classes of
28904 this attack that we missed. Reported by Willem Pinckaers.
28907 - Adjust the expiration time on our SSL session certificates to
28908 better match SSL certs seen in the wild. Resolves ticket 4014.
28909 - Change the default required uptime for a relay to be accepted as
28910 a HSDir (hidden service directory) from 24 hours to 25 hours.
28911 Improves on 0.2.0.10-alpha; resolves ticket 2649.
28912 - Add a VoteOnHidServDirectoriesV2 config option to allow directory
28913 authorities to abstain from voting on assignment of the HSDir
28914 consensus flag. Related to bug 2649.
28915 - Update to the September 6 2011 Maxmind GeoLite Country database.
28917 o Minor bugfixes (documentation and log messages):
28918 - Correct the man page to explain that HashedControlPassword and
28919 CookieAuthentication can both be set, in which case either method
28920 is sufficient to authenticate to Tor. Bugfix on 0.2.0.7-alpha,
28921 when we decided to allow these config options to both be set. Issue
28922 raised by bug 3898.
28923 - Demote the 'replay detected' log message emitted when a hidden
28924 service receives the same Diffie-Hellman public key in two different
28925 INTRODUCE2 cells to info level. A normal Tor client can cause that
28926 log message during its normal operation. Bugfix on 0.2.1.6-alpha;
28927 fixes part of bug 2442.
28928 - Demote the 'INTRODUCE2 cell is too {old,new}' log message to info
28929 level. There is nothing that a hidden service's operator can do
28930 to fix its clients' clocks. Bugfix on 0.2.1.6-alpha; fixes part
28932 - Clarify a log message specifying the characters permitted in
28933 HiddenServiceAuthorizeClient client names. Previously, the log
28934 message said that "[A-Za-z0-9+-_]" were permitted; that could have
28935 given the impression that every ASCII character between "+" and "_"
28936 was permitted. Now we say "[A-Za-z0-9+_-]". Bugfix on 0.2.1.5-alpha.
28939 - Provide a substitute implementation of lround() for MSVC, which
28940 apparently lacks it. Patch from Gisle Vanem.
28941 - Clean up some code issues that prevented Tor from building on older
28942 BSDs. Fixes bug 3894; reported by "grarpamp".
28943 - Search for a platform-specific version of "ar" when cross-compiling.
28944 Should fix builds on iOS. Resolves bug 3909, found by Marco Bonetti.
28947 Changes in version 0.2.3.3-alpha - 2011-09-01
28948 Tor 0.2.3.3-alpha adds a new "stream isolation" feature to improve Tor's
28949 security, and provides client-side support for the microdescriptor
28950 and optimistic data features introduced earlier in the 0.2.3.x
28951 series. It also includes numerous critical bugfixes in the (optional)
28952 bufferevent-based networking backend.
28954 o Major features (stream isolation):
28955 - You can now configure Tor so that streams from different
28956 applications are isolated on different circuits, to prevent an
28957 attacker who sees your streams as they leave an exit node from
28958 linking your sessions to one another. To do this, choose some way
28959 to distinguish the applications: have them connect to different
28960 SocksPorts, or have one of them use SOCKS4 while the other uses
28961 SOCKS5, or have them pass different authentication strings to the
28962 SOCKS proxy. Then, use the new SocksPort syntax to configure the
28963 degree of isolation you need. This implements Proposal 171.
28964 - There's a new syntax for specifying multiple client ports (such as
28965 SOCKSPort, TransPort, DNSPort, NATDPort): you can now just declare
28966 multiple *Port entries with full addr:port syntax on each.
28967 The old *ListenAddress format is still supported, but you can't
28968 mix it with the new *Port syntax.
28970 o Major features (other):
28971 - Enable microdescriptor fetching by default for clients. This allows
28972 clients to download a much smaller amount of directory information.
28973 To disable it (and go back to the old-style consensus and
28974 descriptors), set "UseMicrodescriptors 0" in your torrc file.
28975 - Tor's firewall-helper feature, introduced in 0.2.3.1-alpha (see the
28976 "PortForwarding" config option), now supports Windows.
28977 - When using an exit relay running 0.2.3.x, clients can now
28978 "optimistically" send data before the exit relay reports that
28979 the stream has opened. This saves a round trip when starting
28980 connections where the client speaks first (such as web browsing).
28981 This behavior is controlled by a consensus parameter (currently
28982 disabled). To turn it on or off manually, use the "OptimisticData"
28983 torrc option. Implements proposal 181; code by Ian Goldberg.
28985 o Major bugfixes (bufferevents, fixes on 0.2.3.1-alpha):
28986 - When using IOCP on Windows, we need to enable Libevent windows
28988 - The IOCP backend now works even when the user has not specified
28989 the (internal, debugging-only) _UseFilteringSSLBufferevents option.
28990 Fixes part of bug 3752.
28991 - Correctly record the bytes we've read and written when using
28992 bufferevents, so that we can include them in our bandwidth history
28993 and advertised bandwidth. Fixes bug 3803.
28994 - Apply rate-limiting only at the bottom of a chain of filtering
28995 bufferevents. This prevents us from filling up internal read
28996 buffers and violating rate-limits when filtering bufferevents
28997 are enabled. Fixes part of bug 3804.
28998 - Add high-watermarks to the output buffers for filtered
28999 bufferevents. This prevents us from filling up internal write
29000 buffers and wasting CPU cycles when filtering bufferevents are
29001 enabled. Fixes part of bug 3804.
29002 - Correctly notice when data has been written from a bufferevent
29003 without flushing it completely. Fixes bug 3805.
29004 - Fix a bug where server-side tunneled bufferevent-based directory
29005 streams would get closed prematurely. Fixes bug 3814.
29006 - Fix a use-after-free error with per-connection rate-limiting
29007 buckets. Fixes bug 3888.
29009 o Major bugfixes (also part of 0.2.2.31-rc):
29010 - If we're configured to write our ControlPorts to disk, only write
29011 them after switching UID and creating the data directory. This way,
29012 we don't fail when starting up with a nonexistent DataDirectory
29013 and a ControlPortWriteToFile setting based on that directory. Fixes
29014 bug 3747; bugfix on Tor 0.2.2.26-beta.
29017 - Added a new CONF_CHANGED event so that controllers can be notified
29018 of any configuration changes made by other controllers, or by the
29019 user. Implements ticket 1692.
29020 - Use evbuffer_copyout() in inspect_evbuffer(). This fixes a memory
29021 leak when using bufferevents, and lets Libevent worry about how to
29022 best copy data out of a buffer.
29023 - Replace files in stats/ rather than appending to them. Now that we
29024 include statistics in extra-info descriptors, it makes no sense to
29025 keep old statistics forever. Implements ticket 2930.
29027 o Minor features (build compatibility):
29028 - Limited, experimental support for building with nmake and MSVC.
29029 - Provide a substitute implementation of lround() for MSVC, which
29030 apparently lacks it. Patch from Gisle Vanem.
29032 o Minor features (also part of 0.2.2.31-rc):
29033 - Update to the August 2 2011 Maxmind GeoLite Country database.
29035 o Minor bugfixes (on 0.2.3.x-alpha):
29036 - Fix a spurious warning when parsing SOCKS requests with
29037 bufferevents enabled. Fixes bug 3615; bugfix on 0.2.3.2-alpha.
29038 - Get rid of a harmless warning that could happen on relays running
29039 with bufferevents. The warning was caused by someone doing an http
29040 request to a relay's orport. Also don't warn for a few related
29041 non-errors. Fixes bug 3700; bugfix on 0.2.3.1-alpha.
29043 o Minor bugfixes (on 2.2.x and earlier):
29044 - Correct the man page to explain that HashedControlPassword and
29045 CookieAuthentication can both be set, in which case either method
29046 is sufficient to authenticate to Tor. Bugfix on 0.2.0.7-alpha,
29047 when we decided to allow these config options to both be set. Issue
29048 raised by bug 3898.
29049 - The "--quiet" and "--hush" options now apply not only to Tor's
29050 behavior before logs are configured, but also to Tor's behavior in
29051 the absence of configured logs. Fixes bug 3550; bugfix on
29054 o Minor bugfixes (also part of 0.2.2.31-rc):
29055 - Write several files in text mode, on OSes that distinguish text
29056 mode from binary mode (namely, Windows). These files are:
29057 'buffer-stats', 'dirreq-stats', and 'entry-stats' on relays
29058 that collect those statistics; 'client_keys' and 'hostname' for
29059 hidden services that use authentication; and (in the tor-gencert
29060 utility) newly generated identity and signing keys. Previously,
29061 we wouldn't specify text mode or binary mode, leading to an
29062 assertion failure. Fixes bug 3607. Bugfix on 0.2.1.1-alpha (when
29063 the DirRecordUsageByCountry option which would have triggered
29064 the assertion failure was added), although this assertion failure
29065 would have occurred in tor-gencert on Windows in 0.2.0.1-alpha.
29066 - Selectively disable deprecation warnings on OS X because Lion
29067 started deprecating the shipped copy of openssl. Fixes bug 3643.
29068 - Remove an extra pair of quotation marks around the error
29069 message in control-port STATUS_GENERAL BUG events. Bugfix on
29070 0.1.2.6-alpha; fixes bug 3732.
29071 - When unable to format an address as a string, report its value
29072 as "???" rather than reusing the last formatted address. Bugfix
29075 o Code simplifications and refactoring:
29076 - Rewrite the listener-selection logic so that parsing which ports
29077 we want to listen on is now separate from binding to the ports
29081 - Building Tor with bufferevent support now requires Libevent
29082 2.0.13-stable or later. Previous versions of Libevent had bugs in
29083 SSL-related bufferevents and related issues that would make Tor
29084 work badly with bufferevents. Requiring 2.0.13-stable also allows
29085 Tor with bufferevents to take advantage of Libevent APIs
29086 introduced after 2.0.8-rc.
29089 Changes in version 0.2.2.32 - 2011-08-27
29090 The Tor 0.2.2 release series is dedicated to the memory of Andreas
29091 Pfitzmann (1958-2010), a pioneer in anonymity and privacy research,
29092 a founder of the PETS community, a leader in our field, a mentor,
29093 and a friend. He left us with these words: "I had the possibility
29094 to contribute to this world that is not as it should be. I hope I
29095 could help in some areas to make the world a better place, and that
29096 I could also encourage other people to be engaged in improving the
29097 world. Please, stay engaged. This world needs you, your love, your
29098 initiative -- now I cannot be part of that anymore."
29100 Tor 0.2.2.32, the first stable release in the 0.2.2 branch, is finally
29101 ready. More than two years in the making, this release features improved
29102 client performance and hidden service reliability, better compatibility
29103 for Android, correct behavior for bridges that listen on more than
29104 one address, more extensible and flexible directory object handling,
29105 better reporting of network statistics, improved code security, and
29106 many many other features and bugfixes.
29109 Changes in version 0.2.2.31-rc - 2011-08-17
29110 Tor 0.2.2.31-rc is the second and hopefully final release candidate
29111 for the Tor 0.2.2.x series.
29114 - Remove an extra pair of quotation marks around the error
29115 message in control-port STATUS_GENERAL BUG events. Bugfix on
29116 0.1.2.6-alpha; fixes bug 3732.
29117 - If we're configured to write our ControlPorts to disk, only write
29118 them after switching UID and creating the data directory. This way,
29119 we don't fail when starting up with a nonexistent DataDirectory
29120 and a ControlPortWriteToFile setting based on that directory. Fixes
29121 bug 3747; bugfix on Tor 0.2.2.26-beta.
29124 - Update to the August 2 2011 Maxmind GeoLite Country database.
29127 - Allow GETINFO fingerprint to return a fingerprint even when
29128 we have not yet built a router descriptor. Fixes bug 3577;
29129 bugfix on 0.2.0.1-alpha.
29130 - Write several files in text mode, on OSes that distinguish text
29131 mode from binary mode (namely, Windows). These files are:
29132 'buffer-stats', 'dirreq-stats', and 'entry-stats' on relays
29133 that collect those statistics; 'client_keys' and 'hostname' for
29134 hidden services that use authentication; and (in the tor-gencert
29135 utility) newly generated identity and signing keys. Previously,
29136 we wouldn't specify text mode or binary mode, leading to an
29137 assertion failure. Fixes bug 3607. Bugfix on 0.2.1.1-alpha (when
29138 the DirRecordUsageByCountry option which would have triggered
29139 the assertion failure was added), although this assertion failure
29140 would have occurred in tor-gencert on Windows in 0.2.0.1-alpha.
29141 - Selectively disable deprecation warnings on OS X because Lion
29142 started deprecating the shipped copy of openssl. Fixes bug 3643.
29143 - When unable to format an address as a string, report its value
29144 as "???" rather than reusing the last formatted address. Bugfix
29148 Changes in version 0.2.3.2-alpha - 2011-07-18
29149 Tor 0.2.3.2-alpha introduces two new experimental features:
29150 microdescriptors and pluggable transports. It also continues cleaning
29151 up a variety of recently introduced features.
29154 - Clients can now use microdescriptors instead of regular descriptors
29155 to build circuits. Microdescriptors are authority-generated
29156 summaries of regular descriptors' contents, designed to change
29157 very rarely (see proposal 158 for details). This feature is
29158 designed to save bandwidth, especially for clients on slow internet
29159 connections. It's off by default for now, since nearly no caches
29160 support it, but it will be on-by-default for clients in a future
29161 version. You can use the UseMicrodescriptors option to turn it on.
29162 - Tor clients using bridges can now be configured to use a separate
29163 'transport' proxy for each bridge. This approach helps to resist
29164 censorship by allowing bridges to use protocol obfuscation
29165 plugins. It implements part of proposal 180. Implements ticket 2841.
29166 - While we're trying to bootstrap, record how many TLS connections
29167 fail in each state, and report which states saw the most failures
29168 in response to any bootstrap failures. This feature may speed up
29169 diagnosis of censorship events. Implements ticket 3116.
29171 o Major bugfixes (on 0.2.3.1-alpha):
29172 - When configuring a large set of nodes in EntryNodes (as with
29173 'EntryNodes {cc}' or 'EntryNodes 1.1.1.1/16'), choose only a
29174 random subset to be guards, and choose them in random
29175 order. Fixes bug 2798.
29176 - Tor could crash when remembering a consensus in a non-used consensus
29177 flavor without having a current consensus set. Fixes bug 3361.
29178 - Comparing an unknown address to a microdescriptor's shortened exit
29179 policy would always give a "rejected" result. Fixes bug 3599.
29180 - Using microdescriptors as a client no longer prevents Tor from
29181 uploading and downloading hidden service descriptors. Fixes
29185 - Allow nameservers with IPv6 address. Resolves bug 2574.
29186 - Accept attempts to include a password authenticator in the
29187 handshake, as supported by SOCKS5. This handles SOCKS clients that
29188 don't know how to omit a password when authenticating. Resolves
29190 - When configuring a large set of nodes in EntryNodes, and there are
29191 enough of them listed as Guard so that we don't need to consider
29192 the non-guard entries, prefer the ones listed with the Guard flag.
29193 - Check for and recover from inconsistency in the microdescriptor
29194 cache. This will make it harder for us to accidentally free a
29195 microdescriptor without removing it from the appropriate data
29196 structures. Fixes issue 3135; issue noted by "wanoskarnet".
29197 - Log SSL state transitions at log level DEBUG, log domain
29198 HANDSHAKE. This can be useful for debugging censorship events.
29199 Implements ticket 3264.
29200 - Add port 6523 (Gobby) to LongLivedPorts. Patch by intrigeri;
29201 implements ticket 3439.
29203 o Minor bugfixes (on 0.2.3.1-alpha):
29204 - Do not free all general-purpose regular descriptors just
29205 because microdescriptor use is enabled. Fixes bug 3113.
29206 - Correctly link libevent_openssl when --enable-static-libevent
29207 is passed to configure. Fixes bug 3118.
29208 - Bridges should not complain during their heartbeat log messages that
29209 they are unlisted in the consensus: that's more or less the point
29210 of being a bridge. Fixes bug 3183.
29211 - Report a SIGNAL event to controllers when acting on a delayed
29212 SIGNAL NEWNYM command. Previously, we would report a SIGNAL
29213 event to the controller if we acted on a SIGNAL NEWNYM command
29214 immediately, and otherwise not report a SIGNAL event for the
29215 command at all. Fixes bug 3349.
29216 - Fix a crash when handling the SIGNAL controller command or
29217 reporting ERR-level status events with bufferevents enabled. Found
29218 by Robert Ransom. Fixes bug 3367.
29219 - Always ship the tor-fw-helper manpage in our release tarballs.
29220 Fixes bug 3389. Reported by Stephen Walker.
29221 - Fix a class of double-mark-for-close bugs when bufferevents
29222 are enabled. Fixes bug 3403.
29223 - Update tor-fw-helper to support libnatpmp-20110618. Fixes bug 3434.
29224 - Add SIGNAL to the list returned by the 'GETINFO events/names'
29225 control-port command. Fixes part of bug 3465.
29226 - Prevent using negative indices during unit test runs when read_all()
29227 fails. Spotted by coverity.
29228 - Fix a rare memory leak when checking the nodelist without it being
29229 present. Found by coverity.
29230 - Only try to download a microdescriptor-flavored consensus from
29231 a directory cache that provides them.
29233 o Minor bugfixes (on 0.2.2.x and earlier):
29234 - Assert that hidden-service-related operations are not performed
29235 using single-hop circuits. Previously, Tor would assert that
29236 client-side streams are not attached to single-hop circuits,
29237 but not that other sensitive operations on the client and service
29238 side are not performed using single-hop circuits. Fixes bug 3332;
29240 - Don't publish a new relay descriptor when we reload our onion key,
29241 unless the onion key has actually changed. Fixes bug 3263 and
29242 resolves another cause of bug 1810. Bugfix on 0.1.1.11-alpha.
29243 - Allow GETINFO fingerprint to return a fingerprint even when
29244 we have not yet built a router descriptor. Fixes bug 3577;
29245 bugfix on 0.2.0.1-alpha.
29246 - Make 'tor --digests' list hashes of all Tor source files. Bugfix
29247 on 0.2.2.4-alpha; fixes bug 3427.
29249 o Code simplification and refactoring:
29250 - Use tor_sscanf() in place of scanf() in more places through the
29251 code. This makes us a little more locale-independent, and
29252 should help shut up code-analysis tools that can't tell
29253 a safe sscanf string from a dangerous one.
29254 - Use tt_assert(), not tor_assert(), for checking for test failures.
29255 This makes the unit tests more able to go on in the event that
29257 - Split connection_about_to_close() into separate functions for each
29261 - On Windows, we now define the _WIN32_WINNT macros only if they
29262 are not already defined. This lets the person building Tor decide,
29263 if they want, to require a later version of Windows.
29266 Changes in version 0.2.2.30-rc - 2011-07-07
29267 Tor 0.2.2.30-rc is the first release candidate for the Tor 0.2.2.x
29268 series. It fixes a few smaller bugs, but generally appears stable.
29269 Please test it and let us know whether it is!
29272 - Send a SUCCEEDED stream event to the controller when a reverse
29273 resolve succeeded. Fixes bug 3536; bugfix on 0.0.8pre1. Issue
29274 discovered by katmagic.
29275 - Always NUL-terminate the sun_path field of a sockaddr_un before
29276 passing it to the kernel. (Not a security issue: kernels are
29277 smart enough to reject bad sockaddr_uns.) Found by Coverity;
29278 CID #428. Bugfix on Tor 0.2.0.3-alpha.
29279 - Don't stack-allocate the list of supplementary GIDs when we're
29280 about to log them. Stack-allocating NGROUPS_MAX gid_t elements
29281 could take up to 256K, which is way too much stack. Found by
29282 Coverity; CID #450. Bugfix on 0.2.1.7-alpha.
29283 - Add BUILDTIMEOUT_SET to the list returned by the 'GETINFO
29284 events/names' control-port command. Bugfix on 0.2.2.9-alpha;
29285 fixes part of bug 3465.
29286 - Fix a memory leak when receiving a descriptor for a hidden
29287 service we didn't ask for. Found by Coverity; CID #30. Bugfix
29291 - Update to the July 1 2011 Maxmind GeoLite Country database.
29294 Changes in version 0.2.2.29-beta - 2011-06-20
29295 Tor 0.2.2.29-beta reverts an accidental behavior change for users who
29296 have bridge lines in their torrc but don't want to use them; gets
29297 us closer to having the control socket feature working on Debian;
29298 and fixes a variety of smaller bugs.
29301 - Revert the UseBridges option to its behavior before 0.2.2.28-beta.
29302 When we changed the default behavior to "use bridges if any
29303 are listed in the torrc", we surprised users who had bridges
29304 in their torrc files but who didn't actually want to use them.
29305 Partial resolution for bug 3354.
29308 - Don't attach new streams to old rendezvous circuits after SIGNAL
29309 NEWNYM. Previously, we would keep using an existing rendezvous
29310 circuit if it remained open (i.e. if it were kept open by a
29311 long-lived stream, or if a new stream were attached to it before
29312 Tor could notice that it was old and no longer in use). Bugfix on
29313 0.1.1.15-rc; fixes bug 3375.
29316 - Fix a bug when using ControlSocketsGroupWritable with User. The
29317 directory's group would be checked against the current group, not
29318 the configured group. Patch by Jérémy Bobbio. Fixes bug 3393;
29319 bugfix on 0.2.2.26-beta.
29320 - Make connection_printf_to_buf()'s behavior sane. Its callers
29321 expect it to emit a CRLF iff the format string ends with CRLF;
29322 it actually emitted a CRLF iff (a) the format string ended with
29323 CRLF or (b) the resulting string was over 1023 characters long or
29324 (c) the format string did not end with CRLF *and* the resulting
29325 string was 1021 characters long or longer. Bugfix on 0.1.1.9-alpha;
29326 fixes part of bug 3407.
29327 - Make send_control_event_impl()'s behavior sane. Its callers
29328 expect it to always emit a CRLF at the end of the string; it
29329 might have emitted extra control characters as well. Bugfix on
29330 0.1.1.9-alpha; fixes another part of bug 3407.
29331 - Make crypto_rand_int() check the value of its input correctly.
29332 Previously, it accepted values up to UINT_MAX, but could return a
29333 negative number if given a value above INT_MAX+1. Found by George
29334 Kadianakis. Fixes bug 3306; bugfix on 0.2.2pre14.
29335 - Avoid a segfault when reading a malformed circuit build state
29336 with more than INT_MAX entries. Found by wanoskarnet. Bugfix on
29338 - When asked about a DNS record type we don't support via a
29339 client DNSPort, reply with NOTIMPL rather than an empty
29340 reply. Patch by intrigeri. Fixes bug 3369; bugfix on 2.0.1-alpha.
29341 - Fix a rare memory leak during stats writing. Found by coverity.
29344 - Update to the June 1 2011 Maxmind GeoLite Country database.
29346 o Code simplifications and refactoring:
29347 - Remove some dead code as indicated by coverity.
29348 - Remove a few dead assignments during router parsing. Found by
29350 - Add some forgotten return value checks during unit tests. Found
29352 - Don't use 1-bit wide signed bit fields. Found by coverity.
29355 Changes in version 0.2.2.28-beta - 2011-06-04
29356 Tor 0.2.2.28-beta makes great progress towards a new stable release: we
29357 fixed a big bug in whether relays stay in the consensus consistently,
29358 we moved closer to handling bridges and hidden services correctly,
29359 and we started the process of better handling the dreaded "my Vidalia
29360 died, and now my Tor demands a password when I try to reconnect to it"
29364 - Don't decide to make a new descriptor when receiving a HUP signal.
29365 This bug has caused a lot of 0.2.2.x relays to disappear from the
29366 consensus periodically. Fixes the most common case of triggering
29367 bug 1810; bugfix on 0.2.2.7-alpha.
29368 - Actually allow nameservers with IPv6 addresses. Fixes bug 2574.
29369 - Don't try to build descriptors if "ORPort auto" is set and we
29370 don't know our actual ORPort yet. Fix for bug 3216; bugfix on
29372 - Resolve a crash that occurred when setting BridgeRelay to 1 with
29373 accounting enabled. Fixes bug 3228; bugfix on 0.2.2.18-alpha.
29374 - Apply circuit timeouts to opened hidden-service-related circuits
29375 based on the correct start time. Previously, we would apply the
29376 circuit build timeout based on time since the circuit's creation;
29377 it was supposed to be applied based on time since the circuit
29378 entered its current state. Bugfix on 0.0.6; fixes part of bug 1297.
29379 - Use the same circuit timeout for client-side introduction
29380 circuits as for other four-hop circuits, rather than the timeout
29381 for single-hop directory-fetch circuits; the shorter timeout may
29382 have been appropriate with the static circuit build timeout in
29383 0.2.1.x and earlier, but caused many hidden service access attempts
29384 to fail with the adaptive CBT introduced in 0.2.2.2-alpha. Bugfix
29385 on 0.2.2.2-alpha; fixes another part of bug 1297.
29386 - In ticket 2511 we fixed a case where you could use an unconfigured
29387 bridge if you had configured it as a bridge the last time you ran
29388 Tor. Now fix another edge case: if you had configured it as a bridge
29389 but then switched to a different bridge via the controller, you
29390 would still be willing to use the old one. Bugfix on 0.2.0.1-alpha;
29394 - Add an __OwningControllerProcess configuration option and a
29395 TAKEOWNERSHIP control-port command. Now a Tor controller can ensure
29396 that when it exits, Tor will shut down. Implements feature 3049.
29397 - If "UseBridges 1" is set and no bridges are configured, Tor will
29398 now refuse to build any circuits until some bridges are set.
29399 If "UseBridges auto" is set, Tor will use bridges if they are
29400 configured and we are not running as a server, but otherwise will
29401 make circuits as usual. The new default is "auto". Patch by anonym,
29402 so the Tails LiveCD can stop automatically revealing you as a Tor
29406 - Fix warnings from GCC 4.6's "-Wunused-but-set-variable" option.
29407 - Remove a trailing asterisk from "exit-policy/default" in the
29408 output of the control port command "GETINFO info/names". Bugfix
29410 - Use a wide type to hold sockets when built for 64-bit Windows builds.
29412 - Warn when the user configures two HiddenServiceDir lines that point
29413 to the same directory. Bugfix on 0.0.6 (the version introducing
29414 HiddenServiceDir); fixes bug 3289.
29415 - Remove dead code from rend_cache_lookup_v2_desc_as_dir. Fixes
29416 part of bug 2748; bugfix on 0.2.0.10-alpha.
29417 - Log malformed requests for rendezvous descriptors as protocol
29418 warnings, not warnings. Also, use a more informative log message
29419 in case someone sees it at log level warning without prior
29420 info-level messages. Fixes the other part of bug 2748; bugfix
29422 - Clear the table recording the time of the last request for each
29423 hidden service descriptor from each HS directory on SIGNAL NEWNYM.
29424 Previously, we would clear our HS descriptor cache on SIGNAL
29425 NEWNYM, but if we had previously retrieved a descriptor (or tried
29426 to) from every directory responsible for it, we would refuse to
29427 fetch it again for up to 15 minutes. Bugfix on 0.2.2.25-alpha;
29429 - Fix a log message that said "bits" while displaying a value in
29430 bytes. Found by wanoskarnet. Fixes bug 3318; bugfix on
29432 - When checking for 1024-bit keys, check for 1024 bits, not 128
29433 bytes. This allows Tor to correctly discard keys of length 1017
29434 through 1023. Bugfix on 0.0.9pre5.
29437 - Relays now log the reason for publishing a new relay descriptor,
29438 so we have a better chance of hunting down instances of bug 1810.
29439 Resolves ticket 3252.
29440 - Revise most log messages that refer to nodes by nickname to
29441 instead use the "$key=nickname at address" format. This should be
29442 more useful, especially since nicknames are less and less likely
29443 to be unique. Resolves ticket 3045.
29444 - Log (at info level) when purging pieces of hidden-service-client
29445 state because of SIGNAL NEWNYM.
29448 - Remove undocumented option "-F" from tor-resolve: it hasn't done
29449 anything since 0.2.1.16-rc.
29452 Changes in version 0.2.2.27-beta - 2011-05-18
29453 Tor 0.2.2.27-beta fixes a bridge-related stability bug in the previous
29454 release, and also adds a few more general bugfixes.
29457 - Fix a crash bug when changing bridges in a running Tor process.
29458 Fixes bug 3213; bugfix on 0.2.2.26-beta.
29459 - When the controller configures a new bridge, don't wait 10 to 60
29460 seconds before trying to fetch its descriptor. Bugfix on
29461 0.2.0.3-alpha; fixes bug 3198 (suggested by 2355).
29464 - Require that onion keys have exponent 65537 in microdescriptors too.
29465 Fixes more of bug 3207; bugfix on 0.2.2.26-beta.
29466 - Tor used to limit HttpProxyAuthenticator values to 48 characters.
29467 Changed the limit to 512 characters by removing base64 newlines.
29468 Fixes bug 2752. Fix by Michael Yakubovich.
29469 - When a client starts or stops using bridges, never use a circuit
29470 that was built before the configuration change. This behavior could
29471 put at risk a user who uses bridges to ensure that her traffic
29472 only goes to the chosen addresses. Bugfix on 0.2.0.3-alpha; fixes
29476 Changes in version 0.2.2.26-beta - 2011-05-17
29477 Tor 0.2.2.26-beta fixes a variety of potential privacy problems. It
29478 also introduces a new "socksport auto" approach that should make it
29479 easier to run multiple Tors on the same system, and does a lot of
29480 cleanup to get us closer to a release candidate.
29482 o Security/privacy fixes:
29483 - Replace all potentially sensitive memory comparison operations
29484 with versions whose runtime does not depend on the data being
29485 compared. This will help resist a class of attacks where an
29486 adversary can use variations in timing information to learn
29487 sensitive data. Fix for one case of bug 3122. (Safe memcmp
29488 implementation by Robert Ransom based partially on code by DJB.)
29489 - When receiving a hidden service descriptor, check that it is for
29490 the hidden service we wanted. Previously, Tor would store any
29491 hidden service descriptors that a directory gave it, whether it
29492 wanted them or not. This wouldn't have let an attacker impersonate
29493 a hidden service, but it did let directories pre-seed a client
29494 with descriptors that it didn't want. Bugfix on 0.0.6.
29495 - On SIGHUP, do not clear out all TrackHostExits mappings, client
29496 DNS cache entries, and virtual address mappings: that's what
29497 NEWNYM is for. Fixes bug 1345; bugfix on 0.1.0.1-rc.
29500 - The options SocksPort, ControlPort, and so on now all accept a
29501 value "auto" that opens a socket on an OS-selected port. A
29502 new ControlPortWriteToFile option tells Tor to write its
29503 actual control port or ports to a chosen file. If the option
29504 ControlPortFileGroupReadable is set, the file is created as
29505 group-readable. Now users can run two Tor clients on the same
29506 system without needing to manually mess with parameters. Resolves
29507 part of ticket 3076.
29508 - Set SO_REUSEADDR on all sockets, not just listeners. This should
29509 help busy exit nodes avoid running out of useable ports just
29510 because all the ports have been used in the near past. Resolves
29514 - New "GETINFO net/listeners/(type)" controller command to return
29515 a list of addresses and ports that are bound for listeners for a
29516 given connection type. This is useful when the user has configured
29517 "SocksPort auto" and the controller needs to know which port got
29518 chosen. Resolves another part of ticket 3076.
29519 - Add a new ControlSocketsGroupWritable configuration option: when
29520 it is turned on, ControlSockets are group-writeable by the default
29521 group of the current user. Patch by Jérémy Bobbio; implements
29523 - Tor now refuses to create a ControlSocket in a directory that is
29524 world-readable (or group-readable if ControlSocketsGroupWritable
29525 is 0). This is necessary because some operating systems do not
29526 enforce permissions on an AF_UNIX sockets. Permissions on the
29527 directory holding the socket, however, seems to work everywhere.
29528 - Rate-limit a warning about failures to download v2 networkstatus
29529 documents. Resolves part of bug 1352.
29530 - Backport code from 0.2.3.x that allows directory authorities to
29531 clean their microdescriptor caches. Needed to resolve bug 2230.
29532 - When an HTTPS proxy reports "403 Forbidden", we now explain
29533 what it means rather than calling it an unexpected status code.
29534 Closes bug 2503. Patch from Michael Yakubovich.
29535 - Update to the May 1 2011 Maxmind GeoLite Country database.
29538 - Authorities now clean their microdesc cache periodically and when
29539 reading from disk initially, not only when adding new descriptors.
29540 This prevents a bug where we could lose microdescriptors. Bugfix
29541 on 0.2.2.6-alpha. Fixes bug 2230.
29542 - Do not crash when our configuration file becomes unreadable, for
29543 example due to a permissions change, between when we start up
29544 and when a controller calls SAVECONF. Fixes bug 3135; bugfix
29546 - Avoid a bug that would keep us from replacing a microdescriptor
29547 cache on Windows. (We would try to replace the file while still
29548 holding it open. That's fine on Unix, but Windows doesn't let us
29549 do that.) Bugfix on 0.2.2.6-alpha; bug found by wanoskarnet.
29550 - Add missing explanations for the authority-related torrc options
29551 RephistTrackTime, BridgePassword, and V3AuthUseLegacyKey in the
29552 man page. Resolves issue 2379.
29553 - As an authority, do not upload our own vote or signature set to
29554 ourself. It would tell us nothing new, and as of 0.2.2.24-alpha,
29555 it would get flagged as a duplicate. Resolves bug 3026.
29556 - Accept hidden service descriptors if we think we might be a hidden
29557 service directory, regardless of what our consensus says. This
29558 helps robustness, since clients and hidden services can sometimes
29559 have a more up-to-date view of the network consensus than we do,
29560 and if they think that the directory authorities list us a HSDir,
29561 we might actually be one. Related to bug 2732; bugfix on
29563 - When a controller changes TrackHostExits, remove mappings for
29564 hosts that should no longer have their exits tracked. Bugfix on
29566 - When a controller changes VirtualAddrNetwork, remove any mappings
29567 for hosts that were automapped to the old network. Bugfix on
29569 - When a controller changes one of the AutomapHosts* options, remove
29570 any mappings for hosts that should no longer be automapped. Bugfix
29572 - Do not reset the bridge descriptor download status every time we
29573 re-parse our configuration or get a configuration change. Fixes
29574 bug 3019; bugfix on 0.2.0.3-alpha.
29576 o Minor bugfixes (code cleanup):
29577 - When loading the microdesc journal, remember its current size.
29578 In 0.2.2, this helps prevent the microdesc journal from growing
29579 without limit on authorities (who are the only ones to use it in
29580 0.2.2). Fixes a part of bug 2230; bugfix on 0.2.2.6-alpha.
29581 Fix posted by "cypherpunks."
29582 - The microdesc journal is supposed to get rebuilt only if it is
29583 at least _half_ the length of the store, not _twice_ the length
29584 of the store. Bugfix on 0.2.2.6-alpha; fixes part of bug 2230.
29585 - Fix a potential null-pointer dereference while computing a
29586 consensus. Bugfix on 0.2.0.3-alpha, found with the help of
29588 - Avoid a possible null-pointer dereference when rebuilding the mdesc
29589 cache without actually having any descriptors to cache. Bugfix on
29590 0.2.2.6-alpha. Issue discovered using clang's static analyzer.
29591 - If we fail to compute the identity digest of a v3 legacy keypair,
29592 warn, and don't use a buffer-full of junk instead. Bugfix on
29593 0.2.1.1-alpha; fixes bug 3106.
29594 - Resolve an untriggerable issue in smartlist_string_num_isin(),
29595 where if the function had ever in the future been used to check
29596 for the presence of a too-large number, it would have given an
29597 incorrect result. (Fortunately, we only used it for 16-bit
29598 values.) Fixes bug 3175; bugfix on 0.1.0.1-rc.
29599 - Require that introduction point keys and onion handshake keys
29600 have a public exponent of 65537. Starts to fix bug 3207; bugfix
29603 o Removed features:
29604 - Caches no longer download and serve v2 networkstatus documents
29605 unless FetchV2Networkstatus flag is set: these documents haven't
29606 haven't been used by clients or relays since 0.2.0.x. Resolves
29610 Changes in version 0.2.3.1-alpha - 2011-05-05
29611 Tor 0.2.3.1-alpha adds some new experimental features, including support
29612 for an improved network IO backend, IOCP networking on Windows,
29613 microdescriptor caching, "fast-start" support for streams, and automatic
29614 home router configuration. There are also numerous internal improvements
29615 to try to make the code easier for developers to work with.
29617 This is the first alpha release in a new series, so expect there to be
29618 bugs. Users who would rather test out a more stable branch should
29619 stay with 0.2.2.x for now.
29622 - Tor can now optionally build with the "bufferevents" buffered IO
29623 backend provided by Libevent 2. To use this feature, make sure you
29624 have the latest possible version of Libevent, and pass the
29625 --enable-bufferevents flag to configure when building Tor from
29626 source. This feature will make our networking code more flexible,
29627 let us stack layers on each other, and let us use more efficient
29628 zero-copy transports where available.
29629 - As an experimental feature, Tor can use IOCP for networking on Windows.
29630 Once this code is tuned and optimized, it promises much better
29631 performance than the select-based backend we've used in the past. To
29632 try this feature, you must build Tor with Libevent 2, configure Tor
29633 with the "bufferevents" buffered IO backend, and add "DisableIOCP 0" to
29634 your torrc. There are known bugs here: only try this if you can help
29635 debug it as it breaks.
29636 - The EntryNodes option can now include country codes like {de} or IP
29637 addresses or network masks. Previously we had disallowed these options
29638 because we didn't have an efficient way to keep the list up to
29639 date. Fixes bug 1982, but see bug 2798 for an unresolved issue here.
29640 - Exit nodes now accept and queue data on not-yet-connected streams.
29641 Previously, the client wasn't allowed to send data until the stream was
29642 connected, which slowed down all connections. This change will enable
29643 clients to perform a "fast-start" on streams and send data without
29644 having to wait for a confirmation that the stream has opened. (Patch
29645 from Ian Goldberg; implements the server side of Proposal 174.)
29646 - Tor now has initial support for automatic port mapping on the many
29647 home routers that support NAT-PMP or UPnP. (Not yet supported on
29648 Windows). To build the support code, you'll need to have libnatpnp
29649 library and/or the libminiupnpc library, and you'll need to enable the
29650 feature specifically by passing "--enable-upnp" and/or
29651 "--enable-natpnp" to configure. To turn it on, use the new
29652 PortForwarding option.
29653 - Caches now download, cache, and serve multiple "flavors" of the
29654 consensus, including a flavor that describes microdescriptors.
29655 - Caches now download, cache, and serve microdescriptors -- small
29656 summaries of router descriptors that are authenticated by all of the
29657 directory authorities. Once enough caches are running this code,
29658 clients will be able to save significant amounts of directory bandwidth
29659 by downloading microdescriptors instead of router descriptors.
29662 - Make logging resolution configurable with a new LogTimeGranularity
29663 option, and change the default from 1 millisecond to 1 second.
29664 Implements enhancement 1668.
29665 - We log which torrc file we're using on startup. Implements ticket
29667 - Ordinarily, Tor does not count traffic from private addresses (like
29668 127.0.0.1 or 10.0.0.1) when calculating rate limits or accounting.
29669 There is now a new option, CountPrivateBandwidth, to disable this
29670 behavior. Patch from Daniel Cagara.
29671 - New --enable-static-tor configure option for building Tor as
29672 statically as possible. Idea, general hackery and thoughts from
29673 Alexei Czeskis, John Gilmore, Jacob Appelbaum. Implements ticket
29675 - If you set the NumCPUs option to 0, Tor will now try to detect how
29676 many CPUs you have. This is the new default behavior.
29677 - Turn on directory request statistics by default and include them in
29678 extra-info descriptors. Don't break if we have no GeoIP database.
29679 - Relays that set "ConnDirectionStatistics 1" write statistics on the
29680 bidirectional use of connections to disk every 24 hours.
29681 - Add a GeoIP file digest to the extra-info descriptor. Implements
29683 - The NodeFamily option -- which let you declare that you want to
29684 consider nodes to be part of a family whether they list themselves
29685 that way or not -- now allows IP address ranges and country codes.
29686 - Add a new 'Heartbeat' log message type to periodically log a message
29687 describing Tor's status at level Notice. This feature is meant for
29688 operators who log at notice, and want to make sure that their Tor
29689 server is still working. Implementation by George Kadianakis.
29691 o Minor bugfixes (on 0.2.2.25-alpha):
29692 - When loading the microdesc journal, remember its current size.
29693 In 0.2.2, this helps prevent the microdesc journal from growing
29694 without limit on authorities (who are the only ones to use it in
29695 0.2.2). Fixes a part of bug 2230; bugfix on 0.2.2.6-alpha.
29696 Fix posted by "cypherpunks."
29697 - The microdesc journal is supposed to get rebuilt only if it is
29698 at least _half_ the length of the store, not _twice_ the length
29699 of the store. Bugfix on 0.2.2.6-alpha; fixes part of bug 2230.
29700 - If as an authority we fail to compute the identity digest of a v3
29701 legacy keypair, warn, and don't use a buffer-full of junk instead.
29702 Bugfix on 0.2.1.1-alpha; fixes bug 3106.
29703 - Authorities now clean their microdesc cache periodically and when
29704 reading from disk initially, not only when adding new descriptors.
29705 This prevents a bug where we could lose microdescriptors. Bugfix
29708 o Minor features (controller):
29709 - Add a new SIGNAL event to the controller interface so that
29710 controllers can be notified when Tor handles a signal. Resolves
29711 issue 1955. Patch by John Brooks.
29712 - Add a new GETINFO option to get total bytes read and written. Patch
29713 from pipe, revised by atagar. Resolves ticket 2345.
29714 - Implement some GETINFO controller fields to provide information about
29715 the Tor process's pid, euid, username, and resource limits.
29718 - Our build system requires automake 1.6 or later to create the
29719 Makefile.in files. Previously, you could have used 1.4.
29720 This only affects developers and people building Tor from git;
29721 people who build Tor from the source distribution without changing
29722 the Makefile.am files should be fine.
29723 - Our autogen.sh script uses autoreconf to launch autoconf, automake, and
29724 so on. This is more robust against some of the failure modes
29725 associated with running the autotools pieces on their own.
29727 o Minor packaging issues:
29728 - On OpenSUSE, create the /var/run/tor directory on startup if it is not
29729 already created. Patch from Andreas Stieger. Fixes bug 2573.
29731 o Code simplifications and refactoring:
29732 - A major revision to our internal node-selecting and listing logic.
29733 Tor already had at least two major ways to look at the question of
29734 "which Tor servers do we know about": a list of router descriptors,
29735 and a list of entries in the current consensus. With
29736 microdescriptors, we're adding a third. Having so many systems
29737 without an abstraction layer over them was hurting the codebase.
29738 Now, we have a new "node_t" abstraction that presents a consistent
29739 interface to a client's view of a Tor node, and holds (nearly) all
29740 of the mutable state formerly in routerinfo_t and routerstatus_t.
29741 - The helper programs tor-gencert, tor-resolve, and tor-checkkey
29742 no longer link against Libevent: they never used it, but
29743 our library structure used to force them to link it.
29745 o Removed features:
29746 - Remove some old code to work around even older versions of Tor that
29747 used forked processes to handle DNS requests. Such versions of Tor
29748 are no longer in use as servers.
29750 o Documentation fixes:
29751 - Correct a broken faq link in the INSTALL file. Fixes bug 2307.
29752 - Add missing documentation for the authority-related torrc options
29753 RephistTrackTime, BridgePassword, and V3AuthUseLegacyKey. Resolves
29757 Changes in version 0.2.2.25-alpha - 2011-04-29
29758 Tor 0.2.2.25-alpha fixes many bugs: hidden service clients are more
29759 robust, routers no longer overreport their bandwidth, Win7 should crash
29760 a little less, and NEWNYM (as used by Vidalia's "new identity" button)
29761 now prevents hidden service-related activity from being linkable. It
29762 provides more information to Vidalia so you can see if your bridge is
29763 working. Also, 0.2.2.25-alpha revamps the Entry/Exit/ExcludeNodes and
29764 StrictNodes configuration options to make them more reliable, more
29765 understandable, and more regularly applied. If you use those options,
29766 please see the revised documentation for them in the manual page.
29769 - Relays were publishing grossly inflated bandwidth values because
29770 they were writing their state files wrong--now they write the
29771 correct value. Also, resume reading bandwidth history from the
29772 state file correctly. Fixes bug 2704; bugfix on 0.2.2.23-alpha.
29773 - Improve hidden service robustness: When we find that we have
29774 extended a hidden service's introduction circuit to a relay not
29775 listed as an introduction point in the HS descriptor we currently
29776 have, retry with an introduction point from the current
29777 descriptor. Previously we would just give up. Fixes bugs 1024 and
29778 1930; bugfix on 0.2.0.10-alpha.
29779 - Clients now stop trying to use an exit node associated with a given
29780 destination by TrackHostExits if they fail to reach that exit node.
29781 Fixes bug 2999. Bugfix on 0.2.0.20-rc.
29782 - Fix crash bug on platforms where gmtime and localtime can return
29783 NULL. Windows 7 users were running into this one. Fixes part of bug
29784 2077. Bugfix on all versions of Tor. Found by boboper.
29786 o Security and stability fixes:
29787 - Don't double-free a parsable, but invalid, microdescriptor, even if
29788 it is followed in the blob we're parsing by an unparsable
29789 microdescriptor. Fixes an issue reported in a comment on bug 2954.
29790 Bugfix on 0.2.2.6-alpha; fix by "cypherpunks".
29791 - If the Nickname configuration option isn't given, Tor would pick a
29792 nickname based on the local hostname as the nickname for a relay.
29793 Because nicknames are not very important in today's Tor and the
29794 "Unnamed" nickname has been implemented, this is now problematic
29795 behavior: It leaks information about the hostname without being
29796 useful at all. Fixes bug 2979; bugfix on 0.1.2.2-alpha, which
29797 introduced the Unnamed nickname. Reported by tagnaq.
29798 - Fix an uncommon assertion failure when running with DNSPort under
29799 heavy load. Fixes bug 2933; bugfix on 0.2.0.1-alpha.
29800 - Avoid linkability based on cached hidden service descriptors: forget
29801 all hidden service descriptors cached as a client when processing a
29802 SIGNAL NEWNYM command. Fixes bug 3000; bugfix on 0.0.6.
29805 - Export GeoIP information on bridge usage to controllers even if we
29806 have not yet been running for 24 hours. Now Vidalia bridge operators
29807 can get more accurate and immediate feedback about their
29808 contributions to the network.
29810 o Major features and bugfixes (node selection):
29811 - Revise and reconcile the meaning of the ExitNodes, EntryNodes,
29812 ExcludeEntryNodes, ExcludeExitNodes, ExcludeNodes, and StrictNodes
29813 options. Previously, we had been ambiguous in describing what
29814 counted as an "exit" node, and what operations exactly "StrictNodes
29815 0" would permit. This created confusion when people saw nodes built
29816 through unexpected circuits, and made it hard to tell real bugs from
29817 surprises. Now the intended behavior is:
29818 . "Exit", in the context of ExitNodes and ExcludeExitNodes, means
29819 a node that delivers user traffic outside the Tor network.
29820 . "Entry", in the context of EntryNodes, means a node used as the
29821 first hop of a multihop circuit. It doesn't include direct
29822 connections to directory servers.
29823 . "ExcludeNodes" applies to all nodes.
29824 . "StrictNodes" changes the behavior of ExcludeNodes only. When
29825 StrictNodes is set, Tor should avoid all nodes listed in
29826 ExcludeNodes, even when it will make user requests fail. When
29827 StrictNodes is *not* set, then Tor should follow ExcludeNodes
29828 whenever it can, except when it must use an excluded node to
29829 perform self-tests, connect to a hidden service, provide a
29830 hidden service, fulfill a .exit request, upload directory
29831 information, or fetch directory information.
29832 Collectively, the changes to implement the behavior fix bug 1090.
29833 - ExcludeNodes now takes precedence over EntryNodes and ExitNodes: if
29834 a node is listed in both, it's treated as excluded.
29835 - ExcludeNodes now applies to directory nodes -- as a preference if
29836 StrictNodes is 0, or an absolute requirement if StrictNodes is 1.
29837 Don't exclude all the directory authorities and set StrictNodes to 1
29838 unless you really want your Tor to break.
29839 - ExcludeNodes and ExcludeExitNodes now override exit enclaving.
29840 - ExcludeExitNodes now overrides .exit requests.
29841 - We don't use bridges listed in ExcludeNodes.
29842 - When StrictNodes is 1:
29843 . We now apply ExcludeNodes to hidden service introduction points
29844 and to rendezvous points selected by hidden service users. This
29845 can make your hidden service less reliable: use it with caution!
29846 . If we have used ExcludeNodes on ourself, do not try relay
29847 reachability self-tests.
29848 . If we have excluded all the directory authorities, we will not
29849 even try to upload our descriptor if we're a relay.
29850 . Do not honor .exit requests to an excluded node.
29851 - Remove a misfeature that caused us to ignore the Fast/Stable flags
29852 when ExitNodes is set. Bugfix on 0.2.2.7-alpha.
29853 - When the set of permitted nodes changes, we now remove any mappings
29854 introduced via TrackExitHosts to now-excluded nodes. Bugfix on
29856 - We never cannibalize a circuit that had excluded nodes on it, even
29857 if StrictNodes is 0. Bugfix on 0.1.0.1-rc.
29858 - Revert a change where we would be laxer about attaching streams to
29859 circuits than when building the circuits. This was meant to prevent
29860 a set of bugs where streams were never attachable, but our improved
29861 code here should make this unnecessary. Bugfix on 0.2.2.7-alpha.
29862 - Keep track of how many times we launch a new circuit to handle a
29863 given stream. Too many launches could indicate an inconsistency
29864 between our "launch a circuit to handle this stream" logic and our
29865 "attach this stream to one of the available circuits" logic.
29866 - Improve log messages related to excluded nodes.
29869 - Fix a spurious warning when moving from a short month to a long
29870 month on relays with month-based BandwidthAccounting. Bugfix on
29871 0.2.2.17-alpha; fixes bug 3020.
29872 - When a client finds that an origin circuit has run out of 16-bit
29873 stream IDs, we now mark it as unusable for new streams. Previously,
29874 we would try to close the entire circuit. Bugfix on 0.0.6.
29875 - Add a forgotten cast that caused a compile warning on OS X 10.6.
29876 Bugfix on 0.2.2.24-alpha.
29877 - Be more careful about reporting the correct error from a failed
29878 connect() system call. Under some circumstances, it was possible to
29879 look at an incorrect value for errno when sending the end reason.
29880 Bugfix on 0.1.0.1-rc.
29881 - Correctly handle an "impossible" overflow cases in connection byte
29882 counting, where we write or read more than 4GB on an edge connection
29883 in a single second. Bugfix on 0.1.2.8-beta.
29884 - Correct the warning displayed when a rendezvous descriptor exceeds
29885 the maximum size. Fixes bug 2750; bugfix on 0.2.1.5-alpha. Found by
29887 - Clients and hidden services now use HSDir-flagged relays for hidden
29888 service descriptor downloads and uploads even if the relays have no
29889 DirPort set and the client has disabled TunnelDirConns. This will
29890 eventually allow us to give the HSDir flag to relays with no
29891 DirPort. Fixes bug 2722; bugfix on 0.2.1.6-alpha.
29892 - Downgrade "no current certificates known for authority" message from
29893 Notice to Info. Fixes bug 2899; bugfix on 0.2.0.10-alpha.
29894 - Make the SIGNAL DUMP control-port command work on FreeBSD. Fixes bug
29895 2917. Bugfix on 0.1.1.1-alpha.
29896 - Only limit the lengths of single HS descriptors, even when multiple
29897 HS descriptors are published to an HSDir relay in a single POST
29898 operation. Fixes bug 2948; bugfix on 0.2.1.5-alpha. Found by hsdir.
29899 - Write the current time into the LastWritten line in our state file,
29900 rather than the time from the previous write attempt. Also, stop
29901 trying to use a time of -1 in our log statements. Fixes bug 3039;
29902 bugfix on 0.2.2.14-alpha.
29903 - Be more consistent in our treatment of file system paths. "~" should
29904 get expanded to the user's home directory in the Log config option.
29905 Fixes bug 2971; bugfix on 0.2.0.1-alpha, which introduced the
29906 feature for the -f and --DataDirectory options.
29909 - Make sure every relay writes a state file at least every 12 hours.
29910 Previously, a relay could go for weeks without writing its state
29911 file, and on a crash could lose its bandwidth history, capacity
29912 estimates, client country statistics, and so on. Addresses bug 3012.
29913 - Send END_STREAM_REASON_NOROUTE in response to EHOSTUNREACH errors.
29914 Clients before 0.2.1.27 didn't handle NOROUTE correctly, but such
29915 clients are already deprecated because of security bugs.
29916 - Don't allow v0 hidden service authorities to act as clients.
29917 Required by fix for bug 3000.
29918 - Ignore SIGNAL NEWNYM commands on relay-only Tor instances. Required
29919 by fix for bug 3000.
29920 - Ensure that no empty [dirreq-](read|write)-history lines are added
29921 to an extrainfo document. Implements ticket 2497.
29923 o Code simplification and refactoring:
29924 - Remove workaround code to handle directory responses from servers
29925 that had bug 539 (they would send HTTP status 503 responses _and_
29926 send a body too). Since only server versions before
29927 0.2.0.16-alpha/0.1.2.19 were affected, there is no longer reason to
29928 keep the workaround in place.
29929 - Remove the old 'fuzzy time' logic. It was supposed to be used for
29930 handling calculations where we have a known amount of clock skew and
29931 an allowed amount of unknown skew. But we only used it in three
29932 places, and we never adjusted the known/unknown skew values. This is
29933 still something we might want to do someday, but if we do, we'll
29934 want to do it differently.
29935 - Avoid signed/unsigned comparisons by making SIZE_T_CEILING unsigned.
29936 None of the cases where we did this before were wrong, but by making
29937 this change we avoid warnings. Fixes bug 2475; bugfix on 0.2.1.28.
29938 - Use GetTempDir to find the proper temporary directory location on
29939 Windows when generating temporary files for the unit tests. Patch by
29943 Changes in version 0.2.2.24-alpha - 2011-04-08
29944 Tor 0.2.2.24-alpha fixes a variety of bugs, including a big bug that
29945 prevented Tor clients from effectively using "multihomed" bridges,
29946 that is, bridges that listen on multiple ports or IP addresses so users
29947 can continue to use some of their addresses even if others get blocked.
29950 - Fix a bug where bridge users who configure the non-canonical
29951 address of a bridge automatically switch to its canonical
29952 address. If a bridge listens at more than one address, it should be
29953 able to advertise those addresses independently and any non-blocked
29954 addresses should continue to work. Bugfix on Tor 0.2.0.x. Fixes
29956 - If you configured Tor to use bridge A, and then quit and
29957 configured Tor to use bridge B instead, it would happily continue
29958 to use bridge A if it's still reachable. While this behavior is
29959 a feature if your goal is connectivity, in some scenarios it's a
29960 dangerous bug. Bugfix on Tor 0.2.0.1-alpha; fixes bug 2511.
29961 - Directory authorities now use data collected from their own
29962 uptime observations when choosing whether to assign the HSDir flag
29963 to relays, instead of trusting the uptime value the relay reports in
29964 its descriptor. This change helps prevent an attack where a small
29965 set of nodes with frequently-changing identity keys can blackhole
29966 a hidden service. (Only authorities need upgrade; others will be
29967 fine once they do.) Bugfix on 0.2.0.10-alpha; fixes bug 2709.
29970 - When we restart our relay, we might get a successful connection
29971 from the outside before we've started our reachability tests,
29972 triggering a warning: "ORPort found reachable, but I have no
29973 routerinfo yet. Failing to inform controller of success." This
29974 bug was harmless unless Tor is running under a controller
29975 like Vidalia, in which case the controller would never get a
29976 REACHABILITY_SUCCEEDED status event. Bugfix on 0.1.2.6-alpha;
29978 - Make directory authorities more accurate at recording when
29979 relays that have failed several reachability tests became
29980 unreachable, so we can provide more accuracy at assigning Stable,
29981 Guard, HSDir, etc flags. Bugfix on 0.2.0.6-alpha. Resolves bug 2716.
29982 - Fix an issue that prevented static linking of libevent on
29983 some platforms (notably Linux). Fixes bug 2698; bugfix on
29984 versions 0.2.1.23/0.2.2.8-alpha (the versions introducing
29985 the --with-static-libevent configure option).
29986 - We now ask the other side of a stream (the client or the exit)
29987 for more data on that stream when the amount of queued data on
29988 that stream dips low enough. Previously, we wouldn't ask the
29989 other side for more data until either it sent us more data (which
29990 it wasn't supposed to do if it had exhausted its window!) or we
29991 had completely flushed all our queued data. This flow control fix
29992 should improve throughput. Fixes bug 2756; bugfix on the earliest
29993 released versions of Tor (svn commit r152).
29994 - Avoid a double-mark-for-free warning when failing to attach a
29995 transparent proxy connection. (We thought we had fixed this in
29996 0.2.2.23-alpha, but it turns out our fix was checking the wrong
29997 connection.) Fixes bug 2757; bugfix on 0.1.2.1-alpha (the original
29998 bug) and 0.2.2.23-alpha (the incorrect fix).
29999 - When warning about missing zlib development packages during compile,
30000 give the correct package names. Bugfix on 0.2.0.1-alpha.
30003 - Directory authorities now log the source of a rejected POSTed v3
30004 networkstatus vote.
30005 - Make compilation with clang possible when using
30006 --enable-gcc-warnings by removing two warning options that clang
30007 hasn't implemented yet and by fixing a few warnings. Implements
30009 - When expiring circuits, use microsecond timers rather than
30010 one-second timers. This can avoid an unpleasant situation where a
30011 circuit is launched near the end of one second and expired right
30012 near the beginning of the next, and prevent fluctuations in circuit
30014 - Use computed circuit-build timeouts to decide when to launch
30015 parallel introduction circuits for hidden services. (Previously,
30016 we would retry after 15 seconds.)
30017 - Update to the April 1 2011 Maxmind GeoLite Country database.
30020 - Create the /var/run/tor directory on startup on OpenSUSE if it is
30021 not already created. Patch from Andreas Stieger. Fixes bug 2573.
30023 o Documentation changes:
30024 - Modernize the doxygen configuration file slightly. Fixes bug 2707.
30025 - Resolve all doxygen warnings except those for missing documentation.
30027 - Add doxygen documentation for more functions, fields, and types.
30030 Changes in version 0.2.2.23-alpha - 2011-03-08
30031 Tor 0.2.2.23-alpha lets relays record their bandwidth history so when
30032 they restart they don't lose their bandwidth capacity estimate. This
30033 release also fixes a diverse set of user-facing bugs, ranging from
30034 relays overrunning their rate limiting to clients falsely warning about
30035 clock skew to bridge descriptor leaks by our bridge directory authority.
30038 - Stop sending a CLOCK_SKEW controller status event whenever
30039 we fetch directory information from a relay that has a wrong clock.
30040 Instead, only inform the controller when it's a trusted authority
30041 that claims our clock is wrong. Bugfix on 0.1.2.6-alpha; fixes
30042 the rest of bug 1074.
30043 - Fix an assert in parsing router descriptors containing IPv6
30044 addresses. This one took down the directory authorities when
30045 somebody tried some experimental code. Bugfix on 0.2.1.3-alpha.
30046 - Make the bridge directory authority refuse to answer directory
30047 requests for "all" descriptors. It used to include bridge
30048 descriptors in its answer, which was a major information leak.
30049 Found by "piebeer". Bugfix on 0.2.0.3-alpha.
30050 - If relays set RelayBandwidthBurst but not RelayBandwidthRate,
30051 Tor would ignore their RelayBandwidthBurst setting,
30052 potentially using more bandwidth than expected. Bugfix on
30053 0.2.0.1-alpha. Reported by Paul Wouters. Fixes bug 2470.
30054 - Ignore and warn if the user mistakenly sets "PublishServerDescriptor
30055 hidserv" in her torrc. The 'hidserv' argument never controlled
30056 publication of hidden service descriptors. Bugfix on 0.2.0.1-alpha.
30059 - Relays now save observed peak bandwidth throughput rates to their
30060 state file (along with total usage, which was already saved)
30061 so that they can determine their correct estimated bandwidth on
30062 restart. Resolves bug 1863, where Tor relays would reset their
30063 estimated bandwidth to 0 after restarting.
30064 - Directory authorities now take changes in router IP address and
30065 ORPort into account when determining router stability. Previously,
30066 if a router changed its IP or ORPort, the authorities would not
30067 treat it as having any downtime for the purposes of stability
30068 calculation, whereas clients would experience downtime since the
30069 change could take a while to propagate to them. Resolves issue 1035.
30070 - Enable Address Space Layout Randomization (ASLR) and Data Execution
30071 Prevention (DEP) by default on Windows to make it harder for
30072 attackers to exploit vulnerabilities. Patch from John Brooks.
30074 o Minor bugfixes (on 0.2.1.x and earlier):
30075 - Fix a rare crash bug that could occur when a client was configured
30076 with a large number of bridges. Fixes bug 2629; bugfix on
30077 0.2.1.2-alpha. Bugfix by trac user "shitlei".
30078 - Avoid a double mark-for-free warning when failing to attach a
30079 transparent proxy connection. Bugfix on 0.1.2.1-alpha. Fixes
30081 - Correctly detect failure to allocate an OpenSSL BIO. Fixes bug 2378;
30082 found by "cypherpunks". This bug was introduced before the first
30083 Tor release, in svn commit r110.
30084 - Country codes aren't supported in EntryNodes until 0.2.3.x, so
30085 don't mention them in the manpage. Fixes bug 2450; issue
30086 spotted by keb and G-Lo.
30087 - Fix a bug in bandwidth history state parsing that could have been
30088 triggered if a future version of Tor ever changed the timing
30089 granularity at which bandwidth history is measured. Bugfix on
30090 Tor 0.1.1.11-alpha.
30091 - When a relay decides that its DNS is too broken for it to serve
30092 as an exit server, it advertised itself as a non-exit, but
30093 continued to act as an exit. This could create accidental
30094 partitioning opportunities for users. Instead, if a relay is
30095 going to advertise reject *:* as its exit policy, it should
30096 really act with exit policy "reject *:*". Fixes bug 2366.
30097 Bugfix on Tor 0.1.2.5-alpha. Bugfix by user "postman" on trac.
30098 - In the special case where you configure a public exit relay as your
30099 bridge, Tor would be willing to use that exit relay as the last
30100 hop in your circuit as well. Now we fail that circuit instead.
30101 Bugfix on 0.2.0.12-alpha. Fixes bug 2403. Reported by "piebeer".
30102 - Fix a bug with our locking implementation on Windows that couldn't
30103 correctly detect when a file was already locked. Fixes bug 2504,
30104 bugfix on 0.2.1.6-alpha.
30105 - Fix IPv6-related connect() failures on some platforms (BSD, OS X).
30106 Bugfix on 0.2.0.3-alpha; fixes first part of bug 2660. Patch by
30108 - Set target port in get_interface_address6() correctly. Bugfix
30109 on 0.1.1.4-alpha and 0.2.0.3-alpha; fixes second part of bug 2660.
30110 - Directory authorities are now more robust to hops back in time
30111 when calculating router stability. Previously, if a run of uptime
30112 or downtime appeared to be negative, the calculation could give
30113 incorrect results. Bugfix on 0.2.0.6-alpha; noticed when fixing
30115 - Fix an assert that got triggered when using the TestingTorNetwork
30116 configuration option and then issuing a GETINFO config-text control
30117 command. Fixes bug 2250; bugfix on 0.2.1.2-alpha.
30119 o Minor bugfixes (on 0.2.2.x):
30120 - Clients should not weight BadExit nodes as Exits in their node
30121 selection. Similarly, directory authorities should not count BadExit
30122 bandwidth as Exit bandwidth when computing bandwidth-weights.
30123 Bugfix on 0.2.2.10-alpha; fixes bug 2203.
30124 - Correctly clear our dir_read/dir_write history when there is an
30125 error parsing any bw history value from the state file. Bugfix on
30126 Tor 0.2.2.15-alpha.
30127 - Resolve a bug in verifying signatures of directory objects
30128 with digests longer than SHA1. Bugfix on 0.2.2.20-alpha.
30129 Fixes bug 2409. Found by "piebeer".
30130 - Bridge authorities no longer crash on SIGHUP when they try to
30131 publish their relay descriptor to themselves. Fixes bug 2572. Bugfix
30135 - Log less aggressively about circuit timeout changes, and improve
30136 some other circuit timeout messages. Resolves bug 2004.
30137 - Log a little more clearly about the times at which we're no longer
30138 accepting new connections. Resolves bug 2181.
30139 - Reject attempts at the client side to open connections to private
30140 IP addresses (like 127.0.0.1, 10.0.0.1, and so on) with
30141 a randomly chosen exit node. Attempts to do so are always
30142 ill-defined, generally prevented by exit policies, and usually
30143 in error. This will also help to detect loops in transparent
30144 proxy configurations. You can disable this feature by setting
30145 "ClientRejectInternalAddresses 0" in your torrc.
30146 - Always treat failure to allocate an RSA key as an unrecoverable
30148 - Update to the March 1 2011 Maxmind GeoLite Country database.
30150 o Minor features (log subsystem):
30151 - Add documentation for configuring logging at different severities in
30152 different log domains. We've had this feature since 0.2.1.1-alpha,
30153 but for some reason it never made it into the manpage. Fixes
30155 - Make it simpler to specify "All log domains except for A and B".
30156 Previously you needed to say "[*,~A,~B]". Now you can just say
30158 - Add a "LogMessageDomains 1" option to include the domains of log
30159 messages along with the messages. Without this, there's no way
30160 to use log domains without reading the source or doing a lot
30163 o Packaging changes:
30164 - Stop shipping the Tor specs files and development proposal documents
30165 in the tarball. They are now in a separate git repository at
30166 git://git.torproject.org/torspec.git
30169 Changes in version 0.2.1.30 - 2011-02-23
30170 Tor 0.2.1.30 fixes a variety of less critical bugs. The main other
30171 change is a slight tweak to Tor's TLS handshake that makes relays
30172 and bridges that run this new version reachable from Iran again.
30173 We don't expect this tweak will win the arms race long-term, but it
30174 buys us time until we roll out a better solution.
30177 - Stop sending a CLOCK_SKEW controller status event whenever
30178 we fetch directory information from a relay that has a wrong clock.
30179 Instead, only inform the controller when it's a trusted authority
30180 that claims our clock is wrong. Bugfix on 0.1.2.6-alpha; fixes
30181 the rest of bug 1074.
30182 - Fix a bounds-checking error that could allow an attacker to
30183 remotely crash a directory authority. Bugfix on 0.2.1.5-alpha.
30184 Found by "piebeer".
30185 - If relays set RelayBandwidthBurst but not RelayBandwidthRate,
30186 Tor would ignore their RelayBandwidthBurst setting,
30187 potentially using more bandwidth than expected. Bugfix on
30188 0.2.0.1-alpha. Reported by Paul Wouters. Fixes bug 2470.
30189 - Ignore and warn if the user mistakenly sets "PublishServerDescriptor
30190 hidserv" in her torrc. The 'hidserv' argument never controlled
30191 publication of hidden service descriptors. Bugfix on 0.2.0.1-alpha.
30194 - Adjust our TLS Diffie-Hellman parameters to match those used by
30196 - Update to the February 1 2011 Maxmind GeoLite Country database.
30199 - Check for and reject overly long directory certificates and
30200 directory tokens before they have a chance to hit any assertions.
30201 Bugfix on 0.2.1.28. Found by "doorss".
30202 - Bring the logic that gathers routerinfos and assesses the
30203 acceptability of circuits into line. This prevents a Tor OP from
30204 getting locked in a cycle of choosing its local OR as an exit for a
30205 path (due to a .exit request) and then rejecting the circuit because
30206 its OR is not listed yet. It also prevents Tor clients from using an
30207 OR running in the same instance as an exit (due to a .exit request)
30208 if the OR does not meet the same requirements expected of an OR
30209 running elsewhere. Fixes bug 1859; bugfix on 0.1.0.1-rc.
30211 o Packaging changes:
30212 - Stop shipping the Tor specs files and development proposal documents
30213 in the tarball. They are now in a separate git repository at
30214 git://git.torproject.org/torspec.git
30215 - Do not include Git version tags as though they are SVN tags when
30216 generating a tarball from inside a repository that has switched
30217 between branches. Bugfix on 0.2.1.15-rc; fixes bug 2402.
30220 Changes in version 0.2.2.22-alpha - 2011-01-25
30221 Tor 0.2.2.22-alpha fixes a few more less-critical security issues. The
30222 main other change is a slight tweak to Tor's TLS handshake that makes
30223 relays and bridges that run this new version reachable from Iran again.
30224 We don't expect this tweak will win the arms race long-term, but it
30225 will buy us a bit more time until we roll out a better solution.
30228 - Fix a bounds-checking error that could allow an attacker to
30229 remotely crash a directory authority. Bugfix on 0.2.1.5-alpha.
30230 Found by "piebeer".
30231 - Don't assert when changing from bridge to relay or vice versa
30232 via the controller. The assert happened because we didn't properly
30233 initialize our keys in this case. Bugfix on 0.2.2.18-alpha; fixes
30234 bug 2433. Reported by bastik.
30237 - Adjust our TLS Diffie-Hellman parameters to match those used by
30239 - Provide a log message stating which geoip file we're parsing
30240 instead of just stating that we're parsing the geoip file.
30241 Implements ticket 2432.
30244 - Check for and reject overly long directory certificates and
30245 directory tokens before they have a chance to hit any assertions.
30246 Bugfix on 0.2.1.28 / 0.2.2.20-alpha. Found by "doorss".
30249 Changes in version 0.2.2.21-alpha - 2011-01-15
30250 Tor 0.2.2.21-alpha includes all the patches from Tor 0.2.1.29, which
30251 continues our recent code security audit work. The main fix resolves
30252 a remote heap overflow vulnerability that can allow remote code
30253 execution (CVE-2011-0427). Other fixes address a variety of assert
30254 and crash bugs, most of which we think are hard to exploit remotely.
30256 o Major bugfixes (security), also included in 0.2.1.29:
30257 - Fix a heap overflow bug where an adversary could cause heap
30258 corruption. This bug probably allows remote code execution
30259 attacks. Reported by "debuger". Fixes CVE-2011-0427. Bugfix on
30261 - Prevent a denial-of-service attack by disallowing any
30262 zlib-compressed data whose compression factor is implausibly
30263 high. Fixes part of bug 2324; reported by "doorss".
30264 - Zero out a few more keys in memory before freeing them. Fixes
30265 bug 2384 and part of bug 2385. These key instances found by
30266 "cypherpunks", based on Andrew Case's report about being able
30267 to find sensitive data in Tor's memory space if you have enough
30268 permissions. Bugfix on 0.0.2pre9.
30270 o Major bugfixes (crashes), also included in 0.2.1.29:
30271 - Prevent calls to Libevent from inside Libevent log handlers.
30272 This had potential to cause a nasty set of crashes, especially
30273 if running Libevent with debug logging enabled, and running
30274 Tor with a controller watching for low-severity log messages.
30275 Bugfix on 0.1.0.2-rc. Fixes bug 2190.
30276 - Add a check for SIZE_T_MAX to tor_realloc() to try to avoid
30277 underflow errors there too. Fixes the other part of bug 2324.
30278 - Fix a bug where we would assert if we ever had a
30279 cached-descriptors.new file (or another file read directly into
30280 memory) of exactly SIZE_T_CEILING bytes. Fixes bug 2326; bugfix
30281 on 0.2.1.25. Found by doorss.
30282 - Fix some potential asserts and parsing issues with grossly
30283 malformed router caches. Fixes bug 2352; bugfix on Tor 0.2.1.27.
30286 o Minor bugfixes (other), also included in 0.2.1.29:
30287 - Fix a bug with handling misformed replies to reverse DNS lookup
30288 requests in DNSPort. Bugfix on Tor 0.2.0.1-alpha. Related to a
30289 bug reported by doorss.
30290 - Fix compilation on mingw when a pthreads compatibility library
30291 has been installed. (We don't want to use it, so we shouldn't
30292 be including pthread.h.) Fixes bug 2313; bugfix on 0.1.0.1-rc.
30293 - Fix a bug where we would declare that we had run out of virtual
30294 addresses when the address space was only half-exhausted. Bugfix
30296 - Correctly handle the case where AutomapHostsOnResolve is set but
30297 no virtual addresses are available. Fixes bug 2328; bugfix on
30298 0.1.2.1-alpha. Bug found by doorss.
30299 - Correctly handle wrapping around when we run out of virtual
30300 address space. Found by cypherpunks; bugfix on 0.2.0.5-alpha.
30302 o Minor features, also included in 0.2.1.29:
30303 - Update to the January 1 2011 Maxmind GeoLite Country database.
30304 - Introduce output size checks on all of our decryption functions.
30306 o Build changes, also included in 0.2.1.29:
30307 - Tor does not build packages correctly with Automake 1.6 and earlier;
30308 added a check to Makefile.am to make sure that we're building with
30309 Automake 1.7 or later.
30310 - The 0.2.1.28 tarball was missing src/common/OpenBSD_malloc_Linux.c
30311 because we built it with a too-old version of automake. Thus that
30312 release broke ./configure --enable-openbsd-malloc, which is popular
30313 among really fast exit relays on Linux.
30315 o Major bugfixes, new in 0.2.2.21-alpha:
30316 - Prevent crash/heap corruption when the cbtnummodes consensus
30317 parameter is set to 0 or large values. Fixes bug 2317; bugfix
30320 o Major features, new in 0.2.2.21-alpha:
30321 - Introduce minimum/maximum values that clients will believe
30322 from the consensus. Now we'll have a better chance to avoid crashes
30323 or worse when a consensus param has a weird value.
30325 o Minor features, new in 0.2.2.21-alpha:
30326 - Make sure to disable DirPort if running as a bridge. DirPorts aren't
30327 used on bridges, and it makes bridge scanning somewhat easier.
30328 - If writing the state file to disk fails, wait up to an hour before
30329 retrying again, rather than trying again each second. Fixes bug
30330 2346; bugfix on Tor 0.1.1.3-alpha.
30331 - Make Libevent log messages get delivered to controllers later,
30332 and not from inside the Libevent log handler. This prevents unsafe
30333 reentrant Libevent calls while still letting the log messages
30335 - Detect platforms that brokenly use a signed size_t, and refuse to
30336 build there. Found and analyzed by doorss and rransom.
30337 - Fix a bunch of compile warnings revealed by mingw with gcc 4.5.
30340 o Minor bugfixes, new in 0.2.2.21-alpha:
30341 - Handle SOCKS messages longer than 128 bytes long correctly, rather
30342 than waiting forever for them to finish. Fixes bug 2330; bugfix
30343 on 0.2.0.16-alpha. Found by doorss.
30344 - Add assertions to check for overflow in arguments to
30345 base32_encode() and base32_decode(); fix a signed-unsigned
30346 comparison there too. These bugs are not actually reachable in Tor,
30347 but it's good to prevent future errors too. Found by doorss.
30348 - Correctly detect failures to create DNS requests when using Libevent
30349 versions before v2. (Before Libevent 2, we used our own evdns
30350 implementation. Its return values for Libevent's evdns_resolve_*()
30351 functions are not consistent with those from Libevent.) Fixes bug
30352 2363; bugfix on 0.2.2.6-alpha. Found by "lodger".
30354 o Documentation, new in 0.2.2.21-alpha:
30355 - Document the default socks host and port (127.0.0.1:9050) for
30359 Changes in version 0.2.1.29 - 2011-01-15
30360 Tor 0.2.1.29 continues our recent code security audit work. The main
30361 fix resolves a remote heap overflow vulnerability that can allow remote
30362 code execution. Other fixes address a variety of assert and crash bugs,
30363 most of which we think are hard to exploit remotely.
30365 o Major bugfixes (security):
30366 - Fix a heap overflow bug where an adversary could cause heap
30367 corruption. This bug probably allows remote code execution
30368 attacks. Reported by "debuger". Fixes CVE-2011-0427. Bugfix on
30370 - Prevent a denial-of-service attack by disallowing any
30371 zlib-compressed data whose compression factor is implausibly
30372 high. Fixes part of bug 2324; reported by "doorss".
30373 - Zero out a few more keys in memory before freeing them. Fixes
30374 bug 2384 and part of bug 2385. These key instances found by
30375 "cypherpunks", based on Andrew Case's report about being able
30376 to find sensitive data in Tor's memory space if you have enough
30377 permissions. Bugfix on 0.0.2pre9.
30379 o Major bugfixes (crashes):
30380 - Prevent calls to Libevent from inside Libevent log handlers.
30381 This had potential to cause a nasty set of crashes, especially
30382 if running Libevent with debug logging enabled, and running
30383 Tor with a controller watching for low-severity log messages.
30384 Bugfix on 0.1.0.2-rc. Fixes bug 2190.
30385 - Add a check for SIZE_T_MAX to tor_realloc() to try to avoid
30386 underflow errors there too. Fixes the other part of bug 2324.
30387 - Fix a bug where we would assert if we ever had a
30388 cached-descriptors.new file (or another file read directly into
30389 memory) of exactly SIZE_T_CEILING bytes. Fixes bug 2326; bugfix
30390 on 0.2.1.25. Found by doorss.
30391 - Fix some potential asserts and parsing issues with grossly
30392 malformed router caches. Fixes bug 2352; bugfix on Tor 0.2.1.27.
30395 o Minor bugfixes (other):
30396 - Fix a bug with handling misformed replies to reverse DNS lookup
30397 requests in DNSPort. Bugfix on Tor 0.2.0.1-alpha. Related to a
30398 bug reported by doorss.
30399 - Fix compilation on mingw when a pthreads compatibility library
30400 has been installed. (We don't want to use it, so we shouldn't
30401 be including pthread.h.) Fixes bug 2313; bugfix on 0.1.0.1-rc.
30402 - Fix a bug where we would declare that we had run out of virtual
30403 addresses when the address space was only half-exhausted. Bugfix
30405 - Correctly handle the case where AutomapHostsOnResolve is set but
30406 no virtual addresses are available. Fixes bug 2328; bugfix on
30407 0.1.2.1-alpha. Bug found by doorss.
30408 - Correctly handle wrapping around to when we run out of virtual
30409 address space. Found by cypherpunks, bugfix on 0.2.0.5-alpha.
30410 - The 0.2.1.28 tarball was missing src/common/OpenBSD_malloc_Linux.c
30411 because we built it with a too-old version of automake. Thus that
30412 release broke ./configure --enable-openbsd-malloc, which is popular
30413 among really fast exit relays on Linux.
30416 - Update to the January 1 2011 Maxmind GeoLite Country database.
30417 - Introduce output size checks on all of our decryption functions.
30420 - Tor does not build packages correctly with Automake 1.6 and earlier;
30421 added a check to Makefile.am to make sure that we're building with
30422 Automake 1.7 or later.
30425 Changes in version 0.2.2.20-alpha - 2010-12-17
30426 Tor 0.2.2.20-alpha does some code cleanup to reduce the risk of remotely
30427 exploitable bugs. We also fix a variety of other significant bugs,
30428 change the IP address for one of our directory authorities, and update
30429 the minimum version that Tor relays must run to join the network.
30432 - Fix a remotely exploitable bug that could be used to crash instances
30433 of Tor remotely by overflowing on the heap. Remote-code execution
30434 hasn't been confirmed, but can't be ruled out. Everyone should
30435 upgrade. Bugfix on the 0.1.1 series and later.
30436 - Fix a bug that could break accounting on 64-bit systems with large
30437 time_t values, making them hibernate for impossibly long intervals.
30438 Fixes bug 2146. Bugfix on 0.0.9pre6; fix by boboper.
30439 - Fix a logic error in directory_fetches_from_authorities() that
30440 would cause all _non_-exits refusing single-hop-like circuits
30441 to fetch from authorities, when we wanted to have _exits_ fetch
30442 from authorities. Fixes more of 2097. Bugfix on 0.2.2.16-alpha;
30444 - Fix a stream fairness bug that would cause newer streams on a given
30445 circuit to get preference when reading bytes from the origin or
30446 destination. Fixes bug 2210. Fix by Mashael AlSabah. This bug was
30447 introduced before the first Tor release, in svn revision r152.
30449 o Directory authority changes:
30450 - Change IP address and ports for gabelmoo (v3 directory authority).
30453 - Avoid crashes when AccountingMax is set on clients. Fixes bug 2235.
30454 Bugfix on 0.2.2.18-alpha. Diagnosed by boboper.
30455 - Fix an off-by-one error in calculating some controller command
30456 argument lengths. Fortunately, this mistake is harmless since
30457 the controller code does redundant NUL termination too. Found by
30458 boboper. Bugfix on 0.1.1.1-alpha.
30459 - Do not dereference NULL if a bridge fails to build its
30460 extra-info descriptor. Found by an anonymous commenter on
30461 Trac. Bugfix on 0.2.2.19-alpha.
30464 - Update to the December 1 2010 Maxmind GeoLite Country database.
30465 - Directory authorities now reject relays running any versions of
30466 Tor between 0.2.1.3-alpha and 0.2.1.18 inclusive; they have
30467 known bugs that keep RELAY_EARLY cells from working on rendezvous
30468 circuits. Followup to fix for bug 2081.
30469 - Directory authorities now reject relays running any version of Tor
30470 older than 0.2.0.26-rc. That version is the earliest that fetches
30471 current directory information correctly. Fixes bug 2156.
30472 - Report only the top 10 ports in exit-port stats in order not to
30473 exceed the maximum extra-info descriptor length of 50 KB. Implements
30477 Changes in version 0.2.1.28 - 2010-12-17
30478 Tor 0.2.1.28 does some code cleanup to reduce the risk of remotely
30479 exploitable bugs. We also took this opportunity to change the IP address
30480 for one of our directory authorities, and to update the geoip database
30484 - Fix a remotely exploitable bug that could be used to crash instances
30485 of Tor remotely by overflowing on the heap. Remote-code execution
30486 hasn't been confirmed, but can't be ruled out. Everyone should
30487 upgrade. Bugfix on the 0.1.1 series and later.
30489 o Directory authority changes:
30490 - Change IP address and ports for gabelmoo (v3 directory authority).
30493 - Update to the December 1 2010 Maxmind GeoLite Country database.
30496 Changes in version 0.2.1.27 - 2010-11-23
30497 Yet another OpenSSL security patch broke its compatibility with Tor:
30498 Tor 0.2.1.27 makes relays work with openssl 0.9.8p and 1.0.0.b. We
30499 also took this opportunity to fix several crash bugs, integrate a new
30500 directory authority, and update the bundled GeoIP database.
30503 - Resolve an incompatibility with OpenSSL 0.9.8p and OpenSSL 1.0.0b:
30504 No longer set the tlsext_host_name extension on server SSL objects;
30505 but continue to set it on client SSL objects. Our goal in setting
30506 it was to imitate a browser, not a vhosting server. Fixes bug 2204;
30507 bugfix on 0.2.1.1-alpha.
30508 - Do not log messages to the controller while shrinking buffer
30509 freelists. Doing so would sometimes make the controller connection
30510 try to allocate a buffer chunk, which would mess up the internals
30511 of the freelist and cause an assertion failure. Fixes bug 1125;
30512 fixed by Robert Ransom. Bugfix on 0.2.0.16-alpha.
30513 - Learn our external IP address when we're a relay or bridge, even if
30514 we set PublishServerDescriptor to 0. Bugfix on 0.2.0.3-alpha,
30515 where we introduced bridge relays that don't need to publish to
30516 be useful. Fixes bug 2050.
30517 - Do even more to reject (and not just ignore) annotations on
30518 router descriptors received anywhere but from the cache. Previously
30519 we would ignore such annotations at first, but cache them to disk
30520 anyway. Bugfix on 0.2.0.8-alpha. Found by piebeer.
30521 - When you're using bridges and your network goes away and your
30522 bridges get marked as down, recover when you attempt a new socks
30523 connection (if the network is back), rather than waiting up to an
30524 hour to try fetching new descriptors for your bridges. Bugfix on
30525 0.2.0.3-alpha; fixes bug 1981.
30528 - Move to the November 2010 Maxmind GeoLite country db (rather
30529 than the June 2009 ip-to-country GeoIP db) for our statistics that
30530 count how many users relays are seeing from each country. Now we'll
30531 have more accurate data, especially for many African countries.
30533 o New directory authorities:
30534 - Set up maatuska (run by Linus Nordberg) as the eighth v3 directory
30538 - Fix an assertion failure that could occur in directory caches or
30539 bridge users when using a very short voting interval on a testing
30540 network. Diagnosed by Robert Hogan. Fixes bug 1141; bugfix on
30542 - Enforce multiplicity rules when parsing annotations. Bugfix on
30543 0.2.0.8-alpha. Found by piebeer.
30544 - Allow handshaking OR connections to take a full KeepalivePeriod
30545 seconds to handshake. Previously, we would close them after
30546 IDLE_OR_CONN_TIMEOUT (180) seconds, the same timeout as if they
30547 were open. Bugfix on 0.2.1.26; fixes bug 1840. Thanks to mingw-san
30549 - When building with --enable-gcc-warnings on OpenBSD, disable
30550 warnings in system headers. This makes --enable-gcc-warnings
30551 pass on OpenBSD 4.8.
30554 - Exit nodes didn't recognize EHOSTUNREACH as a plausible error code,
30555 and so sent back END_STREAM_REASON_MISC. Clients now recognize a new
30556 stream ending reason for this case: END_STREAM_REASON_NOROUTE.
30557 Servers can start sending this code when enough clients recognize
30558 it. Bugfix on 0.1.0.1-rc; fixes part of bug 1793.
30559 - Build correctly on mingw with more recent versions of OpenSSL 0.9.8.
30560 Patch from mingw-san.
30563 - Remove the old debian/ directory from the main Tor distribution.
30564 The official Tor-for-debian git repository lives at the URL
30565 https://git.torproject.org/debian/tor.git
30566 - Stop shipping the old doc/website/ directory in the tarball. We
30567 changed the website format in late 2010, and what we shipped in
30568 0.2.1.26 really wasn't that useful anyway.
30571 Changes in version 0.2.2.19-alpha - 2010-11-22
30572 Yet another OpenSSL security patch broke its compatibility with Tor:
30573 Tor 0.2.2.19-alpha makes relays work with OpenSSL 0.9.8p and 1.0.0.b.
30576 - Resolve an incompatibility with OpenSSL 0.9.8p and OpenSSL 1.0.0b:
30577 No longer set the tlsext_host_name extension on server SSL objects;
30578 but continue to set it on client SSL objects. Our goal in setting
30579 it was to imitate a browser, not a vhosting server. Fixes bug 2204;
30580 bugfix on 0.2.1.1-alpha.
30583 - Try harder not to exceed the maximum length of 50 KB when writing
30584 statistics to extra-info descriptors. This bug was triggered by very
30585 fast relays reporting exit-port, entry, and dirreq statistics.
30586 Reported by Olaf Selke. Bugfix on 0.2.2.1-alpha. Fixes bug 2183.
30587 - Publish a router descriptor even if generating an extra-info
30588 descriptor fails. Previously we would not publish a router
30589 descriptor without an extra-info descriptor; this can cause fast
30590 exit relays collecting exit-port statistics to drop from the
30591 consensus. Bugfix on 0.1.2.9-rc; fixes bug 2195.
30594 Changes in version 0.2.2.18-alpha - 2010-11-16
30595 Tor 0.2.2.18-alpha fixes several crash bugs that have been nagging
30596 us lately, makes unpublished bridge relays able to detect their IP
30597 address, and fixes a wide variety of other bugs to get us much closer
30598 to a stable release.
30601 - Do even more to reject (and not just ignore) annotations on
30602 router descriptors received anywhere but from the cache. Previously
30603 we would ignore such annotations at first, but cache them to disk
30604 anyway. Bugfix on 0.2.0.8-alpha. Found by piebeer.
30605 - Do not log messages to the controller while shrinking buffer
30606 freelists. Doing so would sometimes make the controller connection
30607 try to allocate a buffer chunk, which would mess up the internals
30608 of the freelist and cause an assertion failure. Fixes bug 1125;
30609 fixed by Robert Ransom. Bugfix on 0.2.0.16-alpha.
30610 - Learn our external IP address when we're a relay or bridge, even if
30611 we set PublishServerDescriptor to 0. Bugfix on 0.2.0.3-alpha,
30612 where we introduced bridge relays that don't need to publish to
30613 be useful. Fixes bug 2050.
30614 - Maintain separate TLS contexts and certificates for incoming and
30615 outgoing connections in bridge relays. Previously we would use the
30616 same TLS contexts and certs for incoming and outgoing connections.
30617 Bugfix on 0.2.0.3-alpha; addresses bug 988.
30618 - Maintain separate identity keys for incoming and outgoing TLS
30619 contexts in bridge relays. Previously we would use the same
30620 identity keys for incoming and outgoing TLS contexts. Bugfix on
30621 0.2.0.3-alpha; addresses the other half of bug 988.
30622 - Avoid an assertion failure when we as an authority receive a
30623 duplicate upload of a router descriptor that we already have,
30624 but which we previously considered an obsolete descriptor.
30625 Fixes another case of bug 1776. Bugfix on 0.2.2.16-alpha.
30626 - Avoid a crash bug triggered by looking at a dangling pointer while
30627 setting the network status consensus. Found by Robert Ransom.
30628 Bugfix on 0.2.2.17-alpha. Fixes bug 2097.
30629 - Fix a logic error where servers that _didn't_ act as exits would
30630 try to keep their server lists more aggressively up to date than
30631 exits, when it was supposed to be the other way around. Bugfix
30634 o Minor bugfixes (on Tor 0.2.1.x and earlier):
30635 - When we're trying to guess whether we know our IP address as
30636 a relay, we would log various ways that we failed to guess
30637 our address, but never log that we ended up guessing it
30638 successfully. Now add a log line to help confused and anxious
30639 relay operators. Bugfix on 0.1.2.1-alpha; fixes bug 1534.
30640 - Bring the logic that gathers routerinfos and assesses the
30641 acceptability of circuits into line. This prevents a Tor OP from
30642 getting locked in a cycle of choosing its local OR as an exit for a
30643 path (due to a .exit request) and then rejecting the circuit because
30644 its OR is not listed yet. It also prevents Tor clients from using an
30645 OR running in the same instance as an exit (due to a .exit request)
30646 if the OR does not meet the same requirements expected of an OR
30647 running elsewhere. Fixes bug 1859; bugfix on 0.1.0.1-rc.
30648 - Correctly describe errors that occur when generating a TLS object.
30649 Previously we would attribute them to a failure while generating a
30650 TLS context. Patch by Robert Ransom. Bugfix on 0.1.0.4-rc; fixes
30652 - Enforce multiplicity rules when parsing annotations. Bugfix on
30653 0.2.0.8-alpha. Found by piebeer.
30654 - Fix warnings that newer versions of autoconf produced during
30655 ./autogen.sh. These warnings appear to be harmless in our case,
30656 but they were extremely verbose. Fixes bug 2020.
30658 o Minor bugfixes (on Tor 0.2.2.x):
30659 - Enable protection of small arrays whenever we build with gcc
30660 hardening features, not only when also building with warnings
30661 enabled. Fixes bug 2031; bugfix on 0.2.2.14-alpha. Reported by keb.
30664 - Make hidden services work better in private Tor networks by not
30665 requiring any uptime to join the hidden service descriptor
30666 DHT. Implements ticket 2088.
30667 - Rate-limit the "your application is giving Tor only an IP address"
30668 warning. Addresses bug 2000; bugfix on 0.0.8pre2.
30669 - When AllowSingleHopExits is set, print a warning to explain to the
30670 relay operator why most clients are avoiding her relay.
30671 - Update to the November 1 2010 Maxmind GeoLite Country database.
30673 o Code simplifications and refactoring:
30674 - When we fixed bug 1038 we had to put in a restriction not to send
30675 RELAY_EARLY cells on rend circuits. This was necessary as long
30676 as relays using Tor 0.2.1.3-alpha through 0.2.1.18-alpha were
30677 active. Now remove this obsolete check. Resolves bug 2081.
30678 - Some options used different conventions for uppercasing of acronyms
30679 when comparing manpage and source. Fix those in favor of the
30680 manpage, as it makes sense to capitalize acronyms.
30681 - Remove the torrc.complete file. It hasn't been kept up to date
30682 and users will have better luck checking out the manpage.
30683 - Remove the obsolete "NoPublish" option; it has been flagged
30684 as obsolete and has produced a warning since 0.1.1.18-rc.
30685 - Remove everything related to building the expert bundle for OS X.
30686 It has confused many users, doesn't work right on OS X 10.6,
30687 and is hard to get rid of once installed. Resolves bug 1274.
30690 Changes in version 0.2.2.17-alpha - 2010-09-30
30691 Tor 0.2.2.17-alpha introduces a feature to make it harder for clients
30692 to use one-hop circuits (which can put the exit relays at higher risk,
30693 plus unbalance the network); fixes a big bug in bandwidth accounting
30694 for relays that want to limit their monthly bandwidth use; fixes a
30695 big pile of bugs in how clients tolerate temporary network failure;
30696 and makes our adaptive circuit build timeout feature (which improves
30697 client performance if your network is fast while not breaking things
30698 if your network is slow) better handle bad networks.
30701 - Exit relays now try harder to block exit attempts from unknown
30702 relays, to make it harder for people to use them as one-hop proxies
30703 a la tortunnel. Controlled by the refuseunknownexits consensus
30704 parameter (currently enabled), or you can override it on your
30705 relay with the RefuseUnknownExits torrc option. Resolves bug 1751.
30707 o Major bugfixes (0.2.1.x and earlier):
30708 - Fix a bug in bandwidth accounting that could make us use twice
30709 the intended bandwidth when our interval start changes due to
30710 daylight saving time. Now we tolerate skew in stored vs computed
30711 interval starts: if the start of the period changes by no more than
30712 50% of the period's duration, we remember bytes that we transferred
30713 in the old period. Fixes bug 1511; bugfix on 0.0.9pre5.
30714 - Always search the Windows system directory for system DLLs, and
30715 nowhere else. Bugfix on 0.1.1.23; fixes bug 1954.
30716 - When you're using bridges and your network goes away and your
30717 bridges get marked as down, recover when you attempt a new socks
30718 connection (if the network is back), rather than waiting up to an
30719 hour to try fetching new descriptors for your bridges. Bugfix on
30720 0.2.0.3-alpha; fixes bug 1981.
30722 o Major bugfixes (on 0.2.2.x):
30723 - Fix compilation on Windows. Bugfix on 0.2.2.16-alpha; related to
30725 - Fix a segfault that could happen when operating a bridge relay with
30726 no GeoIP database set. Fixes bug 1964; bugfix on 0.2.2.15-alpha.
30727 - The consensus bandwidth-weights (used by clients to choose fast
30728 relays) entered an unexpected edge case in September where
30729 Exits were much scarcer than Guards, resulting in bad weight
30730 recommendations. Now we compute them using new constraints that
30731 should succeed in all cases. Also alter directory authorities to
30732 not include the bandwidth-weights line if they fail to produce
30733 valid values. Fixes bug 1952; bugfix on 0.2.2.10-alpha.
30734 - When weighting bridges during path selection, we used to trust
30735 the bandwidths they provided in their descriptor, only capping them
30736 at 10MB/s. This turned out to be problematic for two reasons:
30737 Bridges could claim to handle a lot more traffic then they
30738 actually would, thus making more clients pick them and have a
30739 pretty effective DoS attack. The other issue is that new bridges
30740 that might not have a good estimate for their bw capacity yet
30741 would not get used at all unless no other bridges are available
30742 to a client. Fixes bug 1912; bugfix on 0.2.2.7-alpha.
30744 o Major bugfixes (on the circuit build timeout feature, 0.2.2.x):
30745 - Ignore cannibalized circuits when recording circuit build times.
30746 This should provide for a minor performance improvement for hidden
30747 service users using 0.2.2.14-alpha, and should remove two spurious
30748 notice log messages. Bugfix on 0.2.2.14-alpha; fixes bug 1740.
30749 - Simplify the logic that causes us to decide if the network is
30750 unavailable for purposes of recording circuit build times. If we
30751 receive no cells whatsoever for the entire duration of a circuit's
30752 full measured lifetime, the network is probably down. Also ignore
30753 one-hop directory fetching circuit timeouts when calculating our
30754 circuit build times. These changes should hopefully reduce the
30755 cases where we see ridiculous circuit build timeouts for people
30756 with spotty wireless connections. Fixes part of bug 1772; bugfix
30758 - Prevent the circuit build timeout from becoming larger than
30759 the maximum build time we have ever seen. Also, prevent the time
30760 period for measurement circuits from becoming larger than twice that
30761 value. Fixes the other part of bug 1772; bugfix on 0.2.2.2-alpha.
30764 - When we run out of directory information such that we can't build
30765 circuits, but then get enough that we can build circuits, log when
30766 we actually construct a circuit, so the user has a better chance of
30767 knowing what's going on. Fixes bug 1362.
30768 - Be more generous with how much bandwidth we'd use up (with
30769 accounting enabled) before entering "soft hibernation". Previously,
30770 we'd refuse new connections and circuits once we'd used up 95% of
30771 our allotment. Now, we use up 95% of our allotment, AND make sure
30772 that we have no more than 500MB (or 3 hours of expected traffic,
30773 whichever is lower) remaining before we enter soft hibernation.
30774 - If we've configured EntryNodes and our network goes away and/or all
30775 our entrynodes get marked down, optimistically retry them all when
30776 a new socks application request appears. Fixes bug 1882.
30777 - Add some more defensive programming for architectures that can't
30778 handle unaligned integer accesses. We don't know of any actual bugs
30779 right now, but that's the best time to fix them. Fixes bug 1943.
30780 - Support line continuations in the torrc config file. If a line
30781 ends with a single backslash character, the newline is ignored, and
30782 the configuration value is treated as continuing on the next line.
30785 o Minor bugfixes (on 0.2.1.x and earlier):
30786 - For bandwidth accounting, calculate our expected bandwidth rate
30787 based on the time during which we were active and not in
30788 soft-hibernation during the last interval. Previously, we were
30789 also considering the time spent in soft-hibernation. If this
30790 was a long time, we would wind up underestimating our bandwidth
30791 by a lot, and skewing our wakeup time towards the start of the
30792 accounting interval. Fixes bug 1789. Bugfix on 0.0.9pre5.
30794 o Minor bugfixes (on 0.2.2.x):
30795 - Resume generating CIRC FAILED REASON=TIMEOUT control port messages,
30796 which were disabled by the circuit build timeout changes in
30797 0.2.2.14-alpha. Bugfix on 0.2.2.14-alpha; fixes bug 1739.
30798 - Make sure we don't warn about missing bandwidth weights when
30799 choosing bridges or other relays not in the consensus. Bugfix on
30800 0.2.2.10-alpha; fixes bug 1805.
30801 - In our logs, do not double-report signatures from unrecognized
30802 authorities both as "from unknown authority" and "not
30803 present". Fixes bug 1956, bugfix on 0.2.2.16-alpha.
30806 Changes in version 0.2.2.16-alpha - 2010-09-17
30807 Tor 0.2.2.16-alpha fixes a variety of old stream fairness bugs (most
30808 evident at exit relays), and also continues to resolve all the little
30809 bugs that have been filling up trac lately.
30811 o Major bugfixes (stream-level fairness):
30812 - When receiving a circuit-level SENDME for a blocked circuit, try
30813 to package cells fairly from all the streams that had previously
30814 been blocked on that circuit. Previously, we had started with the
30815 oldest stream, and allowed each stream to potentially exhaust
30816 the circuit's package window. This gave older streams on any
30817 given circuit priority over newer ones. Fixes bug 1937. Detected
30818 originally by Camilo Viecco. This bug was introduced before the
30819 first Tor release, in svn commit r152: it is the new winner of
30820 the longest-lived bug prize.
30821 - When the exit relay got a circuit-level sendme cell, it started
30822 reading on the exit streams, even if had 500 cells queued in the
30823 circuit queue already, so the circuit queue just grew and grew in
30824 some cases. We fix this by not re-enabling reading on receipt of a
30825 sendme cell when the cell queue is blocked. Fixes bug 1653. Bugfix
30826 on 0.2.0.1-alpha. Detected by Mashael AlSabah. Original patch by
30828 - Newly created streams were allowed to read cells onto circuits,
30829 even if the circuit's cell queue was blocked and waiting to drain.
30830 This created potential unfairness, as older streams would be
30831 blocked, but newer streams would gladly fill the queue completely.
30832 We add code to detect this situation and prevent any stream from
30833 getting more than one free cell. Bugfix on 0.2.0.1-alpha. Partially
30837 - Update to the September 1 2010 Maxmind GeoLite Country database.
30838 - Warn when CookieAuthFileGroupReadable is set but CookieAuthFile is
30839 not. This would lead to a cookie that is still not group readable.
30840 Closes bug 1843. Suggested by katmagic.
30841 - When logging a rate-limited warning, we now mention how many messages
30842 got suppressed since the last warning.
30843 - Add new "perconnbwrate" and "perconnbwburst" consensus params to
30844 do individual connection-level rate limiting of clients. The torrc
30845 config options with the same names trump the consensus params, if
30846 both are present. Replaces the old "bwconnrate" and "bwconnburst"
30847 consensus params which were broken from 0.2.2.7-alpha through
30848 0.2.2.14-alpha. Closes bug 1947.
30849 - When a router changes IP address or port, authorities now launch
30850 a new reachability test for it. Implements ticket 1899.
30851 - Make the formerly ugly "2 unknown, 7 missing key, 0 good, 0 bad,
30852 2 no signature, 4 required" messages about consensus signatures
30853 easier to read, and make sure they get logged at the same severity
30854 as the messages explaining which keys are which. Fixes bug 1290.
30855 - Don't warn when we have a consensus that we can't verify because
30856 of missing certificates, unless those certificates are ones
30857 that we have been trying and failing to download. Fixes bug 1145.
30858 - If you configure your bridge with a known identity fingerprint,
30859 and the bridge authority is unreachable (as it is in at least
30860 one country now), fall back to directly requesting the descriptor
30861 from the bridge. Finishes the feature started in 0.2.0.10-alpha;
30863 - When building with --enable-gcc-warnings on OpenBSD, disable
30864 warnings in system headers. This makes --enable-gcc-warnings
30865 pass on OpenBSD 4.8.
30867 o Minor bugfixes (on 0.2.1.x and earlier):
30868 - Authorities will now attempt to download consensuses if their
30869 own efforts to make a live consensus have failed. This change
30870 means authorities that restart will fetch a valid consensus, and
30871 it means authorities that didn't agree with the current consensus
30872 will still fetch and serve it if it has enough signatures. Bugfix
30873 on 0.2.0.9-alpha; fixes bug 1300.
30874 - Ensure DNS requests launched by "RESOLVE" commands from the
30875 controller respect the __LeaveStreamsUnattached setconf options. The
30876 same goes for requests launched via DNSPort or transparent
30877 proxying. Bugfix on 0.2.0.1-alpha; fixes bug 1525.
30878 - Allow handshaking OR connections to take a full KeepalivePeriod
30879 seconds to handshake. Previously, we would close them after
30880 IDLE_OR_CONN_TIMEOUT (180) seconds, the same timeout as if they
30881 were open. Bugfix on 0.2.1.26; fixes bug 1840. Thanks to mingw-san
30883 - Rate-limit "Failed to hand off onionskin" warnings.
30884 - Never relay a cell for a circuit we have already destroyed.
30885 Between marking a circuit as closeable and finally closing it,
30886 it may have been possible for a few queued cells to get relayed,
30887 even though they would have been immediately dropped by the next
30888 OR in the circuit. Fixes bug 1184; bugfix on 0.2.0.1-alpha.
30889 - Never queue a cell for a circuit that's already been marked
30891 - Never vote for a server as "Running" if we have a descriptor for
30892 it claiming to be hibernating, and that descriptor was published
30893 more recently than our last contact with the server. Bugfix on
30894 0.2.0.3-alpha; fixes bug 911.
30895 - Squash a compile warning on OpenBSD. Reported by Tas; fixes
30898 o Minor bugfixes (on 0.2.2.x):
30899 - Fix a regression introduced in 0.2.2.7-alpha that marked relays
30900 down if a directory fetch fails and you've configured either
30901 bridges or EntryNodes. The intent was to mark the relay as down
30902 _unless_ you're using bridges or EntryNodes, since if you are
30903 then you could quickly run out of entry points.
30904 - Fix the Windows directory-listing code. A bug introduced in
30905 0.2.2.14-alpha could make Windows directory servers forget to load
30906 some of their cached v2 networkstatus files.
30907 - Really allow clients to use relays as bridges. Fixes bug 1776;
30908 bugfix on 0.2.2.15-alpha.
30909 - Demote a warn to info that happens when the CellStatistics option
30910 was just enabled. Bugfix on 0.2.2.15-alpha; fixes bug 1921.
30911 Reported by Moritz Bartl.
30912 - On Windows, build correctly either with or without Unicode support.
30913 This is necessary so that Tor can support fringe platforms like
30914 Windows 98 (which has no Unicode), or Windows CE (which has no
30915 non-Unicode). Bugfix on 0.2.2.14-alpha; fixes bug 1797.
30918 - Add a unit test for cross-platform directory-listing code.
30921 Changes in version 0.2.2.15-alpha - 2010-08-18
30922 Tor 0.2.2.15-alpha fixes a big bug in hidden service availability,
30923 fixes a variety of other bugs that were preventing performance
30924 experiments from moving forward, fixes several bothersome memory leaks,
30925 and generally closes a lot of smaller bugs that have been filling up
30929 - Stop assigning the HSDir flag to relays that disable their
30930 DirPort (and thus will refuse to answer directory requests). This
30931 fix should dramatically improve the reachability of hidden services:
30932 hidden services and hidden service clients pick six HSDir relays
30933 to store and retrieve the hidden service descriptor, and currently
30934 about half of the HSDir relays will refuse to work. Bugfix on
30935 0.2.0.10-alpha; fixes part of bug 1693.
30936 - The PerConnBWRate and Burst config options, along with the
30937 bwconnrate and bwconnburst consensus params, initialized each conn's
30938 token bucket values only when the connection is established. Now we
30939 update them if the config options change, and update them every time
30940 we get a new consensus. Otherwise we can encounter an ugly edge
30941 case where we initialize an OR conn to client-level bandwidth,
30942 but then later the relay joins the consensus and we leave it
30943 throttled. Bugfix on 0.2.2.7-alpha; fixes bug 1830.
30944 - Fix a regression that caused Tor to rebind its ports if it receives
30945 SIGHUP while hibernating. Bugfix in 0.1.1.6-alpha; closes bug 919.
30948 - Lower the maximum weighted-fractional-uptime cutoff to 98%. This
30949 should give us approximately 40-50% more Guard-flagged nodes,
30950 improving the anonymity the Tor network can provide and also
30951 decreasing the dropoff in throughput that relays experience when
30952 they first get the Guard flag.
30953 - Allow enabling or disabling the *Statistics config options while
30957 - Update to the August 1 2010 Maxmind GeoLite Country database.
30958 - Have the controller interface give a more useful message than
30959 "Internal Error" in response to failed GETINFO requests.
30960 - Warn when the same option is provided more than once in a torrc
30961 file, on the command line, or in a single SETCONF statement, and
30962 the option is one that only accepts a single line. Closes bug 1384.
30963 - Build correctly on mingw with more recent versions of OpenSSL 0.9.8.
30964 Patch from mingw-san.
30965 - Add support for the country code "{??}" in torrc options like
30966 ExcludeNodes, to indicate all routers of unknown country. Closes
30968 - Relays report the number of bytes spent on answering directory
30969 requests in extra-info descriptors similar to {read,write}-history.
30970 Implements enhancement 1790.
30972 o Minor bugfixes (on 0.2.1.x and earlier):
30973 - Complain if PublishServerDescriptor is given multiple arguments that
30974 include 0 or 1. This configuration will be rejected in the future.
30975 Bugfix on 0.2.0.1-alpha; closes bug 1107.
30976 - Disallow BridgeRelay 1 and ORPort 0 at once in the configuration.
30977 Bugfix on 0.2.0.13-alpha; closes bug 928.
30978 - Change "Application request when we're believed to be offline."
30979 notice to "Application request when we haven't used client
30980 functionality lately.", to clarify that it's not an error. Bugfix
30981 on 0.0.9.3; fixes bug 1222.
30982 - Fix a bug in the controller interface where "GETINFO ns/asdaskljkl"
30983 would return "551 Internal error" rather than "552 Unrecognized key
30984 ns/asdaskljkl". Bugfix on 0.1.2.3-alpha.
30985 - Users can't configure a regular relay to be their bridge. It didn't
30986 work because when Tor fetched the bridge descriptor, it found
30987 that it already had it, and didn't realize that the purpose of the
30988 descriptor had changed. Now we replace routers with a purpose other
30989 than bridge with bridge descriptors when fetching them. Bugfix on
30990 0.1.1.9-alpha. Bug 1776 not yet fixed because now we immediately
30991 refetch the descriptor with router purpose 'general', disabling
30993 - Fix a rare bug in rend_fn unit tests: we would fail a test when
30994 a randomly generated port is 0. Diagnosed by Matt Edman. Bugfix
30995 on 0.2.0.10-alpha; fixes bug 1808.
30996 - Exit nodes didn't recognize EHOSTUNREACH as a plausible error code,
30997 and so sent back END_STREAM_REASON_MISC. Clients now recognize a new
30998 stream ending reason for this case: END_STREAM_REASON_NOROUTE.
30999 Servers can start sending this code when enough clients recognize
31000 it. Also update the spec to reflect this new reason. Bugfix on
31001 0.1.0.1-rc; fixes part of bug 1793.
31002 - Delay geoip stats collection by bridges for 6 hours, not 2 hours,
31003 when we switch from being a public relay to a bridge. Otherwise
31004 there will still be clients that see the relay in their consensus,
31005 and the stats will end up wrong. Bugfix on 0.2.1.15-rc; fixes bug
31007 - Instead of giving an assertion failure on an internal mismatch
31008 on estimated freelist size, just log a BUG warning and try later.
31009 Mitigates but does not fix bug 1125.
31010 - Fix an assertion failure that could occur in caches or bridge users
31011 when using a very short voting interval on a testing network.
31012 Diagnosed by Robert Hogan. Fixes bug 1141; bugfix on 0.2.0.8-alpha.
31014 o Minor bugfixes (on 0.2.2.x):
31015 - Alter directory authorities to always consider Exit-flagged nodes
31016 as potential Guard nodes in their votes. The actual decision to
31017 use Exits as Guards is done in the consensus bandwidth weights.
31018 Fixes bug 1294; bugfix on 0.2.2.10-alpha.
31019 - When the controller is reporting the purpose of circuits that
31020 didn't finish building before the circuit build timeout, it was
31021 printing UNKNOWN_13. Now print EXPIRED. Bugfix on 0.2.2.14-alpha.
31022 - Our libevent version parsing code couldn't handle versions like
31023 1.4.14b-stable and incorrectly warned the user about using an
31024 old and broken version of libevent. Treat 1.4.14b-stable like
31025 1.4.14-stable when parsing the version. Fixes bug 1731; bugfix
31027 - Don't use substitution references like $(VAR:MOD) when
31028 $(asciidoc_files) is empty -- make(1) on NetBSD transforms
31029 '$(:x)' to 'x' rather than the empty string. This bites us in
31030 doc/ when configured with --disable-asciidoc. Bugfix on
31031 0.2.2.9-alpha; fixes bug 1773.
31032 - Remove a spurious hidden service server-side log notice about
31033 "Ancient non-dirty circuits". Bugfix on 0.2.2.14-alpha; fixes
31035 - Fix compilation with --with-dmalloc set. Bugfix on 0.2.2.6-alpha;
31037 - Correctly report written bytes on linked connections. Found while
31038 implementing 1790. Bugfix on 0.2.2.4-alpha.
31039 - Fix three memory leaks: one in circuit_build_times_parse_state(),
31040 one in dirvote_add_signatures_to_pending_consensus(), and one every
31041 time we parse a v3 network consensus. Bugfixes on 0.2.2.14-alpha,
31042 0.2.2.6-alpha, and 0.2.2.10-alpha respectively; fixes bug 1831.
31044 o Code simplifications and refactoring:
31045 - Take a first step towards making or.h smaller by splitting out
31046 function definitions for all source files in src/or/. Leave
31047 structures and defines in or.h for now.
31048 - Remove a bunch of unused function declarations as well as a block of
31049 #if 0'd code from the unit tests. Closes bug 1824.
31050 - New unit tests for exit-port history statistics; refactored exit
31051 statistics code to be more easily tested.
31052 - Remove the old debian/ directory from the main Tor distribution.
31053 The official Tor-for-debian git repository lives at the URL
31054 https://git.torproject.org/debian/tor.git
31057 Changes in version 0.2.2.14-alpha - 2010-07-12
31058 Tor 0.2.2.14-alpha greatly improves client-side handling of
31059 circuit build timeouts, which are used to estimate speed and improve
31060 performance. We also move to a much better GeoIP database, port Tor to
31061 Windows CE, introduce new compile flags that improve code security,
31062 add an eighth v3 directory authority, and address a lot of more
31066 - Tor directory authorities no longer crash when started with a
31067 cached-microdesc-consensus file in their data directory. Bugfix
31068 on 0.2.2.6-alpha; fixes bug 1532.
31069 - Treat an unset $HOME like an empty $HOME rather than triggering an
31070 assert. Bugfix on 0.0.8pre1; fixes bug 1522.
31071 - Ignore negative and large circuit build timeout values that can
31072 happen during a suspend or hibernate. These values caused various
31073 asserts to fire. Bugfix on 0.2.2.2-alpha; fixes bug 1245.
31074 - Alter calculation of Pareto distribution parameter 'Xm' for
31075 Circuit Build Timeout learning to use the weighted average of the
31076 top N=3 modes (because we have three entry guards). Considering
31077 multiple modes should improve the timeout calculation in some cases,
31078 and prevent extremely high timeout values. Bugfix on 0.2.2.2-alpha;
31080 - Alter calculation of Pareto distribution parameter 'Alpha' to use a
31081 right censored distribution model. This approach improves over the
31082 synthetic timeout generation approach that was producing insanely
31083 high timeout values. Now we calculate build timeouts using truncated
31084 times. Bugfix on 0.2.2.2-alpha; fixes bugs 1245 and 1335.
31085 - Do not close circuits that are under construction when they reach
31086 the circuit build timeout. Instead, leave them building (but do not
31087 use them) for up until the time corresponding to the 95th percentile
31088 on the Pareto CDF or 60 seconds, whichever is greater. This is done
31089 to provide better data for the new Pareto model. This percentile
31090 can be controlled by the consensus.
31093 - Move to the June 2010 Maxmind GeoLite country db (rather than the
31094 June 2009 ip-to-country GeoIP db) for our statistics that count
31095 how many users relays are seeing from each country. Now we have
31096 more accurate data for many African countries.
31097 - Port Tor to build and run correctly on Windows CE systems, using
31098 the wcecompat library. Contributed by Valerio Lupi.
31099 - New "--enable-gcc-hardening" ./configure flag (off by default)
31100 to turn on gcc compile time hardening options. It ensures
31101 that signed ints have defined behavior (-fwrapv), enables
31102 -D_FORTIFY_SOURCE=2 (requiring -O2), adds stack smashing protection
31103 with canaries (-fstack-protector-all), turns on ASLR protection if
31104 supported by the kernel (-fPIE, -pie), and adds additional security
31105 related warnings. Verified to work on Mac OS X and Debian Lenny.
31106 - New "--enable-linker-hardening" ./configure flag (off by default)
31107 to turn on ELF specific hardening features (relro, now). This does
31108 not work with Mac OS X or any other non-ELF binary format.
31110 o New directory authorities:
31111 - Set up maatuska (run by Linus Nordberg) as the eighth v3 directory
31115 - New config option "WarnUnsafeSocks 0" disables the warning that
31116 occurs whenever Tor receives a socks handshake using a version of
31117 the socks protocol that can only provide an IP address (rather
31118 than a hostname). Setups that do DNS locally over Tor are fine,
31119 and we shouldn't spam the logs in that case.
31120 - Convert the HACKING file to asciidoc, and add a few new sections
31121 to it, explaining how we use Git, how we make changelogs, and
31122 what should go in a patch.
31123 - Add a TIMEOUT_RATE keyword to the BUILDTIMEOUT_SET control port
31124 event, to give information on the current rate of circuit timeouts
31125 over our stored history.
31126 - Add ability to disable circuit build time learning via consensus
31127 parameter and via a LearnCircuitBuildTimeout config option. Also
31128 automatically disable circuit build time calculation if we are
31129 either a AuthoritativeDirectory, or if we fail to write our state
31130 file. Fixes bug 1296.
31131 - More gracefully handle corrupt state files, removing asserts
31132 in favor of saving a backup and resetting state.
31133 - Rename the "log.h" header to "torlog.h" so as to conflict with fewer
31137 - Build correctly on OSX with zlib 1.2.4 and higher with all warnings
31139 - When a2x fails, mention that the user could disable manpages instead
31140 of trying to fix their asciidoc installation.
31141 - Where available, use Libevent 2.0's periodic timers so that our
31142 once-per-second cleanup code gets called even more closely to
31143 once per second than it would otherwise. Fixes bug 943.
31144 - If you run a bridge that listens on multiple IP addresses, and
31145 some user configures a bridge address that uses a different IP
31146 address than your bridge writes in its router descriptor, and the
31147 user doesn't specify an identity key, their Tor would discard the
31148 descriptor because "it isn't one of our configured bridges", and
31149 fail to bootstrap. Now believe the descriptor and bootstrap anyway.
31150 Bugfix on 0.2.0.3-alpha.
31151 - If OpenSSL fails to make a duplicate of a private or public key, log
31152 an error message and try to exit cleanly. May help with debugging
31153 if bug 1209 ever remanifests.
31154 - Save a couple bytes in memory allocation every time we escape
31155 certain characters in a string. Patch from Florian Zumbiehl.
31156 - Make it explicit that we don't cannibalize one-hop circuits. This
31157 happens in the wild, but doesn't turn out to be a problem because
31158 we fortunately don't use those circuits. Many thanks to outofwords
31159 for the initial analysis and to swissknife who confirmed that
31160 two-hop circuits are actually created.
31161 - Make directory mirrors report non-zero dirreq-v[23]-shares again.
31162 Fixes bug 1564; bugfix on 0.2.2.9-alpha.
31163 - Eliminate a case where a circuit build time warning was displayed
31164 after network connectivity resumed. Bugfix on 0.2.2.2-alpha.
31167 Changes in version 0.2.1.26 - 2010-05-02
31168 Tor 0.2.1.26 addresses the recent connection and memory overload
31169 problems we've been seeing on relays, especially relays with their
31170 DirPort open. If your relay has been crashing, or you turned it off
31171 because it used too many resources, give this release a try.
31173 This release also fixes yet another instance of broken OpenSSL libraries
31174 that was causing some relays to drop out of the consensus.
31177 - Teach relays to defend themselves from connection overload. Relays
31178 now close idle circuits early if it looks like they were intended
31179 for directory fetches. Relays are also more aggressive about closing
31180 TLS connections that have no circuits on them. Such circuits are
31181 unlikely to be re-used, and tens of thousands of them were piling
31182 up at the fast relays, causing the relays to run out of sockets
31183 and memory. Bugfix on 0.2.0.22-rc (where clients started tunneling
31184 their directory fetches over TLS).
31185 - Fix SSL renegotiation behavior on OpenSSL versions like on Centos
31186 that claim to be earlier than 0.9.8m, but which have in reality
31187 backported huge swaths of 0.9.8m or 0.9.8n renegotiation
31188 behavior. Possible fix for some cases of bug 1346.
31189 - Directory mirrors were fetching relay descriptors only from v2
31190 directory authorities, rather than v3 authorities like they should.
31191 Only 2 v2 authorities remain (compared to 7 v3 authorities), leading
31192 to a serious bottleneck. Bugfix on 0.2.0.9-alpha. Fixes bug 1324.
31195 - Finally get rid of the deprecated and now harmful notion of "clique
31196 mode", where directory authorities maintain TLS connections to
31200 - In the util/threads test, no longer free the test_mutex before all
31201 worker threads have finished. Bugfix on 0.2.1.6-alpha.
31202 - The master thread could starve the worker threads quite badly on
31203 certain systems, causing them to run only partially in the allowed
31204 window. This resulted in test failures. Now the master thread sleeps
31205 occasionally for a few microseconds while the two worker-threads
31206 compete for the mutex. Bugfix on 0.2.0.1-alpha.
31209 Changes in version 0.2.2.13-alpha - 2010-04-24
31210 Tor 0.2.2.13-alpha addresses the recent connection and memory overload
31211 problems we've been seeing on relays, especially relays with their
31212 DirPort open. If your relay has been crashing, or you turned it off
31213 because it used too many resources, give this release a try.
31216 - Teach relays to defend themselves from connection overload. Relays
31217 now close idle circuits early if it looks like they were intended
31218 for directory fetches. Relays are also more aggressive about closing
31219 TLS connections that have no circuits on them. Such circuits are
31220 unlikely to be re-used, and tens of thousands of them were piling
31221 up at the fast relays, causing the relays to run out of sockets
31222 and memory. Bugfix on 0.2.0.22-rc (where clients started tunneling
31223 their directory fetches over TLS).
31226 - Finally get rid of the deprecated and now harmful notion of "clique
31227 mode", where directory authorities maintain TLS connections to
31229 - Directory authorities now do an immediate reachability check as soon
31230 as they hear about a new relay. This change should slightly reduce
31231 the time between setting up a relay and getting listed as running
31232 in the consensus. It should also improve the time between setting
31233 up a bridge and seeing use by bridge users.
31234 - Directory authorities no longer launch a TLS connection to every
31235 relay as they startup. Now that we have 2k+ descriptors cached,
31236 the resulting network hiccup is becoming a burden. Besides,
31237 authorities already avoid voting about Running for the first half
31238 hour of their uptime.
31241 Changes in version 0.2.2.12-alpha - 2010-04-20
31242 Tor 0.2.2.12-alpha fixes a critical bug in how directory authorities
31243 handle and vote on descriptors. It was causing relays to drop out of
31247 - Many relays have been falling out of the consensus lately because
31248 not enough authorities know about their descriptor for them to get
31249 a majority of votes. When we deprecated the v2 directory protocol,
31250 we got rid of the only way that v3 authorities can hear from each
31251 other about other descriptors. Now authorities examine every v3
31252 vote for new descriptors, and fetch them from that authority. Bugfix
31254 - Fix two typos in tor_vasprintf() that broke the compile on Windows,
31255 and a warning in or.h related to bandwidth_weight_rule_t that
31256 prevented clean compile on OS X. Fixes bug 1363; bugfix on
31258 - Fix a segfault on relays when DirReqStatistics is enabled
31259 and 24 hours pass. Bug found by keb. Fixes bug 1365; bugfix on
31263 - Demote a confusing TLS warning that relay operators might get when
31264 someone tries to talk to their OrPort. It is neither the operator's
31265 fault nor can they do anything about it. Fixes bug 1364; bugfix
31269 Changes in version 0.2.2.11-alpha - 2010-04-15
31270 Tor 0.2.2.11-alpha fixes yet another instance of broken OpenSSL
31271 libraries that was causing some relays to drop out of the consensus.
31274 - Directory mirrors were fetching relay descriptors only from v2
31275 directory authorities, rather than v3 authorities like they should.
31276 Only 2 v2 authorities remain (compared to 7 v3 authorities), leading
31277 to a serious bottleneck. Bugfix on 0.2.0.9-alpha. Fixes bug 1324.
31278 - Fix a parsing error that made every possible value of
31279 CircPriorityHalflifeMsec get treated as "1 msec". Bugfix
31280 on 0.2.2.7-alpha. Rename CircPriorityHalflifeMsec to
31281 CircuitPriorityHalflifeMsec, so authorities can tell newer relays
31282 about the option without breaking older ones.
31283 - Fix SSL renegotiation behavior on OpenSSL versions like on Centos
31284 that claim to be earlier than 0.9.8m, but which have in reality
31285 backported huge swaths of 0.9.8m or 0.9.8n renegotiation
31286 behavior. Possible fix for some cases of bug 1346.
31289 - Experiment with a more aggressive approach to preventing clients
31290 from making one-hop exit streams. Exit relays who want to try it
31291 out can set "RefuseUnknownExits 1" in their torrc, and then look
31292 for "Attempt by %s to open a stream" log messages. Let us know
31294 - Add support for statically linking zlib by specifying
31295 --enable-static-zlib, to go with our support for statically linking
31296 openssl and libevent. Resolves bug 1358.
31299 - Fix a segfault that happens whenever a Tor client that is using
31300 libevent2's bufferevents gets a hup signal. Bugfix on 0.2.2.5-alpha;
31302 - When we cleaned up the contrib/tor-exit-notice.html file, we left
31303 out the first line. Fixes bug 1295.
31304 - When building the manpage from a tarball, we required asciidoc, but
31305 the asciidoc -> roff/html conversion was already done for the
31306 tarball. Make 'make' complain only when we need asciidoc (either
31307 because we're compiling directly from git, or because we altered
31308 the asciidoc manpage in the tarball). Bugfix on 0.2.2.9-alpha.
31309 - When none of the directory authorities vote on any params, Tor
31310 segfaulted when trying to make the consensus from the votes. We
31311 didn't trigger the bug in practice, because authorities do include
31312 params in their votes. Bugfix on 0.2.2.10-alpha; fixes bug 1322.
31315 - In the util/threads test, no longer free the test_mutex before all
31316 worker threads have finished. Bugfix on 0.2.1.6-alpha.
31317 - The master thread could starve the worker threads quite badly on
31318 certain systems, causing them to run only partially in the allowed
31319 window. This resulted in test failures. Now the master thread sleeps
31320 occasionally for a few microseconds while the two worker-threads
31321 compete for the mutex. Bugfix on 0.2.0.1-alpha.
31324 Changes in version 0.2.2.10-alpha - 2010-03-07
31325 Tor 0.2.2.10-alpha fixes a regression introduced in 0.2.2.9-alpha that
31326 could prevent relays from guessing their IP address correctly. It also
31327 starts the groundwork for another client-side performance boost, since
31328 currently we're not making efficient use of relays that have both the
31329 Guard flag and the Exit flag.
31332 - Fix a regression from our patch for bug 1244 that caused relays
31333 to guess their IP address incorrectly if they didn't set Address
31334 in their torrc and/or their address fails to resolve. Bugfix on
31335 0.2.2.9-alpha; fixes bug 1269.
31337 o Major features (performance):
31338 - Directory authorities now compute consensus weightings that instruct
31339 clients how to weight relays flagged as Guard, Exit, Guard+Exit,
31340 and no flag. Clients that use these weightings will distribute
31341 network load more evenly across these different relay types. The
31342 weightings are in the consensus so we can change them globally in
31343 the future. Extra thanks to "outofwords" for finding some nasty
31344 security bugs in the first implementation of this feature.
31346 o Minor features (performance):
31347 - Always perform router selections using weighted relay bandwidth,
31348 even if we don't need a high capacity circuit at the time. Non-fast
31349 circuits now only differ from fast ones in that they can use relays
31350 not marked with the Fast flag. This "feature" could turn out to
31351 be a horrible bug; we should investigate more before it goes into
31355 - Allow disabling building of the manpages. Skipping the manpage
31356 speeds up the build considerably.
31358 o Minor bugfixes (on 0.2.2.x):
31359 - Fix a memleak in the EXTENDCIRCUIT logic. Spotted by coverity.
31360 Bugfix on 0.2.2.9-alpha.
31361 - Disallow values larger than INT32_MAX for PerConnBWRate|Burst
31362 config option. Bugfix on 0.2.2.7-alpha.
31363 - Ship the asciidoc-helper file in the tarball, so that people can
31364 build from source if they want to, and touching the .1.txt files
31365 doesn't break the build. Bugfix on 0.2.2.9-alpha.
31367 o Minor bugfixes (on 0.2.1.x or earlier):
31368 - Fix a dereference-then-NULL-check sequence when publishing
31369 descriptors. Bugfix on 0.2.1.5-alpha. Discovered by ekir; fixes
31371 - Fix another dereference-then-NULL-check sequence. Bugfix on
31372 0.2.1.14-rc. Discovered by ekir; fixes bug 1256.
31373 - Make sure we treat potentially not NUL-terminated strings correctly.
31374 Bugfix on 0.1.1.13-alpha. Discovered by rieo; fixes bug 1257.
31376 o Code simplifications and refactoring:
31377 - Fix some urls in the exit notice file and make it XHTML1.1 strict
31378 compliant. Based on a patch from Christian Kujau.
31379 - Don't use sed in asciidoc-helper anymore.
31380 - Make the build process fail if asciidoc cannot be found and
31381 building with asciidoc isn't disabled.
31384 Changes in version 0.2.2.9-alpha - 2010-02-22
31385 Tor 0.2.2.9-alpha makes Tor work again on the latest OS X, updates the
31386 location of a directory authority, and cleans up a bunch of small bugs.
31388 o Directory authority changes:
31389 - Change IP address for dannenberg (v3 directory authority), and
31390 remove moria2 (obsolete v1, v2 directory authority and v0 hidden
31391 service directory authority) from the list.
31394 - Make Tor work again on the latest OS X: when deciding whether to
31395 use strange flags to turn TLS renegotiation on, detect the OpenSSL
31396 version at run-time, not compile time. We need to do this because
31397 Apple doesn't update its dev-tools headers when it updates its
31398 libraries in a security patch.
31399 - Fix a potential buffer overflow in lookup_last_hid_serv_request()
31400 that could happen on 32-bit platforms with 64-bit time_t. Also fix
31401 a memory leak when requesting a hidden service descriptor we've
31402 requested before. Fixes bug 1242, bugfix on 0.2.0.18-alpha. Found
31404 - Authorities could be tricked into giving out the Exit flag to relays
31405 that didn't allow exiting to any ports. This bug could screw
31406 with load balancing and stats. Bugfix on 0.1.1.6-alpha; fixes bug
31407 1238. Bug discovered by Martin Kowalczyk.
31408 - When freeing a session key, zero it out completely. We only zeroed
31409 the first ptrsize bytes. Bugfix on 0.0.2pre8. Discovered and
31410 patched by ekir. Fixes bug 1254.
31413 - Fix static compilation by listing the openssl libraries in the right
31414 order. Bugfix on Tor 0.2.2.8-alpha; fixes bug 1237.
31415 - Resume handling .exit hostnames in a special way: originally we
31416 stripped the .exit part and used the requested exit relay. In
31417 0.2.2.1-alpha we stopped treating them in any special way, meaning
31418 if you use a .exit address then Tor will pass it on to the exit
31419 relay. Now we reject the .exit stream outright, since that behavior
31420 might be more expected by the user. Found and diagnosed by Scott
31421 Bennett and Downie on or-talk.
31422 - Don't spam the controller with events when we have no file
31423 descriptors available. Bugfix on 0.2.1.5-alpha. (Rate-limiting
31424 for log messages was already solved from bug 748.)
31425 - Avoid a bogus overlapped memcpy in tor_addr_copy(). Reported by
31427 - Make the DNSPort option work with libevent 2.x. Don't alter the
31428 behavior for libevent 1.x. Fixes bug 1143. Found by SwissTorExit.
31429 - Emit a GUARD DROPPED controller event for a case we missed.
31430 - Make more fields in the controller protocol case-insensitive, since
31431 control-spec.txt said they were.
31432 - Refactor resolve_my_address() to not use gethostbyname() anymore.
31433 Fixes bug 1244; bugfix on 0.0.2pre25. Reported by Mike Mestnik.
31434 - Fix a spec conformance issue: the network-status-version token
31435 must be the first token in a v3 consensus or vote. Discovered by
31436 parakeep. Bugfix on 0.2.0.3-alpha.
31438 o Code simplifications and refactoring:
31439 - Generate our manpage and HTML documentation using Asciidoc. This
31440 change should make it easier to maintain the documentation, and
31441 produce nicer HTML.
31442 - Remove the --enable-iphone option. According to reports from Marco
31443 Bonetti, Tor builds fine without any special tweaking on recent
31444 iPhone SDK versions.
31445 - Removed some unnecessary files from the source distribution. The
31446 AUTHORS file has now been merged into the people page on the
31447 website. The roadmaps and design doc can now be found in the
31448 projects directory in svn.
31449 - Enabled various circuit build timeout constants to be controlled
31450 by consensus parameters. Also set better defaults for these
31451 parameters based on experimentation on broadband and simulated
31452 high latency links.
31455 - The 'EXTENDCIRCUIT' control port command can now be used with
31456 a circ id of 0 and no path. This feature will cause Tor to build
31457 a new 'fast' general purpose circuit using its own path selection
31459 - Added a BUILDTIMEOUT_SET controller event to describe changes
31460 to the circuit build timeout.
31461 - Future-proof the controller protocol a bit by ignoring keyword
31462 arguments we do not recognize.
31463 - Expand homedirs passed to tor-checkkey. This should silence a
31464 coverity complaint about passing a user-supplied string into
31465 open() without checking it.
31468 Changes in version 0.2.1.25 - 2010-03-16
31469 Tor 0.2.1.25 fixes a regression introduced in 0.2.1.23 that could
31470 prevent relays from guessing their IP address correctly. It also fixes
31471 several minor potential security bugs.
31474 - Fix a regression from our patch for bug 1244 that caused relays
31475 to guess their IP address incorrectly if they didn't set Address
31476 in their torrc and/or their address fails to resolve. Bugfix on
31477 0.2.1.23; fixes bug 1269.
31478 - When freeing a session key, zero it out completely. We only zeroed
31479 the first ptrsize bytes. Bugfix on 0.0.2pre8. Discovered and
31480 patched by ekir. Fixes bug 1254.
31483 - Fix a dereference-then-NULL-check sequence when publishing
31484 descriptors. Bugfix on 0.2.1.5-alpha. Discovered by ekir; fixes
31486 - Fix another dereference-then-NULL-check sequence. Bugfix on
31487 0.2.1.14-rc. Discovered by ekir; fixes bug 1256.
31488 - Make sure we treat potentially not NUL-terminated strings correctly.
31489 Bugfix on 0.1.1.13-alpha. Discovered by rieo; fixes bug 1257.
31493 Changes in version 0.2.1.24 - 2010-02-21
31494 Tor 0.2.1.24 makes Tor work again on the latest OS X -- this time
31498 - Work correctly out-of-the-box with even more vendor-patched versions
31499 of OpenSSL. In particular, make it so Debian and OS X don't need
31500 customized patches to run/build.
31503 Changes in version 0.2.1.23 - 2010-02-13
31504 Tor 0.2.1.23 fixes a huge client-side performance bug, makes Tor work
31505 again on the latest OS X, and updates the location of a directory
31508 o Major bugfixes (performance):
31509 - We were selecting our guards uniformly at random, and then weighting
31510 which of our guards we'd use uniformly at random. This imbalance
31511 meant that Tor clients were severely limited on throughput (and
31512 probably latency too) by the first hop in their circuit. Now we
31513 select guards weighted by currently advertised bandwidth. We also
31514 automatically discard guards picked using the old algorithm. Fixes
31515 bug 1217; bugfix on 0.2.1.3-alpha. Found by Mike Perry.
31518 - Make Tor work again on the latest OS X: when deciding whether to
31519 use strange flags to turn TLS renegotiation on, detect the OpenSSL
31520 version at run-time, not compile time. We need to do this because
31521 Apple doesn't update its dev-tools headers when it updates its
31522 libraries in a security patch.
31523 - Fix a potential buffer overflow in lookup_last_hid_serv_request()
31524 that could happen on 32-bit platforms with 64-bit time_t. Also fix
31525 a memory leak when requesting a hidden service descriptor we've
31526 requested before. Fixes bug 1242, bugfix on 0.2.0.18-alpha. Found
31529 o Directory authority changes:
31530 - Change IP address for dannenberg (v3 directory authority), and
31531 remove moria2 (obsolete v1, v2 directory authority and v0 hidden
31532 service directory authority) from the list.
31535 - Refactor resolve_my_address() to not use gethostbyname() anymore.
31536 Fixes bug 1244; bugfix on 0.0.2pre25. Reported by Mike Mestnik.
31539 - Avoid a mad rush at the beginning of each month when each client
31540 rotates half of its guards. Instead we spread the rotation out
31541 throughout the month, but we still avoid leaving a precise timestamp
31542 in the state file about when we first picked the guard. Improves
31543 over the behavior introduced in 0.1.2.17.
31546 Changes in version 0.2.2.8-alpha - 2010-01-26
31547 Tor 0.2.2.8-alpha fixes a crash bug in 0.2.2.7-alpha that has been
31548 causing bridge relays to disappear. If you're running a bridge,
31552 - Fix a memory corruption bug on bridges that occurred during the
31553 inclusion of stats data in extra-info descriptors. Also fix the
31554 interface for geoip_get_bridge_stats* to prevent similar bugs in
31555 the future. Diagnosis by Tas, patch by Karsten and Sebastian.
31556 Fixes bug 1208; bugfix on 0.2.2.7-alpha.
31559 - Ignore OutboundBindAddress when connecting to localhost.
31560 Connections to localhost need to come _from_ localhost, or else
31561 local servers (like DNS and outgoing HTTP/SOCKS proxies) will often
31565 Changes in version 0.2.2.7-alpha - 2010-01-19
31566 Tor 0.2.2.7-alpha fixes a huge client-side performance bug, as well
31567 as laying the groundwork for further relay-side performance fixes. It
31568 also starts cleaning up client behavior with respect to the EntryNodes,
31569 ExitNodes, and StrictNodes config options.
31571 This release also rotates two directory authority keys, due to a
31572 security breach of some of the Torproject servers.
31574 o Directory authority changes:
31575 - Rotate keys (both v3 identity and relay identity) for moria1
31578 o Major features (performance):
31579 - We were selecting our guards uniformly at random, and then weighting
31580 which of our guards we'd use uniformly at random. This imbalance
31581 meant that Tor clients were severely limited on throughput (and
31582 probably latency too) by the first hop in their circuit. Now we
31583 select guards weighted by currently advertised bandwidth. We also
31584 automatically discard guards picked using the old algorithm. Fixes
31585 bug 1217; bugfix on 0.2.1.3-alpha. Found by Mike Perry.
31586 - When choosing which cells to relay first, relays can now favor
31587 circuits that have been quiet recently, to provide lower latency
31588 for low-volume circuits. By default, relays enable or disable this
31589 feature based on a setting in the consensus. You can override
31590 this default by using the new "CircuitPriorityHalflife" config
31591 option. Design and code by Ian Goldberg, Can Tang, and Chris
31593 - Add separate per-conn write limiting to go with the per-conn read
31594 limiting. We added a global write limit in Tor 0.1.2.5-alpha,
31595 but never per-conn write limits.
31596 - New consensus params "bwconnrate" and "bwconnburst" to let us
31597 rate-limit client connections as they enter the network. It's
31598 controlled in the consensus so we can turn it on and off for
31599 experiments. It's starting out off. Based on proposal 163.
31601 o Major features (relay selection options):
31602 - Switch to a StrictNodes config option, rather than the previous
31603 "StrictEntryNodes" / "StrictExitNodes" separation that was missing a
31604 "StrictExcludeNodes" option.
31605 - If EntryNodes, ExitNodes, ExcludeNodes, or ExcludeExitNodes
31606 change during a config reload, mark and discard all our origin
31607 circuits. This fix should address edge cases where we change the
31608 config options and but then choose a circuit that we created before
31610 - If EntryNodes or ExitNodes are set, be more willing to use an
31611 unsuitable (e.g. slow or unstable) circuit. The user asked for it,
31613 - Make EntryNodes config option much more aggressive even when
31614 StrictNodes is not set. Before it would prepend your requested
31615 entrynodes to your list of guard nodes, but feel free to use others
31616 after that. Now it chooses only from your EntryNodes if any of
31617 those are available, and only falls back to others if a) they're
31618 all down and b) StrictNodes is not set.
31619 - Now we refresh your entry guards from EntryNodes at each consensus
31620 fetch -- rather than just at startup and then they slowly rot as
31621 the network changes.
31624 - Stop bridge directory authorities from answering dbg-stability.txt
31625 directory queries, which would let people fetch a list of all
31626 bridge identities they track. Bugfix on 0.2.1.6-alpha.
31629 - Log a notice when we get a new control connection. Now it's easier
31630 for security-conscious users to recognize when a local application
31631 is knocking on their controller door. Suggested by bug 1196.
31632 - New config option "CircuitStreamTimeout" to override our internal
31633 timeout schedule for how many seconds until we detach a stream from
31634 a circuit and try a new circuit. If your network is particularly
31635 slow, you might want to set this to a number like 60.
31636 - New controller command "getinfo config-text". It returns the
31637 contents that Tor would write if you send it a SAVECONF command,
31638 so the controller can write the file to disk itself.
31639 - New options for SafeLogging to allow scrubbing only log messages
31640 generated while acting as a relay.
31641 - Ship the bridges spec file in the tarball too.
31642 - Avoid a mad rush at the beginning of each month when each client
31643 rotates half of its guards. Instead we spread the rotation out
31644 throughout the month, but we still avoid leaving a precise timestamp
31645 in the state file about when we first picked the guard. Improves
31646 over the behavior introduced in 0.1.2.17.
31648 o Minor bugfixes (compiling):
31649 - Fix compilation on OS X 10.3, which has a stub mlockall() but
31650 hides it. Bugfix on 0.2.2.6-alpha.
31651 - Fix compilation on Solaris by removing support for the
31652 DisableAllSwap config option. Solaris doesn't have an rlimit for
31653 mlockall, so we cannot use it safely. Fixes bug 1198; bugfix on
31656 o Minor bugfixes (crashes):
31657 - Do not segfault when writing buffer stats when we haven't observed
31658 a single circuit to report about. Found by Fabian Lanze. Bugfix on
31660 - If we're in the pathological case where there's no exit bandwidth
31661 but there is non-exit bandwidth, or no guard bandwidth but there
31662 is non-guard bandwidth, don't crash during path selection. Bugfix
31664 - Fix an impossible-to-actually-trigger buffer overflow in relay
31665 descriptor generation. Bugfix on 0.1.0.15.
31667 o Minor bugfixes (privacy):
31668 - Fix an instance where a Tor directory mirror might accidentally
31669 log the IP address of a misbehaving Tor client. Bugfix on
31671 - Don't list Windows capabilities in relay descriptors. We never made
31672 use of them, and maybe it's a bad idea to publish them. Bugfix
31675 o Minor bugfixes (other):
31676 - Resolve an edge case in path weighting that could make us misweight
31677 our relay selection. Fixes bug 1203; bugfix on 0.0.8rc1.
31678 - Fix statistics on client numbers by country as seen by bridges that
31679 were broken in 0.2.2.1-alpha. Also switch to reporting full 24-hour
31680 intervals instead of variable 12-to-48-hour intervals.
31681 - After we free an internal connection structure, overwrite it
31682 with a different memory value than we use for overwriting a freed
31683 internal circuit structure. Should help with debugging. Suggested
31685 - Update our OpenSSL 0.9.8l fix so that it works with OpenSSL 0.9.8m
31688 o Removed features:
31689 - Remove the HSAuthorityRecordStats option that version 0 hidden
31690 service authorities could have used to track statistics of overall
31691 hidden service usage.
31694 Changes in version 0.2.1.22 - 2010-01-19
31695 Tor 0.2.1.22 fixes a critical privacy problem in bridge directory
31696 authorities -- it would tell you its whole history of bridge descriptors
31697 if you make the right directory request. This stable update also
31698 rotates two of the seven v3 directory authority keys and locations.
31700 o Directory authority changes:
31701 - Rotate keys (both v3 identity and relay identity) for moria1
31705 - Stop bridge directory authorities from answering dbg-stability.txt
31706 directory queries, which would let people fetch a list of all
31707 bridge identities they track. Bugfix on 0.2.1.6-alpha.
31710 Changes in version 0.2.1.21 - 2009-12-21
31711 Tor 0.2.1.21 fixes an incompatibility with the most recent OpenSSL
31712 library. If you use Tor on Linux / Unix and you're getting SSL
31713 renegotiation errors, upgrading should help. We also recommend an
31714 upgrade if you're an exit relay.
31717 - Work around a security feature in OpenSSL 0.9.8l that prevents our
31718 handshake from working unless we explicitly tell OpenSSL that we
31719 are using SSL renegotiation safely. We are, of course, but OpenSSL
31720 0.9.8l won't work unless we say we are.
31721 - Avoid crashing if the client is trying to upload many bytes and the
31722 circuit gets torn down at the same time, or if the flip side
31723 happens on the exit relay. Bugfix on 0.2.0.1-alpha; fixes bug 1150.
31726 - Do not refuse to learn about authority certs and v2 networkstatus
31727 documents that are older than the latest consensus. This bug might
31728 have degraded client bootstrapping. Bugfix on 0.2.0.10-alpha.
31729 Spotted and fixed by xmux.
31730 - Fix a couple of very-hard-to-trigger memory leaks, and one hard-to-
31731 trigger platform-specific option misparsing case found by Coverity
31733 - Fix a compilation warning on Fedora 12 by removing an impossible-to-
31734 trigger assert. Fixes bug 1173.
31737 Changes in version 0.2.2.6-alpha - 2009-11-19
31738 Tor 0.2.2.6-alpha lays the groundwork for many upcoming features:
31739 support for the new lower-footprint "microdescriptor" directory design,
31740 future-proofing our consensus format against new hash functions or
31741 other changes, and an Android port. It also makes Tor compatible with
31742 the upcoming OpenSSL 0.9.8l release, and fixes a variety of bugs.
31745 - Directory authorities can now create, vote on, and serve multiple
31746 parallel formats of directory data as part of their voting process.
31747 Partially implements Proposal 162: "Publish the consensus in
31749 - Directory authorities can now agree on and publish small summaries
31750 of router information that clients can use in place of regular
31751 server descriptors. This transition will eventually allow clients
31752 to use far less bandwidth for downloading information about the
31753 network. Begins the implementation of Proposal 158: "Clients
31754 download consensus + microdescriptors".
31755 - The directory voting system is now extensible to use multiple hash
31756 algorithms for signatures and resource selection. Newer formats
31757 are signed with SHA256, with a possibility for moving to a better
31758 hash algorithm in the future.
31759 - New DisableAllSwap option. If set to 1, Tor will attempt to lock all
31760 current and future memory pages via mlockall(). On supported
31761 platforms (modern Linux and probably BSD but not Windows or OS X),
31762 this should effectively disable any and all attempts to page out
31763 memory. This option requires that you start your Tor as root --
31764 if you use DisableAllSwap, please consider using the User option
31765 to properly reduce the privileges of your Tor.
31766 - Numerous changes, bugfixes, and workarounds from Nathan Freitas
31767 to help Tor build correctly for Android phones.
31770 - Work around a security feature in OpenSSL 0.9.8l that prevents our
31771 handshake from working unless we explicitly tell OpenSSL that we
31772 are using SSL renegotiation safely. We are, but OpenSSL 0.9.8l
31773 won't work unless we say we are.
31776 - Fix a crash bug when trying to initialize the evdns module in
31777 Libevent 2. Bugfix on 0.2.1.16-rc.
31778 - Stop logging at severity 'warn' when some other Tor client tries
31779 to establish a circuit with us using weak DH keys. It's a protocol
31780 violation, but that doesn't mean ordinary users need to hear about
31781 it. Fixes the bug part of bug 1114. Bugfix on 0.1.0.13.
31782 - Do not refuse to learn about authority certs and v2 networkstatus
31783 documents that are older than the latest consensus. This bug might
31784 have degraded client bootstrapping. Bugfix on 0.2.0.10-alpha.
31785 Spotted and fixed by xmux.
31786 - Fix numerous small code-flaws found by Coverity Scan Rung 3.
31787 - If all authorities restart at once right before a consensus vote,
31788 nobody will vote about "Running", and clients will get a consensus
31789 with no usable relays. Instead, authorities refuse to build a
31790 consensus if this happens. Bugfix on 0.2.0.10-alpha; fixes bug 1066.
31791 - If your relay can't keep up with the number of incoming create
31792 cells, it would log one warning per failure into your logs. Limit
31793 warnings to 1 per minute. Bugfix on 0.0.2pre10; fixes bug 1042.
31794 - Bridges now use "reject *:*" as their default exit policy. Bugfix
31795 on 0.2.0.3-alpha; fixes bug 1113.
31796 - Fix a memory leak on directory authorities during voting that was
31797 introduced in 0.2.2.1-alpha. Found via valgrind.
31800 Changes in version 0.2.1.20 - 2009-10-15
31801 Tor 0.2.1.20 fixes a crash bug when you're accessing many hidden
31802 services at once, prepares for more performance improvements, and
31803 fixes a bunch of smaller bugs.
31805 The Windows and OS X bundles also include a more recent Vidalia,
31806 and switch from Privoxy to Polipo.
31808 The OS X installers are now drag and drop. It's best to un-install
31809 Tor/Vidalia and then install this new bundle, rather than upgrade. If
31810 you want to upgrade, you'll need to update the paths for Tor and Polipo
31811 in the Vidalia Settings window.
31814 - Send circuit or stream sendme cells when our window has decreased
31815 by 100 cells, not when it has decreased by 101 cells. Bug uncovered
31816 by Karsten when testing the "reduce circuit window" performance
31817 patch. Bugfix on the 54th commit on Tor -- from July 2002,
31818 before the release of Tor 0.0.0. This is the new winner of the
31820 - Fix a remotely triggerable memory leak when a consensus document
31821 contains more than one signature from the same voter. Bugfix on
31823 - Avoid segfault in rare cases when finishing an introduction circuit
31824 as a client and finding out that we don't have an introduction key
31825 for it. Fixes bug 1073. Reported by Aaron Swartz.
31828 - Tor now reads the "circwindow" parameter out of the consensus,
31829 and uses that value for its circuit package window rather than the
31830 default of 1000 cells. Begins the implementation of proposal 168.
31832 o New directory authorities:
31833 - Set up urras (run by Jacob Appelbaum) as the seventh v3 directory
31835 - Move moria1 and tonga to alternate IP addresses.
31838 - Fix a signed/unsigned compile warning in 0.2.1.19.
31839 - Fix possible segmentation fault on directory authorities. Bugfix on
31841 - Fix an extremely rare infinite recursion bug that could occur if
31842 we tried to log a message after shutting down the log subsystem.
31843 Found by Matt Edman. Bugfix on 0.2.0.16-alpha.
31844 - Fix an obscure bug where hidden services on 64-bit big-endian
31845 systems might mis-read the timestamp in v3 introduce cells, and
31846 refuse to connect back to the client. Discovered by "rotor".
31847 Bugfix on 0.2.1.6-alpha.
31848 - We were triggering a CLOCK_SKEW controller status event whenever
31849 we connect via the v2 connection protocol to any relay that has
31850 a wrong clock. Instead, we should only inform the controller when
31851 it's a trusted authority that claims our clock is wrong. Bugfix
31852 on 0.2.0.20-rc; starts to fix bug 1074. Reported by SwissTorExit.
31853 - We were telling the controller about CHECKING_REACHABILITY and
31854 REACHABILITY_FAILED status events whenever we launch a testing
31855 circuit or notice that one has failed. Instead, only tell the
31856 controller when we want to inform the user of overall success or
31857 overall failure. Bugfix on 0.1.2.6-alpha. Fixes bug 1075. Reported
31859 - Don't warn when we're using a circuit that ends with a node
31860 excluded in ExcludeExitNodes, but the circuit is not used to access
31861 the outside world. This should help fix bug 1090. Bugfix on
31863 - Work around a small memory leak in some versions of OpenSSL that
31864 stopped the memory used by the hostname TLS extension from being
31868 - Add a "getinfo status/accepted-server-descriptor" controller
31869 command, which is the recommended way for controllers to learn
31870 whether our server descriptor has been successfully received by at
31871 least on directory authority. Un-recommend good-server-descriptor
31872 getinfo and status events until we have a better design for them.
31875 Changes in version 0.2.2.5-alpha - 2009-10-11
31876 Tor 0.2.2.5-alpha fixes a few compile problems in 0.2.2.4-alpha.
31879 - Make the tarball compile again. Oops. Bugfix on 0.2.2.4-alpha.
31881 o Directory authorities:
31882 - Temporarily (just for this release) move dizum to an alternate
31886 Changes in version 0.2.2.4-alpha - 2009-10-10
31887 Tor 0.2.2.4-alpha fixes more crash bugs in 0.2.2.2-alpha. It also
31888 introduces a new unit test framework, shifts directry authority
31889 addresses around to reduce the impact from recent blocking events,
31890 and fixes a few smaller bugs.
31893 - Fix several more asserts in the circuit_build_times code, for
31894 example one that causes Tor to fail to start once we have
31895 accumulated 5000 build times in the state file. Bugfixes on
31896 0.2.2.2-alpha; fixes bug 1108.
31898 o New directory authorities:
31899 - Move moria1 and Tonga to alternate IP addresses.
31902 - Log SSL state transitions at debug level during handshake, and
31903 include SSL states in error messages. This may help debug future
31904 SSL handshake issues.
31905 - Add a new "Handshake" log domain for activities that happen
31906 during the TLS handshake.
31907 - Revert to the "June 3 2009" ip-to-country file. The September one
31908 seems to have removed most US IP addresses.
31909 - Directory authorities now reject Tor relays with versions less than
31910 0.1.2.14. This step cuts out four relays from the current network,
31911 none of which are very big.
31914 - Fix a couple of smaller issues with gathering statistics. Bugfixes
31916 - Fix two memory leaks in the error case of
31917 circuit_build_times_parse_state(). Bugfix on 0.2.2.2-alpha.
31918 - Don't count one-hop circuits when we're estimating how long it
31919 takes circuits to build on average. Otherwise we'll set our circuit
31920 build timeout lower than we should. Bugfix on 0.2.2.2-alpha.
31921 - Directory authorities no longer change their opinion of, or vote on,
31922 whether a router is Running, unless they have themselves been
31923 online long enough to have some idea. Bugfix on 0.2.0.6-alpha.
31926 o Code simplifications and refactoring:
31927 - Revise our unit tests to use the "tinytest" framework, so we
31928 can run tests in their own processes, have smarter setup/teardown
31929 code, and so on. The unit test code has moved to its own
31930 subdirectory, and has been split into multiple modules.
31933 Changes in version 0.2.2.3-alpha - 2009-09-23
31934 Tor 0.2.2.3-alpha fixes a few crash bugs in 0.2.2.2-alpha.
31937 - Fix an overzealous assert in our new circuit build timeout code.
31938 Bugfix on 0.2.2.2-alpha; fixes bug 1103.
31941 - If the networkstatus consensus tells us that we should use a
31942 negative circuit package window, ignore it. Otherwise we'll
31943 believe it and then trigger an assert. Bugfix on 0.2.2.2-alpha.
31946 Changes in version 0.2.2.2-alpha - 2009-09-21
31947 Tor 0.2.2.2-alpha introduces our latest performance improvement for
31948 clients: Tor tracks the average time it takes to build a circuit, and
31949 avoids using circuits that take too long to build. For fast connections,
31950 this feature can cut your expected latency in half. For slow or flaky
31951 connections, it could ruin your Tor experience. Let us know if it does!
31954 - Tor now tracks how long it takes to build client-side circuits
31955 over time, and adapts its timeout to local network performance.
31956 Since a circuit that takes a long time to build will also provide
31957 bad performance, we get significant latency improvements by
31958 discarding the slowest 20% of circuits. Specifically, Tor creates
31959 circuits more aggressively than usual until it has enough data
31960 points for a good timeout estimate. Implements proposal 151.
31961 We are especially looking for reports (good and bad) from users with
31962 both EDGE and broadband connections that can move from broadband
31963 to EDGE and find out if the build-time data in the .tor/state gets
31964 reset without loss of Tor usability. You should also see a notice
31965 log message telling you that Tor has reset its timeout.
31966 - Directory authorities can now vote on arbitrary integer values as
31967 part of the consensus process. This is designed to help set
31968 network-wide parameters. Implements proposal 167.
31969 - Tor now reads the "circwindow" parameter out of the consensus,
31970 and uses that value for its circuit package window rather than the
31971 default of 1000 cells. Begins the implementation of proposal 168.
31974 - Fix a remotely triggerable memory leak when a consensus document
31975 contains more than one signature from the same voter. Bugfix on
31979 - Fix an extremely rare infinite recursion bug that could occur if
31980 we tried to log a message after shutting down the log subsystem.
31981 Found by Matt Edman. Bugfix on 0.2.0.16-alpha.
31982 - Fix parsing for memory or time units given without a space between
31983 the number and the unit. Bugfix on 0.2.2.1-alpha; fixes bug 1076.
31984 - A networkstatus vote must contain exactly one signature. Spec
31985 conformance issue. Bugfix on 0.2.0.3-alpha.
31986 - Fix an obscure bug where hidden services on 64-bit big-endian
31987 systems might mis-read the timestamp in v3 introduce cells, and
31988 refuse to connect back to the client. Discovered by "rotor".
31989 Bugfix on 0.2.1.6-alpha.
31990 - We were triggering a CLOCK_SKEW controller status event whenever
31991 we connect via the v2 connection protocol to any relay that has
31992 a wrong clock. Instead, we should only inform the controller when
31993 it's a trusted authority that claims our clock is wrong. Bugfix
31994 on 0.2.0.20-rc; starts to fix bug 1074. Reported by SwissTorExit.
31995 - We were telling the controller about CHECKING_REACHABILITY and
31996 REACHABILITY_FAILED status events whenever we launch a testing
31997 circuit or notice that one has failed. Instead, only tell the
31998 controller when we want to inform the user of overall success or
31999 overall failure. Bugfix on 0.1.2.6-alpha. Fixes bug 1075. Reported
32001 - Don't warn when we're using a circuit that ends with a node
32002 excluded in ExcludeExitNodes, but the circuit is not used to access
32003 the outside world. This should help fix bug 1090, but more problems
32004 remain. Bugfix on 0.2.1.6-alpha.
32005 - Work around a small memory leak in some versions of OpenSSL that
32006 stopped the memory used by the hostname TLS extension from being
32008 - Make our 'torify' script more portable; if we have only one of
32009 'torsocks' or 'tsocks' installed, don't complain to the user;
32010 and explain our warning about tsocks better.
32013 - Add a "getinfo status/accepted-server-descriptor" controller
32014 command, which is the recommended way for controllers to learn
32015 whether our server descriptor has been successfully received by at
32016 least on directory authority. Un-recommend good-server-descriptor
32017 getinfo and status events until we have a better design for them.
32018 - Update to the "September 4 2009" ip-to-country file.
32021 Changes in version 0.2.2.1-alpha - 2009-08-26
32022 Tor 0.2.2.1-alpha disables ".exit" address notation by default, allows
32023 Tor clients to bootstrap on networks where only port 80 is reachable,
32024 makes it more straightforward to support hardware crypto accelerators,
32025 and starts the groundwork for gathering stats safely at relays.
32028 - Start the process of disabling ".exit" address notation, since it
32029 can be used for a variety of esoteric application-level attacks
32030 on users. To reenable it, set "AllowDotExit 1" in your torrc. Fix
32033 o New directory authorities:
32034 - Set up urras (run by Jacob Appelbaum) as the seventh v3 directory
32038 - New AccelName and AccelDir options add support for dynamic OpenSSL
32039 hardware crypto acceleration engines.
32040 - Tor now supports tunneling all of its outgoing connections over
32041 a SOCKS proxy, using the SOCKS4Proxy and/or SOCKS5Proxy
32042 configuration options. Code by Christopher Davis.
32045 - Send circuit or stream sendme cells when our window has decreased
32046 by 100 cells, not when it has decreased by 101 cells. Bug uncovered
32047 by Karsten when testing the "reduce circuit window" performance
32048 patch. Bugfix on the 54th commit on Tor -- from July 2002,
32049 before the release of Tor 0.0.0. This is the new winner of the
32052 o New options for gathering stats safely:
32053 - Directory mirrors that set "DirReqStatistics 1" write statistics
32054 about directory requests to disk every 24 hours. As compared to the
32055 --enable-geoip-stats flag in 0.2.1.x, there are a few improvements:
32056 1) stats are written to disk exactly every 24 hours; 2) estimated
32057 shares of v2 and v3 requests are determined as mean values, not at
32058 the end of a measurement period; 3) unresolved requests are listed
32059 with country code '??'; 4) directories also measure download times.
32060 - Exit nodes that set "ExitPortStatistics 1" write statistics on the
32061 number of exit streams and transferred bytes per port to disk every
32063 - Relays that set "CellStatistics 1" write statistics on how long
32064 cells spend in their circuit queues to disk every 24 hours.
32065 - Entry nodes that set "EntryStatistics 1" write statistics on the
32066 rough number and origins of connecting clients to disk every 24
32068 - Relays that write any of the above statistics to disk and set
32069 "ExtraInfoStatistics 1" include the past 24 hours of statistics in
32070 their extra-info documents.
32073 - New --digests command-line switch to output the digests of the
32074 source files Tor was built with.
32075 - The "torify" script now uses torsocks where available.
32076 - The memarea code now uses a sentinel value at the end of each area
32077 to make sure nothing writes beyond the end of an area. This might
32078 help debug some conceivable causes of bug 930.
32079 - Time and memory units in the configuration file can now be set to
32080 fractional units. For example, "2.5 GB" is now a valid value for
32082 - Certain Tor clients (such as those behind check.torproject.org) may
32083 want to fetch the consensus in an extra early manner. To enable this
32084 a user may now set FetchDirInfoExtraEarly to 1. This also depends on
32085 setting FetchDirInfoEarly to 1. Previous behavior will stay the same
32086 as only certain clients who must have this information sooner should
32088 - Instead of adding the svn revision to the Tor version string, report
32089 the git commit (when we're building from a git checkout).
32092 - If any of the v3 certs we download are unparseable, we should
32093 actually notice the failure so we don't retry indefinitely. Bugfix
32094 on 0.2.0.x; reported by "rotator".
32095 - If the cached cert file is unparseable, warn but don't exit.
32096 - Fix possible segmentation fault on directory authorities. Bugfix on
32098 - When Tor fails to parse a descriptor of any kind, dump it to disk.
32099 Might help diagnosing bug 1051.
32101 o Deprecated and removed features:
32102 - The controller no longer accepts the old obsolete "addr-mappings/"
32103 or "unregistered-servers-" GETINFO values.
32104 - Hidden services no longer publish version 0 descriptors, and clients
32105 do not request or use version 0 descriptors. However, the old hidden
32106 service authorities still accept and serve version 0 descriptors
32107 when contacted by older hidden services/clients.
32108 - The EXTENDED_EVENTS and VERBOSE_NAMES controller features are now
32109 always on; using them is necessary for correct forward-compatible
32111 - Remove support for .noconnect style addresses. Nobody was using
32112 them, and they provided another avenue for detecting Tor users
32113 via application-level web tricks.
32115 o Packaging changes:
32116 - Upgrade Vidalia from 0.1.15 to 0.2.3 in the Windows and OS X
32117 installer bundles. See
32118 https://trac.vidalia-project.net/browser/vidalia/tags/vidalia-0.2.3/CHANGELOG
32119 for details of what's new in Vidalia 0.2.3.
32120 - Windows Vidalia Bundle: update Privoxy from 3.0.6 to 3.0.14-beta.
32121 - OS X Vidalia Bundle: move to Polipo 1.0.4 with Tor specific
32122 configuration file, rather than the old Privoxy.
32123 - OS X Vidalia Bundle: Vidalia, Tor, and Polipo are compiled as
32124 x86-only for better compatibility with OS X 10.6, aka Snow Leopard.
32125 - OS X Tor Expert Bundle: Tor is compiled as x86-only for
32126 better compatibility with OS X 10.6, aka Snow Leopard.
32127 - OS X Vidalia Bundle: The multi-package installer is now replaced
32128 by a simple drag and drop to the /Applications folder. This change
32129 occurred with the upgrade to Vidalia 0.2.3.
32132 Changes in version 0.2.1.19 - 2009-07-28
32133 Tor 0.2.1.19 fixes a major bug with accessing and providing hidden
32134 services on Tor 0.2.1.3-alpha through 0.2.1.18.
32137 - Make accessing hidden services on 0.2.1.x work right again.
32138 Bugfix on 0.2.1.3-alpha; workaround for bug 1038. Diagnosis and
32139 part of patch provided by "optimist".
32142 - When a relay/bridge is writing out its identity key fingerprint to
32143 the "fingerprint" file and to its logs, write it without spaces. Now
32144 it will look like the fingerprints in our bridges documentation,
32145 and confuse fewer users.
32148 - Relays no longer publish a new server descriptor if they change
32149 their MaxAdvertisedBandwidth config option but it doesn't end up
32150 changing their advertised bandwidth numbers. Bugfix on 0.2.0.28-rc;
32151 fixes bug 1026. Patch from Sebastian.
32152 - Avoid leaking memory every time we get a create cell but we have
32153 so many already queued that we refuse it. Bugfix on 0.2.0.19-alpha;
32154 fixes bug 1034. Reported by BarkerJr.
32157 Changes in version 0.2.1.18 - 2009-07-24
32158 Tor 0.2.1.18 lays the foundations for performance improvements,
32159 adds status events to help users diagnose bootstrap problems, adds
32160 optional authentication/authorization for hidden services, fixes a
32161 variety of potential anonymity problems, and includes a huge pile of
32162 other features and bug fixes.
32165 - Add LIBS=-lrt to Makefile.am so the Tor RPMs use a static libevent.
32168 Changes in version 0.2.1.17-rc - 2009-07-07
32169 Tor 0.2.1.17-rc marks the fourth -- and hopefully last -- release
32170 candidate for the 0.2.1.x series. It lays the groundwork for further
32171 client performance improvements, and also fixes a big bug with directory
32172 authorities that were causing them to assign Guard and Stable flags
32175 The Windows bundles also finally include the geoip database that we
32176 thought we'd been shipping since 0.2.0.x (oops), and the OS X bundles
32177 should actually install Torbutton rather than giving you a cryptic
32178 failure message (oops).
32181 - Clients now use the bandwidth values in the consensus, rather than
32182 the bandwidth values in each relay descriptor. This approach opens
32183 the door to more accurate bandwidth estimates once the directory
32184 authorities start doing active measurements. Implements more of
32188 - When Tor clients restart after 1-5 days, they discard all their
32189 cached descriptors as too old, but they still use the cached
32190 consensus document. This approach is good for robustness, but
32191 bad for performance: since they don't know any bandwidths, they
32192 end up choosing at random rather than weighting their choice by
32193 speed. Fixed by the above feature of putting bandwidths in the
32194 consensus. Bugfix on 0.2.0.x.
32195 - Directory authorities were neglecting to mark relays down in their
32196 internal histories if the relays fall off the routerlist without
32197 ever being found unreachable. So there were relays in the histories
32198 that haven't been seen for eight months, and are listed as being
32199 up for eight months. This wreaked havoc on the "median wfu"
32200 and "median mtbf" calculations, in turn making Guard and Stable
32201 flags very wrong, hurting network performance. Fixes bugs 696 and
32202 969. Bugfix on 0.2.0.6-alpha.
32205 - Serve the DirPortFrontPage page even when we have been approaching
32206 our quotas recently. Fixes bug 1013; bugfix on 0.2.1.8-alpha.
32207 - The control port would close the connection before flushing long
32208 replies, such as the network consensus, if a QUIT command was issued
32209 before the reply had completed. Now, the control port flushes all
32210 pending replies before closing the connection. Also fixed a spurious
32211 warning when a QUIT command is issued after a malformed or rejected
32212 AUTHENTICATE command, but before the connection was closed. Patch
32213 by Marcus Griep. Bugfix on 0.2.0.x; fixes bugs 1015 and 1016.
32214 - When we can't find an intro key for a v2 hidden service descriptor,
32215 fall back to the v0 hidden service descriptor and log a bug message.
32216 Workaround for bug 1024.
32217 - Fix a log message that did not respect the SafeLogging option.
32221 - If we're a relay and we change our IP address, be more verbose
32222 about the reason that made us change. Should help track down
32223 further bugs for relays on dynamic IP addresses.
32226 Changes in version 0.2.0.35 - 2009-06-24
32228 - Avoid crashing in the presence of certain malformed descriptors.
32229 Found by lark, and by automated fuzzing.
32230 - Fix an edge case where a malicious exit relay could convince a
32231 controller that the client's DNS question resolves to an internal IP
32232 address. Bug found and fixed by "optimist"; bugfix on 0.1.2.8-beta.
32235 - Finally fix the bug where dynamic-IP relays disappear when their
32236 IP address changes: directory mirrors were mistakenly telling
32237 them their old address if they asked via begin_dir, so they
32238 never got an accurate answer about their new address, so they
32239 just vanished after a day. For belt-and-suspenders, relays that
32240 don't set Address in their config now avoid using begin_dir for
32241 all direct connections. Should fix bugs 827, 883, and 900.
32242 - Fix a timing-dependent, allocator-dependent, DNS-related crash bug
32243 that would occur on some exit nodes when DNS failures and timeouts
32244 occurred in certain patterns. Fix for bug 957.
32247 - When starting with a cache over a few days old, do not leak
32248 memory for the obsolete router descriptors in it. Bugfix on
32249 0.2.0.33; fixes bug 672.
32250 - Hidden service clients didn't use a cached service descriptor that
32251 was older than 15 minutes, but wouldn't fetch a new one either,
32252 because there was already one in the cache. Now, fetch a v2
32253 descriptor unless the same descriptor was added to the cache within
32254 the last 15 minutes. Fixes bug 997; reported by Marcus Griep.
32257 Changes in version 0.2.1.16-rc - 2009-06-20
32258 Tor 0.2.1.16-rc speeds up performance for fast exit relays, and fixes
32259 a bunch of minor bugs.
32262 - Fix an edge case where a malicious exit relay could convince a
32263 controller that the client's DNS question resolves to an internal IP
32264 address. Bug found and fixed by "optimist"; bugfix on 0.1.2.8-beta.
32266 o Major performance improvements (on 0.2.0.x):
32267 - Disable and refactor some debugging checks that forced a linear scan
32268 over the whole server-side DNS cache. These accounted for over 50%
32269 of CPU time on a relatively busy exit node's gprof profile. Found
32271 - Disable some debugging checks that appeared in exit node profile
32275 - Update to the "June 3 2009" ip-to-country file.
32276 - Do not have tor-resolve automatically refuse all .onion addresses;
32277 if AutomapHostsOnResolve is set in your torrc, this will work fine.
32279 o Minor bugfixes (on 0.2.0.x):
32280 - Log correct error messages for DNS-related network errors on
32282 - Fix a race condition that could cause crashes or memory corruption
32283 when running as a server with a controller listening for log
32285 - Avoid crashing when we have a policy specified in a DirPolicy or
32286 SocksPolicy or ReachableAddresses option with ports set on it,
32287 and we re-load the policy. May fix bug 996.
32288 - Hidden service clients didn't use a cached service descriptor that
32289 was older than 15 minutes, but wouldn't fetch a new one either,
32290 because there was already one in the cache. Now, fetch a v2
32291 descriptor unless the same descriptor was added to the cache within
32292 the last 15 minutes. Fixes bug 997; reported by Marcus Griep.
32294 o Minor bugfixes (on 0.2.1.x):
32295 - Don't warn users about low port and hibernation mix when they
32296 provide a *ListenAddress directive to fix that. Bugfix on
32298 - When switching back and forth between bridge mode, do not start
32299 gathering GeoIP data until two hours have passed.
32300 - Do not complain that the user has requested an excluded node as
32301 an exit when the node is not really an exit. This could happen
32302 because the circuit was for testing, or an introduction point.
32306 Changes in version 0.2.1.15-rc - 2009-05-25
32307 Tor 0.2.1.15-rc marks the second release candidate for the 0.2.1.x
32308 series. It fixes a major bug on fast exit relays, as well as a variety
32309 of more minor bugs.
32311 o Major bugfixes (on 0.2.0.x):
32312 - Fix a timing-dependent, allocator-dependent, DNS-related crash bug
32313 that would occur on some exit nodes when DNS failures and timeouts
32314 occurred in certain patterns. Fix for bug 957.
32316 o Minor bugfixes (on 0.2.0.x):
32317 - Actually return -1 in the error case for read_bandwidth_usage().
32318 Harmless bug, since we currently don't care about the return value
32319 anywhere. Bugfix on 0.2.0.9-alpha.
32320 - Provide a more useful log message if bug 977 (related to buffer
32321 freelists) ever reappears, and do not crash right away.
32322 - Fix an assertion failure on 64-bit platforms when we allocated
32323 memory right up to the end of a memarea, then realigned the memory
32324 one step beyond the end. Fixes a possible cause of bug 930.
32325 - Protect the count of open sockets with a mutex, so we can't
32326 corrupt it when two threads are closing or opening sockets at once.
32327 Fix for bug 939. Bugfix on 0.2.0.1-alpha.
32328 - Don't allow a bridge to publish its router descriptor to a
32329 non-bridge directory authority. Fixes part of bug 932.
32330 - When we change to or from being a bridge, reset our counts of
32331 client usage by country. Fixes bug 932.
32332 - Fix a bug that made stream bandwidth get misreported to the
32334 - Stop using malloc_usable_size() to use more area than we had
32335 actually allocated: it was safe, but made valgrind really unhappy.
32336 - Fix a memory leak when v3 directory authorities load their keys
32337 and cert from disk. Bugfix on 0.2.0.1-alpha.
32339 o Minor bugfixes (on 0.2.1.x):
32340 - Fix use of freed memory when deciding to mark a non-addable
32341 descriptor as never-downloadable. Bugfix on 0.2.1.9-alpha.
32344 Changes in version 0.2.1.14-rc - 2009-04-12
32345 Tor 0.2.1.14-rc marks the first release candidate for the 0.2.1.x
32346 series. It begins fixing some major performance problems, and also
32347 finally addresses the bug that was causing relays on dynamic IP
32348 addresses to fall out of the directory.
32351 - Clients replace entry guards that were chosen more than a few months
32352 ago. This change should significantly improve client performance,
32353 especially once more people upgrade, since relays that have been
32354 a guard for a long time are currently overloaded.
32356 o Major bugfixes (on 0.2.0):
32357 - Finally fix the bug where dynamic-IP relays disappear when their
32358 IP address changes: directory mirrors were mistakenly telling
32359 them their old address if they asked via begin_dir, so they
32360 never got an accurate answer about their new address, so they
32361 just vanished after a day. For belt-and-suspenders, relays that
32362 don't set Address in their config now avoid using begin_dir for
32363 all direct connections. Should fix bugs 827, 883, and 900.
32364 - Relays were falling out of the networkstatus consensus for
32365 part of a day if they changed their local config but the
32366 authorities discarded their new descriptor as "not sufficiently
32367 different". Now directory authorities accept a descriptor as changed
32368 if bandwidthrate or bandwidthburst changed. Partial fix for bug 962;
32369 patch by Sebastian.
32370 - Avoid crashing in the presence of certain malformed descriptors.
32371 Found by lark, and by automated fuzzing.
32374 - When generating circuit events with verbose nicknames for
32375 controllers, try harder to look up nicknames for routers on a
32376 circuit. (Previously, we would look in the router descriptors we had
32377 for nicknames, but not in the consensus.) Partial fix for bug 941.
32378 - If the bridge config line doesn't specify a port, assume 443.
32379 This makes bridge lines a bit smaller and easier for users to
32381 - Raise the minimum bandwidth to be a relay from 20000 bytes to 20480
32382 bytes (aka 20KB/s), to match our documentation. Also update
32383 directory authorities so they always assign the Fast flag to relays
32384 with 20KB/s of capacity. Now people running relays won't suddenly
32385 find themselves not seeing any use, if the network gets faster
32387 - Update to the "April 3 2009" ip-to-country file.
32390 - Avoid trying to print raw memory to the logs when we decide to
32391 give up on downloading a given relay descriptor. Bugfix on
32393 - In tor-resolve, when the Tor client to use is specified by
32394 <hostname>:<port>, actually use the specified port rather than
32395 defaulting to 9050. Bugfix on 0.2.1.6-alpha.
32396 - Make directory usage recording work again. Bugfix on 0.2.1.6-alpha.
32397 - When starting with a cache over a few days old, do not leak
32398 memory for the obsolete router descriptors in it. Bugfix on
32400 - Avoid double-free on list of successfully uploaded hidden
32401 service discriptors. Fix for bug 948. Bugfix on 0.2.1.6-alpha.
32402 - Change memarea_strndup() implementation to work even when
32403 duplicating a string at the end of a page. This bug was
32404 harmless for now, but could have meant crashes later. Fix by
32405 lark. Bugfix on 0.2.1.1-alpha.
32406 - Limit uploaded directory documents to be 16M rather than 500K.
32407 The directory authorities were refusing v3 consensus votes from
32408 other authorities, since the votes are now 504K. Fixes bug 959;
32409 bugfix on 0.0.2pre17 (where we raised it from 50K to 500K ;).
32410 - Directory authorities should never send a 503 "busy" response to
32411 requests for votes or keys. Bugfix on 0.2.0.8-alpha; exposed by
32415 Changes in version 0.2.1.13-alpha - 2009-03-09
32416 Tor 0.2.1.13-alpha includes another big pile of minor bugfixes and
32417 cleanups. We're finally getting close to a release candidate.
32420 - Correctly update the list of which countries we exclude as
32421 exits, when the GeoIP file is loaded or reloaded. Diagnosed by
32422 lark. Bugfix on 0.2.1.6-alpha.
32424 o Minor bugfixes (on 0.2.0.x and earlier):
32425 - Automatically detect MacOSX versions earlier than 10.4.0, and
32426 disable kqueue from inside Tor when running with these versions.
32427 We previously did this from the startup script, but that was no
32428 help to people who didn't use the startup script. Resolves bug 863.
32429 - When we had picked an exit node for a connection, but marked it as
32430 "optional", and it turned out we had no onion key for the exit,
32431 stop wanting that exit and try again. This situation may not
32432 be possible now, but will probably become feasible with proposal
32433 158. Spotted by rovv. Fixes another case of bug 752.
32434 - Clients no longer cache certificates for authorities they do not
32435 recognize. Bugfix on 0.2.0.9-alpha.
32436 - When we can't transmit a DNS request due to a network error, retry
32437 it after a while, and eventually transmit a failing response to
32438 the RESOLVED cell. Bugfix on 0.1.2.5-alpha.
32439 - If the controller claimed responsibility for a stream, but that
32440 stream never finished making its connection, it would live
32441 forever in circuit_wait state. Now we close it after SocksTimeout
32442 seconds. Bugfix on 0.1.2.7-alpha; reported by Mike Perry.
32443 - Drop begin cells to a hidden service if they come from the middle
32444 of a circuit. Patch from lark.
32445 - When we erroneously receive two EXTEND cells for the same circuit
32446 ID on the same connection, drop the second. Patch from lark.
32447 - Fix a crash that occurs on exit nodes when a nameserver request
32448 timed out. Bugfix on 0.1.2.1-alpha; our CLEAR debugging code had
32449 been suppressing the bug since 0.1.2.10-alpha. Partial fix for
32451 - Do not assume that a stack-allocated character array will be
32452 64-bit aligned on platforms that demand that uint64_t access is
32453 aligned. Possible fix for bug 604.
32454 - Parse dates and IPv4 addresses in a locale- and libc-independent
32455 manner, to avoid platform-dependent behavior on malformed input.
32456 - Build correctly when configured to build outside the main source
32457 path. Patch from Michael Gold.
32458 - We were already rejecting relay begin cells with destination port
32459 of 0. Now also reject extend cells with destination port or address
32460 of 0. Suggested by lark.
32462 o Minor bugfixes (on 0.2.1.x):
32463 - Don't re-extend introduction circuits if we ran out of RELAY_EARLY
32464 cells. Bugfix on 0.2.1.3-alpha. Fixes more of bug 878.
32465 - If we're an exit node, scrub the IP address to which we are exiting
32466 in the logs. Bugfix on 0.2.1.8-alpha.
32469 - On Linux, use the prctl call to re-enable core dumps when the user
32471 - New controller event NEWCONSENSUS that lists the networkstatus
32472 lines for every recommended relay. Now controllers like Torflow
32473 can keep up-to-date on which relays they should be using.
32474 - Update to the "February 26 2009" ip-to-country file.
32477 Changes in version 0.2.0.34 - 2009-02-08
32478 Tor 0.2.0.34 features several more security-related fixes. You should
32479 upgrade, especially if you run an exit relay (remote crash) or a
32480 directory authority (remote infinite loop), or you're on an older
32481 (pre-XP) or not-recently-patched Windows (remote exploit).
32483 This release marks end-of-life for Tor 0.1.2.x. Those Tor versions
32484 have many known flaws, and nobody should be using them. You should
32485 upgrade. If you're using a Linux or BSD and its packages are obsolete,
32486 stop using those packages and upgrade anyway.
32489 - Fix an infinite-loop bug on handling corrupt votes under certain
32490 circumstances. Bugfix on 0.2.0.8-alpha.
32491 - Fix a temporary DoS vulnerability that could be performed by
32492 a directory mirror. Bugfix on 0.2.0.9-alpha; reported by lark.
32493 - Avoid a potential crash on exit nodes when processing malformed
32494 input. Remote DoS opportunity. Bugfix on 0.2.0.33.
32495 - Do not accept incomplete ipv4 addresses (like 192.168.0) as valid.
32496 Spec conformance issue. Bugfix on Tor 0.0.2pre27.
32499 - Fix compilation on systems where time_t is a 64-bit integer.
32500 Patch from Matthias Drochner.
32501 - Don't consider expiring already-closed client connections. Fixes
32502 bug 893. Bugfix on 0.0.2pre20.
32505 Changes in version 0.2.1.12-alpha - 2009-02-08
32506 Tor 0.2.1.12-alpha features several more security-related fixes. You
32507 should upgrade, especially if you run an exit relay (remote crash) or
32508 a directory authority (remote infinite loop), or you're on an older
32509 (pre-XP) or not-recently-patched Windows (remote exploit). It also
32510 includes a big pile of minor bugfixes and cleanups.
32513 - Fix an infinite-loop bug on handling corrupt votes under certain
32514 circumstances. Bugfix on 0.2.0.8-alpha.
32515 - Fix a temporary DoS vulnerability that could be performed by
32516 a directory mirror. Bugfix on 0.2.0.9-alpha; reported by lark.
32517 - Avoid a potential crash on exit nodes when processing malformed
32518 input. Remote DoS opportunity. Bugfix on 0.2.1.7-alpha.
32521 - Let controllers actually ask for the "clients_seen" event for
32522 getting usage summaries on bridge relays. Bugfix on 0.2.1.10-alpha;
32523 reported by Matt Edman.
32524 - Fix a compile warning on OSX Panther. Fixes bug 913; bugfix against
32526 - Fix a bug in address parsing that was preventing bridges or hidden
32527 service targets from being at IPv6 addresses.
32528 - Solve a bug that kept hardware crypto acceleration from getting
32529 enabled when accounting was turned on. Fixes bug 907. Bugfix on
32531 - Remove a bash-ism from configure.in to build properly on non-Linux
32532 platforms. Bugfix on 0.2.1.1-alpha.
32533 - Fix code so authorities _actually_ send back X-Descriptor-Not-New
32534 headers. Bugfix on 0.2.0.10-alpha.
32535 - Don't consider expiring already-closed client connections. Fixes
32536 bug 893. Bugfix on 0.0.2pre20.
32537 - Fix another interesting corner-case of bug 891 spotted by rovv:
32538 Previously, if two hosts had different amounts of clock drift, and
32539 one of them created a new connection with just the wrong timing,
32540 the other might decide to deprecate the new connection erroneously.
32541 Bugfix on 0.1.1.13-alpha.
32542 - Resolve a very rare crash bug that could occur when the user forced
32543 a nameserver reconfiguration during the middle of a nameserver
32544 probe. Fixes bug 526. Bugfix on 0.1.2.1-alpha.
32545 - Support changing value of ServerDNSRandomizeCase during SIGHUP.
32546 Bugfix on 0.2.1.7-alpha.
32547 - If we're using bridges and our network goes away, be more willing
32548 to forgive our bridges and try again when we get an application
32549 request. Bugfix on 0.2.0.x.
32552 - Support platforms where time_t is 64 bits long. (Congratulations,
32553 NetBSD!) Patch from Matthias Drochner.
32554 - Add a 'getinfo status/clients-seen' controller command, in case
32555 controllers want to hear clients_seen events but connect late.
32558 - Disable GCC's strict alias optimization by default, to avoid the
32559 likelihood of its introducing subtle bugs whenever our code violates
32560 the letter of C99's alias rules.
32563 Changes in version 0.2.0.33 - 2009-01-21
32564 Tor 0.2.0.33 fixes a variety of bugs that were making relays less
32565 useful to users. It also finally fixes a bug where a relay or client
32566 that's been off for many days would take a long time to bootstrap.
32568 This update also fixes an important security-related bug reported by
32569 Ilja van Sprundel. You should upgrade. (We'll send out more details
32570 about the bug once people have had some time to upgrade.)
32573 - Fix a heap-corruption bug that may be remotely triggerable on
32574 some platforms. Reported by Ilja van Sprundel.
32577 - When a stream at an exit relay is in state "resolving" or
32578 "connecting" and it receives an "end" relay cell, the exit relay
32579 would silently ignore the end cell and not close the stream. If
32580 the client never closes the circuit, then the exit relay never
32581 closes the TCP connection. Bug introduced in Tor 0.1.2.1-alpha;
32582 reported by "wood".
32583 - When sending CREATED cells back for a given circuit, use a 64-bit
32584 connection ID to find the right connection, rather than an addr:port
32585 combination. Now that we can have multiple OR connections between
32586 the same ORs, it is no longer possible to use addr:port to uniquely
32587 identify a connection.
32588 - Bridge relays that had DirPort set to 0 would stop fetching
32589 descriptors shortly after startup, and then briefly resume
32590 after a new bandwidth test and/or after publishing a new bridge
32591 descriptor. Bridge users that try to bootstrap from them would
32592 get a recent networkstatus but would get descriptors from up to
32593 18 hours earlier, meaning most of the descriptors were obsolete
32594 already. Reported by Tas; bugfix on 0.2.0.13-alpha.
32595 - Prevent bridge relays from serving their 'extrainfo' document
32596 to anybody who asks, now that extrainfo docs include potentially
32597 sensitive aggregated client geoip summaries. Bugfix on
32599 - If the cached networkstatus consensus is more than five days old,
32600 discard it rather than trying to use it. In theory it could be
32601 useful because it lists alternate directory mirrors, but in practice
32602 it just means we spend many minutes trying directory mirrors that
32603 are long gone from the network. Also discard router descriptors as
32604 we load them if they are more than five days old, since the onion
32605 key is probably wrong by now. Bugfix on 0.2.0.x. Fixes bug 887.
32608 - Do not mark smartlist_bsearch_idx() function as ATTR_PURE. This bug
32609 could make gcc generate non-functional binary search code. Bugfix
32611 - Build correctly on platforms without socklen_t.
32612 - Compile without warnings on solaris.
32613 - Avoid potential crash on internal error during signature collection.
32614 Fixes bug 864. Patch from rovv.
32615 - Correct handling of possible malformed authority signing key
32616 certificates with internal signature types. Fixes bug 880.
32617 Bugfix on 0.2.0.3-alpha.
32618 - Fix a hard-to-trigger resource leak when logging credential status.
32620 - When we can't initialize DNS because the network is down, do not
32621 automatically stop Tor from starting. Instead, we retry failed
32622 dns_init() every 10 minutes, and change the exit policy to reject
32623 *:* until one succeeds. Fixes bug 691.
32624 - Use 64 bits instead of 32 bits for connection identifiers used with
32625 the controller protocol, to greatly reduce risk of identifier reuse.
32626 - When we're choosing an exit node for a circuit, and we have
32627 no pending streams, choose a good general exit rather than one that
32628 supports "all the pending streams". Bugfix on 0.1.1.x. Fix by rovv.
32629 - Fix another case of assuming, when a specific exit is requested,
32630 that we know more than the user about what hosts it allows.
32631 Fixes one case of bug 752. Patch from rovv.
32632 - Clip the MaxCircuitDirtiness config option to a minimum of 10
32633 seconds. Warn the user if lower values are given in the
32634 configuration. Bugfix on 0.1.0.1-rc. Patch by Sebastian.
32635 - Clip the CircuitBuildTimeout to a minimum of 30 seconds. Warn the
32636 user if lower values are given in the configuration. Bugfix on
32637 0.1.1.17-rc. Patch by Sebastian.
32638 - Fix a memory leak when we decline to add a v2 rendezvous descriptor to
32639 the cache because we already had a v0 descriptor with the same ID.
32640 Bugfix on 0.2.0.18-alpha.
32641 - Fix a race condition when freeing keys shared between main thread
32642 and CPU workers that could result in a memory leak. Bugfix on
32643 0.1.0.1-rc. Fixes bug 889.
32644 - Send a valid END cell back when a client tries to connect to a
32645 nonexistent hidden service port. Bugfix on 0.1.2.15. Fixes bug
32646 840. Patch from rovv.
32647 - Check which hops rendezvous stream cells are associated with to
32648 prevent possible guess-the-streamid injection attacks from
32649 intermediate hops. Fixes another case of bug 446. Based on patch
32651 - If a broken client asks a non-exit router to connect somewhere,
32652 do not even do the DNS lookup before rejecting the connection.
32653 Fixes another case of bug 619. Patch from rovv.
32654 - When a relay gets a create cell it can't decrypt (e.g. because it's
32655 using the wrong onion key), we were dropping it and letting the
32656 client time out. Now actually answer with a destroy cell. Fixes
32657 bug 904. Bugfix on 0.0.2pre8.
32659 o Minor bugfixes (hidden services):
32660 - Do not throw away existing introduction points on SIGHUP. Bugfix on
32661 0.0.6pre1. Patch by Karsten. Fixes bug 874.
32664 - Report the case where all signatures in a detached set are rejected
32665 differently than the case where there is an error handling the
32667 - When we realize that another process has modified our cached
32668 descriptors, print out a more useful error message rather than
32669 triggering an assertion. Fixes bug 885. Patch from Karsten.
32670 - Implement the 0x20 hack to better resist DNS poisoning: set the
32671 case on outgoing DNS requests randomly, and reject responses that do
32672 not match the case correctly. This logic can be disabled with the
32673 ServerDNSRandomizeCase setting, if you are using one of the 0.3%
32674 of servers that do not reliably preserve case in replies. See
32675 "Increased DNS Forgery Resistance through 0x20-Bit Encoding"
32677 - Check DNS replies for more matching fields to better resist DNS
32679 - Never use OpenSSL compression: it wastes RAM and CPU trying to
32680 compress cells, which are basically all encrypted, compressed, or
32684 Changes in version 0.2.1.11-alpha - 2009-01-20
32685 Tor 0.2.1.11-alpha finishes fixing the "if your Tor is off for a
32686 week it will take a long time to bootstrap again" bug. It also fixes
32687 an important security-related bug reported by Ilja van Sprundel. You
32688 should upgrade. (We'll send out more details about the bug once people
32689 have had some time to upgrade.)
32692 - Fix a heap-corruption bug that may be remotely triggerable on
32693 some platforms. Reported by Ilja van Sprundel.
32696 - Discard router descriptors as we load them if they are more than
32697 five days old. Otherwise if Tor is off for a long time and then
32698 starts with cached descriptors, it will try to use the onion
32699 keys in those obsolete descriptors when building circuits. Bugfix
32700 on 0.2.0.x. Fixes bug 887.
32703 - Try to make sure that the version of Libevent we're running with
32704 is binary-compatible with the one we built with. May address bug
32706 - Make setting ServerDNSRandomizeCase to 0 actually work. Bugfix
32707 for bug 905. Bugfix on 0.2.1.7-alpha.
32708 - Add a new --enable-local-appdata configuration switch to change
32709 the default location of the datadir on win32 from APPDATA to
32710 LOCAL_APPDATA. In the future, we should migrate to LOCAL_APPDATA
32711 entirely. Patch from coderman.
32714 - Make outbound DNS packets respect the OutboundBindAddress setting.
32715 Fixes the bug part of bug 798. Bugfix on 0.1.2.2-alpha.
32716 - When our circuit fails at the first hop (e.g. we get a destroy
32717 cell back), avoid using that OR connection anymore, and also
32718 tell all the one-hop directory requests waiting for it that they
32719 should fail. Bugfix on 0.2.1.3-alpha.
32720 - In the torify(1) manpage, mention that tsocks will leak your
32724 Changes in version 0.2.1.10-alpha - 2009-01-06
32725 Tor 0.2.1.10-alpha fixes two major bugs in bridge relays (one that
32726 would make the bridge relay not so useful if it had DirPort set to 0,
32727 and one that could let an attacker learn a little bit of information
32728 about the bridge's users), and a bug that would cause your Tor relay
32729 to ignore a circuit create request it can't decrypt (rather than reply
32730 with an error). It also fixes a wide variety of other bugs.
32733 - If the cached networkstatus consensus is more than five days old,
32734 discard it rather than trying to use it. In theory it could
32735 be useful because it lists alternate directory mirrors, but in
32736 practice it just means we spend many minutes trying directory
32737 mirrors that are long gone from the network. Helps bug 887 a bit;
32739 - Bridge relays that had DirPort set to 0 would stop fetching
32740 descriptors shortly after startup, and then briefly resume
32741 after a new bandwidth test and/or after publishing a new bridge
32742 descriptor. Bridge users that try to bootstrap from them would
32743 get a recent networkstatus but would get descriptors from up to
32744 18 hours earlier, meaning most of the descriptors were obsolete
32745 already. Reported by Tas; bugfix on 0.2.0.13-alpha.
32746 - Prevent bridge relays from serving their 'extrainfo' document
32747 to anybody who asks, now that extrainfo docs include potentially
32748 sensitive aggregated client geoip summaries. Bugfix on
32752 - New controller event "clients_seen" to report a geoip-based summary
32753 of which countries we've seen clients from recently. Now controllers
32754 like Vidalia can show bridge operators that they're actually making
32756 - Build correctly against versions of OpenSSL 0.9.8 or later built
32757 without support for deprecated functions.
32758 - Update to the "December 19 2008" ip-to-country file.
32760 o Minor bugfixes (on 0.2.0.x):
32761 - Authorities now vote for the Stable flag for any router whose
32762 weighted MTBF is at least 5 days, regardless of the mean MTBF.
32763 - Do not remove routers as too old if we do not have any consensus
32764 document. Bugfix on 0.2.0.7-alpha.
32765 - Do not accept incomplete ipv4 addresses (like 192.168.0) as valid.
32766 Spec conformance issue. Bugfix on Tor 0.0.2pre27.
32767 - When an exit relay resolves a stream address to a local IP address,
32768 do not just keep retrying that same exit relay over and
32769 over. Instead, just close the stream. Addresses bug 872. Bugfix
32770 on 0.2.0.32. Patch from rovv.
32771 - If a hidden service sends us an END cell, do not consider
32772 retrying the connection; just close it. Patch from rovv.
32773 - When we made bridge authorities stop serving bridge descriptors over
32774 unencrypted links, we also broke DirPort reachability testing for
32775 bridges. So bridges with a non-zero DirPort were printing spurious
32776 warns to their logs. Bugfix on 0.2.0.16-alpha. Fixes bug 709.
32777 - When a relay gets a create cell it can't decrypt (e.g. because it's
32778 using the wrong onion key), we were dropping it and letting the
32779 client time out. Now actually answer with a destroy cell. Fixes
32780 bug 904. Bugfix on 0.0.2pre8.
32781 - Squeeze 2-5% out of client performance (according to oprofile) by
32782 improving the implementation of some policy-manipulation functions.
32784 o Minor bugfixes (on 0.2.1.x):
32785 - Make get_interface_address() function work properly again; stop
32786 guessing the wrong parts of our address as our address.
32787 - Do not cannibalize a circuit if we're out of RELAY_EARLY cells to
32788 send on that circuit. Otherwise we might violate the proposal-110
32789 limit. Bugfix on 0.2.1.3-alpha. Partial fix for bug 878. Diagnosis
32791 - When we're sending non-EXTEND cells to the first hop in a circuit,
32792 for example to use an encrypted directory connection, we don't need
32793 to use RELAY_EARLY cells: the first hop knows what kind of cell
32794 it is, and nobody else can even see the cell type. Conserving
32795 RELAY_EARLY cells makes it easier to cannibalize circuits like
32797 - Stop logging nameserver addresses in reverse order.
32798 - If we are retrying a directory download slowly over and over, do
32799 not automatically give up after the 254th failure. Bugfix on
32801 - Resume reporting accurate "stream end" reasons to the local control
32802 port. They were lost in the changes for Proposal 148. Bugfix on
32805 o Deprecated and removed features:
32806 - The old "tor --version --version" command, which would print out
32807 the subversion "Id" of most of the source files, is now removed. It
32808 turned out to be less useful than we'd expected, and harder to
32811 o Code simplifications and refactoring:
32812 - Change our header file guard macros to be less likely to conflict
32813 with system headers. Adam Langley noticed that we were conflicting
32814 with log.h on Android.
32815 - Tool-assisted documentation cleanup. Nearly every function or
32816 static variable in Tor should have its own documentation now.
32819 Changes in version 0.2.1.9-alpha - 2008-12-25
32820 Tor 0.2.1.9-alpha fixes many more bugs, some of them security-related.
32822 o New directory authorities:
32823 - gabelmoo (the authority run by Karsten Loesing) now has a new
32827 - Never use a connection with a mismatched address to extend a
32828 circuit, unless that connection is canonical. A canonical
32829 connection is one whose address is authenticated by the router's
32830 identity key, either in a NETINFO cell or in a router descriptor.
32831 - Avoid a possible memory corruption bug when receiving hidden service
32832 descriptors. Bugfix on 0.2.1.6-alpha.
32835 - Fix a logic error that would automatically reject all but the first
32836 configured DNS server. Bugfix on 0.2.1.5-alpha. Possible fix for
32837 part of bug 813/868. Bug spotted by coderman.
32838 - When a stream at an exit relay is in state "resolving" or
32839 "connecting" and it receives an "end" relay cell, the exit relay
32840 would silently ignore the end cell and not close the stream. If
32841 the client never closes the circuit, then the exit relay never
32842 closes the TCP connection. Bug introduced in 0.1.2.1-alpha;
32843 reported by "wood".
32844 - When we can't initialize DNS because the network is down, do not
32845 automatically stop Tor from starting. Instead, retry failed
32846 dns_init() every 10 minutes, and change the exit policy to reject
32847 *:* until one succeeds. Fixes bug 691.
32850 - Give a better error message when an overzealous init script says
32851 "sudo -u username tor --user username". Makes Bug 882 easier for
32853 - When a directory authority gives us a new guess for our IP address,
32854 log which authority we used. Hopefully this will help us debug
32855 the recent complaints about bad IP address guesses.
32856 - Detect svn revision properly when we're using git-svn.
32857 - Try not to open more than one descriptor-downloading connection
32858 to an authority at once. This should reduce load on directory
32859 authorities. Fixes bug 366.
32860 - Add cross-certification to newly generated certificates, so that
32861 a signing key is enough information to look up a certificate.
32862 Partial implementation of proposal 157.
32863 - Start serving certificates by <identity digest, signing key digest>
32864 pairs. Partial implementation of proposal 157.
32865 - Clients now never report any stream end reason except 'MISC'.
32866 Implements proposal 148.
32867 - On platforms with a maximum syslog string length, truncate syslog
32868 messages to that length ourselves, rather than relying on the
32869 system to do it for us.
32870 - Optimize out calls to time(NULL) that occur for every IO operation,
32871 or for every cell. On systems where time() is a slow syscall,
32872 this fix will be slightly helpful.
32873 - Exit servers can now answer resolve requests for ip6.arpa addresses.
32874 - When we download a descriptor that we then immediately (as
32875 a directory authority) reject, do not retry downloading it right
32876 away. Should save some bandwidth on authorities. Fix for bug
32877 888. Patch by Sebastian Hahn.
32878 - When a download gets us zero good descriptors, do not notify
32879 Tor that new directory information has arrived.
32880 - Avoid some nasty corner cases in the logic for marking connections
32881 as too old or obsolete or noncanonical for circuits. Partial
32884 o Minor features (controller):
32885 - New CONSENSUS_ARRIVED event to note when a new consensus has
32886 been fetched and validated.
32887 - When we realize that another process has modified our cached
32888 descriptors file, print out a more useful error message rather
32889 than triggering an assertion. Fixes bug 885. Patch from Karsten.
32890 - Add an internal-use-only __ReloadTorrcOnSIGHUP option for
32891 controllers to prevent SIGHUP from reloading the
32892 configuration. Fixes bug 856.
32895 - Resume using the correct "REASON=" stream when telling the
32896 controller why we closed a stream. Bugfix in 0.2.1.1-alpha.
32897 - When a canonical connection appears later in our internal list
32898 than a noncanonical one for a given OR ID, always use the
32899 canonical one. Bugfix on 0.2.0.12-alpha. Fixes bug 805.
32901 - Clip the MaxCircuitDirtiness config option to a minimum of 10
32902 seconds. Warn the user if lower values are given in the
32903 configuration. Bugfix on 0.1.0.1-rc. Patch by Sebastian.
32904 - Clip the CircuitBuildTimeout to a minimum of 30 seconds. Warn the
32905 user if lower values are given in the configuration. Bugfix on
32906 0.1.1.17-rc. Patch by Sebastian.
32907 - Fix a race condition when freeing keys shared between main thread
32908 and CPU workers that could result in a memory leak. Bugfix on
32909 0.1.0.1-rc. Fixes bug 889.
32911 o Minor bugfixes (hidden services):
32912 - Do not throw away existing introduction points on SIGHUP (bugfix on
32913 0.0.6pre1); also, do not stall hidden services because we're
32914 throwing away introduction points; bugfix on 0.2.1.7-alpha. Spotted
32915 by John Brooks. Patch by Karsten. Fixes bug 874.
32916 - Fix a memory leak when we decline to add a v2 rendezvous
32917 descriptor to the cache because we already had a v0 descriptor
32918 with the same ID. Bugfix on 0.2.0.18-alpha.
32920 o Deprecated and removed features:
32921 - RedirectExits has been removed. It was deprecated since
32923 - Finally remove deprecated "EXTENDED_FORMAT" controller feature. It
32924 has been called EXTENDED_EVENTS since 0.1.2.4-alpha.
32925 - Cell pools are now always enabled; --disable-cell-pools is ignored.
32927 o Code simplifications and refactoring:
32928 - Rename the confusing or_is_obsolete field to the more appropriate
32929 is_bad_for_new_circs, and move it to or_connection_t where it
32931 - Move edge-only flags from connection_t to edge_connection_t: not
32932 only is this better coding, but on machines of plausible alignment,
32933 it should save 4-8 bytes per connection_t. "Every little bit helps."
32934 - Rename ServerDNSAllowBrokenResolvConf to ServerDNSAllowBrokenConfig
32935 for consistency; keep old option working for backward compatibility.
32936 - Simplify the code for finding connections to use for a circuit.
32939 Changes in version 0.2.1.8-alpha - 2008-12-08
32940 Tor 0.2.1.8-alpha fixes some crash bugs in earlier alpha releases,
32941 builds better on unusual platforms like Solaris and old OS X, and
32942 fixes a variety of other issues.
32945 - New DirPortFrontPage option that takes an html file and publishes
32946 it as "/" on the DirPort. Now relay operators can provide a
32947 disclaimer without needing to set up a separate webserver. There's
32948 a sample disclaimer in contrib/tor-exit-notice.html.
32951 - When the client is choosing entry guards, now it selects at most
32952 one guard from a given relay family. Otherwise we could end up with
32953 all of our entry points into the network run by the same operator.
32954 Suggested by Camilo Viecco. Fix on 0.1.1.11-alpha.
32957 - Fix a DOS opportunity during the voting signature collection process
32958 at directory authorities. Spotted by rovv. Bugfix on 0.2.0.x.
32959 - Fix a possible segfault when establishing an exit connection. Bugfix
32963 - Get file locking working on win32. Bugfix on 0.2.1.6-alpha. Fixes
32965 - Made Tor a little less aggressive about deleting expired
32966 certificates. Partial fix for bug 854.
32967 - Stop doing unaligned memory access that generated bus errors on
32968 sparc64. Bugfix on 0.2.0.10-alpha. Fix for bug 862.
32969 - Fix a crash bug when changing EntryNodes from the controller. Bugfix
32970 on 0.2.1.6-alpha. Fix for bug 867. Patched by Sebastian.
32971 - Make USR2 log-level switch take effect immediately. Bugfix on
32973 - If one win32 nameserver fails to get added, continue adding the
32974 rest, and don't automatically fail.
32975 - Use fcntl() for locking when flock() is not available. Should fix
32976 compilation on Solaris. Should fix Bug 873. Bugfix on 0.2.1.6-alpha.
32977 - Do not mark smartlist_bsearch_idx() function as ATTR_PURE. This bug
32978 could make gcc generate non-functional binary search code. Bugfix
32980 - Build correctly on platforms without socklen_t.
32981 - Avoid potential crash on internal error during signature collection.
32982 Fixes bug 864. Patch from rovv.
32983 - Do not use C's stdio library for writing to log files. This will
32984 improve logging performance by a minute amount, and will stop
32985 leaking fds when our disk is full. Fixes bug 861.
32986 - Stop erroneous use of O_APPEND in cases where we did not in fact
32987 want to re-seek to the end of a file before every last write().
32988 - Correct handling of possible malformed authority signing key
32989 certificates with internal signature types. Fixes bug 880. Bugfix
32991 - Fix a hard-to-trigger resource leak when logging credential status.
32995 - Directory mirrors no longer fetch the v1 directory or
32996 running-routers files. They are obsolete, and nobody asks for them
32997 anymore. This is the first step to making v1 authorities obsolete.
32999 o Minor features (controller):
33000 - Return circuit purposes in response to GETINFO circuit-status. Fixes
33004 Changes in version 0.2.0.32 - 2008-11-20
33005 Tor 0.2.0.32 fixes a major security problem in Debian and Ubuntu
33006 packages (and maybe other packages) noticed by Theo de Raadt, fixes
33007 a smaller security flaw that might allow an attacker to access local
33008 services, further improves hidden service performance, and fixes a
33009 variety of other issues.
33012 - The "User" and "Group" config options did not clear the
33013 supplementary group entries for the Tor process. The "User" option
33014 is now more robust, and we now set the groups to the specified
33015 user's primary group. The "Group" option is now ignored. For more
33016 detailed logging on credential switching, set CREDENTIAL_LOG_LEVEL
33017 in common/compat.c to LOG_NOTICE or higher. Patch by Jacob Appelbaum
33018 and Steven Murdoch. Bugfix on 0.0.2pre14. Fixes bug 848 and 857.
33019 - The "ClientDNSRejectInternalAddresses" config option wasn't being
33020 consistently obeyed: if an exit relay refuses a stream because its
33021 exit policy doesn't allow it, we would remember what IP address
33022 the relay said the destination address resolves to, even if it's
33023 an internal IP address. Bugfix on 0.2.0.7-alpha; patch by rovv.
33026 - Fix a DOS opportunity during the voting signature collection process
33027 at directory authorities. Spotted by rovv. Bugfix on 0.2.0.x.
33029 o Major bugfixes (hidden services):
33030 - When fetching v0 and v2 rendezvous service descriptors in parallel,
33031 we were failing the whole hidden service request when the v0
33032 descriptor fetch fails, even if the v2 fetch is still pending and
33033 might succeed. Similarly, if the last v2 fetch fails, we were
33034 failing the whole hidden service request even if a v0 fetch is
33035 still pending. Fixes bug 814. Bugfix on 0.2.0.10-alpha.
33036 - When extending a circuit to a hidden service directory to upload a
33037 rendezvous descriptor using a BEGIN_DIR cell, almost 1/6 of all
33038 requests failed, because the router descriptor has not been
33039 downloaded yet. In these cases, do not attempt to upload the
33040 rendezvous descriptor, but wait until the router descriptor is
33041 downloaded and retry. Likewise, do not attempt to fetch a rendezvous
33042 descriptor from a hidden service directory for which the router
33043 descriptor has not yet been downloaded. Fixes bug 767. Bugfix
33047 - Fix several infrequent memory leaks spotted by Coverity.
33048 - When testing for libevent functions, set the LDFLAGS variable
33049 correctly. Found by Riastradh.
33050 - Avoid a bug where the FastFirstHopPK 0 option would keep Tor from
33051 bootstrapping with tunneled directory connections. Bugfix on
33052 0.1.2.5-alpha. Fixes bug 797. Found by Erwin Lam.
33053 - When asked to connect to A.B.exit:80, if we don't know the IP for A
33054 and we know that server B rejects most-but-not all connections to
33055 port 80, we would previously reject the connection. Now, we assume
33056 the user knows what they were asking for. Fixes bug 752. Bugfix
33057 on 0.0.9rc5. Diagnosed by BarkerJr.
33058 - If we overrun our per-second write limits a little, count this as
33059 having used up our write allocation for the second, and choke
33060 outgoing directory writes. Previously, we had only counted this when
33061 we had met our limits precisely. Fixes bug 824. Patch from by rovv.
33062 Bugfix on 0.2.0.x (??).
33063 - Remove the old v2 directory authority 'lefkada' from the default
33064 list. It has been gone for many months.
33065 - Stop doing unaligned memory access that generated bus errors on
33066 sparc64. Bugfix on 0.2.0.10-alpha. Fixes bug 862.
33067 - Make USR2 log-level switch take effect immediately. Bugfix on
33070 o Minor bugfixes (controller):
33071 - Make DNS resolved events into "CLOSED", not "FAILED". Bugfix on
33072 0.1.2.5-alpha. Fix by Robert Hogan. Resolves bug 807.
33075 Changes in version 0.2.1.7-alpha - 2008-11-08
33076 Tor 0.2.1.7-alpha fixes a major security problem in Debian and Ubuntu
33077 packages (and maybe other packages) noticed by Theo de Raadt, fixes
33078 a smaller security flaw that might allow an attacker to access local
33079 services, adds better defense against DNS poisoning attacks on exit
33080 relays, further improves hidden service performance, and fixes a
33081 variety of other issues.
33084 - The "ClientDNSRejectInternalAddresses" config option wasn't being
33085 consistently obeyed: if an exit relay refuses a stream because its
33086 exit policy doesn't allow it, we would remember what IP address
33087 the relay said the destination address resolves to, even if it's
33088 an internal IP address. Bugfix on 0.2.0.7-alpha; patch by rovv.
33089 - The "User" and "Group" config options did not clear the
33090 supplementary group entries for the Tor process. The "User" option
33091 is now more robust, and we now set the groups to the specified
33092 user's primary group. The "Group" option is now ignored. For more
33093 detailed logging on credential switching, set CREDENTIAL_LOG_LEVEL
33094 in common/compat.c to LOG_NOTICE or higher. Patch by Jacob Appelbaum
33095 and Steven Murdoch. Bugfix on 0.0.2pre14. Fixes bug 848.
33096 - Do not use or believe expired v3 authority certificates. Patch
33097 from Karsten. Bugfix in 0.2.0.x. Fixes bug 851.
33100 - Now NodeFamily and MyFamily config options allow spaces in
33101 identity fingerprints, so it's easier to paste them in.
33102 Suggested by Lucky Green.
33103 - Implement the 0x20 hack to better resist DNS poisoning: set the
33104 case on outgoing DNS requests randomly, and reject responses that do
33105 not match the case correctly. This logic can be disabled with the
33106 ServerDNSRandomizeCase setting, if you are using one of the 0.3%
33107 of servers that do not reliably preserve case in replies. See
33108 "Increased DNS Forgery Resistance through 0x20-Bit Encoding"
33110 - Preserve case in replies to DNSPort requests in order to support
33111 the 0x20 hack for resisting DNS poisoning attacks.
33113 o Hidden service performance improvements:
33114 - When the client launches an introduction circuit, retry with a
33115 new circuit after 30 seconds rather than 60 seconds.
33116 - Launch a second client-side introduction circuit in parallel
33117 after a delay of 15 seconds (based on work by Christian Wilms).
33118 - Hidden services start out building five intro circuits rather
33119 than three, and when the first three finish they publish a service
33120 descriptor using those. Now we publish our service descriptor much
33121 faster after restart.
33124 - Minor fix in the warning messages when you're having problems
33125 bootstrapping; also, be more forgiving of bootstrap problems when
33126 we're still making incremental progress on a given bootstrap phase.
33127 - When we're choosing an exit node for a circuit, and we have
33128 no pending streams, choose a good general exit rather than one that
33129 supports "all the pending streams". Bugfix on 0.1.1.x. Fix by rovv.
33130 - Send a valid END cell back when a client tries to connect to a
33131 nonexistent hidden service port. Bugfix on 0.1.2.15. Fixes bug
33132 840. Patch from rovv.
33133 - If a broken client asks a non-exit router to connect somewhere,
33134 do not even do the DNS lookup before rejecting the connection.
33135 Fixes another case of bug 619. Patch from rovv.
33136 - Fix another case of assuming, when a specific exit is requested,
33137 that we know more than the user about what hosts it allows.
33138 Fixes another case of bug 752. Patch from rovv.
33139 - Check which hops rendezvous stream cells are associated with to
33140 prevent possible guess-the-streamid injection attacks from
33141 intermediate hops. Fixes another case of bug 446. Based on patch
33143 - Avoid using a negative right-shift when comparing 32-bit
33144 addresses. Possible fix for bug 845 and bug 811.
33145 - Make the assert_circuit_ok() function work correctly on circuits that
33146 have already been marked for close.
33147 - Fix read-off-the-end-of-string error in unit tests when decoding
33148 introduction points.
33149 - Fix uninitialized size field for memory area allocation: may improve
33150 memory performance during directory parsing.
33151 - Treat duplicate certificate fetches as failures, so that we do
33152 not try to re-fetch an expired certificate over and over and over.
33153 - Do not say we're fetching a certificate when we'll in fact skip it
33154 because of a pending download.
33157 Changes in version 0.2.1.6-alpha - 2008-09-30
33158 Tor 0.2.1.6-alpha further improves performance and robustness of
33159 hidden services, starts work on supporting per-country relay selection,
33160 and fixes a variety of smaller issues.
33163 - Implement proposal 121: make it possible to build hidden services
33164 that only certain clients are allowed to connect to. This is
33165 enforced at several points, so that unauthorized clients are unable
33166 to send INTRODUCE cells to the service, or even (depending on the
33167 type of authentication) to learn introduction points. This feature
33168 raises the bar for certain kinds of active attacks against hidden
33169 services. Code by Karsten Loesing.
33170 - Relays now store and serve v2 hidden service descriptors by default,
33171 i.e., the new default value for HidServDirectoryV2 is 1. This is
33172 the last step in proposal 114, which aims to make hidden service
33173 lookups more reliable.
33174 - Start work to allow node restrictions to include country codes. The
33175 syntax to exclude nodes in a country with country code XX is
33176 "ExcludeNodes {XX}". Patch from Robert Hogan. It still needs some
33177 refinement to decide what config options should take priority if
33178 you ask to both use a particular node and exclude it.
33179 - Allow ExitNodes list to include IP ranges and country codes, just
33180 like the Exclude*Nodes lists. Patch from Robert Hogan.
33183 - Fix a bug when parsing ports in tor_addr_port_parse() that caused
33184 Tor to fail to start if you had it configured to use a bridge
33185 relay. Fixes bug 809. Bugfix on 0.2.1.5-alpha.
33186 - When extending a circuit to a hidden service directory to upload a
33187 rendezvous descriptor using a BEGIN_DIR cell, almost 1/6 of all
33188 requests failed, because the router descriptor had not been
33189 downloaded yet. In these cases, we now wait until the router
33190 descriptor is downloaded, and then retry. Likewise, clients
33191 now skip over a hidden service directory if they don't yet have
33192 its router descriptor, rather than futilely requesting it and
33193 putting mysterious complaints in the logs. Fixes bug 767. Bugfix
33195 - When fetching v0 and v2 rendezvous service descriptors in parallel,
33196 we were failing the whole hidden service request when the v0
33197 descriptor fetch fails, even if the v2 fetch is still pending and
33198 might succeed. Similarly, if the last v2 fetch fails, we were
33199 failing the whole hidden service request even if a v0 fetch is
33200 still pending. Fixes bug 814. Bugfix on 0.2.0.10-alpha.
33201 - DNS replies need to have names matching their requests, but
33202 these names should be in the questions section, not necessarily
33203 in the answers section. Fixes bug 823. Bugfix on 0.2.1.5-alpha.
33206 - Update to the "September 1 2008" ip-to-country file.
33207 - Allow ports 465 and 587 in the default exit policy again. We had
33208 rejected them in 0.1.0.15, because back in 2005 they were commonly
33209 misconfigured and ended up as spam targets. We hear they are better
33210 locked down these days.
33211 - Use a lockfile to make sure that two Tor processes are not
33212 simultaneously running with the same datadir.
33213 - Serve the latest v3 networkstatus consensus via the control
33214 port. Use "getinfo dir/status-vote/current/consensus" to fetch it.
33215 - Better logging about stability/reliability calculations on directory
33217 - Drop the requirement to have an open dir port for storing and
33218 serving v2 hidden service descriptors.
33219 - Directory authorities now serve a /tor/dbg-stability.txt URL to
33220 help debug WFU and MTBF calculations.
33221 - Implement most of Proposal 152: allow specialized servers to permit
33222 single-hop circuits, and clients to use those servers to build
33223 single-hop circuits when using a specialized controller. Patch
33224 from Josh Albrecht. Resolves feature request 768.
33225 - Add a -p option to tor-resolve for specifying the SOCKS port: some
33226 people find host:port too confusing.
33227 - Make TrackHostExit mappings expire a while after their last use, not
33228 after their creation. Patch from Robert Hogan.
33229 - Provide circuit purposes along with circuit events to the controller.
33232 - Fix compile on OpenBSD 4.4-current. Bugfix on 0.2.1.5-alpha.
33234 - Fixed some memory leaks -- some quite frequent, some almost
33235 impossible to trigger -- based on results from Coverity.
33236 - When testing for libevent functions, set the LDFLAGS variable
33237 correctly. Found by Riastradh.
33238 - Fix an assertion bug in parsing policy-related options; possible fix
33240 - Catch and report a few more bootstrapping failure cases when Tor
33241 fails to establish a TCP connection. Cleanup on 0.2.1.x.
33242 - Avoid a bug where the FastFirstHopPK 0 option would keep Tor from
33243 bootstrapping with tunneled directory connections. Bugfix on
33244 0.1.2.5-alpha. Fixes bug 797. Found by Erwin Lam.
33245 - When asked to connect to A.B.exit:80, if we don't know the IP for A
33246 and we know that server B rejects most-but-not all connections to
33247 port 80, we would previously reject the connection. Now, we assume
33248 the user knows what they were asking for. Fixes bug 752. Bugfix
33249 on 0.0.9rc5. Diagnosed by BarkerJr.
33250 - If we are not using BEGIN_DIR cells, don't attempt to contact hidden
33251 service directories if they have no advertised dir port. Bugfix
33253 - If we overrun our per-second write limits a little, count this as
33254 having used up our write allocation for the second, and choke
33255 outgoing directory writes. Previously, we had only counted this when
33256 we had met our limits precisely. Fixes bug 824. Patch by rovv.
33257 Bugfix on 0.2.0.x (??).
33258 - Avoid a "0 divided by 0" calculation when calculating router uptime
33259 at directory authorities. Bugfix on 0.2.0.8-alpha.
33260 - Make DNS resolved controller events into "CLOSED", not
33261 "FAILED". Bugfix on 0.1.2.5-alpha. Fix by Robert Hogan. Resolves
33263 - Fix a bug where an unreachable relay would establish enough
33264 reachability testing circuits to do a bandwidth test -- if
33265 we already have a connection to the middle hop of the testing
33266 circuit, then it could establish the last hop by using the existing
33267 connection. Bugfix on 0.1.2.2-alpha, exposed when we made testing
33268 circuits no longer use entry guards in 0.2.1.3-alpha.
33269 - If we have correct permissions on $datadir, we complain to stdout
33270 and fail to start. But dangerous permissions on
33271 $datadir/cached-status/ would cause us to open a log and complain
33272 there. Now complain to stdout and fail to start in both cases. Fixes
33273 bug 820, reported by seeess.
33274 - Remove the old v2 directory authority 'lefkada' from the default
33275 list. It has been gone for many months.
33277 o Code simplifications and refactoring:
33278 - Revise the connection_new functions so that a more typesafe variant
33279 exists. This will work better with Coverity, and let us find any
33280 actual mistakes we're making here.
33281 - Refactor unit testing logic so that dmalloc can be used sensibly
33282 with unit tests to check for memory leaks.
33283 - Move all hidden-service related fields from connection and circuit
33284 structure to substructures: this way they won't eat so much memory.
33287 Changes in version 0.2.0.31 - 2008-09-03
33288 Tor 0.2.0.31 addresses two potential anonymity issues, starts to fix
33289 a big bug we're seeing where in rare cases traffic from one Tor stream
33290 gets mixed into another stream, and fixes a variety of smaller issues.
33293 - Make sure that two circuits can never exist on the same connection
33294 with the same circuit ID, even if one is marked for close. This
33295 is conceivably a bugfix for bug 779. Bugfix on 0.1.0.4-rc.
33296 - Relays now reject risky extend cells: if the extend cell includes
33297 a digest of all zeroes, or asks to extend back to the relay that
33298 sent the extend cell, tear down the circuit. Ideas suggested
33300 - If not enough of our entry guards are available so we add a new
33301 one, we might use the new one even if it overlapped with the
33302 current circuit's exit relay (or its family). Anonymity bugfix
33303 pointed out by rovv.
33306 - Recover 3-7 bytes that were wasted per memory chunk. Fixes bug
33307 794; bug spotted by rovv. Bugfix on 0.2.0.1-alpha.
33308 - Correctly detect the presence of the linux/netfilter_ipv4.h header
33309 when building against recent kernels. Bugfix on 0.1.2.1-alpha.
33310 - Pick size of default geoip filename string correctly on windows.
33311 Fixes bug 806. Bugfix on 0.2.0.30.
33312 - Make the autoconf script accept the obsolete --with-ssl-dir
33313 option as an alias for the actually-working --with-openssl-dir
33314 option. Fix the help documentation to recommend --with-openssl-dir.
33315 Based on a patch by "Dave". Bugfix on 0.2.0.1-alpha.
33316 - When using the TransPort option on OpenBSD, and using the User
33317 option to change UID and drop privileges, make sure to open
33318 /dev/pf before dropping privileges. Fixes bug 782. Patch from
33319 Christopher Davis. Bugfix on 0.1.2.1-alpha.
33320 - Try to attach connections immediately upon receiving a RENDEZVOUS2
33321 or RENDEZVOUS_ESTABLISHED cell. This can save a second or two
33322 on the client side when connecting to a hidden service. Bugfix
33323 on 0.0.6pre1. Found and fixed by Christian Wilms; resolves bug 743.
33324 - When closing an application-side connection because its circuit is
33325 getting torn down, generate the stream event correctly. Bugfix on
33326 0.1.2.x. Anonymous patch.
33329 Changes in version 0.2.1.5-alpha - 2008-08-31
33330 Tor 0.2.1.5-alpha moves us closer to handling IPv6 destinations, puts
33331 in a lot of the infrastructure for adding authorization to hidden
33332 services, lays the groundwork for having clients read their load
33333 balancing information out of the networkstatus consensus rather than
33334 the individual router descriptors, addresses two potential anonymity
33335 issues, and fixes a variety of smaller issues.
33338 - Convert many internal address representations to optionally hold
33340 - Generate and accept IPv6 addresses in many protocol elements.
33341 - Make resolver code handle nameservers located at ipv6 addresses.
33342 - Begin implementation of proposal 121 ("Client authorization for
33343 hidden services"): configure hidden services with client
33344 authorization, publish descriptors for them, and configure
33345 authorization data for hidden services at clients. The next
33346 step is to actually access hidden services that perform client
33348 - More progress toward proposal 141: Network status consensus
33349 documents and votes now contain bandwidth information for each
33350 router and a summary of that router's exit policy. Eventually this
33351 will be used by clients so that they do not have to download every
33352 known descriptor before building circuits.
33354 o Major bugfixes (on 0.2.0.x and before):
33355 - When sending CREATED cells back for a given circuit, use a 64-bit
33356 connection ID to find the right connection, rather than an addr:port
33357 combination. Now that we can have multiple OR connections between
33358 the same ORs, it is no longer possible to use addr:port to uniquely
33359 identify a connection.
33360 - Relays now reject risky extend cells: if the extend cell includes
33361 a digest of all zeroes, or asks to extend back to the relay that
33362 sent the extend cell, tear down the circuit. Ideas suggested
33364 - If not enough of our entry guards are available so we add a new
33365 one, we might use the new one even if it overlapped with the
33366 current circuit's exit relay (or its family). Anonymity bugfix
33367 pointed out by rovv.
33370 - Recover 3-7 bytes that were wasted per memory chunk. Fixes bug
33371 794; bug spotted by rovv. Bugfix on 0.2.0.1-alpha.
33372 - When using the TransPort option on OpenBSD, and using the User
33373 option to change UID and drop privileges, make sure to open /dev/pf
33374 before dropping privileges. Fixes bug 782. Patch from Christopher
33375 Davis. Bugfix on 0.1.2.1-alpha.
33376 - Correctly detect the presence of the linux/netfilter_ipv4.h header
33377 when building against recent kernels. Bugfix on 0.1.2.1-alpha.
33378 - Add a missing safe_str() call for a debug log message.
33379 - Use 64 bits instead of 32 bits for connection identifiers used with
33380 the controller protocol, to greatly reduce risk of identifier reuse.
33381 - Make the autoconf script accept the obsolete --with-ssl-dir
33382 option as an alias for the actually-working --with-openssl-dir
33383 option. Fix the help documentation to recommend --with-openssl-dir.
33384 Based on a patch by "Dave". Bugfix on 0.2.0.1-alpha.
33387 - Rate-limit too-many-sockets messages: when they happen, they happen
33388 a lot. Resolves bug 748.
33389 - Resist DNS poisoning a little better by making sure that names in
33390 answer sections match.
33391 - Print the SOCKS5 error message string as well as the error code
33392 when a tor-resolve request fails. Patch from Jacob.
33395 Changes in version 0.2.1.4-alpha - 2008-08-04
33396 Tor 0.2.1.4-alpha fixes a pair of crash bugs in 0.2.1.3-alpha.
33399 - The address part of exit policies was not correctly written
33400 to router descriptors. This generated router descriptors that failed
33401 their self-checks. Noticed by phobos, fixed by Karsten. Bugfix
33403 - Tor triggered a false assert when extending a circuit to a relay
33404 but we already have a connection open to that relay. Noticed by
33405 phobos, fixed by Karsten. Bugfix on 0.2.1.3-alpha.
33408 - Fix a hidden service logging bug: in some edge cases, the router
33409 descriptor of a previously picked introduction point becomes
33410 obsolete and we need to give up on it rather than continually
33411 complaining that it has become obsolete. Observed by xiando. Bugfix
33414 o Removed features:
33415 - Take out the TestVia config option, since it was a workaround for
33416 a bug that was fixed in Tor 0.1.1.21.
33419 Changes in version 0.2.1.3-alpha - 2008-08-03
33420 Tor 0.2.1.3-alpha implements most of the pieces to prevent
33421 infinite-length circuit attacks (see proposal 110); fixes a bug that
33422 might cause exit relays to corrupt streams they send back; allows
33423 address patterns (e.g. 255.128.0.0/16) to appear in ExcludeNodes and
33424 ExcludeExitNodes config options; and fixes a big pile of bugs.
33426 o Bootstrapping bugfixes (on 0.2.1.x-alpha):
33427 - Send a bootstrap problem "warn" event on the first problem if the
33428 reason is NO_ROUTE (that is, our network is down).
33431 - Implement most of proposal 110: The first K cells to be sent
33432 along a circuit are marked as special "early" cells; only K "early"
33433 cells will be allowed. Once this code is universal, we can block
33434 certain kinds of DOS attack by requiring that EXTEND commands must
33435 be sent using an "early" cell.
33438 - Try to attach connections immediately upon receiving a RENDEZVOUS2
33439 or RENDEZVOUS_ESTABLISHED cell. This can save a second or two
33440 on the client side when connecting to a hidden service. Bugfix
33441 on 0.0.6pre1. Found and fixed by Christian Wilms; resolves bug 743.
33442 - Ensure that two circuits can never exist on the same connection
33443 with the same circuit ID, even if one is marked for close. This
33444 is conceivably a bugfix for bug 779; fixes a bug on 0.1.0.4-rc.
33447 - When relays do their initial bandwidth measurement, don't limit
33448 to just our entry guards for the test circuits. Otherwise we tend
33449 to have multiple test circuits going through a single entry guard,
33450 which makes our bandwidth test less accurate. Fixes part of bug 654;
33451 patch contributed by Josh Albrecht.
33452 - Add an ExcludeExitNodes option so users can list a set of nodes
33453 that should be be excluded from the exit node position, but
33454 allowed elsewhere. Implements proposal 151.
33455 - Allow address patterns (e.g., 255.128.0.0/16) to appear in
33456 ExcludeNodes and ExcludeExitNodes lists.
33457 - Change the implementation of ExcludeNodes and ExcludeExitNodes to
33458 be more efficient. Formerly it was quadratic in the number of
33459 servers; now it should be linear. Fixes bug 509.
33460 - Save 16-22 bytes per open circuit by moving the n_addr, n_port,
33461 and n_conn_id_digest fields into a separate structure that's
33462 only needed when the circuit has not yet attached to an n_conn.
33465 - Change the contrib/tor.logrotate script so it makes the new
33466 logs as "_tor:_tor" rather than the default, which is generally
33467 "root:wheel". Fixes bug 676, reported by Serge Koksharov.
33468 - Stop using __attribute__((nonnull)) with GCC: it can give us useful
33469 warnings (occasionally), but it can also cause the compiler to
33470 eliminate error-checking code. Suggested by Peter Gutmann.
33471 - When a hidden service is giving up on an introduction point candidate
33472 that was not included in the last published rendezvous descriptor,
33473 don't reschedule publication of the next descriptor. Fixes bug 763.
33475 - Mark RendNodes, RendExcludeNodes, HiddenServiceNodes, and
33476 HiddenServiceExcludeNodes as obsolete: they never worked properly,
33477 and nobody claims to be using them. Fixes bug 754. Bugfix on
33478 0.1.0.1-rc. Patch from Christian Wilms.
33479 - Fix a small alignment and memory-wasting bug on buffer chunks.
33482 o Minor bugfixes (controller):
33483 - When closing an application-side connection because its circuit
33484 is getting torn down, generate the stream event correctly.
33485 Bugfix on 0.1.2.x. Anonymous patch.
33487 o Removed features:
33488 - Remove all backward-compatibility code to support relays running
33489 versions of Tor so old that they no longer work at all on the
33493 Changes in version 0.2.0.30 - 2008-07-15
33495 - Stop using __attribute__((nonnull)) with GCC: it can give us useful
33496 warnings (occasionally), but it can also cause the compiler to
33497 eliminate error-checking code. Suggested by Peter Gutmann.
33500 Changes in version 0.2.0.29-rc - 2008-07-08
33501 Tor 0.2.0.29-rc fixes two big bugs with using bridges, fixes more
33502 hidden-service performance bugs, and fixes a bunch of smaller bugs.
33505 - If you have more than one bridge but don't know their keys,
33506 you would only launch a request for the descriptor of the first one
33507 on your list. (Tor considered launching requests for the others, but
33508 found that it already had a connection on the way for $0000...0000
33509 so it didn't open another.) Bugfix on 0.2.0.x.
33510 - If you have more than one bridge but don't know their keys, and the
33511 connection to one of the bridges failed, you would cancel all
33512 pending bridge connections. (After all, they all have the same
33513 digest.) Bugfix on 0.2.0.x.
33514 - When a hidden service was trying to establish an introduction point,
33515 and Tor had built circuits preemptively for such purposes, we
33516 were ignoring all the preemptive circuits and launching a new one
33517 instead. Bugfix on 0.2.0.14-alpha.
33518 - When a hidden service was trying to establish an introduction point,
33519 and Tor *did* manage to reuse one of the preemptively built
33520 circuits, it didn't correctly remember which one it used,
33521 so it asked for another one soon after, until there were no
33522 more preemptive circuits, at which point it launched one from
33523 scratch. Bugfix on 0.0.9.x.
33524 - Make directory servers include the X-Your-Address-Is: http header in
33525 their responses even for begin_dir conns. Now clients who only
33526 ever use begin_dir connections still have a way to learn their IP
33527 address. Fixes bug 737; bugfix on 0.2.0.22-rc. Reported by goldy.
33530 - Fix a macro/CPP interaction that was confusing some compilers:
33531 some GCCs don't like #if/#endif pairs inside macro arguments.
33533 - Fix macro collision between OpenSSL 0.9.8h and Windows headers.
33534 Fixes bug 704; fix from Steven Murdoch.
33535 - When opening /dev/null in finish_daemonize(), do not pass the
33536 O_CREAT flag. Fortify was complaining, and correctly so. Fixes
33537 bug 742; fix from Michael Scherer. Bugfix on 0.0.2pre19.
33538 - Correctly detect transparent proxy support on Linux hosts that
33539 require in.h to be included before netfilter_ipv4.h. Patch
33541 - Disallow session resumption attempts during the renegotiation
33542 stage of the v2 handshake protocol. Clients should never be trying
33543 session resumption at this point, but apparently some did, in
33544 ways that caused the handshake to fail. Bugfix on 0.2.0.20-rc. Bug
33545 found by Geoff Goodell.
33548 Changes in version 0.2.1.2-alpha - 2008-06-20
33549 Tor 0.2.1.2-alpha includes a new "TestingTorNetwork" config option to
33550 make it easier to set up your own private Tor network; fixes several
33551 big bugs with using more than one bridge relay; fixes a big bug with
33552 offering hidden services quickly after Tor starts; and uses a better
33553 API for reporting potential bootstrapping problems to the controller.
33556 - New TestingTorNetwork config option to allow adjustment of
33557 previously constant values that, while reasonable, could slow
33558 bootstrapping. Implements proposal 135. Patch from Karsten.
33561 - If you have more than one bridge but don't know their digests,
33562 you would only learn a request for the descriptor of the first one
33563 on your list. (Tor considered launching requests for the others, but
33564 found that it already had a connection on the way for $0000...0000
33565 so it didn't open another.) Bugfix on 0.2.0.x.
33566 - If you have more than one bridge but don't know their digests,
33567 and the connection to one of the bridges failed, you would cancel
33568 all pending bridge connections. (After all, they all have the
33569 same digest.) Bugfix on 0.2.0.x.
33570 - When establishing a hidden service, introduction points that
33571 originate from cannibalized circuits are completely ignored and not
33572 included in rendezvous service descriptors. This might be another
33573 reason for delay in making a hidden service available. Bugfix
33574 from long ago (0.0.9.x?)
33577 - Allow OpenSSL to use dynamic locks if it wants.
33578 - When building a consensus, do not include routers that are down.
33579 This will cut down 30% to 40% on consensus size. Implements
33581 - In directory authorities' approved-routers files, allow
33582 fingerprints with or without space.
33583 - Add a "GETINFO /status/bootstrap-phase" controller option, so the
33584 controller can query our current bootstrap state in case it attaches
33585 partway through and wants to catch up.
33586 - Send an initial "Starting" bootstrap status event, so we have a
33587 state to start out in.
33590 - Asking for a conditional consensus at .../consensus/<fingerprints>
33591 would crash a dirserver if it did not already have a
33592 consensus. Bugfix on 0.2.1.1-alpha.
33593 - Clean up some macro/CPP interactions: some GCC versions don't like
33594 #if/#endif pairs inside macro arguments. Fixes bug 707. Bugfix on
33597 o Bootstrapping bugfixes (on 0.2.1.1-alpha):
33598 - Directory authorities shouldn't complain about bootstrapping
33599 problems just because they do a lot of reachability testing and
33600 some of the connection attempts fail.
33601 - Start sending "count" and "recommendation" key/value pairs in
33602 bootstrap problem status events, so the controller can hear about
33603 problems even before Tor decides they're worth reporting for sure.
33604 - If you're using bridges, generate "bootstrap problem" warnings
33605 as soon as you run out of working bridges, rather than waiting
33606 for ten failures -- which will never happen if you have less than
33608 - If we close our OR connection because there's been a circuit
33609 pending on it for too long, we were telling our bootstrap status
33610 events "REASON=NONE". Now tell them "REASON=TIMEOUT".
33613 Changes in version 0.2.1.1-alpha - 2008-06-13
33614 Tor 0.2.1.1-alpha fixes a lot of memory fragmentation problems that
33615 were making the Tor process bloat especially on Linux; makes our TLS
33616 handshake blend in better; sends "bootstrap phase" status events to
33617 the controller, so it can keep the user informed of progress (and
33618 problems) fetching directory information and establishing circuits;
33619 and adds a variety of smaller features.
33622 - More work on making our TLS handshake blend in: modify the list
33623 of ciphers advertised by OpenSSL in client mode to even more
33624 closely resemble a common web browser. We cheat a little so that
33625 we can advertise ciphers that the locally installed OpenSSL doesn't
33627 - Start sending "bootstrap phase" status events to the controller,
33628 so it can keep the user informed of progress fetching directory
33629 information and establishing circuits. Also inform the controller
33630 if we think we're stuck at a particular bootstrap phase. Implements
33632 - Resume using OpenSSL's RAND_poll() for better (and more portable)
33633 cross-platform entropy collection again. We used to use it, then
33634 stopped using it because of a bug that could crash systems that
33635 called RAND_poll when they had a lot of fds open. It looks like the
33636 bug got fixed in late 2006. Our new behavior is to call RAND_poll()
33637 at startup, and to call RAND_poll() when we reseed later only if
33638 we have a non-buggy OpenSSL version.
33641 - When we choose to abandon a new entry guard because we think our
33642 older ones might be better, close any circuits pending on that
33643 new entry guard connection. This fix should make us recover much
33644 faster when our network is down and then comes back. Bugfix on
33645 0.1.2.8-beta; found by lodger.
33647 o Memory fixes and improvements:
33648 - Add a malloc_good_size implementation to OpenBSD_malloc_linux.c,
33649 to avoid unused RAM in buffer chunks and memory pools.
33650 - Speed up parsing and cut down on memory fragmentation by using
33651 stack-style allocations for parsing directory objects. Previously,
33652 this accounted for over 40% of allocations from within Tor's code
33653 on a typical directory cache.
33654 - Use a Bloom filter rather than a digest-based set to track which
33655 descriptors we need to keep around when we're cleaning out old
33656 router descriptors. This speeds up the computation significantly,
33657 and may reduce fragmentation.
33658 - Reduce the default smartlist size from 32 to 16; it turns out that
33659 most smartlists hold around 8-12 elements tops.
33660 - Make dumpstats() log the fullness and size of openssl-internal
33662 - If the user has applied the experimental SSL_MODE_RELEASE_BUFFERS
33663 patch to their OpenSSL, turn it on to save memory on servers. This
33664 patch will (with any luck) get included in a mainline distribution
33666 - Never use OpenSSL compression: it wastes RAM and CPU trying to
33667 compress cells, which are basically all encrypted, compressed,
33671 - Stop reloading the router list from disk for no reason when we
33672 run out of reachable directory mirrors. Once upon a time reloading
33673 it would set the 'is_running' flag back to 1 for them. It hasn't
33674 done that for a long time.
33675 - In very rare situations new hidden service descriptors were
33676 published earlier than 30 seconds after the last change to the
33677 service. (We currently think that a hidden service descriptor
33678 that's been stable for 30 seconds is worth publishing.)
33681 - Allow separate log levels to be configured for different logging
33682 domains. For example, this allows one to log all notices, warnings,
33683 or errors, plus all memory management messages of level debug or
33684 higher, with: Log [MM] debug-err [*] notice-err file /var/log/tor.
33685 - Add a couple of extra warnings to --enable-gcc-warnings for GCC 4.3,
33686 and stop using a warning that had become unfixably verbose under
33688 - New --hush command-line option similar to --quiet. While --quiet
33689 disables all logging to the console on startup, --hush limits the
33690 output to messages of warning and error severity.
33691 - Servers support a new URL scheme for consensus downloads that
33692 allows the client to specify which authorities are trusted.
33693 The server then only sends the consensus if the client will trust
33694 it. Otherwise a 404 error is sent back. Clients use this
33695 new scheme when the server supports it (meaning it's running
33696 0.2.1.1-alpha or later). Implements proposal 134.
33697 - New configure/torrc options (--enable-geoip-stats,
33698 DirRecordUsageByCountry) to record how many IPs we've served
33699 directory info to in each country code, how many status documents
33700 total we've sent to each country code, and what share of the total
33701 directory requests we should expect to see.
33702 - Use the TLS1 hostname extension to more closely resemble browser
33704 - Lots of new unit tests.
33705 - Add a macro to implement the common pattern of iterating through
33706 two parallel lists in lockstep.
33709 Changes in version 0.2.0.28-rc - 2008-06-13
33710 Tor 0.2.0.28-rc fixes an anonymity-related bug, fixes a hidden-service
33711 performance bug, and fixes a bunch of smaller bugs.
33714 - Fix a bug where, when we were choosing the 'end stream reason' to
33715 put in our relay end cell that we send to the exit relay, Tor
33716 clients on Windows were sometimes sending the wrong 'reason'. The
33717 anonymity problem is that exit relays may be able to guess whether
33718 the client is running Windows, thus helping partition the anonymity
33719 set. Down the road we should stop sending reasons to exit relays,
33720 or otherwise prevent future versions of this bug.
33723 - While setting up a hidden service, some valid introduction circuits
33724 were overlooked and abandoned. This might be the reason for
33725 the long delay in making a hidden service available. Bugfix on
33729 - Update to the "June 9 2008" ip-to-country file.
33730 - Run 'make test' as part of 'make dist', so we stop releasing so
33731 many development snapshots that fail their unit tests.
33734 - When we're checking if we have enough dir info for each relay
33735 to begin establishing circuits, make sure that we actually have
33736 the descriptor listed in the consensus, not just any descriptor.
33738 - Bridge relays no longer print "xx=0" in their extrainfo document
33739 for every single country code in the geoip db. Bugfix on
33741 - Only warn when we fail to load the geoip file if we were planning to
33742 include geoip stats in our extrainfo document. Bugfix on 0.2.0.27-rc.
33743 - If we change our MaxAdvertisedBandwidth and then reload torrc,
33744 Tor won't realize it should publish a new relay descriptor. Fixes
33745 bug 688, reported by mfr. Bugfix on 0.1.2.x.
33746 - When we haven't had any application requests lately, don't bother
33747 logging that we have expired a bunch of descriptors. Bugfix
33749 - Make relay cells written on a connection count as non-padding when
33750 tracking how long a connection has been in use. Bugfix on
33751 0.2.0.1-alpha. Spotted by lodger.
33752 - Fix unit tests in 0.2.0.27-rc.
33753 - Fix compile on Windows.
33756 Changes in version 0.2.0.27-rc - 2008-06-03
33757 Tor 0.2.0.27-rc adds a few features we left out of the earlier
33758 release candidates. In particular, we now include an IP-to-country
33759 GeoIP database, so controllers can easily look up what country a
33760 given relay is in, and so bridge relays can give us some sanitized
33761 summaries about which countries are making use of bridges. (See proposal
33762 126-geoip-fetching.txt for details.)
33765 - Include an IP-to-country GeoIP file in the tarball, so bridge
33766 relays can report sanitized summaries of the usage they're seeing.
33769 - Add a "PURPOSE=" argument to "STREAM NEW" events, as suggested by
33770 Robert Hogan. Fixes the first part of bug 681.
33771 - Make bridge authorities never serve extrainfo docs.
33772 - Add support to detect Libevent versions in the 1.4.x series
33774 - Fix build on gcc 4.3 with --enable-gcc-warnings set.
33775 - Include a new contrib/tor-exit-notice.html file that exit relay
33776 operators can put on their website to help reduce abuse queries.
33779 - When tunneling an encrypted directory connection, and its first
33780 circuit fails, do not leave it unattached and ask the controller
33781 to deal. Fixes the second part of bug 681.
33782 - Make bridge authorities correctly expire old extrainfo documents
33786 Changes in version 0.2.0.26-rc - 2008-05-13
33787 Tor 0.2.0.26-rc fixes a major security vulnerability caused by a bug
33788 in Debian's OpenSSL packages. All users running any 0.2.0.x version
33789 should upgrade, whether they're running Debian or not.
33791 o Major security fixes:
33792 - Use new V3 directory authority keys on the tor26, gabelmoo, and
33793 moria1 V3 directory authorities. The old keys were generated with
33794 a vulnerable version of Debian's OpenSSL package, and must be
33795 considered compromised. Other authorities' keys were not generated
33796 with an affected version of OpenSSL.
33799 - List authority signatures as "unrecognized" based on DirServer
33800 lines, not on cert cache. Bugfix on 0.2.0.x.
33803 - Add a new V3AuthUseLegacyKey option to make it easier for
33804 authorities to change their identity keys if they have to.
33807 Changes in version 0.2.0.25-rc - 2008-04-23
33808 Tor 0.2.0.25-rc makes Tor work again on OS X and certain BSDs.
33811 - Remember to initialize threading before initializing logging.
33812 Otherwise, many BSD-family implementations will crash hard on
33813 startup. Fixes bug 671. Bugfix on 0.2.0.24-rc.
33816 - Authorities correctly free policies on bad servers on
33817 exit. Fixes bug 672. Bugfix on 0.2.0.x.
33820 Changes in version 0.2.0.24-rc - 2008-04-22
33821 Tor 0.2.0.24-rc adds dizum (run by Alex de Joode) as the new sixth
33822 v3 directory authority, makes relays with dynamic IP addresses and no
33823 DirPort notice more quickly when their IP address changes, fixes a few
33824 rare crashes and memory leaks, and fixes a few other miscellaneous bugs.
33826 o New directory authorities:
33827 - Take lefkada out of the list of v3 directory authorities, since
33828 it has been down for months.
33829 - Set up dizum (run by Alex de Joode) as the new sixth v3 directory
33833 - Detect address changes more quickly on non-directory mirror
33834 relays. Bugfix on 0.2.0.18-alpha; fixes bug 652.
33836 o Minor features (security):
33837 - Reject requests for reverse-dns lookup of names that are in
33838 a private address space. Patch from lodger.
33839 - Non-exit relays no longer allow DNS requests. Fixes bug 619. Patch
33842 o Minor bugfixes (crashes):
33843 - Avoid a rare assert that can trigger when Tor doesn't have much
33844 directory information yet and it tries to fetch a v2 hidden
33845 service descriptor. Fixes bug 651, reported by nwf.
33846 - Initialize log mutex before initializing dmalloc. Otherwise,
33847 running with dmalloc would crash. Bugfix on 0.2.0.x-alpha.
33848 - Use recursive pthread mutexes in order to avoid deadlock when
33849 logging debug-level messages to a controller. Bug spotted by nwf,
33850 bugfix on 0.2.0.16-alpha.
33852 o Minor bugfixes (resource management):
33853 - Keep address policies from leaking memory: start their refcount
33854 at 1, not 2. Bugfix on 0.2.0.16-alpha.
33855 - Free authority certificates on exit, so they don't look like memory
33856 leaks. Bugfix on 0.2.0.19-alpha.
33857 - Free static hashtables for policy maps and for TLS connections on
33858 shutdown, so they don't look like memory leaks. Bugfix on 0.2.0.x.
33859 - Avoid allocating extra space when computing consensuses on 64-bit
33860 platforms. Bug spotted by aakova.
33862 o Minor bugfixes (misc):
33863 - Do not read the configuration file when we've only been told to
33864 generate a password hash. Fixes bug 643. Bugfix on 0.0.9pre5. Fix
33865 based on patch from Sebastian Hahn.
33866 - Exit relays that are used as a client can now reach themselves
33867 using the .exit notation, rather than just launching an infinite
33868 pile of circuits. Fixes bug 641. Reported by Sebastian Hahn.
33869 - When attempting to open a logfile fails, tell us why.
33870 - Fix a dumb bug that was preventing us from knowing that we should
33871 preemptively build circuits to handle expected directory requests.
33872 Fixes bug 660. Bugfix on 0.1.2.x.
33873 - Warn less verbosely about clock skew from netinfo cells from
33874 untrusted sources. Fixes bug 663.
33875 - Make controller stream events for DNS requests more consistent,
33876 by adding "new stream" events for DNS requests, and removing
33877 spurious "stream closed" events" for cached reverse resolves.
33878 Patch from mwenge. Fixes bug 646.
33879 - Correctly notify one-hop connections when a circuit build has
33880 failed. Possible fix for bug 669. Found by lodger.
33883 Changes in version 0.2.0.23-rc - 2008-03-24
33884 Tor 0.2.0.23-rc is the fourth release candidate for the 0.2.0 series. It
33885 makes bootstrapping faster if the first directory mirror you contact
33886 is down. The bundles also include the new Vidalia 0.1.2 release.
33889 - When a tunneled directory request is made to a directory server
33890 that's down, notice after 30 seconds rather than 120 seconds. Also,
33891 fail any begindir streams that are pending on it, so they can
33892 retry elsewhere. This was causing multi-minute delays on bootstrap.
33895 Changes in version 0.2.0.22-rc - 2008-03-18
33896 Tor 0.2.0.22-rc is the third release candidate for the 0.2.0 series. It
33897 enables encrypted directory connections by default for non-relays, fixes
33898 some broken TLS behavior we added in 0.2.0.20-rc, and resolves many
33899 other bugs. The bundles also include Vidalia 0.1.1 and Torbutton 1.1.17.
33902 - Enable encrypted directory connections by default for non-relays,
33903 so censor tools that block Tor directory connections based on their
33904 plaintext patterns will no longer work. This means Tor works in
33905 certain censored countries by default again.
33908 - Make sure servers always request certificates from clients during
33909 TLS renegotiation. Reported by lodger; bugfix on 0.2.0.20-rc.
33910 - Do not enter a CPU-eating loop when a connection is closed in
33911 the middle of client-side TLS renegotiation. Fixes bug 622. Bug
33912 diagnosed by lodger; bugfix on 0.2.0.20-rc.
33913 - Fix assertion failure that could occur when a blocked circuit
33914 became unblocked, and it had pending client DNS requests. Bugfix
33915 on 0.2.0.1-alpha. Fixes bug 632.
33917 o Minor bugfixes (on 0.1.2.x):
33918 - Generate "STATUS_SERVER" events rather than misspelled
33919 "STATUS_SEVER" events. Caught by mwenge.
33920 - When counting the number of bytes written on a TLS connection,
33921 look at the BIO actually used for writing to the network, not
33922 at the BIO used (sometimes) to buffer data for the network.
33923 Looking at different BIOs could result in write counts on the
33924 order of ULONG_MAX. Fixes bug 614.
33925 - On Windows, correctly detect errors when listing the contents of
33926 a directory. Fix from lodger.
33928 o Minor bugfixes (on 0.2.0.x):
33929 - Downgrade "sslv3 alert handshake failure" message to INFO.
33930 - If we set RelayBandwidthRate and RelayBandwidthBurst very high but
33931 left BandwidthRate and BandwidthBurst at the default, we would be
33932 silently limited by those defaults. Now raise them to match the
33933 RelayBandwidth* values.
33934 - Fix the SVK version detection logic to work correctly on a branch.
33935 - Make --enable-openbsd-malloc work correctly on Linux with alpha
33936 CPUs. Fixes bug 625.
33937 - Logging functions now check that the passed severity is sane.
33938 - Use proper log levels in the testsuite call of
33939 get_interface_address6().
33940 - When using a nonstandard malloc, do not use the platform values for
33941 HAVE_MALLOC_GOOD_SIZE or HAVE_MALLOC_USABLE_SIZE.
33942 - Make the openbsd malloc code use 8k pages on alpha CPUs and
33944 - Detect mismatched page sizes when using --enable-openbsd-malloc.
33945 - Avoid double-marked-for-close warning when certain kinds of invalid
33946 .in-addr.arpa addresses are passed to the DNSPort. Part of a fix
33947 for bug 617. Bugfix on 0.2.0.1-alpha.
33948 - Make sure that the "NULL-means-reject *:*" convention is followed by
33949 all the policy manipulation functions, avoiding some possible crash
33950 bugs. Bug found by lodger. Bugfix on 0.2.0.16-alpha.
33951 - Fix the implementation of ClientDNSRejectInternalAddresses so that it
33952 actually works, and doesn't warn about every single reverse lookup.
33953 Fixes the other part of bug 617. Bugfix on 0.2.0.1-alpha.
33956 - Only log guard node status when guard node status has changed.
33957 - Downgrade the 3 most common "INFO" messages to "DEBUG". This will
33958 make "INFO" 75% less verbose.
33961 Changes in version 0.2.0.21-rc - 2008-03-02
33962 Tor 0.2.0.21-rc is the second release candidate for the 0.2.0 series. It
33963 makes Tor work well with Vidalia again, fixes a rare assert bug,
33964 and fixes a pair of more minor bugs. The bundles also include Vidalia
33965 0.1.0 and Torbutton 1.1.16.
33968 - The control port should declare that it requires password auth
33969 when HashedControlSessionPassword is set too. Patch from Matt Edman;
33970 bugfix on 0.2.0.20-rc. Fixes bug 615.
33971 - Downgrade assert in connection_buckets_decrement() to a log message.
33972 This may help us solve bug 614, and in any case will make its
33973 symptoms less severe. Bugfix on 0.2.0.20-rc. Reported by fredzupy.
33974 - We were sometimes miscounting the number of bytes read from the
33975 network, causing our rate limiting to not be followed exactly.
33976 Bugfix on 0.2.0.16-alpha. Reported by lodger.
33979 - Fix compilation with OpenSSL 0.9.8 and 0.9.8a. All other supported
33980 OpenSSL versions should have been working fine. Diagnosis and patch
33981 from lodger, Karsten Loesing, and Sebastian Hahn. Fixes bug 616.
33982 Bugfix on 0.2.0.20-rc.
33985 Changes in version 0.2.0.20-rc - 2008-02-24
33986 Tor 0.2.0.20-rc is the first release candidate for the 0.2.0 series. It
33987 makes more progress towards normalizing Tor's TLS handshake, makes
33988 hidden services work better again, helps relays bootstrap if they don't
33989 know their IP address, adds optional support for linking in openbsd's
33990 allocator or tcmalloc, allows really fast relays to scale past 15000
33991 sockets, and fixes a bunch of minor bugs reported by Veracode.
33994 - Enable the revised TLS handshake based on the one designed by
33995 Steven Murdoch in proposal 124, as revised in proposal 130. It
33996 includes version negotiation for OR connections as described in
33997 proposal 105. The new handshake is meant to be harder for censors
33998 to fingerprint, and it adds the ability to detect certain kinds of
33999 man-in-the-middle traffic analysis attacks. The version negotiation
34000 feature will allow us to improve Tor's link protocol more safely
34002 - Choose which bridge to use proportional to its advertised bandwidth,
34003 rather than uniformly at random. This should speed up Tor for
34004 bridge users. Also do this for people who set StrictEntryNodes.
34005 - When a TrackHostExits-chosen exit fails too many times in a row,
34006 stop using it. Bugfix on 0.1.2.x; fixes bug 437.
34009 - Resolved problems with (re-)fetching hidden service descriptors.
34010 Patch from Karsten Loesing; fixes problems with 0.2.0.18-alpha
34011 and 0.2.0.19-alpha.
34012 - If we only ever used Tor for hidden service lookups or posts, we
34013 would stop building circuits and start refusing connections after
34014 24 hours, since we falsely believed that Tor was dormant. Reported
34015 by nwf; bugfix on 0.1.2.x.
34016 - Servers that don't know their own IP address should go to the
34017 authorities for their first directory fetch, even if their DirPort
34018 is off or if they don't know they're reachable yet. This will help
34019 them bootstrap better. Bugfix on 0.2.0.18-alpha; fixes bug 609.
34020 - When counting the number of open sockets, count not only the number
34021 of sockets we have received from the socket() call, but also
34022 the number we've gotten from accept() and socketpair(). This bug
34023 made us fail to count all sockets that we were using for incoming
34024 connections. Bugfix on 0.2.0.x.
34025 - Fix code used to find strings within buffers, when those strings
34026 are not in the first chunk of the buffer. Bugfix on 0.2.0.x.
34027 - Fix potential segfault when parsing HTTP headers. Bugfix on 0.2.0.x.
34028 - Add a new __HashedControlSessionPassword option for controllers
34029 to use for one-off session password hashes that shouldn't get
34030 saved to disk by SAVECONF --- Vidalia users were accumulating a
34031 pile of HashedControlPassword lines in their torrc files, one for
34032 each time they had restarted Tor and then clicked Save. Make Tor
34033 automatically convert "HashedControlPassword" to this new option but
34034 only when it's given on the command line. Partial fix for bug 586.
34036 o Minor features (performance):
34037 - Tune parameters for cell pool allocation to minimize amount of
34039 - Add OpenBSD malloc code from phk as an optional malloc
34040 replacement on Linux: some glibc libraries do very poorly
34041 with Tor's memory allocation patterns. Pass
34042 --enable-openbsd-malloc to get the replacement malloc code.
34043 - Add a --with-tcmalloc option to the configure script to link
34044 against tcmalloc (if present). Does not yet search for
34045 non-system include paths.
34046 - Stop imposing an arbitrary maximum on the number of file descriptors
34047 used for busy servers. Bug reported by Olaf Selke; patch from
34050 o Minor features (other):
34051 - When SafeLogging is disabled, log addresses along with all TLS
34053 - When building with --enable-gcc-warnings, check for whether Apple's
34054 warning "-Wshorten-64-to-32" is available.
34055 - Add a --passphrase-fd argument to the tor-gencert command for
34058 o Minor bugfixes (memory leaks and code problems):
34059 - We were leaking a file descriptor if Tor started with a zero-length
34060 cached-descriptors file. Patch by freddy77; bugfix on 0.1.2.
34061 - Detect size overflow in zlib code. Reported by Justin Ferguson and
34063 - We were comparing the raw BridgePassword entry with a base64'ed
34064 version of it, when handling a "/tor/networkstatus-bridges"
34065 directory request. Now compare correctly. Noticed by Veracode.
34066 - Recover from bad tracked-since value in MTBF-history file.
34067 Should fix bug 537.
34068 - Alter the code that tries to recover from unhandled write
34069 errors, to not try to flush onto a socket that's given us
34070 unhandled errors. Bugfix on 0.1.2.x.
34071 - Make Unix controlsockets work correctly on OpenBSD. Patch from
34072 tup. Bugfix on 0.2.0.3-alpha.
34074 o Minor bugfixes (other):
34075 - If we have an extra-info document for our server, always make
34076 it available on the control port, even if we haven't gotten
34077 a copy of it from an authority yet. Patch from mwenge.
34078 - Log the correct memory chunk sizes for empty RAM chunks in mempool.c.
34079 - Directory mirrors no longer include a guess at the client's IP
34080 address if the connection appears to be coming from the same /24
34081 network; it was producing too many wrong guesses.
34082 - Make the new hidden service code respect the SafeLogging setting.
34083 Bugfix on 0.2.0.x. Patch from Karsten.
34084 - When starting as an authority, do not overwrite all certificates
34085 cached from other authorities. Bugfix on 0.2.0.x. Fixes bug 606.
34086 - If we're trying to flush the last bytes on a connection (for
34087 example, when answering a directory request), reset the
34088 time-to-give-up timeout every time we manage to write something
34089 on the socket. Bugfix on 0.1.2.x.
34090 - Change the behavior of "getinfo status/good-server-descriptor"
34091 so it doesn't return failure when any authority disappears.
34092 - Even though the man page said that "TrackHostExits ." should
34093 work, nobody had ever implemented it. Bugfix on 0.1.0.x.
34094 - Report TLS "zero return" case as a "clean close" and "IO error"
34095 as a "close". Stop calling closes "unexpected closes": existing
34096 Tors don't use SSL_close(), so having a connection close without
34097 the TLS shutdown handshake is hardly unexpected.
34098 - Send NAMESERVER_STATUS messages for a single failed nameserver
34101 o Code simplifications and refactoring:
34102 - Remove the tor_strpartition function: its logic was confused,
34103 and it was only used for one thing that could be implemented far
34107 Changes in version 0.2.0.19-alpha - 2008-02-09
34108 Tor 0.2.0.19-alpha makes more progress towards normalizing Tor's TLS
34109 handshake, makes path selection for relays more secure and IP address
34110 guessing more robust, and generally fixes a lot of bugs in preparation
34111 for calling the 0.2.0 branch stable.
34114 - Do not include recognizeable strings in the commonname part of
34115 Tor's x509 certificates.
34118 - If we're a relay, avoid picking ourselves as an introduction point,
34119 a rendezvous point, or as the final hop for internal circuits. Bug
34120 reported by taranis and lodger. Bugfix on 0.1.2.x.
34121 - Patch from "Andrew S. Lists" to catch when we contact a directory
34122 mirror at IP address X and he says we look like we're coming from
34123 IP address X. Bugfix on 0.1.2.x.
34125 o Minor features (security):
34126 - Be more paranoid about overwriting sensitive memory on free(),
34127 as a defensive programming tactic to ensure forward secrecy.
34129 o Minor features (directory authority):
34130 - Actually validate the options passed to AuthDirReject,
34131 AuthDirInvalid, AuthDirBadDir, and AuthDirBadExit.
34132 - Reject router descriptors with out-of-range bandwidthcapacity or
34133 bandwidthburst values.
34135 o Minor features (controller):
34136 - Reject controller commands over 1MB in length. This keeps rogue
34137 processes from running us out of memory.
34139 o Minor features (misc):
34140 - Give more descriptive well-formedness errors for out-of-range
34141 hidden service descriptor/protocol versions.
34142 - Make memory debugging information describe more about history
34143 of cell allocation, so we can help reduce our memory use.
34145 o Deprecated features (controller):
34146 - The status/version/num-versioning and status/version/num-concurring
34147 GETINFO options are no longer useful in the v3 directory protocol:
34148 treat them as deprecated, and warn when they're used.
34151 - When our consensus networkstatus has been expired for a while, stop
34152 being willing to build circuits using it. Fixes bug 401. Bugfix
34154 - Directory caches now fetch certificates from all authorities
34155 listed in a networkstatus consensus, even when they do not
34156 recognize them. Fixes bug 571. Bugfix on 0.2.0.x.
34157 - When connecting to a bridge without specifying its key, insert
34158 the connection into the identity-to-connection map as soon as
34159 a key is learned. Fixes bug 574. Bugfix on 0.2.0.x.
34160 - Detect versions of OS X where malloc_good_size() is present in the
34161 library but never actually declared. Resolves bug 587. Bugfix
34163 - Stop incorrectly truncating zlib responses to directory authority
34164 signature download requests. Fixes bug 593. Bugfix on 0.2.0.x.
34165 - Stop recommending that every server operator send mail to tor-ops.
34166 Resolves bug 597. Bugfix on 0.1.2.x.
34167 - Don't trigger an assert if we start a directory authority with a
34168 private IP address (like 127.0.0.1).
34169 - Avoid possible failures when generating a directory with routers
34170 with over-long versions strings, or too many flags set. Bugfix
34172 - If an attempt to launch a DNS resolve request over the control
34173 port fails because we have overrun the limit on the number of
34174 connections, tell the controller that the request has failed.
34175 - Avoid using too little bandwidth when our clock skips a few
34176 seconds. Bugfix on 0.1.2.x.
34177 - Fix shell error when warning about missing packages in configure
34178 script, on Fedora or Red Hat machines. Bugfix on 0.2.0.x.
34179 - Do not become confused when receiving a spurious VERSIONS-like
34180 cell from a confused v1 client. Bugfix on 0.2.0.x.
34181 - Re-fetch v2 (as well as v0) rendezvous descriptors when all
34182 introduction points for a hidden service have failed. Patch from
34183 Karsten Loesing. Bugfix on 0.2.0.x.
34185 o Code simplifications and refactoring:
34186 - Remove some needless generality from cpuworker code, for improved
34188 - Stop overloading the circuit_t.onionskin field for both "onionskin
34189 from a CREATE cell that we are waiting for a cpuworker to be
34190 assigned" and "onionskin from an EXTEND cell that we are going to
34191 send to an OR as soon as we are connected". Might help with bug 600.
34192 - Add an in-place version of aes_crypt() so that we can avoid doing a
34193 needless memcpy() call on each cell payload.
34196 Changes in version 0.2.0.18-alpha - 2008-01-25
34197 Tor 0.2.0.18-alpha adds a sixth v3 directory authority run by CCC,
34198 fixes a big memory leak in 0.2.0.17-alpha, and adds new config options
34199 that can warn or reject connections to ports generally associated with
34200 vulnerable-plaintext protocols.
34202 o New directory authorities:
34203 - Set up dannenberg (run by CCC) as the sixth v3 directory
34207 - Fix a major memory leak when attempting to use the v2 TLS
34208 handshake code. Bugfix on 0.2.0.x; fixes bug 589.
34209 - We accidentally enabled the under-development v2 TLS handshake
34210 code, which was causing log entries like "TLS error while
34211 renegotiating handshake". Disable it again. Resolves bug 590.
34212 - We were computing the wrong Content-Length: header for directory
34213 responses that need to be compressed on the fly, causing clients
34214 asking for those items to always fail. Bugfix on 0.2.0.x; partially
34218 - Avoid going directly to the directory authorities even if you're a
34219 relay, if you haven't found yourself reachable yet or if you've
34220 decided not to advertise your dirport yet. Addresses bug 556.
34221 - If we've gone 12 hours since our last bandwidth check, and we
34222 estimate we have less than 50KB bandwidth capacity but we could
34223 handle more, do another bandwidth test.
34224 - New config options WarnPlaintextPorts and RejectPlaintextPorts so
34225 Tor can warn and/or refuse connections to ports commonly used with
34226 vulnerable-plaintext protocols. Currently we warn on ports 23,
34227 109, 110, and 143, but we don't reject any.
34230 - When we setconf ClientOnly to 1, close any current OR and Dir
34231 listeners. Reported by mwenge.
34232 - When we get a consensus that's been signed by more people than
34233 we expect, don't log about it; it's not a big deal. Reported
34237 - Don't answer "/tor/networkstatus-bridges" directory requests if
34238 the request isn't encrypted.
34239 - Make "ClientOnly 1" config option disable directory ports too.
34240 - Patches from Karsten Loesing to make v2 hidden services more
34241 robust: work even when there aren't enough HSDir relays available;
34242 retry when a v2 rend desc fetch fails; but don't retry if we
34243 already have a usable v0 rend desc.
34246 Changes in version 0.2.0.17-alpha - 2008-01-17
34247 Tor 0.2.0.17-alpha makes the tarball build cleanly again (whoops).
34250 - Make the tor-gencert man page get included correctly in the tarball.
34253 Changes in version 0.2.0.16-alpha - 2008-01-17
34254 Tor 0.2.0.16-alpha adds a fifth v3 directory authority run by Karsten
34255 Loesing, and generally cleans up a lot of features and minor bugs.
34257 o New directory authorities:
34258 - Set up gabelmoo (run by Karsten Loesing) as the fifth v3 directory
34261 o Major performance improvements:
34262 - Switch our old ring buffer implementation for one more like that
34263 used by free Unix kernels. The wasted space in a buffer with 1mb
34264 of data will now be more like 8k than 1mb. The new implementation
34265 also avoids realloc();realloc(); patterns that can contribute to
34266 memory fragmentation.
34269 - Configuration files now accept C-style strings as values. This
34270 helps encode characters not allowed in the current configuration
34271 file format, such as newline or #. Addresses bug 557.
34272 - Although we fixed bug 539 (where servers would send HTTP status 503
34273 responses _and_ send a body too), there are still servers out
34274 there that haven't upgraded. Therefore, make clients parse such
34275 bodies when they receive them.
34276 - When we're not serving v2 directory information, there is no reason
34277 to actually keep any around. Remove the obsolete files and directory
34278 on startup if they are very old and we aren't going to serve them.
34280 o Minor performance improvements:
34281 - Reference-count and share copies of address policy entries; only 5%
34282 of them were actually distinct.
34283 - Never walk through the list of logs if we know that no log is
34284 interested in a given message.
34287 - When an authority has not signed a consensus, do not try to
34288 download a nonexistent "certificate with key 00000000". Bugfix
34289 on 0.2.0.x. Fixes bug 569.
34290 - Fix a rare assert error when we're closing one of our threads:
34291 use a mutex to protect the list of logs, so we never write to the
34292 list as it's being freed. Bugfix on 0.1.2.x. Fixes the very rare
34293 bug 575, which is kind of the revenge of bug 222.
34294 - Patch from Karsten Loesing to complain less at both the client
34295 and the relay when a relay used to have the HSDir flag but doesn't
34296 anymore, and we try to upload a hidden service descriptor.
34297 - Stop leaking one cert per TLS context. Fixes bug 582. Bugfix on
34299 - Do not try to download missing certificates until we have tried
34300 to check our fallback consensus. Fixes bug 583.
34301 - Make bridges round reported GeoIP stats info up to the nearest
34302 estimate, not down. Now we can distinguish between "0 people from
34303 this country" and "1 person from this country".
34304 - Avoid a spurious free on base64 failure. Bugfix on 0.1.2.
34305 - Avoid possible segfault if key generation fails in
34306 crypto_pk_hybrid_encrypt. Bugfix on 0.2.0.
34307 - Avoid segfault in the case where a badly behaved v2 versioning
34308 directory sends a signed networkstatus with missing client-versions.
34310 - Avoid segfaults on certain complex invocations of
34311 router_get_by_hexdigest(). Bugfix on 0.1.2.
34312 - Correct bad index on array access in parse_http_time(). Bugfix
34314 - Fix possible bug in vote generation when server versions are present
34315 but client versions are not.
34316 - Fix rare bug on REDIRECTSTREAM control command when called with no
34317 port set: it could erroneously report an error when none had
34319 - Avoid bogus crash-prone, leak-prone tor_realloc when we're
34320 compressing large objects and find ourselves with more than 4k
34321 left over. Bugfix on 0.2.0.
34322 - Fix a small memory leak when setting up a hidden service.
34323 - Fix a few memory leaks that could in theory happen under bizarre
34325 - Fix an assert if we post a general-purpose descriptor via the
34326 control port but that descriptor isn't mentioned in our current
34327 network consensus. Bug reported by Jon McLachlan; bugfix on
34330 o Minor features (controller):
34331 - Get NS events working again. Patch from tup.
34332 - The GETCONF command now escapes and quotes configuration values
34333 that don't otherwise fit into the torrc file.
34334 - The SETCONF command now handles quoted values correctly.
34336 o Minor features (directory authorities):
34337 - New configuration options to override default maximum number of
34338 servers allowed on a single IP address. This is important for
34339 running a test network on a single host.
34340 - Actually implement the -s option to tor-gencert.
34341 - Add a manual page for tor-gencert.
34343 o Minor features (bridges):
34344 - Bridge authorities no longer serve bridge descriptors over
34345 unencrypted connections.
34347 o Minor features (other):
34348 - Add hidden services and DNSPorts to the list of things that make
34349 Tor accept that it has running ports. Change starting Tor with no
34350 ports from a fatal error to a warning; we might change it back if
34351 this turns out to confuse anybody. Fixes bug 579.
34354 Changes in version 0.1.2.19 - 2008-01-17
34355 Tor 0.1.2.19 fixes a huge memory leak on exit relays, makes the default
34356 exit policy a little bit more conservative so it's safer to run an
34357 exit relay on a home system, and fixes a variety of smaller issues.
34360 - Exit policies now reject connections that are addressed to a
34361 relay's public (external) IP address too, unless
34362 ExitPolicyRejectPrivate is turned off. We do this because too
34363 many relays are running nearby to services that trust them based
34364 on network address.
34367 - When the clock jumps forward a lot, do not allow the bandwidth
34368 buckets to become negative. Fixes bug 544.
34369 - Fix a memory leak on exit relays; we were leaking a cached_resolve_t
34370 on every successful resolve. Reported by Mike Perry.
34371 - Purge old entries from the "rephist" database and the hidden
34372 service descriptor database even when DirPort is zero.
34373 - Stop thinking that 0.1.2.x directory servers can handle "begin_dir"
34374 requests. Should ease bugs 406 and 419 where 0.1.2.x relays are
34375 crashing or mis-answering these requests.
34376 - When we decide to send a 503 response to a request for servers, do
34377 not then also send the server descriptors: this defeats the whole
34378 purpose. Fixes bug 539.
34381 - Changing the ExitPolicyRejectPrivate setting should cause us to
34382 rebuild our server descriptor.
34383 - Fix handling of hex nicknames when answering controller requests for
34384 networkstatus by name, or when deciding whether to warn about
34385 unknown routers in a config option. (Patch from mwenge.)
34386 - Fix a couple of hard-to-trigger autoconf problems that could result
34387 in really weird results on platforms whose sys/types.h files define
34388 nonstandard integer types.
34389 - Don't try to create the datadir when running --verify-config or
34390 --hash-password. Resolves bug 540.
34391 - If we were having problems getting a particular descriptor from the
34392 directory caches, and then we learned about a new descriptor for
34393 that router, we weren't resetting our failure count. Reported
34395 - Although we fixed bug 539 (where servers would send HTTP status 503
34396 responses _and_ send a body too), there are still servers out there
34397 that haven't upgraded. Therefore, make clients parse such bodies
34398 when they receive them.
34399 - Run correctly on systems where rlim_t is larger than unsigned long.
34400 This includes some 64-bit systems.
34401 - Run correctly on platforms (like some versions of OS X 10.5) where
34402 the real limit for number of open files is OPEN_FILES, not rlim_max
34403 from getrlimit(RLIMIT_NOFILES).
34404 - Avoid a spurious free on base64 failure.
34405 - Avoid segfaults on certain complex invocations of
34406 router_get_by_hexdigest().
34407 - Fix rare bug on REDIRECTSTREAM control command when called with no
34408 port set: it could erroneously report an error when none had
34412 Changes in version 0.2.0.15-alpha - 2007-12-25
34413 Tor 0.2.0.14-alpha and 0.2.0.15-alpha fix a bunch of bugs with the
34414 features added in 0.2.0.13-alpha.
34417 - Fix several remotely triggerable asserts based on DirPort requests
34418 for a v2 or v3 networkstatus object before we were prepared. This
34419 was particularly bad for 0.2.0.13 and later bridge relays, who
34420 would never have a v2 networkstatus and would thus always crash
34421 when used. Bugfixes on 0.2.0.x.
34422 - Estimate the v3 networkstatus size more accurately, rather than
34423 estimating it at zero bytes and giving it artificially high priority
34424 compared to other directory requests. Bugfix on 0.2.0.x.
34427 - Fix configure.in logic for cross-compilation.
34428 - When we load a bridge descriptor from the cache, and it was
34429 previously unreachable, mark it as retriable so we won't just
34430 ignore it. Also, try fetching a new copy immediately. Bugfixes
34432 - The bridge GeoIP stats were counting other relays, for example
34433 self-reachability and authority-reachability tests.
34436 - Support compilation to target iPhone; patch from cjacker huang.
34437 To build for iPhone, pass the --enable-iphone option to configure.
34440 Changes in version 0.2.0.14-alpha - 2007-12-23
34442 - Fix a crash on startup if you install Tor 0.2.0.13-alpha fresh
34443 without a datadirectory from a previous Tor install. Reported
34445 - Fix a crash when we fetch a descriptor that turns out to be
34446 unexpected (it used to be in our networkstatus when we started
34447 fetching it, but it isn't in our current networkstatus), and we
34448 aren't using bridges. Bugfix on 0.2.0.x.
34449 - Fix a crash when accessing hidden services: it would work the first
34450 time you use a given introduction point for your service, but
34451 on subsequent requests we'd be using garbage memory. Fixed by
34452 Karsten Loesing. Bugfix on 0.2.0.13-alpha.
34453 - Fix a crash when we load a bridge descriptor from disk but we don't
34454 currently have a Bridge line for it in our torrc. Bugfix on
34458 - If bridge authorities set BridgePassword, they will serve a
34459 snapshot of known bridge routerstatuses from their DirPort to
34460 anybody who knows that password. Unset by default.
34463 - Make the unit tests build again.
34464 - Make "GETINFO/desc-annotations/id/<OR digest>" actually work.
34465 - Make PublishServerDescriptor default to 1, so the default doesn't
34466 have to change as we invent new directory protocol versions.
34467 - Fix test for rlim_t on OSX 10.3: sys/resource.h doesn't want to
34468 be included unless sys/time.h is already included. Fixes
34469 bug 553. Bugfix on 0.2.0.x.
34470 - If we receive a general-purpose descriptor and then receive an
34471 identical bridge-purpose descriptor soon after, don't discard
34472 the next one as a duplicate.
34475 - If BridgeRelay is set to 1, then the default for
34476 PublishServerDescriptor is now "bridge" rather than "v2,v3".
34477 - If the user sets RelayBandwidthRate but doesn't set
34478 RelayBandwidthBurst, then make them equal rather than erroring out.
34481 Changes in version 0.2.0.13-alpha - 2007-12-21
34482 Tor 0.2.0.13-alpha adds a fourth v3 directory authority run by Geoff
34483 Goodell, fixes many more bugs, and adds a lot of infrastructure for
34486 o New directory authorities:
34487 - Set up lefkada (run by Geoff Goodell) as the fourth v3 directory
34491 - Only update guard status (usable / not usable) once we have
34492 enough directory information. This was causing us to always pick
34493 two new guards on startup (bugfix on 0.2.0.9-alpha), and it was
34494 causing us to discard all our guards on startup if we hadn't been
34495 running for a few weeks (bugfix on 0.1.2.x). Fixes bug 448.
34496 - Purge old entries from the "rephist" database and the hidden
34497 service descriptor databases even when DirPort is zero. Bugfix
34499 - We were ignoring our RelayBandwidthRate for the first 30 seconds
34500 after opening a circuit -- even a relayed circuit. Bugfix on
34502 - Stop thinking that 0.1.2.x directory servers can handle "begin_dir"
34503 requests. Should ease bugs 406 and 419 where 0.1.2.x relays are
34504 crashing or mis-answering these types of requests.
34505 - Relays were publishing their server descriptor to v1 and v2
34506 directory authorities, but they didn't try publishing to v3-only
34507 authorities. Fix this; and also stop publishing to v1 authorities.
34509 - When we were reading router descriptors from cache, we were ignoring
34510 the annotations -- so for example we were reading in bridge-purpose
34511 descriptors as general-purpose descriptors. Bugfix on 0.2.0.8-alpha.
34512 - When we decided to send a 503 response to a request for servers, we
34513 were then also sending the server descriptors: this defeats the
34514 whole purpose. Fixes bug 539; bugfix on 0.1.2.x.
34517 - Bridge relays now behave like clients with respect to time
34518 intervals for downloading new consensus documents -- otherwise they
34519 stand out. Bridge users now wait until the end of the interval,
34520 so their bridge relay will be sure to have a new consensus document.
34521 - Three new config options (AlternateDirAuthority,
34522 AlternateBridgeAuthority, and AlternateHSAuthority) that let the
34523 user selectively replace the default directory authorities by type,
34524 rather than the all-or-nothing replacement that DirServer offers.
34525 - Tor can now be configured to read a GeoIP file from disk in one
34526 of two formats. This can be used by controllers to map IP addresses
34527 to countries. Eventually, it may support exit-by-country.
34528 - When possible, bridge relays remember which countries users
34529 are coming from, and report aggregate information in their
34530 extra-info documents, so that the bridge authorities can learn
34531 where Tor is blocked.
34532 - Bridge directory authorities now do reachability testing on the
34533 bridges they know. They provide router status summaries to the
34534 controller via "getinfo ns/purpose/bridge", and also dump summaries
34535 to a file periodically.
34536 - Stop fetching directory info so aggressively if your DirPort is
34537 on but your ORPort is off; stop fetching v2 dir info entirely.
34538 You can override these choices with the new FetchDirInfoEarly
34542 - The fix in 0.2.0.12-alpha cleared the "hsdir" flag in v3 network
34543 consensus documents when there are too many relays at a single
34544 IP address. Now clear it in v2 network status documents too, and
34545 also clear it in routerinfo_t when the relay is no longer listed
34546 in the relevant networkstatus document.
34547 - Don't crash if we get an unexpected value for the
34548 PublishServerDescriptor config option. Reported by Matt Edman;
34549 bugfix on 0.2.0.9-alpha.
34550 - Our new v2 hidden service descriptor format allows descriptors
34551 that have no introduction points. But Tor crashed when we tried
34552 to build a descriptor with no intro points (and it would have
34553 crashed if we had tried to parse one). Bugfix on 0.2.0.x; patch
34554 by Karsten Loesing.
34555 - Fix building with dmalloc 5.5.2 with glibc.
34556 - Reject uploaded descriptors and extrainfo documents if they're
34557 huge. Otherwise we'll cache them all over the network and it'll
34558 clog everything up. Reported by Aljosha Judmayer.
34559 - Check for presence of s6_addr16 and s6_addr32 fields in in6_addr
34560 via autoconf. Should fix compile on solaris. Bugfix on 0.2.0.x.
34561 - When the DANGEROUS_VERSION controller status event told us we're
34562 running an obsolete version, it used the string "OLD" to describe
34563 it. Yet the "getinfo" interface used the string "OBSOLETE". Now use
34564 "OBSOLETE" in both cases. Bugfix on 0.1.2.x.
34565 - If we can't expand our list of entry guards (e.g. because we're
34566 using bridges or we have StrictEntryNodes set), don't mark relays
34567 down when they fail a directory request. Otherwise we're too quick
34568 to mark all our entry points down. Bugfix on 0.1.2.x.
34569 - Fix handling of hex nicknames when answering controller requests for
34570 networkstatus by name, or when deciding whether to warn about unknown
34571 routers in a config option. Bugfix on 0.1.2.x. (Patch from mwenge.)
34572 - Fix a couple of hard-to-trigger autoconf problems that could result
34573 in really weird results on platforms whose sys/types.h files define
34574 nonstandard integer types. Bugfix on 0.1.2.x.
34575 - Fix compilation with --disable-threads set. Bugfix on 0.2.0.x.
34576 - Don't crash on name lookup when we have no current consensus. Fixes
34577 bug 538; bugfix on 0.2.0.x.
34578 - Only Tors that want to mirror the v2 directory info should
34579 create the "cached-status" directory in their datadir. (All Tors
34580 used to create it.) Bugfix on 0.2.0.9-alpha.
34581 - Directory authorities should only automatically download Extra Info
34582 documents if they're v1, v2, or v3 authorities. Bugfix on 0.1.2.x.
34585 - On the USR1 signal, when dmalloc is in use, log the top 10 memory
34586 consumers. (We already do this on HUP.)
34587 - Authorities and caches fetch the v2 networkstatus documents
34588 less often, now that v3 is encouraged.
34589 - Add a new config option BridgeRelay that specifies you want to
34590 be a bridge relay. Right now the only difference is that it makes
34591 you answer begin_dir requests, and it makes you cache dir info,
34592 even if your DirPort isn't on.
34593 - Add "GETINFO/desc-annotations/id/<OR digest>" so controllers can
34594 ask about source, timestamp of arrival, purpose, etc. We need
34595 something like this to help Vidalia not do GeoIP lookups on bridge
34597 - Allow multiple HashedControlPassword config lines, to support
34598 multiple controller passwords.
34599 - Authorities now decide whether they're authoritative for a given
34600 router based on the router's purpose.
34601 - New config options AuthDirBadDir and AuthDirListBadDirs for
34602 authorities to mark certain relays as "bad directories" in the
34603 networkstatus documents. Also supports the "!baddir" directive in
34604 the approved-routers file.
34607 Changes in version 0.2.0.12-alpha - 2007-11-16
34608 This twelfth development snapshot fixes some more build problems as
34609 well as a few minor bugs.
34612 - Make it build on OpenBSD again. Patch from tup.
34613 - Substitute BINDIR and LOCALSTATEDIR in scripts. Fixes
34614 package-building for Red Hat, OS X, etc.
34616 o Minor bugfixes (on 0.1.2.x):
34617 - Changing the ExitPolicyRejectPrivate setting should cause us to
34618 rebuild our server descriptor.
34620 o Minor bugfixes (on 0.2.0.x):
34621 - When we're lacking a consensus, don't try to perform rendezvous
34622 operations. Reported by Karsten Loesing.
34623 - Fix a small memory leak whenever we decide against using a
34624 newly picked entry guard. Reported by Mike Perry.
34625 - When authorities detected more than two relays running on the same
34626 IP address, they were clearing all the status flags but forgetting
34627 to clear the "hsdir" flag. So clients were being told that a
34628 given relay was the right choice for a v2 hsdir lookup, yet they
34629 never had its descriptor because it was marked as 'not running'
34631 - If we're trying to fetch a bridge descriptor and there's no way
34632 the bridge authority could help us (for example, we don't know
34633 a digest, or there is no bridge authority), don't be so eager to
34634 fall back to asking the bridge authority.
34635 - If we're using bridges or have strictentrynodes set, and our
34636 chosen exit is in the same family as all our bridges/entry guards,
34637 then be flexible about families.
34640 - When we negotiate a v2 link-layer connection (not yet implemented),
34641 accept RELAY_EARLY cells and turn them into RELAY cells if we've
34642 negotiated a v1 connection for their next step. Initial code for
34646 Changes in version 0.2.0.11-alpha - 2007-11-12
34647 This eleventh development snapshot fixes some build problems with
34648 the previous snapshot. It also includes a more secure-by-default exit
34649 policy for relays, fixes an enormous memory leak for exit relays, and
34650 fixes another bug where servers were falling out of the directory list.
34653 - Exit policies now reject connections that are addressed to a
34654 relay's public (external) IP address too, unless
34655 ExitPolicyRejectPrivate is turned off. We do this because too
34656 many relays are running nearby to services that trust them based
34657 on network address. Bugfix on 0.1.2.x.
34660 - Fix a memory leak on exit relays; we were leaking a cached_resolve_t
34661 on every successful resolve. Reported by Mike Perry; bugfix
34663 - On authorities, never downgrade to old router descriptors simply
34664 because they're listed in the consensus. This created a catch-22
34665 where we wouldn't list a new descriptor because there was an
34666 old one in the consensus, and we couldn't get the new one in the
34667 consensus because we wouldn't list it. Possible fix for bug 548.
34668 Also, this might cause bug 543 to appear on authorities; if so,
34669 we'll need a band-aid for that. Bugfix on 0.2.0.9-alpha.
34671 o Packaging fixes on 0.2.0.10-alpha:
34672 - We were including instructions about what to do with the
34673 src/config/fallback-consensus file, but we weren't actually
34674 including it in the tarball. Disable all of that for now.
34677 - Allow people to say PreferTunnelledDirConns rather than
34678 PreferTunneledDirConns, for those alternate-spellers out there.
34681 - Don't reevaluate all the information from our consensus document
34682 just because we've downloaded a v2 networkstatus that we intend
34683 to cache. Fixes bug 545; bugfix on 0.2.0.x.
34686 Changes in version 0.2.0.10-alpha - 2007-11-10
34687 This tenth development snapshot adds a third v3 directory authority
34688 run by Mike Perry, adds most of Karsten Loesing's new hidden service
34689 descriptor format, fixes a bad crash bug and new bridge bugs introduced
34690 in 0.2.0.9-alpha, fixes many bugs with the v3 directory implementation,
34691 fixes some minor memory leaks in previous 0.2.0.x snapshots, and
34692 addresses many more minor issues.
34694 o New directory authorities:
34695 - Set up ides (run by Mike Perry) as the third v3 directory authority.
34698 - Allow tunnelled directory connections to ask for an encrypted
34699 "begin_dir" connection or an anonymized "uses a full Tor circuit"
34700 connection independently. Now we can make anonymized begin_dir
34701 connections for (e.g.) more secure hidden service posting and
34703 - More progress on proposal 114: code from Karsten Loesing to
34704 implement new hidden service descriptor format.
34705 - Raise the default BandwidthRate/BandwidthBurst to 5MB/10MB, to
34706 accommodate the growing number of servers that use the default
34707 and are reaching it.
34708 - Directory authorities use a new formula for selecting which nodes
34709 to advertise as Guards: they must be in the top 7/8 in terms of
34710 how long we have known about them, and above the median of those
34711 nodes in terms of weighted fractional uptime.
34712 - Make "not enough dir info yet" warnings describe *why* Tor feels
34713 it doesn't have enough directory info yet.
34716 - Stop servers from crashing if they set a Family option (or
34717 maybe in other situations too). Bugfix on 0.2.0.9-alpha; reported
34719 - Make bridge users work again -- the move to v3 directories in
34720 0.2.0.9-alpha had introduced a number of bugs that made bridges
34721 no longer work for clients.
34722 - When the clock jumps forward a lot, do not allow the bandwidth
34723 buckets to become negative. Bugfix on 0.1.2.x; fixes bug 544.
34725 o Major bugfixes (v3 dir, bugfixes on 0.2.0.9-alpha):
34726 - When the consensus lists a router descriptor that we previously were
34727 mirroring, but that we considered non-canonical, reload the
34728 descriptor as canonical. This fixes bug 543 where Tor servers
34729 would start complaining after a few days that they don't have
34730 enough directory information to build a circuit.
34731 - Consider replacing the current consensus when certificates arrive
34732 that make the pending consensus valid. Previously, we were only
34733 considering replacement when the new certs _didn't_ help.
34734 - Fix an assert error on startup if we didn't already have the
34735 consensus and certs cached in our datadirectory: we were caching
34736 the consensus in consensus_waiting_for_certs but then free'ing it
34738 - Avoid sending a request for "keys/fp" (for which we'll get a 400 Bad
34739 Request) if we need more v3 certs but we've already got pending
34740 requests for all of them.
34741 - Correctly back off from failing certificate downloads. Fixes
34743 - Authorities don't vote on the Running flag if they have been running
34744 for less than 30 minutes themselves. Fixes bug 547, where a newly
34745 started authority would vote that everyone was down.
34747 o New requirements:
34748 - Drop support for OpenSSL version 0.9.6. Just about nobody was using
34749 it, it had no AES, and it hasn't seen any security patches since
34753 - Clients now hold circuitless TLS connections open for 1.5 times
34754 MaxCircuitDirtiness (15 minutes), since it is likely that they'll
34755 rebuild a new circuit over them within that timeframe. Previously,
34756 they held them open only for KeepalivePeriod (5 minutes).
34757 - Use "If-Modified-Since" to avoid retrieving consensus
34758 networkstatuses that we already have.
34759 - When we have no consensus, check FallbackNetworkstatusFile (defaults
34760 to $PREFIX/share/tor/fallback-consensus) for a consensus. This way
34761 we start knowing some directory caches.
34762 - When we receive a consensus from the future, warn about skew.
34763 - Improve skew reporting: try to give the user a better log message
34764 about how skewed they are, and how much this matters.
34765 - When we have a certificate for an authority, believe that
34766 certificate's claims about the authority's IP address.
34767 - New --quiet command-line option to suppress the default console log.
34768 Good in combination with --hash-password.
34769 - Authorities send back an X-Descriptor-Not-New header in response to
34770 an accepted-but-discarded descriptor upload. Partially implements
34772 - Make the log message for "tls error. breaking." more useful.
34773 - Better log messages about certificate downloads, to attempt to
34774 track down the second incarnation of bug 546.
34776 o Minor features (bridges):
34777 - If bridge users set UpdateBridgesFromAuthority, but the digest
34778 they ask for is a 404 from the bridge authority, they now fall
34779 back to trying the bridge directly.
34780 - Bridges now use begin_dir to publish their server descriptor to
34781 the bridge authority, even when they haven't set TunnelDirConns.
34783 o Minor features (controller):
34784 - When reporting clock skew, and we know that the clock is _at least
34785 as skewed_ as some value, but we don't know the actual value,
34786 report the value as a "minimum skew."
34789 - Update linux-tor-prio.sh script to allow QoS based on the uid of
34790 the Tor process. Patch from Marco Bonetti with tweaks from Mike
34794 - Refuse to start if both ORPort and UseBridges are set. Bugfix
34795 on 0.2.0.x, suggested by Matt Edman.
34796 - Don't stop fetching descriptors when FetchUselessDescriptors is
34797 set, even if we stop asking for circuits. Bugfix on 0.1.2.x;
34798 reported by tup and ioerror.
34799 - Better log message on vote from unknown authority.
34800 - Don't log "Launching 0 request for 0 router" message.
34802 o Minor bugfixes (memory leaks):
34803 - Stop leaking memory every time we parse a v3 certificate. Bugfix
34805 - Stop leaking memory every time we load a v3 certificate. Bugfix
34806 on 0.2.0.1-alpha. Fixes bug 536.
34807 - Stop leaking a cached networkstatus on exit. Bugfix on
34809 - Stop leaking voter information every time we free a consensus.
34810 Bugfix on 0.2.0.3-alpha.
34811 - Stop leaking signed data every time we check a voter signature.
34812 Bugfix on 0.2.0.3-alpha.
34813 - Stop leaking a signature every time we fail to parse a consensus or
34814 a vote. Bugfix on 0.2.0.3-alpha.
34815 - Stop leaking v2_download_status_map on shutdown. Bugfix on
34817 - Stop leaking conn->nickname every time we make a connection to a
34818 Tor relay without knowing its expected identity digest (e.g. when
34819 using bridges). Bugfix on 0.2.0.3-alpha.
34821 - Minor bugfixes (portability):
34822 - Run correctly on platforms where rlim_t is larger than unsigned
34823 long, and/or where the real limit for number of open files is
34824 OPEN_FILES, not rlim_max from getrlimit(RLIMIT_NOFILES). In
34825 particular, these may be needed for OS X 10.5.
34828 Changes in version 0.1.2.18 - 2007-10-28
34829 Tor 0.1.2.18 fixes many problems including crash bugs, problems with
34830 hidden service introduction that were causing huge delays, and a big
34831 bug that was causing some servers to disappear from the network status
34832 lists for a few hours each day.
34834 o Major bugfixes (crashes):
34835 - If a connection is shut down abruptly because of something that
34836 happened inside connection_flushed_some(), do not call
34837 connection_finished_flushing(). Should fix bug 451:
34838 "connection_stop_writing: Assertion conn->write_event failed"
34839 Bugfix on 0.1.2.7-alpha.
34840 - Fix possible segfaults in functions called from
34841 rend_process_relay_cell().
34843 o Major bugfixes (hidden services):
34844 - Hidden services were choosing introduction points uniquely by
34845 hexdigest, but when constructing the hidden service descriptor
34846 they merely wrote the (potentially ambiguous) nickname.
34847 - Clients now use the v2 intro format for hidden service
34848 connections: they specify their chosen rendezvous point by identity
34849 digest rather than by (potentially ambiguous) nickname. These
34850 changes could speed up hidden service connections dramatically.
34852 o Major bugfixes (other):
34853 - Stop publishing a new server descriptor just because we get a
34854 HUP signal. This led (in a roundabout way) to some servers getting
34855 dropped from the networkstatus lists for a few hours each day.
34856 - When looking for a circuit to cannibalize, consider family as well
34857 as identity. Fixes bug 438. Bugfix on 0.1.0.x (which introduced
34858 circuit cannibalization).
34859 - When a router wasn't listed in a new networkstatus, we were leaving
34860 the flags for that router alone -- meaning it remained Named,
34861 Running, etc -- even though absence from the networkstatus means
34862 that it shouldn't be considered to exist at all anymore. Now we
34863 clear all the flags for routers that fall out of the networkstatus
34864 consensus. Fixes bug 529.
34867 - Don't try to access (or alter) the state file when running
34868 --list-fingerprint or --verify-config or --hash-password. Resolves
34870 - When generating information telling us how to extend to a given
34871 router, do not try to include the nickname if it is
34872 absent. Resolves bug 467.
34873 - Fix a user-triggerable segfault in expand_filename(). (There isn't
34874 a way to trigger this remotely.)
34875 - When sending a status event to the controller telling it that an
34876 OR address is reachable, set the port correctly. (Previously we
34877 were reporting the dir port.)
34878 - Fix a minor memory leak whenever a controller sends the PROTOCOLINFO
34879 command. Bugfix on 0.1.2.17.
34880 - When loading bandwidth history, do not believe any information in
34881 the future. Fixes bug 434.
34882 - When loading entry guard information, do not believe any information
34884 - When we have our clock set far in the future and generate an
34885 onion key, then re-set our clock to be correct, we should not stop
34886 the onion key from getting rotated.
34887 - On some platforms, accept() can return a broken address. Detect
34888 this more quietly, and deal accordingly. Fixes bug 483.
34889 - It's not actually an error to find a non-pending entry in the DNS
34890 cache when canceling a pending resolve. Don't log unless stuff
34891 is fishy. Resolves bug 463.
34892 - Don't reset trusted dir server list when we set a configuration
34893 option. Patch from Robert Hogan.
34894 - Don't try to create the datadir when running --verify-config or
34895 --hash-password. Resolves bug 540.
34898 Changes in version 0.2.0.9-alpha - 2007-10-24
34899 This ninth development snapshot switches clients to the new v3 directory
34900 system; allows servers to be listed in the network status even when they
34901 have the same nickname as a registered server; and fixes many other
34902 bugs including a big one that was causing some servers to disappear
34903 from the network status lists for a few hours each day.
34905 o Major features (directory system):
34906 - Clients now download v3 consensus networkstatus documents instead
34907 of v2 networkstatus documents. Clients and caches now base their
34908 opinions about routers on these consensus documents. Clients only
34909 download router descriptors listed in the consensus.
34910 - Authorities now list servers who have the same nickname as
34911 a different named server, but list them with a new flag,
34912 "Unnamed". Now we can list servers that happen to pick the same
34913 nickname as a server that registered two years ago and then
34914 disappeared. Partially implements proposal 122.
34915 - If the consensus lists a router as "Unnamed", the name is assigned
34916 to a different router: do not identify the router by that name.
34917 Partially implements proposal 122.
34918 - Authorities can now come to a consensus on which method to use to
34919 compute the consensus. This gives us forward compatibility.
34922 - Stop publishing a new server descriptor just because we HUP or
34923 when we find our DirPort to be reachable but won't actually publish
34924 it. New descriptors without any real changes are dropped by the
34925 authorities, and can screw up our "publish every 18 hours" schedule.
34927 - When a router wasn't listed in a new networkstatus, we were leaving
34928 the flags for that router alone -- meaning it remained Named,
34929 Running, etc -- even though absence from the networkstatus means
34930 that it shouldn't be considered to exist at all anymore. Now we
34931 clear all the flags for routers that fall out of the networkstatus
34932 consensus. Fixes bug 529; bugfix on 0.1.2.x.
34933 - Fix awful behavior in DownloadExtraInfo option where we'd fetch
34934 extrainfo documents and then discard them immediately for not
34935 matching the latest router. Bugfix on 0.2.0.1-alpha.
34937 o Minor features (v3 directory protocol):
34938 - Allow tor-gencert to generate a new certificate without replacing
34940 - Allow certificates to include an address.
34941 - When we change our directory-cache settings, reschedule all voting
34942 and download operations.
34943 - Reattempt certificate downloads immediately on failure, as long as
34944 we haven't failed a threshold number of times yet.
34945 - Delay retrying consensus downloads while we're downloading
34946 certificates to verify the one we just got. Also, count getting a
34947 consensus that we already have (or one that isn't valid) as a failure,
34948 and count failing to get the certificates after 20 minutes as a
34950 - Build circuits and download descriptors even if our consensus is a
34951 little expired. (This feature will go away once authorities are
34954 o Minor features (router descriptor cache):
34955 - If we find a cached-routers file that's been sitting around for more
34956 than 28 days unmodified, then most likely it's a leftover from
34957 when we upgraded to 0.2.0.8-alpha. Remove it. It has no good
34959 - When we (as a cache) download a descriptor because it was listed
34960 in a consensus, remember when the consensus was supposed to expire,
34961 and don't expire the descriptor until then.
34963 o Minor features (performance):
34964 - Call routerlist_remove_old_routers() much less often. This should
34965 speed startup, especially on directory caches.
34966 - Don't try to launch new descriptor downloads quite so often when we
34967 already have enough directory information to build circuits.
34968 - Base64 decoding was actually showing up on our profile when parsing
34969 the initial descriptor file; switch to an in-process all-at-once
34970 implementation that's about 3.5x times faster than calling out to
34973 o Minor features (compilation):
34974 - Detect non-ASCII platforms (if any still exist) and refuse to
34975 build there: some of our code assumes that 'A' is 65 and so on.
34977 o Minor bugfixes (v3 directory authorities, bugfixes on 0.2.0.x):
34978 - Make the "next period" votes into "current period" votes immediately
34979 after publishing the consensus; avoid a heisenbug that made them
34980 stick around indefinitely.
34981 - When we discard a vote as a duplicate, do not report this as
34983 - Treat missing v3 keys or certificates as an error when running as a
34984 v3 directory authority.
34985 - When we're configured to be a v3 authority, but we're only listed
34986 as a non-v3 authority in our DirServer line for ourself, correct
34988 - If an authority doesn't have a qualified hostname, just put
34989 its address in the vote. This fixes the problem where we referred to
34990 "moria on moria:9031."
34991 - Distinguish between detached signatures for the wrong period, and
34992 detached signatures for a divergent vote.
34993 - Fix a small memory leak when computing a consensus.
34994 - When there's no consensus, we were forming a vote every 30
34995 minutes, but writing the "valid-after" line in our vote based
34996 on our configured V3AuthVotingInterval: so unless the intervals
34997 matched up, we immediately rejected our own vote because it didn't
34998 start at the voting interval that caused us to construct a vote.
35000 o Minor bugfixes (v3 directory protocol, bugfixes on 0.2.0.x):
35001 - Delete unverified-consensus when the real consensus is set.
35002 - Consider retrying a consensus networkstatus fetch immediately
35003 after one fails: don't wait 60 seconds to notice.
35004 - When fetching a consensus as a cache, wait until a newer consensus
35005 should exist before trying to replace the current one.
35006 - Use a more forgiving schedule for retrying failed consensus
35007 downloads than for other types.
35009 o Minor bugfixes (other directory issues):
35010 - Correct the implementation of "download votes by digest." Bugfix on
35012 - Authorities no longer send back "400 you're unreachable please fix
35013 it" errors to Tor servers that aren't online all the time. We're
35014 supposed to tolerate these servers now. Bugfix on 0.1.2.x.
35016 o Minor bugfixes (controller):
35017 - Don't reset trusted dir server list when we set a configuration
35018 option. Patch from Robert Hogan; bugfix on 0.1.2.x.
35019 - Respond to INT and TERM SIGNAL commands before we execute the
35020 signal, in case the signal shuts us down. We had a patch in
35021 0.1.2.1-alpha that tried to do this by queueing the response on
35022 the connection's buffer before shutting down, but that really
35023 isn't the same thing at all. Bug located by Matt Edman.
35025 o Minor bugfixes (misc):
35026 - Correctly check for bad options to the "PublishServerDescriptor"
35027 config option. Bugfix on 0.2.0.1-alpha; reported by Matt Edman.
35028 - Stop leaking memory on failing case of base32_decode, and make
35029 it accept upper-case letters. Bugfixes on 0.2.0.7-alpha.
35030 - Don't try to download extrainfo documents when we're trying to
35031 fetch enough directory info to build a circuit: having enough
35032 info should get priority. Bugfix on 0.2.0.x.
35033 - Don't complain that "your server has not managed to confirm that its
35034 ports are reachable" if we haven't been able to build any circuits
35035 yet. Bug found by spending four hours without a v3 consensus. Bugfix
35037 - Detect the reason for failing to mmap a descriptor file we just
35038 wrote, and give a more useful log message. Fixes bug 533. Bugfix
35041 o Code simplifications and refactoring:
35042 - Remove support for the old bw_accounting file: we've been storing
35043 bandwidth accounting information in the state file since
35044 0.1.2.5-alpha. This may result in bandwidth accounting errors
35045 if you try to upgrade from 0.1.1.x or earlier, or if you try to
35046 downgrade to 0.1.1.x or earlier.
35047 - New convenience code to locate a file within the DataDirectory.
35048 - Move non-authority functionality out of dirvote.c.
35049 - Refactor the arguments for router_pick_{directory_|trusteddir}server
35050 so that they all take the same named flags.
35053 - Include the "tor-ctrl.sh" bash script by Stefan Behte to provide
35054 Unix users an easy way to script their Tor process (e.g. by
35055 adjusting bandwidth based on the time of the day).
35058 Changes in version 0.2.0.8-alpha - 2007-10-12
35059 This eighth development snapshot fixes a crash bug that's been bothering
35060 us since February 2007, lets bridge authorities store a list of bridge
35061 descriptors they've seen, gets v3 directory voting closer to working,
35062 starts caching v3 directory consensus documents on directory mirrors,
35063 and fixes a variety of smaller issues including some minor memory leaks.
35065 o Major features (router descriptor cache):
35066 - Store routers in a file called cached-descriptors instead of in
35067 cached-routers. Initialize cached-descriptors from cached-routers
35068 if the old format is around. The new format allows us to store
35069 annotations along with descriptors.
35070 - Use annotations to record the time we received each descriptor, its
35071 source, and its purpose.
35072 - Disable the SETROUTERPURPOSE controller command: it is now
35074 - Controllers should now specify cache=no or cache=yes when using
35075 the +POSTDESCRIPTOR command.
35076 - Bridge authorities now write bridge descriptors to disk, meaning
35077 we can export them to other programs and begin distributing them
35080 o Major features (directory authorities):
35081 - When a v3 authority is missing votes or signatures, it now tries
35083 - Directory authorities track weighted fractional uptime as well as
35084 weighted mean-time-between failures. WFU is suitable for deciding
35085 whether a node is "usually up", while MTBF is suitable for deciding
35086 whether a node is "likely to stay up." We need both, because
35087 "usually up" is a good requirement for guards, while "likely to
35088 stay up" is a good requirement for long-lived connections.
35090 o Major features (v3 directory system):
35091 - Caches now download v3 network status documents as needed,
35092 and download the descriptors listed in them.
35093 - All hosts now attempt to download and keep fresh v3 authority
35094 certificates, and re-attempt after failures.
35095 - More internal-consistency checks for vote parsing.
35097 o Major bugfixes (crashes):
35098 - If a connection is shut down abruptly because of something that
35099 happened inside connection_flushed_some(), do not call
35100 connection_finished_flushing(). Should fix bug 451. Bugfix on
35103 o Major bugfixes (performance):
35104 - Fix really bad O(n^2) performance when parsing a long list of
35105 routers: Instead of searching the entire list for an "extra-info "
35106 string which usually wasn't there, once for every routerinfo
35107 we read, just scan lines forward until we find one we like.
35109 - When we add data to a write buffer in response to the data on that
35110 write buffer getting low because of a flush, do not consider the
35111 newly added data as a candidate for immediate flushing, but rather
35112 make it wait until the next round of writing. Otherwise, we flush
35113 and refill recursively, and a single greedy TLS connection can
35114 eat all of our bandwidth. Bugfix on 0.1.2.7-alpha.
35116 o Minor features (v3 authority system):
35117 - Add more ways for tools to download the votes that lead to the
35119 - Send a 503 when low on bandwidth and a vote, consensus, or
35120 certificate is requested.
35121 - If-modified-since is now implemented properly for all kinds of
35122 certificate requests.
35124 o Minor bugfixes (network statuses):
35125 - Tweak the implementation of proposal 109 slightly: allow at most
35126 two Tor servers on the same IP address, except if it's the location
35127 of a directory authority, in which case allow five. Bugfix on
35130 o Minor bugfixes (controller):
35131 - When sending a status event to the controller telling it that an
35132 OR address is reachable, set the port correctly. (Previously we
35133 were reporting the dir port.) Bugfix on 0.1.2.x.
35135 o Minor bugfixes (v3 directory system):
35136 - Fix logic to look up a cert by its signing key digest. Bugfix on
35138 - Only change the reply to a vote to "OK" if it's not already
35139 set. This gets rid of annoying "400 OK" log messages, which may
35140 have been masking some deeper issue. Bugfix on 0.2.0.7-alpha.
35141 - When we get a valid consensus, recompute the voting schedule.
35142 - Base the valid-after time of a vote on the consensus voting
35143 schedule, not on our preferred schedule.
35144 - Make the return values and messages from signature uploads and
35145 downloads more sensible.
35146 - Fix a memory leak when serving votes and consensus documents, and
35147 another when serving certificates.
35149 o Minor bugfixes (performance):
35150 - Use a slightly simpler string hashing algorithm (copying Python's
35151 instead of Java's) and optimize our digest hashing algorithm to take
35152 advantage of 64-bit platforms and to remove some possibly-costly
35154 - Fix a minor memory leak whenever we parse guards from our state
35155 file. Bugfix on 0.2.0.7-alpha.
35156 - Fix a minor memory leak whenever we write out a file. Bugfix on
35158 - Fix a minor memory leak whenever a controller sends the PROTOCOLINFO
35159 command. Bugfix on 0.2.0.5-alpha.
35161 o Minor bugfixes (portability):
35162 - On some platforms, accept() can return a broken address. Detect
35163 this more quietly, and deal accordingly. Fixes bug 483.
35164 - Stop calling tor_strlower() on uninitialized memory in some cases.
35165 Bugfix in 0.2.0.7-alpha.
35167 o Minor bugfixes (usability):
35168 - Treat some 403 responses from directory servers as INFO rather than
35169 WARN-severity events.
35170 - It's not actually an error to find a non-pending entry in the DNS
35171 cache when canceling a pending resolve. Don't log unless stuff is
35172 fishy. Resolves bug 463.
35174 o Minor bugfixes (anonymity):
35175 - Never report that we've used more bandwidth than we're willing to
35176 relay: it leaks how much non-relay traffic we're using. Resolves
35178 - When looking for a circuit to cannibalize, consider family as well
35179 as identity. Fixes bug 438. Bugfix on 0.1.0.x (which introduced
35180 circuit cannibalization).
35182 o Code simplifications and refactoring:
35183 - Make a bunch of functions static. Remove some dead code.
35184 - Pull out about a third of the really big routerlist.c; put it in a
35185 new module, networkstatus.c.
35186 - Merge the extra fields in local_routerstatus_t back into
35187 routerstatus_t: we used to need one routerstatus_t for each
35188 authority's opinion, plus a local_routerstatus_t for the locally
35189 computed consensus opinion. To save space, we put the locally
35190 modified fields into local_routerstatus_t, and only the common
35191 stuff into routerstatus_t. But once v3 directories are in use,
35192 clients and caches will no longer need to hold authority opinions;
35193 thus, the rationale for keeping the types separate is now gone.
35194 - Make the code used to reschedule and reattempt downloads more
35196 - Turn all 'Are we a directory server/mirror?' logic into a call to
35198 - Remove the code to generate the oldest (v1) directory format.
35199 The code has been disabled since 0.2.0.5-alpha.
35202 Changes in version 0.2.0.7-alpha - 2007-09-21
35203 This seventh development snapshot makes bridges work again, makes bridge
35204 authorities work for the first time, fixes two huge performance flaws
35205 in hidden services, and fixes a variety of minor issues.
35207 o New directory authorities:
35208 - Set up moria1 and tor26 as the first v3 directory authorities. See
35209 doc/spec/dir-spec.txt for details on the new directory design.
35211 o Major bugfixes (crashes):
35212 - Fix possible segfaults in functions called from
35213 rend_process_relay_cell(). Bugfix on 0.1.2.x.
35215 o Major bugfixes (bridges):
35216 - Fix a bug that made servers send a "404 Not found" in response to
35217 attempts to fetch their server descriptor. This caused Tor servers
35218 to take many minutes to establish reachability for their DirPort,
35219 and it totally crippled bridges. Bugfix on 0.2.0.5-alpha.
35220 - Make "UpdateBridgesFromAuthority" torrc option work: when bridge
35221 users configure that and specify a bridge with an identity
35222 fingerprint, now they will lookup the bridge descriptor at the
35223 default bridge authority via a one-hop tunnel, but once circuits
35224 are established they will switch to a three-hop tunnel for later
35225 connections to the bridge authority. Bugfix in 0.2.0.3-alpha.
35227 o Major bugfixes (hidden services):
35228 - Hidden services were choosing introduction points uniquely by
35229 hexdigest, but when constructing the hidden service descriptor
35230 they merely wrote the (potentially ambiguous) nickname.
35231 - Clients now use the v2 intro format for hidden service
35232 connections: they specify their chosen rendezvous point by identity
35233 digest rather than by (potentially ambiguous) nickname. Both
35234 are bugfixes on 0.1.2.x, and they could speed up hidden service
35235 connections dramatically. Thanks to Karsten Loesing.
35237 o Minor features (security):
35238 - As a client, do not believe any server that tells us that an
35239 address maps to an internal address space.
35240 - Make it possible to enable HashedControlPassword and
35241 CookieAuthentication at the same time.
35243 o Minor features (guard nodes):
35244 - Tag every guard node in our state file with the version that
35245 we believe added it, or with our own version if we add it. This way,
35246 if a user temporarily runs an old version of Tor and then switches
35247 back to a new one, she doesn't automatically lose her guards.
35249 o Minor features (speed):
35250 - When implementing AES counter mode, update only the portions of the
35251 counter buffer that need to change, and don't keep separate
35252 network-order and host-order counters when they are the same (i.e.,
35253 on big-endian hosts.)
35255 o Minor features (controller):
35256 - Accept LF instead of CRLF on controller, since some software has a
35257 hard time generating real Internet newlines.
35258 - Add GETINFO values for the server status events
35259 "REACHABILITY_SUCCEEDED" and "GOOD_SERVER_DESCRIPTOR". Patch from
35262 o Removed features:
35263 - Routers no longer include bandwidth-history lines in their
35264 descriptors; this information is already available in extra-info
35265 documents, and including it in router descriptors took up 60%
35266 (!) of compressed router descriptor downloads. Completes
35267 implementation of proposal 104.
35268 - Remove the contrib scripts ExerciseServer.py, PathDemo.py,
35269 and TorControl.py, as they use the old v0 controller protocol,
35270 and are obsoleted by TorFlow anyway.
35271 - Drop support for v1 rendezvous descriptors, since we never used
35272 them anyway, and the code has probably rotted by now. Based on
35273 patch from Karsten Loesing.
35274 - On OSX, stop warning the user that kqueue support in libevent is
35275 "experimental", since it seems to have worked fine for ages.
35278 - When generating information telling us how to extend to a given
35279 router, do not try to include the nickname if it is absent. Fixes
35280 bug 467. Bugfix on 0.2.0.3-alpha.
35281 - Fix a user-triggerable (but not remotely-triggerable) segfault
35282 in expand_filename(). Bugfix on 0.1.2.x.
35283 - Fix a memory leak when freeing incomplete requests from DNSPort.
35284 Found by Niels Provos with valgrind. Bugfix on 0.2.0.1-alpha.
35285 - Don't try to access (or alter) the state file when running
35286 --list-fingerprint or --verify-config or --hash-password. (Resolves
35287 bug 499.) Bugfix on 0.1.2.x.
35288 - Servers used to decline to publish their DirPort if their
35289 BandwidthRate, RelayBandwidthRate, or MaxAdvertisedBandwidth
35290 were below a threshold. Now they only look at BandwidthRate and
35291 RelayBandwidthRate. Bugfix on 0.1.2.x.
35292 - Remove an optimization in the AES counter-mode code that assumed
35293 that the counter never exceeded 2^68. When the counter can be set
35294 arbitrarily as an IV (as it is by Karsten's new hidden services
35295 code), this assumption no longer holds. Bugfix on 0.1.2.x.
35296 - Resume listing "AUTHORITY" flag for authorities in network status.
35297 Bugfix on 0.2.0.3-alpha; reported by Alex de Joode.
35299 o Code simplifications and refactoring:
35300 - Revamp file-writing logic so we don't need to have the entire
35301 contents of a file in memory at once before we write to disk. Tor,
35303 - Turn "descriptor store" into a full-fledged type.
35304 - Move all NT services code into a separate source file.
35305 - Unify all code that computes medians, percentile elements, etc.
35306 - Get rid of a needless malloc when parsing address policies.
35309 Changes in version 0.1.2.17 - 2007-08-30
35310 Tor 0.1.2.17 features a new Vidalia version in the Windows and OS
35311 X bundles. Vidalia 0.0.14 makes authentication required for the
35312 ControlPort in the default configuration, which addresses important
35313 security risks. Everybody who uses Vidalia (or another controller)
35316 In addition, this Tor update fixes major load balancing problems with
35317 path selection, which should speed things up a lot once many people
35320 o Major bugfixes (security):
35321 - We removed support for the old (v0) control protocol. It has been
35322 deprecated since Tor 0.1.1.1-alpha, and keeping it secure has
35323 become more of a headache than it's worth.
35325 o Major bugfixes (load balancing):
35326 - When choosing nodes for non-guard positions, weight guards
35327 proportionally less, since they already have enough load. Patch
35329 - Raise the "max believable bandwidth" from 1.5MB/s to 10MB/s. This
35330 will allow fast Tor servers to get more attention.
35331 - When we're upgrading from an old Tor version, forget our current
35332 guards and pick new ones according to the new weightings. These
35333 three load balancing patches could raise effective network capacity
35334 by a factor of four. Thanks to Mike Perry for measurements.
35336 o Major bugfixes (stream expiration):
35337 - Expire not-yet-successful application streams in all cases if
35338 they've been around longer than SocksTimeout. Right now there are
35339 some cases where the stream will live forever, demanding a new
35340 circuit every 15 seconds. Fixes bug 454; reported by lodger.
35342 o Minor features (controller):
35343 - Add a PROTOCOLINFO controller command. Like AUTHENTICATE, it
35344 is valid before any authentication has been received. It tells
35345 a controller what kind of authentication is expected, and what
35346 protocol is spoken. Implements proposal 119.
35348 o Minor bugfixes (performance):
35349 - Save on most routerlist_assert_ok() calls in routerlist.c, thus
35350 greatly speeding up loading cached-routers from disk on startup.
35351 - Disable sentinel-based debugging for buffer code: we squashed all
35352 the bugs that this was supposed to detect a long time ago, and now
35353 its only effect is to change our buffer sizes from nice powers of
35354 two (which platform mallocs tend to like) to values slightly over
35355 powers of two (which make some platform mallocs sad).
35357 o Minor bugfixes (misc):
35358 - If exit bandwidth ever exceeds one third of total bandwidth, then
35359 use the correct formula to weight exit nodes when choosing paths.
35360 Based on patch from Mike Perry.
35361 - Choose perfectly fairly among routers when choosing by bandwidth and
35362 weighting by fraction of bandwidth provided by exits. Previously, we
35363 would choose with only approximate fairness, and correct ourselves
35364 if we ran off the end of the list.
35365 - If we require CookieAuthentication but we fail to write the
35366 cookie file, we would warn but not exit, and end up in a state
35367 where no controller could authenticate. Now we exit.
35368 - If we require CookieAuthentication, stop generating a new cookie
35369 every time we change any piece of our config.
35370 - Refuse to start with certain directory authority keys, and
35371 encourage people using them to stop.
35372 - Terminate multi-line control events properly. Original patch
35374 - Fix a minor memory leak when we fail to find enough suitable
35375 servers to choose a circuit.
35376 - Stop leaking part of the descriptor when we run into a particularly
35377 unparseable piece of it.
35380 Changes in version 0.2.0.6-alpha - 2007-08-26
35381 This sixth development snapshot features a new Vidalia version in the
35382 Windows and OS X bundles. Vidalia 0.0.14 makes authentication required for
35383 the ControlPort in the default configuration, which addresses important
35386 In addition, this snapshot fixes major load balancing problems
35387 with path selection, which should speed things up a lot once many
35388 people have upgraded. The directory authorities also use a new
35389 mean-time-between-failure approach to tracking which servers are stable,
35390 rather than just looking at the most recent uptime.
35392 o New directory authorities:
35393 - Set up Tonga as the default bridge directory authority.
35396 - Directory authorities now track servers by weighted
35397 mean-times-between-failures. When we have 4 or more days of data,
35398 use measured MTBF rather than declared uptime to decide whether
35399 to call a router Stable. Implements proposal 108.
35401 o Major bugfixes (load balancing):
35402 - When choosing nodes for non-guard positions, weight guards
35403 proportionally less, since they already have enough load. Patch
35405 - Raise the "max believable bandwidth" from 1.5MB/s to 10MB/s. This
35406 will allow fast Tor servers to get more attention.
35407 - When we're upgrading from an old Tor version, forget our current
35408 guards and pick new ones according to the new weightings. These
35409 three load balancing patches could raise effective network capacity
35410 by a factor of four. Thanks to Mike Perry for measurements.
35412 o Major bugfixes (descriptor parsing):
35413 - Handle unexpected whitespace better in malformed descriptors. Bug
35414 found using Benedikt Boss's new Tor fuzzer! Bugfix on 0.2.0.x.
35417 - There is now an ugly, temporary "desc/all-recent-extrainfo-hack"
35418 GETINFO for Torstat to use until it can switch to using extrainfos.
35419 - Optionally (if built with -DEXPORTMALLINFO) export the output
35420 of mallinfo via http, as tor/mallinfo.txt. Only accessible
35424 - Do not intermix bridge routers with controller-added
35425 routers. (Bugfix on 0.2.0.x)
35426 - Do not fail with an assert when accept() returns an unexpected
35427 address family. Addresses but does not wholly fix bug 483. (Bugfix
35429 - Let directory authorities startup even when they can't generate
35430 a descriptor immediately, e.g. because they don't know their
35432 - Stop putting the authentication cookie in a file called "0"
35433 in your working directory if you don't specify anything for the
35434 new CookieAuthFile option. Reported by Matt Edman.
35435 - Make it possible to read the PROTOCOLINFO response in a way that
35436 conforms to our control-spec. Reported by Matt Edman.
35437 - Fix a minor memory leak when we fail to find enough suitable
35438 servers to choose a circuit. Bugfix on 0.1.2.x.
35439 - Stop leaking part of the descriptor when we run into a particularly
35440 unparseable piece of it. Bugfix on 0.1.2.x.
35441 - Unmap the extrainfo cache file on exit.
35444 Changes in version 0.2.0.5-alpha - 2007-08-19
35445 This fifth development snapshot fixes compilation on Windows again;
35446 fixes an obnoxious client-side bug that slowed things down and put
35447 extra load on the network; gets us closer to using the v3 directory
35448 voting scheme; makes it easier for Tor controllers to use cookie-based
35449 authentication; and fixes a variety of other bugs.
35451 o Removed features:
35452 - Version 1 directories are no longer generated in full. Instead,
35453 authorities generate and serve "stub" v1 directories that list
35454 no servers. This will stop Tor versions 0.1.0.x and earlier from
35455 working, but (for security reasons) nobody should be running those
35458 o Major bugfixes (compilation, 0.2.0.x):
35459 - Try to fix Win32 compilation again: improve checking for IPv6 types.
35460 - Try to fix MSVC compilation: build correctly on platforms that do
35461 not define s6_addr16 or s6_addr32.
35462 - Fix compile on platforms without getaddrinfo: bug found by Li-Hui
35465 o Major bugfixes (stream expiration):
35466 - Expire not-yet-successful application streams in all cases if
35467 they've been around longer than SocksTimeout. Right now there are
35468 some cases where the stream will live forever, demanding a new
35469 circuit every 15 seconds. Bugfix on 0.1.2.7-alpha; fixes bug 454;
35470 reported by lodger.
35472 o Minor features (directory servers):
35473 - When somebody requests a list of statuses or servers, and we have
35474 none of those, return a 404 rather than an empty 200.
35476 o Minor features (directory voting):
35477 - Store v3 consensus status consensuses on disk, and reload them
35480 o Minor features (security):
35481 - Warn about unsafe ControlPort configurations.
35482 - Refuse to start with certain directory authority keys, and
35483 encourage people using them to stop.
35485 o Minor features (controller):
35486 - Add a PROTOCOLINFO controller command. Like AUTHENTICATE, it
35487 is valid before any authentication has been received. It tells
35488 a controller what kind of authentication is expected, and what
35489 protocol is spoken. Implements proposal 119.
35490 - New config option CookieAuthFile to choose a new location for the
35491 cookie authentication file, and config option
35492 CookieAuthFileGroupReadable to make it group-readable.
35494 o Minor features (unit testing):
35495 - Add command-line arguments to unit-test executable so that we can
35496 invoke any chosen test from the command line rather than having
35497 to run the whole test suite at once; and so that we can turn on
35498 logging for the unit tests.
35500 o Minor bugfixes (on 0.1.2.x):
35501 - If we require CookieAuthentication but we fail to write the
35502 cookie file, we would warn but not exit, and end up in a state
35503 where no controller could authenticate. Now we exit.
35504 - If we require CookieAuthentication, stop generating a new cookie
35505 every time we change any piece of our config.
35506 - When loading bandwidth history, do not believe any information in
35507 the future. Fixes bug 434.
35508 - When loading entry guard information, do not believe any information
35510 - When we have our clock set far in the future and generate an
35511 onion key, then re-set our clock to be correct, we should not stop
35512 the onion key from getting rotated.
35513 - Clean up torrc sample config file.
35514 - Do not automatically run configure from autogen.sh. This
35515 non-standard behavior tended to annoy people who have built other
35518 o Minor bugfixes (on 0.2.0.x):
35519 - Fix a bug with AutomapHostsOnResolve that would always cause
35520 the second request to fail. Bug reported by Kate. Bugfix on
35522 - Fix a bug in ADDRMAP controller replies that would sometimes
35523 try to print a NULL. Patch from tup.
35524 - Read v3 directory authority keys from the right location.
35525 - Numerous bugfixes to directory voting code.
35528 Changes in version 0.1.2.16 - 2007-08-01
35529 Tor 0.1.2.16 fixes a critical security vulnerability that allows a
35530 remote attacker in certain situations to rewrite the user's torrc
35531 configuration file. This can completely compromise anonymity of users
35532 in most configurations, including those running the Vidalia bundles,
35533 TorK, etc. Or worse.
35535 o Major security fixes:
35536 - Close immediately after missing authentication on control port;
35537 do not allow multiple authentication attempts.
35540 Changes in version 0.2.0.4-alpha - 2007-08-01
35541 This fourth development snapshot fixes a critical security vulnerability
35542 for most users, specifically those running Vidalia, TorK, etc. Everybody
35543 should upgrade to either 0.1.2.16 or 0.2.0.4-alpha.
35545 o Major security fixes:
35546 - Close immediately after missing authentication on control port;
35547 do not allow multiple authentication attempts.
35549 o Major bugfixes (compilation):
35550 - Fix win32 compilation: apparently IN_ADDR and IN6_ADDR are already
35553 o Minor features (performance):
35554 - Be even more aggressive about releasing RAM from small
35555 empty buffers. Thanks to our free-list code, this shouldn't be too
35556 performance-intensive.
35557 - Disable sentinel-based debugging for buffer code: we squashed all
35558 the bugs that this was supposed to detect a long time ago, and
35559 now its only effect is to change our buffer sizes from nice
35560 powers of two (which platform mallocs tend to like) to values
35561 slightly over powers of two (which make some platform mallocs sad).
35562 - Log malloc statistics from mallinfo() on platforms where it
35566 Changes in version 0.2.0.3-alpha - 2007-07-29
35567 This third development snapshot introduces new experimental
35568 blocking-resistance features and a preliminary version of the v3
35569 directory voting design, and includes many other smaller features
35573 - The first pieces of our "bridge" design for blocking-resistance
35574 are implemented. People can run bridge directory authorities;
35575 people can run bridges; and people can configure their Tor clients
35576 with a set of bridges to use as the first hop into the Tor network.
35577 See http://archives.seul.org/or/talk/Jul-2007/msg00249.html for
35579 - Create listener connections before we setuid to the configured
35580 User and Group. Now non-Windows users can choose port values
35581 under 1024, start Tor as root, and have Tor bind those ports
35582 before it changes to another UID. (Windows users could already
35584 - Added a new ConstrainedSockets config option to set SO_SNDBUF and
35585 SO_RCVBUF on TCP sockets. Hopefully useful for Tor servers running
35586 on "vserver" accounts. (Patch from coderman.)
35587 - Be even more aggressive about separating local traffic from relayed
35588 traffic when RelayBandwidthRate is set. (Refines proposal 111.)
35590 o Major features (experimental):
35591 - First cut of code for "v3 dir voting": directory authorities will
35592 vote on a common network status document rather than each publishing
35593 their own opinion. This code needs more testing and more corner-case
35594 handling before it's ready for use.
35597 - Directory authorities now call routers Fast if their bandwidth is
35598 at least 100KB/s, and consider their bandwidth adequate to be a
35599 Guard if it is at least 250KB/s, no matter the medians. This fix
35600 complements proposal 107. [Bugfix on 0.1.2.x]
35601 - Directory authorities now never mark more than 3 servers per IP as
35602 Valid and Running. (Implements proposal 109, by Kevin Bauer and
35604 - Minor change to organizationName and commonName generation
35605 procedures in TLS certificates during Tor handshakes, to invalidate
35606 some earlier censorware approaches. This is not a long-term
35607 solution, but applying it will give us a bit of time to look into
35608 the epidemiology of countermeasures as they spread.
35610 o Major bugfixes (directory):
35611 - Rewrite directory tokenization code to never run off the end of
35612 a string. Fixes bug 455. Patch from croup. [Bugfix on 0.1.2.x]
35614 o Minor features (controller):
35615 - Add a SOURCE_ADDR field to STREAM NEW events so that controllers can
35616 match requests to applications. (Patch from Robert Hogan.)
35617 - Report address and port correctly on connections to DNSPort. (Patch
35618 from Robert Hogan.)
35619 - Add a RESOLVE command to launch hostname lookups. (Original patch
35620 from Robert Hogan.)
35621 - Add GETINFO status/enough-dir-info to let controllers tell whether
35622 Tor has downloaded sufficient directory information. (Patch
35624 - You can now use the ControlSocket option to tell Tor to listen for
35625 controller connections on Unix domain sockets on systems that
35626 support them. (Patch from Peter Palfrader.)
35627 - STREAM NEW events are generated for DNSPort requests and for
35628 tunneled directory connections. (Patch from Robert Hogan.)
35629 - New "GETINFO address-mappings/*" command to get address mappings
35630 with expiry information. "addr-mappings/*" is now deprecated.
35633 o Minor features (misc):
35634 - Merge in some (as-yet-unused) IPv6 address manipulation code. (Patch
35636 - The tor-gencert tool for v3 directory authorities now creates all
35637 files as readable to the file creator only, and write-protects
35638 the authority identity key.
35639 - When dumping memory usage, list bytes used in buffer memory
35641 - When running with dmalloc, dump more stats on hup and on exit.
35642 - Directory authorities now fail quickly and (relatively) harmlessly
35643 if they generate a network status document that is somehow
35646 o Traffic load balancing improvements:
35647 - If exit bandwidth ever exceeds one third of total bandwidth, then
35648 use the correct formula to weight exit nodes when choosing paths.
35649 (Based on patch from Mike Perry.)
35650 - Choose perfectly fairly among routers when choosing by bandwidth and
35651 weighting by fraction of bandwidth provided by exits. Previously, we
35652 would choose with only approximate fairness, and correct ourselves
35653 if we ran off the end of the list. [Bugfix on 0.1.2.x]
35655 o Performance improvements:
35656 - Be more aggressive with freeing buffer RAM or putting it on the
35658 - Use Critical Sections rather than Mutexes for synchronizing threads
35659 on win32; Mutexes are heavier-weight, and designed for synchronizing
35662 o Deprecated and removed features:
35663 - RedirectExits is now deprecated.
35664 - Stop allowing address masks that do not correspond to bit prefixes.
35665 We have warned about these for a really long time; now it's time
35666 to reject them. (Patch from croup.)
35668 o Minor bugfixes (directory):
35669 - Fix another crash bug related to extra-info caching. (Bug found by
35670 Peter Palfrader.) [Bugfix on 0.2.0.2-alpha]
35671 - Directories no longer return a "304 not modified" when they don't
35672 have the networkstatus the client asked for. Also fix a memory
35673 leak when returning 304 not modified. [Bugfixes on 0.2.0.2-alpha]
35674 - We had accidentally labelled 0.1.2.x directory servers as not
35675 suitable for begin_dir requests, and had labelled no directory
35676 servers as suitable for uploading extra-info documents. [Bugfix
35679 o Minor bugfixes (dns):
35680 - Fix a crash when DNSPort is set more than once. (Patch from Robert
35681 Hogan.) [Bugfix on 0.2.0.2-alpha]
35682 - Add DNSPort connections to the global connection list, so that we
35683 can time them out correctly. (Bug found by Robert Hogan.) [Bugfix
35685 - Fix a dangling reference that could lead to a crash when DNSPort is
35686 changed or closed (Patch from Robert Hogan.) [Bugfix on
35689 o Minor bugfixes (controller):
35690 - Provide DNS expiry times in GMT, not in local time. For backward
35691 compatibility, ADDRMAP events only provide GMT expiry in an extended
35692 field. "GETINFO address-mappings" always does the right thing.
35693 - Use CRLF line endings properly in NS events.
35694 - Terminate multi-line control events properly. (Original patch
35695 from tup.) [Bugfix on 0.1.2.x-alpha]
35696 - Do not include spaces in SOURCE_ADDR fields in STREAM
35697 events. Resolves bug 472. [Bugfix on 0.2.0.x-alpha]
35700 Changes in version 0.1.2.15 - 2007-07-17
35701 Tor 0.1.2.15 fixes several crash bugs, fixes some anonymity-related
35702 problems, fixes compilation on BSD, and fixes a variety of other
35703 bugs. Everybody should upgrade.
35705 o Major bugfixes (compilation):
35706 - Fix compile on FreeBSD/NetBSD/OpenBSD. Oops.
35708 o Major bugfixes (crashes):
35709 - Try even harder not to dereference the first character after
35710 an mmap(). Reported by lodger.
35711 - Fix a crash bug in directory authorities when we re-number the
35712 routerlist while inserting a new router.
35713 - When the cached-routers file is an even multiple of the page size,
35714 don't run off the end and crash. (Fixes bug 455; based on idea
35716 - Fix eventdns.c behavior on Solaris: It is critical to include
35717 orconfig.h _before_ sys/types.h, so that we can get the expected
35718 definition of _FILE_OFFSET_BITS.
35720 o Major bugfixes (security):
35721 - Fix a possible buffer overrun when using BSD natd support. Bug
35723 - When sending destroy cells from a circuit's origin, don't include
35724 the reason for tearing down the circuit. The spec says we didn't,
35725 and now we actually don't. Reported by lodger.
35726 - Keep streamids from different exits on a circuit separate. This
35727 bug may have allowed other routers on a given circuit to inject
35728 cells into streams. Reported by lodger; fixes bug 446.
35729 - If there's a never-before-connected-to guard node in our list,
35730 never choose any guards past it. This way we don't expand our
35731 guard list unless we need to.
35733 o Minor bugfixes (guard nodes):
35734 - Weight guard selection by bandwidth, so that low-bandwidth nodes
35735 don't get overused as guards.
35737 o Minor bugfixes (directory):
35738 - Correctly count the number of authorities that recommend each
35739 version. Previously, we were under-counting by 1.
35740 - Fix a potential crash bug when we load many server descriptors at
35741 once and some of them make others of them obsolete. Fixes bug 458.
35743 o Minor bugfixes (hidden services):
35744 - Stop tearing down the whole circuit when the user asks for a
35745 connection to a port that the hidden service didn't configure.
35748 o Minor bugfixes (misc):
35749 - On Windows, we were preventing other processes from reading
35750 cached-routers while Tor was running. Reported by janbar.
35751 - Fix a possible (but very unlikely) bug in picking routers by
35752 bandwidth. Add a log message to confirm that it is in fact
35753 unlikely. Patch from lodger.
35754 - Backport a couple of memory leak fixes.
35755 - Backport miscellaneous cosmetic bugfixes.
35758 Changes in version 0.2.0.2-alpha - 2007-06-02
35759 o Major bugfixes on 0.2.0.1-alpha:
35760 - Fix an assertion failure related to servers without extra-info digests.
35761 Resolves bugs 441 and 442.
35763 o Minor features (directory):
35764 - Support "If-Modified-Since" when answering HTTP requests for
35765 directories, running-routers documents, and network-status documents.
35766 (There's no need to support it for router descriptors, since those
35767 are downloaded by descriptor digest.)
35769 o Minor build issues:
35770 - Clear up some MIPSPro compiler warnings.
35771 - When building from a tarball on a machine that happens to have SVK
35772 installed, report the micro-revision as whatever version existed
35773 in the tarball, not as "x".
35776 Changes in version 0.2.0.1-alpha - 2007-06-01
35777 This early development snapshot provides new features for people running
35778 Tor as both a client and a server (check out the new RelayBandwidth
35779 config options); lets Tor run as a DNS proxy; and generally moves us
35780 forward on a lot of fronts.
35782 o Major features, server usability:
35783 - New config options RelayBandwidthRate and RelayBandwidthBurst:
35784 a separate set of token buckets for relayed traffic. Right now
35785 relayed traffic is defined as answers to directory requests, and
35786 OR connections that don't have any local circuits on them.
35788 o Major features, client usability:
35789 - A client-side DNS proxy feature to replace the need for
35790 dns-proxy-tor: Just set "DNSPort 9999", and Tor will now listen
35791 for DNS requests on port 9999, use the Tor network to resolve them
35792 anonymously, and send the reply back like a regular DNS server.
35793 The code still only implements a subset of DNS.
35794 - Make PreferTunneledDirConns and TunnelDirConns work even when
35795 we have no cached directory info. This means Tor clients can now
35796 do all of their connections protected by TLS.
35798 o Major features, performance and efficiency:
35799 - Directory authorities accept and serve "extra info" documents for
35800 routers. These documents contain fields from router descriptors
35801 that aren't usually needed, and that use a lot of excess
35802 bandwidth. Once these fields are removed from router descriptors,
35803 the bandwidth savings should be about 60%. [Partially implements
35805 - Servers upload extra-info documents to any authority that accepts
35806 them. Authorities (and caches that have been configured to download
35807 extra-info documents) download them as needed. [Partially implements
35809 - Change the way that Tor buffers data that it is waiting to write.
35810 Instead of queueing data cells in an enormous ring buffer for each
35811 client->OR or OR->OR connection, we now queue cells on a separate
35812 queue for each circuit. This lets us use less slack memory, and
35813 will eventually let us be smarter about prioritizing different kinds
35815 - Use memory pools to allocate cells with better speed and memory
35816 efficiency, especially on platforms where malloc() is inefficient.
35817 - Stop reading on edge connections when their corresponding circuit
35818 buffers are full; start again as the circuits empty out.
35820 o Major features, other:
35821 - Add an HSAuthorityRecordStats option that hidden service authorities
35822 can use to track statistics of overall hidden service usage without
35823 logging information that would be very useful to an attacker.
35824 - Start work implementing multi-level keys for directory authorities:
35825 Add a standalone tool to generate key certificates. (Proposal 103.)
35828 - Directory authorities now call routers Stable if they have an
35829 uptime of at least 30 days, even if that's not the median uptime
35830 in the network. Implements proposal 107, suggested by Kevin Bauer
35833 o Minor fixes (resource management):
35834 - Count the number of open sockets separately from the number
35835 of active connection_t objects. This will let us avoid underusing
35836 our allocated connection limit.
35837 - We no longer use socket pairs to link an edge connection to an
35838 anonymous directory connection or a DirPort test connection.
35839 Instead, we track the link internally and transfer the data
35840 in-process. This saves two sockets per "linked" connection (at the
35841 client and at the server), and avoids the nasty Windows socketpair()
35843 - Keep unused 4k and 16k buffers on free lists, rather than wasting 8k
35844 for every single inactive connection_t. Free items from the
35845 4k/16k-buffer free lists when they haven't been used for a while.
35847 o Minor features (build):
35848 - Make autoconf search for libevent, openssl, and zlib consistently.
35849 - Update deprecated macros in configure.in.
35850 - When warning about missing headers, tell the user to let us
35851 know if the compile succeeds anyway, so we can downgrade the
35853 - Include the current subversion revision as part of the version
35854 string: either fetch it directly if we're in an SVN checkout, do
35855 some magic to guess it if we're in an SVK checkout, or use
35856 the last-detected version if we're building from a .tar.gz.
35857 Use this version consistently in log messages.
35859 o Minor features (logging):
35860 - Always prepend "Bug: " to any log message about a bug.
35861 - Put a platform string (e.g. "Linux i686") in the startup log
35862 message, so when people paste just their logs, we know if it's
35863 OpenBSD or Windows or what.
35864 - When logging memory usage, break down memory used in buffers by
35867 o Minor features (directory system):
35868 - New config option V2AuthoritativeDirectory that all directory
35869 authorities should set. This will let future authorities choose
35870 not to serve V2 directory information.
35871 - Directory authorities allow multiple router descriptors and/or extra
35872 info documents to be uploaded in a single go. This will make
35873 implementing proposal 104 simpler.
35875 o Minor features (controller):
35876 - Add a new config option __DisablePredictedCircuits designed for
35877 use by the controller, when we don't want Tor to build any circuits
35879 - Let the controller specify HOP=%d as an argument to ATTACHSTREAM,
35880 so we can exit from the middle of the circuit.
35881 - Implement "getinfo status/circuit-established".
35882 - Implement "getinfo status/version/..." so a controller can tell
35883 whether the current version is recommended, and whether any versions
35884 are good, and how many authorities agree. (Patch from shibz.)
35886 o Minor features (hidden services):
35887 - Allow multiple HiddenServicePort directives with the same virtual
35888 port; when they occur, the user is sent round-robin to one
35889 of the target ports chosen at random. Partially fixes bug 393 by
35890 adding limited ad-hoc round-robining.
35892 o Minor features (other):
35894 - Add a new AutomapHostsOnResolve option: when it is enabled, any
35895 resolve request for hosts matching a given pattern causes Tor to
35896 generate an internal virtual address mapping for that host. This
35897 allows DNSPort to work sensibly with hidden service users. By
35898 default, .exit and .onion addresses are remapped; the list of
35899 patterns can be reconfigured with AutomapHostsSuffixes.
35900 - Add an "-F" option to tor-resolve to force a resolve for a .onion
35901 address. Thanks to the AutomapHostsOnResolve option, this is no
35902 longer a completely silly thing to do.
35903 - If Tor is invoked from something that isn't a shell (e.g. Vidalia),
35904 now we expand "-f ~/.tor/torrc" correctly. Suggested by Matt Edman.
35905 - Treat "2gb" when given in torrc for a bandwidth as meaning 2gb,
35906 minus 1 byte: the actual maximum declared bandwidth.
35908 o Removed features:
35909 - Removed support for the old binary "version 0" controller protocol.
35910 This has been deprecated since 0.1.1, and warnings have been issued
35911 since 0.1.2. When we encounter a v0 control message, we now send
35912 back an error and close the connection.
35913 - Remove the old "dns worker" server DNS code: it hasn't been default
35914 since 0.1.2.2-alpha, and all the servers seem to be using the new
35917 o Minor bugfixes (portability):
35918 - Even though Windows is equally happy with / and \ as path separators,
35919 try to use \ consistently on Windows and / consistently on Unix: it
35920 makes the log messages nicer.
35921 - Correctly report platform name on Windows 95 OSR2 and Windows 98 SE.
35922 - Read resolv.conf files correctly on platforms where read() returns
35923 partial results on small file reads.
35925 o Minor bugfixes (directory):
35926 - Correctly enforce that elements of directory objects do not appear
35927 more often than they are allowed to appear.
35928 - When we are reporting the DirServer line we just parsed, we were
35929 logging the second stanza of the key fingerprint, not the first.
35931 o Minor bugfixes (logging):
35932 - When we hit an EOF on a log (probably because we're shutting down),
35933 don't try to remove the log from the list: just mark it as
35934 unusable. (Bulletproofs against bug 222.)
35936 o Minor bugfixes (other):
35937 - In the exitlist script, only consider the most recently published
35938 server descriptor for each server. Also, when the user requests
35939 a list of servers that _reject_ connections to a given address,
35940 explicitly exclude the IPs that also have servers that accept
35941 connections to that address. (Resolves bug 405.)
35942 - Stop allowing hibernating servers to be "stable" or "fast".
35943 - On Windows, we were preventing other processes from reading
35944 cached-routers while Tor was running. (Reported by janbar)
35945 - Make the NodeFamilies config option work. (Reported by
35946 lodger -- it has never actually worked, even though we added it
35948 - Check return values from pthread_mutex functions.
35949 - Don't save non-general-purpose router descriptors to the disk cache,
35950 because we have no way of remembering what their purpose was when
35952 - Add even more asserts to hunt down bug 417.
35953 - Build without verbose warnings even on (not-yet-released) gcc 4.2.
35954 - Fix a possible (but very unlikely) bug in picking routers by bandwidth.
35955 Add a log message to confirm that it is in fact unlikely.
35957 o Minor bugfixes (controller):
35958 - Make 'getinfo fingerprint' return a 551 error if we're not a
35959 server, so we match what the control spec claims we do. Reported
35961 - Fix a typo in an error message when extendcircuit fails that
35962 caused us to not follow the \r\n-based delimiter protocol. Reported
35965 o Code simplifications and refactoring:
35966 - Stop passing around circuit_t and crypt_path_t pointers that are
35967 implicit in other procedure arguments.
35968 - Drop the old code to choke directory connections when the
35969 corresponding OR connections got full: thanks to the cell queue
35970 feature, OR conns don't get full any more.
35971 - Make dns_resolve() handle attaching connections to circuits
35972 properly, so the caller doesn't have to.
35973 - Rename wants_to_read and wants_to_write to read/write_blocked_on_bw.
35974 - Keep the connection array as a dynamic smartlist_t, rather than as
35975 a fixed-sized array. This is important, as the number of connections
35976 is becoming increasingly decoupled from the number of sockets.
35979 Changes in version 0.1.2.14 - 2007-05-25
35980 Tor 0.1.2.14 changes the addresses of two directory authorities (this
35981 change especially affects those who serve or use hidden services),
35982 and fixes several other crash- and security-related bugs.
35984 o Directory authority changes:
35985 - Two directory authorities (moria1 and moria2) just moved to new
35986 IP addresses. This change will particularly affect those who serve
35987 or use hidden services.
35989 o Major bugfixes (crashes):
35990 - If a directory server runs out of space in the connection table
35991 as it's processing a begin_dir request, it will free the exit stream
35992 but leave it attached to the circuit, leading to unpredictable
35993 behavior. (Reported by seeess, fixes bug 425.)
35994 - Fix a bug in dirserv_remove_invalid() that would cause authorities
35995 to corrupt memory under some really unlikely scenarios.
35996 - Tighten router parsing rules. (Bugs reported by Benedikt Boss.)
35997 - Avoid segfaults when reading from mmaped descriptor file. (Reported
36000 o Major bugfixes (security):
36001 - When choosing an entry guard for a circuit, avoid using guards
36002 that are in the same family as the chosen exit -- not just guards
36003 that are exactly the chosen exit. (Reported by lodger.)
36005 o Major bugfixes (resource management):
36006 - If a directory authority is down, skip it when deciding where to get
36007 networkstatus objects or descriptors. Otherwise we keep asking
36008 every 10 seconds forever. Fixes bug 384.
36009 - Count it as a failure if we fetch a valid network-status but we
36010 don't want to keep it. Otherwise we'll keep fetching it and keep
36011 not wanting to keep it. Fixes part of bug 422.
36012 - If all of our dirservers have given us bad or no networkstatuses
36013 lately, then stop hammering them once per minute even when we
36014 think they're failed. Fixes another part of bug 422.
36017 - Actually set the purpose correctly for descriptors inserted with
36018 purpose=controller.
36019 - When we have k non-v2 authorities in our DirServer config,
36020 we ignored the last k authorities in the list when updating our
36022 - Correctly back-off from requesting router descriptors that we are
36023 having a hard time downloading.
36024 - Read resolv.conf files correctly on platforms where read() returns
36025 partial results on small file reads.
36026 - Don't rebuild the entire router store every time we get 32K of
36027 routers: rebuild it when the journal gets very large, or when
36028 the gaps in the store get very large.
36031 - When routers publish SVN revisions in their router descriptors,
36032 authorities now include those versions correctly in networkstatus
36034 - Warn when using a version of libevent before 1.3b to run a server on
36035 OSX or BSD: these versions interact badly with userspace threads.
36038 Changes in version 0.1.2.13 - 2007-04-24
36039 This release features some major anonymity fixes, such as safer path
36040 selection; better client performance; faster bootstrapping, better
36041 address detection, and better DNS support for servers; write limiting as
36042 well as read limiting to make servers easier to run; and a huge pile of
36043 other features and bug fixes. The bundles also ship with Vidalia 0.0.11.
36045 Tor 0.1.2.13 is released in memory of Rob Levin (1955-2006), aka lilo
36046 of the Freenode IRC network, remembering his patience and vision for
36047 free speech on the Internet.
36050 - Fix a memory leak when we ask for "all" networkstatuses and we
36051 get one we don't recognize.
36052 - Add more asserts to hunt down bug 417.
36053 - Disable kqueue on OS X 10.3 and earlier, to fix bug 371.
36056 Changes in version 0.1.2.12-rc - 2007-03-16
36058 - Fix an infinite loop introduced in 0.1.2.7-alpha when we serve
36059 directory information requested inside Tor connections (i.e. via
36060 begin_dir cells). It only triggered when the same connection was
36061 serving other data at the same time. Reported by seeess.
36064 - When creating a circuit via the controller, send a 'launched'
36065 event when we're done, so we follow the spec better.
36068 Changes in version 0.1.2.11-rc - 2007-03-15
36069 o Minor bugfixes (controller), reported by daejees:
36070 - Correct the control spec to match how the code actually responds
36071 to 'getinfo addr-mappings/*'.
36072 - The control spec described a GUARDS event, but the code
36073 implemented a GUARD event. Standardize on GUARD, but let people
36074 ask for GUARDS too.
36077 Changes in version 0.1.2.10-rc - 2007-03-07
36078 o Major bugfixes (Windows):
36079 - Do not load the NT services library functions (which may not exist)
36080 just to detect if we're a service trying to shut down. Now we run
36081 on Win98 and friends again.
36083 o Minor bugfixes (other):
36084 - Clarify a couple of log messages.
36085 - Fix a misleading socks5 error number.
36088 Changes in version 0.1.2.9-rc - 2007-03-02
36089 o Major bugfixes (Windows):
36090 - On MinGW, use "%I64u" to printf/scanf 64-bit integers, instead
36091 of the usual GCC "%llu". This prevents a bug when saving 64-bit
36092 int configuration values: the high-order 32 bits would get
36093 truncated. In particular, we were being bitten by the default
36094 MaxAdvertisedBandwidth of 128 TB turning into 0. (Fixes bug 400
36095 and maybe also bug 397.)
36097 o Minor bugfixes (performance):
36098 - Use OpenSSL's AES implementation on platforms where it's faster.
36099 This could save us as much as 10% CPU usage.
36101 o Minor bugfixes (server):
36102 - Do not rotate onion key immediately after setting it for the first
36105 o Minor bugfixes (directory authorities):
36106 - Stop calling servers that have been hibernating for a long time
36107 "stable". Also, stop letting hibernating or obsolete servers affect
36108 uptime and bandwidth cutoffs.
36109 - Stop listing hibernating servers in the v1 directory.
36111 o Minor bugfixes (hidden services):
36112 - Upload hidden service descriptors slightly less often, to reduce
36113 load on authorities.
36115 o Minor bugfixes (other):
36116 - Fix an assert that could trigger if a controller quickly set then
36117 cleared EntryNodes. Bug found by Udo van den Heuvel.
36118 - On architectures where sizeof(int)>4, still clamp declarable bandwidth
36120 - Fix a potential race condition in the rpm installer. Found by
36122 - Try to fix eventdns warnings once and for all: do not treat a dns rcode
36123 of 2 as indicating that the server is completely bad; it sometimes
36124 means that the server is just bad for the request in question. (may fix
36125 the last of bug 326.)
36126 - Disable encrypted directory connections when we don't have a server
36127 descriptor for the destination. We'll get this working again in
36131 Changes in version 0.1.2.8-beta - 2007-02-26
36132 o Major bugfixes (crashes):
36133 - Stop crashing when the controller asks us to resetconf more than
36134 one config option at once. (Vidalia 0.0.11 does this.)
36135 - Fix a crash that happened on Win98 when we're given command-line
36136 arguments: don't try to load NT service functions from advapi32.dll
36137 except when we need them. (Bug introduced in 0.1.2.7-alpha;
36139 - Fix a longstanding obscure crash bug that could occur when
36140 we run out of DNS worker processes. (Resolves bug 390.)
36142 o Major bugfixes (hidden services):
36143 - Correctly detect whether hidden service descriptor downloads are
36144 in-progress. (Suggested by Karsten Loesing; fixes bug 399.)
36146 o Major bugfixes (accounting):
36147 - When we start during an accounting interval before it's time to wake
36148 up, remember to wake up at the correct time. (May fix bug 342.)
36150 o Minor bugfixes (controller):
36151 - Give the controller END_STREAM_REASON_DESTROY events _before_ we
36152 clear the corresponding on_circuit variable, and remember later
36153 that we don't need to send a redundant CLOSED event. Resolves part
36155 - Report events where a resolve succeeded or where we got a socks
36156 protocol error correctly, rather than calling both of them
36158 - Change reported stream target addresses to IP consistently when
36159 we finally get the IP from an exit node.
36160 - Send log messages to the controller even if they happen to be very
36163 o Minor bugfixes (other):
36164 - Display correct results when reporting which versions are
36165 recommended, and how recommended they are. (Resolves bug 383.)
36166 - Improve our estimates for directory bandwidth to be less random:
36167 guess that an unrecognized directory will have the average bandwidth
36168 from all known directories, not that it will have the average
36169 bandwidth from those directories earlier than it on the list.
36170 - If we start a server with ClientOnly 1, then set ClientOnly to 0
36171 and hup, stop triggering an assert based on an empty onion_key.
36172 - On platforms with no working mmap() equivalent, don't warn the
36173 user when cached-routers doesn't exist.
36174 - Warn the user when mmap() [or its equivalent] fails for some reason
36175 other than file-not-found.
36176 - Don't warn the user when cached-routers.new doesn't exist: that's
36177 perfectly fine when starting up for the first time.
36178 - When EntryNodes are configured, rebuild the guard list to contain,
36179 in order: the EntryNodes that were guards before; the rest of the
36180 EntryNodes; the nodes that were guards before.
36181 - Mask out all signals in sub-threads; only the libevent signal
36182 handler should be processing them. This should prevent some crashes
36183 on some machines using pthreads. (Patch from coderman.)
36184 - Fix switched arguments on memset in the implementation of
36185 tor_munmap() for systems with no mmap() call.
36186 - When Tor receives a router descriptor that it asked for, but
36187 no longer wants (because it has received fresh networkstatuses
36188 in the meantime), do not warn the user. Cache the descriptor if
36189 we're a cache; drop it if we aren't.
36190 - Make earlier entry guards _really_ get retried when the network
36192 - On a malformed DNS reply, always give an error to the corresponding
36194 - Build with recent libevents on platforms that do not define the
36195 nonstandard types "u_int8_t" and friends.
36197 o Minor features (controller):
36198 - Warn the user when an application uses the obsolete binary v0
36199 control protocol. We're planning to remove support for it during
36200 the next development series, so it's good to give people some
36202 - Add STREAM_BW events to report per-entry-stream bandwidth
36203 use. (Patch from Robert Hogan.)
36204 - Rate-limit SIGNEWNYM signals in response to controllers that
36205 impolitely generate them for every single stream. (Patch from
36206 mwenge; closes bug 394.)
36207 - Make REMAP stream events have a SOURCE (cache or exit), and
36208 make them generated in every case where we get a successful
36209 connected or resolved cell.
36211 o Minor bugfixes (performance):
36212 - Call router_have_min_dir_info half as often. (This is showing up in
36213 some profiles, but not others.)
36214 - When using GCC, make log_debug never get called at all, and its
36215 arguments never get evaluated, when no debug logs are configured.
36216 (This is showing up in some profiles, but not others.)
36219 - Remove some never-implemented options. Mark PathlenCoinWeight as
36221 - Implement proposal 106: Stop requiring clients to have well-formed
36222 certificates; stop checking nicknames in certificates. (Clients
36223 have certificates so that they can look like Tor servers, but in
36224 the future we might want to allow them to look like regular TLS
36225 clients instead. Nicknames in certificates serve no purpose other
36226 than making our protocol easier to recognize on the wire.)
36227 - Revise messages on handshake failure again to be even more clear about
36228 which are incoming connections and which are outgoing.
36229 - Discard any v1 directory info that's over 1 month old (for
36230 directories) or over 1 week old (for running-routers lists).
36231 - Do not warn when individual nodes in the configuration's EntryNodes,
36232 ExitNodes, etc are down: warn only when all possible nodes
36233 are down. (Fixes bug 348.)
36234 - Always remove expired routers and networkstatus docs before checking
36235 whether we have enough information to build circuits. (Fixes
36237 - Put a lower-bound on MaxAdvertisedBandwidth.
36240 Changes in version 0.1.2.7-alpha - 2007-02-06
36241 o Major bugfixes (rate limiting):
36242 - Servers decline directory requests much more aggressively when
36243 they're low on bandwidth. Otherwise they end up queueing more and
36244 more directory responses, which can't be good for latency.
36245 - But never refuse directory requests from local addresses.
36246 - Fix a memory leak when sending a 503 response for a networkstatus
36248 - Be willing to read or write on local connections (e.g. controller
36249 connections) even when the global rate limiting buckets are empty.
36250 - If our system clock jumps back in time, don't publish a negative
36251 uptime in the descriptor. Also, don't let the global rate limiting
36252 buckets go absurdly negative.
36253 - Flush local controller connection buffers periodically as we're
36254 writing to them, so we avoid queueing 4+ megabytes of data before
36257 o Major bugfixes (NT services):
36258 - Install as NT_AUTHORITY\LocalService rather than as SYSTEM; add a
36259 command-line flag so that admins can override the default by saying
36260 "tor --service install --user "SomeUser"". This will not affect
36261 existing installed services. Also, warn the user that the service
36262 will look for its configuration file in the service user's
36263 %appdata% directory. (We can't do the 'hardwire the user's appdata
36264 directory' trick any more, since we may not have read access to that
36267 o Major bugfixes (other):
36268 - Previously, we would cache up to 16 old networkstatus documents
36269 indefinitely, if they came from nontrusted authorities. Now we
36270 discard them if they are more than 10 days old.
36271 - Fix a crash bug in the presence of DNS hijacking (reported by Andrew
36273 - Detect and reject malformed DNS responses containing circular
36275 - If exits are rare enough that we're not marking exits as guards,
36276 ignore exit bandwidth when we're deciding the required bandwidth
36278 - When we're handling a directory connection tunneled over Tor,
36279 don't fill up internal memory buffers with all the data we want
36280 to tunnel; instead, only add it if the OR connection that will
36281 eventually receive it has some room for it. (This can lead to
36282 slowdowns in tunneled dir connections; a better solution will have
36283 to wait for 0.2.0.)
36285 o Minor bugfixes (dns):
36286 - Add some defensive programming to eventdns.c in an attempt to catch
36287 possible memory-stomping bugs.
36288 - Detect and reject DNS replies containing IPv4 or IPv6 records with
36289 an incorrect number of bytes. (Previously, we would ignore the
36291 - Fix as-yet-unused reverse IPv6 lookup code so it sends nybbles
36292 in the correct order, and doesn't crash.
36293 - Free memory held in recently-completed DNS lookup attempts on exit.
36294 This was not a memory leak, but may have been hiding memory leaks.
36295 - Handle TTL values correctly on reverse DNS lookups.
36296 - Treat failure to parse resolv.conf as an error.
36298 o Minor bugfixes (other):
36299 - Fix crash with "tor --list-fingerprint" (reported by seeess).
36300 - When computing clock skew from directory HTTP headers, consider what
36301 time it was when we finished asking for the directory, not what
36303 - Expire socks connections if they spend too long waiting for the
36304 handshake to finish. Previously we would let them sit around for
36305 days, if the connecting application didn't close them either.
36306 - And if the socks handshake hasn't started, don't send a
36307 "DNS resolve socks failed" handshake reply; just close it.
36308 - Stop using C functions that OpenBSD's linker doesn't like.
36309 - Don't launch requests for descriptors unless we have networkstatuses
36310 from at least half of the authorities. This delays the first
36311 download slightly under pathological circumstances, but can prevent
36312 us from downloading a bunch of descriptors we don't need.
36313 - Do not log IPs with TLS failures for incoming TLS
36314 connections. (Fixes bug 382.)
36315 - If the user asks to use invalid exit nodes, be willing to use
36317 - Stop using the reserved ac_cv namespace in our configure script.
36318 - Call stat() slightly less often; use fstat() when possible.
36319 - Refactor the way we handle pending circuits when an OR connection
36320 completes or fails, in an attempt to fix a rare crash bug.
36321 - Only rewrite a conn's address based on X-Forwarded-For: headers
36322 if it's a parseable public IP address; and stop adding extra quotes
36323 to the resulting address.
36326 - Weight directory requests by advertised bandwidth. Now we can
36327 let servers enable write limiting but still allow most clients to
36328 succeed at their directory requests. (We still ignore weights when
36329 choosing a directory authority; I hope this is a feature.)
36332 - Create a new file ReleaseNotes which was the old ChangeLog. The
36333 new ChangeLog file now includes the summaries for all development
36335 - Check for addresses with invalid characters at the exit as well
36336 as at the client, and warn less verbosely when they fail. You can
36337 override this by setting ServerDNSAllowNonRFC953Addresses to 1.
36338 - Adapt a patch from goodell to let the contrib/exitlist script
36339 take arguments rather than require direct editing.
36340 - Inform the server operator when we decide not to advertise a
36341 DirPort due to AccountingMax enabled or a low BandwidthRate. It
36342 was confusing Zax, so now we're hopefully more helpful.
36343 - Bring us one step closer to being able to establish an encrypted
36344 directory tunnel without knowing a descriptor first. Still not
36345 ready yet. As part of the change, now assume we can use a
36346 create_fast cell if we don't know anything about a router.
36347 - Allow exit nodes to use nameservers running on ports other than 53.
36348 - Servers now cache reverse DNS replies.
36349 - Add an --ignore-missing-torrc command-line option so that we can
36350 get the "use sensible defaults if the configuration file doesn't
36351 exist" behavior even when specifying a torrc location on the command
36354 o Minor features (controller):
36355 - Track reasons for OR connection failure; make these reasons
36356 available via the controller interface. (Patch from Mike Perry.)
36357 - Add a SOCKS_BAD_HOSTNAME client status event so controllers
36358 can learn when clients are sending malformed hostnames to Tor.
36359 - Clean up documentation for controller status events.
36360 - Add a REMAP status to stream events to note that a stream's
36361 address has changed because of a cached address or a MapAddress
36365 Changes in version 0.1.2.6-alpha - 2007-01-09
36367 - Fix an assert error introduced in 0.1.2.5-alpha: if a single TLS
36368 connection handles more than 4 gigs in either direction, we crash.
36369 - Fix an assert error introduced in 0.1.2.5-alpha: if we're an
36370 advertised exit node, somebody might try to exit from us when
36371 we're bootstrapping and before we've built our descriptor yet.
36372 Refuse the connection rather than crashing.
36375 - Warn if we (as a server) find that we've resolved an address that we
36376 weren't planning to resolve.
36377 - Warn that using select() on any libevent version before 1.1 will be
36378 unnecessarily slow (even for select()).
36379 - Flush ERR-level controller status events just like we currently
36380 flush ERR-level log events, so that a Tor shutdown doesn't prevent
36381 the controller from learning about current events.
36383 o Minor features (more controller status events):
36384 - Implement EXTERNAL_ADDRESS server status event so controllers can
36385 learn when our address changes.
36386 - Implement BAD_SERVER_DESCRIPTOR server status event so controllers
36387 can learn when directories reject our descriptor.
36388 - Implement SOCKS_UNKNOWN_PROTOCOL client status event so controllers
36389 can learn when a client application is speaking a non-socks protocol
36391 - Implement DANGEROUS_SOCKS client status event so controllers
36392 can learn when a client application is leaking DNS addresses.
36393 - Implement BUG general status event so controllers can learn when
36394 Tor is unhappy about its internal invariants.
36395 - Implement CLOCK_SKEW general status event so controllers can learn
36396 when Tor thinks the system clock is set incorrectly.
36397 - Implement GOOD_SERVER_DESCRIPTOR and ACCEPTED_SERVER_DESCRIPTOR
36398 server status events so controllers can learn when their descriptors
36399 are accepted by a directory.
36400 - Implement CHECKING_REACHABILITY and REACHABILITY_{SUCCEEDED|FAILED}
36401 server status events so controllers can learn about Tor's progress in
36402 deciding whether it's reachable from the outside.
36403 - Implement BAD_LIBEVENT general status event so controllers can learn
36404 when we have a version/method combination in libevent that needs to
36406 - Implement NAMESERVER_STATUS, NAMESERVER_ALL_DOWN, DNS_HIJACKED,
36407 and DNS_USELESS server status events so controllers can learn
36408 about changes to DNS server status.
36410 o Minor features (directory):
36411 - Authorities no longer recommend exits as guards if this would shift
36412 too much load to the exit nodes.
36415 Changes in version 0.1.2.5-alpha - 2007-01-06
36417 - Enable write limiting as well as read limiting. Now we sacrifice
36418 capacity if we're pushing out lots of directory traffic, rather
36419 than overrunning the user's intended bandwidth limits.
36420 - Include TLS overhead when counting bandwidth usage; previously, we
36421 would count only the bytes sent over TLS, but not the bytes used
36423 - Support running the Tor service with a torrc not in the same
36424 directory as tor.exe and default to using the torrc located in
36425 the %appdata%\Tor\ of the user who installed the service. Patch
36427 - Servers now check for the case when common DNS requests are going to
36428 wildcarded addresses (i.e. all getting the same answer), and change
36429 their exit policy to reject *:* if it's happening.
36430 - Implement BEGIN_DIR cells, so we can connect to the directory
36431 server via TLS to do encrypted directory requests rather than
36432 plaintext. Enable via the TunnelDirConns and PreferTunneledDirConns
36433 config options if you like.
36435 o Minor features (config and docs):
36436 - Start using the state file to store bandwidth accounting data:
36437 the bw_accounting file is now obsolete. We'll keep generating it
36438 for a while for people who are still using 0.1.2.4-alpha.
36439 - Try to batch changes to the state file so that we do as few
36440 disk writes as possible while still storing important things in
36442 - The state file and the bw_accounting file get saved less often when
36443 the AvoidDiskWrites config option is set.
36444 - Make PIDFile work on Windows (untested).
36445 - Add internal descriptions for a bunch of configuration options:
36446 accessible via controller interface and in comments in saved
36448 - Reject *:563 (NNTPS) in the default exit policy. We already reject
36449 NNTP by default, so this seems like a sensible addition.
36450 - Clients now reject hostnames with invalid characters. This should
36451 avoid some inadvertent info leaks. Add an option
36452 AllowNonRFC953Hostnames to disable this behavior, in case somebody
36453 is running a private network with hosts called @, !, and #.
36454 - Add a maintainer script to tell us which options are missing
36455 documentation: "make check-docs".
36456 - Add a new address-spec.txt document to describe our special-case
36457 addresses: .exit, .onion, and .noconnnect.
36459 o Minor features (DNS):
36460 - Ongoing work on eventdns infrastructure: now it has dns server
36461 and ipv6 support. One day Tor will make use of it.
36462 - Add client-side caching for reverse DNS lookups.
36463 - Add support to tor-resolve tool for reverse lookups and SOCKS5.
36464 - When we change nameservers or IP addresses, reset and re-launch
36465 our tests for DNS hijacking.
36467 o Minor features (directory):
36468 - Authorities now specify server versions in networkstatus. This adds
36469 about 2% to the size of compressed networkstatus docs, and allows
36470 clients to tell which servers support BEGIN_DIR and which don't.
36471 The implementation is forward-compatible with a proposed future
36472 protocol version scheme not tied to Tor versions.
36473 - DirServer configuration lines now have an orport= option so
36474 clients can open encrypted tunnels to the authorities without
36475 having downloaded their descriptors yet. Enabled for moria1,
36476 moria2, tor26, and lefkada now in the default configuration.
36477 - Directory servers are more willing to send a 503 "busy" if they
36478 are near their write limit, especially for v1 directory requests.
36479 Now they can use their limited bandwidth for actual Tor traffic.
36480 - Clients track responses with status 503 from dirservers. After a
36481 dirserver has given us a 503, we try not to use it until an hour has
36482 gone by, or until we have no dirservers that haven't given us a 503.
36483 - When we get a 503 from a directory, and we're not a server, we don't
36484 count the failure against the total number of failures allowed
36485 for the thing we're trying to download.
36486 - Report X-Your-Address-Is correctly from tunneled directory
36487 connections; don't report X-Your-Address-Is when it's an internal
36488 address; and never believe reported remote addresses when they're
36490 - Protect against an unlikely DoS attack on directory servers.
36491 - Add a BadDirectory flag to network status docs so that authorities
36492 can (eventually) tell clients about caches they believe to be
36495 o Minor features (controller):
36496 - Have GETINFO dir/status/* work on hosts with DirPort disabled.
36497 - Reimplement GETINFO so that info/names stays in sync with the
36499 - Implement "GETINFO fingerprint".
36500 - Implement "SETEVENTS GUARD" so controllers can get updates on
36501 entry guard status as it changes.
36503 o Minor features (clean up obsolete pieces):
36504 - Remove some options that have been deprecated since at least
36505 0.1.0.x: AccountingMaxKB, LogFile, DebugLogFile, LogLevel, and
36506 SysLog. Use AccountingMax instead of AccountingMaxKB, and use Log
36507 to set log options.
36508 - We no longer look for identity and onion keys in "identity.key" and
36509 "onion.key" -- these were replaced by secret_id_key and
36510 secret_onion_key in 0.0.8pre1.
36511 - We no longer require unrecognized directory entries to be
36514 o Major bugfixes (security):
36515 - Stop sending the HttpProxyAuthenticator string to directory
36516 servers when directory connections are tunnelled through Tor.
36517 - Clients no longer store bandwidth history in the state file.
36518 - Do not log introduction points for hidden services if SafeLogging
36520 - When generating bandwidth history, round down to the nearest
36521 1k. When storing accounting data, round up to the nearest 1k.
36522 - When we're running as a server, remember when we last rotated onion
36523 keys, so that we will rotate keys once they're a week old even if
36524 we never stay up for a week ourselves.
36526 o Major bugfixes (other):
36527 - Fix a longstanding bug in eventdns that prevented the count of
36528 timed-out resolves from ever being reset. This bug caused us to
36529 give up on a nameserver the third time it timed out, and try it
36530 10 seconds later... and to give up on it every time it timed out
36532 - Take out the '5 second' timeout from the connection retry
36533 schedule. Now the first connect attempt will wait a full 10
36534 seconds before switching to a new circuit. Perhaps this will help
36535 a lot. Based on observations from Mike Perry.
36536 - Fix a bug on the Windows implementation of tor_mmap_file() that
36537 would prevent the cached-routers file from ever loading. Reported
36541 - Fix an assert failure when a directory authority sets
36542 AuthDirRejectUnlisted and then receives a descriptor from an
36543 unlisted router. Reported by seeess.
36544 - Avoid a double-free when parsing malformed DirServer lines.
36545 - Fix a bug when a BSD-style PF socket is first used. Patch from
36547 - Fix a bug in 0.1.2.2-alpha that prevented clients from asking
36548 to resolve an address at a given exit node even when they ask for
36550 - Servers no longer ever list themselves in their "family" line,
36551 even if configured to do so. This makes it easier to configure
36552 family lists conveniently.
36553 - When running as a server, don't fall back to 127.0.0.1 when no
36554 nameservers are configured in /etc/resolv.conf; instead, make the
36555 user fix resolv.conf or specify nameservers explicitly. (Resolves
36557 - Stop accepting certain malformed ports in configured exit policies.
36558 - Don't re-write the fingerprint file every restart, unless it has
36560 - Stop warning when a single nameserver fails: only warn when _all_ of
36561 our nameservers have failed. Also, when we only have one nameserver,
36562 raise the threshold for deciding that the nameserver is dead.
36563 - Directory authorities now only decide that routers are reachable
36564 if their identity keys are as expected.
36565 - When the user uses bad syntax in the Log config line, stop
36566 suggesting other bad syntax as a replacement.
36567 - Correctly detect ipv6 DNS capability on OpenBSD.
36569 o Minor bugfixes (controller):
36570 - Report the circuit number correctly in STREAM CLOSED events. Bug
36571 reported by Mike Perry.
36572 - Do not report bizarre values for results of accounting GETINFOs
36573 when the last second's write or read exceeds the allotted bandwidth.
36574 - Report "unrecognized key" rather than an empty string when the
36575 controller tries to fetch a networkstatus that doesn't exist.
36578 Changes in version 0.1.1.26 - 2006-12-14
36579 o Security bugfixes:
36580 - Stop sending the HttpProxyAuthenticator string to directory
36581 servers when directory connections are tunnelled through Tor.
36582 - Clients no longer store bandwidth history in the state file.
36583 - Do not log introduction points for hidden services if SafeLogging
36587 - Fix an assert failure when a directory authority sets
36588 AuthDirRejectUnlisted and then receives a descriptor from an
36589 unlisted router (reported by seeess).
36592 Changes in version 0.1.2.4-alpha - 2006-12-03
36594 - Add support for using natd; this allows FreeBSDs earlier than
36595 5.1.2 to have ipfw send connections through Tor without using
36596 SOCKS. (Patch from Zajcev Evgeny with tweaks from tup.)
36599 - Make all connections to addresses of the form ".noconnect"
36600 immediately get closed. This lets application/controller combos
36601 successfully test whether they're talking to the same Tor by
36602 watching for STREAM events.
36603 - Make cross.sh cross-compilation script work even when autogen.sh
36604 hasn't been run. (Patch from Michael Mohr.)
36605 - Statistics dumped by -USR2 now include a breakdown of public key
36606 operations, for profiling.
36609 - Fix a major leak when directory authorities parse their
36610 approved-routers list, a minor memory leak when we fail to pick
36611 an exit node, and a few rare leaks on errors.
36612 - Handle TransPort connections even when the server sends data before
36613 the client sends data. Previously, the connection would just hang
36614 until the client sent data. (Patch from tup based on patch from
36616 - Avoid assert failure when our cached-routers file is empty on
36620 - Don't log spurious warnings when we see a circuit close reason we
36621 don't recognize; it's probably just from a newer version of Tor.
36622 - Have directory authorities allow larger amounts of drift in uptime
36623 without replacing the server descriptor: previously, a server that
36624 restarted every 30 minutes could have 48 "interesting" descriptors
36626 - Start linking to the Tor specification and Tor reference manual
36627 correctly in the Windows installer.
36628 - Add Vidalia to the OS X uninstaller script, so when we uninstall
36629 Tor/Privoxy we also uninstall Vidalia.
36630 - Resume building on Irix64, and fix a lot of warnings from its
36631 MIPSpro C compiler.
36632 - Don't corrupt last_guessed_ip in router_new_address_suggestion()
36633 when we're running as a client.
36636 Changes in version 0.1.1.25 - 2006-11-04
36638 - When a client asks us to resolve (rather than connect to)
36639 an address, and we have a cached answer, give them the cached
36640 answer. Previously, we would give them no answer at all.
36641 - We were building exactly the wrong circuits when we predict
36642 hidden service requirements, meaning Tor would have to build all
36643 its circuits on demand.
36644 - If none of our live entry guards have a high uptime, but we
36645 require a guard with a high uptime, try adding a new guard before
36646 we give up on the requirement. This patch should make long-lived
36647 connections more stable on average.
36648 - When testing reachability of our DirPort, don't launch new
36649 tests when there's already one in progress -- unreachable
36650 servers were stacking up dozens of testing streams.
36652 o Security bugfixes:
36653 - When the user sends a NEWNYM signal, clear the client-side DNS
36654 cache too. Otherwise we continue to act on previous information.
36657 - Avoid a memory corruption bug when creating a hash table for
36659 - Avoid possibility of controller-triggered crash when misusing
36660 certain commands from a v0 controller on platforms that do not
36661 handle printf("%s",NULL) gracefully.
36662 - Avoid infinite loop on unexpected controller input.
36663 - Don't log spurious warnings when we see a circuit close reason we
36664 don't recognize; it's probably just from a newer version of Tor.
36665 - Add Vidalia to the OS X uninstaller script, so when we uninstall
36666 Tor/Privoxy we also uninstall Vidalia.
36669 Changes in version 0.1.2.3-alpha - 2006-10-29
36671 - Prepare for servers to publish descriptors less often: never
36672 discard a descriptor simply for being too old until either it is
36673 recommended by no authorities, or until we get a better one for
36674 the same router. Make caches consider retaining old recommended
36675 routers for even longer.
36676 - If most authorities set a BadExit flag for a server, clients
36677 don't think of it as a general-purpose exit. Clients only consider
36678 authorities that advertise themselves as listing bad exits.
36679 - Directory servers now provide 'Pragma: no-cache' and 'Expires'
36680 headers for content, so that we can work better in the presence of
36681 caching HTTP proxies.
36682 - Allow authorities to list nodes as bad exits by fingerprint or by
36685 o Minor features, controller:
36686 - Add a REASON field to CIRC events; for backward compatibility, this
36687 field is sent only to controllers that have enabled the extended
36688 event format. Also, add additional reason codes to explain why
36689 a given circuit has been destroyed or truncated. (Patches from
36691 - Add a REMOTE_REASON field to extended CIRC events to tell the
36692 controller about why a remote OR told us to close a circuit.
36693 - Stream events also now have REASON and REMOTE_REASON fields,
36694 working much like those for circuit events.
36695 - There's now a GETINFO ns/... field so that controllers can ask Tor
36696 about the current status of a router.
36697 - A new event type "NS" to inform a controller when our opinion of
36698 a router's status has changed.
36699 - Add a GETINFO events/names and GETINFO features/names so controllers
36700 can tell which events and features are supported.
36701 - A new CLEARDNSCACHE signal to allow controllers to clear the
36702 client-side DNS cache without expiring circuits.
36704 o Security bugfixes:
36705 - When the user sends a NEWNYM signal, clear the client-side DNS
36706 cache too. Otherwise we continue to act on previous information.
36709 - Avoid sending junk to controllers or segfaulting when a controller
36710 uses EVENT_NEW_DESC with verbose nicknames.
36711 - Stop triggering asserts if the controller tries to extend hidden
36712 service circuits (reported by mwenge).
36713 - Avoid infinite loop on unexpected controller input.
36714 - When the controller does a "GETINFO network-status", tell it
36715 about even those routers whose descriptors are very old, and use
36716 long nicknames where appropriate.
36717 - Change NT service functions to be loaded on demand. This lets us
36718 build with MinGW without breaking Tor for Windows 98 users.
36719 - Do DirPort reachability tests less often, since a single test
36720 chews through many circuits before giving up.
36721 - In the hidden service example in torrc.sample, stop recommending
36722 esoteric and discouraged hidden service options.
36723 - When stopping an NT service, wait up to 10 sec for it to actually
36724 stop. Patch from Matt Edman; resolves bug 295.
36725 - Fix handling of verbose nicknames with ORCONN controller events:
36726 make them show up exactly when requested, rather than exactly when
36728 - When reporting verbose nicknames in entry_guards_getinfo(), avoid
36729 printing a duplicate "$" in the keys we send (reported by mwenge).
36730 - Correctly set maximum connection limit on Cygwin. (This time
36732 - Try to detect Windows correctly when cross-compiling.
36733 - Detect the size of the routers file correctly even if it is
36734 corrupted (on systems without mmap) or not page-aligned (on systems
36735 with mmap). This bug was harmless.
36736 - Sometimes we didn't bother sending a RELAY_END cell when an attempt
36737 to open a stream fails; now we do in more cases. This should
36738 make clients able to find a good exit faster in some cases, since
36739 unhandleable requests will now get an error rather than timing out.
36740 - Resolve two memory leaks when rebuilding the on-disk router cache
36741 (reported by fookoowa).
36742 - Clean up minor code warnings suggested by the MIPSpro C compiler,
36743 and reported by some Centos users.
36744 - Controller signals now work on non-Unix platforms that don't define
36745 SIGUSR1 and SIGUSR2 the way we expect.
36746 - Patch from Michael Mohr to contrib/cross.sh, so it checks more
36747 values before failing, and always enables eventdns.
36748 - Libevent-1.2 exports, but does not define in its headers, strlcpy.
36749 Try to fix this in configure.in by checking for most functions
36750 before we check for libevent.
36753 Changes in version 0.1.2.2-alpha - 2006-10-07
36755 - Make our async eventdns library on-by-default for Tor servers,
36756 and plan to deprecate the separate dnsworker threads.
36757 - Add server-side support for "reverse" DNS lookups (using PTR
36758 records so clients can determine the canonical hostname for a given
36759 IPv4 address). Only supported by servers using eventdns; servers
36760 now announce in their descriptors whether they support eventdns.
36761 - Specify and implement client-side SOCKS5 interface for reverse DNS
36762 lookups (see doc/socks-extensions.txt).
36763 - Add a BEGIN_DIR relay cell type for an easier in-protocol way to
36764 connect to directory servers through Tor. Previously, clients needed
36765 to find Tor exits to make private connections to directory servers.
36766 - Avoid choosing Exit nodes for entry or middle hops when the
36767 total bandwidth available from non-Exit nodes is much higher than
36768 the total bandwidth available from Exit nodes.
36769 - Workaround for name servers (like Earthlink's) that hijack failing
36770 DNS requests and replace the no-such-server answer with a "helpful"
36771 redirect to an advertising-driven search portal. Also work around
36772 DNS hijackers who "helpfully" decline to hijack known-invalid
36773 RFC2606 addresses. Config option "ServerDNSDetectHijacking 0"
36774 lets you turn it off.
36775 - Send out a burst of long-range padding cells once we've established
36776 that we're reachable. Spread them over 4 circuits, so hopefully
36777 a few will be fast. This exercises our bandwidth and bootstraps
36778 us into the directory more quickly.
36780 o New/improved config options:
36781 - Add new config option "ResolvConf" to let the server operator
36782 choose an alternate resolve.conf file when using eventdns.
36783 - Add an "EnforceDistinctSubnets" option to control our "exclude
36784 servers on the same /16" behavior. It's still on by default; this
36785 is mostly for people who want to operate private test networks with
36786 all the machines on the same subnet.
36787 - If one of our entry guards is on the ExcludeNodes list, or the
36788 directory authorities don't think it's a good guard, treat it as
36789 if it were unlisted: stop using it as a guard, and throw it off
36790 the guards list if it stays that way for a long time.
36791 - Allow directory authorities to be marked separately as authorities
36792 for the v1 directory protocol, the v2 directory protocol, and
36793 as hidden service directories, to make it easier to retire old
36794 authorities. V1 authorities should set "HSAuthoritativeDir 1"
36795 to continue being hidden service authorities too.
36796 - Remove 8888 as a LongLivedPort, and add 6697 (IRCS).
36798 o Minor features, controller:
36799 - Fix CIRC controller events so that controllers can learn the
36800 identity digests of non-Named servers used in circuit paths.
36801 - Let controllers ask for more useful identifiers for servers. Instead
36802 of learning identity digests for un-Named servers and nicknames
36803 for Named servers, the new identifiers include digest, nickname,
36804 and indication of Named status. Off by default; see control-spec.txt
36805 for more information.
36806 - Add a "getinfo address" controller command so it can display Tor's
36807 best guess to the user.
36808 - New controller event to alert the controller when our server
36809 descriptor has changed.
36810 - Give more meaningful errors on controller authentication failure.
36812 o Minor features, other:
36813 - When asked to resolve a hostname, don't use non-exit servers unless
36814 requested to do so. This allows servers with broken DNS to be
36815 useful to the network.
36816 - Divide eventdns log messages into warn and info messages.
36817 - Reserve the nickname "Unnamed" for routers that can't pick
36818 a hostname: any router can call itself Unnamed; directory
36819 authorities will never allocate Unnamed to any particular router;
36820 clients won't believe that any router is the canonical Unnamed.
36821 - Only include function names in log messages for info/debug messages.
36822 For notice/warn/err, the content of the message should be clear on
36823 its own, and printing the function name only confuses users.
36824 - Avoid some false positives during reachability testing: don't try
36825 to test via a server that's on the same /24 as us.
36826 - If we fail to build a circuit to an intended enclave, and it's
36827 not mandatory that we use that enclave, stop wanting it.
36828 - When eventdns is enabled, allow multithreaded builds on NetBSD and
36829 OpenBSD. (We had previously disabled threads on these platforms
36830 because they didn't have working thread-safe resolver functions.)
36832 o Major bugfixes, anonymity/security:
36833 - If a client asked for a server by name, and there's a named server
36834 in our network-status but we don't have its descriptor yet, we
36835 could return an unnamed server instead.
36836 - Fix NetBSD bug that could allow someone to force uninitialized RAM
36837 to be sent to a server's DNS resolver. This only affects NetBSD
36838 and other platforms that do not bounds-check tolower().
36839 - Reject (most) attempts to use Tor circuits with length one. (If
36840 many people start using Tor as a one-hop proxy, exit nodes become
36841 a more attractive target for compromise.)
36842 - Just because your DirPort is open doesn't mean people should be
36843 able to remotely teach you about hidden service descriptors. Now
36844 only accept rendezvous posts if you've got HSAuthoritativeDir set.
36846 o Major bugfixes, other:
36847 - Don't crash on race condition in dns.c: tor_assert(!resolve->expire)
36848 - When a client asks the server to resolve (not connect to)
36849 an address, and it has a cached answer, give them the cached answer.
36850 Previously, the server would give them no answer at all.
36851 - Allow really slow clients to not hang up five minutes into their
36852 directory downloads (suggested by Adam J. Richter).
36853 - We were building exactly the wrong circuits when we anticipated
36854 hidden service requirements, meaning Tor would have to build all
36855 its circuits on demand.
36856 - Avoid crashing when we mmap a router cache file of size 0.
36857 - When testing reachability of our DirPort, don't launch new
36858 tests when there's already one in progress -- unreachable
36859 servers were stacking up dozens of testing streams.
36861 o Minor bugfixes, correctness:
36862 - If we're a directory mirror and we ask for "all" network status
36863 documents, we would discard status documents from authorities
36864 we don't recognize.
36865 - Avoid a memory corruption bug when creating a hash table for
36867 - Avoid controller-triggered crash when misusing certain commands
36868 from a v0 controller on platforms that do not handle
36869 printf("%s",NULL) gracefully.
36870 - Don't crash when a controller sends a third argument to an
36871 "extendcircuit" request.
36872 - Controller protocol fixes: fix encoding in "getinfo addr-mappings"
36873 response; fix error code when "getinfo dir/status/" fails.
36874 - Avoid crash when telling controller stream-status and a stream
36876 - Patch from Adam Langley to fix assert() in eventdns.c.
36877 - Fix a debug log message in eventdns to say "X resolved to Y"
36878 instead of "X resolved to X".
36879 - Make eventdns give strings for DNS errors, not just error numbers.
36880 - Track unreachable entry guards correctly: don't conflate
36881 'unreachable by us right now' with 'listed as down by the directory
36882 authorities'. With the old code, if a guard was unreachable by
36883 us but listed as running, it would clog our guard list forever.
36884 - Behave correctly in case we ever have a network with more than
36885 2GB/s total advertised capacity.
36886 - Make TrackExitHosts case-insensitive, and fix the behavior of
36887 ".suffix" TrackExitHosts items to avoid matching in the middle of
36889 - Finally fix the openssl warnings from newer gccs that believe that
36890 ignoring a return value is okay, but casting a return value and
36891 then ignoring it is a sign of madness.
36892 - Prevent the contrib/exitlist script from printing the same
36893 result more than once.
36894 - Patch from Steve Hildrey: Generate network status correctly on
36895 non-versioning dirservers.
36896 - Don't listen to the X-Your-Address-Is hint if you did the lookup
36897 via Tor; otherwise you'll think you're the exit node's IP address.
36899 o Minor bugfixes, performance:
36900 - Two small performance improvements on parsing descriptors.
36901 - Major performance improvement on inserting descriptors: change
36902 algorithm from O(n^2) to O(n).
36903 - Make the common memory allocation path faster on machines where
36904 malloc(0) returns a pointer.
36905 - Start remembering X-Your-Address-Is directory hints even if you're
36906 a client, so you can become a server more smoothly.
36907 - Avoid duplicate entries on MyFamily line in server descriptor.
36909 o Packaging, features:
36910 - Remove architecture from OS X builds. The official builds are
36911 now universal binaries.
36912 - The Debian package now uses --verify-config when (re)starting,
36913 to distinguish configuration errors from other errors.
36914 - Update RPMs to require libevent 1.1b.
36916 o Packaging, bugfixes:
36917 - Patches so Tor builds with MinGW on Windows.
36918 - Patches so Tor might run on Cygwin again.
36919 - Resume building on non-gcc compilers and ancient gcc. Resume
36920 building with the -O0 compile flag. Resume building cleanly on
36922 - Run correctly on OS X platforms with case-sensitive filesystems.
36923 - Correct includes for net/if.h and net/pfvar.h on OpenBSD (from Tup).
36924 - Add autoconf checks so Tor can build on Solaris x86 again.
36927 - Documented (and renamed) ServerDNSSearchDomains and
36928 ServerDNSResolvConfFile options.
36929 - Be clearer that the *ListenAddress directives can be repeated
36933 Changes in version 0.1.1.24 - 2006-09-29
36935 - Allow really slow clients to not hang up five minutes into their
36936 directory downloads (suggested by Adam J. Richter).
36937 - Fix major performance regression from 0.1.0.x: instead of checking
36938 whether we have enough directory information every time we want to
36939 do something, only check when the directory information has changed.
36940 This should improve client CPU usage by 25-50%.
36941 - Don't crash if, after a server has been running for a while,
36942 it can't resolve its hostname.
36945 - Allow Tor to start when RunAsDaemon is set but no logs are set.
36946 - Don't crash when the controller receives a third argument to an
36947 "extendcircuit" request.
36948 - Controller protocol fixes: fix encoding in "getinfo addr-mappings"
36949 response; fix error code when "getinfo dir/status/" fails.
36950 - Fix configure.in to not produce broken configure files with
36951 more recent versions of autoconf. Thanks to Clint for his auto*
36953 - Fix security bug on NetBSD that could allow someone to force
36954 uninitialized RAM to be sent to a server's DNS resolver. This
36955 only affects NetBSD and other platforms that do not bounds-check
36957 - Warn user when using libevent 1.1a or earlier with win32 or kqueue
36958 methods: these are known to be buggy.
36959 - If we're a directory mirror and we ask for "all" network status
36960 documents, we would discard status documents from authorities
36961 we don't recognize.
36964 Changes in version 0.1.2.1-alpha - 2006-08-27
36966 - Add "eventdns" async dns library from Adam Langley, tweaked to
36967 build on OSX and Windows. Only enabled if you pass the
36968 --enable-eventdns argument to configure.
36969 - Allow servers with no hostname or IP address to learn their
36970 IP address by asking the directory authorities. This code only
36971 kicks in when you would normally have exited with a "no address"
36972 error. Nothing's authenticated, so use with care.
36973 - Rather than waiting a fixed amount of time between retrying
36974 application connections, we wait only 5 seconds for the first,
36975 10 seconds for the second, and 15 seconds for each retry after
36976 that. Hopefully this will improve the expected user experience.
36977 - Patch from Tup to add support for transparent AP connections:
36978 this basically bundles the functionality of trans-proxy-tor
36979 into the Tor mainline. Now hosts with compliant pf/netfilter
36980 implementations can redirect TCP connections straight to Tor
36981 without diverting through SOCKS. Needs docs.
36982 - Busy directory servers save lots of memory by spooling server
36983 descriptors, v1 directories, and v2 networkstatus docs to buffers
36984 as needed rather than en masse. Also mmap the cached-routers
36985 files, so we don't need to keep the whole thing in memory too.
36986 - Automatically avoid picking more than one node from the same
36987 /16 network when constructing a circuit.
36988 - Revise and clean up the torrc.sample that we ship with; add
36989 a section for BandwidthRate and BandwidthBurst.
36992 - Split circuit_t into origin_circuit_t and or_circuit_t, and
36993 split connection_t into edge, or, dir, control, and base structs.
36994 These will save quite a bit of memory on busy servers, and they'll
36995 also help us track down bugs in the code and bugs in the spec.
36996 - Experimentally re-enable kqueue on OSX when using libevent 1.1b
36997 or later. Log when we are doing this, so we can diagnose it when
36998 it fails. (Also, recommend libevent 1.1b for kqueue and
36999 win32 methods; deprecate libevent 1.0b harder; make libevent
37000 recommendation system saner.)
37001 - Start being able to build universal binaries on OS X (thanks
37003 - Export the default exit policy via the control port, so controllers
37004 don't need to guess what it is / will be later.
37005 - Add a man page entry for ProtocolWarnings.
37006 - Add TestVia config option to the man page.
37007 - Remove even more protocol-related warnings from Tor server logs,
37008 such as bad TLS handshakes and malformed begin cells.
37009 - Stop fetching descriptors if you're not a dir mirror and you
37010 haven't tried to establish any circuits lately. [This currently
37011 causes some dangerous behavior, because when you start up again
37012 you'll use your ancient server descriptors.]
37013 - New DirPort behavior: if you have your dirport set, you download
37014 descriptors aggressively like a directory mirror, whether or not
37015 your ORPort is set.
37016 - Get rid of the router_retry_connections notion. Now routers
37017 no longer try to rebuild long-term connections to directory
37018 authorities, and directory authorities no longer try to rebuild
37019 long-term connections to all servers. We still don't hang up
37020 connections in these two cases though -- we need to look at it
37021 more carefully to avoid flapping, and we likely need to wait til
37022 0.1.1.x is obsolete.
37023 - Drop compatibility with obsolete Tors that permit create cells
37024 to have the wrong circ_id_type.
37025 - Re-enable per-connection rate limiting. Get rid of the "OP
37026 bandwidth" concept. Lay groundwork for "bandwidth classes" --
37027 separate global buckets that apply depending on what sort of conn
37029 - Start publishing one minute or so after we find our ORPort
37030 to be reachable. This will help reduce the number of descriptors
37031 we have for ourselves floating around, since it's quite likely
37032 other things (e.g. DirPort) will change during that minute too.
37033 - Fork the v1 directory protocol into its own spec document,
37034 and mark dir-spec.txt as the currently correct (v2) spec.
37037 - When we find our DirPort to be reachable, publish a new descriptor
37038 so we'll tell the world (reported by pnx).
37039 - Publish a new descriptor after we hup/reload. This is important
37040 if our config has changed such that we'll want to start advertising
37041 our DirPort now, etc.
37042 - Allow Tor to start when RunAsDaemon is set but no logs are set.
37043 - When we have a state file we cannot parse, tell the user and
37044 move it aside. Now we avoid situations where the user starts
37045 Tor in 1904, Tor writes a state file with that timestamp in it,
37046 the user fixes her clock, and Tor refuses to start.
37047 - Fix configure.in to not produce broken configure files with
37048 more recent versions of autoconf. Thanks to Clint for his auto*
37050 - "tor --verify-config" now exits with -1(255) or 0 depending on
37051 whether the config options are bad or good.
37052 - Resolve bug 321 when using dnsworkers: append a period to every
37053 address we resolve at the exit node, so that we do not accidentally
37054 pick up local addresses, and so that failing searches are retried
37055 in the resolver search domains. (This is already solved for
37056 eventdns.) (This breaks Blossom servers for now.)
37057 - If we are using an exit enclave and we can't connect, e.g. because
37058 its webserver is misconfigured to not listen on localhost, then
37059 back off and try connecting from somewhere else before we fail.
37062 - Start compiling on MinGW on Windows (patches from Mike Chiussi).
37063 - Start compiling on MSVC6 on Windows (patches from Frediano Ziglio).
37064 - Fix bug 314: Tor clients issued "unsafe socks" warnings even
37065 when the IP address is mapped through MapAddress to a hostname.
37066 - Start passing "ipv4" hints to getaddrinfo(), so servers don't do
37067 useless IPv6 DNS resolves.
37068 - Patch suggested by Karsten Loesing: respond to SIGNAL command
37069 before we execute the signal, in case the signal shuts us down.
37070 - Clean up AllowInvalidNodes man page entry.
37071 - Claim a commonname of Tor, rather than TOR, in TLS handshakes.
37072 - Add more asserts to track down an assert error on a windows Tor
37073 server with connection_add being called with socket == -1.
37074 - Handle reporting OR_CONN_EVENT_NEW events to the controller.
37075 - Fix misleading log messages: an entry guard that is "unlisted",
37076 as well as not known to be "down" (because we've never heard
37077 of it), is not therefore "up".
37078 - Remove code to special-case "-cvs" ending, since it has not
37079 actually mattered since 0.0.9.
37080 - Make our socks5 handling more robust to broken socks clients:
37081 throw out everything waiting on the buffer in between socks
37082 handshake phases, since they can't possibly (so the theory
37083 goes) have predicted what we plan to respond to them.
37086 Changes in version 0.1.1.23 - 2006-07-30
37088 - Fast Tor servers, especially exit nodes, were triggering asserts
37089 due to a bug in handling the list of pending DNS resolves. Some
37090 bugs still remain here; we're hunting them.
37091 - Entry guards could crash clients by sending unexpected input.
37092 - More fixes on reachability testing: if you find yourself reachable,
37093 then don't ever make any client requests (so you stop predicting
37094 circuits), then hup or have your clock jump, then later your IP
37095 changes, you won't think circuits are working, so you won't try to
37096 test reachability, so you won't publish.
37099 - Avoid a crash if the controller does a resetconf firewallports
37100 and then a setconf fascistfirewall=1.
37101 - Avoid an integer underflow when the dir authority decides whether
37102 a router is stable: we might wrongly label it stable, and compute
37103 a slightly wrong median stability, when a descriptor is published
37105 - Fix a place where we might trigger an assert if we can't build our
37106 own server descriptor yet.
37109 Changes in version 0.1.1.22 - 2006-07-05
37111 - Fix a big bug that was causing servers to not find themselves
37112 reachable if they changed IP addresses. Since only 0.1.1.22+
37113 servers can do reachability testing correctly, now we automatically
37114 make sure to test via one of these.
37115 - Fix to allow clients and mirrors to learn directory info from
37116 descriptor downloads that get cut off partway through.
37117 - Directory authorities had a bug in deciding if a newly published
37118 descriptor was novel enough to make everybody want a copy -- a few
37119 servers seem to be publishing new descriptors many times a minute.
37121 - Fix a rare bug that was causing some servers to complain about
37122 "closing wedged cpuworkers" and skip some circuit create requests.
37123 - Make the Exit flag in directory status documents actually work.
37126 Changes in version 0.1.1.21 - 2006-06-10
37127 o Crash and assert fixes from 0.1.1.20:
37128 - Fix a rare crash on Tor servers that have enabled hibernation.
37129 - Fix a seg fault on startup for Tor networks that use only one
37130 directory authority.
37131 - Fix an assert from a race condition that occurs on Tor servers
37132 while exiting, where various threads are trying to log that they're
37133 exiting, and delete the logs, at the same time.
37134 - Make our unit tests pass again on certain obscure platforms.
37137 - Add support for building SUSE RPM packages.
37138 - Speed up initial bootstrapping for clients: if we are making our
37139 first ever connection to any entry guard, then don't mark it down
37141 - When only one Tor server in the network is labelled as a guard,
37142 and we've already picked him, we would cycle endlessly picking him
37143 again, being unhappy about it, etc. Now we specifically exclude
37144 current guards when picking a new guard.
37145 - Servers send create cells more reliably after the TLS connection
37146 is established: we were sometimes forgetting to send half of them
37147 when we had more than one pending.
37148 - If we get a create cell that asks us to extend somewhere, but the
37149 Tor server there doesn't match the expected digest, we now send
37150 a destroy cell back, rather than silently doing nothing.
37151 - Make options->RedirectExit work again.
37152 - Make cookie authentication for the controller work again.
37153 - Stop being picky about unusual characters in the arguments to
37154 mapaddress. It's none of our business.
37155 - Add a new config option "TestVia" that lets you specify preferred
37156 middle hops to use for test circuits. Perhaps this will let me
37157 debug the reachability problems better.
37159 o Log / documentation fixes:
37160 - If we're a server and some peer has a broken TLS certificate, don't
37161 log about it unless ProtocolWarnings is set, i.e., we want to hear
37162 about protocol violations by others.
37163 - Fix spelling of VirtualAddrNetwork in man page.
37164 - Add a better explanation at the top of the autogenerated torrc file
37165 about what happened to our old torrc.
37168 Changes in version 0.1.1.20 - 2006-05-23
37170 - Downgrade a log severity where servers complain that they're
37172 - Avoid a compile warning on FreeBSD.
37173 - Remove string size limit on NEWDESC messages; solve bug 291.
37174 - Correct the RunAsDaemon entry in the man page; ignore RunAsDaemon
37175 more thoroughly when we're running on windows.
37178 Changes in version 0.1.1.19-rc - 2006-05-03
37180 - Regenerate our local descriptor if it's dirty and we try to use
37181 it locally (e.g. if it changes during reachability detection).
37182 - If we setconf our ORPort to 0, we continued to listen on the
37183 old ORPort and receive connections.
37184 - Avoid a second warning about machine/limits.h on Debian
37186 - Be willing to add our own routerinfo into the routerlist.
37187 Now authorities will include themselves in their directories
37188 and network-statuses.
37189 - Stop trying to upload rendezvous descriptors to every
37190 directory authority: only try the v1 authorities.
37191 - Servers no longer complain when they think they're not
37192 registered with the directory authorities. There were too many
37194 - Backport dist-rpm changes so rpms can be built without errors.
37197 - Implement an option, VirtualAddrMask, to set which addresses
37198 get handed out in response to mapaddress requests. This works
37199 around a bug in tsocks where 127.0.0.0/8 is never socksified.
37202 Changes in version 0.1.1.18-rc - 2006-04-10
37204 - Work harder to download live network-statuses from all the
37205 directory authorities we know about. Improve the threshold
37206 decision logic so we're more robust to edge cases.
37207 - When fetching rendezvous descriptors, we were willing to ask
37208 v2 authorities too, which would always return 404.
37211 - Stop listing down or invalid nodes in the v1 directory. This will
37212 reduce its bulk by about 1/3, and reduce load on directory
37214 - When deciding whether a router is Fast or Guard-worthy, consider
37215 his advertised BandwidthRate and not just the BandwidthCapacity.
37216 - No longer ship INSTALL and README files -- they are useless now.
37217 - Force rpmbuild to behave and honor target_cpu.
37218 - Avoid warnings about machine/limits.h on Debian GNU/kFreeBSD.
37219 - Start to include translated versions of the tor-doc-*.html
37220 files, along with the screenshots. Still needs more work.
37221 - Start sending back 512 and 451 errors if mapaddress fails,
37222 rather than not sending anything back at all.
37223 - When we fail to bind or listen on an incoming or outgoing
37224 socket, we should close it before failing. otherwise we just
37225 leak it. (thanks to weasel for finding.)
37226 - Allow "getinfo dir/status/foo" to work, as long as your DirPort
37227 is enabled. (This is a hack, and will be fixed in 0.1.2.x.)
37228 - Make NoPublish (even though deprecated) work again.
37229 - Fix a minor security flaw where a versioning auth dirserver
37230 could list a recommended version many times in a row to make
37231 clients more convinced that it's recommended.
37232 - Fix crash bug if there are two unregistered servers running
37233 with the same nickname, one of them is down, and you ask for
37234 them by nickname in your EntryNodes or ExitNodes. Also, try
37235 to pick the one that's running rather than an arbitrary one.
37236 - Fix an infinite loop we could hit if we go offline for too long.
37237 - Complain when we hit WSAENOBUFS on recv() or write() too.
37238 Perhaps this will help us hunt the bug.
37239 - If you're not a versioning dirserver, don't put the string
37240 "client-versions \nserver-versions \n" in your network-status.
37241 - Lower the minimum required number of file descriptors to 1000,
37242 so we can have some overhead for Valgrind on Linux, where the
37243 default ulimit -n is 1024.
37246 - Add tor.dizum.com as the fifth authoritative directory server.
37247 - Add a new config option FetchUselessDescriptors, off by default,
37248 for when you plan to run "exitlist" on your client and you want
37249 to know about even the non-running descriptors.
37252 Changes in version 0.1.1.17-rc - 2006-03-28
37254 - Clients and servers since 0.1.1.10-alpha have been expiring
37255 connections whenever they are idle for 5 minutes and they *do*
37256 have circuits on them. Oops. With this new version, clients will
37257 discard their previous entry guard choices and avoid choosing
37258 entry guards running these flawed versions.
37259 - Fix memory leak when uncompressing concatenated zlib streams. This
37260 was causing substantial leaks over time on Tor servers.
37261 - The v1 directory was including servers as much as 48 hours old,
37262 because that's how the new routerlist->routers works. Now only
37263 include them if they're 20 hours old or less.
37266 - Resume building on irix64, netbsd 2.0, etc.
37267 - On non-gcc compilers (e.g. solaris), use "-g -O" instead of
37269 - Stop writing the "router.desc" file, ever. Nothing uses it anymore,
37270 and it is confusing some users.
37271 - Mirrors stop caching the v1 directory so often.
37272 - Make the max number of old descriptors that a cache will hold
37273 rise with the number of directory authorities, so we can scale.
37274 - Change our win32 uname() hack to be more forgiving about what
37275 win32 versions it thinks it's found.
37278 - Add lefkada.eecs.harvard.edu as a fourth authoritative directory
37280 - When the controller's *setconf commands fail, collect an error
37281 message in a string and hand it back to the controller.
37282 - Make the v2 dir's "Fast" flag based on relative capacity, just
37283 like "Stable" is based on median uptime. Name everything in the
37284 top 7/8 Fast, and only the top 1/2 gets to be a Guard.
37285 - Log server fingerprint on startup, so new server operators don't
37286 have to go hunting around their filesystem for it.
37287 - Return a robots.txt on our dirport to discourage google indexing.
37288 - Let the controller ask for GETINFO dir/status/foo so it can ask
37289 directly rather than connecting to the dir port. Only works when
37290 dirport is set for now.
37292 o New config options rather than constants in the code:
37293 - SocksTimeout: How long do we let a socks connection wait
37294 unattached before we fail it?
37295 - CircuitBuildTimeout: Cull non-open circuits that were born
37296 at least this many seconds ago.
37297 - CircuitIdleTimeout: Cull open clean circuits that were born
37298 at least this many seconds ago.
37301 Changes in version 0.1.1.16-rc - 2006-03-18
37302 o Bugfixes on 0.1.1.15-rc:
37303 - Fix assert when the controller asks to attachstream a connect-wait
37304 or resolve-wait stream.
37305 - Now do address rewriting when the controller asks us to attach
37306 to a particular circuit too. This will let Blossom specify
37307 "moria2.exit" without having to learn what moria2's IP address is.
37308 - Make the "tor --verify-config" command-line work again, so people
37309 can automatically check if their torrc will parse.
37310 - Authoritative dirservers no longer require an open connection from
37311 a server to consider him "reachable". We need this change because
37312 when we add new auth dirservers, old servers won't know not to
37314 - Let Tor build on Sun CC again.
37315 - Fix an off-by-one buffer size in dirserv.c that magically never
37316 hit our three authorities but broke sjmurdoch's own tor network.
37317 - If we as a directory mirror don't know of any v1 directory
37318 authorities, then don't try to cache any v1 directories.
37319 - Stop warning about unknown servers in our family when they are
37320 given as hex digests.
37321 - Stop complaining as quickly to the server operator that he
37322 hasn't registered his nickname/key binding.
37323 - Various cleanups so we can add new V2 Auth Dirservers.
37324 - Change "AllowUnverifiedNodes" to "AllowInvalidNodes", to
37325 reflect the updated flags in our v2 dir protocol.
37326 - Resume allowing non-printable characters for exit streams (both
37327 for connecting and for resolving). Now we tolerate applications
37328 that don't follow the RFCs. But continue to block malformed names
37331 o Bugfixes on 0.1.0.x:
37332 - Fix assert bug in close_logs(): when we close and delete logs,
37333 remove them all from the global "logfiles" list.
37334 - Fix minor integer overflow in calculating when we expect to use up
37335 our bandwidth allocation before hibernating.
37336 - Fix a couple of bugs in OpenSSL detection. Also, deal better when
37337 there are multiple SSLs installed with different versions.
37338 - When we try to be a server and Address is not explicitly set and
37339 our hostname resolves to a private IP address, try to use an
37340 interface address if it has a public address. Now Windows machines
37341 that think of themselves as localhost can work by default.
37344 - Let the controller ask for GETINFO dir/server/foo so it can ask
37345 directly rather than connecting to the dir port.
37346 - Let the controller tell us about certain router descriptors
37347 that it doesn't want Tor to use in circuits. Implement
37348 SETROUTERPURPOSE and modify +POSTDESCRIPTOR to do this.
37349 - New config option SafeSocks to reject all application connections
37350 using unsafe socks protocols. Defaults to off.
37353 Changes in version 0.1.1.15-rc - 2006-03-11
37354 o Bugfixes and cleanups:
37355 - When we're printing strings from the network, don't try to print
37356 non-printable characters. This protects us against shell escape
37357 sequence exploits, and also against attacks to fool humans into
37358 misreading their logs.
37359 - Fix a bug where Tor would fail to establish any connections if you
37360 left it off for 24 hours and then started it: we were happy with
37361 the obsolete network statuses, but they all referred to router
37362 descriptors that were too old to fetch, so we ended up with no
37363 valid router descriptors.
37364 - Fix a seg fault in the controller's "getinfo orconn-status"
37365 command while listing status on incoming handshaking connections.
37366 Introduce a status name "NEW" for these connections.
37367 - If we get a linelist or linelist_s config option from the torrc
37368 (e.g. ExitPolicy) and it has no value, warn and skip rather than
37369 silently resetting it to its default.
37370 - Don't abandon entry guards until they've been down or gone for
37372 - Cleaner and quieter log messages.
37375 - New controller signal NEWNYM that makes new application requests
37376 use clean circuits.
37377 - Add a new circuit purpose 'controller' to let the controller ask
37378 for a circuit that Tor won't try to use. Extend the EXTENDCIRCUIT
37379 controller command to let you specify the purpose if you're
37380 starting a new circuit. Add a new SETCIRCUITPURPOSE controller
37381 command to let you change a circuit's purpose after it's been
37383 - Accept "private:*" in routerdesc exit policies; not generated yet
37384 because older Tors do not understand it.
37385 - Add BSD-style contributed startup script "rc.subr" from Peter
37389 Changes in version 0.1.1.14-alpha - 2006-02-20
37390 o Bugfixes on 0.1.1.x:
37391 - Don't die if we ask for a stdout or stderr log (even implicitly)
37392 and we're set to RunAsDaemon -- just warn.
37393 - We still had a few bugs in the OR connection rotation code that
37394 caused directory servers to slowly aggregate connections to other
37395 fast Tor servers. This time for sure!
37396 - Make log entries on Win32 include the name of the function again.
37397 - We were treating a pair of exit policies if they were equal even
37398 if one said accept and the other said reject -- causing us to
37399 not always publish a new descriptor since we thought nothing
37401 - Retry pending server downloads as well as pending networkstatus
37402 downloads when we unexpectedly get a socks request.
37403 - We were ignoring the IS_FAST flag in the directory status,
37404 meaning we were willing to pick trivial-bandwidth nodes for "fast"
37406 - If the controller's SAVECONF command fails (e.g. due to file
37407 permissions), let the controller know that it failed.
37410 - If we're trying to be a Tor server and running Windows 95/98/ME
37411 as a server, explain that we'll likely crash.
37412 - When we're a server, a client asks for an old-style directory,
37413 and our write bucket is empty, don't give it to him. This way
37414 small servers can continue to serve the directory *sometimes*,
37415 without getting overloaded.
37416 - Compress exit policies even more -- look for duplicate lines
37418 - Clients now honor the "guard" flag in the router status when
37419 picking entry guards, rather than looking at is_fast or is_stable.
37420 - Retain unrecognized lines in $DATADIR/state file, so that we can
37421 be forward-compatible.
37422 - Generate 18.0.0.0/8 address policy format in descs when we can;
37423 warn when the mask is not reducible to a bit-prefix.
37424 - Let the user set ControlListenAddress in the torrc. This can be
37425 dangerous, but there are some cases (like a secured LAN) where it
37427 - Split ReachableAddresses into ReachableDirAddresses and
37428 ReachableORAddresses, so we can restrict Dir conns to port 80
37429 and OR conns to port 443.
37430 - Now we can target arch and OS in rpm builds (contributed by
37431 Phobos). Also make the resulting dist-rpm filename match the
37433 - New config options to help controllers: FetchServerDescriptors
37434 and FetchHidServDescriptors for whether to fetch server
37435 info and hidserv info or let the controller do it, and
37436 PublishServerDescriptor and PublishHidServDescriptors.
37437 - Also let the controller set the __AllDirActionsPrivate config
37438 option if you want all directory fetches/publishes to happen via
37439 Tor (it assumes your controller bootstraps your circuits).
37442 Changes in version 0.1.0.17 - 2006-02-17
37443 o Crash bugfixes on 0.1.0.x:
37444 - When servers with a non-zero DirPort came out of hibernation,
37445 sometimes they would trigger an assert.
37447 o Other important bugfixes:
37448 - On platforms that don't have getrlimit (like Windows), we were
37449 artificially constraining ourselves to a max of 1024
37450 connections. Now just assume that we can handle as many as 15000
37451 connections. Hopefully this won't cause other problems.
37453 o Backported features:
37454 - When we're a server, a client asks for an old-style directory,
37455 and our write bucket is empty, don't give it to him. This way
37456 small servers can continue to serve the directory *sometimes*,
37457 without getting overloaded.
37458 - Whenever you get a 503 in response to a directory fetch, try
37459 once more. This will become important once servers start sending
37460 503's whenever they feel busy.
37461 - Fetch a new directory every 120 minutes, not every 40 minutes.
37462 Now that we have hundreds of thousands of users running the old
37463 directory algorithm, it's starting to hurt a lot.
37464 - Bump up the period for forcing a hidden service descriptor upload
37465 from 20 minutes to 1 hour.
37468 Changes in version 0.1.1.13-alpha - 2006-02-09
37469 o Crashes in 0.1.1.x:
37470 - When you tried to setconf ORPort via the controller, Tor would
37471 crash. So people using TorCP to become a server were sad.
37472 - Solve (I hope) the stack-smashing bug that we were seeing on fast
37473 servers. The problem appears to be something do with OpenSSL's
37474 random number generation, or how we call it, or something. Let me
37475 know if the crashes continue.
37476 - Turn crypto hardware acceleration off by default, until we find
37477 somebody smart who can test it for us. (It appears to produce
37478 seg faults in at least some cases.)
37479 - Fix a rare assert error when we've tried all intro points for
37480 a hidden service and we try fetching the service descriptor again:
37481 "Assertion conn->state != AP_CONN_STATE_RENDDESC_WAIT failed"
37484 - Fix a major load balance bug: we were round-robining in 16 KB
37485 chunks, and servers with bandwidthrate of 20 KB, while downloading
37486 a 600 KB directory, would starve their other connections. Now we
37487 try to be a bit more fair.
37488 - Dir authorities and mirrors were never expiring the newest
37489 descriptor for each server, causing memory and directory bloat.
37490 - Fix memory-bloating and connection-bloating bug on servers: We
37491 were never closing any connection that had ever had a circuit on
37492 it, because we were checking conn->n_circuits == 0, yet we had a
37493 bug that let it go negative.
37494 - Make Tor work using squid as your http proxy again -- squid
37495 returns an error if you ask for a URL that's too long, and it uses
37496 a really generic error message. Plus, many people are behind a
37497 transparent squid so they don't even realize it.
37498 - On platforms that don't have getrlimit (like Windows), we were
37499 artificially constraining ourselves to a max of 1024
37500 connections. Now just assume that we can handle as many as 15000
37501 connections. Hopefully this won't cause other problems.
37502 - Add a new config option ExitPolicyRejectPrivate which defaults to
37503 1. This means all exit policies will begin with rejecting private
37504 addresses, unless the server operator explicitly turns it off.
37507 - Clients no longer download descriptors for non-running
37509 - Before we add new directory authorities, we should make it
37510 clear that only v1 authorities should receive/publish hidden
37511 service descriptors.
37514 - As soon as we've fetched some more directory info, immediately
37515 try to download more server descriptors. This way we don't have
37516 a 10 second pause during initial bootstrapping.
37517 - Remove even more loud log messages that the server operator can't
37519 - When we're running an obsolete or un-recommended version, make
37520 the log message more clear about what the problem is and what
37521 versions *are* still recommended.
37522 - Provide a more useful warn message when our onion queue gets full:
37523 the CPU is too slow or the exit policy is too liberal.
37524 - Don't warn when we receive a 503 from a dirserver/cache -- this
37525 will pave the way for them being able to refuse if they're busy.
37526 - When we fail to bind a listener, try to provide a more useful
37527 log message: e.g., "Is Tor already running?"
37528 - Adjust tor-spec to parameterize cell and key lengths. Now Ian
37529 Goldberg can prove things about our handshake protocol more
37531 - MaxConn has been obsolete for a while now. Document the ConnLimit
37532 config option, which is a *minimum* number of file descriptors
37533 that must be available else Tor refuses to start.
37534 - Apply Matt Ghali's --with-syslog-facility patch to ./configure
37535 if you log to syslog and want something other than LOG_DAEMON.
37536 - Make dirservers generate a separate "guard" flag to mean,
37537 "would make a good entry guard". Make clients parse it and vote
37538 on it. Not used by clients yet.
37539 - Implement --with-libevent-dir option to ./configure. Also, improve
37540 search techniques to find libevent, and use those for openssl too.
37541 - Bump the default bandwidthrate to 3 MB, and burst to 6 MB
37542 - Only start testing reachability once we've established a
37543 circuit. This will make startup on dirservers less noisy.
37544 - Don't try to upload hidden service descriptors until we have
37545 established a circuit.
37546 - Fix the controller's "attachstream 0" command to treat conn like
37547 it just connected, doing address remapping, handling .exit and
37548 .onion idioms, and so on. Now we're more uniform in making sure
37549 that the controller hears about new and closing connections.
37552 Changes in version 0.1.1.12-alpha - 2006-01-11
37553 o Bugfixes on 0.1.1.x:
37554 - The fix to close duplicate server connections was closing all
37555 Tor client connections if they didn't establish a circuit
37556 quickly enough. Oops.
37557 - Fix minor memory issue (double-free) that happened on exit.
37559 o Bugfixes on 0.1.0.x:
37560 - Tor didn't warn when it failed to open a log file.
37563 Changes in version 0.1.1.11-alpha - 2006-01-10
37564 o Crashes in 0.1.1.x:
37565 - Include all the assert/crash fixes from 0.1.0.16.
37566 - If you start Tor and then quit very quickly, there were some
37567 races that tried to free things that weren't allocated yet.
37568 - Fix a rare memory stomp if you're running hidden services.
37569 - Fix segfault when specifying DirServer in config without nickname.
37570 - Fix a seg fault when you finish connecting to a server but at
37571 that moment you dump his server descriptor.
37572 - Extendcircuit and Attachstream controller commands would
37573 assert/crash if you don't give them enough arguments.
37574 - Fix an assert error when we're out of space in the connection_list
37575 and we try to post a hidden service descriptor (reported by weasel).
37576 - If you specify a relative torrc path and you set RunAsDaemon in
37577 your torrc, then it chdir()'s to the new directory. If you HUP,
37578 it tries to load the new torrc location, fails, and exits.
37579 The fix: no longer allow a relative path to torrc using -f.
37582 - Implement "entry guards": automatically choose a handful of entry
37583 nodes and stick with them for all circuits. Only pick new guards
37584 when the ones you have are unsuitable, and if the old guards
37585 become suitable again, switch back. This will increase security
37586 dramatically against certain end-point attacks. The EntryNodes
37587 config option now provides some hints about which entry guards you
37588 want to use most; and StrictEntryNodes means to only use those.
37589 - New directory logic: download by descriptor digest, not by
37590 fingerprint. Caches try to download all listed digests from
37591 authorities; clients try to download "best" digests from caches.
37592 This avoids partitioning and isolating attacks better.
37593 - Make the "stable" router flag in network-status be the median of
37594 the uptimes of running valid servers, and make clients pay
37595 attention to the network-status flags. Thus the cutoff adapts
37596 to the stability of the network as a whole, making IRC, IM, etc
37597 connections more reliable.
37600 - Tor servers with dynamic IP addresses were needing to wait 18
37601 hours before they could start doing reachability testing using
37602 the new IP address and ports. This is because they were using
37603 the internal descriptor to learn what to test, yet they were only
37604 rebuilding the descriptor once they decided they were reachable.
37605 - Tor 0.1.1.9 and 0.1.1.10 had a serious bug that caused clients
37606 to download certain server descriptors, throw them away, and then
37607 fetch them again after 30 minutes. Now mirrors throw away these
37608 server descriptors so clients can't get them.
37609 - We were leaving duplicate connections to other ORs open for a week,
37610 rather than closing them once we detect a duplicate. This only
37611 really affected authdirservers, but it affected them a lot.
37612 - Spread the authdirservers' reachability testing over the entire
37613 testing interval, so we don't try to do 500 TLS's at once every
37617 - If the network is down, and we try to connect to a conn because
37618 we have a circuit in mind, and we timeout (30 seconds) because the
37619 network never answers, we were expiring the circuit, but we weren't
37620 obsoleting the connection or telling the entry_guards functions.
37621 - Some Tor servers process billions of cells per day. These statistics
37622 need to be uint64_t's.
37623 - Check for integer overflows in more places, when adding elements
37624 to smartlists. This could possibly prevent a buffer overflow
37625 on malicious huge inputs. I don't see any, but I haven't looked
37627 - ReachableAddresses kept growing new "reject *:*" lines on every
37629 - When you "setconf log" via the controller, it should remove all
37630 logs. We were automatically adding back in a "log notice stdout".
37631 - Newly bootstrapped Tor networks couldn't establish hidden service
37632 circuits until they had nodes with high uptime. Be more tolerant.
37633 - We were marking servers down when they could not answer every piece
37634 of the directory request we sent them. This was far too harsh.
37635 - Fix the torify (tsocks) config file to not use Tor for localhost
37637 - Directory authorities now go to the proper authority when asking for
37638 a networkstatus, even when they want a compressed one.
37639 - Fix a harmless bug that was causing Tor servers to log
37640 "Got an end because of misc error, but we're not an AP. Closing."
37641 - Authorities were treating their own descriptor changes as cosmetic,
37642 meaning the descriptor available in the network-status and the
37643 descriptor that clients downloaded were different.
37644 - The OS X installer was adding a symlink for tor_resolve but
37645 the binary was called tor-resolve (reported by Thomas Hardly).
37646 - Workaround a problem with some http proxies where they refuse GET
37647 requests that specify "Content-Length: 0" (reported by Adrian).
37648 - Fix wrong log message when you add a "HiddenServiceNodes" config
37649 line without any HiddenServiceDir line (reported by Chris Thomas).
37652 - Write the TorVersion into the state file so we have a prayer of
37653 keeping forward and backward compatibility.
37654 - Revive the FascistFirewall config option rather than eliminating it:
37655 now it's a synonym for ReachableAddresses *:80,*:443.
37656 - Clients choose directory servers from the network status lists,
37657 not from their internal list of router descriptors. Now they can
37658 go to caches directly rather than needing to go to authorities
37660 - Directory authorities ignore router descriptors that have only
37661 cosmetic differences: do this for 0.1.0.x servers now too.
37662 - Add a new flag to network-status indicating whether the server
37663 can answer v2 directory requests too.
37664 - Authdirs now stop whining so loudly about bad descriptors that
37665 they fetch from other dirservers. So when there's a log complaint,
37666 it's for sure from a freshly uploaded descriptor.
37667 - Reduce memory requirements in our structs by changing the order
37669 - There used to be two ways to specify your listening ports in a
37670 server descriptor: on the "router" line and with a separate "ports"
37671 line. Remove support for the "ports" line.
37672 - New config option "AuthDirRejectUnlisted" for auth dirservers as
37673 a panic button: if we get flooded with unusable servers we can
37674 revert to only listing servers in the approved-routers file.
37675 - Auth dir servers can now mark a fingerprint as "!reject" or
37676 "!invalid" in the approved-routers file (as its nickname), to
37677 refuse descriptors outright or include them but marked as invalid.
37678 - Servers store bandwidth history across restarts/crashes.
37679 - Add reasons to DESTROY and RELAY_TRUNCATED cells, so clients can
37680 get a better idea of why their circuits failed. Not used yet.
37681 - Directory mirrors now cache up to 16 unrecognized network-status
37682 docs. Now we can add new authdirservers and they'll be cached too.
37683 - When picking a random directory, prefer non-authorities if any
37685 - New controller option "getinfo desc/all-recent" to fetch the
37686 latest server descriptor for every router that Tor knows about.
37689 Changes in version 0.1.0.16 - 2006-01-02
37690 o Crash bugfixes on 0.1.0.x:
37691 - On Windows, build with a libevent patch from "I-M Weasel" to avoid
37692 corrupting the heap, losing FDs, or crashing when we need to resize
37693 the fd_sets. (This affects the Win32 binaries, not Tor's sources.)
37694 - It turns out sparc64 platforms crash on unaligned memory access
37695 too -- so detect and avoid this.
37696 - Handle truncated compressed data correctly (by detecting it and
37698 - Fix possible-but-unlikely free(NULL) in control.c.
37699 - When we were closing connections, there was a rare case that
37700 stomped on memory, triggering seg faults and asserts.
37701 - Avoid potential infinite recursion when building a descriptor. (We
37702 don't know that it ever happened, but better to fix it anyway.)
37703 - We were neglecting to unlink marked circuits from soon-to-close OR
37704 connections, which caused some rare scribbling on freed memory.
37705 - Fix a memory stomping race bug when closing the joining point of two
37706 rendezvous circuits.
37707 - Fix an assert in time parsing found by Steven Murdoch.
37709 o Other bugfixes on 0.1.0.x:
37710 - When we're doing reachability testing, provide more useful log
37711 messages so the operator knows what to expect.
37712 - Do not check whether DirPort is reachable when we are suppressing
37713 advertising it because of hibernation.
37714 - When building with -static or on Solaris, we sometimes needed -ldl.
37715 - When we're deciding whether a stream has enough circuits around
37716 that can handle it, count the freshly dirty ones and not the ones
37717 that are so dirty they won't be able to handle it.
37718 - When we're expiring old circuits, we had a logic error that caused
37719 us to close new rendezvous circuits rather than old ones.
37720 - Give a more helpful log message when you try to change ORPort via
37721 the controller: you should upgrade Tor if you want that to work.
37722 - We were failing to parse Tor versions that start with "Tor ".
37723 - Tolerate faulty streams better: when a stream fails for reason
37724 exitpolicy, stop assuming that the router is lying about his exit
37725 policy. When a stream fails for reason misc, allow it to retry just
37726 as if it was resolvefailed. When a stream has failed three times,
37727 reset its failure count so we can try again and get all three tries.
37730 Changes in version 0.1.1.10-alpha - 2005-12-11
37731 o Correctness bugfixes on 0.1.0.x:
37732 - On Windows, build with a libevent patch from "I-M Weasel" to avoid
37733 corrupting the heap, losing FDs, or crashing when we need to resize
37734 the fd_sets. (This affects the Win32 binaries, not Tor's sources.)
37735 - Stop doing the complex voodoo overkill checking for insecure
37736 Diffie-Hellman keys. Just check if it's in [2,p-2] and be happy.
37737 - When we were closing connections, there was a rare case that
37738 stomped on memory, triggering seg faults and asserts.
37739 - We were neglecting to unlink marked circuits from soon-to-close OR
37740 connections, which caused some rare scribbling on freed memory.
37741 - When we're deciding whether a stream has enough circuits around
37742 that can handle it, count the freshly dirty ones and not the ones
37743 that are so dirty they won't be able to handle it.
37744 - Recover better from TCP connections to Tor servers that are
37745 broken but don't tell you (it happens!); and rotate TLS
37746 connections once a week.
37747 - When we're expiring old circuits, we had a logic error that caused
37748 us to close new rendezvous circuits rather than old ones.
37749 - Fix a scary-looking but apparently harmless bug where circuits
37750 would sometimes start out in state CIRCUIT_STATE_OR_WAIT at
37751 servers, and never switch to state CIRCUIT_STATE_OPEN.
37752 - When building with -static or on Solaris, we sometimes needed to
37754 - Give a useful message when people run Tor as the wrong user,
37755 rather than telling them to start chowning random directories.
37756 - We were failing to inform the controller about new .onion streams.
37758 o Security bugfixes on 0.1.0.x:
37759 - Refuse server descriptors if the fingerprint line doesn't match
37760 the included identity key. Tor doesn't care, but other apps (and
37761 humans) might actually be trusting the fingerprint line.
37762 - We used to kill the circuit when we receive a relay command we
37763 don't recognize. Now we just drop it.
37764 - Start obeying our firewall options more rigorously:
37765 . If we can't get to a dirserver directly, try going via Tor.
37766 . Don't ever try to connect (as a client) to a place our
37767 firewall options forbid.
37768 . If we specify a proxy and also firewall options, obey the
37769 firewall options even when we're using the proxy: some proxies
37770 can only proxy to certain destinations.
37771 - Fix a bug found by Lasse Overlier: when we were making internal
37772 circuits (intended to be cannibalized later for rendezvous and
37773 introduction circuits), we were picking them so that they had
37774 useful exit nodes. There was no need for this, and it actually
37775 aids some statistical attacks.
37776 - Start treating internal circuits and exit circuits separately.
37777 It's important to keep them separate because internal circuits
37778 have their last hops picked like middle hops, rather than like
37779 exit hops. So exiting on them will break the user's expectations.
37781 o Bugfixes on 0.1.1.x:
37782 - Take out the mis-feature where we tried to detect IP address
37783 flapping for people with DynDNS, and chose not to upload a new
37784 server descriptor sometimes.
37785 - Try to be compatible with OpenSSL 0.9.6 again.
37786 - Log fix: when the controller is logging about .onion addresses,
37787 sometimes it didn't include the ".onion" part of the address.
37788 - Don't try to modify options->DirServers internally -- if the
37789 user didn't specify any, just add the default ones directly to
37790 the trusted dirserver list. This fixes a bug where people running
37791 controllers would use SETCONF on some totally unrelated config
37792 option, and Tor would start yelling at them about changing their
37794 - Let the controller's redirectstream command specify a port, in
37795 case the controller wants to change that too.
37796 - When we requested a pile of server descriptors, we sometimes
37797 accidentally launched a duplicate request for the first one.
37798 - Bugfix for trackhostexits: write down the fingerprint of the
37799 chosen exit, not its nickname, because the chosen exit might not
37801 - When parsing foo.exit, if foo is unknown, and we are leaving
37802 circuits unattached, set the chosen_exit field and leave the
37803 address empty. This matters because controllers got confused
37805 - Directory authorities no longer try to download server
37806 descriptors that they know they will reject.
37808 o Features and updates:
37809 - Replace balanced trees with hash tables: this should make stuff
37810 significantly faster.
37811 - Resume using the AES counter-mode implementation that we ship,
37812 rather than OpenSSL's. Ours is significantly faster.
37813 - Many other CPU and memory improvements.
37814 - Add a new config option FastFirstHopPK (on by default) so clients
37815 do a trivial crypto handshake for their first hop, since TLS has
37816 already taken care of confidentiality and authentication.
37817 - Add a new config option TestSocks so people can see if their
37818 applications are using socks4, socks4a, socks5-with-ip, or
37819 socks5-with-hostname. This way they don't have to keep mucking
37820 with tcpdump and wondering if something got cached somewhere.
37821 - Warn when listening on a public address for socks. I suspect a
37822 lot of people are setting themselves up as open socks proxies,
37823 and they have no idea that jerks on the Internet are using them,
37824 since they simply proxy the traffic into the Tor network.
37825 - Add "private:*" as an alias in configuration for policies. Now
37826 you can simplify your exit policy rather than needing to list
37827 every single internal or nonroutable network space.
37828 - Add a new controller event type that allows controllers to get
37829 all server descriptors that were uploaded to a router in its role
37830 as authoritative dirserver.
37831 - Start shipping socks-extensions.txt, tor-doc-unix.html,
37832 tor-doc-server.html, and stylesheet.css in the tarball.
37833 - Stop shipping tor-doc.html in the tarball.
37836 Changes in version 0.1.1.9-alpha - 2005-11-15
37837 o Usability improvements:
37838 - Start calling it FooListenAddress rather than FooBindAddress,
37839 since few of our users know what it means to bind an address
37841 - Reduce clutter in server logs. We're going to try to make
37842 them actually usable now. New config option ProtocolWarnings that
37843 lets you hear about how _other Tors_ are breaking the protocol. Off
37845 - Divide log messages into logging domains. Once we put some sort
37846 of interface on this, it will let people looking at more verbose
37847 log levels specify the topics they want to hear more about.
37848 - Make directory servers return better http 404 error messages
37849 instead of a generic "Servers unavailable".
37850 - Check for even more Windows version flags when writing the platform
37851 string in server descriptors, and note any we don't recognize.
37852 - Clean up more of the OpenSSL memory when exiting, so we can detect
37853 memory leaks better.
37854 - Make directory authorities be non-versioning, non-naming by
37855 default. Now we can add new directory servers without requiring
37856 their operators to pay close attention.
37857 - When logging via syslog, include the pid whenever we provide
37858 a log entry. Suggested by Todd Fries.
37860 o Performance improvements:
37861 - Directory servers now silently throw away new descriptors that
37862 haven't changed much if the timestamps are similar. We do this to
37863 tolerate older Tor servers that upload a new descriptor every 15
37864 minutes. (It seemed like a good idea at the time.)
37865 - Inline bottleneck smartlist functions; use fast versions by default.
37866 - Add a "Map from digest to void*" abstraction digestmap_t so we
37867 can do less hex encoding/decoding. Use it in router_get_by_digest()
37868 to resolve a performance bottleneck.
37869 - Allow tor_gzip_uncompress to extract as much as possible from
37870 truncated compressed data. Try to extract as many
37871 descriptors as possible from truncated http responses (when
37872 DIR_PURPOSE_FETCH_ROUTERDESC).
37873 - Make circ->onionskin a pointer, not a static array. moria2 was using
37874 125000 circuit_t's after it had been up for a few weeks, which
37875 translates to 20+ megs of wasted space.
37876 - The private half of our EDH handshake keys are now chosen out
37877 of 320 bits, not 1024 bits. (Suggested by Ian Goldberg.)
37879 o Security improvements:
37880 - Start making directory caches retain old routerinfos, so soon
37881 clients can start asking by digest of descriptor rather than by
37882 fingerprint of server.
37883 - Add half our entropy from RAND_poll in OpenSSL. This knows how
37884 to use egd (if present), openbsd weirdness (if present), vms/os2
37885 weirdness (if we ever port there), and more in the future.
37887 o Bugfixes on 0.1.0.x:
37888 - Do round-robin writes of at most 16 kB per write. This might be
37889 more fair on loaded Tor servers, and it might resolve our Windows
37890 crash bug. It might also slow things down.
37891 - Our TLS handshakes were generating a single public/private
37892 keypair for the TLS context, rather than making a new one for
37893 each new connections. Oops. (But we were still rotating them
37894 periodically, so it's not so bad.)
37895 - When we were cannibalizing a circuit with a particular exit
37896 node in mind, we weren't checking to see if that exit node was
37897 already present earlier in the circuit. Oops.
37898 - When a Tor server's IP changes (e.g. from a dyndns address),
37899 upload a new descriptor so clients will learn too.
37900 - Really busy servers were keeping enough circuits open on stable
37901 connections that they were wrapping around the circuit_id
37902 space. (It's only two bytes.) This exposed a bug where we would
37903 feel free to reuse a circuit_id even if it still exists but has
37904 been marked for close. Try to fix this bug. Some bug remains.
37905 - If we would close a stream early (e.g. it asks for a .exit that
37906 we know would refuse it) but the LeaveStreamsUnattached config
37907 option is set by the controller, then don't close it.
37909 o Bugfixes on 0.1.1.8-alpha:
37910 - Fix a big pile of memory leaks, some of them serious.
37911 - Do not try to download a routerdesc if we would immediately reject
37913 - Resume inserting a newline between all router descriptors when
37914 generating (old style) signed directories, since our spec says
37916 - When providing content-type application/octet-stream for
37917 server descriptors using .z, we were leaving out the
37918 content-encoding header. Oops. (Everything tolerated this just
37919 fine, but that doesn't mean we need to be part of the problem.)
37920 - Fix a potential seg fault in getconf and getinfo using version 1
37921 of the controller protocol.
37922 - Avoid crash: do not check whether DirPort is reachable when we
37923 are suppressing it because of hibernation.
37924 - Make --hash-password not crash on exit.
37927 Changes in version 0.1.1.8-alpha - 2005-10-07
37928 o New features (major):
37929 - Clients don't download or use the directory anymore. Now they
37930 download and use network-statuses from the trusted dirservers,
37931 and fetch individual server descriptors as needed from mirrors.
37932 See dir-spec.txt for all the gory details.
37933 - Be more conservative about whether to advertise our DirPort.
37934 The main change is to not advertise if we're running at capacity
37935 and either a) we could hibernate or b) our capacity is low and
37936 we're using a default DirPort.
37937 - Use OpenSSL's AES when OpenSSL has version 0.9.7 or later.
37939 o New features (minor):
37940 - Try to be smart about when to retry network-status and
37941 server-descriptor fetches. Still needs some tuning.
37942 - Stop parsing, storing, or using running-routers output (but
37943 mirrors still cache and serve it).
37944 - Consider a threshold of versioning dirservers (dirservers who have
37945 an opinion about which Tor versions are still recommended) before
37946 deciding whether to warn the user that he's obsolete.
37947 - Dirservers can now reject/invalidate by key and IP, with the
37948 config options "AuthDirInvalid" and "AuthDirReject". This is
37949 useful since currently we automatically list servers as running
37950 and usable even if we know they're jerks.
37951 - Provide dire warnings to any users who set DirServer; move it out
37952 of torrc.sample and into torrc.complete.
37953 - Add MyFamily to torrc.sample in the server section.
37954 - Add nicknames to the DirServer line, so we can refer to them
37955 without requiring all our users to memorize their IP addresses.
37956 - When we get an EOF or a timeout on a directory connection, note
37957 how many bytes of serverdesc we are dropping. This will help
37958 us determine whether it is smart to parse incomplete serverdesc
37960 - Add a new function to "change pseudonyms" -- that is, to stop
37961 using any currently-dirty circuits for new streams, so we don't
37962 link new actions to old actions. Currently it's only called on
37963 HUP (or SIGNAL RELOAD).
37964 - On sighup, if UseHelperNodes changed to 1, use new circuits.
37965 - Start using RAND_bytes rather than RAND_pseudo_bytes from
37966 OpenSSL. Also, reseed our entropy every hour, not just at
37967 startup. And entropy in 512-bit chunks, not 160-bit chunks.
37969 o Fixes on 0.1.1.7-alpha:
37970 - Nobody ever implemented EVENT_ADDRMAP for control protocol
37971 version 0, so don't let version 0 controllers ask for it.
37972 - If you requested something with too many newlines via the
37973 v1 controller protocol, you could crash tor.
37974 - Fix a number of memory leaks, including some pretty serious ones.
37975 - Re-enable DirPort testing again, so Tor servers will be willing
37976 to advertise their DirPort if it's reachable.
37977 - On TLS handshake, only check the other router's nickname against
37978 its expected nickname if is_named is set.
37980 o Fixes forward-ported from 0.1.0.15:
37981 - Don't crash when we don't have any spare file descriptors and we
37982 try to spawn a dns or cpu worker.
37983 - Make the numbers in read-history and write-history into uint64s,
37984 so they don't overflow and publish negatives in the descriptor.
37986 o Fixes on 0.1.0.x:
37987 - For the OS X package's modified privoxy config file, comment
37988 out the "logfile" line so we don't log everything passed
37990 - We were whining about using socks4 or socks5-with-local-lookup
37991 even when it's an IP in the "virtual" range we designed exactly
37993 - We were leaking some memory every time the client changes IPs.
37994 - Never call free() on tor_malloc()d memory. This will help us
37995 use dmalloc to detect memory leaks.
37996 - Check for named servers when looking them up by nickname;
37997 warn when we'recalling a non-named server by its nickname;
37998 don't warn twice about the same name.
37999 - Try to list MyFamily elements by key, not by nickname, and warn
38000 if we've not heard of the server.
38001 - Make windows platform detection (uname equivalent) smarter.
38002 - It turns out sparc64 doesn't like unaligned access either.
38005 Changes in version 0.1.0.15 - 2005-09-23
38006 o Bugfixes on 0.1.0.x:
38007 - Reject ports 465 and 587 (spam targets) in default exit policy.
38008 - Don't crash when we don't have any spare file descriptors and we
38009 try to spawn a dns or cpu worker.
38010 - Get rid of IgnoreVersion undocumented config option, and make us
38011 only warn, never exit, when we're running an obsolete version.
38012 - Don't try to print a null string when your server finds itself to
38013 be unreachable and the Address config option is empty.
38014 - Make the numbers in read-history and write-history into uint64s,
38015 so they don't overflow and publish negatives in the descriptor.
38016 - Fix a minor memory leak in smartlist_string_remove().
38017 - We were only allowing ourselves to upload a server descriptor at
38018 most every 20 minutes, even if it changed earlier than that.
38019 - Clean up log entries that pointed to old URLs.
38022 Changes in version 0.1.1.7-alpha - 2005-09-14
38023 o Fixes on 0.1.1.6-alpha:
38024 - Exit servers were crashing when people asked them to make a
38025 connection to an address not in their exit policy.
38026 - Looking up a non-existent stream for a v1 control connection would
38028 - Fix a seg fault if we ask a dirserver for a descriptor by
38029 fingerprint but he doesn't know about him.
38030 - SETCONF was appending items to linelists, not clearing them.
38031 - SETCONF SocksBindAddress killed Tor if it fails to bind. Now back
38032 out and refuse the setconf if it would fail.
38033 - Downgrade the dirserver log messages when whining about
38037 - Add Peter Palfrader's check-tor script to tor/contrib/
38038 It lets you easily check whether a given server (referenced by
38039 nickname) is reachable by you.
38040 - Numerous changes to move towards client-side v2 directories. Not
38043 o Fixes on 0.1.0.x:
38044 - If the user gave tor an odd number of command-line arguments,
38045 we were silently ignoring the last one. Now we complain and fail.
38046 [This wins the oldest-bug prize -- this bug has been present since
38047 November 2002, as released in Tor 0.0.0.]
38048 - Do not use unaligned memory access on alpha, mips, or mipsel.
38049 It *works*, but is very slow, so we treat them as if it doesn't.
38050 - Retry directory requests if we fail to get an answer we like
38051 from a given dirserver (we were retrying before, but only if
38052 we fail to connect).
38053 - When writing the RecommendedVersions line, sort them first.
38054 - When the client asked for a rendezvous port that the hidden
38055 service didn't want to provide, we were sending an IP address
38056 back along with the end cell. Fortunately, it was zero. But stop
38058 - Correct "your server is reachable" log entries to indicate that
38059 it was self-testing that told us so.
38062 Changes in version 0.1.1.6-alpha - 2005-09-09
38063 o Fixes on 0.1.1.5-alpha:
38064 - We broke fascistfirewall in 0.1.1.5-alpha. Oops.
38065 - Fix segfault in unit tests in 0.1.1.5-alpha. Oops.
38066 - Fix bug with tor_memmem finding a match at the end of the string.
38067 - Make unit tests run without segfaulting.
38068 - Resolve some solaris x86 compile warnings.
38069 - Handle duplicate lines in approved-routers files without warning.
38070 - Fix bug where as soon as a server refused any requests due to his
38071 exit policy (e.g. when we ask for localhost and he tells us that's
38072 127.0.0.1 and he won't do it), we decided he wasn't obeying his
38073 exit policy using him for any exits.
38074 - Only do openssl hardware accelerator stuff if openssl version is
38077 o New controller features/fixes:
38078 - Add a "RESETCONF" command so you can set config options like
38079 AllowUnverifiedNodes and LongLivedPorts to "". Also, if you give
38080 a config option in the torrc with no value, then it clears it
38081 entirely (rather than setting it to its default).
38082 - Add a "GETINFO config-file" to tell us where torrc is.
38083 - Avoid sending blank lines when GETINFO replies should be empty.
38084 - Add a QUIT command for the controller (for using it manually).
38085 - Fix a bug in SAVECONF that was adding default dirservers and
38086 other redundant entries to the torrc file.
38088 o Start on the new directory design:
38089 - Generate, publish, cache, serve new network-status format.
38090 - Publish individual descriptors (by fingerprint, by "all", and by
38092 - Publish client and server recommended versions separately.
38093 - Allow tor_gzip_uncompress() to handle multiple concatenated
38094 compressed strings. Serve compressed groups of router
38095 descriptors. The compression logic here could be more
38097 - Distinguish v1 authorities (all currently trusted directories)
38098 from v2 authorities (all trusted directories).
38099 - Change DirServers config line to note which dirs are v1 authorities.
38100 - Add configuration option "V1AuthoritativeDirectory 1" which
38101 moria1, moria2, and tor26 should set.
38102 - Remove option when getting directory cache to see whether they
38103 support running-routers; they all do now. Replace it with one
38104 to see whether caches support v2 stuff.
38107 - Dirservers now do their own external reachability testing of each
38108 Tor server, and only list them as running if they've been found to
38109 be reachable. We also send back warnings to the server's logs if
38110 it uploads a descriptor that we already believe is unreachable.
38111 - Implement exit enclaves: if we know an IP address for the
38112 destination, and there's a running Tor server at that address
38113 which allows exit to the destination, then extend the circuit to
38114 that exit first. This provides end-to-end encryption and end-to-end
38115 authentication. Also, if the user wants a .exit address or enclave,
38116 use 4 hops rather than 3, and cannibalize a general circ for it
38118 - Permit transitioning from ORPort=0 to ORPort!=0, and back, from the
38119 controller. Also, rotate dns and cpu workers if the controller
38120 changes options that will affect them; and initialize the dns
38121 worker cache tree whether or not we start out as a server.
38122 - Only upload a new server descriptor when options change, 18
38123 hours have passed, uptime is reset, or bandwidth changes a lot.
38124 - Check [X-]Forwarded-For headers in HTTP requests when generating
38125 log messages. This lets people run dirservers (and caches) behind
38126 Apache but still know which IP addresses are causing warnings.
38128 o Config option changes:
38129 - Replace (Fascist)Firewall* config options with a new
38130 ReachableAddresses option that understands address policies.
38131 For example, "ReachableAddresses *:80,*:443"
38132 - Get rid of IgnoreVersion undocumented config option, and make us
38133 only warn, never exit, when we're running an obsolete version.
38134 - Make MonthlyAccountingStart config option truly obsolete now.
38136 o Fixes on 0.1.0.x:
38137 - Reject ports 465 and 587 in the default exit policy, since
38138 people have started using them for spam too.
38139 - It turns out we couldn't bootstrap a network since we added
38140 reachability detection in 0.1.0.1-rc. Good thing the Tor network
38141 has never gone down. Add an AssumeReachable config option to let
38142 servers and dirservers bootstrap. When we're trying to build a
38143 high-uptime or high-bandwidth circuit but there aren't enough
38144 suitable servers, try being less picky rather than simply failing.
38145 - Our logic to decide if the OR we connected to was the right guy
38146 was brittle and maybe open to a mitm for unverified routers.
38147 - We weren't cannibalizing circuits correctly for
38148 CIRCUIT_PURPOSE_C_ESTABLISH_REND and
38149 CIRCUIT_PURPOSE_S_ESTABLISH_INTRO, so we were being forced to
38150 build those from scratch. This should make hidden services faster.
38151 - Predict required circuits better, with an eye toward making hidden
38152 services faster on the service end.
38153 - Retry streams if the exit node sends back a 'misc' failure. This
38154 should result in fewer random failures. Also, after failing
38155 from resolve failed or misc, reset the num failures, so we give
38156 it a fair shake next time we try.
38157 - Clean up the rendezvous warn log msgs, and downgrade some to info.
38158 - Reduce severity on logs about dns worker spawning and culling.
38159 - When we're shutting down and we do something like try to post a
38160 server descriptor or rendezvous descriptor, don't complain that
38161 we seem to be unreachable. Of course we are, we're shutting down.
38162 - Add TTLs to RESOLVED, CONNECTED, and END_REASON_EXITPOLICY cells.
38163 We don't use them yet, but maybe one day our DNS resolver will be
38164 able to discover them.
38165 - Make ContactInfo mandatory for authoritative directory servers.
38166 - Require server descriptors to list IPv4 addresses -- hostnames
38167 are no longer allowed. This also fixes some potential security
38168 problems with people providing hostnames as their address and then
38169 preferentially resolving them to partition users.
38170 - Change log line for unreachability to explicitly suggest /etc/hosts
38171 as the culprit. Also make it clearer what IP address and ports we're
38172 testing for reachability.
38173 - Put quotes around user-supplied strings when logging so users are
38174 more likely to realize if they add bad characters (like quotes)
38176 - Let auth dir servers start without specifying an Address config
38178 - Make unit tests (and other invocations that aren't the real Tor)
38179 run without launching listeners, creating subdirectories, and so on.
38182 Changes in version 0.1.1.5-alpha - 2005-08-08
38183 o Bugfixes included in 0.1.0.14.
38185 o Bugfixes on 0.1.0.x:
38186 - If you write "HiddenServicePort 6667 127.0.0.1 6668" in your
38187 torrc rather than "HiddenServicePort 6667 127.0.0.1:6668",
38188 it would silently using ignore the 6668.
38191 Changes in version 0.1.0.14 - 2005-08-08
38192 o Bugfixes on 0.1.0.x:
38193 - Fix the other half of the bug with crypto handshakes
38195 - Fix an assert trigger if you send a 'signal term' via the
38196 controller when it's listening for 'event info' messages.
38199 Changes in version 0.1.1.4-alpha - 2005-08-04
38200 o Bugfixes included in 0.1.0.13.
38203 - Improve tor_gettimeofday() granularity on windows.
38204 - Make clients regenerate their keys when their IP address changes.
38205 - Implement some more GETINFO goodness: expose helper nodes, config
38206 options, getinfo keys.
38209 Changes in version 0.1.0.13 - 2005-08-04
38210 o Bugfixes on 0.1.0.x:
38211 - Fix a critical bug in the security of our crypto handshakes.
38212 - Fix a size_t underflow in smartlist_join_strings2() that made
38213 it do bad things when you hand it an empty smartlist.
38214 - Fix Windows installer to ship Tor license (thanks to Aphex for
38215 pointing out this oversight) and put a link to the doc directory
38217 - Explicitly set no-unaligned-access for sparc: it turns out the
38218 new gcc's let you compile broken code, but that doesn't make it
38222 Changes in version 0.1.1.3-alpha - 2005-07-23
38223 o Bugfixes on 0.1.1.2-alpha:
38224 - Fix a bug in handling the controller's "post descriptor"
38226 - Fix several bugs in handling the controller's "extend circuit"
38228 - Fix a bug in handling the controller's "stream status" event.
38229 - Fix an assert failure if we have a controller listening for
38230 circuit events and we go offline.
38231 - Re-allow hidden service descriptors to publish 0 intro points.
38232 - Fix a crash when generating your hidden service descriptor if
38233 you don't have enough intro points already.
38235 o New features on 0.1.1.2-alpha:
38236 - New controller function "getinfo accounting", to ask how
38237 many bytes we've used in this time period.
38238 - Experimental support for helper nodes: a lot of the risk from
38239 a small static adversary comes because users pick new random
38240 nodes every time they rebuild a circuit. Now users will try to
38241 stick to the same small set of entry nodes if they can. Not
38242 enabled by default yet.
38244 o Bugfixes on 0.1.0.12:
38245 - If you're an auth dir server, always publish your dirport,
38246 even if you haven't yet found yourself to be reachable.
38247 - Fix a size_t underflow in smartlist_join_strings2() that made
38248 it do bad things when you hand it an empty smartlist.
38251 Changes in version 0.1.0.12 - 2005-07-18
38252 o New directory servers:
38253 - tor26 has changed IP address.
38255 o Bugfixes on 0.1.0.x:
38256 - Fix a possible double-free in tor_gzip_uncompress().
38257 - When --disable-threads is set, do not search for or link against
38258 pthreads libraries.
38259 - Don't trigger an assert if an authoritative directory server
38260 claims its dirport is 0.
38261 - Fix bug with removing Tor as an NT service: some people were
38262 getting "The service did not return an error." Thanks to Matt
38266 Changes in version 0.1.1.2-alpha - 2005-07-15
38267 o New directory servers:
38268 - tor26 has changed IP address.
38270 o Bugfixes on 0.1.0.x, crashes/leaks:
38271 - Port the servers-not-obeying-their-exit-policies fix from
38273 - Fix an fd leak in start_daemon().
38274 - On Windows, you can't always reopen a port right after you've
38275 closed it. So change retry_listeners() to only close and re-open
38276 ports that have changed.
38277 - Fix a possible double-free in tor_gzip_uncompress().
38279 o Bugfixes on 0.1.0.x, usability:
38280 - When tor_socketpair() fails in Windows, give a reasonable
38281 Windows-style errno back.
38282 - Let people type "tor --install" as well as "tor -install" when
38284 want to make it an NT service.
38285 - NT service patch from Matt Edman to improve error messages.
38286 - When the controller asks for a config option with an abbreviated
38287 name, give the full name in our response.
38288 - Correct the man page entry on TrackHostExitsExpire.
38289 - Looks like we were never delivering deflated (i.e. compressed)
38290 running-routers lists, even when asked. Oops.
38291 - When --disable-threads is set, do not search for or link against
38292 pthreads libraries.
38294 o Bugfixes on 0.1.1.x:
38295 - Fix a seg fault with autodetecting which controller version is
38299 - New hidden service descriptor format: put a version in it, and
38300 let people specify introduction/rendezvous points that aren't
38301 in "the directory" (which is subjective anyway).
38302 - Allow the DEBUG controller event to work again. Mark certain log
38303 entries as "don't tell this to controllers", so we avoid cycles.
38306 Changes in version 0.1.0.11 - 2005-06-30
38307 o Bugfixes on 0.1.0.x:
38308 - Fix major security bug: servers were disregarding their
38309 exit policies if clients behaved unexpectedly.
38310 - Make OS X init script check for missing argument, so we don't
38311 confuse users who invoke it incorrectly.
38312 - Fix a seg fault in "tor --hash-password foo".
38313 - The MAPADDRESS control command was broken.
38316 Changes in version 0.1.1.1-alpha - 2005-06-29
38318 - Make OS X init script check for missing argument, so we don't
38319 confuse users who invoke it incorrectly.
38320 - Fix a seg fault in "tor --hash-password foo".
38321 - Fix a possible way to DoS dirservers.
38322 - When we complain that your exit policy implicitly allows local or
38323 private address spaces, name them explicitly so operators can
38325 - Make the log message less scary when all the dirservers are
38326 temporarily unreachable.
38327 - We were printing the number of idle dns workers incorrectly when
38331 - Revised controller protocol (version 1) that uses ascii rather
38332 than binary. Add supporting libraries in python and java so you
38333 can use the controller from your applications without caring how
38334 our protocol works.
38335 - Spiffy new support for crypto hardware accelerators. Can somebody
38339 Changes in version 0.0.9.10 - 2005-06-16
38340 o Bugfixes on 0.0.9.x (backported from 0.1.0.10):
38341 - Refuse relay cells that claim to have a length larger than the
38342 maximum allowed. This prevents a potential attack that could read
38343 arbitrary memory (e.g. keys) from an exit server's process
38347 Changes in version 0.1.0.10 - 2005-06-14
38348 o Allow a few EINVALs from libevent before dying. Warn on kqueue with
38349 libevent before 1.1a.
38352 Changes in version 0.1.0.9-rc - 2005-06-09
38354 - Reset buf->highwater every time buf_shrink() is called, not just on
38355 a successful shrink. This was causing significant memory bloat.
38356 - Fix buffer overflow when checking hashed passwords.
38357 - Security fix: if seeding the RNG on Win32 fails, quit.
38358 - Allow seeding the RNG on Win32 even when you're not running as
38360 - Disable threading on Solaris too. Something is wonky with it,
38361 cpuworkers, and reentrant libs.
38362 - Reenable the part of the code that tries to flush as soon as an
38363 OR outbuf has a full TLS record available. Perhaps this will make
38364 OR outbufs not grow as huge except in rare cases, thus saving lots
38365 of CPU time plus memory.
38366 - Reject malformed .onion addresses rather then passing them on as
38367 normal web requests.
38368 - Adapt patch from Adam Langley: fix possible memory leak in
38369 tor_lookup_hostname().
38370 - Initialize libevent later in the startup process, so the logs are
38371 already established by the time we start logging libevent warns.
38372 - Use correct errno on win32 if libevent fails.
38373 - Check and warn about known-bad/slow libevent versions.
38374 - Pay more attention to the ClientOnly config option.
38375 - Have torctl.in/tor.sh.in check for location of su binary (needed
38377 - Correct/add man page entries for LongLivedPorts, ExitPolicy,
38378 KeepalivePeriod, ClientOnly, NoPublish, HttpProxy, HttpsProxy,
38379 HttpProxyAuthenticator
38380 - Stop warning about sigpipes in the logs. We're going to
38381 pretend that getting these occasionally is normal and fine.
38382 - Resolve OS X installer bugs: stop claiming to be 0.0.9.2 in
38384 installer screens; and don't put stuff into StartupItems unless
38385 the user asks you to.
38386 - Require servers that use the default dirservers to have public IP
38387 addresses. We have too many servers that are configured with private
38388 IPs and their admins never notice the log entries complaining that
38389 their descriptors are being rejected.
38390 - Add OSX uninstall instructions. An actual uninstall script will
38394 Changes in version 0.1.0.8-rc - 2005-05-23
38396 - It turns out that kqueue on OS X 10.3.9 was causing kernel
38397 panics. Disable kqueue on all OS X Tors.
38398 - Fix RPM: remove duplicate line accidentally added to the rpm
38400 - Disable threads on openbsd too, since its gethostaddr is not
38402 - Tolerate libevent 0.8 since it still works, even though it's
38404 - Enable building on Red Hat 9.0 again.
38405 - Allow the middle hop of the testing circuit to be running any
38406 version, now that most of them have the bugfix to let them connect
38407 to unknown servers. This will allow reachability testing to work
38408 even when 0.0.9.7-0.0.9.9 become obsolete.
38409 - Handle relay cells with rh.length too large. This prevents
38410 a potential attack that could read arbitrary memory (maybe even
38411 keys) from the exit server's process.
38412 - We screwed up the dirport reachability testing when we don't yet
38413 have a cached version of the directory. Hopefully now fixed.
38414 - Clean up router_load_single_router() (used by the controller),
38415 so it doesn't seg fault on error.
38416 - Fix a minor memory leak when somebody establishes an introduction
38417 point at your Tor server.
38418 - If a socks connection ends because read fails, don't warn that
38419 you're not sending a socks reply back.
38422 - Add HttpProxyAuthenticator config option too, that works like
38423 the HttpsProxyAuthenticator config option.
38424 - Encode hashed controller passwords in hex instead of base64,
38425 to make it easier to write controllers.
38428 Changes in version 0.1.0.7-rc - 2005-05-17
38430 - Fix a bug in the OS X package installer that prevented it from
38431 installing on Tiger.
38432 - Fix a script bug in the OS X package installer that made it
38433 complain during installation.
38434 - Find libevent even if it's hiding in /usr/local/ and your
38435 CFLAGS and LDFLAGS don't tell you to look there.
38436 - Be able to link with libevent as a shared library (the default
38437 after 1.0d), even if it's hiding in /usr/local/lib and even
38438 if you haven't added /usr/local/lib to your /etc/ld.so.conf,
38439 assuming you're running gcc. Otherwise fail and give a useful
38441 - Fix a bug in the RPM packager: set home directory for _tor to
38442 something more reasonable when first installing.
38443 - Free a minor amount of memory that is still reachable on exit.
38446 Changes in version 0.1.0.6-rc - 2005-05-14
38448 - Implement --disable-threads configure option. Disable threads on
38449 netbsd by default, because it appears to have no reentrant resolver
38451 - Apple's OS X 10.4.0 ships with a broken kqueue. The new libevent
38452 release (1.1) detects and disables kqueue if it's broken.
38453 - Append default exit policy before checking for implicit internal
38454 addresses. Now we don't log a bunch of complaints on startup
38455 when using the default exit policy.
38456 - Some people were putting "Address " in their torrc, and they had
38457 a buggy resolver that resolved " " to 0.0.0.0. Oops.
38458 - If DataDir is ~/.tor, and that expands to /.tor, then default to
38459 LOCALSTATEDIR/tor instead.
38460 - Fix fragmented-message bug in TorControl.py.
38461 - Resolve a minor bug which would prevent unreachable dirports
38462 from getting suppressed in the published descriptor.
38463 - When the controller gave us a new descriptor, we weren't resolving
38464 it immediately, so Tor would think its address was 0.0.0.0 until
38465 we fetched a new directory.
38466 - Fix an uppercase/lowercase case error in suppressing a bogus
38467 libevent warning on some Linuxes.
38470 - Begin scrubbing sensitive strings from logs by default. Turn off
38471 the config option SafeLogging if you need to do debugging.
38472 - Switch to a new buffer management algorithm, which tries to avoid
38473 reallocing and copying quite as much. In first tests it looks like
38474 it uses *more* memory on average, but less cpu.
38475 - First cut at support for "create-fast" cells. Clients can use
38476 these when extending to their first hop, since the TLS already
38477 provides forward secrecy and authentication. Not enabled on
38479 - When dirservers refuse a router descriptor, we now log its
38480 contactinfo, platform, and the poster's IP address.
38481 - Call tor_free_all instead of connections_free_all after forking, to
38482 save memory on systems that need to fork.
38483 - Whine at you if you're a server and you don't set your contactinfo.
38484 - Implement --verify-config command-line option to check if your torrc
38485 is valid without actually launching Tor.
38486 - Rewrite address "serifos.exit" to "localhost.serifos.exit"
38487 rather than just rejecting it.
38490 Changes in version 0.1.0.5-rc - 2005-04-27
38492 - Stop trying to print a null pointer if an OR conn fails because
38493 we didn't like its cert.
38495 - Switch our internal buffers implementation to use a ring buffer,
38496 to hopefully improve performance for fast servers a lot.
38497 - Add HttpsProxyAuthenticator support (basic auth only), based
38498 on patch from Adam Langley.
38499 - Bump the default BandwidthRate from 1 MB to 2 MB, to accommodate
38500 the fast servers that have been joining lately.
38501 - Give hidden service accesses extra time on the first attempt,
38502 since 60 seconds is often only barely enough. This might improve
38504 - Improve performance for dirservers: stop re-parsing the whole
38505 directory every time you regenerate it.
38506 - Add more debugging info to help us find the weird dns freebsd
38507 pthreads bug; cleaner debug messages to help track future issues.
38510 Changes in version 0.0.9.9 - 2005-04-23
38511 o Bugfixes on 0.0.9.x:
38512 - If unofficial Tor clients connect and send weird TLS certs, our
38513 Tor server triggers an assert. This release contains a minimal
38514 backport from the broader fix that we put into 0.1.0.4-rc.
38517 Changes in version 0.1.0.4-rc - 2005-04-23
38519 - If unofficial Tor clients connect and send weird TLS certs, our
38520 Tor server triggers an assert. Stop asserting, and start handling
38521 TLS errors better in other situations too.
38522 - When the controller asks us to tell it about all the debug-level
38523 logs, it turns out we were generating debug-level logs while
38524 telling it about them, which turns into a bad loop. Now keep
38525 track of whether you're sending a debug log to the controller,
38526 and don't log when you are.
38527 - Fix the "postdescriptor" feature of the controller interface: on
38528 non-complete success, only say "done" once.
38530 - Clients are now willing to load balance over up to 2mB, not 1mB,
38531 of advertised bandwidth capacity.
38532 - Add a NoPublish config option, so you can be a server (e.g. for
38533 testing running Tor servers in other Tor networks) without
38534 publishing your descriptor to the primary dirservers.
38537 Changes in version 0.1.0.3-rc - 2005-04-08
38538 o Improvements on 0.1.0.2-rc:
38539 - Client now retries when streams end early for 'hibernating' or
38540 'resource limit' reasons, rather than failing them.
38541 - More automated handling for dirserver operators:
38542 - Automatically approve nodes running 0.1.0.2-rc or later,
38543 now that the the reachability detection stuff is working.
38544 - Now we allow two unverified servers with the same nickname
38545 but different keys. But if a nickname is verified, only that
38546 nickname+key are allowed.
38547 - If you're an authdirserver connecting to an address:port,
38548 and it's not the OR you were expecting, forget about that
38549 descriptor. If he *was* the one you were expecting, then forget
38550 about all other descriptors for that address:port.
38551 - Allow servers to publish descriptors from 12 hours in the future.
38552 Corollary: only whine about clock skew from the dirserver if
38553 he's a trusted dirserver (since now even verified servers could
38554 have quite wrong clocks).
38555 - Adjust maximum skew and age for rendezvous descriptors: let skew
38556 be 48 hours rather than 90 minutes.
38557 - Efficiency improvements:
38558 - Keep a big splay tree of (circid,orconn)->circuit mappings to make
38559 it much faster to look up a circuit for each relay cell.
38560 - Remove most calls to assert_all_pending_dns_resolves_ok(),
38561 since they're eating our cpu on exit nodes.
38562 - Stop wasting time doing a case insensitive comparison for every
38563 dns name every time we do any lookup. Canonicalize the names to
38564 lowercase and be done with it.
38565 - Start sending 'truncated' cells back rather than destroy cells,
38566 if the circuit closes in front of you. This means we won't have
38567 to abandon partially built circuits.
38568 - Only warn once per nickname from add_nickname_list_to_smartlist
38569 per failure, so an entrynode or exitnode choice that's down won't
38571 - Put a note in the torrc about abuse potential with the default
38573 - Revise control spec and implementation to allow all log messages to
38574 be sent to controller with their severities intact (suggested by
38575 Matt Edman). Update TorControl to handle new log event types.
38576 - Provide better explanation messages when controller's POSTDESCRIPTOR
38578 - Stop putting nodename in the Platform string in server descriptors.
38579 It doesn't actually help, and it is confusing/upsetting some people.
38581 o Bugfixes on 0.1.0.2-rc:
38582 - We were printing the host mask wrong in exit policies in server
38583 descriptors. This isn't a critical bug though, since we were still
38584 obeying the exit policy internally.
38585 - Fix Tor when compiled with libevent but without pthreads: move
38586 connection_unregister() from _connection_free() to
38588 - Fix an assert trigger (already fixed in 0.0.9.x): when we have
38589 the rare mysterious case of accepting a conn on 0.0.0.0:0, then
38590 when we look through the connection array, we'll find any of the
38591 cpu/dnsworkers. This is no good.
38593 o Bugfixes on 0.0.9.8:
38594 - Fix possible bug on threading platforms (e.g. win32) which was
38595 leaking a file descriptor whenever a cpuworker or dnsworker died.
38596 - When using preferred entry or exit nodes, ignore whether the
38597 circuit wants uptime or capacity. They asked for the nodes, they
38599 - chdir() to your datadirectory at the *end* of the daemonize process,
38600 not the beginning. This was a problem because the first time you
38601 run tor, if your datadir isn't there, and you have runasdaemon set
38602 to 1, it will try to chdir to it before it tries to create it. Oops.
38603 - Handle changed router status correctly when dirserver reloads
38604 fingerprint file. We used to be dropping all unverified descriptors
38605 right then. The bug was hidden because we would immediately
38606 fetch a directory from another dirserver, which would include the
38607 descriptors we just dropped.
38608 - When we're connecting to an OR and he's got a different nickname/key
38609 than we were expecting, only complain loudly if we're an OP or a
38610 dirserver. Complaining loudly to the OR admins just confuses them.
38611 - Tie MAX_DIR_SIZE to MAX_BUF_SIZE, so now directory sizes won't get
38612 artificially capped at 500kB.
38615 Changes in version 0.0.9.8 - 2005-04-07
38616 o Bugfixes on 0.0.9.x:
38617 - We have a bug that I haven't found yet. Sometimes, very rarely,
38618 cpuworkers get stuck in the 'busy' state, even though the cpuworker
38619 thinks of itself as idle. This meant that no new circuits ever got
38620 established. Here's a workaround to kill any cpuworker that's been
38621 busy for more than 100 seconds.
38624 Changes in version 0.1.0.2-rc - 2005-04-01
38625 o Bugfixes on 0.1.0.1-rc:
38626 - Fixes on reachability detection:
38627 - Don't check for reachability while hibernating.
38628 - If ORPort is reachable but DirPort isn't, still publish the
38629 descriptor, but zero out DirPort until it's found reachable.
38630 - When building testing circs for ORPort testing, use only
38631 high-bandwidth nodes, so fewer circuits fail.
38632 - Complain about unreachable ORPort separately from unreachable
38633 DirPort, so the user knows what's going on.
38634 - Make sure we only conclude ORPort reachability if we didn't
38635 initiate the conn. Otherwise we could falsely conclude that
38636 we're reachable just because we connected to the guy earlier
38637 and he used that same pipe to extend to us.
38638 - Authdirservers shouldn't do ORPort reachability detection,
38639 since they're in clique mode, so it will be rare to find a
38640 server not already connected to them.
38641 - When building testing circuits, always pick middle hops running
38642 Tor 0.0.9.7, so we avoid the "can't extend to unknown routers"
38643 bug. (This is a kludge; it will go away when 0.0.9.x becomes
38645 - When we decide we're reachable, actually publish our descriptor
38647 - Fix bug in redirectstream in the controller.
38648 - Fix the state descriptor strings so logs don't claim edge streams
38649 are in a different state than they actually are.
38650 - Use recent libevent features when possible (this only really affects
38651 win32 and osx right now, because the new libevent with these
38652 features hasn't been released yet). Add code to suppress spurious
38654 - Prevent possible segfault in connection_close_unattached_ap().
38655 - Fix newlines on torrc in win32.
38656 - Improve error msgs when tor-resolve fails.
38658 o Improvements on 0.0.9.x:
38659 - New experimental script tor/contrib/ExerciseServer.py (needs more
38660 work) that uses the controller interface to build circuits and
38661 fetch pages over them. This will help us bootstrap servers that
38662 have lots of capacity but haven't noticed it yet.
38663 - New experimental script tor/contrib/PathDemo.py (needs more work)
38664 that uses the controller interface to let you choose whole paths
38666 "<hostname>.<path,separated by dots>.<length of path>.path"
38667 - When we've connected to an OR and handshaked but didn't like
38668 the result, we were closing the conn without sending destroy
38669 cells back for pending circuits. Now send those destroys.
38672 Changes in version 0.0.9.7 - 2005-04-01
38673 o Bugfixes on 0.0.9.x:
38674 - Fix another race crash bug (thanks to Glenn Fink for reporting).
38675 - Compare identity to identity, not to nickname, when extending to
38676 a router not already in the directory. This was preventing us from
38677 extending to unknown routers. Oops.
38678 - Make sure to create OS X Tor user in <500 range, so we aren't
38679 creating actual system users.
38680 - Note where connection-that-hasn't-sent-end was marked, and fix
38681 a few really loud instances of this harmless bug (it's fixed more
38685 Changes in version 0.1.0.1-rc - 2005-03-28
38687 - Add reachability testing. Your Tor server will automatically try
38688 to see if its ORPort and DirPort are reachable from the outside,
38689 and it won't upload its descriptor until it decides they are.
38690 - Handle unavailable hidden services better. Handle slow or busy
38691 hidden services better.
38692 - Add support for CONNECTing through https proxies, with "HttpsProxy"
38694 - New exit policy: accept most low-numbered ports, rather than
38695 rejecting most low-numbered ports.
38696 - More Tor controller support (still experimental). See
38697 http://tor.eff.org/doc/control-spec.txt for all the new features,
38698 including signals to emulate unix signals from any platform;
38699 redirectstream; extendcircuit; mapaddress; getinfo; postdescriptor;
38700 closestream; closecircuit; etc.
38701 - Make nt services work and start on startup on win32 (based on
38702 patch by Matt Edman).
38703 - Add a new AddressMap config directive to rewrite incoming socks
38704 addresses. This lets you, for example, declare an implicit
38705 required exit node for certain sites.
38706 - Add a new TrackHostExits config directive to trigger addressmaps
38707 for certain incoming socks addresses -- for sites that break when
38708 your exit keeps changing (based on patch by Mike Perry).
38709 - Redo the client-side dns cache so it's just an addressmap too.
38710 - Notice when our IP changes, and reset stats/uptime/reachability.
38711 - When an application is using socks5, give him the whole variety of
38712 potential socks5 responses (connect refused, host unreachable, etc),
38713 rather than just "success" or "failure".
38714 - A more sane version numbering system. See
38715 http://tor.eff.org/cvs/tor/doc/version-spec.txt for details.
38716 - New contributed script "exitlist": a simple python script to
38717 parse directories and find Tor nodes that exit to listed
38719 - New contributed script "privoxy-tor-toggle" to toggle whether
38720 Privoxy uses Tor. Seems to be configured for Debian by default.
38721 - Report HTTP reasons to client when getting a response from directory
38722 servers -- so you can actually know what went wrong.
38723 - New config option MaxAdvertisedBandwidth which lets you advertise
38724 a low bandwidthrate (to not attract as many circuits) while still
38725 allowing a higher bandwidthrate in reality.
38727 o Robustness/stability fixes:
38728 - Make Tor use Niels Provos's libevent instead of its current
38729 poll-but-sometimes-select mess. This will let us use faster async
38730 cores (like epoll, kpoll, and /dev/poll), and hopefully work better
38732 - pthread support now too. This was forced because when we forked,
38733 we ended up wasting a lot of duplicate ram over time. Also switch
38734 to foo_r versions of some library calls to allow reentry and
38736 - Better handling for heterogeneous / unreliable nodes:
38737 - Annotate circuits w/ whether they aim to contain high uptime nodes
38738 and/or high capacity nodes. When building circuits, choose
38740 - This means that every single node in an intro rend circuit,
38741 not just the last one, will have a minimum uptime.
38742 - New config option LongLivedPorts to indicate application streams
38743 that will want high uptime circuits.
38744 - Servers reset uptime when a dir fetch entirely fails. This
38745 hopefully reflects stability of the server's network connectivity.
38746 - If somebody starts his tor server in Jan 2004 and then fixes his
38747 clock, don't make his published uptime be a year.
38748 - Reset published uptime when you wake up from hibernation.
38749 - Introduce a notion of 'internal' circs, which are chosen without
38750 regard to the exit policy of the last hop. Intro and rendezvous
38751 circs must be internal circs, to avoid leaking information. Resolve
38752 and connect streams can use internal circs if they want.
38753 - New circuit pooling algorithm: make sure to have enough circs around
38754 to satisfy any predicted ports, and also make sure to have 2 internal
38755 circs around if we've required internal circs lately (and with high
38756 uptime if we've seen that lately too).
38757 - Split NewCircuitPeriod option into NewCircuitPeriod (30 secs),
38758 which describes how often we retry making new circuits if current
38759 ones are dirty, and MaxCircuitDirtiness (10 mins), which describes
38760 how long we're willing to make use of an already-dirty circuit.
38761 - Cannibalize GENERAL circs to be C_REND, C_INTRO, S_INTRO, and S_REND
38762 circ as necessary, if there are any completed ones lying around
38763 when we try to launch one.
38764 - Make hidden services try to establish a rendezvous for 30 seconds,
38765 rather than for n (where n=3) attempts to build a circuit.
38766 - Change SHUTDOWN_WAIT_LENGTH from a fixed 30 secs to a config option
38767 "ShutdownWaitLength".
38768 - Try to be more zealous about calling connection_edge_end when
38769 things go bad with edge conns in connection.c.
38770 - Revise tor-spec to add more/better stream end reasons.
38771 - Revise all calls to connection_edge_end to avoid sending "misc",
38772 and to take errno into account where possible.
38775 - Fix a race condition that can trigger an assert, when we have a
38776 pending create cell and an OR connection fails right then.
38777 - Fix several double-mark-for-close bugs, e.g. where we were finding
38778 a conn for a cell even if that conn is already marked for close.
38779 - Make sequence of log messages when starting on win32 with no config
38780 file more reasonable.
38781 - When choosing an exit node for a new non-internal circ, don't take
38782 into account whether it'll be useful for any pending x.onion
38783 addresses -- it won't.
38784 - Turn addr_policy_compare from a tristate to a quadstate; this should
38785 help address our "Ah, you allow 1.2.3.4:80. You are a good choice
38786 for google.com" problem.
38787 - Make "platform" string in descriptor more accurate for Win32 servers,
38788 so it's not just "unknown platform".
38789 - Fix an edge case in parsing config options (thanks weasel).
38790 If they say "--" on the commandline, it's not an option.
38791 - Reject odd-looking addresses at the client (e.g. addresses that
38792 contain a colon), rather than having the server drop them because
38794 - tor-resolve requests were ignoring .exit if there was a working circuit
38795 they could use instead.
38796 - REUSEADDR on normal platforms means you can rebind to the port
38797 right after somebody else has let it go. But REUSEADDR on win32
38798 means to let you bind to the port _even when somebody else
38799 already has it bound_! So, don't do that on Win32.
38800 - Change version parsing logic: a version is "obsolete" if it is not
38801 recommended and (1) there is a newer recommended version in the
38802 same series, or (2) there are no recommended versions in the same
38803 series, but there are some recommended versions in a newer series.
38804 A version is "new" if it is newer than any recommended version in
38806 - Stop most cases of hanging up on a socks connection without sending
38810 - Require BandwidthRate to be at least 20kB/s for servers.
38811 - When a dirserver causes you to give a warn, mention which dirserver
38813 - New config option DirAllowPrivateAddresses for authdirservers.
38814 Now by default they refuse router descriptors that have non-IP or
38815 private-IP addresses.
38816 - Stop publishing socksport in the directory, since it's not
38817 actually meant to be public. For compatibility, publish a 0 there
38819 - Change DirFetchPeriod/StatusFetchPeriod to have a special "Be
38820 smart" value, that is low for servers and high for clients.
38821 - If our clock jumps forward by 100 seconds or more, assume something
38822 has gone wrong with our network and abandon all not-yet-used circs.
38823 - Warn when exit policy implicitly allows local addresses.
38824 - If we get an incredibly skewed timestamp from a dirserver mirror
38825 that isn't a verified OR, don't warn -- it's probably him that's
38827 - Since we ship our own Privoxy on OS X, tweak it so it doesn't write
38828 cookies to disk and doesn't log each web request to disk. (Thanks
38829 to Brett Carrington for pointing this out.)
38830 - When a client asks us for a dir mirror and we don't have one,
38831 launch an attempt to get a fresh one.
38832 - If we're hibernating and we get a SIGINT, exit immediately.
38833 - Add --with-dmalloc ./configure option, to track memory leaks.
38834 - And try to free all memory on closing, so we can detect what
38836 - Cache local dns resolves correctly even when they're .exit
38838 - Give a better warning when some other server advertises an
38839 ORPort that is actually an apache running ssl.
38840 - Add "opt hibernating 1" to server descriptor to make it clearer
38841 whether the server is hibernating.
38844 Changes in version 0.0.9.6 - 2005-03-24
38845 o Bugfixes on 0.0.9.x (crashes and asserts):
38846 - Add new end stream reasons to maintenance branch. Fix bug where
38847 reason (8) could trigger an assert. Prevent bug from recurring.
38848 - Apparently win32 stat wants paths to not end with a slash.
38849 - Fix assert triggers in assert_cpath_layer_ok(), where we were
38850 blowing away the circuit that conn->cpath_layer points to, then
38851 checking to see if the circ is well-formed. Backport check to make
38852 sure we dont use the cpath on a closed connection.
38853 - Prevent circuit_resume_edge_reading_helper() from trying to package
38854 inbufs for marked-for-close streams.
38855 - Don't crash on hup if your options->address has become unresolvable.
38856 - Some systems (like OS X) sometimes accept() a connection and tell
38857 you the remote host is 0.0.0.0:0. If this happens, due to some
38858 other mis-features, we get confused; so refuse the conn for now.
38860 o Bugfixes on 0.0.9.x (other):
38861 - Fix harmless but scary "Unrecognized content encoding" warn message.
38862 - Add new stream error reason: TORPROTOCOL reason means "you are not
38863 speaking a version of Tor I understand; say bye-bye to your stream."
38864 - Be willing to cache directories from up to ROUTER_MAX_AGE seconds
38865 into the future, now that we are more tolerant of skew. This
38866 resolves a bug where a Tor server would refuse to cache a directory
38867 because all the directories it gets are too far in the future;
38868 yet the Tor server never logs any complaints about clock skew.
38869 - Mac packaging magic: make man pages useable, and do not overwrite
38870 existing torrc files.
38871 - Make OS X log happily to /var/log/tor/tor.log
38874 Changes in version 0.0.9.5 - 2005-02-22
38875 o Bugfixes on 0.0.9.x:
38876 - Fix an assert race at exit nodes when resolve requests fail.
38877 - Stop picking unverified dir mirrors--it only leads to misery.
38878 - Patch from Matt Edman to make NT services work better. Service
38879 support is still not compiled into the executable by default.
38880 - Patch from Dmitri Bely so the Tor service runs better under
38881 the win32 SYSTEM account.
38882 - Make tor-resolve actually work (?) on Win32.
38883 - Fix a sign bug when getrlimit claims to have 4+ billion
38884 file descriptors available.
38885 - Stop refusing to start when bandwidthburst == bandwidthrate.
38886 - When create cells have been on the onion queue more than five
38887 seconds, just send back a destroy and take them off the list.
38890 Changes in version 0.0.9.4 - 2005-02-03
38891 o Bugfixes on 0.0.9:
38892 - Fix an assert bug that took down most of our servers: when
38893 a server claims to have 1 GB of bandwidthburst, don't
38895 - Don't crash as badly if we have spawned the max allowed number
38896 of dnsworkers, or we're out of file descriptors.
38897 - Block more file-sharing ports in the default exit policy.
38898 - MaxConn is now automatically set to the hard limit of max
38899 file descriptors we're allowed (ulimit -n), minus a few for
38901 - Give a clearer message when servers need to raise their
38902 ulimit -n when they start running out of file descriptors.
38903 - SGI Compatibility patches from Jan Schaumann.
38904 - Tolerate a corrupt cached directory better.
38905 - When a dirserver hasn't approved your server, list which one.
38906 - Go into soft hibernation after 95% of the bandwidth is used,
38907 not 99%. This is especially important for daily hibernators who
38908 have a small accounting max. Hopefully it will result in fewer
38909 cut connections when the hard hibernation starts.
38910 - Load-balance better when using servers that claim more than
38911 800kB/s of capacity.
38912 - Make NT services work (experimental, only used if compiled in).
38915 Changes in version 0.0.9.3 - 2005-01-21
38916 o Bugfixes on 0.0.9:
38917 - Backport the cpu use fixes from main branch, so busy servers won't
38918 need as much processor time.
38919 - Work better when we go offline and then come back, or when we
38920 run Tor at boot before the network is up. We do this by
38921 optimistically trying to fetch a new directory whenever an
38922 application request comes in and we think we're offline -- the
38923 human is hopefully a good measure of when the network is back.
38924 - Backport some minimal hidserv bugfixes: keep rend circuits open as
38925 long as you keep using them; actually publish hidserv descriptors
38926 shortly after they change, rather than waiting 20-40 minutes.
38927 - Enable Mac startup script by default.
38928 - Fix duplicate dns_cancel_pending_resolve reported by Giorgos Pallas.
38929 - When you update AllowUnverifiedNodes or FirewallPorts via the
38930 controller's setconf feature, we were always appending, never
38932 - When you update HiddenServiceDir via setconf, it was screwing up
38933 the order of reading the lines, making it fail.
38934 - Do not rewrite a cached directory back to the cache; otherwise we
38935 will think it is recent and not fetch a newer one on startup.
38936 - Workaround for webservers that lie about Content-Encoding: Tor
38937 now tries to autodetect compressed directories and compression
38938 itself. This lets us Proxypass dir fetches through apache.
38941 Changes in version 0.0.9.2 - 2005-01-04
38942 o Bugfixes on 0.0.9 (crashes and asserts):
38943 - Fix an assert on startup when the disk is full and you're logging
38945 - If you do socks4 with an IP of 0.0.0.x but *don't* provide a socks4a
38946 style address, then we'd crash.
38947 - Fix an assert trigger when the running-routers string we get from
38948 a dirserver is broken.
38949 - Make worker threads start and run on win32. Now win32 servers
38951 - Bandaid (not actually fix, but now it doesn't crash) an assert
38952 where the dns worker dies mysteriously and the main Tor process
38953 doesn't remember anything about the address it was resolving.
38955 o Bugfixes on 0.0.9 (Win32):
38956 - Workaround for brain-damaged __FILE__ handling on MSVC: keep Nick's
38957 name out of the warning/assert messages.
38958 - Fix a superficial "unhandled error on read" bug on win32.
38959 - The win32 installer no longer requires a click-through for our
38960 license, since our Free Software license grants rights but does not
38962 - Win32: When connecting to a dirserver fails, try another one
38963 immediately. (This was already working for non-win32 Tors.)
38964 - Stop trying to parse $HOME on win32 when hunting for default
38966 - Make tor-resolve.c work on win32 by calling network_init().
38968 o Bugfixes on 0.0.9 (other):
38969 - Make 0.0.9.x build on Solaris again.
38970 - Due to a fencepost error, we were blowing away the \n when reporting
38971 confvalue items in the controller. So asking for multiple config
38972 values at once couldn't work.
38973 - When listing circuits that are pending on an opening OR connection,
38974 if we're an OR we were listing circuits that *end* at us as
38975 being pending on every listener, dns/cpu worker, etc. Stop that.
38976 - Dirservers were failing to create 'running-routers' or 'directory'
38977 strings if we had more than some threshold of routers. Fix them so
38978 they can handle any number of routers.
38979 - Fix a superficial "Duplicate mark for close" bug.
38980 - Stop checking for clock skew for OR connections, even for servers.
38981 - Fix a fencepost error that was chopping off the last letter of any
38982 nickname that is the maximum allowed nickname length.
38983 - Update URLs in log messages so they point to the new website.
38984 - Fix a potential problem in mangling server private keys while
38985 writing to disk (not triggered yet, as far as we know).
38986 - Include the licenses for other free software we include in Tor,
38987 now that we're shipping binary distributions more regularly.
38990 Changes in version 0.0.9.1 - 2004-12-15
38991 o Bugfixes on 0.0.9:
38992 - Make hibernation actually work.
38993 - Make HashedControlPassword config option work.
38994 - When we're reporting event circuit status to a controller,
38995 don't use the stream status code.
38998 Changes in version 0.0.9 - 2004-12-12
39000 - Clean up manpage and torrc.sample file.
39001 - Clean up severities and text of log warnings.
39003 - Make servers trigger an assert when they enter hibernation.
39006 Changes in version 0.0.9rc7 - 2004-12-08
39007 o Bugfixes on 0.0.9rc:
39008 - Fix a stack-trashing crash when an exit node begins hibernating.
39009 - Avoid looking at unallocated memory while considering which
39010 ports we need to build circuits to cover.
39011 - Stop a sigpipe: when an 'end' cell races with eof from the app,
39012 we shouldn't hold-open-until-flush if the eof arrived first.
39013 - Fix a bug with init_cookie_authentication() in the controller.
39014 - When recommending new-format log lines, if the upper bound is
39015 LOG_ERR, leave it implicit.
39017 o Bugfixes on 0.0.8.1:
39018 - Fix a whole slew of memory leaks.
39019 - Fix isspace() and friends so they still make Solaris happy
39020 but also so they don't trigger asserts on win32.
39021 - Fix parse_iso_time on platforms without strptime (eg win32).
39022 - win32: tolerate extra "readable" events better.
39023 - win32: when being multithreaded, leave parent fdarray open.
39024 - Make unit tests work on win32.
39027 Changes in version 0.0.9rc6 - 2004-12-06
39028 o Bugfixes on 0.0.9pre:
39029 - Clean up some more integer underflow opportunities (not exploitable
39031 - While hibernating, hup should not regrow our listeners.
39032 - Send an end to the streams we close when we hibernate, rather
39033 than just chopping them off.
39034 - React to eof immediately on non-open edge connections.
39036 o Bugfixes on 0.0.8.1:
39037 - Calculate timeout for waiting for a connected cell from the time
39038 we sent the begin cell, not from the time the stream started. If
39039 it took a long time to establish the circuit, we would time out
39040 right after sending the begin cell.
39041 - Fix router_compare_addr_to_addr_policy: it was not treating a port
39042 of * as always matching, so we were picking reject *:* nodes as
39043 exit nodes too. Oops.
39046 - New circuit building strategy: keep a list of ports that we've
39047 used in the past 6 hours, and always try to have 2 circuits open
39048 or on the way that will handle each such port. Seed us with port
39049 80 so web users won't complain that Tor is "slow to start up".
39050 - Make kill -USR1 dump more useful stats about circuits.
39051 - When warning about retrying or giving up, print the address, so
39052 the user knows which one it's talking about.
39053 - If you haven't used a clean circuit in an hour, throw it away,
39054 just to be on the safe side. (This means after 6 hours a totally
39055 unused Tor client will have no circuits open.)
39058 Changes in version 0.0.9rc5 - 2004-12-01
39059 o Bugfixes on 0.0.8.1:
39060 - Disallow NDEBUG. We don't ever want anybody to turn off debug.
39061 - Let resolve conns retry/expire also, rather than sticking around
39063 - If we are using select, make sure we stay within FD_SETSIZE.
39065 o Bugfixes on 0.0.9pre:
39066 - Fix integer underflow in tor_vsnprintf() that may be exploitable,
39067 but doesn't seem to be currently; thanks to Ilja van Sprundel for
39069 - If anybody set DirFetchPostPeriod, give them StatusFetchPeriod
39070 instead. Impose minima and maxima for all *Period options; impose
39071 even tighter maxima for fetching if we are a caching dirserver.
39072 Clip rather than rejecting.
39073 - Fetch cached running-routers from servers that serve it (that is,
39074 authdirservers and servers running 0.0.9rc5-cvs or later.)
39077 - Accept *:706 (silc) in default exit policy.
39078 - Implement new versioning format for post 0.1.
39079 - Support "foo.nickname.exit" addresses, to let Alice request the
39080 address "foo" as viewed by exit node "nickname". Based on a patch
39082 - Make tor --version --version dump the cvs Id of every file.
39085 Changes in version 0.0.9rc4 - 2004-11-28
39086 o Bugfixes on 0.0.8.1:
39087 - Make windows sockets actually non-blocking (oops), and handle
39088 win32 socket errors better.
39090 o Bugfixes on 0.0.9rc1:
39091 - Actually catch the -USR2 signal.
39094 Changes in version 0.0.9rc3 - 2004-11-25
39095 o Bugfixes on 0.0.8.1:
39096 - Flush the log file descriptor after we print "Tor opening log file",
39097 so we don't see those messages days later.
39099 o Bugfixes on 0.0.9rc1:
39100 - Make tor-resolve work again.
39101 - Avoid infinite loop in tor-resolve if tor hangs up on it.
39102 - Fix an assert trigger for clients/servers handling resolves.
39105 Changes in version 0.0.9rc2 - 2004-11-24
39106 o Bugfixes on 0.0.9rc1:
39107 - I broke socks5 support while fixing the eof bug.
39108 - Allow unitless bandwidths and intervals; they default to bytes
39110 - New servers don't start out hibernating; they are active until
39111 they run out of bytes, so they have a better estimate of how
39112 long it takes, and so their operators can know they're working.
39115 Changes in version 0.0.9rc1 - 2004-11-23
39116 o Bugfixes on 0.0.8.1:
39117 - Finally fix a bug that's been plaguing us for a year:
39118 With high load, circuit package window was reaching 0. Whenever
39119 we got a circuit-level sendme, we were reading a lot on each
39120 socket, but only writing out a bit. So we would eventually reach
39121 eof. This would be noticed and acted on even when there were still
39122 bytes sitting in the inbuf.
39123 - When poll() is interrupted, we shouldn't believe the revents values.
39125 o Bugfixes on 0.0.9pre6:
39126 - Fix hibernate bug that caused pre6 to be broken.
39127 - Don't keep rephist info for routers that haven't had activity for
39128 24 hours. (This matters now that clients have keys, since we track
39130 - Never call close_temp_logs while validating log options.
39131 - Fix backslash-escaping on tor.sh.in and torctl.in.
39134 - Implement weekly/monthly/daily accounting: now you specify your
39135 hibernation properties by
39136 AccountingMax N bytes|KB|MB|GB|TB
39137 AccountingStart day|week|month [day] HH:MM
39138 Defaults to "month 1 0:00".
39139 - Let bandwidth and interval config options be specified as 5 bytes,
39140 kb, kilobytes, etc; and as seconds, minutes, hours, days, weeks.
39141 - kill -USR2 now moves all logs to loglevel debug (kill -HUP to
39142 get back to normal.)
39143 - If your requested entry or exit node has advertised bandwidth 0,
39145 - Be more greedy about filling up relay cells -- we try reading again
39146 once we've processed the stuff we read, in case enough has arrived
39147 to fill the last cell completely.
39148 - Apply NT service patch from Osamu Fujino. Still needs more work.
39151 Changes in version 0.0.9pre6 - 2004-11-15
39152 o Bugfixes on 0.0.8.1:
39153 - Fix assert failure on malformed socks4a requests.
39154 - Use identity comparison, not nickname comparison, to choose which
39155 half of circuit-ID-space each side gets to use. This is needed
39156 because sometimes we think of a router as a nickname, and sometimes
39157 as a hex ID, and we can't predict what the other side will do.
39158 - Catch and ignore SIGXFSZ signals when log files exceed 2GB; our
39159 write() call will fail and we handle it there.
39160 - Add a FAST_SMARTLIST define to optionally inline smartlist_get
39161 and smartlist_len, which are two major profiling offenders.
39163 o Bugfixes on 0.0.9pre5:
39164 - Fix a bug in read_all that was corrupting config files on windows.
39165 - When we're raising the max number of open file descriptors to
39166 'unlimited', don't log that we just raised it to '-1'.
39167 - Include event code with events, as required by control-spec.txt.
39168 - Don't give a fingerprint when clients do --list-fingerprint:
39169 it's misleading, because it will never be the same again.
39170 - Stop using strlcpy in tor_strndup, since it was slowing us
39172 - Remove warn on startup about missing cached-directory file.
39173 - Make kill -USR1 work again.
39174 - Hibernate if we start tor during the "wait for wakeup-time" phase
39175 of an accounting interval. Log our hibernation plans better.
39176 - Authoritative dirservers now also cache their directory, so they
39177 have it on start-up.
39180 - Fetch running-routers; cache running-routers; compress
39181 running-routers; serve compressed running-routers.z
39182 - Add NSI installer script contributed by J Doe.
39183 - Commit VC6 and VC7 workspace/project files.
39184 - Commit a tor.spec for making RPM files, with help from jbash.
39185 - Add contrib/torctl.in contributed by Glenn Fink.
39186 - Implement the control-spec's SAVECONF command, to write your
39187 configuration to torrc.
39188 - Get cookie authentication for the controller closer to working.
39189 - Include control-spec.txt in the tarball.
39190 - When set_conf changes our server descriptor, upload a new copy.
39191 But don't upload it too often if there are frequent changes.
39192 - Document authentication config in man page, and document signals
39194 - Clean up confusing parts of man page and torrc.sample.
39195 - Make expand_filename handle ~ and ~username.
39196 - Use autoconf to enable largefile support where necessary. Use
39197 ftello where available, since ftell can fail at 2GB.
39198 - Distinguish between TOR_TLS_CLOSE and TOR_TLS_ERROR, so we can
39199 log more informatively.
39200 - Give a slightly more useful output for "tor -h".
39201 - Refuse application socks connections to port 0.
39202 - Check clock skew for verified servers, but allow unverified
39203 servers and clients to have any clock skew.
39204 - Break DirFetchPostPeriod into:
39205 - DirFetchPeriod for fetching full directory,
39206 - StatusFetchPeriod for fetching running-routers,
39207 - DirPostPeriod for posting server descriptor,
39208 - RendPostPeriod for posting hidden service descriptors.
39209 - Make sure the hidden service descriptors are at a random offset
39210 from each other, to hinder linkability.
39213 Changes in version 0.0.9pre5 - 2004-11-09
39214 o Bugfixes on 0.0.9pre4:
39215 - Fix a seg fault in unit tests (doesn't affect main program).
39216 - Fix an assert bug where a hidden service provider would fail if
39217 the first hop of his rendezvous circuit was down.
39218 - Hidden service operators now correctly handle version 1 style
39219 INTRODUCE1 cells (nobody generates them still, so not a critical
39221 - If do_hup fails, actually notice.
39222 - Handle more errnos from accept() without closing the listener.
39223 Some OpenBSD machines were closing their listeners because
39224 they ran out of file descriptors.
39225 - Send resolve cells to exit routers that are running a new
39226 enough version of the resolve code to work right.
39227 - Better handling of winsock includes on non-MSV win32 compilers.
39228 - Some people had wrapped their tor client/server in a script
39229 that would restart it whenever it died. This did not play well
39230 with our "shut down if your version is obsolete" code. Now people
39231 don't fetch a new directory if their local cached version is
39233 - Make our autogen.sh work on ksh as well as bash.
39236 - Hibernation: New config option "AccountingMaxKB" lets you
39237 set how many KBytes per month you want to allow your server to
39238 consume. Rather than spreading those bytes out evenly over the
39239 month, we instead hibernate for some of the month and pop up
39240 at a deterministic time, work until the bytes are consumed, then
39241 hibernate again. Config option "MonthlyAccountingStart" lets you
39242 specify which day of the month your billing cycle starts on.
39243 - Control interface: a separate program can now talk to your
39244 client/server over a socket, and get/set config options, receive
39245 notifications of circuits and streams starting/finishing/dying,
39246 bandwidth used, etc. The next step is to get some GUIs working.
39247 Let us know if you want to help out. See doc/control-spec.txt .
39248 - Ship a contrib/tor-control.py as an example script to interact
39249 with the control port.
39250 - "tor --hash-password zzyxz" will output a salted password for
39251 use in authenticating to the control interface.
39252 - New log format in config:
39253 "Log minsev[-maxsev] stdout|stderr|syslog" or
39254 "Log minsev[-maxsev] file /var/foo"
39257 - DirPolicy config option, to let people reject incoming addresses
39258 from their dirserver.
39259 - "tor --list-fingerprint" will list your identity key fingerprint
39261 - Add "pass" target for RedirectExit, to make it easier to break
39262 out of a sequence of RedirectExit rules.
39263 - Clients now generate a TLS cert too, in preparation for having
39264 them act more like real nodes.
39265 - Ship src/win32/ in the tarball, so people can use it to build.
39266 - Make old win32 fall back to CWD if SHGetSpecialFolderLocation
39268 - New "router-status" line in directory, to better bind each verified
39269 nickname to its identity key.
39270 - Deprecate unofficial config option abbreviations, and abbreviations
39271 not on the command line.
39272 - Add a pure-C tor-resolve implementation.
39273 - Use getrlimit and friends to ensure we can reach MaxConn (currently
39274 1024) file descriptors.
39276 o Code security improvements, inspired by Ilja:
39277 - Replace sprintf with snprintf. (I think they were all safe, but
39279 - Replace strcpy/strncpy with strlcpy in more places.
39280 - Avoid strcat; use snprintf or strlcat instead.
39281 - snprintf wrapper with consistent (though not C99) overflow behavior.
39284 Changes in version 0.0.9pre4 - 2004-10-17
39285 o Bugfixes on 0.0.9pre3:
39286 - If the server doesn't specify an exit policy, use the real default
39287 exit policy, not reject *:*.
39288 - Ignore fascistfirewall when uploading/downloading hidden service
39289 descriptors, since we go through Tor for those; and when using
39290 an HttpProxy, since we assume it can reach them all.
39291 - When looking for an authoritative dirserver, use only the ones
39292 configured at boot. Don't bother looking in the directory.
39293 - The rest of the fix for get_default_conf_file() on older win32.
39294 - Make 'Routerfile' config option obsolete.
39297 - New 'MyFamily nick1,...' config option for a server to
39298 specify other servers that shouldn't be used in the same circuit
39299 with it. Only believed if nick1 also specifies us.
39300 - New 'NodeFamily nick1,nick2,...' config option for a client to
39301 specify nodes that it doesn't want to use in the same circuit.
39302 - New 'Redirectexit pattern address:port' config option for a
39303 server to redirect exit connections, e.g. to a local squid.
39306 Changes in version 0.0.9pre3 - 2004-10-13
39307 o Bugfixes on 0.0.8.1:
39308 - Better torrc example lines for dirbindaddress and orbindaddress.
39309 - Improved bounds checking on parsed ints (e.g. config options and
39310 the ones we find in directories.)
39311 - Better handling of size_t vs int, so we're more robust on 64
39313 - Fix the rest of the bug where a newly started OR would appear
39314 as unverified even after we've added his fingerprint and hupped
39316 - Fix a bug from 0.0.7: when read() failed on a stream, we would
39317 close it without sending back an end. So 'connection refused'
39318 would simply be ignored and the user would get no response.
39320 o Bugfixes on 0.0.9pre2:
39321 - Serving the cached-on-disk directory to people is bad. We now
39322 provide no directory until we've fetched a fresh one.
39323 - Workaround for bug on windows where cached-directories get crlf
39325 - Make get_default_conf_file() work on older windows too.
39326 - If we write a *:* exit policy line in the descriptor, don't write
39327 any more exit policy lines.
39330 - Use only 0.0.9pre1 and later servers for resolve cells.
39331 - Make the dirservers file obsolete.
39332 - Include a dir-signing-key token in directories to tell the
39333 parsing entity which key is being used to sign.
39334 - Remove the built-in bulky default dirservers string.
39335 - New config option "Dirserver %s:%d [fingerprint]", which can be
39336 repeated as many times as needed. If no dirservers specified,
39337 default to moria1,moria2,tor26.
39338 - Make moria2 advertise a dirport of 80, so people behind firewalls
39339 will be able to get a directory.
39340 - Http proxy support
39341 - Dirservers translate requests for http://%s:%d/x to /x
39342 - You can specify "HttpProxy %s[:%d]" and all dir fetches will
39343 be routed through this host.
39344 - Clients ask for /tor/x rather than /x for new enough dirservers.
39345 This way we can one day coexist peacefully with apache.
39346 - Clients specify a "Host: %s%d" http header, to be compatible
39347 with more proxies, and so running squid on an exit node can work.
39350 Changes in version 0.0.8.1 - 2004-10-13
39352 - Fix a seg fault that can be triggered remotely for Tor
39353 clients/servers with an open dirport.
39354 - Fix a rare assert trigger, where routerinfos for entries in
39355 our cpath would expire while we're building the path.
39356 - Fix a bug in OutboundBindAddress so it (hopefully) works.
39357 - Fix a rare seg fault for people running hidden services on
39358 intermittent connections.
39359 - Fix a bug in parsing opt keywords with objects.
39360 - Fix a stale pointer assert bug when a stream detaches and
39362 - Fix a string format vulnerability (probably not exploitable)
39363 in reporting stats locally.
39364 - Fix an assert trigger: sometimes launching circuits can fail
39365 immediately, e.g. because too many circuits have failed recently.
39366 - Fix a compile warning on 64 bit platforms.
39369 Changes in version 0.0.9pre2 - 2004-10-03
39371 - Make fetching a cached directory work for 64-bit platforms too.
39372 - Make zlib.h a required header, not an optional header.
39375 Changes in version 0.0.9pre1 - 2004-10-01
39377 - Stop using separate defaults for no-config-file and
39378 empty-config-file. Now you have to explicitly turn off SocksPort,
39379 if you don't want it open.
39380 - Fix a bug in OutboundBindAddress so it (hopefully) works.
39381 - Improve man page to mention more of the 0.0.8 features.
39382 - Fix a rare seg fault for people running hidden services on
39383 intermittent connections.
39384 - Change our file IO stuff (especially wrt OpenSSL) so win32 is
39386 - Fix more dns related bugs: send back resolve_failed and end cells
39387 more reliably when the resolve fails, rather than closing the
39388 circuit and then trying to send the cell. Also attach dummy resolve
39389 connections to a circuit *before* calling dns_resolve(), to fix
39390 a bug where cached answers would never be sent in RESOLVED cells.
39391 - When we run out of disk space, or other log writing error, don't
39392 crash. Just stop logging to that log and continue.
39393 - We were starting to daemonize before we opened our logs, so if
39394 there were any problems opening logs, we would complain to stderr,
39395 which wouldn't work, and then mysteriously exit.
39396 - Fix a rare bug where sometimes a verified OR would connect to us
39397 before he'd uploaded his descriptor, which would cause us to
39398 assign conn->nickname as though he's unverified. Now we look through
39399 the fingerprint list to see if he's there.
39400 - Fix a rare assert trigger, where routerinfos for entries in
39401 our cpath would expire while we're building the path.
39404 - Clients can ask dirservers for /dir.z to get a compressed version
39405 of the directory. Only works for servers running 0.0.9, of course.
39406 - Make clients cache directories and use them to seed their router
39407 lists at startup. This means clients have a datadir again.
39408 - Configuration infrastructure support for warning on obsolete
39410 - Respond to content-encoding headers by trying to uncompress as
39412 - Reply with a deflated directory when a client asks for "dir.z".
39413 We could use allow-encodings instead, but allow-encodings isn't
39414 specified in HTTP 1.0.
39415 - Raise the max dns workers from 50 to 100.
39416 - Discourage people from setting their dirfetchpostperiod more often
39417 than once per minute.
39418 - Protect dirservers from overzealous descriptor uploading -- wait
39419 10 seconds after directory gets dirty, before regenerating.
39422 Changes in version 0.0.8 - 2004-08-25
39423 o Port it to SunOS 5.9 / Athena
39426 Changes in version 0.0.8rc2 - 2004-08-20
39427 o Make it compile on cygwin again.
39428 o When picking unverified routers, skip those with low uptime and/or
39429 low bandwidth, depending on what properties you care about.
39432 Changes in version 0.0.8rc1 - 2004-08-18
39433 o Changes from 0.0.7.3:
39435 - Fix assert triggers: if the other side returns an address 0.0.0.0,
39436 don't put it into the client dns cache.
39437 - If a begin failed due to exit policy, but we believe the IP address
39438 should have been allowed, switch that router to exitpolicy reject *:*
39439 until we get our next directory.
39441 - Clients choose nodes proportional to advertised bandwidth.
39442 - Avoid using nodes with low uptime as introduction points.
39443 - Handle servers with dynamic IP addresses: don't replace
39444 options->Address with the resolved one at startup, and
39445 detect our address right before we make a routerinfo each time.
39446 - 'FascistFirewall' option to pick dirservers and ORs on specific
39447 ports; plus 'FirewallPorts' config option to tell FascistFirewall
39448 which ports are open. (Defaults to 80,443)
39449 - Be more aggressive about trying to make circuits when the network
39450 has changed (e.g. when you unsuspend your laptop).
39451 - Check for time skew on http headers; report date in response to
39453 - If the entrynode config line has only one node, don't pick it as
39455 - Add strict{entry|exit}nodes config options. If set to 1, then
39456 we refuse to build circuits that don't include the specified entry
39458 - OutboundBindAddress config option, to bind to a specific
39459 IP address for outgoing connect()s.
39460 - End truncated log entries (e.g. directories) with "[truncated]".
39462 o Patches to 0.0.8preX:
39464 - Patches to compile and run on win32 again (maybe)?
39465 - Fix crash when looking for ~/.torrc with no $HOME set.
39466 - Fix a race bug in the unit tests.
39467 - Handle verified/unverified name collisions better when new
39468 routerinfo's arrive in a directory.
39469 - Sometimes routers were getting entered into the stats before
39470 we'd assigned their identity_digest. Oops.
39471 - Only pick and establish intro points after we've gotten a
39474 - AllowUnverifiedNodes config option to let circuits choose no-name
39475 routers in entry,middle,exit,introduction,rendezvous positions.
39476 Allow middle and rendezvous positions by default.
39477 - Add a man page for tor-resolve.
39480 Changes in version 0.0.7.3 - 2004-08-12
39481 o Stop dnsworkers from triggering an assert failure when you
39482 ask them to resolve the host "".
39485 Changes in version 0.0.8pre3 - 2004-08-09
39486 o Changes from 0.0.7.2:
39487 - Allow multiple ORs with same nickname in routerlist -- now when
39488 people give us one identity key for a nickname, then later
39489 another, we don't constantly complain until the first expires.
39490 - Remember used bandwidth (both in and out), and publish 15-minute
39491 snapshots for the past day into our descriptor.
39492 - You can now fetch $DIRURL/running-routers to get just the
39493 running-routers line, not the whole descriptor list. (But
39494 clients don't use this yet.)
39495 - When people mistakenly use Tor as an http proxy, point them
39496 at the tor-doc.html rather than the INSTALL.
39497 - Remove our mostly unused -- and broken -- hex_encode()
39498 function. Use base16_encode() instead. (Thanks to Timo Lindfors
39499 for pointing out this bug.)
39500 - Rotate onion keys every 12 hours, not every 2 hours, so we have
39501 fewer problems with people using the wrong key.
39502 - Change the default exit policy to reject the default edonkey,
39503 kazaa, gnutella ports.
39504 - Add replace_file() to util.[ch] to handle win32's rename().
39506 o Changes from 0.0.8preX:
39507 - Fix two bugs in saving onion keys to disk when rotating, so
39508 hopefully we'll get fewer people using old onion keys.
39509 - Fix an assert error that was making SocksPolicy not work.
39510 - Be willing to expire routers that have an open dirport -- it's
39511 just the authoritative dirservers we want to not forget.
39512 - Reject tor-resolve requests for .onion addresses early, so we
39513 don't build a whole rendezvous circuit and then fail.
39514 - When you're warning a server that he's unverified, don't cry
39515 wolf unpredictably.
39516 - Fix a race condition: don't try to extend onto a connection
39517 that's still handshaking.
39518 - For servers in clique mode, require the conn to be open before
39519 you'll choose it for your path.
39520 - Fix some cosmetic bugs about duplicate mark-for-close, lack of
39521 end relay cell, etc.
39522 - Measure bandwidth capacity over the last 24 hours, not just 12
39523 - Bugfix: authoritative dirservers were making and signing a new
39524 directory for each client, rather than reusing the cached one.
39527 Changes in version 0.0.8pre2 - 2004-08-04
39528 o Changes from 0.0.7.2:
39530 - Check directory signature _before_ you decide whether you're
39531 you're running an obsolete version and should exit.
39532 - Check directory signature _before_ you parse the running-routers
39533 list to decide who's running or verified.
39534 - Bugfixes and features:
39535 - Check return value of fclose while writing to disk, so we don't
39536 end up with broken files when servers run out of disk space.
39537 - Log a warning if the user uses an unsafe socks variant, so people
39538 are more likely to learn about privoxy or socat.
39539 - Dirservers now include RFC1123-style dates in the HTTP headers,
39540 which one day we will use to better detect clock skew.
39542 o Changes from 0.0.8pre1:
39543 - Make it compile without warnings again on win32.
39544 - Log a warning if you're running an unverified server, to let you
39545 know you might want to get it verified.
39546 - Only pick a default nickname if you plan to be a server.
39549 Changes in version 0.0.8pre1 - 2004-07-23
39551 - Made our unit tests compile again on OpenBSD 3.5, and tor
39552 itself compile again on OpenBSD on a sparc64.
39553 - We were neglecting milliseconds when logging on win32, so
39554 everything appeared to happen at the beginning of each second.
39556 o Protocol changes:
39557 - 'Extend' relay cell payloads now include the digest of the
39558 intended next hop's identity key. Now we can verify that we're
39559 extending to the right router, and also extend to routers we
39560 hadn't heard of before.
39563 - Tor nodes can now act as relays (with an advertised ORPort)
39564 without being manually verified by the dirserver operators.
39565 - Uploaded descriptors of unverified routers are now accepted
39566 by the dirservers, and included in the directory.
39567 - Verified routers are listed by nickname in the running-routers
39568 list; unverified routers are listed as "$<fingerprint>".
39569 - We now use hash-of-identity-key in most places rather than
39570 nickname or addr:port, for improved security/flexibility.
39571 - To avoid Sybil attacks, paths still use only verified servers.
39572 But now we have a chance to play around with hybrid approaches.
39573 - Nodes track bandwidth usage to estimate capacity (not used yet).
39574 - ClientOnly option for nodes that never want to become servers.
39575 - Directory caching.
39576 - "AuthoritativeDir 1" option for the official dirservers.
39577 - Now other nodes (clients and servers) will cache the latest
39578 directory they've pulled down.
39579 - They can enable their DirPort to serve it to others.
39580 - Clients will pull down a directory from any node with an open
39581 DirPort, and check the signature/timestamp correctly.
39582 - Authoritative dirservers now fetch directories from other
39583 authdirservers, to stay better synced.
39584 - Running-routers list tells who's down also, along with noting
39585 if they're verified (listed by nickname) or unverified (listed
39587 - Allow dirservers to serve running-router list separately.
39588 This isn't used yet.
39589 - ORs connect-on-demand to other ORs
39590 - If you get an extend cell to an OR you're not connected to,
39591 connect, handshake, and forward the create cell.
39592 - The authoritative dirservers stay connected to everybody,
39593 and everybody stays connected to 0.0.7 servers, but otherwise
39594 clients/servers expire unused connections after 5 minutes.
39595 - When servers get a sigint, they delay 30 seconds (refusing new
39596 connections) then exit. A second sigint causes immediate exit.
39597 - File and name management:
39598 - Look for .torrc if no CONFDIR "torrc" is found.
39599 - If no datadir is defined, then choose, make, and secure ~/.tor
39601 - If torrc not found, exitpolicy reject *:*.
39602 - Expands ~/ in filenames to $HOME/ (but doesn't yet expand ~arma).
39603 - If no nickname is defined, derive default from hostname.
39604 - Rename secret key files, e.g. identity.key -> secret_id_key,
39605 to discourage people from mailing their identity key to tor-ops.
39606 - Refuse to build a circuit before the directory has arrived --
39607 it won't work anyway, since you won't know the right onion keys
39609 - Try other dirservers immediately if the one you try is down. This
39610 should tolerate down dirservers better now.
39611 - Parse tor version numbers so we can do an is-newer-than check
39612 rather than an is-in-the-list check.
39613 - New socks command 'resolve', to let us shim gethostbyname()
39615 - A 'tor_resolve' script to access the socks resolve functionality.
39616 - A new socks-extensions.txt doc file to describe our
39617 interpretation and extensions to the socks protocols.
39618 - Add a ContactInfo option, which gets published in descriptor.
39619 - Publish OR uptime in descriptor (and thus in directory) too.
39620 - Write tor version at the top of each log file
39621 - New docs in the tarball:
39623 - Document that you should proxy your SSL traffic too.
39626 Changes in version 0.0.7.2 - 2004-07-07
39627 o A better fix for the 0.0.0.0 problem, that will hopefully
39628 eliminate the remaining related assertion failures.
39631 Changes in version 0.0.7.1 - 2004-07-04
39632 o When an address resolves to 0.0.0.0, treat it as a failed resolve,
39633 since internally we use 0.0.0.0 to signify "not yet resolved".
39636 Changes in version 0.0.7 - 2004-06-07
39637 o Updated the man page to reflect the new features.
39640 Changes in version 0.0.7rc2 - 2004-06-06
39641 o Changes from 0.0.7rc1:
39642 - Make it build on Win32 again.
39643 o Changes from 0.0.6.2:
39644 - Rotate dnsworkers and cpuworkers on SIGHUP, so they get new config
39648 Changes in version 0.0.7rc1 - 2004-06-02
39650 - On sighup, we were adding another log without removing the first
39651 one. So log messages would get duplicated n times for n sighups.
39652 - Several cases of using a connection after we'd freed it. The
39653 problem was that connections that are pending resolve are in both
39654 the pending_resolve tree, and also the circuit's resolving_streams
39655 list. When you want to remove one, you must remove it from both.
39656 - Fix a double-mark-for-close where an end cell arrived for a
39657 resolving stream, and then the resolve failed.
39658 - Check directory signatures based on name of signer, not on whom
39659 we got the directory from. This will let us cache directories more
39662 - Crank up some of our constants to handle more users.
39665 Changes in version 0.0.7pre1 - 2004-06-02
39666 o Fixes for crashes and other obnoxious bugs:
39667 - Fix an epipe bug: sometimes when directory connections failed
39668 to connect, we would give them a chance to flush before closing
39670 - When we detached from a circuit because of resolvefailed, we
39671 would immediately try the same circuit twice more, and then
39672 give up on the resolve thinking we'd tried three different
39674 - Limit the number of intro circuits we'll attempt to build for a
39675 hidden service per 15-minute period.
39676 - Check recommended-software string *early*, before actually parsing
39677 the directory. Thus we can detect an obsolete version and exit,
39678 even if the new directory format doesn't parse.
39679 o Fixes for security bugs:
39680 - Remember which nodes are dirservers when you startup, and if a
39681 random OR enables his dirport, don't automatically assume he's
39682 a trusted dirserver.
39684 - Directory connections were asking the wrong poll socket to
39685 start writing, and not asking themselves to start writing.
39686 - When we detached from a circuit because we sent a begin but
39687 didn't get a connected, we would use it again the first time;
39688 but after that we would correctly switch to a different one.
39689 - Stop warning when the first onion decrypt attempt fails; they
39690 will sometimes legitimately fail now that we rotate keys.
39691 - Override unaligned-access-ok check when $host_cpu is ia64 or
39692 arm. Apparently they allow it but the kernel whines.
39693 - Dirservers try to reconnect periodically too, in case connections
39695 - Fix some memory leaks in directory servers.
39696 - Allow backslash in Win32 filenames.
39697 - Made Tor build complain-free on FreeBSD, hopefully without
39698 breaking other BSD builds. We'll see.
39700 - Doxygen markup on all functions and global variables.
39701 - Make directory functions update routerlist, not replace it. So
39702 now directory disagreements are not so critical a problem.
39703 - Remove the upper limit on number of descriptors in a dirserver's
39704 directory (not that we were anywhere close).
39705 - Allow multiple logfiles at different severity ranges.
39706 - Allow *BindAddress to specify ":port" rather than setting *Port
39707 separately. Allow multiple instances of each BindAddress config
39708 option, so you can bind to multiple interfaces if you want.
39709 - Allow multiple exit policy lines, which are processed in order.
39710 Now we don't need that huge line with all the commas in it.
39711 - Enable accept/reject policies on SOCKS connections, so you can bind
39712 to 0.0.0.0 but still control who can use your OP.
39715 Changes in version 0.0.6.2 - 2004-05-16
39716 o Our integrity-checking digest was checking only the most recent cell,
39717 not the previous cells like we'd thought.
39718 Thanks to Stefan Mark for finding the flaw!
39721 Changes in version 0.0.6.1 - 2004-05-06
39722 o Fix two bugs in our AES counter-mode implementation (this affected
39723 onion-level stream encryption, but not TLS-level). It turns
39724 out we were doing something much more akin to a 16-character
39725 polyalphabetic cipher. Oops.
39726 Thanks to Stefan Mark for finding the flaw!
39727 o Retire moria3 as a directory server, and add tor26 as a directory
39731 Changes in version 0.0.6 - 2004-05-02
39732 [version bump only]
39735 Changes in version 0.0.6rc4 - 2004-05-01
39736 o Update the built-in dirservers list to use the new directory format
39737 o Fix a rare seg fault: if a node offering a hidden service attempts
39738 to build a circuit to Alice's rendezvous point and fails before it
39739 reaches the last hop, it retries with a different circuit, but
39741 o Handle windows socket errors correctly.
39744 Changes in version 0.0.6rc3 - 2004-04-28
39745 o Don't expire non-general excess circuits (if we had enough
39746 circuits open, we were expiring rendezvous circuits -- even
39747 when they had a stream attached. oops.)
39748 o Fetch randomness from /dev/urandom better (not via fopen/fread)
39749 o Better debugging for tls errors
39750 o Some versions of openssl have an SSL_pending function that erroneously
39751 returns bytes when there is a non-application record pending.
39752 o Set Content-Type on the directory and hidserv descriptor.
39753 o Remove IVs from cipher code, since AES-ctr has none.
39754 o Win32 fixes. Tor now compiles on win32 with no warnings/errors.
39755 o We were using an array of length zero in a few places.
39756 o win32's gethostbyname can't resolve an IP to an IP.
39757 o win32's close can't close a socket.
39760 Changes in version 0.0.6rc2 - 2004-04-26
39761 o Fix a bug where we were closing tls connections intermittently.
39762 It turns out openssl keeps its errors around -- so if an error
39763 happens, and you don't ask about it, and then another openssl
39764 operation happens and succeeds, and you ask if there was an error,
39765 it tells you about the first error. Fun fun.
39766 o Fix a bug that's been lurking since 27 may 03 (!)
39767 When passing back a destroy cell, we would use the wrong circ id.
39768 'Mostly harmless', but still worth fixing.
39769 o Since we don't support truncateds much, don't bother sending them;
39770 just close the circ.
39771 o check for <machine/limits.h> so we build on NetBSD again (I hope).
39772 o don't crash if a conn that sent a begin has suddenly lost its circuit
39773 (this was quite rare).
39776 Changes in version 0.0.6rc1 - 2004-04-25
39777 o We now rotate link (tls context) keys and onion keys.
39778 o CREATE cells now include oaep padding, so you can tell
39779 if you decrypted them correctly.
39780 o Add bandwidthburst to server descriptor.
39781 o Directories now say which dirserver signed them.
39782 o Use a tor_assert macro that logs failed assertions too.
39785 Changes in version 0.0.6pre5 - 2004-04-18
39786 o changes from 0.0.6pre4:
39787 - make tor build on broken freebsd 5.2 installs
39788 - fix a failed assert when you try an intro point, get a nack, and try
39789 a second one and it works.
39790 - when alice uses a port that the hidden service doesn't accept,
39791 it now sends back an end cell (denied by exit policy). otherwise
39792 alice would just have to wait to time out.
39793 - fix another rare bug: when we had tried all the intro
39794 points for a hidden service, we fetched the descriptor
39795 again, but we left our introcirc thinking it had already
39796 sent an intro, so it kept waiting for a response...
39797 - bugfix: when you sleep your hidden-service laptop, as soon
39798 as it wakes up it tries to upload a service descriptor, but
39799 socketpair fails for some reason (localhost not up yet?).
39800 now we simply give up on that upload, and we'll try again later.
39801 i'd still like to find the bug though.
39802 - if an intro circ waiting for an ack dies before getting one, then
39804 - we were reusing stale service descriptors and refetching usable
39808 Changes in version 0.0.6pre4 - 2004-04-14
39809 o changes from 0.0.6pre3:
39810 - when bob fails to connect to the rendezvous point, and his
39811 circ didn't fail because of the rendezvous point itself, then
39812 he retries a couple of times
39813 - we expire introduction and rendezvous circs more thoroughly
39814 (sometimes they were hanging around forever)
39815 - we expire unattached rendezvous streams that have been around
39816 too long (they were sticking around forever).
39817 - fix a measly fencepost error that was crashing everybody with
39821 Changes in version 0.0.6pre3 - 2004-04-14
39822 o changes from 0.0.6pre2:
39823 - make hup work again
39824 - fix some memory leaks for dirservers
39825 - allow more skew in rendezvous descriptor timestamps, to help
39826 handle people like blanu who don't know what time it is
39827 - normal circs are 3 hops, but some rend/intro circs are 4, if
39828 the initiator doesn't get to choose the last hop
39829 - send acks for introductions, so alice can know whether to try
39831 - bob publishes intro points more correctly
39832 o changes from 0.0.5:
39833 - fix an assert trigger that's been plaguing us since the days
39834 of 0.0.2prexx (thanks weasel!)
39835 - retry stream correctly when we fail to connect because of
39836 exit-policy-reject (should try another) or can't-resolve-address
39837 (also should try another, because dns on random internet servers
39839 - when we hup a dirserver and we've *removed* a server from the
39840 approved-routers list, now we remove that server from the
39841 in-memory directories too
39844 Changes in version 0.0.6pre2 - 2004-04-08
39845 o We fixed our base32 implementation. Now it works on all architectures.
39848 Changes in version 0.0.6pre1 - 2004-04-08
39850 - Hidden services and rendezvous points are implemented. Go to
39851 http://6sxoyfb3h2nvok2d.onion/ for an index of currently available
39852 hidden services. (This only works via a socks4a proxy such as
39853 Privoxy, and currently it's quite slow.)
39856 Changes in version 0.0.5 - 2004-03-30
39857 [version bump only]
39860 Changes in version 0.0.5rc3 - 2004-03-29
39861 o Install torrc as torrc.sample -- we no longer clobber your
39863 o Re-enable recommendedversion checking (we broke it in rc2, oops)
39864 o Add in a 'notice' log level for things the operator should hear
39865 but that aren't warnings
39868 Changes in version 0.0.5rc2 - 2004-03-29
39869 o Hold socks connection open until reply is flushed (if possible)
39870 o Make exit nodes resolve IPs to IPs immediately, rather than asking
39871 the dns farm to do it.
39872 o Fix c99 aliasing warnings in rephist.c
39873 o Don't include server descriptors that are older than 24 hours in the
39875 o Give socks 'reject' replies their whole 15s to attempt to flush,
39876 rather than seeing the 60s timeout and assuming the flush had failed.
39877 o Clean automake droppings from the cvs repository
39880 Changes in version 0.0.5rc1 - 2004-03-28
39881 o Fix mangled-state bug in directory fetching (was causing sigpipes).
39882 o Only build circuits after we've fetched the directory: clients were
39883 using only the directory servers before they'd fetched a directory.
39884 This also means longer startup time; so it goes.
39885 o Fix an assert trigger where an OP would fail to handshake, and we'd
39886 expect it to have a nickname.
39887 o Work around a tsocks bug: do a socks reject when AP connection dies
39888 early, else tsocks goes into an infinite loop.
39891 Changes in version 0.0.4 - 2004-03-26
39892 o When connecting to a dirserver or OR and the network is down,
39896 Changes in version 0.0.3 - 2004-03-26
39897 o Warn and fail if server chose a nickname with illegal characters
39898 o Port to Solaris and Sparc:
39899 - include missing header fcntl.h
39900 - have autoconf find -lsocket -lnsl automatically
39901 - deal with hardware word alignment
39902 - make uname() work (solaris has a different return convention)
39903 - switch from using signal() to sigaction()
39904 o Preliminary work on reputation system:
39905 - Keep statistics on success/fail of connect attempts; they're published
39906 by kill -USR1 currently.
39907 - Add a RunTesting option to try to learn link state by creating test
39908 circuits, even when SocksPort is off.
39909 - Remove unused open circuits when there are too many.
39912 Changes in version 0.0.2 - 2004-03-19
39913 - Include strlcpy and strlcat for safer string ops
39914 - define INADDR_NONE so we compile (but still not run) on solaris
39917 Changes in version 0.0.2pre27 - 2004-03-14
39919 - Allow internal tor networks (we were rejecting internal IPs,
39920 now we allow them if they're set explicitly).
39921 - And fix a few endian issues.
39924 Changes in version 0.0.2pre26 - 2004-03-14
39926 - If a stream times out after 15s without a connected cell, don't
39927 try that circuit again: try a new one.
39928 - Retry streams at most 4 times. Then give up.
39929 - When a dirserver gets a descriptor from an unknown router, it
39930 logs its fingerprint (so the dirserver operator can choose to
39931 accept it even without mail from the server operator).
39932 - Inform unapproved servers when we reject their descriptors.
39933 - Make tor build on Windows again. It works as a client, who knows
39935 - Clearer instructions in the torrc for how to set up a server.
39936 - Be more efficient about reading fd's when our global token bucket
39937 (used for rate limiting) becomes empty.
39939 - Stop asserting that computers always go forward in time. It's
39941 - When we sent a cell (e.g. destroy) and then marked an OR connection
39942 expired, we might close it before finishing a flush if the other
39943 side isn't reading right then.
39944 - Don't allow dirservers to start if they haven't defined
39945 RecommendedVersions
39946 - We were caching transient dns failures. Oops.
39947 - Prevent servers from publishing an internal IP as their address.
39948 - Address a strcat vulnerability in circuit.c
39951 Changes in version 0.0.2pre25 - 2004-03-04
39953 - Put the OR's IP in its router descriptor, not its fqdn. That way
39954 we'll stop being stalled by gethostbyname for nodes with flaky dns,
39957 - If the user typed in an address that didn't resolve, the server
39961 Changes in version 0.0.2pre24 - 2004-03-03
39963 - Fix an assertion failure in dns.c, where we were trying to dequeue
39964 a pending dns resolve even if it wasn't pending
39965 - Fix a spurious socks5 warning about still trying to write after the
39966 connection is finished.
39967 - Hold certain marked_for_close connections open until they're finished
39968 flushing, rather than losing bytes by closing them too early.
39969 - Correctly report the reason for ending a stream
39970 - Remove some duplicate calls to connection_mark_for_close
39971 - Put switch_id and start_daemon earlier in the boot sequence, so it
39972 will actually try to chdir() to options.DataDirectory
39973 - Make 'make test' exit(1) if a test fails; fix some unit tests
39974 - Make tor fail when you use a config option it doesn't know about,
39975 rather than warn and continue.
39976 - Make --version work
39977 - Bugfixes on the rpm spec file and tor.sh, so it's more up to date
39980 Changes in version 0.0.2pre23 - 2004-02-29
39982 - Print a statement when the first circ is finished, so the user
39983 knows it's working.
39984 - If a relay cell is unrecognized at the end of the circuit,
39985 send back a destroy. (So attacks to mutate cells are more
39987 - New config option 'excludenodes' to avoid certain nodes for circuits.
39988 - When it daemonizes, it chdir's to the DataDirectory rather than "/",
39989 so you can collect coredumps there.
39991 - Fix a bug in tls flushing where sometimes data got wedged and
39992 didn't flush until more data got sent. Hopefully this bug was
39993 a big factor in the random delays we were seeing.
39994 - Make 'connected' cells include the resolved IP, so the client
39995 dns cache actually gets populated.
39996 - Disallow changing from ORPort=0 to ORPort>0 on hup.
39997 - When we time-out on a stream and detach from the circuit, send an
39998 end cell down it first.
39999 - Only warn about an unknown router (in exitnodes, entrynodes,
40000 excludenodes) after we've fetched a directory.
40003 Changes in version 0.0.2pre22 - 2004-02-26
40005 - Servers publish less revealing uname information in descriptors.
40006 - More memory tracking and assertions, to crash more usefully when
40008 - If the default torrc isn't there, just use some default defaults.
40009 Plus provide an internal dirservers file if they don't have one.
40010 - When the user tries to use Tor as an http proxy, give them an http
40011 501 failure explaining that we're a socks proxy.
40012 - Dump a new router.desc on hup, to help confused people who change
40013 their exit policies and then wonder why router.desc doesn't reflect
40015 - Clean up the generic tor.sh init script that we ship with.
40017 - If the exit stream is pending on the resolve, and a destroy arrives,
40018 then the stream wasn't getting removed from the pending list. I
40019 think this was the one causing recent server crashes.
40020 - Use a more robust poll on OSX 10.3, since their poll is flaky.
40021 - When it couldn't resolve any dirservers, it was useless from then on.
40022 Now it reloads the RouterFile (or default dirservers) if it has no
40024 - Move the 'tor' binary back to /usr/local/bin/ -- it turns out
40025 many users don't even *have* a /usr/local/sbin/.
40028 Changes in version 0.0.2pre21 - 2004-02-18
40030 - There's a ChangeLog file that actually reflects the changelog.
40031 - There's a 'torify' wrapper script, with an accompanying
40032 tor-tsocks.conf, that simplifies the process of using tsocks for
40033 tor. It even has a man page.
40034 - The tor binary gets installed to sbin rather than bin now.
40035 - Retry streams where the connected cell hasn't arrived in 15 seconds
40036 - Clean up exit policy handling -- get the default out of the torrc,
40037 so we can update it without forcing each server operator to fix
40039 - Allow imaps and pop3s in default exit policy
40041 - Prevent picking middleman nodes as the last node in the circuit
40044 Changes in version 0.0.2pre20 - 2004-01-30
40046 - We now have a deb package, and it's in debian unstable. Go to
40047 it, apt-getters. :)
40048 - I've split the TotalBandwidth option into BandwidthRate (how many
40049 bytes per second you want to allow, long-term) and
40050 BandwidthBurst (how many bytes you will allow at once before the cap
40051 kicks in). This better token bucket approach lets you, say, set
40052 BandwidthRate to 10KB/s and BandwidthBurst to 10MB, allowing good
40053 performance while not exceeding your monthly bandwidth quota.
40054 - Push out a tls record's worth of data once you've got it, rather
40055 than waiting until you've read everything waiting to be read. This
40056 may improve performance by pipelining better. We'll see.
40057 - Add an AP_CONN_STATE_CONNECTING state, to allow streams to detach
40058 from failed circuits (if they haven't been connected yet) and attach
40060 - Expire old streams that haven't managed to connect. Some day we'll
40061 have them reattach to new circuits instead.
40064 - Fix several memory leaks that were causing servers to become bloated
40066 - Fix a few very rare assert triggers. A few more remain.
40067 - Setuid to User _before_ complaining about running as root.
40070 Changes in version 0.0.2pre19 - 2004-01-07
40072 - Fix deadlock condition in dns farm. We were telling a child to die by
40073 closing the parent's file descriptor to him. But newer children were
40074 inheriting the open file descriptor from the parent, and since they
40075 weren't closing it, the socket never closed, so the child never read
40076 eof, so he never knew to exit. Similarly, dns workers were holding
40077 open other sockets, leading to all sorts of chaos.
40078 - New cleaner daemon() code for forking and backgrounding.
40079 - If you log to a file, it now prints an entry at the top of the
40080 logfile so you know it's working.
40081 - The onionskin challenge length was 30 bytes longer than necessary.
40082 - Started to patch up the spec so it's not quite so out of date.
40085 Changes in version 0.0.2pre18 - 2004-01-02
40087 - Fix endian issues with the 'integrity' field in the relay header.
40088 - Fix a potential bug where connections in state
40089 AP_CONN_STATE_CIRCUIT_WAIT might unexpectedly ask to write.
40092 Changes in version 0.0.2pre17 - 2003-12-30
40094 - Made --debuglogfile (or any second log file, actually) work.
40095 - Resolved an edge case in get_unique_circ_id_by_conn where a smart
40096 adversary could force us into an infinite loop.
40099 - Each onionskin handshake now includes a hash of the computed key,
40100 to prove the server's identity and help perfect forward secrecy.
40101 - Changed cell size from 256 to 512 bytes (working toward compatibility
40103 - Changed cell length to 2 bytes, and moved it to the relay header.
40104 - Implemented end-to-end integrity checking for the payloads of
40106 - Separated streamid from 'recognized' (otherwise circuits will get
40107 messed up when we try to have streams exit from the middle). We
40108 use the integrity-checking to confirm that a cell is addressed to
40110 - Randomize the initial circid and streamid values, so an adversary who
40111 breaks into a node can't learn how many circuits or streams have
40115 Changes in version 0.0.2pre16 - 2003-12-14
40117 - Fixed a bug that made HUP trigger an assert
40118 - Fixed a bug where a circuit that immediately failed wasn't being
40119 counted as a failed circuit in counting retries.
40122 - Now we close the circuit when we get a truncated cell: otherwise we're
40123 open to an anonymity attack where a bad node in the path truncates
40124 the circuit and then we open streams at him.
40125 - Add port ranges to exit policies
40126 - Add a conservative default exit policy
40127 - Warn if you're running tor as root
40128 - on HUP, retry OR connections and close/rebind listeners
40129 - options.EntryNodes: try these nodes first when picking the first node
40130 - options.ExitNodes: if your best choices happen to include any of
40131 your preferred exit nodes, you choose among just those preferred
40133 - options.ExcludedNodes: nodes that are never picked in path building
40136 Changes in version 0.0.2pre15 - 2003-12-03
40137 o Robustness and bugfixes:
40138 - Sometimes clients would cache incorrect DNS resolves, which would
40139 really screw things up.
40140 - An OP that goes offline would slowly leak all its sockets and stop
40142 - A wide variety of bugfixes in exit node selection, exit policy
40143 handling, and processing pending streams when a new circuit is
40145 - Pick nodes for a path only from those the directory says are up
40146 - Choose randomly from all running dirservers, not always the first one
40147 - Increase allowed http header size for directory fetch.
40148 - Stop writing to stderr (if we're daemonized it will be closed).
40149 - Enable -g always, so cores will be more useful to me.
40150 - Switch "-lcrypto -lssl" to "-lssl -lcrypto" for broken distributions.
40153 - Wrote a man page. It lists commonly used options.
40156 - Change default loglevel to warn.
40157 - Make PidFile default to null rather than littering in your CWD.
40158 - OnionRouter config option is now obsolete. Instead it just checks
40160 - Moved to a single unified torrc file for both clients and servers.
40163 Changes in version 0.0.2pre14 - 2003-11-29
40164 o Robustness and bugfixes:
40165 - Force the admin to make the DataDirectory himself
40166 - to get ownership/permissions right
40167 - so clients no longer make a DataDirectory and then never use it
40168 - fix bug where a client who was offline for 45 minutes would never
40169 pull down a directory again
40170 - fix (or at least hide really well) the dns assert bug that was
40171 causing server crashes
40172 - warnings and improved robustness wrt clockskew for certs
40173 - use the native daemon(3) to daemonize, when available
40174 - exit if bind() fails
40175 - exit if neither socksport nor orport is defined
40176 - include our own tor_timegm (Win32 doesn't have its own)
40177 - bugfix for win32 with lots of connections
40178 - fix minor bias in PRNG
40179 - make dirserver more robust to corrupt cached directory
40182 - Wrote the design document (woo)
40184 o Circuit building and exit policies:
40185 - Circuits no longer try to use nodes that the directory has told them
40187 - Exit policies now support bitmasks (18.0.0.0/255.0.0.0) and
40188 bitcounts (18.0.0.0/8).
40189 - Make AP connections standby for a circuit if no suitable circuit
40190 exists, rather than failing
40191 - Circuits choose exit node based on addr/port, exit policies, and
40192 which AP connections are standing by
40193 - Bump min pathlen from 2 to 3
40194 - Relay end cells have a payload to describe why the stream ended.
40195 - If the stream failed because of exit policy, try again with a new
40197 - Clients have a dns cache to remember resolved addresses.
40198 - Notice more quickly when we have no working circuits
40201 - APPort is now called SocksPort
40202 - SocksBindAddress, ORBindAddress, DirBindAddress let you configure
40204 - RecommendedVersions is now a config variable rather than
40205 hardcoded (for dirservers)
40206 - Reloads config on HUP
40207 - Usage info on -h or --help
40208 - If you set User and Group config vars, it'll setu/gid to them.
40211 Changes in version 0.0.2pre13 - 2003-10-19
40212 o General stability:
40213 - SSL_write no longer fails when it returns WANTWRITE and the number
40214 of bytes in the buf has changed by the next SSL_write call.
40215 - Fix segfault fetching directory when network is down
40216 - Fix a variety of minor memory leaks
40217 - Dirservers reload the fingerprints file on HUP, so I don't have
40218 to take down the network when I approve a new router
40219 - Default server config file has explicit Address line to specify fqdn
40222 - Buffers grow and shrink as needed (Cut process size from 20M to 2M)
40223 - Make listener connections not ever alloc bufs
40225 o Autoconf improvements:
40226 - don't clobber an external CFLAGS in ./configure
40227 - Make install now works
40228 - create var/lib/tor on make install
40229 - autocreate a tor.sh initscript to help distribs
40230 - autocreate the torrc and sample-server-torrc with correct paths
40232 o Log files and Daemonizing now work:
40233 - If --DebugLogFile is specified, log to it at -l debug
40234 - If --LogFile is specified, use it instead of commandline
40235 - If --RunAsDaemon is set, tor forks and backgrounds on startup